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Exploring the design of people-centred inclusive smart cities using integrated inclusion approaches and citizen engagement strategies through case studies of London, Bengaluru, and Kampala
(2023-07-18)The twenty-first century is the age of cities. A country's sustainable growth and development depend on its cities' success and failure. The smart city approach, the new and emerging model of urban development, is expected ... -
Real-Time Application of Deep Learning to Intrusion Detection in 5G-Multi-Access Edge Computing
(2024-01-29)In this thesis, we explore networks for 5G mobile telecommunication, with a real-time detection of malicious traffic using Deep Learning (DL) and 5G mobile telecommunication testbeds. To investigate the performance of ... -
Giving Hope to Rebuild Lives: Practical and Emotional Support for Those Bereaved by Road Traffic Collisions
(2024-01-15)In the United Kingdom (UK), the Department for Transport (DfT) reported that 1,558 people died in Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) in 2021 (DfT, 2022). A considerable proportion of the UK population is impacted by RTCs yearly. ... -
Impact of Fatigue on Corticomuscular Coupling and EEG Microstates during Human-Robot Interaction and Physical Exercise
(2024-01-29)Human movements are controlled by the Central Nervous System. Motor dysfunction and sensory-motor deficits result in restricted use of the upper extremities in stroke patients, leading to difficulty in carrying out daily ... -
Design and Optimisation of a Modular Industrial Air Scrubber Utilising Surfactant Absorption Technology
(2024-01-19)A novel air scrubbing technology using a misting application and water additives has successfully demonstrated the capability of scrubbing H2S at a water treatment plant. The air scrubber design utilises a solution of ... -
Impact of Imaging and Distance Perception in VR Immersive Visual Experience
(2024-01-08)Virtual reality (VR) headsets have evolved to include unprecedented viewing quality. Meanwhile, they have become lightweight, wireless, and low-cost, which has opened to new applications and a much wider audience. VR ... -
The Experience of Orthodox Jewish Therapists Offering Therapy to Chareidi Female Adolescents
(2024-01-08)No published research to date has investigated the mental health experiences of Orthodox Jewish adolescents in the UK, although anecdotally, the Jewish mental health community is aware of the prevalence of mental health ... -
Analysis and Modelling of TTL ice crystals based on in-situ light scattering patterns
(2024-01-03)Even though there are numerous studies on cirrus clouds and its influence on climate, lack of detailed information on its microphysical properties like ice crystal geometry, still exists. Challenges like instrumental ... -
Wrist-Worn Accelerometer Measures of Activity by People with Parkinson's Attending Dance Classes
(2022-03-28)There has been increasing interest from researchers, dance artists and health professionals regarding the physical and psychological benefits of dance for people with Parkinson’s, particularly as a possible adjunct therapeutic ... -
Investigation into the Motives and Perceptions of Implementing Blended Teaching in a Chinese Higher Education Context
(2023-12-18)As a pedagogical approach in practice, blended teaching is generating unprecedented opportunities in higher education, but also poses new challenges. Whether teachers’ application of blended education can achieve steady ... -
Engineered Emulsions Stabilised by Thermoresponsive Branched Copolymers for Pharmaceutical Applications
(2023-12-07)This research work explored thermoresponsive emulsions and investigated their potential in delivering drugs through in situ gelling pharmaceutical formulations. Employing thermoresponsive branched copolymer surfactants ... -
Probing the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in an Extreme Starburst at High Redshift
(2023-12-14)In this thesis we present a range of observations and results relating to the lensed hyperluminous sub-mm galaxy ‘9io9’ at z = 2.6, where we have used sub-mm/mm spectroscopy targeting the dense and cold interstellar ... -
Exploring Aquaponics Systems as part of Food Planning and Environmental Management Strategy, Policy and Sustainable Placemaking: Examining Chinese and UK Food Growing Project Case Studies
(2023-08-10)This study aims to analyse several factors concerning the role of aquaponics in contributing to food availability in urban, suburban, and rural areas from the perspective of food planning and environmental management ... -
The Use of Online Photovoice to Explore the Experiences of Mothers who have been Subject to Recurrent Care Proceedings
(2023-10-10)Research has been carried out to explore the prevalence and pattern of repeated care proceedings in England, whereby birthparents return to the family court, resulting in multiple children being removed from their care ... -
Patient Perspectives on Learning of a Psychosis Diagnosis
(2023-10-17)Background: The experience of receiving psychiatric diagnoses is under researched. The impact of how an individual receives a diagnosis of psychosis, as used in early intervention services is particularly lacking in empirical ... -
Anxiety and Extreme Demand Avoidance in Children and Adolescents: the Roles of Sensory Sensitivities and Intolerance of Uncertainty
(2023-10-17)Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a diagnosis that has been described in clinical practice but not recognised by official diagnostic and statistical manuals. The National Autistic Society (UK) describes PDA as ‘a ... -
Understanding the Perspectives of UK-Based Family Members of People who have Chosen to End their Life by Assisted Dying
(2023-10-10)Assisted dying is growing global momentum as an option to end unbearable suffering in particular medical circumstances, but remains illegal in the UK. Currently, UK citizens wishing for an assisted death must go to ... -
The Struggle to Stay in Relation: How the Dominance of an Ideology of Certainty Marginalises Practical Judgment and Political Action, from the Perspective of a Senior Manager in the NHS
(2023-11-03)In this thesis I explore my everyday work as a director of research in an NHS mental health trust. I use collaborative narrative autoethnography to explore episodes where research activity and evidence is contested, ... -
Colour, Dress and Modernism: the Significance of Colour in Representations of Clothing in Modernist Literature by Women
(2023-11-30)This dissertation explores the significance of the colour of dress in modernist literature written by women from the beginning of World War I to the start of World War II (1914–1939). It establishes the closely interwoven ...