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The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Individuals with a Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder
(2009-01-19)This study investigated the discharge practice of a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) by examining records (electronic and file) of clients discharged between April 2005 and March 2006. Out of a total of 211 discharged ... -
The Effectiveness of Pursed Lips Breathing in the Management of Breathlessness in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(2011-09-19)Introduction: This dissertation aims to explore, in a clinical setting, the effectiveness of pursed lips breathing (PLB), in the management of dyspnoea in stable COPD. Methodology: A mixed methodology that comprised a ... -
Effectiveness of Recovery-Focused Mental Health Care of Older People With Memory Problems
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-02-03)Introduction Dementia is a syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a chronic nature, in which there is disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions including Memory, Comprehension, Thinking, Judgment, ... -
Effectiveness of the use of simulation training in healthcare education
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-02)The focus of the research programme within this thesis is an investigation of scenario-based simulation training in undergraduate healthcare education. The aim of the main study was to determine the effectiveness of ... -
The Effects of Foot Structure and Athletic Taping on Lower Limb Biomechanics
(2013-04-12)Context: Despite an association between foot structure and the incidence of lower limb injury in sport, few studies have measured the effects of neutral, pronated and supinated foot structures during dynamic activity. ... -
Effects of Host Resistance on Colonisation of Brassica napus (Oilseed Rape) by Leptosphaeria maculans and Leptosphaeria biglobosa (Phoma Stem Canker)
(2016-07-11)Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa co-infect winter oilseed rape plants to cause phoma stem canker disease. The sexual spores of both species are produced in pseudothecia on infected winter oilseed rape stem debris ... -
Effects of nitrogen, potassium and organic matter on growth, chemical components and seed yields of IS 23585 forage sorghum cultivar
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)Sorghum is considered to be of African origin and subsequently spread to most countries in tropical and subtropical regions. Sorghum has outstanding resistance against drought conditions. Grain and fodder from sorghum ... -
Effects of Oxidative Stress on the Expression and Function of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Cultured Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
(2017-02-28)The role of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and/or nitric oxide (NO) in atherosclerosis remains elusive. Several researchers argued whether iNOS and/or NO are pathogenic or cardio protective. The pathogenesis of ... -
The Effects of Paranoid and or Persecutory Delusions on Feelings of Social Inclusion and Exclusion
(2010-05-25)Background: Current psychological theories of persecutory delusions appear limited in being able to explain their interpersonal nature. Unanswered questions include why the content of delusions mostly involves persecution ... -
The Effects of PPARβ/δ Ligands on Lung Inflammation and Vascular Reactivity
(2020-01-13)The peroxisome proliferator activated receptor beta/delta (PPARβ/δ) is a transcription factor ubiquitously expressed in cells, although more highly active in skeletal muscle, arteries and endothelium. Signalling via PPARβ/δ ... -
Effects of solar radiation on buildings and thermal comfort
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)This work was undertaken to investigate the perceived problem of Thermal Discomfort in Malawi. One observable effect of thermal discomfort was the amount of foreign exchange that was spent to import air conditioning ... -
The Effects of Surface Modification on Properties of Solid Lubricant Additives
(2017-10-23)Three different fine-particles (lanthanum fluoride nanoparticles, cerium oxide nanoparticles and zinc borate submicron particles) were modified and tested on the purpose of study the effects of surface modified fine-particles ... -
Efficacy of Fungicides on Coexisting Leptophaeria spp. Causing Phoma Stem Canker on Winter Oilseed Rape
(2017-07-19)Phoma stem canker is a disease of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) caused by closely related plant pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa. It is an economically important disease, causing annual yield losses of ... -
The Efficacy of Probiotics in Modulating Clostridium difficile Spore Germination, Growth and Toxin Production in an in vitro Human Gut Model
(2021-01-22)Background and aims Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains a healthcare burden and recurrent CDI (rCDI) still affects 20-30% of patients. Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer a host health benefit, but ... -
An Efficient Execution Model for Reactive Stream Programs
(2015-08-25)Stream programming is a paradigm where a program is structured by a set of computational nodes connected by streams. Focusing on data moving between computational nodes via streams, this programming model fits well for ... -
Electromagnetic Compatibility in Wireline Communications
(2015-10-09)This document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Hertfordshire for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Part Time) in 'EMC in Wire-line Communications' in the School of ... -
ELT Teaching Quality and Practice in Saudi Arabia: A Case Study of the Perspectives of ESP and EGP Students, Teachers and Managers at the ELC in Umm al-Qura University
(2016-07-04)In recent years EFL education within Saudi Arabia has come under increased scrutiny, due to government efforts to reform the broader education system within the country, and the perceived importance of English as a global ... -
Emission Line Stars In and Beyond the Perseus Arm
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-04-23)I present low-resolution (Dl 6 A° ) follow-up spectroscopy of 370 Ha emitters (12 . r . 17) identified with IPHAS, in a 100 deg2 wide section of the Galactic plane that is located between ` = (120 ; 140 ) and b = (1 ... -
The Emotional Landscape of Working in a Learning Disability Service
(2013-04-30)Aims: The UK policy documents ‘Valuing people’ (DOH, 2001) and ‘Valuing people now’ (DOH, 2009) presaged a new direction in learning disability services: towards a human-rights model of care with the underlying principles ... -
Emotions, Motivation-Based Action Selection and Dynamic Environments
(2013-12-19)In contrast to traditional approaches, where the focus is on developing or evolving artificial “brains” as the route to artificial intelligence (AI) more recent approaches have increasingly emphasised and modelled the ...