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An Online Survey to Investigate Clinicians’ Use of, Attitudes Towards, and Perceived Competency Around Outcome Monitoring Practices
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-15)
In recent years, there has been an ever increasing emphasis placed on the collection and use of patient reported outcome measures (PROM) in mental health services. This emphasis stems from a culture of evidence based ...
The support of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cell lines by different matrices
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-11)
The future of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research with regards to their applicability in a therapeutic setting, relies on the development and standardisation of consistent and robust methods to demonstrate their ...
The Dynamics and Energetics of Radio-Loud Active Galaxies
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-28)
In this thesis, I use the new generation of radio interferometer along with X-ray
observations to investigate the dynamics and energetics of radio-loud active galaxies
which are key to understanding AGN feedback and the ...
A Study of AGN and their Environments in the Far-Infrared
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-28)
My Ph.D. has been composed of work involving the use of far–IR and
submm observations of AGN. During this time it has focused on the in-
terplay between AGN and their host galaxies and cluster environments.
Understanding ...
Institutions and Financial System Development in Africa
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-27)
Recent research suggests that financial system development is important for economic development and for reducing financing constraints of firms (Levine, 2005). Consequently, researchers started investigating the factors ...
The Effect of Silicon on Strawberry Plants and its Role in Reducing Infection by Podosphaera aphanis
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-08)
Podosphaera aphanis which causes powdery mildew of strawberry is of economic importance in strawberry production in United Kingdom as it affects yield and fruit quality. Silicon has been shown to reduce the severity of a ...
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Personal Construct Approach
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-07)
In 2003, Winter, Watson, Gillman-Smith, Gilbert and Acton criticised the DSM-IV’s psychiatric conceptualisation of BPD, proposing a set of alternative descriptions based on Kelly’s (1955) Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) ...
Parallel Solution of Diffusion Equations using Laplace Transform Methods with Particular Reference to Black-Scholes Models of Financial Options
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-22)
Diffusion equations arise in areas such as fluid mechanics, cellular biology, weather forecasting, electronics, mechanical engineering, atomic physics, environmental science, medicine, etc. This dissertation considers ...
Within-Person Variation in Personality and Psychological Well-Being
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-18)
Personality is one of the most broad and complex areas in psychology. This has led to many researchers attempting to reduce this complexity by focusing solely on how habitual personality differs between each individual ...
Countering Communist and Nasserite Propaganda: the Foreign Office Information Research Department in the Middle East and Africa, 1954-1963
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-07-16)
This thesis considers the role of the Information Research Department (IRD) in
countering Arab nationalist and Communist propaganda directed at British interests in the
Middle East and Africa between 1954 and 1963. It ...