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The Fabric of Life: Linen and Life Cycle in England, 1678 - 1810
(2016-05-23)‘The Fabric of Life: Linen and Life Cycle in England, 1678-1810’ is structured around the human life cycle to draw out the social and cultural importance of linen for all ranks of society. Human and object life cycles are ... -
Fabrication of single-crystal semiconductor optical waveguides by solid-state diffusion
(1972)Optical surface waveguides have been fabricated by diffusing selenium into single-crystal CdS substrates to produce graded-composition CdS Se crystals. Planar guides which confine a beam in one dimension and guides produced ... -
Face De-Identification for Privacy Protection
(2019-02-07)The ability to record, store and analyse images of faces economically, rapidly and on a vast scale brings people’s attention to privacy. The current privacy protection approaches for face images are mainly through masking, ... -
Face De-Identification with Perfect Privacy Protection
(2014-05-26)The rising concern for privacy protection and the associated legal and social responsibilities have led to extensive research into the field of face de-identification over the last decade. To date, the most successful ... -
Facebook Intrusion as a Mediator Between Positive Capital and General Distress: A Cross-Cultural Study
(2021-06-17)Background: Social networking sites (SNSs) play an important role in many aspects of life nowadays, and it seems to be crucial to explore their impact on human well-being and functioning. The main aim of the study was to ... -
Facebook – friend or foe?
(2010-07-31)There has been much written in the past few days about the responsibility and the possible liability of the Internet site Facebook for postings which may appear to incite violence or hatred against others following the ... -
Facemask Spirometry as a Marker of Respiratory Function and Prognosis in Motor Neurone Disease
(2018-02-06)Background: The assessment and monitoring of respiratory muscle function is clinically relevant in patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Early identification of respiratory muscle dysfunction has therapeutic and ... -
Facet joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (Facet injection study) : A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
(2017-05-31)Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 2009 guidelines for persistent low back pain (LBP) do not recommend the injection of therapeutic substances into the back as a treatment for LBP ... -
Faceting for direction-dependent spectral deconvolution
(2018-03-01)The new generation of radio interferometers is characterized by high sensitivity, wide fields of view and large fractional bandwidth. To synthesize the deepest images enabled by the high dynamic range of these instruments ... -
Facial Discoid Dermatosis: A cosmetically disfiguring and challenging condition to treat
(2021-06-24)Facial discoid dermatosis (FDD) is a recently described condition comprising discrete facial papulo-squamous lesions. We report three cases that clinically and histologically resemble FDD, and demonstrate its resistance ... -
Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia : a non-specific neuropsychological deficit?
(2010)Background: Identification of facial emotions has been found to be impaired in schizophrenia but there are uncertainties about the neuropsychological specificity of the finding. Method: Twenty-two patients with schizophrenia ... -
Facial Expression Recognition using Transfer Learning
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-12-24)In this paper, we investigate Deep Learning architectures for the recognition of facial expressions. In particular, we consider the concept of Transfer Learning whereby features learnt from generic images of large scale ... -
Facilitating Collaboration among Children with Autism through Robot-assisted Play
(2013-01-22)This thesis discusses how autonomous robots can be used to foster and support collaborative play among children with autism in a number of different settings. Because autism impairs one’s skills in social communication and ... -
Facilitating conversations about equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI): Guidance booklet
(University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-06)Developed with the University of Hertfordshire School of Education Student Success & Engagement Team (SSET) and Senior Technical Officers to accompany a set of cards developed by the SSET -
Facilitating Play Between Children with Autism and an Autonomous Robot
(2009-03-05)This thesis is part of the Aurora project, an ongoing long-term project investigating the potential use of robots to help children with autism overcome some of their impairments in social interaction, communication and ... -
Facilitating reflection: a review and synthesis of the factors enabling effective facilitation of reflective practice
(2022-08-30)Reflective practice is an inherently personal and relational process, occurring privately within people, and publicly, between people. Consequently, given it positively impacts on professional practice, it has become a ... -
Facilitating values awareness through the education of health professionals: Can web based decision making technology help?
(2016-03-01)Recent events in the health care landscape have focused nursing's collective mind on the role of values in health care delivery. For example, in England, the government has issued a mandate to health educators that places ... -
Facilitation of learning and modulation of frontal cortex acetylcholine by ventral pallidal injection of heparin glucosaminoglycan
(2002)We examined the effects of heparin on learning and frontal cortex acetylcholine parameters following injection of the glucosaminoglycan into the ventral pallidum. In Experiment 1, possible mnemoactive effects of intrapallidal ... -
Facilitators' Perspectives on the Place of Offenders in Restorative Justice: a Grounded Theory Approach
(2018-11-01)This study sought to explore and develop a preliminary, yet substantive understanding of the ways in which the offender’s position within a Restorative Justice process is influenced and impacted by the wider system around ...