Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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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 ... -
A Network Security Solution to Manage and Increase Effectiveness of Servers
(2024-06-24)In today's digital landscape, the proliferation of cyber threats, particularly Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, underscores the critical need for advanced server monitoring systems. Traditional monitoring tools, while ... -
Offsite Manufacturing for Affordable Housing
(2021-01-31)Offsite manufacturing (OSM) has been recently highlighted as contributing to increase productivity and to tackle labour shortages in the housing sector. Whilst a range of OSM building technologies are already used for the ... -
On the Nature of Sodium Excess in Nearby Galaxies
(2017-03-13)The 5890, 5895Å Na D absorption lines are sometimes found to be strongly enhanced in nearby galaxies, compared to what is predicted by the best-fitting models for the stellar continuum. The resulting Na D absorption ... -
Overcoming Challenges of Sky Background Light in Large-Scale Astronomical Mosaics
(2016-08-03)Large-scale, high-resolution, photometrically calibrated images are key for many astrophysical problems. The INT Photometric Hα Survey has imaged the entire northern Galactic Plane in r, i and Hα filters. However, these ... -
Performative Space and the Construction of Place
(2016-04-07)For the purpose of this research project, I have undertaken a series of practice-based approaches to examine how concepts of place may be created using film and performance. Through filmed excerpts of dance and movement ... -
Phenotypic Characterisation of Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 078 and Comparison with PCR Ribotypes 027 and 002
(2016-07-08)Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium which resides in the gut of animals and humans. There are over 600 different polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ribotypes of C. difficile, some of which are ... -
Printable Profile of Sustainable Modified Cementitious Materials for Additive Manufacturing Applications in Digital Construction
(2020-05-16)The construction industry is a conservative sector with limited innovation improvements compared to other industrial sectors. The construction industry has a considerably bad reputation in regard to its carbon footprint. ... -
The Properties of Hitherto Unidentified Radio Sources in the MIGHTEE Survey
(2023-04-04)Radio astronomy is a pioneering branch of astronomy research - new radio surveys have gathered a lot of attention in the last few years, due to the huge expansion in capabilities of new radio facilities, with new ...