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Life Cycle Evaluation of Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties for Novel Natural Fibre Composites
(2021-02-22)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental impacts associated with all stages of a product’s life-cycle (production, use and disposal) by identifying, e.g., energy consumption and CO2 emissions. ...
Securing the Edges of IoT Networks: a Scalable SIP DDoS Defense Framework with VNF, SDN, and Blockchain
(2021-02-19)
An unintended consequence of the global deployment of IoT devices is that they provide a fertile breeding ground for IoT botnets. An adversary can take advantage of an IoT botnet to launch DDoS attacks against telecommunication ...
The Impact of a Movement-Based Emotional Self-Regulation Programme on Adolescents with Special Educational Needs During the Transition Period from School to Post-School in Hong Kong
(2021-02-08)
The emotional wellbeing of adolescents remains a concern in the Hong Kong community. The prevalence of emotional problems for adolescents with special educational needs (SEN) is higher than their mainstream peers. Adolescents ...
Behind the Mask of a CEO of a Management Training Institution: Exploring Breakdowns of Identity in the Struggle for Recognition
(2021-02-05)
This thesis explores how idealisations of management identity influence everyday practice as a CEO, drawing on narrative accounts from my experience over a number of years. Combining the performative perspective of Erving ...
Autonomous and Intrinsically Motivated Robots for Sustained Human-Robot Interaction
(2021-02-04)
A challenge in using fully autonomous robots in human-robot interaction (HRI) is to design behavior that is engaging enough to encourage voluntary, long-term interaction, yet robust to the perturbations induced by human ...
Modeling Affect-Based Relationships and Social Allostasis as Mechanisms for Adaptation in Social Groups
(2021-01-29)
Artificial social agents are becoming increasingly present in the real world. For these agents, their success
is tied to their ability to remain truly autonomous—to appropriately adapt their decisions and behaviours
across ...
A Comparison of Tillage Techniques on Selected Soil Microbes Within the Rhizosphere of Wheat
(2021-01-27)
This thesis reports on the implications of Conventional tillage regimes with a focus upon Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) fungi for their contribution to soil chemical, physical and biological attributes, including aggregation, ...
The Efficacy of Probiotics in Modulating Clostridium difficile Spore Germination, Growth and Toxin Production in an in vitro Human Gut Model
(2021-01-22)
Background and aims
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains a healthcare burden and recurrent CDI (rCDI) still affects 20-30% of patients. Probiotics are live microorganisms that confer a host health benefit, but ...
An Exploratory Study of How and Why Some Micro-Finance Banks Overcome Adversity and Why Others Do Not
(2021-01-13)
This exploratory study was undertaken to gain an understanding of how and why some Micro-finance Banks (MFBs) in Lagos, Nigeria cope with, adapt to and overcome adversity in response to a spate of failures in the industry ...
Psychological Therapists’ Experiences of the Death of a Parent in Childhood
(2021-01-11)
Research examining psychological therapists’ personal experiences of bereavement is limited, despite existing research and anecdotal accounts indicating its profound impact on the self and therapeutic practice. Situated ...