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Causation and the Objectification of Agency
(2015-10-06)
This dissertation defends the so-called 'agency-approach' to causation, which attempts to ground the causal relation in the cause's role of being a means to bring about its effect. The defence is confined to a conceptual ...
Exploiting Abstract Syntax Trees to Locate Software Defects
(2015-08-26)
Context. Software defect prediction aims to reduce the large costs involved with faults in a software system. A wide range of traditional software metrics have been evaluated as potential defect indicators. These traditional ...
Using the Psychological Concept of Compassion to Inform Pedagogic Strategies for Higher Education Seminars
(2015-08-26)
This study used the university discussion-based seminar with the aim of exploring and improving students’ experiences of face-to-face group work in Higher Education. The purpose was to devise a pedagogic strategy to address ...
Safety Measures to Reduce Medication Administration Errors in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
(2015-08-25)
Objective: Medicine administration is the last process of the medication cycle. However, errors can happen during this process. Children are at an increased risk from these errors. This has been extensively investigated ...
The Investigation of Code-Switching in a Computerised Corpus of Child Bilingual Language
(2015-08-25)
This dissertation describes the investigation of codeswitching in a computerised corpus of child bilingual language, the LOBILL Corpus, which consists of twenty-five hours of recordings of naturalistic interactions between ...
The Professional Support Needs and Experiences of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: a Mixed Methods Study
(2015-08-25)
There are in excess of one million people across the UK people living with atrial fibrillation (AF), a long term condition that can lead to stroke and other complications, costing the NHS over £2,200 million per year. ...
Work-Family Conflict: a Case Study of Women in Pakistani Banks
(2015-08-25)
Despite a plethora of empirical evidence on the work-family interface in 'the West‘, very little research has been carried out on the experiences of women in the context of Pakistan. Gender inequalities persist in the ...
Experimental and Computational Investigation into Light Scattering by Atmospheric Ice Crystals
(2015-08-25)
An investigation was carried out into light scattering by Gaussian rough ice crystals. Gaussian rough crystal geometries were generated using roughness parameters derived from mineral dust grains, which have been reported ...
Adaptive Constraint Solving for Information Flow Analysis
(2015-08-25)
In program analysis, unknown properties for terms are typically represented symbolically as variables. Bound constraints on these variables can then specify multiple optimisation goals for computer programs and nd application ...
An Efficient Execution Model for Reactive Stream Programs
(2015-08-25)
Stream programming is a paradigm where a program is structured by a set of computational nodes connected by streams. Focusing on data moving between computational nodes via streams, this programming model fits well for ...