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Leveraging service-oriented business applications to a rigorous rule-centric dynamic behavioural architecture.
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Today’s market competitiveness and globalisation are putting pressure on organisations to join their efforts, to focus more on cooperation and interaction and to add value to their businesses. That is, most information ... -
Life-cycle information management and acquisition for blood products
(Thesis or dissertation / Masters / MPhil)Ten of thousands patients die every year because of medical errors. Many more patients suffer permanent damage and have to be medicated for the rest of their life. In the context of a blood donation, blood production and ... -
A light and electron microscope investigation of the host-parasite relationship in the brains of mice with congenital toxoplasmosis.
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Impregnation of the wall of intact tissue cysts in the brains of mice with congenital toxoplasmosis, with reduced silver salts and protargol silver suggested that it was composed, at least in part, of components derived ... -
Lincoln Cathedral : the evolving perception and practice of care in an historic masonry structure.
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This interdisciplinary, archetypal study considers the numerous adaptation processes and techniques involved in the transposition of the fairy tale from one medium to another, exploring post-2000 adult adaptations and ... -
The Lived Experiences of Hospital for Parents of Children Commenced on Invasive Long-term Ventilation
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Recent years have seen a significant increase in the number of ventilator-dependent children being discharged from the hospital. There is a wealth of literature describing the issues surrounding the complex discharge process ... -
Living with Sickle Cell Disease and Depression in Lagos, Nigeria
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Sickle cell disease (SCD) and depression are each major public health issues globally. Nigeria currently has the largest proportion of people with SCD worldwide, with up to 150,000 annual births. This study highlights the ... -
Lockwood and Mawson of Bradford and London.
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Long Running Transactions Within Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Recently, one of the major problems in various countries is the management of complicated organisations to cope with the increasingly competitive marketplace. This problem can be solved using Enterprise Resource Planning ... -
Long-Term Modelling of Composite Pavement Performance
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The rehabilitation of rigid (concrete) pavements with the placement of an asphalt overlay is a common maintenance technique, which results in a structure known as a composite pavement. The most common form of distress in ... -
Longitudinal Tracking and Changes Over Time of Song-writing Workshops with Young People and Adults who are Experiencing Different Degrees of Social Exclusion
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Most funded organisations within the UK who run arts activities including those which are music related, evaluate the impact of their work by reviewing soft skills, and areas relating to well-being. On discovering that ... -
Low Complexity Multiview Video Coding
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)3D video is a technology that has seen a tremendous attention in the recent years. Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is an extension of the popular H.264 video coding standard and is commonly used to compress 3D videos. It ... -
Low Energy Ground Cooling System for Buildings in Hot and Humid Malaysia
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis presents an investigation into the viability of Low Energy Earth Pipe Cooling Technology in providing thermal comfort in Malaysia. The demand for air-conditioning in buildings in Malaysia affects the country ... -
Low Temperature Fabrication of One-Dimensional Nanostructures and Their Potential Application in Gas Sensors and Biosensors
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Nanomaterials are the heart of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Research into nanostructures has been vastly expanding worldwide and their application spreading into numerous branches of science and technology. The incorporation ... -
Low-Concentrating, Stationary Solar Thermal Collectors for Process Heat Generation
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The annual gain of stationary solar thermal collectors can be increased by non-focusing reflectors. Such concentrators make use of diffuse irradiance. A collector’s incidence angle modifier for diffuse (diffuse-IAM) accounts ... -
Lubanga, child soldiering and the philosophy of international law
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)International criminal law lacks a coherent theory suitable for its own context. This lacuna has left the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the most prominent global penal institution - without clear theoretical premise(s) ... -
Lyn Hejinian's and Charles Bernstein's language poetics : a postmodern conceptual grammar
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Machine vision for the determination of identity, orientation and position of two dimensional industrial components.
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Making a difference? Understanding the working lives of learning disability nurses; 30 years of learning disability nursing in England
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The study aimed to explore the lived experience of the careers of learning disability nurses in England. The methodology was informed by Hermeneutic Phenomenology, and the study design utilised narrative interviewing ... -
Making home : a study of recent self-build projects in the UK.
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