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Adolescents' Experience of 'Adjustment' to Life with Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2010-05-25)
Aim: A wealth of quantitative literature exists exploring the adjustment of children
and young people with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. However, results are often
confusing and contradictory, at least partly due to studies ...
Transwomen's Memories of Parental Relationships: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2010-05-25)
This project presents an in-depth idiographic study of how a developing Transwoman identity impacts upon parental relationships in childhood and how these relationships impact sense of self and later relationships. ...
Eating Disorder and the Experience of Self: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2010-05-24)
Aims: Quantitative research and clinical observations have long supported a link between the eating disorders and disturbances of self / identity. However, less is known about the process of how this comes about, and little ...
Making Sense of e-HRM: Technological Frames, Value Creation and Competitive Advantage
(2010-05-21)
A wide range of Human Resources (HR) processes and information can now be
managed and devolved to line managers and employees using e-HRM (‘electronic
Human Resource Management’). E-HRM has been defined as “An umbrella ...
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Refugees' Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Trauma
(2010-04-30)
Background: Guidelines for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder recommend 8-12 session of trauma-focused CBT or EMDR, however there is an extensive body of literature criticising the PTSD paradigm and usefulness ...
Historical Memory and the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans in Europe, 1944 - 1947
(2010-04-22)
As the Second World War in Europe came to an end the Russians advanced from the east towards Berlin. German occupation of Poland and Czechoslovakia had been particularly brutal. Both of these countries, products of German ...
Temperature Scales and the "Lithium Problem"
(2010-04-12)
The discovery of the Spite plateau in the abundances of 7Li for metal-poor stars led to the determination of an observationally deduced primordial lithium abundance. However, with the determination of the baryon density, ...
The Robot Club: Robots as Agents to Improve the Social Skills of Young People on the Autistic Spectrum
(2010-04-12)
To better understand the difficulties and strengths associated with both high and low
functioning individuals with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), the hyper-systemising theory has been proposed by Baron-Cohen and ...
Computational Analysis of Facial Expressions
(2010-03-22)
This PhD work constitutes a series of inter-disciplinary studies that use biologically plausible computational techniques and experiments with human subjects in analyzing facial expressions.
The performance of the ...
Trust* : Extending the Reach of Trust in Distributed Systems
(2010-03-08)
Building trust is a common requirement in distributed environments especially
since many transactions now occur on a person-to-person basis. Examples range
from e-commerce on the Internet to peer-to-peer and grid resource ...