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Robots that Say ’No’: Acquisition of Linguistic Behaviour in Interaction Games with Humans
(2013-12-20)
Negation is a part of language that humans engage in pretty much from the onset of speech.
Negation appears at first glance to be harder to grasp than object or action labels, yet
this thesis explores how this family of ...
The Stories of Parents who have an Adult Child with High-Functioning Autism or Aspergers' Syndrome - a Narrative Study
(2013-12-10)
Background and Aims:
Although existing research has begun to explore the experiences of parents who have an adult child with Autism, there are limited studies available that explore how a parent makes sense of this ...
The Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Evolution
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-12-10)
Observations of galaxy environments have revealed numerous correlations associated
with their intrinsic properties. It is therefore clear that if we are to understand the
processes by which galaxies form and evolve, we ...
Modern Matrons in an Acute Setting: a Qualitative Case Study
(2013-11-14)
The arrival of the modern matron into the NHS acute setting in 2001 was in response to increased public and political concern regarding standards of nursing care and the quality of patient care. As a politically motivated ...
Development of Interactive Aircraft Design Software for Use in Problem Based Learning
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-11-08)
In the last ten years or so, many interactive aircraft design software packages have been released into the market. One drawback of these packages is that they assume prior knowledge in the field of aircraft design. Also, ...
Family Stories about Mental Health Difficulties: an Intergenerational Perspective
(2013-10-28)
Background and aims: While individual family members’ experiences of living with mental health difficulties have been widely researched few attempts have been made to understand how families talk about and make sense of ...
'I Fall Down, I Get Up': Stories of Survival and Resistance Following Civil War in Sierra Leone
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-21)
The academic study of how people respond to adverse life experiences has been dominated by Western conceptualisations of distress, resilience and growth. The current literature base regarding responses to adversity has ...
Care Leavers' Experiences of Being and Becoming Parents
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-14)
1.0 Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore care leavers’ experiences of parenting. Although research has previously been carried out on this area, there is a lack of research on mature care leavers’ experiences ...
Journeys Towards an Acceptable Gender Expression: Narratives of People Living With Gender Variance
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-14)
BACKGROUND: Gender Variance (GV) is an experience that the gender assigned at
birth is different to one’s preferred gender identity. It includes the possibility of a
preferred gender identity being different to either ...
The Experiences of Adult Children of 'Alcoholics'
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-10-14)
Background: A wealth of quantitative literature exists exploring the impact of parental alcohol misuse on adult and child offspring. It is often proposed that children of alcoholics are at risk of experiencing a host of ...