Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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RA-LPEL: A Resource-Aware Light-Weight Parallel Execution Layer for Reactive Stream Processing Networks on The SCC Many-core Tiled Architecture
(2016-07-26)In computing the available computing power has continuously fallen short of the demanded computing performance. As a consequence, performance improvement has been the main focus of processor design. However, due to the ... -
Radio Continuum Emission as a Star Formation Tracer: Bridging the Spatial Scales
(2019-01-07)Radio continuum emission has been demonstrated to be an excellent tracer of recent star formation, yet current understanding remains empirical, and is primarily based upon integrated multi–frequency or resolved mono–chromatic ... -
Radio Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way with the Next Generation of Interferometers
(2023-02-03)This thesis embodies work that contributes towards building our knowledge on the birth of massive stars. It presents three projects that study young HII regions which, being a direct product of the birth of massive stars, ... -
A rapid simulation modelling process for novice software process simulation modellers
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)In recent years, simulation modelling of software processes have has promoted as a tool to understand, study, control, and manage software development processes. Claims have been made that simulation models are useful ... -
A ravelled skein : the silk industry in south west Hertfordshire 1790-1890
(University of Hertfordshire, 2002)Cotton and wool have long dominated studies of the English textile industries, relegating silk manufacture to no more than a minor role in the British economy. Regional studies have likewise tended to concentrate upon ... -
A Re-Conceptualisation of Contemporary Sculpthural Ceramics From a Post-Minimalist Perspective
(2011-02-17)This thesis examines the extent to which the 1960s process art strand of post-Minimalism can provide an analytical template for critical writing around contemporary ceramic art. A dearth of critical writing is an acknowledged ... -
Re-invigorating and re-defining the practice of qualitative inquiry within a business context
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)This thesis aims to develop new understanding of commercial qualitative research, informed primarily by thinking from complex responsive processes, social constructionism and the philosophy of social science, supported by ... -
Re-Thinking the Extended Mind: Moving Beyond the Machinery
(2010-09-15)Proponents of the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) argue that the mind literally extends into the world because mental states literally extend into the world. But the arguments presented in favour of these claims are compatible ... -
Reactions to insanity : a study of stigma, discrimination and labelling in relation to present and former psychiatric patients
(University of Hertfordshire, 1992)The thesis is organised around an empirical investigation of the relationship between residents of a Hertfordshire village and people who are, or who have been, patients at a nearby psychiatric hospital, some of whom ... -
Real-Time Application of Deep Learning to Intrusion Detection in 5G-Multi-Access Edge Computing
(2024-01-29)In this thesis, we explore networks for 5G mobile telecommunication, with a real-time detection of malicious traffic using Deep Learning (DL) and 5G mobile telecommunication testbeds. To investigate the performance of ... -
A Reappraisal of the Involvement of an Internal Consultant in Processes of Culture Change in a Public Transport Organisation
(2012-09-06)In the dominant management discourse, managers and consultants are credited with the ability to move their organisation in a planned, controlled way towards an idealised future. The assumptions underpinning this discourse ... -
Receiver Architectures for MIMO Wireless Communication Systems based on V-BLAST and Sphere Decoding Algorithms
(2011-09-13)Modern day technology aspires to always progress. This progression leads to a lot of research in any significant area of improvement. There is a growing amount of end-users in the wireless spectrum which has led to a need ... -
Recent Developments in Probation Practice: the Impact of Risk Analysis
(2008-07-31)The aim of my research has been to explore, in the area of probation, the influence of the shift away from traditional social work values towards an emphasis on punishment, enforcement and the management of risk. In ... -
Reconfiguring Academic Identities: the Experience of Business Facing Academics in a UK University
(2011-05-19)The university sector at the beginning of the 21st Century is shifting in response to national and global changes in the role and purpose of Higher Education. Some universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, ... -
'The red light of emotion' : reading anger in contemporary British women's working-class fiction
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)This thesis investigates the representation of anger in contemporary British women's writing. It argues that Helen Zahavi, Pat Barker, Livi Michael and Anne McManus foreground anger (frequently materialising as anxiety ... -
Reducing Errors in Optical Data Transmission Using Trainable Machine Learning Methods
(2019-03-15)Reducing Bit Error Ratio (BER) and improving performance of modern coherent optical communication system is a significant issue. As the distance travelled by the information signal increases, the bit error ratio will ... -
Reducing Simulation Performance Gap from Hempcrete using Multi Objective Optimisation
(2022-04-21)The impacts of climate change in the built environment is undeniably overwhelming, which highlights the need for a sustainable reduction of carbon from buildings and the built environment. While carbon reduction from the ... -
Reflecting on a Period of Change in a Governmental Development Agency: Understanding Management as the Patterning of Interaction and Politics
(2012-09-07)Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and ... -
Reflective Conversations with Headteachers: Exploring the Realities of Leadership in UK Secondary Schools
(2012-08-21)The aim of this practitioner research is to explore and analyse how headteachers reflect on their own professional practice to help them sustain themselves and improve secondary schools. The research has two aspects: the ... -
Reflective Practice and the Learning of Health Care Students
(2009-06-03)Reflective practice, though ill-defined, has become an accepted educational concept within many health care disciplines particularly in nursing. Subsequently it has become benchmarked within Paramedic Sciences as a ...