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Monsters, Dreams, and Discords: Vampire Fiction in Twenty-First Century American Culture
(2019-01-28)
Amongst recent scholarly interest in vampire fiction, twenty-first century American vampire literature has yet to be examined as a body that demonstrates what is identified here as an evolution into three distinct yet ...
A Haptic Study to Inclusively Aid Teaching and Learning in the Discipline of Design
(2019-01-23)
Designers are known to use a blend of manual and virtual processes to produce design prototype solutions. For modern designers, computer-aided design (CAD) tools are an essential requirement to begin to develop design ...
Incivility in Pre-Registration Nursing Education: a Phenomenological Exploration of the Experiences of Student Nurses, Nurse Tutors and Nurse Mentors in a UK Higher Education Institution
(2019-01-16)
This study provides a unique insight into incivility in pre-registration nursing education through a phenomenological exploration of the experiences of student nurses, nurse tutors and nurse mentors. Incivility is the ...
Radio Continuum Emission as a Star Formation Tracer: Bridging the Spatial Scales
(2019-01-07)
Radio continuum emission has been demonstrated to be an excellent tracer of recent
star formation, yet current understanding remains empirical, and is primarily based
upon integrated multi–frequency or resolved mono–chromatic ...
Open-set Speaker Identification
(2018-12-20)
This study is motivated by the growing need for effective extraction of intelligence and evidence from audio recordings in the fight against crime, a need made ever more apparent with the recent expansion of criminal and ...
Developing Pupil Understanding of School-Subject Knowledge: an Exploratory Study of the Role of Discourse in Whole-Class Teacher-Pupil Interaction During English Literature Lessons
(2018-12-10)
In this submission I explore the role played by discourse in the development of pupils’ understanding of school-subject knowledge in secondary school classrooms in England, following changes to GCSE (General Certificate ...
Signal Transduction Mechanisms for Lysophosphatidic Acid Mediated Cardiac Differentiation of P19 Stem Cells
(2018-12-07)
The role of endogenous molecules in facilitating stem cell differentiation into cardiomyocytes is yet to be fully understood. SPC and S1P, common biolipids, promote cardiac differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and ...
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 ...
Women Only Networks: Help or Hindrance? A Case Study of a UK Police Constabulary
(2018-11-09)
My case study provides a unique discussion on the experiences and perceptions of members of a UK constabulary women’s formal in-house network, which includes an exploration of the organisational and occupational cultures ...
Cultural Influences on Psychiatrists' Constructions of Mental Health Problems: a Repertory Grid Study
(2018-11-08)
Background: The literature suggests that people from different cultures make sense of their experiences in different ways, including how they understand mental health problems. Much of this research focused on how clients ...