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Foraging Behaviour And Brain Morphology In Recently Emerged Brook Charr, Salvelinus Fontinalis, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Robert L. Mclaughlin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Effects Of Ocean Acidification On Invertebrate Settlement At Volcanic Co2 Vents, M. Cigliano, M. C. Gambi, R. Rodolfo-Metalpa, F. P. Patti, J. M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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The Development Of A Semantic Model For The Interpretation Of Mathematics Including The Use Of Technology, Michael Peters

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The semantic model developed in this research was in response to the difficulty a group of mathematics learners had with conventional mathematical language and their interpretation of mathematical constructs. In order to develop the model ideas from linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, formal languages and natural language processing were investigated. This investigation led to the identification of four main processes: the parsing process, syntactic processing, semantic processing and conceptual processing. The model showed the complex interdependency between these four processes and provided a theoretical framework in which the behaviour of the mathematics learner could be analysed. The model was then extended …

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A Review Of Graduate Schools In The Uk., Mp Fuller, P Denicolo, D Berry, C Raven

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Fabrication And Characterizations Of Ysz Electrolyte Films For Sofc, M-F Han, Z Yang, Z Liu, H-R Le

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) has been widely used as electrolyte in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The effect of fabrication process on the properties of YSZ electrolyte thick film is discussed in the paper. With YSZ nano-powders of about 20-60nm as raw material, YSZ green adobe was fabricated by tape calendering process. Three-step sintering process was performed firstly holding at 1000 degrees C for 2h, then raising to 1300 similar to 1400 degrees C, then decreasing to 1200 similar to 1300 degrees C within 30 minutes, and finally calcining at 1200 similar to 1300 degrees C for 5 similar to …

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Do You Ask The Work Question?, Ag Rickard, L Tipping, L Westcott

School of Health Professions

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Key Determinants Of The Voluntary Adoption Of Corporate Internet Reporting And Its Consequence On Firm Value : Evidence From Egypt, Amr Nazieh Mahmoud Ezat Elsayed

Plymouth Business School Theses

Corporate Internet reporting represents one of the voluntary types which helps to achieve transparency by disseminating various types of timely information by using different presentation types and easily accessible tools. Corporate governance has become one of the most crucial issues in recent years due to the consequent scandals that have happened either in developed or developing countries. Therefore, most stakeholders demand greater transparency within the disclosed information provided by various companies. Consequently, the current study aims to contribute to the disclosure literature by examining the association between corporate Internet reporting and its main components, and corporate governance and ownership structure …

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Online Disclosure: An Analysis Of Egyptian Listed Companies, Aa El-Masry, A Elsayed, I Elbeltagi

Plymouth Business School

The internet becomes a very useful information disclosure tool in the recent years. Many corporations begin to disseminate their information on their websites to support the different needs of their stakeholders. Internet financial reporting has unique characteristics. These include, the ability to disseminate the information to wide audience on more timely basis and using different types of information format such as (hypertext, multiple file format (PDF, HTML) and using multimedia). As the internet financial reporting practices are voluntary, many companies can improve their disclosure with both the content and presentation of the disclosed information. Consequently, many studies in developed countries …

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The Transition From Medical Student To Junior Doctor: Today's Experiences Of Tomorrow's Doctors., Nicola Brennan, Oonagh Corrigan, Jon Allard, Julian Archer, Rebecca Barnes, Alan Bleakley, Tracey Collett, Bere Sr De

Peninsula Medical School

CONTEXT Medical education in the UK has recently undergone radical reform. Tomorrow's Doctors has prescribed undergraduate curriculum change and the Foundation Programme has overhauled postgraduate education. OBJECTIVES This study explored the experiences of junior doctors during their first year of clinical practice. In particular, the study sought to gain an understanding of how junior doctors experienced the transition from the role of student to that of practising doctor and how well their medical school education had prepared them for this. METHODS The study used qualitative methods comprising of semi-structured interviews and audio diary recordings with newly qualified doctors based at …

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Negative Intrusive Thoughts And Dissociation As Risk Factors For Self-Harm., Helen Batey, Jon May, Jackie Andrade

School of Psychology

Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self-worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Among the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly to the self-harmers on the dissociation and self-worth scales, and engaged in potentially maladaptive behaviors that are not defined as indicating clinical self-harm, but experienced fewer negative intrusive thoughts. This group may be at risk of future self-harm if they begin to experience negative intrusive thoughts. If negative intrusive thoughts are playing …

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A Review Of Human Factors Principles For The Design And Implementation Of Medication Safety Alerts In Clinical Information Systems., Shobha Phansalkar, Judy Edworthy, Elizabeth Hellier, Diane L. Seger, Angela Schedlbauer, Anthony J. Avery, David W. Bates

