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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 ...
Complete Communities or Dormitory Towns? Case Studies in Interwar Housing at Welwyn Garden City, Becontree and St Helier
(2016-11-23)
Housing has always been a paramount issue; in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century attempts were made to revolutionise the problem of poor quality houses and the accompanying poor quality of life. This was set ...
The Concept of Service Learning in Practice: A Vehicle for University Student Development?
(2016-11-21)
Service Learning is a teaching pedagogy which for a faculty is an innovative method for relating academic study to the realities of community practice. For communities and local organisations, it is an invitation to get ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Socio-Economic Effects of the Grand Junction Canal on West Hertfordshire: 1791 to 1841
(2016-08-23)
The study assesses how the county of Hertfordshire along the Grand Junction
Canal developed economically and socially between 1790 and 1840. It considers the impact of the canal upon the various industries of the region, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...