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Towards the LIVING Envelope: Biomimetics for building envelope adaptation (2012)
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Several biomimetic design strategies are available for various applications, though the research on biomimetics as a design tool in architecture is still challenging. This is due to a lack of systematic design tools required for identifying relevant... Read More about Towards the LIVING Envelope: Biomimetics for building envelope adaptation.

From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population (2012)
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Contemporary approaches to the treatment of problematic drug use situate the individual within a complex system of power-relations. This system of power-relations operates through a wide range of experts, techniques, strategies, institutions and subj... Read More about From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population.

Violent urban disturbance in England 1980-81 (2012)
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This study addresses violent urban disturbances which occurred in England in the early 1980s with particular reference to the Bristol ‘riots’ of April 1980 and the numerous disorders which followed in July 1981. Revisiting two concepts traditionally... Read More about Violent urban disturbance in England 1980-81.

A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways (2012)
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From n-Tier client/server applications, to more complex academic Grids, or even the most recent and promising industrial Clouds, the last decade has witnessed significant developments in distributed computing. In spite of this conceptual heterogeneit... Read More about A formal architecture-centric and model driven approach for the engineering of science gateways.

An exploration of women's perceptions and lived experiences of domestic violence and abuse in the context of their pregnancy (2012)
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This thesis reports on a qualitative study exploring women's experiences of domestic violence before, during and after pregnancy. The research employed a qualitative framework underpinned by feminist and phenomenological values and philosophy. Femini... Read More about An exploration of women's perceptions and lived experiences of domestic violence and abuse in the context of their pregnancy.

Capturing daily fluctuations, flare and self-management in rheumatoid arthritis: The patient perspective (2012)
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive and systemic auto-immune disease. However, there is very little research on how patients experience daily symptoms and their impact on life, nor how patients self-manage their symptoms on current t... Read More about Capturing daily fluctuations, flare and self-management in rheumatoid arthritis: The patient perspective.

Applying remote sensing, GIS and emissions techniques to air quality and carbon dioxide emissions measurements and monitoring in the Niger Delta (2012)
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Due to economic, accessibility and security constraints, the majority of developing countries within the low-latitudes lack the capacity to establish networks of ground-based air pollution monitoring stations. As a result, there is a lack of systemat... Read More about Applying remote sensing, GIS and emissions techniques to air quality and carbon dioxide emissions measurements and monitoring in the Niger Delta.

Psychological practitioners' conceptualisations of the process of change in clients with chronic health conditions: A qualitative study (2012)
Thesis

A qualitative exploration was conducted of the conceptualisations of the process of change held by 10 independently employed health psychologist and counselling practitioners who work with clients with chronic health conditions in a context parallel... Read More about Psychological practitioners' conceptualisations of the process of change in clients with chronic health conditions: A qualitative study.

An exploration of the low carbon futures for the Bristol region (2012)
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Use of lux gene technology to investigate real-time in-situ interactions of bacterial pathogens with a model blood-brain barrier system (2012)
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Bacterial bioluminescence has been shown to be an accurate real-time reporter of bacterial internalisation and a valid alternative to viable counts. A self-bioluminescent strain of the bacterial pathogen Neisseria meningitidis was used to develop and... Read More about Use of lux gene technology to investigate real-time in-situ interactions of bacterial pathogens with a model blood-brain barrier system.

3D face recognition using photometric stereo (2012)
Thesis

Automatic face recognition has been an active research area for the last four decades. This thesis explores innovative bio-inspired concepts aimed at improved face recognition using surface normals. New directions in salient data representation are e... Read More about 3D face recognition using photometric stereo.

Fire fighters, neighbourhoods and social identity: The relationship between the fire service and residents in Bristol (2012)
Thesis

Although sporadic attacks on fire crews have long been acknowledged as an occupational hazard facing the fire service, in the mid 2000s, attacks seemed to be increasing in both prevalence and severity, accompanied by a feeling that fire safety messag... Read More about Fire fighters, neighbourhoods and social identity: The relationship between the fire service and residents in Bristol.

The social construction of the meanings of price (2012)
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The activity of translating something into a monetary amount - the price - is central to markets. Yet we know remarkably little about the practice of pricing beyond theories of economic rationale or market positioning and, as a construct, price has r... Read More about The social construction of the meanings of price.

Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research (2012)
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The focus of this thesis is the experiential landscape viewed through the lens of a performative visual arts research inquiry. The project explores the dialogue between practice and theory through a series of research projects that focus on the exper... Read More about Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research.

Mechanisms of red cell turnover (Eryptosis) (2012)
Thesis

Abstract
Title: Mechanisms of Red Cell Turnover (Eryptosis).
Author: Kris Patrick Jeremy
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of the West of England, Bristol for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
When C... Read More about Mechanisms of red cell turnover (Eryptosis).

The essence of the art of a midwife: Holistic, multidimensional meanings and experiences explored through creative inquiry (2012)
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Abstract

In the United Kingdom midwives have a key role in caring for women and their families throughout the childbirth continuum. Midwifery is assumed by many to be both an ‘art’ and a ‘science’. The term ‘midwife’ comes from an Old English phra... Read More about The essence of the art of a midwife: Holistic, multidimensional meanings and experiences explored through creative inquiry.

Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies (2012)
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This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During th... Read More about Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies.

Assessment in action: A study of lecturers' and students' constructions of BTEC national assessment practice in a college engineering programme area (2012)
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This research examines the nature and form of Edexcel’s BTEC National assessment policy and practice, as found within a small college Engineering Programme Area. The study investigated the salient influences and considerations underpinning both the... Read More about Assessment in action: A study of lecturers' and students' constructions of BTEC national assessment practice in a college engineering programme area.

Understanding how household car ownership changes over time (2012)
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The PhD study presented in this thesis sets out to address the question: How and why does household car ownership change over time? This question is justified on the basis that the study of car ownership has traditionally been dominated by cross-sect... Read More about Understanding how household car ownership changes over time.

User driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programming with tree-based structures (2012)
Thesis

This thesis addresses certain problems encountered by teams of engineers when modelling complex structures and processes subject to cost and other resource constraints. The cost of a structure or process may be ‘read off’ its specifying model, but th... Read More about User driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programming with tree-based structures.