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Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Complex Mixtures Using a Design of Experiment Guided Approach and Handheld Raman Spectroscopy
(2018-07-27)The screening of NPS in street samples has been proven to be problematic in recent years due to their fast appearance, the unavailability of adequate reference materials and their complexity. The aim of this project focussed ... -
Satellite Drag Analysis Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)
(2018-08-24)High altitude research into free molecular flow properties has become more prominent in the aerospace field in recent years due to the rise of private aerospace firms. This led to an increase in satellite launches and ... -
The Nature of Jets in Powerful Radio Galaxies
(2018-06-29)Relativistic plasma ejected from SMBHs at the centres of galaxies is known to play a key role in the AGN feedback cycle, and consequently the formation and evolution of structure in the universe. However, the physics driving ... -
Development of an Off the Shelf Methanol Maser Telescope
(2018-06-14)Methanol masers are some of the brightest radio sources in the sky with flux densities exceeding several hundred or a thousand of Janskys. This implies that they are very accessible to small (meter class) and low-cost radio ... -
Tracking the Metabolic Signatures Associated with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
(2018-07-11)Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor neuron disease and the primary genetic cause of infant death. This disease is caused by the atrophy of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in muscle weakness, gradual paralysis ... -
HII Regions in the Pilot Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey
(2018-06-15)This thesis presents data from the Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey (KuGARS), a large area survey observed on the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA). KuGARS is the first galactic plane survey to explore the sub-arcsecond ... -
Searching for Young Substellar Companions to Gaia Stars
(2018-07-04)The aim of this thesis is to select young ultra-cool dwarf (UCD, spectral type later than M7) candidates that are likely companions to primary stars within the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) catalogue. The intention ... -
Structure-Function Studies of the ORF1 Protein From the Insertion-Site Specific Retroposon M5 Found in Indo-Pakistan Urban Malarial Vector Anopheles stephensi
(2018-07-17)In the 1950s Barbara McClintock inferred the occurrence of transposition: the movement of small segments of DNA - entities known as transposable elements from one position of the genome to another (McClintock, 1950). ... -
Finding Close Encounters: Toward a Consensus on the Influence of Stellar Flybys on the Solar System over 10 Million Years
(2018-09-21)This thesis is a study of possible stellar encounters of the Sun, both in the past and in the future within ± 10 Myr of the current epoch. This study is based on data gleaned from the first Gaia data release (Gaia DR1). ... -
The Justified Ontology of Time
(2018-09-10)What are we justified in asserting when constructing an ontology of time? I believe a version of Presentism to be the only justified theory. ‘Justified’ here refers exclusively to a basis of empirical and epistemological ... -
Thomas Ward Blagg and the Abbey Parish Charities Scandal c.1827-1860
(2018-07-13)St Albans in the early to mid-nineteenth century suffered from endemic levels of corruption. The borough was well known for the bribery that took place at its borough elections and was the subject of three parliamentary ... -
Implementation of Hydrogen Technologies in Slovenia: Identification of Resistance to Change Factors by a Comparative Study
(2018-06-29)This thesis outlines the implementation processes for a new technology in selected countries and identifies the resistance to change can a change agent can come up against during the implementations process. The starting ... -
Should we accept the existence of numbers as abstract objects?
(2018-06-21)This paper argues that we should accept the existence of numbers as abstract objects. I begin by looking at the Indispensability Argument as a positive argument for the existence of mathematical objects. I look at various ... -
The 1919 Railway Strike: the Government’s Response
(2018-06-21)This study aims to rethink the 1919 national British rail strike from the perspective of Lloyd George’s Coalition Government. This dissertation argues that the government were willing to use all in their power to defeat ... -
Size Acceptance: a Discursive Analysis of Online Blogs
(2017-11-10)Traditional views on ‘overweight’ suggest that managing one’s weight is a simple balance of energy for which all individuals have the capacity and affordances to control, as long as they have the willpower to do so. This ... -
Surviving Cardiac Arrest: Patients' Experiences of the In-Hospital Phase of Recovery
(2017-11-10)In the UK, cardiac arrest affects approximately 30,000 people in the community annually and the incidence of cardiac arrest in hospitals is currently reported as being 1.6 events per 1000 hospital admissions. Whilst survival ... -
Imagine an Imageless Imagination
(2017-11-10)A trend in contemporary discussion pertaining to the imagination has attempted to theoretically conceptualise a type of qualia-free imagination, commonly referred to as propositional imagination. This paper argues that an ... -
Monitoring and Analysis of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Trends Databases, Surface Web and the Deep Web, with Special Interest and Geo-Mapping of the Middle East
(2017-10-12)BACKGROUND Novel or new psychoactive substances (NPS), also known as designer drugs and research chemicals, represent a relatively recent phenomenon which can be traced back to the last decade or even earlier. The growth ... -
Searching for Rotational and Activity Signals in M Dwarf Stars
(2017-06-30)We search for signals coming from M dwarf stars through variations caused by stellar surface activity. The aims of this work are to find the stellar rotation period of M dwarf stars and check them against known planetary ... -
The effect of gender and load type on lower extremity biomechanics during jump landings
(2017-05-09)Introduction: Both gender and additional load have been shown to affect landing mechanics. Females are at an increased risk of sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury and patellofemoral pain syndrome, whereas males ...