School of Psychology

The objective of this review is to describe the implementation of human factors principles for the design of alerts in clinical information systems. First, we conduct a review of alarm systems to identify human factors principles that are employed in the design and implementation of alerts. Second, we review the medical informatics literature to provide examples of the implementation of human factors principles in current clinical information systems using alerts to provide medication decision support. Last, we suggest actionable recommendations for delivering effective clinical decision support using alerts. A review of studies from the medical informatics literature suggests that many …

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The Partnership Approach To Environmental Governance: The Case Of The Moor Trees Partnership Network, Clive Bastin

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Academic discussion of policy-making and governing indicates a significant shift in the model of governance away from top-down state control to the bottom-up approach of engaging non-state actors (Goodwin and Painter, 1996; Jessop, 1998; Stoker, 1993, 1998). Central to governance theory are new forms of policy organisation, in effect, a shift from state monopoly of decision-making towards partnering with non-state (and, therefore, non-elected) actors for the formulation and delivery of sustainability objectives. It is argued that these partnerships are a key aspect of governance, which, in turn has become one of the main themes in environmental politics (Imrie and Raco, …

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Accumulation Of Platinum Group Elements By The Marine Microalga, Chlorella Stigmatophora, Leyla Shams

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Very little information exists on the marine biogeochemistry of Rh, Pd and Pt, or the platinum group elements (PGE), an emerging group of contaminants whose principal emissions are associated with the abrasion of the catalytic converter in motor vehicles and chemotherapy drugs discharged in hospital wastes. In this study, Rh(III), Pd(II) and Pt(IV) were added individually and in combination to cultures of the marine microalga, Chlorella stigmatophora, maintained in coastal seawater at 15oC and under fluorescence lighting both in the presence and absence of trace nutrients (e.g. Fe, Co, Zn and EDTA). The accumulation of PGE was established under varying …

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Cultural Responses To Volcanic Hazards On Mt Merapi, Indonesia, Katherine Helen Mary Donovan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Over the last decade an interdisciplinary science has evolved in order to reduce the impact of natural hazards by incorporating social sciences into physical hazard studies. This science has revealed that a community's ability to anticipate, cope with and recover from the impact of natural hazards relies upon that society's vulnerability. The concept of vulnerability has conventionally focussed on certain key social statistics such as wealth, age and gender, yet there is another element of vulnerability: the component of culture. In this study culture refers to the oral histories, taboos, ceremonies and legends that are created in order to explain, …

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An Investigation Into Sustainable Forest Policies And Practices In Syria, Rim Rateb Al Berni

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Appreciation of how forest land can be managed in a sustainable way in arid and semi-arid zones (ASAZs) of centralized countries is limited. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to analyse the role of government and communities, including women, in the formulation and implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM) policy and practices in the semi-arid environment of Syria where such land is limited in extent (e.g. 3% forest and 57% rangeland) and yet where its high biodiversity value is of international significance. The thesis employs a variety of methods: a case study approach (Syria); a questionnaire (i.e. 142 respondents); face-to-face interviews (i.e. …

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Regulating Geopolitical Space: Eu Interaction With East Africa, Veit Klemens Bachmann

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Relations with developing countries have been a field of collective European policy for more than fifty years. Yet, European development policy remains fragmented; conducted on different levels through a variety of actors with multiple instruments applied in various policy fields. Articulations of Europe's collective role in the world first emerged in the 1970s under the idea of Europe as a civilian power (Duchene 1972, 1973b). These initial elaborations have served as a key point of departure in political and academic debates on the international identity and role of an integrated/integrating Europe (see for example Solana 2002; Ferrero- Waldner 2007; also …

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Aqueous And Solid Phase Interactions Of Radionuclides With Organic Complexing Agents, Estela Reinoso-Maset

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Characterising the geochemistry and speciation of major contaminant radionuclides is crucial in order to understand their behaviour and migration in complex environmental systems. Organic complexing agents used in nuclear decontamination have been found to enhance migration of radionuclides at contaminated sites; however, the mechanisms of the interactions in complex environments are poorly understood. In this work, radionuclide speciation and sorption behaviour were investigated in order to identify interactions between four key radionuclides with different oxidation states (Cs(I) and Sr(II) as important fission products; Th(IV) and U(VI) as representative actinides), three anthropogenic organic complexing agents with different denticities (EDTA, NTA and …

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Localisation And Resilience At The Local Level: The Case Of Transition Town Totnes, Robert John Hopkins

