Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Identifying the Ejected Population from Disintegrating Multiple Systems
(2016-05-10)Kinematic studies of the Hipparcos catalogue have revealed associations that are best explained as disintegrating multiple systems, presumably resulting from a dynamical encounter between single/multiple systems in the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Imports, Mechanisation and the Decline of the English Plaiting Industry: The View from the Hatters' Gazette, Luton 1873 - 1900
(2017-02-10)Between 1870 and 1900, the straw plaiting industry changed from being one that substantially contributed to local rural and family economies, to one in irrevocable decline. Researching the reasons for this decline is ... -
The Influence of High Intensity Training on Cardio-Respiratory Biomarkers, Aerobic Metabolism and Time Trial Performance in Recreationally-Trained Individuals
(2016-04-15)The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of high intensity sprint training, interval training and aerobic training on cardio-respiratory biomarkers, aerobic metabolism and time trial performance in ... -
The Influence of Ultra-Endurance Exercise on the Cardiovascular and Related Physiological Systems
(2015-08-24)INTRODUCTION: There is currently limited longitudinal data investigating the performance and health-related influence of ultra-endurance training and participation. Cross-sectional investigations have highlighted a potential ... -
Integrated Virtual Reality Game Interaction: The Archery Game
(2016-04-20)The aim of this research is to develop an innovative technology framework that allows a new type of human-computer interaction, where user's motion recognition is combined with immersive visualisation. The demonstrator ... -
An Investigation of the Effects of Popping For Parkinson's ® Dance on Mood and Quality of Life of People with Parkinson's
(2020-12-01)Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of one Popping For Parkinson's ® dance session on mood and quality of life of people with Parkinson’s. Design: This study employed a within-subject repeated ... -
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 ... -
Landed Estates in Northamptonshire: the Rural Rental Economy, 1800-1881
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-03-04)The nineteenth century was a period of extensive change in English rural society, in terms of both agriculture itself and the rural economy as a whole. Northamptonshire in this period, whilst remaining a predominantly ... -
Lying: A Gricean Account
(2015-08-19)It is widely assumed that in order to lie, a speaker must at least assert a falsehood. I offer an analysis of lying based on the Gricean notion of communicative-intention and show how lying through assertion operates. I ... -
Machine Learning Approaches for Traffic Flow Forecasting
(2019-10-23)Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) as a field has emerged quite rapidly in the recent years. A competitive solution coupled with big data gathered for ITS applications needs the latest AI to drive the ITS for the smart ... -
Migration of Iranian Women to the UK: Overview of Two Generations
(2015-08-19)This research investigates the migration of Iranian women on two different periods of migration post Islamic Revolution of 1979. This research centres on two periods: the post revolution migrants second phase, who migrated ... -
Modelling Cellular Permeability via Carrier Mediated Transport
(2016-10-06)The relative importance of passive diffusion and carrier mediated transport processes to membrane permeability of drugs is a subject of current debate. Passive diffusion and carrier mediated transport are the two main ... -
A Modelling Study of Road Traffic Contributions to Ambient PM2.5 Concentrations in Lagos
(2019-10-30)As the fastest growing city in Africa, Lagos experiences extremely high levels of air pollution. While there are many sources of air pollution in Lagos, road traffic has been widely reported as the most prominent. Due to ... -
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 ... -
Moritz Schlick on the Value of Play
(2021-08-19)The focus of this essay is Moritz Schlick’s On the Meaning of Life. Schlick wrote On the Meaning of Life in 1927 and hoped to push back against pessimist currents of thought that were popular at the time by using the ... -
The Nature of Compact Sources Selected by LOFAR
(2023-04-24)Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) produce jets on large scales heating their local environments and preventing the hot phase of baryonic matter from cooling hence slowing or halting galaxy formation and evolution; ... -
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 ... -
Navigation and Geolocation Within Urban and Semi-Urban Environments Using Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks
(2016-11-25)IEEE 802.15.4 defines networks and hardware capable of low power, low data rate transmissions. The use of these networks for the “Internet of Things”, machine to machine communications, energy metering, control and automation ...