All Outputs (63)

Biodiversity and ecosystem function in the bird's nest fern (2018)
Thesis

Understanding the relationship between the biodiversity and functioning of an ecosystem is a key component of ecological studies. Given the importance of soil as the basis for life on earth, understanding this relationship across the multiple trophic... Read More about Biodiversity and ecosystem function in the bird's nest fern.

Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000 (2018)
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In 1981, a group of women from Wales formed a protest march against the positioning of 96 nuclear weapons at an RAF base at Greenham Common. This protest subsequently developed into several women-only protest camps situated around the perimeter fence... Read More about Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000.

Producing publicness: Investigating the dialectics of unintended consequences in urban design - Practices in Stockholm and Malmö (2018)
Thesis

Integration of ecodesign principles within small product design consultancies (2018)
Thesis

Each year in the UK (United Kingdom) hundreds of millions of consumer products are sold, leading to many millions of tonnes of waste being buried or burned annually. While there are many large businesses that produce consumer products, in the UK smal... Read More about Integration of ecodesign principles within small product design consultancies.

Data, metadata, and workflow in healthcare informatics (2018)
Thesis

This dissertation considers a number of interlinked concepts, propositions and relations, and puts forward a set of design theses, to support the role of informatics in the overall goal of knowledge-based, information-driven, integrated, patient-cent... Read More about Data, metadata, and workflow in healthcare informatics.

Embedding and operationalising predictive analytics in policing (2018)
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This thesis examines the development and operational use of predictive analytics in policing. The extent to which predictive analytics has become embedded in policing is of fundamental importance to questions about the more specific use of predictive... Read More about Embedding and operationalising predictive analytics in policing.

Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy (2018)
Thesis

Examination of the gastrointestinal(GI) tract has traditionally been performed using tethered endoscopy tools with limited reach and more recently with passive untethered capsule endoscopy with limited capability. Inspection of small intestines is on... Read More about Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy.

Managing complexity in mass customization through design space subdivision (2018)
Thesis

Although design is traditionally the métier of designers, nowadays participation in the design process is increasingly shared with end-users. Such transfer of design responsibility happens in various creative fields such as architecture and product d... Read More about Managing complexity in mass customization through design space subdivision.

Playing with reality: A technocultural ethnography of pervasive gaming (2018)
Thesis

Pervasive games are an experimental game design practice that engages with technology development and everyday space. These experiences range from technology experiments to avant-garde performances to explorative urban play. This PhD is an ethnograph... Read More about Playing with reality: A technocultural ethnography of pervasive gaming.

Psychotherapists’ personal appearance and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory of client perspectives (2018)
Thesis

Research conducted in the fields of sports psychology, psychiatry, nursing, complimentary medicine, social and cognitive psychology, and business psychology, suggests that appearance influences how others perceive the other to be, and in some instanc... Read More about Psychotherapists’ personal appearance and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory of client perspectives.

The defence lawyer in the modern era (2018)
Thesis

In the adversarial legal system the criminal defence lawyer is a fundamental cornerstone. Traditionally, defence lawyers had to consider three competing duties when carrying out their work; the duty to the client, the duty to the court and finally th... Read More about The defence lawyer in the modern era.

Learning from engagement: Exploring cultures of science communication at live science events (2018)
Thesis

This thesis is submitted to meet the requirements of a Doctorate of Philosophy within the field of Psychology. Through a series of nine publications, this body of work aimed to develop a deeper psychological understanding of cultures of science commu... Read More about Learning from engagement: Exploring cultures of science communication at live science events.

"Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent (2018)
Thesis

In this thesis I argue that the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction can be viewed as a form of cultural activism.

Using a combination of traditional, digital and autoethnography, as well as discourse analysis, I trace engag... Read More about "Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent.

Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language (2018)
Thesis

This study investigates the phonological awareness and multi-literacy acquisitions of Indonesian-speaking children with a varied level of Acehnese spoken language experience. The study specifically looks for the possibility of metalinguistic awarenes... Read More about Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language.

Health practitioners’ understanding and use of Relaxation Techniques (RTs), Mindfulness Meditation (MM) and Relaxation Music (RM) in the UK and South Korea: A qualitative case study approach (2018)
Thesis

Background:

The information exchange between healthcare practitioners in South Korea and the UK has so far been limited and cross-cultural comparisons of Relaxation techniques (RTs) and Mindfulness meditation (MM) and Relaxation music (RM) within... Read More about Health practitioners’ understanding and use of Relaxation Techniques (RTs), Mindfulness Meditation (MM) and Relaxation Music (RM) in the UK and South Korea: A qualitative case study approach.

Research on intelligent controller design for MIMO spatially -Distributed systems with applications (2018)
Thesis

Spatially dynamic distributed systems have been attracting increasing attention from researchers in the field of system modelling and control since their introduction as an alternative to simple systems to meet the ever-greater requirements to make i... Read More about Research on intelligent controller design for MIMO spatially -Distributed systems with applications.

Counter-terrorist financing and its impact on the right to a fair trial: A comparative study of the US, UK and Canada (2018)
Thesis

With the steep growth in terrorism over the past few years, it is now more essential than ever to have effective counter terrorism measures in place. One of those measures is the prevention and detection of terrorist financing. It is believed that by... Read More about Counter-terrorist financing and its impact on the right to a fair trial: A comparative study of the US, UK and Canada.

3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience (2018)
Thesis

This thesis investigates the potential for developing 3D printable ceramic materials inspired by an ancient Egyptian ware known as faience. Faience was produced in Egypt and the near east from the 4th millennium BC and was the first glazed ceramic ma... Read More about 3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience.

A hybrid e-learning framework: Process-based, semantically-enriched and service-oriented (2018)
Thesis

Despite the recent innovations in e-Learning, much development is needed to ensure better learning experience for everyone and bridge the research gap in the current state of the art e-Learning artefacts. Contemporary
e-learning artefacts possess v... Read More about A hybrid e-learning framework: Process-based, semantically-enriched and service-oriented.

Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) (2018)
Thesis

The use of and belief in the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is associated with two cognitive biases: over-reliance on intuitive thinking and ontological mistakes. This thesis reports seven studies which explore the natu... Read More about Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).