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Pleistocene Depositional Environments On The Eastern Ross Sea Continental Slope, Antarctica, Maxine Valentina King Jan 2023

Pleistocene Depositional Environments On The Eastern Ross Sea Continental Slope, Antarctica, Maxine Valentina King

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

In 2018, International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 374 drilled a 208.28 m-thick sequence of Plio-Pleistocene sediments on the Eastern Ross Sea continental slope, Antarctica (Hole U1525A). In this thesis, sediments from Hole U1525A are used to reconstruct the depositional environment on the slope since 2.4 Ma, focusing on characterising instances of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) extension to the continental margin. Late Pleistocene Ross Sea Fan deposits in Hole U1525A are also studied to identify provenance changes that may link to changing ice stream dynamics. Core images, grain size, X-ray fluorescence and physical properties datasets were used from the upper …

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Phenomics: An Integrative Approach To Comparative Developmental Physiology, James Mccoy Jan 2023

Phenomics: An Integrative Approach To Comparative Developmental Physiology, James Mccoy

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Phenomics, the high-throughput acquisition of phenotypic data at the scale of the whole organism, has led to considerable advancements in plant biology and medicine, yet applications within animal environmental physiology and evolutionary biology are rare. The main aim of this thesis is to understand what phenomics can contribute to our understanding of Comparative Developmental Physiology (CDP), in terms of how environmental and evolutionary change affects the development of physiological function in aquatic embryos. Additionally, I aim to understand the consequences of changes in high-dimensional phenotyping methods used throughout the thesis within the context of embryonic life history. To achieve this, …

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The Effects Of Husbandry On Reproductive Output And Behaviour In Captive Saddle-Billed Storks (Ephippiorhynchus Senegalensis), Arlin Douglas Slater Jan 2023

The Effects Of Husbandry On Reproductive Output And Behaviour In Captive Saddle-Billed Storks (Ephippiorhynchus Senegalensis), Arlin Douglas Slater

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Zoos are required to understand specific husbandry requirements of animals in captivity, and there have been significant developments in husbandry research for captive breeding programmes. However, there is no ‘one size fits all’ and in some species, complications have led to low success and failure in breeding. Saddle-billed stork are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, with low productivity reported in AZA and EAZA populations. Reproductive output, breeding behaviour and interspecific behaviour were measured in saddle-billed storks within European and American zoological institutions using a questionnaire. The effects of birth origin, enclosure provision, nesting provision and wing condition on reproductive …

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Assessing The Effect Of Temperate Mpas On Elasmobranch Communities, Chloe Renn Jan 2023

Assessing The Effect Of Temperate Mpas On Elasmobranch Communities, Chloe Renn

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Global chondrichthyan (sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras) populations are experiencing alarming declines, driven by intense targeted and incidental extraction. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) represent one potential solution, which has gained traction in recent years. When implemented effectively, MPAs demonstrate potential to rebuild populations and enable ecosystem recovery. However, their value as an elasmobranch conservation tool remains contested, particularly in temperate waters such as the UK. One essential component of MPA efficacy is the implementation of robust ecological monitoring regimes that allow species trajectories to be characterised and responded to, in real-time. However, several challenges, inherent to both elasmobranchs and temperate …

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Personality And Parental Care In The Corkwing Wrasse (Symphodus Melops), Benjamin Ellis Jan 2023

Personality And Parental Care In The Corkwing Wrasse (Symphodus Melops), Benjamin Ellis

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Parental care in many species is a repeatable aspect of the behavioural phenotype, in some cases covarying with other behavioural traits within wider behavioural syndromes. It is well understood that in several freshwater fishes, recreational and commercial fisheries often (directly or indirectly) impact traits concerning parental care adversely, in some cases through selection on covarying behavioural traits. In contrast, studies on commercially fished marine species that exhibit parental care are scarce. The corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops) is a marine fish with complex reproductive behaviour, with parental males exhibiting nest building and parental care behaviours. This species is also subject to …

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Investigating The Diversity And Distribution Of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems In The Chagos Archipelago, Clara Diaz Jan 2023

Investigating The Diversity And Distribution Of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems In The Chagos Archipelago, Clara Diaz

