UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Continuous Steepest Descent Path for Traversing Non-Convex Regions
(2016-05-12)In this thesis, we investigate methods of finding a local minimum for unconstrained problems of non-convex functions with n variables, by following the solution curve of a system of ordinary differential equations. The ... -
Identifying the Ejected Population from Disintegrating Multiple Systems
(2016-05-10)Kinematic studies of the Hipparcos catalogue have revealed associations that are best explained as disintegrating multiple systems, presumably resulting from a dynamical encounter between single/multiple systems in the ... -
Prevalence and Nature of Medication Errors in Children and Older Patients in Primary Care
(2016-05-09)Abstract AIM: To conduct a systematic literature review on the existing literature on the prevalence of medication errors across the medicines management system in primary care; To explore the systems of error management ... -
Enhancing the Affective Domain in Order to Reduce Fear of Death in First-Year Student Nurses
(2016-05-04)This study seeks to investigate fear of death in first-year student nurses. It considers how this might be ameliorated through teaching and learning interventions that involve addressing emotional and spiritual intelligence ... -
Bedside Guide for Neonatal Care: : Learning tools to support practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-10-01)This guide has been devised as a quick reference bedside resource of useful learning tools relevant to the care of the neonate in the clinical setting. The purpose of this book is as a general guide for bedside care ... -
R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End : GCSE Student Guide
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2016-04-07)Written as a guide for Key Stage 4 students, this GSCE Guide to Journey's End offers a critical commentary on the play and analysis of themes, characters, contexts and critical reception. -
Developmental Psychology
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Future Directions for the European Shrinking City
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Developmental Psychopathology
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A Formative Decade : Ireland in the 1920s
(Irish Academic Press, 2015-03)In the aftermath of the Great War, Europe’s empires crumbled and a patchwork of new nation states emerged across the continent. As the map of Europe was being redrawn after 1918, Ireland too stood on the threshold of great ... -
Smith & Keenan's Company Law
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Control Protocol for Optical Packet Switched Local Area Network
(LAP Lambert Academic publishing, 2014-09)Optical technologies have progressed rapidly. The newly advocated network layered architecture allows optical transport networks to support different type of services directly. The introduction of optical packet switching ... -
Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-01-31)The different stages of a festival's evolution provide a plethora of opportunities for us to better understand our culture, the relationships we build, what we value in our culture and our communities, and how we socialize ... -
Emergent Pedagogy in England : A Critical Realist Study of Structure-Agency Interactions in Higher Education
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-04-15)This book aims to show how a meta-theory of critical realism can be applied to research about pedagogy in the changing landscape of higher education in England. It introduces some of the key ideas of critical realism, and ... -
Reflective Practice and Early Years Professionalism : Linking Theory and Practice
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Time in Fiction
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-02-18)What can we learn from engaging with fictional time-series? What should we make of stories involving time travellers who change the past, recurrence of a single day, foreknowledge of the future, the freezing or rewinding ... -
High-sensitivity Stokes spectropolarimetry on cyanobacteria
(2016-02-01)We investigate the spectral signatures arising from the optical properties of chlorophyll in linear and circularly polarised scattered light from cyanobacteria. We include Stokes scattering coefficient measurements on two ... -
Exploring the association of dairy product intake with the fatty acids C15:0 and C17:0 measured from dried blood spots in a multi-population cohort : findings from the Food4Me study
(2016-04)SCOPE: The use of biomarkers in the objective assessment of dietary intake is a high priority in nutrition research. The aim of this study was to examine pentadecanoic acid (C15:0) and heptadecanoic acid (C17:0) as biomarkers ... -
A risk based application of the regional model CMAQ to policy decisions
(2016-01)A risk based approach to assessing compliance with EU limit values is described, using the advanced chemical transport model CMAQ to determine the regional component of NO2 and particulate matter under various conditions ...