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Body Image, Disordered Eating and Emotional Processing in Adolescent Females
(2008-10-20)Eating disorders can be viewed on a continuum, with disordered eating not reaching clinical diagnostic criteria but having potentially negative effects including increasing the risk of an eating disorder or obesity. This ... -
Body image, mood and quality of life in young people burned in childhood
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)Little is known about how young people who survived burn injuries as children cope when they reach adolescence. This study looked at the body image, mood and quality of life of a group of young people who had burn injuries ... -
Body Shame, Body Compassion and Physical Activity
(2020-03-12)Participation in physical activity in the population and especially in young people has been frequently highlighted as a concern, given the increased risk of serious health issues in people who are insufficiently active. ... -
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Personal Construct Approach
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-07)In 2003, Winter, Watson, Gillman-Smith, Gilbert and Acton criticised the DSM-IV’s psychiatric conceptualisation of BPD, proposing a set of alternative descriptions based on Kelly’s (1955) Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) ... -
Born Again: Natality, Normativity and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-09-30)Within the text of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt circumscribes the concept of natality in ways that tend to conflate its biological, historical, institutional and phenomenological dimensions. This dissertation seeks ... -
Brain injury and the experience of caring : intrapersonal aspects from a personal construct perspective
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)Significant proportions of carers for those with a brain injury have been found to be clinically anxious and depressed. Subjective carer burden (SCB) has been defined as the distress experienced as a result of the observed ... -
British newsreels and the plight of European Jews, 1933-1945
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)This dissertation is an investigation into what the British newsreels told the public about the plight of German and European Jews, between January 1933) and the end of 1945. Nazi persecution of the Jews is a subject ... -
Building a Narrative-Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model
(2010-05-25)This thesis presents a narrative-based Requirements Engineering (RE) mediation model (NREMM) to help RE practitioners to effectively identify, define, and resolve conflicts of interests, goals, and requirements in the RE ... -
Building Connection Against the Odds: Exploring the Relationship Between Project Workers and People Experiencing Homelessness
(2018-11-15)In the past decade homelessness has dramatically increased in the UK, against a backdrop of austerity (National Audit Office, 2017), with those working to support people experiencing homelessness (PEH) battling to build ... -
Can a High-Tech Breakthrough Approach Deliver Novel Supply and Demand Solutions? A Study of Digital Cinema Rollout.
(2017-07-24)Digitalization is the process of making digital everything that can be digitised to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-‐producing opportunities. However, difficulties exi ... -
Can Asset Mapping be Used to Gain Insight into Children's Wellbeing
(2012-01-26)In recent years, there has been an enormous growth in the literature that has focussed upon assets, in other words emphasising the positive attributes of both people and communities; these include children and young people’s ... -
Can Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention Improve Attention in Individuals With Mixed Neurological Disorders?
(2015-12-09)It is estimated that there are 12.5 million people in England living with neurological disorders (Neurological Alliance, 2014). People with neurological disorders as a result of acquired brain injury (ABI) are living with ... -
Cannabinoid signalling
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)The general aim of the study was to investigate the signalling pathways utilised by cannabinoids. Cannabinoid CB1 receptor stimulation in DDT, MF-2 smooth muscle cells induces a rise in [Ca21;, which is dependent on ... -
Cannabinoids and Bronchial Airways
(2009-07-01)Although there is a renewed interest in the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids, pharmacological and physiological characterisation of these promising compounds is currently not well documented in the respiratory system. ... -
Care Leavers' Experiences of Being and Becoming Parents
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-14)1.0 Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to explore care leavers’ experiences of parenting. Although research has previously been carried out on this area, there is a lack of research on mature care leavers’ experiences ... -
Caring for those with Parkinson’s Disease: The Effect of Social Networks on the Family Carer’s Role
(2022-11-21)This study explored the social networks of informal carers for those with Parkinson’s Disease and how these impacted on their caring role. An increasing ageing population in the UK means that demand for informal care is ... -
Causation and the Objectification of Agency
(2015-10-06)This dissertation defends the so-called 'agency-approach' to causation, which attempts to ground the causal relation in the cause's role of being a means to bring about its effect. The defence is confined to a conceptual ... -
Cellulose Based Genoassays for the Detection of Pathogen DNA
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-10-30)Simple, reliable and cost-effective methods for detecting pathogens are a vital part of diagnostics inside and outside the clinic, in particular in the developing world. Paper based colorimetric techniques are a promising ... -
A Census of Nuclear Stellar Disks in Early-Type Galaxies
(2016-05-17)In this thesis we explored the use of nuclear stellar discs as tracers of the merging history of early-type galaxies. These small structures, just a few tens to a few hundreds of parsecs across, are a common but poorly ... -
Change and Continuity through Mergers & Acquisitions
(2013-04-03)I have lived through nineteen mergers and acquisitions and without moving companies, have signed eight employment contracts, all following M&As. Only two of the eight companies still trade, the others went bankrupt or shut ...