PhD Theses Collection: Recent submissions
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Metrics to Evaluate Human Teaching Engagement From a Robot's Point of View
(2018-01-29)This thesis was motivated by a study of how robots can be taught by humans, with an emphasis on allowing persons without programming skills to teach robots. The focus of this thesis was to investigate what criteria could ... -
Evolutionary Targeted Discovery of Influenza A Virus Replication Inhibitors
(2018-01-29)Influenza A is one of the most prevalent and significant viral infections worldwide, resulting in annual epidemics and occasional pandemics. Upon infection, antiviral drugs targeting the neuraminidase protein and M2 protein ... -
Smart Distributed Processing Technologies For Hedge Fund Management
(2018-01-29)Distributed processing cluster design using commodity hardware and software has proven to be a technological breakthrough in the field of parallel and distributed computing. The research presented herein is the original ... -
Practising Talent Management: Processes of Judgment, Inclusion and Exclusion
(2018-01-29)Talent management is an organisational process aimed at maximising the benefit gained from the organisation’s workforce, mostly by assessing the future potential of senior organisational members to fill key positions based ... -
Acting Into the Living Present: Taking Account of Complexity and Uncertainty when Leading Consultancy Teams in International Water Projects
(2018-01-29)This thesis addresses how leaders find themselves doing something even when they don’t know what to do. It is based on my own practice as an experienced team leader and it deals with questions of action, time, identity and ... -
Assessment of Community Pharmacists’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Non-Prescription Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Thailand
(2018-01-29)Background: An estimated two-thirds of global sales of antimicrobials occur over the counter without a prescription. Furthermore, antimicrobials are the most commonly sold medicines in developing countries. The overuse, ... -
Rifles, Swords and Water Pistols: Circumstances in Which Action Becomes Influential in an Action-Irrelevant Categorisation Task
(2018-01-29)An assumption in Cognitive Psychology, which has been challenged in recent years, is that the systems responsible for action and perception work independently of one another. These systems work together during conceptual ... -
Regulation of Induced Nitric Oxide Synthase in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by Glucocorticoids
(2018-01-29)The upregulation of the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and nitric oxide (NO) production have been implicated in inflammatory pathologies. Although research has revealed that glucocorticoids (GCs) such as dexamethasone ... -
The Experiences of Reflective Practice Groups as Part of Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training: an IPA Study
(2017-11-10)Despite many Clinical Psychology training programmes utilizing reflective practice groups as part of clinical training, there remains little research examining the experiences of such groups from a trainee perspective. ... -
The Health and Wellbeing of Female Street Sex Workers
(2017-11-10)Previous research on female street sex workers (FSSWs) has primarily concentrated on the stigmatisation of women’s involvement in the sex industry particularly with reference to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The response of the ... -
Information-Theoretic Models of Communication in Biological Systems
(2017-11-10)This thesis aims to find general principles governing the behaviour of biological systems, with a particular emphasis in the communicational (social) aspect of these systems. Communication between biological entities ... -
A prospective observational study to investigate the effect of prehospital airway management strategies on mortality and morbidity of patients who experience return of spontaneous circulation post cardiac arrest and are transferred directly to regional Heart Attack Centres by the Ambulance Service
(2017-11-10)Introduction The most appropriate airway management technique for use by paramedics in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is yet to be determined and evidence relating to the influence of airway management strategy on outcome ... -
Responses of People With Physical Health Conditions to Changes in Disability Benefits: A Grounded Theory Study
(2017-11-10)There is a dearth of literature on the experiences of people with physical health conditions who make disability benefit claims and live as a benefit claimant, particularly since the recent and ongoing changes to the ... -
Influence of Lactase on the In Vitro and In Vivo Antiglycaemic Effects of Onion Flavonoids
(2017-10-12)Introduction Lactase in addition to its role in the digestion of lactose available in milk and dairy products is implicated in the metabolism of a range of phenolic phytochemicals in the gut. Experiments with Caco-2 cells ... -
The Experiences of Parents of Children who have Engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2017-10-12)Background and Aims: The importance of the involvement of parents in treatment approaches for Children and Young People (CYP) who have engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) has been consistently highlighted within ... -
Personal Constructs of Body-Mind Identity With Persons Who Experience Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
(2017-10-12)Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) are bodily symptoms for which no organic cause has been identified, and which result in significant levels of psychological distress and functional impairment. MUS are thought to be ... -
Investigating Factors That Impact on Attitudes Towards Self-Injury Using Quantitative Methods
(2017-10-12)Background: Self-injury is a serious behaviour undertaken by those in distress. Attitudes to self-injury both with and without intent to end life is often studied in terms of professionals working in Accident and Emergency ... -
How People With Intellectual Disabilities Experience Transitions Through the Transforming Care Programme: a Grounded Theory Study
(2017-10-12)Following the exposure of abuse of people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) at Winterbourne View, the Government launched the Transforming Care programme, to support people to transition out of hospital into their own ... -
Patients' Health Related Quality of Life After Coronary Revascularization: A Longitudinal Mixed Method Study
(2017-08-21)Aims: Coronary Revascularization (CR) has increased patients’ survival rate globally. However, the lack of a consensus definition of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and the different methodological and conceptual ... -
Galaxy Evolution in a z~3 Protocluster
(2017-07-27)Environment is known to have a significant impact on the evolution of galaxies. This is most evident in the local Universe, where the oldest and most massive galaxies are found at the of massive galaxy clusters. Current ...