Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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Exploring Uncomfortable Situations in the Practice of a Swedish Leadership Consultant
(2016-04-20)This research examines the practice of process consultancy in Sweden with a particular emphasis on working in disturbing and uncomfortable situations. The managerial discourses that consultants are working in are dominated ... -
Exteme Variables in Star Forming Regions
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-01-25)The notion that low- to intermediate-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) gain mass at a constant rate during the early stages of their evolution appears to be challenged by observations of YSOs suffering sudden increases ... -
Extracting Group Relationships Within Changing Software Using Text Analysis
(2013-10-04)This research looks at identifying and classifying changes in evolving software by making simple textual comparisons between groups of source code files. The two areas investigated are software origin analysis and collusion ... -
Extraction of metals from contaminated land and industrial solid waste using a novel technology (servo process)
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)Selective Extraction and Recovery using Volatile Organic compounds is an emerging technology developed during the 1970s. This process can achieve the extraction of heavy metal contaminants from a matrix using a volatile ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...