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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 ...
Design and Synthesis of Novel pH-Sensitive Anticancer Drug and Efflux Pump Inhibitor Conjugates
(2020-10-27)
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 ...
Eigengalaxies: Galaxy Morphology as a Linear Image Space and its Applications
(2020-10-19)
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 ...
Exoplanet Transit Follow-Up Tool
(2020-08-12)
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 ...
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 Failure of Self-Knowledge: Despair and the Limit of Reason in Kierkegaard's Philosophy
(2020-05-06)
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 ...
Empowerment and Relevant Goal Information as Alternatives to Graph-Theoretic Centrality for Navigational Decision Making
(2020-03-17)
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 ...
Upper-Class Women, Their Gardens and Outdoor Spaces 1860 - 1920
(2020-02-12)
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 ...