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Personal Constructions of the Mother Role: Perceptions of Mothers in Health Care
(2018-06-14)
This study aimed to explore the personal constructs of mothers in health care, their own role, that of the doctors and how they felt the doctors they consulted construed them in their role. In addition, the study aimed to ...
Power Optimisation and Relay Selection in Cooperative Wireless Communication Networks
(2018-06-14)
Cooperative communications have emerged as a significant concept to improve reliability and throughput in wireless systems. In cooperative networks, the idea is to implement a scheme in wireless systems where the nodes can ...
The Impact of Social Expectation towards Robots on Human-Robot Interactions
(2018-06-14)
This work is presented in defence of the thesis that it is possible to measure the social expectations and perceptions that humans have of robots in an explicit and succinct manner, and these measures are related to how ...
Self-Motivated Composition of Strategic Action Policies
(2018-06-11)
In the last 50 years computers have made dramatic progress in their capabilities, but at the same time their failings have demonstrated that we, as designers, do not yet understand the nature of intelligence. Chess playing, ...
Assertion and Accommodation: a Study of the Assertive Language in the Conversations of School-Age (5-13 Years) Girls
(2018-05-25)
This study aimed to investigate the use of accommodation of assertive utterances (AUs) in the conversations of 49 girls aged 5;0-13;1. Based on the findings of earlier research that the use of such language is more closely ...
The Dark Side of Emotional Labour: Machiavellianism and Emotion Management Strategies within a Cultural Context
(2018-05-10)
The current literature presents inconsistencies with regard to the ‘Bright’ and ‘Dark Sides’ of emotional labour and related emotion management strategies: it indicates that the negative effect of emotional labour cannot ...
Targeted Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma and Methodological Improvements in Assessment of Therapeutic Response with Imaging Biomarkers
(2018-04-14)
Background:
Drugs targeting angiogenic pathway remain the mainstay of treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKI) as Sunitinib, Pazopanib as single agents and humanised monoclonal ...
Exploring Accounting Students' Interaction with Their Assessment Feedback in a UK Post-92 University
(2018-04-06)
This thesis offers a holistic insight into the expectations and experiences of university students in relation to academic feedback. The subjects are a diverse group of first year accounting and finance students in a post-92 ...
Children's conversations with their friends about living with a parent experiencing mental distress: An IPA Study
(2018-03-21)
Background and Aims
Estimates suggest more than three million children and young people (CYP) live with a parent experiencing mental distress (PEMD). It is suggested that CYP are often left to make sense of the uncertain ...
Precision Photometry at the University of Hertfordshire's Bayfordbury Observatory
(2018-03-21)
This thesis presents work conducted at the University of Hertfordshire’s Observatory at Bayfordbury Hertfordshire to develop a model to predict the photometric precision of their 40cm aperture telescopes whilst observing ...