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Qualified Clinical Psychologists' Experiences of Working with Children with Life-Limiting Conditions: a Qualitative Study
(2012-11-20)Background: Despite the increased presence of clinical psychologists in paediatric services, including palliative care teams, there has been little research into their experience of working with children with life-limiting ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Candidates’ Expectations and Preparations for Weight Loss Surgery in the NHS
(2018-10-26)Introduction: Weight loss surgery is the primary intervention offered by the NHS for patients with morbid obesity and associated health conditions (Welbourn, Fiennes & Kinsman, 2014). There are relatively few studies looking ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Facilitators' Experiences of Using the Tree of Life Methodology within Global Community Contexts
(2022-01-21)The Tree of Life methodology (ToL) is a Collective Narrative Practice developed to support communities to respond to collective hardships and trauma from a place of strength. In seeking more culturally-appropriate, localised, ... -
Qualitative Research of Online Drug Misuse Communities with Reference to the Novel Psychoactive Substances
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-05-29)Objective: This research aimed at reviewing the information provided by the online drug misuse communities with reference to the available evidence-based literature on the novel psychoactive substances. Methodology: ... -
A Qualitative Service Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Group Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Programme for Chronic Pain
(2012-11-14)Background In recent years Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has gained increasing status as a promising approach to treating chronic pain physical functioning and psychological well-being. The basic premise of ACT ... -
A Qualitative Study of Midwifery Practices During the Second Stage of Labour
(2018-08-10)This qualitative study explores midwifery practice during the second stage of labour focusing specifically on whether midwives adopt a directed or physiological approach to maternal pushing. It was undertaken against the ... -
Qualities of Personal Interaction: the Promotion of Research Utilisation for Quality Improvement in the US Health Care Sector
(2008-08-21)Nature of the inquiry: My research inquiry investigated how qualities of personal interaction shape and affect the promotion of research utilisation for quality improvement in the US healthcare sector. The research ... -
A Quantum Stochastic Calculus
(2012-11-29)Martingales are fundamental stochastic process used to model the concept of fair game. They have a multitude of applications in the real world that include, random walks, Brownian motion, gamblers fortunes and survival ... -
The Quantum Wigner Current: a Geometric Approach to Quantum Dynamics in Phase Space
(2019-05-30)Phase space is the unity of position and momentum configuration space. It allows for an effective description of dynamical systems and is particularly useful when it comes to studying chaos theory and statistical ... -
Questioning the Importance of Being Earnest: A Conversation Analysis of the Use and Function of Humour in the Serious Business of Therapy
(2010-05-27)This thesis explores the long-standing debate in the field of psychotherapy around the use of humour in psychotherapy and the shift from outcome to process research in psychotherapy research. In line with the social ... -
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 ...