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Trainee Clinical Psychologists' Experiences of Personal Therapy and Its Relationship to Development Across Training: A Grounded Theory Study
(2018-03-21)
Although it is not a professional requirement, research shows that some Trainee Clinical Psychologists (CPs) access PT (PT) whilst training (Nel, Pezzolesi & Stott, 2012). CPs’ practice is moving towards the Reflective-S ...
Student Stories about Mathematics: A tool to understand more about the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2018-03-15)
This qualitative study sets out to explore the experiences of secondary school students while they are learning mathematics in school. By using student stories of learning mathematics as my main data collection method I ...
Narrative accounts of parenthood following the death of a child to muscular dystrophy
(2018-03-05)
Rationale and Aims: Research into the lived experience of parenting children with muscular dystrophy has typically addressed key transitions along the disease trajectory, such as diagnosis or end-of-life care. Families ...
Smartphone Technology: Everyday prompts for those with prospective memory difficulties following brain injury
(2018-03-05)
BACKGROUND: Prospective memory difficulties are one of the most common deficits following acquired brain injury. The application of smartphones as a compensatory aid to these difficulties has shown promising results. This ...
Optimising Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Interference Alignment and Space-Time Coding
(2018-03-04)
In this thesis, the process of optimizing Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio has been investigated in fast-fading environments where simulation results have shown that its performance is limited by the Probability ...
Physiological and Clinical Effects of Radiofrequency-Based Therapy
(2018-02-22)
Electrophysical agents (EPA) are a fundamental element of therapy practice and are vital for the treatment of a variety of conditions. Many of these agents employ some form of electromagnetic fields (EMF), in which ...
Characterisation of Reduced Susceptibility to Metronidazole in Epidemic Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates
(2018-02-22)
Reduced susceptibility in some C. difficile isolates has been observed to metronidazole, a frontline antibiotic for C. difficile infection. Therefore, this study was performed to characterize reduced metronidazole ...
Facemask Spirometry as a Marker of Respiratory Function and Prognosis in Motor Neurone Disease
(2018-02-06)
Background:
The assessment and monitoring of respiratory muscle function is clinically relevant in patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Early identification of respiratory muscle dysfunction has therapeutic and ...
Development and Evaluation of ADME Models Using Proprietary and Opensource Data
(2018-02-05)
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination (ADME) properties are important factors in the drug discovery pipeline. Literature ADME data are often collected in large chemical databases like ChEMBL, which might be ...
Life After Infertility: a Grounded Theory of Moving on From Unsuccessful Fertility Treatment
(2018-02-02)
Despite the many advances of medical technology to help treat infertility, approximately half of women seeking fertility treatment will never give birth to a child. Women coping with treatment failure face many challenges, ...