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Interactive Haptics for Remote and On-Site Assessment of Arm Function Following a Stroke
(2019-05-29)
There is a great need to improve the rehabilitation and assessment of arm and hand function of stroke survivors in the home due to cost, time and availability of healthcare professionals. Robotics and haptic technologies ...
Design and Real-World Application of Novel Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Face Recognition Algorithms
(2019-05-28)
Recent progress in machine learning has made possible the development of real-world face recognition applications that can match face images as good as or better than humans. However, several challenges remain unsolved. ...
Demand and Capacity Modelling of Acute Services Using Simulation and Optimization Techniques
(2019-05-09)
The level of difficulty that hospital management have been experiencing over the past decade in terms of balancing demand and capacity needs has been at an unprecedented level in the UK. Due to shortage of capacity, hospitals ...
Developing Metadata and Methodologies to Support Assessment of the Social Value of Buildings and Communities in Future Smart Cities
(2019-05-08)
The cost of delivering social programmes (health, education, national security etc.) in all OECD countries is rising to an unsustainable level. The Internet of Things and increased connectivity are increasingly being seen ...
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Novel Aircraft Drag Reduction
(2019-05-07)
Air transportation is an important part of the world’s economic and indispensable transportation system. The major institutions in the world and the aviation authorities are well aware of the demanding expectations of the ...
Collaboration as the Politics of Affect: the Client-Consultant Relationship as an Embodied Moral Practice
(2019-04-18)
This thesis explores the ideology of collaboration from the context of the consultant–client relationship. The ideology is contrasted with the actual experience of collaboration in everyday organizational life, taking a ...
Evidence-Based and Theoretically-Driven Behaviour Change Interventions for Physical Activity to Enhance Health and Wellbeing
(2019-04-08)
There are high rates of inactivity in UK adults, which can lead to a range of health problems. The main aims of this thesis were: first to review existing behaviour change intervention design, delivery, evaluation, and ...
E-government and Digital Divide in Hail City: a Quantitative, Older Adults Study
(2019-04-05)
The subject of information and communication technologies adoption, Internet and e-government services in particular, have been widely investigated by researchers. It is an indication of the significant roles that can be ...
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 ...
Partnership, Planning and Decision Making as Pre Conditions for Success of Social Marketing: a Case Study of Nutrition Cell Balochistan
(2019-03-28)
This research is based on an agreed definition approved by the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA), Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM), and the International Social Marketing Association (ISMA). It ...