• Silver Halides, Craft and Laser Beams Hand-coating as a new creative tool in Holography 

  Barkmann, Christine (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The making of silver halide-based material has long been regarded as too complex a task for holographic practitioners. This thesis challenges that popular opinion and proves the feasibility of hand coating by introducing ...

• Advanced Threat Intelligence: Interpretation of Anomalous Behavior in Ubiquitous Kernel Processes 

  Luh, Robert (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Targeted attacks on digital infrastructures are a rising threat against the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of both IT systems and sensitive data. With the emergence of advanced persistent threats (APTs), ...

• Multi-objective Optimization in Traffic Signal Control 

  Nguyen, Phuong (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Traffic Signal Control systems are one of the most popular Intelligent Transport Systems and they are widely used around the world to regulate traffic flow. Recently, complex optimization techniques have been applied to ...

• An Interpretive Exploration of the Experiences of Mothers with Obesity and Midwives Who Care for the Obese Mother during Childbearing. 

  Doughty, Rowena (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Obesity, as defined as a BMI ≥ 30 (kg/m2) had been established as a risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality during childbearing. There was a need for empirical research to explore the experiences of obese women ...

• ITL Monitor: Compositional Runtime Analysis with Interval Temporal Logic 

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

  Runtime verification has gained significant interest in recent years. It is a process in which the execution trace of a program is analysed while it is running. A popular language for specifying temporal requirements for ...

• An investigation of nanoscale materials and their incorporation in patch antenna for high frequency applications 

  Bahar, Ahmad (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The rapid development in the polymer-based electronic contribute a strong determination for using these materials as substitute to the high-cost materials commonly used as medium substrate in the fabrication of Microstrip ...

• Experiences of a Clinical Leadership Programme and its subsequent impact: A Constructivist Inquiry 

  Sloan, Susan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Using a Constructivist methodology, combining elements of Fourth Generation Evaluation and Grounded Theory (Guba and Lincoln, 1989; Charmaz, 2014), this study explored the impact over time of the Delivering Better Care ...

• They have something to say: a study of social media use and public discourse in the Rio de Janeiro favelas 

  Amaral, Fernanda (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The mainstream media portrays favelas in a negative light. This has been the case for over a century, since the very beginning of the favelas. The purpose of this research was to examine the use of digital social networks ...

• Learning in Dynamic Data-Streams with a Scarcity of Labels 

  Fahy, Conor (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Analysing data in real-time is a natural and necessary progression from traditional data mining. However, real-time analysis presents additional challenges to batch-analysis; along with strict time and memory constraints, ...

• Digital Technology for Saudi Arabian Fashion Shows 

  Sabbahi, Basma (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Saudi fashion designers have encountered numerous challenges promoting their designs to the public in Saudi Arabia, especially women’s wear, due to religious and cultural regulations. The primary regulatory barrier is that ...

• An exploration of how British South Asian male survivors of childhood sexual abuse make sense of their experiences 

  Begum, Hannah (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Despite the existence of long settled South Asian communities in Britain, there is a dearth of research on child sexual abuse. Moreover, most of the existing literature considers the experiences of women. This study aims ...

• Small and medium enterprises and the effectiveness of technology business incubators in Saudi Arabia 

  Alsamaani, Abdulkarim (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Multiple studies have examined incubators in developed countries. However, as the literature review illustrates, there is a dearth of research concerning Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in developing countries. This ...

• Platial Phenomenology and Environmental Composition 

  Parmar, Robindra (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This study concerns field recordings, location audio gathered from unscored and unexpected sounds, which retain an indexical relationship to their origin in the natural world. The term “environmental music” describes ...

• Sociability in the Writings of William Godwin, with Special Reference to Thomas Holcroft 

  Povall, Emma (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  William Godwin was a religious dissenter, political journalist, novelist, and author of the philosophical treatise Political Justice. The principal aim of my thesis is to provide a distinctive investigation of Godwin’s ...

• A Socio-History and Genealogy of Dementia Thought and Conceptualisation in Western Society 

  Knifton, Christopher (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Background: Debates concerning the conceptualisation of dementia in Western society, including its framing as a specific type of disorder (such as neuro-psychiatric, part of the natural aging process, cognitive, and so on) ...

• An Investigation of Academics’ and Administrators’ Perceptions of Blended Pedagogies at Saudi Universities 

  Saifuddin, Shireen Rasheed (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  The 2030 future vision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeks to contribute via education to economic growth and reduce dependency on oil through increasing learning outcomes. One of the objectives of this vision is to ...

• Networks of Liveness in Singer-Songwriting: A practice-based enquiry into developing audio-visual interactive systems and creative strategies for composition and performance. 

  Waite, Simon (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This enquiry explores the creation and use of computer-based, real-time interactive audio-visual systems for the composition and performance of popular music by solo artists. Using a practice-based methodology, research ...

• Long-Term Modelling of Composite Pavement Performance 

  Manola, Evangelia (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 ...

• ‘Harry Potter and the Transmedia Wizarding World’: Paratexts of the Harry Potter Franchise, 2011-17 

  Brummitt, Cassie (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  This doctoral thesis examines five Harry Potter paratexts created between 2011-17 and seeks to understand their impact upon the franchise’s trajectory following the end of the Potter books (in 2007) and films (in 2011). ...

• Phytochemical Investigation and Bioactivity Assessment of Medicinal Plant from Northern Nigeria 

  Alfa, Hajara (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

  Boswellia dalzielii (Burseraceae) has ethnopharmacological importance and is claimed to have anti-infection and immunomodulatory effects. In the Northern part of Nigeria, a region with a tropical dry climate, an aqueous ...

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