Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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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 ... -
Information Driven Self-Organization of Agents and Agent Collectives
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-04-02)From a visual standpoint it is often easy to point out whether a system is considered to be self-organizing or not, though a quantitative approach would be more helpful. Information theory, as introduced by Shannon, ... -
Information Theoretic Models of Social Interaction
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-05-24)This dissertation demonstrates, in a non-semantic information-theoretic framework, how the principles of \maximisation of relevant information" and \information parsimony" can guide the adaptation of an agent towards ... -
Information-Theoretic Models of Communication in Biological Systems
(2017-11-10)This thesis aims to find general principles governing the behaviour of biological systems, with a particular emphasis in the communicational (social) aspect of these systems. Communication between biological entities ... -
Informational Constraints and Organisation of Behaviour
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-01-24)Based on the view of an agent as an information processing system, and the premise that for such a system it is evolutionary advantageous to be parsimonious with respect to informational burden, an information-theoreti ... -
Informational Principles of Perception-Action Loops and Collective Behaviours
(2011-01-20)Living beings, robotic and software artefacts can all be seen as agents acting and perceiving within an environment. When observed under that perspective, a new concept is accessible: information in the sense of Shannon. ... -
Infrared Polarimetry and Integral Field Spectroscopy of Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
(2008-10-20)In this thesis, I present the properties of IRAS 19306+1407 central source and its sur- rounding circumstellar envelope (CSE), from the analysis of near-infrared (near-IR) polarimetry and integral field spectroscopy ... -
Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Gain Modulation in Cerebellar Nucleus Neurons
(2016-05-17)Neurons can encode information using the rate of their action potentials, making the relation between input rate and output rate a prominent feature of neuronal information processing. This relation, known as I-O function, ... -
Insecure Attachment and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents: a Meta-Analysis
(2012-11-22)Since Bowlby (1958, cited in Bowlby, 1969) originally introduced the theory of attachment it has been written about extensively and a vast amount of research has contributed to the development of the theory. In more recent ... -
Inside the Mirror: Effects of Attuned Dance-Movement Intervention on Interpersonal Engagement as Observed in Changes of Movement Patterns in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2016-02-11)The research presented in this thesis is an explorative study into the basic concepts and the effects of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) intervention on the attunement behaviours of children and adolescents with autism ... -
Institutional Complementarities in the Performance of UK and French Cooperative Firms: a Comparative Analysis
(2020-04-05)This thesis attempts to identify institutional arrangements that allow cooperative firms to overcome the underinvestment problem identified in the theoretical literature. The comparative institutional analysis focuses on ... -
Institutions and Financial System Development in Africa
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-27)Recent research suggests that financial system development is important for economic development and for reducing financing constraints of firms (Levine, 2005). Consequently, researchers started investigating the factors ... -
An instrument for monitoring number and mass of ambient particles in coarse, fine and ultrafine size ranges
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)Airborne particulate matter is today recognized as an important category of air pollutants. Current air quality standards, and hence most particle instruments, are based on particle mass concentration-the European standard, ... -
Integrated Wireless-PON Access Network Architectures
(2011-09-02)Next generation access networks should be able to cultivate the ongoing evolution in services and applications. Advancements on that front are expected to exhibit the transformation of high definition television (HDTV) ... -
The Integration of Personal and Professional Ethical Decision Making Constructs in Trainee Clinical Psychologists
(2018-09-26)Ethical decision-making is an important but challenging aspect of the role of a clinical psychologist. Little research has been conducted concerning how clinical psychologists make ethical decisions, with even less known ...