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Techniques to Assess Volume Status and Haemodynamic Stability in Patients on Haemodialysis
(2010-09-06)
Volume overload is a common feature in patients on haemodialysis (HD). This contributes significantly to the cardiovascular disease burden seen in these patients. Clinical assessments of the volume state are often inaccurate. ...
Beliefs About the Causes of Mental Illness and Attitudes Towards Seeking Help: A Study of British Jewry
(2010-09-03)
Existing research and anecdotal accounts have consistently reported that Jewish people are positively inclined to seek treatment for mental health problems, including making use of psychiatric services and psychotherapy. ...
Interactions Between Radio-Loud Active Galaxies and Their Environments
(University of Hertfordshire, 2010-09-01)
In this dissertation, I present my work on the behaviour of different features of radio-loud active
galaxies to investigate how energy is transferred from their jets to the environment. To this end, I
have studied the ...
Paths, Players, Places: Towards an Understanding of Mazes and Spaces in Videogames
(2010-08-25)
This thesis contributes to the field of academic game studies by reworking and updating the established theories of Espen Aarseth, Janet Murray and Marie-Laure Ryan in understanding the path in videogames. It also draws ...
Ice Crystal Classification Using Two Dimensional Light Scattering Patterns
(2010-08-23)
An investigation is presented into methods of characterising cirrus ice crystals from in-situ light scattering data. A database of scattering patterns from modelled crystals was created using the Ray Tracing with
Diffraction ...
Studies of Depression and Illness Representations in End-Stage Renal Disease
(2010-08-20)
Depression is a substantial psychopathology encountered in the dialysis population yet its association with potentially modifiable psychological antecedents are not well known. Of these potential antecedents, individual’s ...
Uncovering Complexity in Everyday Practice: A Post Modern Study of Community Nursing Assessment
(2010-08-12)
Much skilled nursing practice is described by words which at face value appear low-tech and self-explanatory. Despite being acknowledged as intrinsic to practice “nursing assessment” has few operational definitions.
This ...
Auxiliary Computations: A Framework for a Step-Wise, Non-Disruptive Introduction of Static Guarantees to Untyped Programs Using Partial Evaluation Techniques
(2010-08-05)
Type inference can be considered a form of partial evaluation that only evaluates a program with respect to its type annotations. Building on this key observation, this dissertation presents a uniform framework for expressing ...
A Study in Positivism and Physiology: Readings of Gustave Courbet
(2010-06-30)
This thesis explores ways in which the mid-nineteenth-century current of positivist thought impacted upon the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Guided by certain methodological imperatives set out in ...
Molecular Analysis of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Action
(2010-06-30)
The nuclear receptor superfamily comprises a group of ligand-activated transcription
factors that regulate the expression of target genes. They play a central role in
diverse physiological pathways, and are therefore ...