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Registered Nurses' Perceptions of Workplace Stress in Paediatric Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia: a Mixed-Method Research Study
(2020-05-22)
Background: Workplace stress among nurses in Intensive Care Units (ICU) has been shown to variously affect their health, the quality of nursing care, healthcare delivery and national healthcare costs (Mokhtar et al., 2016). ...
The Application of Data Mining Techniques to Learning Analytics and Its Implications for Interventions with Small Class Sizes
(2020-05-12)
There has been significant progress in the development of techniques to deliver effective technology enhanced learning systems in education, with substantial progress in the field of learning analytics. These analyses are ...
An Evaluation of the Regulatory Environment in South Africa: Improving the Review Process and Patients' Access to Medicines
(2020-05-05)
National regulatory authorities (NRAs) are responsible for the evaluation of medicines and for ensuring that only those products which meet the requirements of quality, safety and efficacy are registered and made available ...
Processes of Compromise in International Development Consultancies - Getting Heard as a Social Scientist
(2020-04-30)
This thesis explores the theme of compromise from the perspective of a social scientist working in the technically oriented environment of international development. My involvement is through my employment in a Danish ...
Constructing Autism Inside and Outside the Clinic: Exploring Relationships Between Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists' and Activists' Discourses
(2020-04-23)
This research investigated the construction of autism in clinical and social terrains. Study one drew from Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) to examine the language of psychoanalytic psychotherapists in constructing the ...
Influence of Chronic Ankle Instability on Human Movement: a Three Dimensional Kinematic and Electromyographic Analysis
(2020-04-17)
Context: Lateral ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries in the general and sporting population and as such present high-cost implications and time lost to sport and employment. Following an initial ...
Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Antifungal Agents Targeting the Fungal Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase
(2020-04-06)
Fungal infections now contribute significantly to microbe-related morbidity and mortality due to there being a limited number of available antifungal agents and limited modes of delivery. Over the past two decades, many ...
Institutional Complementarities in the Performance of UK and French Cooperative Firms: a Comparative Analysis
(2020-04-05)
This thesis attempts to identify institutional arrangements that allow cooperative firms to overcome the underinvestment problem identified in the theoretical literature. The comparative institutional analysis focuses on ...
Assessing Variability of EEG and ECG/HRV Time Series Signals Using a Variety of Non-Linear Methods
(2020-03-13)
Time series signals, such as Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electrocardiogram
(ECG) represent the complex dynamic behaviours of biological systems.
The analysis of these signals using variety of nonlinear methods is ...
Body Shame, Body Compassion and Physical Activity
(2020-03-12)
Participation in physical activity in the population and especially in young people has been frequently highlighted as a concern, given the increased risk of serious health issues in people who are insufficiently active. ...