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs, 30-150 m) have received increasing attention from the scientific community over the past two decades, as their significance has been recognised in terms of biodiversity, distribution, and ecological value. However, MCEs remain relatively unexplored compared to their shallow-water counterparts. They are also under-protected and under-represented in marine spatial planning, despite meeting the international criteria used to identify priority areas for conservation policies. One reason for the imbalance between their high ecological value and their low level of protection is that baseline data on MCEs is largely missing to date. Furthermore, research efforts have been unevenly distributed, …

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Metabolism, Swimming Performance, And A Behavioural Syndrome In Schoolmaster Snapper (Lutjanus Apodus), Peter Malorey Jan 2023

Metabolism, Swimming Performance, And A Behavioural Syndrome In Schoolmaster Snapper (Lutjanus Apodus), Peter Malorey

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Commercial overexploitation and climate change can alter the physiology and behaviour of affected marine organisms, although depending on the environment, species, and severity, intraspecific phenotypic response to such changes can vary greatly. Under the Pace-Of-Life Syndrome (POLS) hypothesis, behaviour, physiology, and life history traits can be linked and thus affected both directly and indirectly by selection targeting any aspect of behavioural physiology. However, such links are often understudied in tropical marine fish, with work needed to better understand the impacts of fisheries and climate change on fish stocks. Moreover, tropical regions have greater reliance on fisheries, thus investigations should focus …

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Ecological And Oceanographic Interactions Of An Offshore Longline Mussel Farm, Llucia Mascorda-Cabre Jan 2023

Ecological And Oceanographic Interactions Of An Offshore Longline Mussel Farm, Llucia Mascorda-Cabre

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

A growing human population coupled with the need to protect marine ecosystems, requires sources of sustainable protein. Finfish aquaculture can produce a wide range of environmental impacts while shellfish aquaculture reports fewer negative effects, being classed a sustainable protein source. Mussels are ecosystem engineers and farms can mitigate the consequences of eutrophication while providing ecosystem services. The development of mussel farming has been limited by competition for coastal space, intensification of the industry causing environmental impacts due to bioaccumulation around farms, negative public perception and lack of research. Offshore aquaculture has the potential to overcome such issues but knowledge on …

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Development Of Two Disease Specific Scales To Assess The Impact Of Severe Asthma On Patients' Lives, Joseph Lanario Jan 2023

Development Of Two Disease Specific Scales To Assess The Impact Of Severe Asthma On Patients' Lives, Joseph Lanario

School of Psychology Theses

Joseph W Lanario Title: Development of two disease specific scales to assess the impact of severe asthma on patients’ lives Asthma is a disease of the airways, characterised by airway obstruction, inflammation, and hyper-responsiveness resulting in symptoms of breathlessness, wheeze, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Severe asthma is distinct from mild/moderate asthma in terms of symptom severity, frequency of exacerbations, medication side effects and disruption to life. The increasing availability of biologic treatments have revolutionised the treatment of severe asthma. Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) provide evidence of their efficacy at improving objective outcomes, e.g., lung function. However, scores of …

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What Relationships Exist Between Words In The Lexical-Semantic Systems Of Toddlers?, Nadine Fitzpatrick Jan 2023

What Relationships Exist Between Words In The Lexical-Semantic Systems Of Toddlers?, Nadine Fitzpatrick

School of Psychology Theses

Investigating how infants first establish relationships between words is a necessary step towards understanding the qualitative shift children make to an organised and complex interconnected network of semantic relationships which characterises a mature, adult lexical-semantic system. Since little is known about the word-word associations in infants that establish this network of meanings (Arias-Trejo & Plunkett, 2009), this thesis sought to, first, document the word associations (WA)s that young monolingual and bilingual children produce and then compare these to adult WAs. A concurrent aim was to establish a database of child-specific WAs as a resource for future studies. Second, to understand …

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The Phonetic Specificity Of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition In Their First Year Of Life, Paul Ratnage Jan 2023

The Phonetic Specificity Of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition In Their First Year Of Life, Paul Ratnage

