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Polarimetric Models of Circumstellar Discs Including Aggregate Dust Grains
(2016-07-29)
The work conducted in this thesis examines the nature of circumstellar discs by investigating irradiance and polarization of scattered light. Two circumstellar discs are investigated.
Firstly, H-band high contrast imaging ...
A Mixed Methods Study of Adherence to Prophylactic Treatment Among Young People With Haemophilia
(2016-07-27)
Introduction
Haemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency in one of the coagulation or blood clotting factors in the blood. When injured someone with haemophilia does not bleed more intensely than ...
Strategy-Making in a Senior Leadership Team in the Public Sector in Denmark: Taking Experience Seriously as Co-Creation, Conflict and Paradox
(2016-07-26)
Much current literature on management and strategy still describes strategy work as a linear, top-down, management-based, rational, logical, structured and planned change activity with clear and predictable goals. It is ...
RA-LPEL: A Resource-Aware Light-Weight Parallel Execution Layer for Reactive Stream Processing Networks on The SCC Many-core Tiled Architecture
(2016-07-26)
In computing the available computing power has continuously fallen short of the demanded computing performance. As a consequence, performance improvement has been the main focus of processor design. However, due to the ...
Deleuze, Judgment and Artistic Research
(2016-07-19)
The debate concerning the legitimacy of artistic research that has taken place over the last two decades is notable for the way in which it has drawn attention to rival 'representational' and 'performative' conceptions of ...
Revisiting Shop Stewards and Workplace Bargaining: Opportunities, Resources and Dynamics in Two Case Studies
(2016-07-11)
Recent accounts of workplace union representation have emphasised the exclusion of shop stewards from management decision-making processes, and have posited a shift in shop
steward activity away from dealing with collective ...
Effects of Host Resistance on Colonisation of Brassica napus (Oilseed Rape) by Leptosphaeria maculans and Leptosphaeria biglobosa (Phoma Stem Canker)
(2016-07-11)
Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa co-infect winter oilseed rape plants to cause phoma stem canker disease. The sexual spores of both species are produced in pseudothecia on infected winter oilseed rape stem debris ...
What are actions?
(2016-07-11)
The thesis is a defence of an original position in the philosophy of action. It argues for a pluralist view of actions dubbed Strong Pluralism.
One of the key questions of philosophy of action since the early 20th century ...
Methods, Goals and Metaphysics in Contemporary Set Theory
(2016-07-08)
This thesis confronts Penelope Maddy's Second Philosophical study of set theory with a philosophical analysis of a part of contemporary set-theoretic practice in order to argue for three features we should demand of our ...
Vascular Calcification in Rat Cultured Smooth Muscle Cells: a Role for Nitric Oxide
(2016-07-07)
The underlying inflammatory storm in renal or diabetic disease may induce expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Similarly, expression of iNOS or nitric oxide (NO) production in vascular smooth muscle cells ...