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Experiences of Acceptance and Adjustment for People Living With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(2013-10-10)
BACKGROUND: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an incurable, chronic condition that is known to impact the physical and psychosocial well-being of those living with it. Evidence consistently demonstrates there is an ...
Train Drivers' Experiences of Witnessing a Railway Suicide: a Repertory Grid Study
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-10)
Over 200 railway suicides occur on the British Rail Network (BRN) every year. Research into the physical and psychological effects of this traumatic event on train drivers has been limited, and has focused very little on ...
Young People's Narratives of their Parents' Separation and/or Divorce
(2013-10-09)
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The psychological impact of parental divorce or separation upon children has long been debated. There is a wealth of quantitative research which offers contradictory findings yet young people who ...
The Impact of The Freedom Programme on Construing, Coping and Symptomatology in Women who have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence: a Personal Construct Approach
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-09)
The overall aim of the present research is to contribute to the literature base regarding interventions for women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The research utilised questionnaires and repertory ...
Extracting Group Relationships Within Changing Software Using Text Analysis
(2013-10-04)
This research looks at identifying and classifying changes in evolving software by
making simple textual comparisons between groups of source code files. The two
areas investigated are software origin analysis and collusion ...
Marketising Post-1992 Universities in the Knowledge Economy: a Value Chain Approach
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-09-30)
This thesis sets out to examine the impact of marketisation on the value chains of a number of English post-1992 universities between 1992 and 2010. The research focuses on the relationships and interplay between knowledge ...
Born Again: Natality, Normativity and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-09-30)
Within the text of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt circumscribes the concept of natality in ways that tend to conflate its biological, historical, institutional and phenomenological dimensions. This dissertation seeks ...
The Biomechanics of the Dynamic Defence Mechanism
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-09-09)
Context: It has been suggested that muscle fatigue can lead to injury, however, research investigating this phenomenon in functional ankle instability (FAI) subjects is lacking. Aim: The purpose of this thesis was to ...
Computational Models of Intracellular Signalling and Synaptic Plasticity Induction in the Cerebellum
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-09-03)
Many molecules and the complex interactions between them underlie plasticity in
the cerebellum. However, the exact relationship between cerebellar plasticity and
the different signalling cascades remains unclear. ...
A Defining Moment: Malaysian Nurses' Perspectives of Trans-National Higher Education
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-08-29)
Abstract
Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes are relatively new in Malaysia and their impact in clinical settings is unknown. This research interprets Malaysian nurses’ ...