• To What Extent Has Information Security Professionalism Achieved Recognition? 

  Reese, Richard (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The practice of securing information was until recently associated strongly with securing the Information Technology systems which store and process it. As it has developed as a specialised area of work however, particularly ...
• A Hybrid Approach to the Sentiment Analysis Problem at the Sentence Level 

  Appel, Orestes (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This doctoral thesis deals with a number of challenges related to investigating and devising solutions to the Sentiment Analysis Problem, a subset of the discipline known as Natural Language Processing (NLP), following a ...
• Intelligent Data-Driven Reverse Engineering of Software Design Patterns 

  Alhusain, Sultan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Recognising implemented instances of Design Patterns (DPs) in software design discloses and recovers a wealth of information about the intention of the original designers and the rationale of their design decisions. Because ...
• Cross-arts Production Methods Utilising Collectives 

  Manousakis, Emmanuil (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The very notion of ‘cross-arts’ calls for large collaborations of artists that serve different art disciplines and are eager to spend time in an artistic collective environment. The roles of the participants are not always ...
• An Investigation into the Effects of Teacher Involvement and Influence on the Creativity of Children in the Classroom (Saudi Arabia) 

  Madani, Rafat (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The creative ability of a child to realise their imagination is something that is a pleasure to see in drawings created by children. There is the idea that whatever is produced by children is something pure and valuable ...
• The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype 

  Robinson, Michael (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This thesis explains why daguerreotypes look the way they do. It does this by retracing the pathway of discovery and innovation described in historical accounts, and combining this historical research with artisanal, tacit, ...
• An Evaluation and Development of the Potentials of Photovoltaic Systems for Water Pumping and Electricity Services in Rural Areas of Nigeria 

  Onasanya, Mobolaji (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Rural electrification has been a priority for many governmental and international donor organisations. Grid extension and various renewable energy technology (RET) options are recognised as viable means of providing enhanced ...
• Molecular and Neurochemical Effects of Methylphenidate on the Developing Brain 

  Quansah, Emmanuel (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 2.6-4.5% of the worlds population, with affected children often performing poorly at school. The catecholamine hypothesis of ADHD proposes that the disorder results ...
• Negotiations of Power and Resistance: A spatial exploration of educational policy and practice with particular attention to the stories surrounding the learning and teaching of Gypsy/Traveller children 

  Cudworth, David (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The educational underachievement of Gypsy/Traveller children was first identified in the late 1960s. Yet subsequent government reports and other sources from the mid-1980s through to the 2000s continue to emphasise the ...
• A practical investigation of expectation in acousmatic music 

  Rossiter, Louise (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The experience of expectation within acousmatic music is regarded as problematic because the electronic mediation of sound permits and even encourages composers to combine and integrate sounds of widely varying origins ...
• Second-order learning in developmental evaluation for community-based sustainability 

  Mitchell, Andrew (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  It is increasingly common for complex social, economic and environmental policy concerns to be delivered via funded community-based projects. A project’s contribution is typically monitored and evaluated relative to ...
• Dynamic Rule Covering Classification in Data Mining with Cyber Security Phishing Application 

  Qabajeh, Issa Mohammad (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Data mining is the process of discovering useful patterns from datasets using intelligent techniques to help users make certain decisions. A typical data mining task is classification, which involves predicting a target ...
• The Pragmatics of Apology Speech Act Behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English 

  Ahmed, Ayad Hammood (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This study is concerned with examining the speech act of apology by Iraqi Arabic native speakers (IANs) and Iraqi English foreign language learners (EFLL). It aims at examining the strategies and functions of apologies ...
• Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation in Research Projects 

  Timmermans, Job Franciscus Catharina (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) aims to achieve societally desirable outcomes and marketable products of innovative processes. In recent years RRI has become a key factor in national and international Research ...
• Relationship and Cloud Factors Affecting Government Confidence in the Public Cloud 

  Alghanim, Waleed (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Despite the advantages of the public cloud governments are still reluctant to deploy sensitive data and critical systems into the public cloud. The advantages of scalability and cost are attractive for governments and the ...
• The Quantification of Perception Based Uncertainty Using R-fuzzy Sets and Grey Analysis 

  Singh Khuman, Arjab (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The nature of uncertainty cannot be generically defined as it is domain and context specific. With that being the case, there have been several proposed models, all of which have their own associated benefits and shortcomings. ...
• Evolutionary Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization 

  Jiang, Shouyong (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Many real-world optimization problems consist of a number of conflicting objectives that have to be optimized simultaneously. Due to the presence of multiple conflicting ob- jectives, there is no single solution that can ...
• Computational and Experimental Investigations on Biodiesel Combustion Process 

  Alajmi, Ayedh (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The combustion process of liquid conventional and biofuels depend on factors ranging from the thermophysicochemical properties associated with such fuels to the combustion infrastructure used to burn them. A third class ...
• Equinoctial: an investigation of ‘the holographic’ for developing a new collection of ekphrastic poetry 

  Thompson, Pamela (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Holography is a form of 3D imaging. Its practice spans the disciplines of science and art. My original contribution to knowledge is in making a claim for holography as a new context for writing ekphrastic poetry which most ...
• Numerical Wind Resource Assessment in Urban Environments 

  Dadioti, Rallou (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This thesis leads to a framework for micrositing, the process through which the specific location for mounting micro wind turbines in urban environments is determined. It can be used as a guidance on how to model an area ...

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