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 ...

This study explores the impact that coach education interventions that were designed utilising Hochschild’s (1983) emotional labour theory had on coaches’ awareness of emotions within their coaching practice. The study ...

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 ...

Resistance to anti-cancer therapies has proven a challenge for effective treatments. Efflux pumps when overexpressed in cancer cells, eject drugs from the cell, rendering them ineffective. The pH of cancer cells is generally ...

In this thesis I contextualise the history of morphology as underpinned by Hubble's scheme, discrete in nature, and deeply connected to theories of galaxy formation history. I set out in contrast, to describe a purely ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

This dissertation explores upper-class women’s interactions with garden and outdoor spaces 1860-1920. It does this by using newspapers and the press as its main primary source base, focusing on the representation of ...