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Contextual Factors Associated with Psychological Inflexibility and Distress in Adults
(2011-11-18)
It is widely accepted in the literature that adverse experiences in childhood, such as abuse and emotional invalidation, pose a major risk factor for the development of psychopathology later in life. What is less known, ...
The Experiences of Primary Caregivers of People with Learning Disabilities who have Committed an Offence: a Narrative Study
(2011-11-18)
Background and aims: The experiences of primary caregivers of adults with learning disabilities who have committed an offence is a largely neglected area within current literature. However, primary caregivers have an ...
The Experiences of People whose Partners have taken their own Lives: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011-10-31)
Rationale and Aims: Grief research has highlighted the difficult reactions
experienced by people bereaved by suicide, with studies also looking at the
importance of sense and meaning making. There is limited research ...
Narratives of Living with Epilepsy Diagnosed in Adulthood
(2011-09-26)
Background and aims: The individual’s experience of living with epilepsy is often neglected with the dominant focus being upon seizure control. However, the experience of living with epilepsy is more than the seizures. ...
The Effectiveness of Pursed Lips Breathing in the Management of Breathlessness in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(2011-09-19)
Introduction: This dissertation aims to explore, in a clinical setting, the effectiveness of pursed lips breathing (PLB), in the management of dyspnoea in stable COPD.
Methodology: A mixed methodology that comprised a ...
Leadership in Small Primary Schools: The Headteacher's Perspective
(2011-09-16)
The aim of this research is to identify and scrutinise current aspects of leadership in small primary schools in order to generate a new context-appropriate model of headship. The research is an in-depth study of leading ...
Receiver Architectures for MIMO Wireless Communication Systems based on V-BLAST and Sphere Decoding Algorithms
(2011-09-13)
Modern day technology aspires to always progress. This progression leads to a lot of research in any significant area of improvement. There is a growing amount of end-users in the wireless spectrum which has led to a need ...
The Possibility of Over the Phone Traumatisation: A Repertory Grid Study Investigating Secondary Traumatic Stress in Samaritan Crisis Line Volunteers
(2011-09-13)
Background: The literature suggests a consensus that individuals can become traumatised through listening to another’s trauma. Much of this research, however, has focused on individuals who have had direct, face-to-face ...
Towards the Evolution of Multicellularity: A Computational Artificial Life Approach
(2011-09-13)
Technology, nowadays, has given us huge computational potential, but
computer sciences have major problems tapping into this pool of resources.
One of the main issues is how to program and design distributed systems.
Biology ...
Channel Estimation and Performance Analysis of MIMO-OFDM Communications using Space-Time and Space-Frequency Coding Schemes
(2011-09-12)
This thesis is concerned with channel estimation and data detection of MIMO-OFDM communication systems using Space-Time Block Coding (STBC) and Space-Frequency Block Coding (SFBC) under frequency selective channels. A new ...