School of Psychology Theses

Consonants and vowels have been proposed to have distinct functions in speech perception: a consonant bias for lexical processing and a vowel bias for syntactic/prosodic processing (Nespor et al., 2003). Research in adults has consistently demonstrated that consonants have a privileged role in various lexical-level experiments across most languages. However, cross-linguistic differences have been found in the developmental trajectory of the consonant bias. For example, whilst French-learning infants display a consonant advantage in lexical processing tasks by their first birthday (e.g., Poltrock & Nazzi, 2015), British English-learning infants show an equal sensitivity to consonants and vowels until the age of …

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Examining The Sociolinguistic Expression Of Moral Disgust, And Investigating The Role Of The Emotion In Inter- And Intra-Group Processes., Ryan Statton Jan 2023

Examining The Sociolinguistic Expression Of Moral Disgust, And Investigating The Role Of The Emotion In Inter- And Intra-Group Processes., Ryan Statton

School of Psychology Theses

Informed by Tybur et al’s (2009) Three Domains of Disgust Model, I used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to develop and test a prototypical model of Moral Disgust and investigate how the emotion functions in both intra- and inter-group processes. I conducted thematic analysis to construct a two-factor model of Moral Disgust informed by the sociolinguistic perspective (Sankoff, 1982). The new model identified the sub-factors Hierarchical Disgust and Third-Party Disgust and extend Giner-Sorolla et al.’s (2018) two-factor model by including considerations of group and third-party protection. The new model of Moral Disgust also supports an extension of the …

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Management Of Non-Indigenous Species In The Mediterranean Sea With An Emphasis On Lionfish (Pterois Miles), Periklis Kleitou Jan 2023

Management Of Non-Indigenous Species In The Mediterranean Sea With An Emphasis On Lionfish (Pterois Miles), Periklis Kleitou

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The 21st century faces a global challenge; understanding the ecosystem changes and regulating fish resources is essential to provide food for humankind and to preserve the oceans. Marine ecosystems are being increasingly altered because of global, regional, and anthropogenic stressors such as climate change, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), pollution, fisheries, eutrophication, and habitat loss. In an era of escalating transformations of marine ecosystems, the Mediterranean Sea is recognized as a hotspot of global biotic and abiotic changes. In recent decades, human-mediated introductions of NIS have notably reshaped the marine ecological structures and processes of the region. The Suez Canal (constructed in …

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Structural Analysis And Design Of Semi-Submersible Platform For Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Qi Ye Jan 2023

Structural Analysis And Design Of Semi-Submersible Platform For Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Qi Ye

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

To solve the issues of energy shortages and environmental pollution, renewable energy is increasingly exploited. As one of the most promising new energy resources, wind energy is actively developed and utilized around the world. To increase the use of offshore wind, there is a need to develop floating platforms to support wind turbines in deep water. However, the cost of floating platform needs to be reduced sharply to be competitive with the traditional energy sources and fixed wind turbines. Moreover, the design code for floating wind turbines (FWTs) is primarily based on offshore ships, oil & gas industry, which still …

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What Bothers Severe Asthma Patients Most? A Paired Patient–Clinician Study Across Seven European Countries, Ben Ainsworth, Eleanor Chatburn, Aruna T. Bansal, Olivia Fulton, Dominique Hamerlijnck, Courtney Coleman, Katrien Eger, Michael Hyland, Joshua Holmes, Liam Heaney, Vratislav Sedlák, Sabina Škrgat, Natalija Edelbaher, Brinke A Ten, Celeste Porsbjerg, Mina Gaga, Claudia Loureiro, Ratko Djukanovic, Emmanuelle Berret, Namhee Kwon Jan 2023

What Bothers Severe Asthma Patients Most? A Paired Patient–Clinician Study Across Seven European Countries, Ben Ainsworth, Eleanor Chatburn, Aruna T. Bansal, Olivia Fulton, Dominique Hamerlijnck, Courtney Coleman, Katrien Eger, Michael Hyland, Joshua Holmes, Liam Heaney, Vratislav Sedlák, Sabina Škrgat, Natalija Edelbaher, Brinke A Ten, Celeste Porsbjerg, Mina Gaga, Claudia Loureiro, Ratko Djukanovic, Emmanuelle Berret, Namhee Kwon

