All Outputs (1074)

Autonomous model building using vision and manipulation (2016)
Thesis

It is often the case that robotic systems require models, in order to successfully control themselves, and to interact with the world. Models take many forms and include kinematic models to plan motions, dynamics models to understand the interaction... Read More about Autonomous model building using vision and manipulation.

'Conversation is a two-way process' Introducing conversation partner training in aphasia in Dutch rehabilitation practice (2016)
Thesis

Effects of multinational team and team member characteristics on subgroup formation, group identification, and trust in team (2016)
Thesis

Multinational teams (MNTs) consist of members from different national backgrounds who work interdependently to achieve a shared objective (Earley & Gibson, 2002). These teams are frequently employed in global organizations because they provide severa... Read More about Effects of multinational team and team member characteristics on subgroup formation, group identification, and trust in team.

HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture (2016)
Thesis

Workflows are a way to describe a series of computations on raw e-Science data. These data may be MRI brain scans, data from a high energy physics detector or metric data from an earth observation project. In order to derive meaningful knowledge from... Read More about HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture.

“What’s it gonna change?” Real-time paediatric respiratory infection community surveillance: A qualitative interview study of clinicians’ perspectives on the use, design and potential impact of a planned intervention (2016)
Thesis

Objectives:
The aim of this study is to inform the design and development of an online surveillance intervention, which could have a role in improving the management of paediatric respiratory tract infections (RTI) in primary care, including aiding... Read More about “What’s it gonna change?” Real-time paediatric respiratory infection community surveillance: A qualitative interview study of clinicians’ perspectives on the use, design and potential impact of a planned intervention.

Investigations on potential digenic HAMP(hepcidin) and HFE haemochromatosis gene mutations in the development of iron overload in Irish patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (2016)
Thesis

Iron overload cardiomyopathy (IOC) has been recently described as a dilated cardiomyopathy, characterized by left ventricular (LV) remodelling with chamber dilatation and reduced LV ejection fraction (LVEF). However, primary haemochromatosis, a genet... Read More about Investigations on potential digenic HAMP(hepcidin) and HFE haemochromatosis gene mutations in the development of iron overload in Irish patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic (2016)
Thesis

A review of the extensive separate literatures on salesmanship and entrepreneurship highlights interesting similarities between the two professions, but there is a lack of studies examining these similarities or explaining the differences. In particu... Read More about Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic.

Meeting food hygiene challenges in older people: Mobilising health assets for health promotion (2016)
Thesis

An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings (2016)
Thesis

The role of credit rating agencies has come under severe scrutiny following the recent financial crisis, due to their claim, ab initio, of assigning true creditworthiness in the form of rating notches to financial institutions and their instruments.... Read More about An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings.

Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture (2016)
Thesis

Contemporary Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) design practice in the industry still suffers from issues that hamper the investment in the EIA design. First and foremost of these issues is the shortcoming of EIA design research to bridge the... Read More about Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture.

The relationship between magistrates and their communities in the age of crisis: Social protest c. 1790-1834 (2016)
Thesis

An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement (2016)
Thesis

An Honourable Practice is a cohesive study of the operative and ethical framework around the role of the artist and printmaker. The research project uses the artist’s prints as a strategy for social engagement, drawing on the dynamic between a person... Read More about An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement.

Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction (2016)
Thesis

This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncovers how his tragic vision of a changing world led him into proto-modernist forms of writing. By first positing Hardy within his milieu and exploring th... Read More about Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction.

Analysis of counselling psychologists’ self-reported experiences of drawing upon two or more theoretical orientations to inform their practice (2016)
Thesis

Recent commentators have considered how the institutional changes that have taken place within the context of clinical practice in the UK over the past ten years exert pressures upon counselling psychologists to practice in particular ways. The aim o... Read More about Analysis of counselling psychologists’ self-reported experiences of drawing upon two or more theoretical orientations to inform their practice.

Development of generic methods for the analysis and purification of polar compounds by high performance liquid chromatography (2016)
Thesis

Generic methods were developed using different columns for analysis and purification of hydrophilic compounds by hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC). Mobile phases were investigated in detail, and across each column chemistry tested (BEH A... Read More about Development of generic methods for the analysis and purification of polar compounds by high performance liquid chromatography.

Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material (2016)
Thesis

This thesis analyses the importance of supplementary material for art history and philosophy by addressing its shifting and problematic relationship to the ‘work of art’. Through the use of philosophical and critical theories, including Heidegger, Be... Read More about Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material.

An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945 (2016)
Thesis

Pressure for Indian independence had been building up throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, initially through the efforts of the Indian National Congress, but also later, when matters were complicated by an increasingly vocal Muslim... Read More about An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945.

Development of a physical activity intervention for managing fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (2016)
Thesis

The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre (2016)
Thesis

Diversity is a key concept in urban and planning theory and policy with important physical,social and economic dimensions. It is also central to the sustainable city and a key component of vital and viable urban centres. Urban form plays a key role i... Read More about The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre.

Maintaining equilibrium between moral ideals and recollected discrepant behaviour: An exploration of responses by people of good standing in Anglican churches (2016)
Thesis