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Characterisation of Nicotine Binding Sites on Human Blood Lymphocytes
(2008-04-25)Nicotine exerts a therapeutic effect in ulcerative colitis (UC) but the mechanism underlying this effect, is not clear. However, this effect may imply that nicotine has some, as yet to be discovered, effect on the immune ... -
Characterisation of Psychoactive Substances on Paper Using Various Analytical and Chemometrics Approaches
(2023-03-20)In recent years, the growing popularity of NPS within the prison system has contributed to the increase in violence, psychotic episodes and self-harm, undermining the rehabilitation of prisoners. A systematic literature ... -
Characterisation of Reduced Susceptibility to Metronidazole in Epidemic Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates
(2018-02-22)Reduced susceptibility in some C. difficile isolates has been observed to metronidazole, a frontline antibiotic for C. difficile infection. Therefore, this study was performed to characterize reduced metronidazole ... -
Characterisation of Temperature-Sensitivity of Brassica Resistance Against Leptosphaeria maculans
(2021-03-15)Variety resistance is an important tool in controlling against plant pathogens. As temperatures increase due to global warming, temperature-resilient resistance may play an important role in crop protection. However, the ... -
Characterising the Quality Journey of Total Quality Management in Relation to the Financial Performance of SMEs Under Crisis Conditions: the Case for Greece
(2018-09-10)During the last few years Greece is coping with severe economic and financial crisis conditions. Since the Greek SME are the largest productive and economic sector in the Greek economy, they bear the brunt of consequences ... -
Characterising Ultracool Dwarfs in the Gaia Mission All Sky Survey
(2023-12-04)I present here the characterisation of ultracool dwarfs having been observed through direct, ground-based campaigns. These ultracool dwarfs have been used to assist with the parameterisation of objects as observed by ... -
Childhood Cancer Diagnosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Parent Perspective of the Impact on the Family
(2023-07-18)Paediatric cancer is rare, however, the significant impact on the whole family system is widely acknowledged. The COVID-19 pandemic posed many additional challenges for families, including fear of infection and social ... -
Children of the Poor in London 1700 - 1780
(2008-04-02)Poor children are elusive in historical records, essentially invisible and unheard, and there is a significant gap in the secondary literature for the period 1700 to 1780. This thesis uses a range of largely unexplored ... -
Children's conversations with their friends about living with a parent experiencing mental distress: An IPA Study
(2018-03-21)Background and Aims Estimates suggest more than three million children and young people (CYP) live with a parent experiencing mental distress (PEMD). It is suggested that CYP are often left to make sense of the uncertain ... -
Chinese Brands and Branding Strategies
(2012-09-28)The purpose of this study is to gain an insight into Chinese brands and branding strategies, with a particular focus on the manufacturing sector. This study will explore the value of existing brand management theory as ... -
Chinese Students' Perception of, Orientation Towards and Identification With English Through Transnational Higher Education
(2009-11-26)Given the international status and importance of English, English language study has attracted millions of Chinese learners. Apart from those who study abroad, more and more Chinese students are motivated to study in ... -
Choosing Geographic Scales for the Analysis of Labour Market and Related Statistics
(2021-08-16)Researchers often only have access to aggregated statistics about people and businesses rather than individual data. This means that research into the relationships between labour market outcomes for geographic areas and ... -
Cirrus Occurrence and Properties Determined From Ground-Based Remote Sensing
(2017-04-07)The ultimate application of this work is constraining the optical properties of cirrus particles, which are poorly understood, by providing an automatic method, using all-sky cameras and an infrared radiometer, to identify ... -
Click: Exploring Social Actions in the 21st Century
(2018-10-22)The phenomenon of social media has become part of our everyday interaction with others. At the heart of this exploration lies the idea that ‘clicks’ on social media are meaningful ways of communicating with others and doing ... -
Clinical Disease Activity and Radiological Damage in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
(2010-05-26)Disease progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is assessed by standard clinical, radiological and functional measures. Clinical disease activity in RA is graded as no disease (remission), low, moderate and high disease, ... -
Clinical Psychologists' Narratives of Relatedness within a Multi-Disciplinary Team Context
(2016-05-17)The focus of this study was to explore how Clinical Psychologists narrate their experience of relatedness within a multi-disciplinary team. Mental health services in the UK are facing increased financial pressure and a ... -
Clinical Studies in Diabetic Vasculopathy to Assess Interactions Between Blood, Bone and Kidney
(2010-01-25)Diabetic vasculopathy (DV) is the most important consequence of chronic hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). This thesis explores the interaction of blood, bone and kidney in the pathogenesis of DV by i) ... -
The clinical utility of the assessment of learning potential following brain injury
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)Our current evidence base for predicting outcome following an acquired brain injury (ABI) identifies factors such as the severity and impact of the injury, as well as pre-injury information as potential predictors. However ... -
Coarse WDM Wavelength-Routed Passive Optical Networks
(2008-11-25)The emergence of new bandwidth-intensive applications articulated by distance learning, online gaming, Web 2.0 and movie delivery by means of high-definition video, has ultimately justified the necessity of upgrading the ... -
Cognitive Control in Verbal Task Switching
(2015-08-24)Task switching produces a number of reliable behavioural measures, the main focus of interest here being ‘switch cost’, the increase in response time when switching between tasks as opposed to performing them separately. ...