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Exploring Sensory Processing among Hearing Impaired and Culturally Deaf Children
(2020-10-19)
It is estimated that 5-10% of the non-clinical paediatric population experience difficulties with sensory processing (SP). In some clinical groups 90-95% of children are estimated to experience difficulties in this area. ...
Narratives of Mental Health Professionals Supporting Trans, Gender Diverse and Gender Questioning Adults
(2020-10-19)
Trans, gender diverse and gender questioning people appear at a high risk of suffering from mental health difficulties, but often describe having negative experiences accessing both physical and mental healthcare in the ...
Investigating Human Perceptions of Trust and Social Cues in Robots for Safe Human-Robot Interaction in Human-oriented Environments
(2020-10-12)
As robots increasingly take part in daily living activities, humans will have to
interact with them in domestic and other human-oriented environments. This thesis
envisages a future where autonomous robots could be used ...
Hearts and Minds: the Propaganda War Over the British Nuclear Deterrent, 1957 – 1963
(2020-09-29)
The main subject of this thesis is Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent between the years 1957 and 1963 and the propaganda surrounding it. The thesis examines both the promotion of the nuclear deterrent by the Conservative ...
Preconditions for Service Design in Colombia: Governance and Community Challenges
(2020-09-15)
Owing to the conditions of poverty in which 28% of its inhabitants live, the national government of Colombia provides services through its local administration in order to care for the needs of its vulnerable communities. ...
Structural Plasticity and Associative Memory in Balanced Neural Networks With Spike-Time Dependent Inhibitory Plasticity
(2020-09-10)
Several homeostatic mechanisms enable the brain to maintain desired
levels of neuronal activity. One of these, homeostatic structural plasticity,
has been reported to restore activity in networks disrupted
by peripheral ...
The Impact of Clinical Application Protocols for Multiple Topical Products on Drug Delivery to the Skin
(2020-08-28)
In the treatment of inflammatory skin conditions patients are often prescribed more than one topical product: a topical corticosteroid (TCS), an emollient and a topical antibiotic in cases of clinically infected skin. ...
Experiences of Workplace Bullying from the Perspectives of Trainee Clinical Psychologists: a Qualitative Study
(2020-08-20)
Research has identified that workplace bullying is a significant problem within healthcare, with healthcare trainees at particular risk. However, there are no studies of workplace bullying within clinical psychology or of ...
Assessing and Improving Prognosis in Patients with High Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2020-08-11)
Endogenous fibrinolysis, if impaired, has been identified as a novel risk factor in patients
with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in-depth understanding of endogenous
fibrinolysis, whether it varies day to day ...
The Historical Association Between Class Origins and Male Career Trajectories in UK Film Production
(2020-08-03)
The characterisation of the contemporary creative and cultural industries (CCIs) as ‘cool, creative and egalitarian’ (Gill, 2002) has been unpicked in recent literature (Grugulis and Stoyanova, 2012; Eikhof and Warhurst, ...