Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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JAK/STAT Signalling in the Induction of the L-Arginine-Nitric Oxide Pathway in Macrophages and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-06-09)The production of Nitric Oxide (NO) under physiological conditions has beneficial roles in acting as a key signaling component of many biological processes as well as having an anti-microbial effect. However its effects ... -
Japanese Expert Teachers' Understanding of the Application of Rhythm in Judo: a New Pedagogy
(2023-04-19)Aim The aim of this research is to understand the application of rhythm in judo through the experience of expert Japanese coaches. Background Scientists and experienced coaches agree rhythm is an important skill in ... -
Japanese Foreign Direct Investment: Varieties of Capitalism, Employment Practices and Worker Resistance in Poland
(2016-04-15)This research contributes to an understanding of Japanese Foreign Investment (JFDI) in Poland, by using a Variety of Capitalism approach and drawing on literature from employment relations. It examines firstly, the extent ... -
Joining of Engineering Ceramics to Metals
(2023-09-12)In this research, successful joining of Al₂O₃ to Al₂O₃ was achieved through novel brazing methods involving the Ti-Al, Ti-Al-Ni, and Ti-Al-Fe systems. Subsequently, the Ti-Al-Ni-based braze was employed to join Al₂O₃ and ... -
Journeys Towards an Acceptable Gender Expression: Narratives of People Living With Gender Variance
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-14)BACKGROUND: Gender Variance (GV) is an experience that the gender assigned at birth is different to one’s preferred gender identity. It includes the possibility of a preferred gender identity being different to either ... -
Judo as a Method of Moral and Psychological Development
(2023-10-23)This research is aimed at proving the moral and psychological effects of judo activities on children in the project "Judo in schools" in Croatia. There are numerous studies on the impact of judo on children in the segment ... -
Junior Clinical Psychologists' Experience of Processing the Death of a Therapy Client, From a Cause Other Than Suicide: A Qualitative Study
(2010-05-25)Aim: According to the existing evidence-base, the experience of the death of a therapy client (from a cause other than suicide) for Clinical Psychologists is substantially under researched. Moreover, previous studies into ... -
The Kinematics of the Outer Galactic Disk from A and F Stars
(2019-08-05)The kinematics of stars in the outer Galactic disk is poorly known. In addition to constraining the Galactic potential, knowledge of the motions of stars throughout the disk facilitates studies of non-axisymmetric motion, ... -
Knowing differently, being differently : creating new opportunities for inclusion by using narrative approaches to challenge perspectives on special educational needs
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)This thesis is the story of one teacher's practice in the field of special educational needs. It examines the purpose and themes of her published work. The purpose of this writing has been to challenge perspectives ... -
Knowledge Transfer for and through the Replication of Organisational Routines in Franchise Systems
(2022-01-07)Routines are dispositions to behave according to established sets of rules that are also repositories of the organisational memory about “how things get done”. Franchise systems are organisational forms which expand through ... -
The Laplace transform boundary element method for diffusion-type problems
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)Diffusion-type problems are described by parabolic partial differential equations; they are defined on a domain involving both time and space. The usual method of solution is to use a finite difference time-stepping ... -
Large Scale Dynamic Molecular Modelling of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Engineering and Biological Fluids
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-01-22)Nanoparticles (NP) offer great merits over controlling thermal, chemical and physical properties when compared to their micro-sized counterparts. The effectiveness of the dispersion of the NP is the key aspect of the ... -
Leaders, followers and problem solving in organisations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2002)The distinction between management style and leadership style has been confirmed in this research by examining the working relationships between leaders and followers in 6 separate sites of a computer systems organisation. ... -
Leadership Development as Reflexive Practice
(2012-09-06)This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects ... -
Leadership in Small Primary Schools: The Headteacher's Perspective
(2011-09-16)The aim of this research is to identify and scrutinise current aspects of leadership in small primary schools in order to generate a new context-appropriate model of headship. The research is an in-depth study of leading ... -
Leadership, power, ethics : leading and managing in a performative culture
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)This thesis is a study of the experience of leadership. The aim throughout the thesis is to find ways of making sense of the idea of leadership by reference to the everyday routines of organisational life. The thesis is ... -
Leading volunteers : power relations and values in organizations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This thesis sheds new l.ight on internal dynamics of nonprofit associations - nonprofit organizations reliant on significant volunteer participation. It represents one ofthe first research efforts to deal with power relations ... -
Learning Feature Weights for Density-Based Clustering
(2021-09-01)K-Means is the most popular and widely used clustering algorithm. This algorithm cannot recover non-spherical shape clusters in data sets. DBSCAN is arguably the most popular algorithm to recover arbitrary shape clusters; ... -
Learning from foster carers : the experience of fostering and mental health service provision
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)The current study used a grounded theory approach to better understand the experiences of foster carers with regards to how they understood and coped with the emotional and behavioural problems of children in their care ... -
Learning from Practice: the Value of Story in Nurse Education
(2013-04-10)The central contention of this thesis is that story as an aid to learning, particularly student nurses' own stories of practice, is not being used to its full potential in nurse education. The dominant tendencies in nurse ...