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Facial Expression Recognition using Transfer Learning
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-12-24)In this paper, we investigate Deep Learning architectures for the recognition of facial expressions. In particular, we consider the concept of Transfer Learning whereby features learnt from generic images of large scale ... -
Facilitating Collaboration among Children with Autism through Robot-assisted Play
(2013-01-22)This thesis discusses how autonomous robots can be used to foster and support collaborative play among children with autism in a number of different settings. Because autism impairs one’s skills in social communication and ... -
Facilitating conversations about equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI): Guidance booklet
(University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-06)Developed with the University of Hertfordshire School of Education Student Success & Engagement Team (SSET) and Senior Technical Officers to accompany a set of cards developed by the SSET -
Facilitating Play Between Children with Autism and an Autonomous Robot
(2009-03-05)This thesis is part of the Aurora project, an ongoing long-term project investigating the potential use of robots to help children with autism overcome some of their impairments in social interaction, communication and ... -
Facilitating reflection: a review and synthesis of the factors enabling effective facilitation of reflective practice
(2022-08-30)Reflective practice is an inherently personal and relational process, occurring privately within people, and publicly, between people. Consequently, given it positively impacts on professional practice, it has become a ... -
Facilitating values awareness through the education of health professionals: Can web based decision making technology help?
(2016-03-01)Recent events in the health care landscape have focused nursing's collective mind on the role of values in health care delivery. For example, in England, the government has issued a mandate to health educators that places ... -
Facilitation of learning and modulation of frontal cortex acetylcholine by ventral pallidal injection of heparin glucosaminoglycan
(2002)We examined the effects of heparin on learning and frontal cortex acetylcholine parameters following injection of the glucosaminoglycan into the ventral pallidum. In Experiment 1, possible mnemoactive effects of intrapallidal ... -
Facilitators' Perspectives on the Place of Offenders in Restorative Justice: a Grounded Theory Approach
(2018-11-01)This study sought to explore and develop a preliminary, yet substantive understanding of the ways in which the offender’s position within a Restorative Justice process is influenced and impacted by the wider system around ... -
Facing loss and finding hope in narrating together: Accounts of parenthood following the death of a child to muscular dystrophy
(2021-07-20)Muscular dystrophy is a terminal muscle-wasting condition, whereby families face continuous challenges as their child’s health deteriorates. This research explored accounts of parenthood following bereavement of their child ... -
Facing the Abyss
(2021-01-14)The images that are reflected in the visor of a space-helmet present a god’s eye view of the world and everyone who inhabits it. In this way, the helmet is a reminder of the insignificance of the individual human wearer ... -
Facing the “new normal”: How adjusting to the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions exposes mental health inequalities
(2021-09-01)BACKGROUND: Re-establishing societal norms in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will be important for restoring public mental health and psychosocial wellbeing as well as economic recovery. We investigated the impact on ... -
Fact and Artifact : Reification and Drift in the History and Growth of Interactive Software Systems
(2001)We discuss the processes and forces informing artifact design and the subsequent drift in requirements and interests in the long-term growth of reified systems. We describe, following Latour, the strategies of technoscience ... -
The factitious/malingering continuum and its burden on public health costs: a review and experience in an Italian neurology setting
(2021-08-04)Abstract: Factitious disorder is classified as one of the five aspects of somatic symptom disorders. The fundamental element of factitious disorder is deception, i.e., pretending to have a medical or psychiatric disorder, ... -
The factor structure of the Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale in thirteen distinct populations
(2018-12-01)There is considerable evidence that self-criticism plays a major role in the vulnerability to and recovery from psychopathology. Methods to measure this process, and its change over time, are therefore important for research ... -
The factor structure of the revised illness perception questionnaire (IPQ-R) in end-stage renal disease patients
(2012)The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire (IPQ-R) in a sample of 374 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. A confirmatory factor analysis of the IPQ-R, ... -
Factors affecting academic performance of international students in project management courses : a case study from a British Post 92 University
(2008)The aim of study is to investigate the factors affecting the academic performance of international students in Project Management courses. To achieve this aim, a conceptual framework including three categories of factors: ...