Browsing De Montfort University e-theses by Title
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1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Linked Metabolomics Investigations of Broiler Poultry and Human Saliva
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)1H NMR-linked metabolomics was employed to investigate blood plasma and breast meat muscle from broiler poultry for quality assessment. The purpose of this research is to further explore the metabolomics profile of poultry ... -
3D numerical modelling and manipulation of a shoe last.
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)As global competition continues to increase causing market windows to shrink and product life cycles shorten, manufacturers today can no longer function without advanced design tools. These market pressures dictate that ... -
3D Printing on Textile Fabrics Based on Material Extrusion
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)3D print technology has been developed rapidly since 1984. Now there are many types of 3D printing equipment and different techniques available to create a 3D printed object using additive layer by layer processes. 3 popular ... -
3D-based Advanced Machine Service Support
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)In the face of today's unpredictable and fluctuating global market, there have been trends in industry towards wider adoption of more advanced and flexible new generation manufacturing systems. These have brought about ... -
Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Despite being a prolific and well-decorated adapter and screenwriter, the screenplays of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are largely overlooked in adaptation studies. This is likely, in part, because her life and career are characterised ... -
Abstraction : a notion for reverse engineering.
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Academic motivation, aspirations, choice and expectations of sixth-form students and their parents in state and private schools
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Academics’ Adoption and Usage of Learning Management Systems in Saudi Arabia’s Universities
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a common feature in contemporary Higher Education institutions worldwide. LMS literature shows that the level of interest and/or knowledge among academics towards the importance ... -
Accelerated optimisation methods for low-carbon building design
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis presents an analysis of the performance of optimisation using Kriging surrogate models on low-carbon building design problems. Their performance is compared with established genetic algorithms operating without ... -
Acceleration Techniques for Photo Realistic Computer Generated Integral Images
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The research work presented in this thesis has approached the task of accelerating the generation of photo-realistic integral images produced by integral ray tracing. Ray tracing algorithm is a computationally exhaustive ... -
Access Network Selection in Heterogeneous Networks
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The future Heterogeneous Wireless Network (HWN) is composed of multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs), therefore new Radio Resource Management (RRM) schemes and mechanisms are necessary to benefit from the individual ... -
Accountability in the context of civilization change in China
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of accountability in the context of civilization change in China. Using a Foucaultian epistemic framework and archaeological method, data has been gathered ... -
Accurate temperature measurements on semiconductor devices.
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Self-heating can have a detrimental effect on the performance and reliability of high power microwave devices. In this work, the thermal performance of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) Gunn diode was studied. Infrared (IR) ... -
Achieving deep carbon emission reductions in existing social housing: The case of Peabody
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)As part of the UK’s effort to combat climate change, deep reductions in carbon emissions will be required from existing social housing. This thesis explores the viability of achieving such a goal through a case-study ... -
Achieving Fair Exchange and Customer Anonymity for Online Products in Electronic Commerce
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)In the recent years, e-commerce has gained much importance. Traditional commerce (in which case the customer physically goes to the merchant’s shop, purchases goods and/or services and makes a payment) is slowly being ... -
The acoustic properties of textile fabrics.
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Acting in Time: Transport Nurses optimising critically ill patients for transfer to a regional ECMO centre. A Grounded Theory Study
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Regionalisation and centralisation of Intensive Care Units, coupled with demographic changes, have resulted in an increased demand for inter-hospital transport. The Conventional ventilatory support vs Extracorporeal membrane ... -
An action research evaluation to understand and inform the role of the Integrated Care Pharmacist across health and social care
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Introduction A research study was commissioned to understand and inform the new role of an Integrated Care (IC) Pharmacist, founded to work as part of the health and social multidisciplinary team (MDT) within the IC program ... -
Adaptable Spatial Agent-Based Facility Location for Healthcare Coverage
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Lack of access to healthcare is responsible for the world’s poverty, mortality and morbidity. Public healthcare facilities (HCFs) are expected to be located such that they can be reached within reasonable distances of ... -
Adaptations of Othello: (In)Adaptability and Transmedial Representations of Race
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis examines adaptations of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (c. 1601–4) across media, comparing cinematic, televisual, musical, visual art, and online adaptations, among others, in ...