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Beauty and the Beast: Clients' Experience of Counselling Within a Narrative Framework, Considering Concepts of Containment and Freedom
(2008-11-04)
The experience of opposition between what could be contained in my internal world, and what I wanted freedom from containing while a client in counselling led to the conception of this research. Containment and freedom ...
Semantic Memory Impairments in Schizophrenia: A Neuropsychological Study to Evaluate Competing Theories
(2008-11-04)
Abstract
People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been found to perform poorly on tasks assessing semantic memory, and these impairments have been proposed to be related to certain symptoms, in particular Formal ...
The Effect of Chronic Traumatic Experience on Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip
(2008-11-04)
Abstract
In this research, two studies were conducted in order to examine the psychological, social, somatic and educational effects of chronic traumatic experience on Palestinian children over the six years of the Al-Aqsa ...
Autonomous Learning of Appropriate Social Distance by a Mobile Robot
(2008-11-04)
Abstract
This thesis aims to design an appropriate human-following solution for a mobile
robot. The research can be characterised as interactive model building for a Human
Robot Interaction (HRI) scenario. It studies ...
Merging and Demerging in Organisations: Transforming Identities
(2008-11-04)
Abstract
Around eighty percent of cross-border mergers do not succeed. Despite a substantial body of literature offering guidance on how to make them work, success remains elusive. Regardless of strategic direction, ...
Evaluating the Utility and Validity of the Representational Redescription Model as a General Model for Cognitive Development
(2008-10-21)
A series of studies were conducted with the aim of showing that the Representational
Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992) can be used a general model of
cognitive development. In this thesis, 3 aspects of the ...
Body Image, Disordered Eating and Emotional Processing in Adolescent Females
(2008-10-20)
Eating disorders can be viewed on a continuum, with disordered eating not reaching clinical diagnostic criteria but having potentially negative effects including increasing the risk of an eating disorder or obesity. This ...
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation MAC Protocols for Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks
(2008-10-20)
The research initiatives addressed in this thesis are geared towards improving the performance of passive optical networks (PONs) through the development of advanced dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) protocols. In particular, ...
Infrared Polarimetry and Integral Field Spectroscopy of Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
(2008-10-20)
In this thesis, I present the properties of IRAS 19306+1407 central source and its sur-
rounding circumstellar envelope (CSE), from the analysis of near-infrared (near-IR)
polarimetry and integral field spectroscopy ...
Public Involvement in Environmental Matters and the Funding Constraints in Securing Access to Justice
(2008-10-20)
This thesis brings together six works published between 2003 and 2007 which consider public involvement in environmental matters. The later works focus on access to justice, one of three elements of public involvement. The ...