Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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Social Axioms as Predictors of Psychological and Subjective Well-Being in Iran and England
(2018-06-21)The concept of social axiom represents generalized beliefs regarding individuals, agencies and other social institutions, and the spiritual world. The relationship between social axioms and social and mental well-being has ... -
A Social Care Co-operative: Doing Care Differently
(2023-04-06)A manifestation of neoliberal ideas, which has been linked to a general erosion of working conditions and the quality of care in the UK care sector, is the recent trend for local authorities to respond to their budgets ... -
The Social Character of Organizational Change: Strategizing as Emergent Practice
(2010-11-18)Increasingly, researchers on strategy are turning away from the highly abstracted and de-humanized components that seem to typify the macro approach to strategy. This movement is at least partially brought about by a ... -
The social construction of women's trade union participation : the role of women-only courses in MSF and TGWU
(2003)Women have struggled for more than a century for equality within trade unions and various forms of separate organising have played a central role in achieving incremental gendered transformation of internal structures ... -
The Social History of Medical Self-Help in 20th-Century England: a Microhistory of a Rural Community
(2020-06-16)This thesis focuses on the health experiences of an Oxfordshire village 1900-1947 and the aim of the study is to obtain a holistic view of the health status and health strategies of one agricultural community. The period ... -
A Social Identity Understanding of Depression: Implications for Onset, Maintenance and Recovery
(2016-05-17)The literature on depression is dominated by theories which focus on individualistic variables, including biological differences, personality, and individual cognition. Whilst the importance of social variables for depression ... -
The Social Processes Maintaining Engagement in Repetitive Self-Harm
(2023-10-03)Background: Epidemiological studies evidence increasing rates of self-harm within the United Kingdom and pressure on the National Health Service to adequately support individuals who engage in repetitive self-harm. Repetitive ... -
Social Workers’ Experiences of Working in Children's Services: a Grounded Theory Study
(2021-10-22)Children’s Services in England are the frontline services supporting the protection of vulnerable children and families. Surprisingly, there is minimal literature attending to the experiences of the social work profession, ... -
Sociality in Autism: Building Social Bridges in Autism Spectrum Conditions through LEGO® Based Therapy
(2017-04-19)Background: Autism Spectrum Conditions are associated with difficulties in core social communication and social interaction (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) and comorbid psychopathology (Simonoff, Pickles, Charman, ... -
Socially Interactive Robots as Mediators in Human-Human Remote Communication
(2012-11-12)This PhD work was partially supported by the European LIREC project (Living with robots and interactive companions) a collaboration of 10 EU partners that aims to develop a new generation of interactive and emotionally ... -
The Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1838 - 1900
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-03-09)This research presents a demographic investigation into the effects the development of Britain’s railways in the Victorian Era had on the largely rural counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. A ‘gateway’ ... -
Software Defect Prediction Using Static Code Metrics: Formulating a Methodology
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-06-24)Software defect prediction is motivated by the huge costs incurred as a result of software failures. In an effort to reduce these costs, researchers have been utilising software metrics to try and build predictive models ... -
Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications
(2008-11-04)Abstract Wireless designers constantly seek to improve the spectrum efficiency/capacity, coverage of wireless networks, and link reliability. Space-time wireless technology that uses multiple antennas along with appropriate ... -
A spectroscopic study of a large sample of L/T transition brown dwarfs
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-25)In this thesis I present the spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of L and T dwarfs, in order to constrain the sub-stellar initial mass function and formation history. The main points I tried to address are the ... -
Spelling and Reading Representations in Children
(2008-07-24)This thesis sought to conceptualise children’s spelling and reading representations in a novel way based upon the implicit-explicit framework proposed by the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, ... -
Spontaneity and power : theatre improvisation as processes of change in organizations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)Theatre has gained wider use in organizational change processes, either as Forum Theatre inspired by Boal (1998, [1979] 2000) or as improvisation inspired by Johnstone (1981,1999); and in recent years, a number of authors ... -
The stability of stratified layers within ventilated enclosures
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)The project consists of experimental and numerical investigation of buoyancy-dominated flow leading to thermal stratification in ventilated spaces for the range of Re from 4,000 to 50,000 and Rio below 40. In the evolution ... -
Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies: Using the Radio Continuum as an Extinction-Free Probe
(2016-06-16)To eliminate uncertainties introduced by extinction by dust in the optical, we examine to what extent the radio continuum (RC) can probe star formation in dwarf galaxies. Star formation (SF) drives galaxy formation and ... -
Star Formation in Galaxies: From the Epoch of Reionisation to the Present Day
(2012-09-28)In this thesis, I explore both obscured and unobscured star formation over a large fraction of cosmic time. I use the HAWK-I Y -band science verification data over GOODS-South, in conjunction with optical and infrared ... -
Star Formation in LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Galaxies
(2016-04-14)In this thesis we test and expand our current knowledge of Star Formation Laws (SF laws) in the extreme environment of dwarf irregular galaxies. We focus on the SF characteristics of our 18 galaxies sample, extending current ...