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Developing Metadata and Methodologies to Support Assessment of the Social Value of Buildings and Communities in Future Smart Cities
(2019-05-08)
The cost of delivering social programmes (health, education, national security etc.) in all OECD countries is rising to an unsustainable level. The Internet of Things and increased connectivity are increasingly being seen ...
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Novel Aircraft Drag Reduction
(2019-05-07)
Air transportation is an important part of the world’s economic and indispensable transportation system. The major institutions in the world and the aviation authorities are well aware of the demanding expectations of the ...
Collaboration as the Politics of Affect: the Client-Consultant Relationship as an Embodied Moral Practice
(2019-04-18)
This thesis explores the ideology of collaboration from the context of the consultant–client relationship. The ideology is contrasted with the actual experience of collaboration in everyday organizational life, taking a ...
Evidence-Based and Theoretically-Driven Behaviour Change Interventions for Physical Activity to Enhance Health and Wellbeing
(2019-04-08)
There are high rates of inactivity in UK adults, which can lead to a range of health problems. The main aims of this thesis were: first to review existing behaviour change intervention design, delivery, evaluation, and ...
E-government and Digital Divide in Hail City: a Quantitative, Older Adults Study
(2019-04-05)
The subject of information and communication technologies adoption, Internet and e-government services in particular, have been widely investigated by researchers. It is an indication of the significant roles that can be ...
In Silico and In Vitro Investigation into the Next Generation of New Psychoactive Substances
(2019-03-29)
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) were designed to be legal alternatives to existing established recreational drugs. They have fast become a very popular and up until 2016, NPS were legal, cheap and freely accessible via ...
Partnership, Planning and Decision Making as Pre Conditions for Success of Social Marketing: a Case Study of Nutrition Cell Balochistan
(2019-03-28)
This research is based on an agreed definition approved by the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA), Australian Association of Social Marketing (AASM), and the International Social Marketing Association (ISMA). It ...
Wigner-Current in One-Dimensional Bound-State Systems
(2019-03-27)
The behaviour of classical systems is characterised by their phase portraits; the collections of their trajectories. In quantum mechanics phase portraits are still considered impossible to compute due to the complexity of ...
Millimetre-Wave Fibre-Wireless Technologies for 5G Mobile Fronthaul
(2019-03-19)
The unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, driven primarily by bandwidth rich applications and high definition video is accelerating the development of fifth generation (5G) mobile network. As mobile access network ...
Reducing Errors in Optical Data Transmission Using Trainable Machine Learning Methods
(2019-03-15)
Reducing Bit Error Ratio (BER) and improving performance of modern coherent optical communication system is a significant issue. As the distance travelled by the information signal increases, the bit error ratio will ...