School of Psychology

Introduction Severe asthma is a complex, multidimensional disease. Optimal treatment, adherence and outcomes require shared decision-making, rooted in mutual understanding between patient and clinician. This study used a novel, patient-centred approach to examine the most bothersome aspects of severe asthma to patients, as seen from both perspectives in asthma registries. Methods Across seven countries, 126 patients with severe asthma completed an open-ended survey regarding most the bothersome aspect(s) of their asthma. Patients’ responses were linked with their treating clinician who also completed a free-text survey about each patient’s most bothersome aspect(s). Responses were coded using content analysis, and patient and …

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Agricultural Systems Regulate Plant And Insect (Beetle) Diversity And Induce Ecosystem Novelty, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph Fyfe Jan 2023

Agricultural Systems Regulate Plant And Insect (Beetle) Diversity And Induce Ecosystem Novelty, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph Fyfe

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Land-use change plays an important role in shaping plant and insect diversity over long time timescales. Great Britain provides an ideal case study to investigate patterns of long-term vegetation and insect diversity change owing to the existence of spatially and temporally extensive environmental archives (lake sediments, peatlands, and archaeological sites) and a long history of landscape transformation through agrarian change. The trends identified in past environmental datasets allow the impacts of land-use change on plant and insect diversity trends to be investigated alongside exploration of the emergence of ecological novelty. Using fossil pollen, insect (beetle), archaeodemographic, archaeobotanical and modern landscape …

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When Reputation Is At Stake: Honour, Masculinity And Militarism In The Courts Martial Records Of The Marine Corps, 1755 – 1779, Lee-Jane Giles Jan 2023

When Reputation Is At Stake: Honour, Masculinity And Militarism In The Courts Martial Records Of The Marine Corps, 1755 – 1779, Lee-Jane Giles

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This dissertation examines how the Marine Corps, as a newly formed permanent force, understood and embodied key social ideals such as honour and trustworthiness, respect and deference alongside martial behaviours. It uncovers and analyses the self-sanctioning nature of the marines’ officer corps to impose conforming behaviours during this key period in the Marine Corps’ development. However, this dissertation is equally interested in the non-commissioned and enlisted ranks, and their responses to the imposed conformity to these values. These early cases, linked to ideal behaviour, show a form of self-fashioning as the men of the Corps sought to form their identity …

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George Morland (1763-1804) And The Representation Of Social Types, Heather Yeomans Jan 2023

George Morland (1763-1804) And The Representation Of Social Types, Heather Yeomans

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

George Morland was an eighteenth century artist, who was very popular not only during his lifetime, but in the following hundred years as well. He then fell out of popularity after changes in fashion and trends following the First World War. His paintings contain scenes of rural communities, families, animals, travellers, seaside communities as well as the slave trade, they cover a wide range of eighteenth century social types. Morland lived a ‘bohemian’ lifestyle which allowed him to get to know the people he depicted, living within the communities. His paintings have been analysed in detail in only a few …

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The Current State Of South-West Rural Representation In Contemporary Theatre., Ryan Wilce Jan 2023

The Current State Of South-West Rural Representation In Contemporary Theatre., Ryan Wilce

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

The following thesis will present the current state of South-West rural representation in contemporary theatre and explore who has the right to tell rural communities stories. Using rural proofing as a base framework will present a new framework for theatre makers to inform and influence their creative representations of South-West rural life. To understand the current state of representation and create the framework to improve this, I will be using formalist, actantial and script analysis of select plays, practitioners and theatre companies representing rural life in their work. Equally, my work as a theatre maker will be analysed as I …

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Spectral Music; Why Create Compositions With Such A Limited Palette?, Iain Mason Jan 2023

Spectral Music; Why Create Compositions With Such A Limited Palette?, Iain Mason

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Spectral Music: Why create compositions with such a limited palette? The question I am trying to answer is why the composers within the spectral movement of classical music created their compositions with such a limited and challenging palette of sounds. With the extreme wealth of musical knowledge and a rich tapestry of sounds and movements within the classical and contemporary musical world, why was it that the composers in question who I will be investigating; Gerard Grisey, Kaija Saaraiho, and James Tenney chose to write music with a limited palette of sounds? The music to generalise is made up from …

