Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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The Importance of Ethnic Identity and Well-being in the Lives of Third- Generation British Bangladeshi People
(2020-01-27)Rationale and Aims: Ethnic Identity (EI) refers to the extent to which an individual identifies with their cultural group (Phinney, 2000) and has been widely documented as being beneficial for well-being (Smith and Silva, ... -
Improved Aerosol Deposition Profiles from Dry Powder Inhalers
(2015-05-20)Lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are major health burdens on the global population. To treat diseases of the lung, topical therapies using dry powder inhalers (DPIs) have been ... -
Improving Computational Predictions of Cis-regulatory Binding Sites in Genomic Data
(2011-11-25)Cis-regulatory elements are the short regions of DNA to which specific regulatory proteins bind and these interactions subsequently influence the level of transcription for associated genes, by inhibiting or enhancing ... -
Improving Defect Prediction Models by Combining Classifiers Predicting Different Defects
(2018-10-02)Background: The software industry spends a lot of money on finding and fixing defects. It utilises software defect prediction models to identify code that is likely to be defective. Prediction models have, however, reached ... -
In Silico and In Vitro Investigation into the Next Generation of New Psychoactive Substances
(2019-03-29)New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) were designed to be legal alternatives to existing established recreational drugs. They have fast become a very popular and up until 2016, NPS were legal, cheap and freely accessible via ... -
The Incarcerated Pregnancy: an Ethnographic Study of Perinatal Women in English Prisons
(2018-07-13)The UK has the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe, with pregnant women making up around 6% of the female prison population. There are limited qualitative studies published that document the experiences of pregnancy ... -
Incivility in Pre-Registration Nursing Education: a Phenomenological Exploration of the Experiences of Student Nurses, Nurse Tutors and Nurse Mentors in a UK Higher Education Institution
(2019-01-16)This study provides a unique insight into incivility in pre-registration nursing education through a phenomenological exploration of the experiences of student nurses, nurse tutors and nurse mentors. Incivility is the ... -
Inclusion and Exclusion in the NHS: Power, Innovation and Rejection in Nursing
(2009-06-03)In this thesis, I investigate my professional practice as an independent health adviser in the UK National Health Service. Inclusion and exclusion, power, innovation and rejection in nursing are themes that have emerged ... -
Individual Perspectives in Family Therapy: a Comparison of Perspectives
(2012-12-20)There has been relatively little robust research investigating the experience of family therapy from a client’s perspective. Much of the literature fails to make clear their methods for analysing the data, and takes an ... -
Indoor Localisation of Scooters from Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Sensors: Combining Wi-Fi, Smartphone and Wheel Encoders
(2019-07-24)Indoor localisation of people and objects has been a focus of research studies for several decades because of its great advantage to several applications. Accuracy has always been a challenge because of the uncertainty of ... -
Inflectional morphology and compounding in English : a single route, associative memory based account
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)Native English speakers include irregular plurals in English compounds (e. g., mice chaser) more frequently than regular plurals (e. g., *rats chaser) (Gordon, 1985). This dissociation in inflectional morphology has been ... -
Influence of Chronic Ankle Instability on Human Movement: a Three Dimensional Kinematic and Electromyographic Analysis
(2020-04-17)Context: Lateral ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries in the general and sporting population and as such present high-cost implications and time lost to sport and employment. Following an initial ... -
The Influence of Habits, Opportunities and Thoughts on Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyles
(2015-11-16)This programme of research was focused on developing a better understanding of pro-environmental behaviours and pro-environmental behaviour change, with consideration of the powerful effect of habits in thinking, affect ... -
Influence of Lactase on the In Vitro and In Vivo Antiglycaemic Effects of Onion Flavonoids
(2017-10-12)Introduction Lactase in addition to its role in the digestion of lactose available in milk and dairy products is implicated in the metabolism of a range of phenolic phytochemicals in the gut. Experiments with Caco-2 cells ... -
The Influence of Solid Additives on the Tribological Properties of Lubricants
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-06-27)The present work investigates the tribological properties of solid particles as lubricant additives in lubricants. Two types of solid particles, Ceria nanoparticles (CeO2) and Zinc borate ultrafine powders (ZB UFPs), were ... -
The Influence of Surface Detail on Object Identification in Alzheimer's Patients and Healthy Participants
(2009-11-09)Image format (Laws, Adlington, Gale, Moreno-Martínez, & Sartori, 2007), ceiling effects in controls (Fung et al., 2001; Laws et al., 2005; Moreno-Martínez, & Laws, 2007; 2008), and nuisance variables (Funnell & De Mornay ... -
The Influence of the Working Environment on Midwifery Staff and Students in Relation to the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE)
(2023-10-11)This qualitative study explores the experiences of practitioners and students in relation to the ‘newborn and infant physical examination’ (NIPE). Previous research relating to the NIPE has given some insight into practice ... -
The Influences of a Health and Social Care Interprofessional Education (IPE) Module on Students' Attitudes Towards Collaboration
(2019-06-16)The focus of this thesis is a module in interprofessional education (IPE) taught at a Higher Education Institution. The objective is to examine the potential within the module to identify new ideas for health and social ... -
Influences of Time of Day on Teaching and Learning of Adolescents in Secondary School
(2019-02-08)This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the possible influences of time of day on the teaching and learning of adolescents in secondary school. School scheduling has always been an issue within schools with ... -
Influences on Beginning Teacher Construing: Beliefs, Stories and Trajectories
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-03-18)This study focuses on the experiences of beginning teachers in the British Army’s training and education branch. The research sought to identity what influenced participants’ construing about teaching and learning, teacher ...