UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Accounting for the Divergence Between Privatisation Theory and Practice in Developing Countries: The Case of the Water Sector in Ghana
(2011-08-03)The performance and operation of privatisation in the water sector in developing countries typically diverges from that proposed within the rationalising theoretical framework. There is a broad literature that considers ... -
FIT Science for Improving Family Functioning and Parental Stress
(2011-07-28)This thesis used FIT Science (Fletcher & Stead, 2000) as a framework to study different aspects of family functioning. FIT variables measure the cognitive and behavioural characteristics of a ... -
The Impact of Culture and Gender on E-Government Diffusion in a Developing Country: the Case of Nigeria
(2011-07-28)Due to the high rate of e-government projects failures occurring in developing countries and the researcher being from a developing country, an impetus to undertake this research was provided. In IS research, diffusion of ... -
Using Technology to Support Collaborative Learning Through Assessment Design
(2011-07-28)This thesis offers an assessment design for collaborative learning, utilisation of blended learning support through current communication technologies and highlights the crucial role of the tutor. The thesis designed and ... -
Promoting Mental Health: Students' Perspectives and Experiences of a University Environment
(2011-07-13)The aim of this flexible, multi-method case-study (after Yin 1994, 2003), was to elicit the 'student perspective' on issues relating to mental well-being within the Higher Education Institution setting. It has been guided ... -
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
(2011)Microscopic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) develops in most Western men, many of whom will develop measurable enlargement of the prostate. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), in association with prostatic enlargement, ... -
Voluntary hospices in England : a viable business model?
(2011)This article is concerned with how the UK Government's End of Life Care Strategy seeks to draw upon the capacity and additional choice provided by voluntary charitable hospices in England. Constructing a hospice financial ... -
Do bad smells indicate "trouble" in code?
(ACM Press, 2008)In 1999 Fowler et al. identified 22 Bad Smells in code to direct the effective refactoring. These are increasingly being used by software engineers. However, the empirical basis of using Bad Smells to direct refactoring ... -
Transient Receptor Potential Function in Bladder from Control and Streptozotocin Treated Rats
(2011-06-24)Diabetic cystopathy is a chronic and common complication of diabetes with a classical triad of symptoms; decreased bladder sensation, increased bladder capacity and impaired detrusor muscle contractility (Hunter and Moore, ... -
Estimating the low-mass IMF in OB associations : o Orionis
(Springer Nature, 2005)We investigate the issues of contamination and exclusion in photometric membership selection techniques when applied to OB associations. We use radial velocities to calculate membership probabilities for a sample of very ... -
BD+20 1790 b : chronicle of an exoplanetary discovery
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2009)In this contribution we report evidence for a planetary companion around a young and active late-type K star. Our group has been developing a study of stellar activity and kinematics for this star over the past years. ... -
Information-driven organization of visual receptive fields
(2009)By using information theory to reduce the state space of sensor arrays, such as receptive fields, for AI decision making we offer an adaptive algorithm without classical biases of hand coded approaches. This paper presents ... -
Older adults' recognition of bodily and auditory expressions of emotion
(2009)This study compared young and older adults’ ability to recognize bodily and auditory expressions of emotion and to match bodily and facial expressions to vocal expressions. Using emotion discrimination and matching techniques, ... -
An assertion concerning functionally complete algebras and NP-completeness
(2008)In a paper published in J. ACM in 1990, Tobias Nipkow asserted that the problem of deciding whether or not an equation over a nontrivial functionally complete algebra has a solution is NP-complete. However, close examination ... -
Characterisation of copper oxide nanoparticles for antimicrobial applications
(2009)Copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles were characterised and investigated with respect to potential antimicrobial applications. It was found that nanoscaled CuO, generated by thermal plasma technology, contains traces of pure ... -
Subdwarf B and O stars : which evolutionary pathways?
(2009)Hot subdwarf stars (spectral types subdwarf B and O) are long lived stars producing a large amount of UV radiation. This makes them excellent candidates to explain the UV radiation observed in old populations. However, the ... -
Distributed language and dynamics
(2009)Language is coordination. Pursuing this, the present Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition challenges two widely held positions. First, the papers reject the claim that language is essentially 'symbolic'. Second, they ... -
General feelings toward unions and employers as predictors of union voting intent
(2009)The union voting intention literature shows that many nonunion employees who indicate that they think unions are instrumental in increasing wages, benefits, and working conditions would vote against forming a union. Although ... -
Spectroscopic characterisation of close orbiting extrasolar giant planets
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2009)A number of successful mid-infrared detections and studies of close orbiting extrasolar giant planetary atmospheres have been responsible for both driving and informing modelling efforts. Recent models have indicated that ...