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The Work of Phase I Ethics Committees: Expert and Lay Membership
(2013-04-04)
Previous research has noted that members of research ethics committees are unclear about the extent of their roles. In this study, research amongst members of independent ethics committees (IECs) about how the ‘expert’ ...
Motor Interference And Behaviour Adaptation in Human-Humanoid Interactions
(2013-04-04)
This thesis proposes and experimentally demonstrates an approach enabling a humanoid robot to adapt its behaviour to match a human’s behaviour in real-time human-humanoid interaction. The approach uses the information ...
Change and Continuity through Mergers & Acquisitions
(2013-04-03)
I have lived through nineteen mergers and acquisitions and without moving companies, have signed eight employment contracts, all following M&As. Only two of the eight companies still trade, the others went bankrupt or shut ...
Formation of Stars and Star Clusters in Colliding Galaxies
(2013-04-03)
Mergers are known to be essential in the formation of large scale structures and to have a
significant role in the history of galaxy formation and evolution. Besides a morphological
transformation, mergers induce important ...
Enhancing the Appraisal of Acute Mental Health Crisis: the Crisis Risk and Adaptive Functioning Tool (CRAFT)
(2013-04-03)
There is a distinct lack of research into the concept of acute mental health crisis. Without investigating the concept of crisis itself, it is not possible to appreciate the attributes of crisis so that it can be measured. ...
An Exploration of the Nature of Patient Participation Within the Context of the Acute Surgical Care Setting - a Grounded Theory Study
(2013-03-11)
Patient participation is a central theme in health care policy in the United Kingdom (U.K.). Indeed, there is a trend in health care policy and practice towards encouraging patients to participate actively in their care, ...
Singing Voice Extraction from Stereophonic Recordings
(2013-02-20)
Singing voice separation (SVS) can be defined as the process of extracting the
vocal element from a given song recording. The impetus for research in this
area is mainly that of facilitating certain important applications ...
Simulations of High Mass Star Formation in the Milky Way
(2013-02-18)
Massive star formation takes place in the dense cores of molecular clouds where the
stars may be obscured at optical wavelengths. An excellent signpost of a massive
young stellar object is the presence of an ultra-compact ...
Adaptability and Survival in Populations of Small and Medium Enterprises
(2013-02-06)
There is disagreement in the literature about the relative roles of selection (competition) and adaptation in explaining industrial change. For some, the possibilities for adaptation by individual firms are highly limited, ...
Effectiveness of the use of simulation training in healthcare education
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-02)
The focus of the research programme within this thesis is an investigation of scenario-based simulation training in undergraduate healthcare education. The aim of the main study was to determine the effectiveness of ...