All Outputs (67)

The role of documents in collaboration within the UK Integrated Emergency Management System (2023)
Thesis

Effective collaboration between involved stakeholders is a crucial requirement in most any disaster management scenario, where increasingly every stage is a multi-agency effort. In the UK, Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) form the platform for this eng... Read More about The role of documents in collaboration within the UK Integrated Emergency Management System.

Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music (2023)
Thesis

Accurate psychological stress detection systems have been created using a variety of methodologies and can provide users with real-time stress monitoring. Such systems can aid with providing early intervention and therapies for alleviation on order t... Read More about Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music.

Policy, Regulatory and Commercial Considerations for the Implementation of a Mobility as a Service System (2023)
Thesis

Transport and access to mobility have been highlighted as a key factor in enabling economic growth and improving quality of life. However, widely used transport modes, such as private vehicles, also negatively impact cities and towns in several ways,... Read More about Policy, Regulatory and Commercial Considerations for the Implementation of a Mobility as a Service System.

A Biomimicry Model for Design of Building Facades (2023)
Thesis

It is increasingly recognised that the built environment and subsequently buildings are
significant contributors to many drivers of global environmental degradation, including
climate change, loss of biodiversity, and reductions in the ability of e... Read More about A Biomimicry Model for Design of Building Facades.

Optical and electrical characteristics of erbium doped solids for quantum technology applications (2023)
Thesis

This thesis explores the potential of Er:Si for quantum technology applications. The
unique optical transitions of erbium in the 1.5 μm region make it a suitable candidate
for both telecommunication and silicon photonics applications and the proper... Read More about Optical and electrical characteristics of erbium doped solids for quantum technology applications.

Enabling Urban Agriculture in the Global North and South: A Comparative Study of the UK and Nigeria (2023)
Thesis

As the world's urban population rises, we must reconsider our relationship with food. As a result of the growing population and insufficient food produced in rural regions, poverty and hunger are on the rise. Urban Agriculture (UA) has the potential... Read More about Enabling Urban Agriculture in the Global North and South: A Comparative Study of the UK and Nigeria.

An investigation of oil and gas-induced displacement and resettlement policies in The south-south region of Nigeria (case studies: Finima community and Ogoniland) (2023)
Thesis

According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report in 2022, it is stated that there are more than 100 million people were forcible displaced in the year 2022, most of them within their own countries. Thus, the extraction of oil and g... Read More about An investigation of oil and gas-induced displacement and resettlement policies in The south-south region of Nigeria (case studies: Finima community and Ogoniland).

Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms (2023)
Thesis

This thesis argues that key works of nineteenth-century children’s literature, fairy tales, and twenty-first-century live-action Disney film mobilise progressive and subversive representations of mad and/or disabled women in order to express agency a... Read More about Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms.

Intrinsic Risk Factors For Hip-Related Pain In Elite Rowers (2023)
Thesis

Background: The role of hip motion in relation to rowing performance has been well documented, yet the concept of hip health in rowers is poorly understood. In elite international rowing where high volumes of endurance training are critical to perfo... Read More about Intrinsic Risk Factors For Hip-Related Pain In Elite Rowers.

Voicing Violence: An Ethnography of Rural Punjabi Women (2023)
Thesis

This ethnographic study presents a rich picture of the many forms of violence experienced
by the women of rural Punjab, Pakistan. It gives voice to their perceptions of the reasons
for such violence. Using qualitative methods combining in-depth int... Read More about Voicing Violence: An Ethnography of Rural Punjabi Women.

The Lobster Pregnancy Test: A Molecular Tool In Support Of Lobster Stocks And Fisheries In The UK (2023)
Thesis

The European Lobster (Homarus gammarus) is one of the highest value shellfish species landed in the UK and accounts for a large part of British shellfish fisheries. However, high demand for this sought-after commodity has led to overfishing and decli... Read More about The Lobster Pregnancy Test: A Molecular Tool In Support Of Lobster Stocks And Fisheries In The UK.

Position of the Frenkel Line in supercritical nitrogen at 25°C, 75°C, 100°C and 125°C (2023)
Thesis

The pressure at which the Frenkel line was crossed in supercritical nitrogen was investigated at different temperatures via Raman spectroscopy, using a diamond anvil cell to control pressure and ruby or Sm:YAG as a pressure scale. The results for the... Read More about Position of the Frenkel Line in supercritical nitrogen at 25°C, 75°C, 100°C and 125°C.

Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions (2023)
Thesis

Forest trees have been increasingly threatened by invasive pathogens,
endangering associated biodiversity, and reducing ecosystems. Such an alien pathogen,
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, has had considerable impacts on the common ash tree
(Fraxinus exce... Read More about Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions.

Analysing Wikidata For Artistic Creation (2023)
Thesis

As an open database, Wikidata can be used freely for artistic exploration. It is not always easy to extract useful knowledge from the structured data held in Wikidata. SPARQL query language enables such extraction, to extract information and visualis... Read More about Analysing Wikidata For Artistic Creation.

Gender diversity and firm performance: evidence from Nigeria (2023)
Thesis

The study examines the effect of gender diversity on firm performance. Gender diversity is considered an important corporate governance mechanism, especially in developing countries like Nigeria because of weak external governance laws, strong cultur... Read More about Gender diversity and firm performance: evidence from Nigeria.

Intensive Filial Therapy With Brazilian Mothers and Their Children, Victims of Family Violence (2023)
Thesis

The shelter home where this research project took place is a charity founded in 2000 in Curitiba, Southern Brazil.The charity houses an average of 40 single mother families with their children per year in two residential care home... Read More about Intensive Filial Therapy With Brazilian Mothers and Their Children, Victims of Family Violence.

Sediment Entrainment In Two Large Upland Gravel Bed Rivers (2023)
Thesis

The sediment dynamics of river systems are of importance from an ecological, social and engineering viewpoint and are defined by complex relationships of various variables. Numerous threshold theories (such as Bagnolds stream power equation, Hjulstro... Read More about Sediment Entrainment In Two Large Upland Gravel Bed Rivers.

Experimental Study of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Hydrated Lime Asphalt Concrete and Numerical Modelling of Constructed Pavement Performance (2023)
Thesis

The flexible pavement suffers primarily from three types of distress: fatigue cracking, thermal cracking, and permanent deformation. Thermal effects from climate are a significant in distress and early aging of pavements, and particularly in extreme... Read More about Experimental Study of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Hydrated Lime Asphalt Concrete and Numerical Modelling of Constructed Pavement Performance.

Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques (2023)
Thesis

Cloud computing provides scalable, flexible, and cost-effective computing resources. Cloud adoption has, however, introduced resource utilisation and service unavailability issues during the process of designing, deploying, and hosting cloud-native a... Read More about Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques.

Deriving arsenic concentration guideline values for soil and irrigation water for rice cultivation (2023)
Thesis

Arsenic (As) is a naturally occurring, toxic trace element that can be found in irrigation water, soil, and crops. Rice accumulates higher concentrations of As in its grains than other cereals like wheat and barley. This leads to concern over dietary... Read More about Deriving arsenic concentration guideline values for soil and irrigation water for rice cultivation.