Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Empowerment and Relevant Goal Information as Alternatives to Graph-Theoretic Centrality for Navigational Decision Making
(2020-03-17)City planners and architects employ graph-theoretic measures to analyse models of the built environment and predict human navigational behaviour. A recent breakthrough in the neuroscience of spatial cognition has shown ... -
English Universities: Managerial Movement from Academic Collegial Administration to Corporate Managerialism (1960-2013)
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-04-30)The aim of the research in this MA by Research thesis has been to shed light on the development of the notion of “management” and its associated “sociometrics” at UK universities. The research looked at the transformation ... -
Establishing a Quantifiable Model of Whale Shark Avoidance Behaviours to Anthropogenic Impacts in Tourism Encounters to Inform Management Actions
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-10-09)As the world's largest living fish, the whale shark has received much scientific attention in recent years, although despite this a great deal is still unknown on the life history and behavioural ecology of these majestic ... -
Evaluation of Glibenclamide Quality and Stakeholders’ Perception of Medicine Quality in the Clinical Settings of the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia
(2016-10-06)Aim: To explore medicine quality and perception among the stakeholders in the Ministry of Interior Medical Services (MOI-MSD) clinical settings in Saudi Arabia using glibenclamide as an indicator. Method: A mixed ... -
Exoplanet Transit Follow-Up Tool
(2020-08-12)This thesis describes the development of a website called the Transit Follow Up Tool (https://observatory.herts.ac.uk/exotransitpredict) in order to plan exoplanet transit observations. Website models have been developed ... -
Experiences of Adolescent Weight Management: the Perspectives of Primary Health Care Professionals, Adolescents and Parents
(2016-10-06)Introduction In the last 20 years, compared to other European countries, England has shown the steepest rise in, and now has the highest rates of, obesity in Europe. The rise in childhood obesity has been of particular ... -
Explaining Time's Direction
(2021-10-27)The characteristics of the tenseless theory of time do not account for the direction of time that we experience at a global or local level. There have been several attempts by scientists, and philosophers, to account for ... -
Exploring Aquaponics Systems as part of Food Planning and Environmental Management Strategy, Policy and Sustainable Placemaking: Examining Chinese and UK Food Growing Project Case Studies
(2023-08-10)This study aims to analyse several factors concerning the role of aquaponics in contributing to food availability in urban, suburban, and rural areas from the perspective of food planning and environmental management ... -
The Failure of Self-Knowledge: Despair and the Limit of Reason in Kierkegaard's Philosophy
(2020-05-06)Regarding the problem of self-knowledge in Kierkegaard’s philosophy, it is common to relate it to the discussion of despair in Anti-Climacus’s The Sickness Unto Death but not to the limit of reason in Climacus’s Philosophical ... -
Field-based Determination of Critical Power and Critical Speed Among Recreational Runners
(2022-01-24)Background Critical power (CP) is a highly regarded threshold, delineating the boundary between heavy and severe intensities of exercise. Determination of CP has long been hindered by testing protocols that are time ... -
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). ... -
Fresh Ways to Work: Do Small and Medium sized Enterprises want Free Travel Plans?
(2016-05-13)Travel Plans have been implemented within the United Kingdom since they were first proposed as a local Travel Planning tool within the Transport White Paper, ‘A new deal for transport’ in the later part of the 20th Century. ... -
From Architecture to Design: A Comparative and Evaluative Study of Professional Practice
(2015-08-19)This research considers the development of design practice over the last decades where a gap between practice and theory can be observed. Apparently, design education failed to follow the pace of change from practice. In ... -
A High-Resolution Radio Continuum Study of the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC10
(2015-08-25)Dwarf galaxies are a significant contributor to the current star formation rate for the Universe as a whole, yet little is understood of what drives star formation in these low gas density environments. IC10 is a nearby ... -
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 ... -
How Digital Scenography and Images Affect the Visual Spectacle in a Site-Specific Choreographic Installation
(2018-11-19)The aims of the research project were to gain a better understanding of digital scenography, mainly in the field of dance as used by recent choreographers, to create an experimental, improvisatory dance performance. This ... -
The Hyperbolic Superposition of a General Quantum State
(2016-06-28)This dissertation documents an inquiry into the geometric structure of the Spaces used to represent a 2-Dimensional Quantum State Space as it relates to Quantum Computation. In particular we investigate the possible ... -
Identification of Avr Alleles in Leptosphaeria maculans Isolates from Different Oilseed Rape Cultivars
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-12-22)This report describes a survey of the regional distribution of races of Leptosphaeria maculans done by characterising isolates from phoma leaf spot samples taken from different oilseed rape cultivars at different sites in ... -
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 ... -
Identifying Lead Compounds for S100P in Pancreatic Cancer Therapy Using in Vitro Biophysical Techniques
(2016-06-27)The protein S100P has been associated with the aggressiveness of several neoplastic disease, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). S100 proteins are a family of calcium binding proteins that are small dimeric ...