Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Effects of Emotional Labour Coach Education Interventions on Performance Football Coaches' Awareness of Their Own Emotions
(2020-12-18)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Speaking Stitches, Laughing Flowers: an Emblematic Reinterpretation of the 'Rainbow' Portrait of Elizabeth I
(2019-11-11)The imagery of the ‘Rainbow’ Portrait of Elizabeth I which hangs at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire has been the subject of numerous academic investigations. However, few have addressed in satisfactory depth the many ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Identifying Lead Compounds for S100P in Pancreatic Cancer Therapy Using in Vitro Biophysical Techniques
(2016-06-27)The protein S100P has been associated with the aggressiveness of several neoplastic disease, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). S100 proteins are a family of calcium binding proteins that are small dimeric ... -
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 ... -
Detection of Driver Drowsiness and Distraction Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Approaches
(2019-05-27)Drowsiness and distracted driving are leading factor in most car crashes and near-crashes. This research study explores and investigates the applications of both conventional computer vision and deep learning approaches ... -
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 ... -
Autophagy and Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Towards a Pathway-Centric Therapy for a Fatal Childhood Disorder
(2019-06-04)Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular and the primary cause of infant death. SMA is characterised by the loss of motor neurons in the spinal resulting in progressive muscle atrophy, paralysis and ... -
Ultracool Benchmark Companions to Gaia Stars
(2019-06-17)Ultracool dwarfs are stellar and sub-stellar objects with spectral types of M7 or later and effective temperatures below 2700K. Over 1300 have been discovered to date, both as free-floating objects and companions to more ... -
Contemporary Art Commissioning: The Role of Universities
(2019-03-19)Why would the private business sector be motivated to work directly with a university to commission artwork, as opposed to an alternative provider and in turn, what factors have motivated universities to engage in this ... -
The Role of Religion in the Educational Success of Young Black Christian Students: Towards a Concept of ‘Faith Capital’
(2019-02-04)This study provides new empirically based knowledge about Young Black Christian students’ (YBCS) perceptions of the contributory factors to their Educational Success. It also offers insights into a new emergent concept ... -
Effect of Aspirin and Salicylic Acid on LPA Induced Differentiation of P19 Stem Cells into Cardiomyocytes
(2019-05-17)The use of stem cell-based therapy in conjunction with existing medical interventions, to target complications caused by coronary artery disease (CAD) is not fully examined. In parallel, the role of lysophosphatidic acid ...