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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...