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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 ...
The Impact of Socio-Cultural Values on Autistic Women: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2021-01-07)
The experiences of autistic females, particularly those of adult women are not well understood. The way that autism has been conceptualised traditionally has contributed to knowledge being largely extrapolated from experiences ...
Family Narratives of Lives Where Both Parent and Child Have Been Diagnosed with Persistent Physical Symptom (PPS) Conditions
(2020-12-17)
There is a limited body of research that explores the lived experiences of families with persistent physical symptoms (PPS) conditions and no qualitative research on the intergenerational component to PPS. Existing research ...
Estimation and Modelling of Errors in the Library Preparation Stage of Next Generation Sequencing
(2020-12-16)
Next-generation sequencing has empowered genomics by making it possible to sequence genomes at a lower cost and less time compared to the traditional Sanger method. However, these improvements suffer from reduced accuracy ...