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Factors Affecting Initial Acceptance of and Subsequent Compliance With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
(2017-03-23)Background: Compliance with CPAP treatment for OSA is not reliably predicted by the severity of symptoms or physiological variables. I conducted a series of studies to examine a range of factors that may affect compliance ... -
Factors Affecting the Performance of Trainable Models for Software Defect Prediction
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-06-13)Context. Reports suggest that defects in code cost the US in excess of $50billion per year to put right. Defect Prediction is an important part of Software Engineering. It allows developers to prioritise the code that ... -
Factors Affecting the Uptake of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the Effectiveness of a Video Based Home Exercise Programme in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(2016-05-17)Introduction: The participation profile of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) and the effectiveness of a video-based home exercise programme (VBHEP) were investigated ... -
Factors Influencing Beliefs about Mental Health Difficulties and Attitudes Towards Seeking Help Amongst Nepalese people in the United Kingdom
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-12-03)Research shows that in the UK, individuals from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are significantly less likely to access mental health services than the general population. In the absence of literature or robust mental ... -
Falling Through the Cracks: a Constructivist Grounded Theory of How Service Provision Impacts the Experiences of those with Co-Occurring Mental Health Difficulties and Problems with Substance Use
(2022-09-30)Existing literature focusing on co-occurring mental health difficulties and problems with substance use predominantly focuses on prevalence and associated risk factors. This research aimed to explore how service provision ... -
Family Narratives of Lives Where Both Parent and Child Have Been Diagnosed with Persistent Physical Symptom (PPS) Conditions
(2020-12-17)There is a limited body of research that explores the lived experiences of families with persistent physical symptoms (PPS) conditions and no qualitative research on the intergenerational component to PPS. Existing research ... -
Family Stories about Mental Health Difficulties: an Intergenerational Perspective
(2013-10-28)Background and aims: While individual family members’ experiences of living with mental health difficulties have been widely researched few attempts have been made to understand how families talk about and make sense of ... -
Fathers' Experiences of Caring for an Adult Child with Psychosis: a Qualitative Study
(2018-10-29)Aim: Previous research has looked at parental experiences of caring, which has highlighted the rewarding nature of caring but also the difficulties associated with this role. However, within these studies the majority ... -
Fatigue Crack Growth Assessment and Fatigue Resistance Enhancement of Aluminium Alloys
(2018-08-01)Fatigue damage of aluminium alloys is one of the key concerns in transport industries, particularly in the aerospace industry. The purpose of the project is to develop new knowledge and techniques against fatigue failure ... -
Fault Tolerance for Stream Programs on Parallel Platforms
(2016-04-15)A distributed system is defined as a collection of autonomous computers connected by a network, and with the appropriate distributed software for the system to be seen by users as a single entity capable of providing ... -
Feasibility Study of Connecting Nuclear Generation to the National Electricity Transmission System via HVDC Technology
(2016-09-01)High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology has never before been used to connect a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) directly to the National Electricity Transmission System (NETS). There are both technical and economic factors ... -
Feeling Beyond Words: Exploring the Relationship between Mothers with Eating Disorders and their Toddlers
(2018-10-22)Literature on mothers with an eating disorder diagnosis has focused almost exclusively on identification of deficits, for both the mother and the infant. This literature suggests that, from conception through to the postnatal ... -
Film Websites: a Transmedia Archaeology
(2019-11-19)Websites have become a familiar feature of contemporary cinema and they contribute to the overall audience experience. Yet as a hybrid of storytelling and marketing, they have often been seen as little more than promotional ... -
Firm Performance and Institutional Context: A Theoretical Exploration With Evidence From the Italian Cooperative Sector
(2010-09-15)This thesis examines the relationship between institutional context and firm performance, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. The aim is to engage with the debate seeking to explain the observed diversity ... -
FIT Science for Improving Family Functioning and Parental Stress
(2011-07-28)This thesis used FIT Science (Fletcher & Stead, 2000) as a framework to study different aspects of family functioning. FIT variables measure the cognitive and behavioural characteristics of a ... -
FIT Science in Psychological and Physical Well-Being
(2008-11-04)Abstract The present programme of research discusses a series of studies which explore the relationships between individual characteristics and well being. The FIT theory (e.g.Fletcher & Stead, 2000a) was used as a ... -
Formal Approaches to a Definition of Agents
(2017-04-13)This thesis is a contribution to the formalisation of the notion of an agent within the class of finite multivariate Markov chains. In accordance with the literature agents are are seen as entities that act, perceive, ... -
Formation of Stars and Star Clusters in Colliding Galaxies
(2013-04-03)Mergers are known to be essential in the formation of large scale structures and to have a significant role in the history of galaxy formation and evolution. Besides a morphological transformation, mergers induce important ... -
From Giants to Dwarfs: Probing the Edges of Galaxies
(2010-11-19)In this thesis we address fundamental questions about what constitutes and limits an HI disc, probing the distribution of neutral gas in the outer parts of galaxies. We use a subsample of galaxies observed as part of the ... -
From Hell to Utopia: How Clinical Psychologists Who Don't Believe in Free Will Experience Delivering Therapy
(2016-06-30)Background: Both Freud (1921) and Skinner (1971) were regarded as 'hard determinists' who saw human thought and action as determined by prior events, and the idea of free will as simply an illusion. While this belief system ...