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Assessing National Progress Of Mediterranean Countries In Shark Governance In The Context Of International Legal Obligations, Lydia Koehler Jan 2023

Assessing National Progress Of Mediterranean Countries In Shark Governance In The Context Of International Legal Obligations, Lydia Koehler

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

The work presented in this thesis introduces a conceptual framework for shark policy making against which national progress of Mediterranean coastal States in shark governance was assessed. A detailed assessment strategy was developed based on three distinct constructs, namely political commitment, research, and implementation effort. Based on multiple data sources (national reports under relevant conventions; policy documents; national legislation; online databases; scientific literature; and survey questionnaires to relevant government bodies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and national experts, designed as part of this assessment), individual differences between countries were determined and evaluated within the context of legal requirements under international and regional …

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My Auschwitz State Of Mind: A Study Of The Nature Of Emergence Of A Text In Relation To Auschwitz, Ivan Alexander Pope Jan 2023

My Auschwitz State Of Mind: A Study Of The Nature Of Emergence Of A Text In Relation To Auschwitz, Ivan Alexander Pope

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This thesis uses practice-based research to ask how I can write a textual deep map from an investigation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As a key part of the research, I made repeated visits to the environs of Auschwitz-Birkenau, walking and cycling extensively around the area in a search for contemporary fragments in the landscape, for example buildings, routes, sites, landmarks, place names, signposts and found objects. I used my own collection of guides, documents, textual, cartographic and photographic fragments and other ephemera related to the town and the Auschwitz museum in addition to support from the Auschwitz Museum itself and external archives …

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Towards Quantum Computing For Audio And Music Expression, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí Jan 2023

Towards Quantum Computing For Audio And Music Expression, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This research delves into the initial approaches of the use of emerging Quantum Computing technologies in music practice, anchored on preliminary studies on Quantum Representation of Audio (QRA). The approach is interdisciplinary, and attempts to explore the object - QRA - both from a technical scope and an artistic scope. A systematic review unifies diverse QRA techniques, spotlighting the need to bring accessibility to these techniques and terminologies (dense in theoretical physics formalism) for a computer music and/or artistic audiences, in a didactic manner. In this review, some additional techniques initially only discussed for representing images are translated into audio. …

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Trial By Jury And English Political Radicalism C.1792 – 1825, Richard John Marshall Jan 2023

Trial By Jury And English Political Radicalism C.1792 – 1825, Richard John Marshall

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This thesis explores the jury trial in English radical thinking, politics and political culture during the age of revolution. Its significance for radicals and the wider political nation has been underappreciated by scholars, as the ballast stabilising the British constitution and polity. I argue that juries served as a counterweight to repression and surrogate site of power for the underrepresented middling sorts: as jurors checking the power and social dominance of corrupt elites. Radicals recognised the power inherent in independent juries, campaigning to defend their verdicts and bolster their powers. The jury played a critical role in the rhetoric of …

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‘My Blood Is In It’: A Phenomenological Study Of International Doctoral Students’ Embodied Experience Of A University Campus, Anne Bentley Jan 2023

‘My Blood Is In It’: A Phenomenological Study Of International Doctoral Students’ Embodied Experience Of A University Campus, Anne Bentley

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Reflecting its Cartesian underpinnings, academic scholarship privileges discourse over embodiment, resulting in a lack of research about international doctoral students' bodily experience of Higher Education. International students represent a significant income stream for UK universities and offer the opportunity for the meeting of different cultures, minds and bodies. Using phenomenological theory and taking embodiment as its starting point, this thesis explores the implicit dimensions of international doctoral students' everyday experience of campus. Walking interviews, photo-elicitation and semi-structured interviews with eight international doctoral students yielded embodied, visual and discursive methods. Merleau-Ponty, Ahmed and Arendt were used to theorise the interrelated embodied, …

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Investigating A Motivation Model For Gamified E-Learning: A Self-Determination Approach, A Sen, J Lean, J Kelland, J Moizer Jan 2023

Investigating A Motivation Model For Gamified E-Learning: A Self-Determination Approach, A Sen, J Lean, J Kelland, J Moizer

