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 ...

In contrast to traditional approaches, where the focus is on developing or evolving artificial “brains” as the route to artificial intelligence (AI) more recent approaches have increasingly emphasised and modelled the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...