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Young People's Experiences and Views of Formulation, and Its Clinical Implications for Mental Health Professionals
(2019-10-18)
The experiences and opinions of adult clients, professionals and teams regarding clinical formulation have been researched, with mixed findings. Formulation helps some clients understand their problems, and feel accepted ...
Development of Novel Sustained Release Formulations for Older Adults With Swallowing Difficulties
(2019-10-14)
The older cohort is the fastest growing subsection in the population; they are the major users of medicines and are also more vulnerable to dysphagia which can make safe swallowing of solid oral dosage forms challenging. ...
Characterisation of Clinical Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 002 Isolates from Different Time Lineages
(2019-10-11)
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and an important public health threat. Recently, the prevalence C. difficile PCR ribotype 002 in the UK has been noted, yet ...
Problematic Versus Non-Problematic Location-Based Dating App Use: Exploring the Psychosocial Impact of Grindr Use Patterns Among Gay and Bisexual Men
(2019-10-11)
The use of online dating applications (apps) among men who have sex with men (MSM) has become a common occurrence in today’s digital age. One example is Grindr, the first location-based dating app of its kind, which was ...
Experiences of Post-Diagnostic Support for Children and Young People on the Autism Spectrum
(2019-10-11)
There is considerable research about individuals’ negative experiences of the process of obtaining an autism diagnosis (Crane et al., 2018), however less is known about experiences of post-diagnostic support. A systematic ...
Ethical Competence: an Analysis of Decision-Making in Clinical Psychology
(2019-10-11)
This research aimed to develop understanding of ethical competence in clinical psychology by exploring responses to hypothetical ethical dilemmas presented in vignettes, developed for the present research. It investigated ...
Determination of Corporate Credit Ratings: Vietnamese Evidence
(2019-10-04)
The global economies have been experiencing a process of rapid financial integration and globalization since the 1980s. Consequently, individual economies are increasingly under the influences of a wide range of factors ...
Cost Efficiency in the UK Life Insurance Industry in the Post-Global Financial Crisis Period
(2019-10-04)
The aim of this research project is to adopt a two-stage approach for empirically measuring and determining the level of cost efficiency in the UK Life Insurance industry during and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). ...
Phytochemical Characterisation and Effects of the Native Plant Tabernanthe iboga in Models of Diabetes
(2019-10-03)
Preparations of the root bark of Gabonese plants, T. iboga and G. tessmannii have long been used in Central and West African traditional medicine for the treatment of diabetes. In this thesis phytochemical characterisation ...
Tracing Massive Star Formation through a Galactic Census of Compact & Ultracompact HII Regions
(2019-09-26)
The following dissertation details the work undertaken to compile the most complete compact and ultracompact H II region catalogue to date via multi-wavelength inspection of survey data. We utilise data from the recently ...