Plymouth Business School

There has been a recent increase in educational interest in gamification over the past 5 years [1, 2]. A central tenet of the increase in its popularity may stem from its motivational power in educational settings [3, 4]. However, prior research on gamification has not sufficiently investigated the mechanisms by which the phenomenon induces its motivational effects. A crucial question to consider is how the motivational theories that underpin gamification really work. Consequently, the current study looks at how game elements map into the notion of self-determination to explore the relationship between intrinsic motivation and gamification in the context of …

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Implementing Smart Factory: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis To Uncover Successful Paths, Hyunmi Jang, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Saeyeon Roh, Adah Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, Taeeun Choi Jan 2023

Implementing Smart Factory: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis To Uncover Successful Paths, Hyunmi Jang, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Saeyeon Roh, Adah Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, Taeeun Choi

Plymouth Business School

Despite the pervasiveness of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, few studies have examined the adoption of smart factories. Scholars have long examined firms' willingness to adopt smart factories. Thus, this study heeds this call by investigating the factors driving the adoption of smart factories. It employs a fuzzy-set configuration approach to capture the complex interactions underlying these drivers in the context of South Korean marine equipment firms. Based on data from a sample of 180 respondents, the findings revealed four complex paths with factors including government support, the entrepreneurial spirit of top management, efficiency expectation, and financial preparedness shaping the high …

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A Novel Interactive Training Device To Improve Walking Ability And Quality Of Life For Children With Cerebral Palsy Trial: Accept Study An Exploration Of Balance, Its Measurement And Usual Physiotherapy Care In Children With Cerebral Palsy, To Inform A Mixed Methods Feasibility Rct., Rachel Rapson Jan 2023

A Novel Interactive Training Device To Improve Walking Ability And Quality Of Life For Children With Cerebral Palsy Trial: Accept Study An Exploration Of Balance, Its Measurement And Usual Physiotherapy Care In Children With Cerebral Palsy, To Inform A Mixed Methods Feasibility Rct., Rachel Rapson

School of Health Professions Theses

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common disability with its onset in childhood, resulting from a non-progressive lesion to the brain. Motor impairments associated with CP are spasticity, weakness and reduced selective movement; these interfere with various aspects of balance. Children undertake physiotherapy to maintain or improve their mobility but find it hard to train at the correct frequency, intensity and in functional positions. A novel interactive trainer, the Happy Rehab™ (Innovaid, Denmark), was designed to address this. Its efficacy as an intervention to improve walking and balance is unknown. To evaluate this requires a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). The usual …

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Core Outcomes For Refractory Childhood Epilepsy Treated With Ketogenic Diet Therapy: The Core-Kdt Study, Jen Carroll Jan 2023

Core Outcomes For Refractory Childhood Epilepsy Treated With Ketogenic Diet Therapy: The Core-Kdt Study, Jen Carroll

School of Health Professions Theses

Background: Ketogenic diet therapy can result in seizure and non-seizure related benefits for children with drug resistant epilepsy. However, clinical trials report a wide range of outcomes which makes evidence synthesis difficult and they do not adequately reflect parent views on important outcomes for their child. To address this, we established the first international parent, health professional and researcher consensus to develop a core outcome set - a minimum standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported. (COMET registration #1116). Methods: Ethical approval was granted (London-Surrey REC19/LO/1680). A scoping review and interviews with parents identified a comprehensive list …

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Investigating The Security And Accessibility Of Voyage Data Recorder Data Using A Usb Attack, Avanthika Vineetha Harish, K Tam, K Jones Jan 2023

Investigating The Security And Accessibility Of Voyage Data Recorder Data Using A Usb Attack, Avanthika Vineetha Harish, K Tam, K Jones

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Voyage Data Recorders (VDR) or 'black boxes' for ships hold critical navigational and sensor data that can be used as evidence in an investigation. These systems have proven extremely useful in determining the cause of several previous shipping accidents. Considering the importance of the VDR and the increasing number of cyber-attacks in the maritime sector, the likelihood of it being attacked is high. This paper examines the security and accessibility of VDR data through a malicious USB device. A USB device is used after a series of tests, detailed in this paper, found it to be a viable way to …

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