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis provides a critical review of the Transition movement, a grassroots response to peak oil and climate change, co-founded by this author. It focuses on two key aspects of the Transition approach, resilience and economic relocalisation, with the aim of analysing whether and how they can be implemented in a locality based on the Transition approach, and assessing what socio-economic and community-related structures would be necessary to implement such a process. The focus of the research is Totnes, Devon, which because of its status as the UK’s first Transition initiative and the longer history of various initiatives to promote …

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When Distance Learning Meets With Foreign Academic Cultures, Jingjing Xu

Plymouth Business School

The specific objectives are as follows: To identify the differences between the academic culture in China and in the UK based on the existing literatures; and to identify various established contemporary Distance Learning delivery approaches; To identify and examine the commonalities and gaps between the perceptions and preferences of the “deliverers” and the “receivers” in Distance Learning with regard to delivery methods and approaches; To analyse the implications of these gaps and to identify solutions for filling the gaps; To provide recommendations for better design and practice of Distance Learning initiatives in a cross-cultural context in international collaborative programmes for …

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Risk And Farmers' Decisions To Farm Organically: The Case Of Devon (Uk), Saer Lssa Barhoum

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Over the past few decades, the organic sector in most developed countries has flourished. Growth in the sector has been paralleled by a substantial amount of research on several arenas (sec Cobb et al. 1999; Robles et al. 2005; Jackson and Lampkin 2008; Lobley et al. 2009c; among others). Reasons for adopting organic farming have been studied in a variety of instances (Padel 2001a). Although there is a considerable body of evidence that supports the distinctly 'risky nature' of organic farming, our identification and understanding of how this nature affects farmers' decisions whether or not to farm organically are limited …

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The Concept Of Consent Under The Sexual Offences Act 2003, Jacqueline Scott

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

The concept of consent is fundamental in considering the crime of rape under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (SOA). Consent was placed on a statutory footing for the first time by the SOA which defines consent alongside evidential and conclusive presumptions under sections 74-76, respectively. This article explores the position that unfortunately, neither significant clarity nor enhanced protection appears to have been embraced or achieved by the incorporation of consent.

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Numerical Models For Natural Fibre Composites With Stochastic Properties, Amandeep Singh Virk

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Natural fibres are increasingly being considered as the reinforcement for polymer matrix composites as they are perceived to be sustainable being a renewable resource. However, they suffer from higher variability in mechanical properties and concerns about their long-term durability in a moist environment. In this study the physical properties of the jute fibres were characterised, the fibre length distribution was determined and the fibre cross-section was analysed using digital images. It was observed that the true fibre area followed a log-normal distribution. The fibre area distribution for different geometrical shapes was estimated and the error in the estimated area of …

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Resilience Against Death Anxiety In Relationship To Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Psychiatric Co-Morbidity, Mark Hoelterhoff

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Research was conducted examining death anxiety from existential, psychodynamic, cognitive and sociological perspectives. The intent was to consider the role of death anxiety on well-being; four studies were conducted to examine how death anxiety influenced PTSD and mental health among people who have experienced a life-threatening event. These studies were conducted using undergraduate university students in Lithuania. The first study used a mixed-method design and in phase 1, participants (N=97) completed self-report questionnaires that gathered information on demographics, death anxiety, trauma and well-being. Results indicated a significant correlation between death anxiety and PTSD, but not psychiatric co-morbidity. Phase 2 attempted …

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Effects Of Oil Exposure And Oil-Related Compounds On The Immune System Of The Arctic And Temperate Scallops, Chlamysislandica And Pecten Maximus, Marie Lyn Lynhannam

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

With the current expansion of offshore oil activities in Arctic regions, there is an urgent need to establish the potential effects of oil-related compounds on Arctic organisms. The scallop Chlamys islandica is distributed throughout the sub-Arctic and has been proposed as a sentinel species for this region. In addition, the temperate scallop Pecten maximus occurs in regions of oil activity and, with increasing sea temperatures, the limit of its distribution may extend further into sub-Arctic regions. P. maximus also accumulates contaminants to a greater extent than the current temperate sentinel Mytilus edulis. A hierarchical approach, similar to that adopted to …

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The Development Of Reasoning Heuristics In Autism And In Typical Development, Kinga Ella Morsanyi

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Reasoning and judgment under uncertainty are often based on a limited number of simplifying heuristics rather than formal logic or rule-based argumentation. Heuristics are low-effort mental shortcuts, which save time and effort, and usually result in accurate judgment, but they can also lead to systematic errors and biases when applied inappropriately. In the past 40 years hundreds of papers have been published on the topic of heuristics and biases in judgment and decision making. However, we still know surprisingly little about the development and the cognitive underpinnings of heuristics and biases. The main aim of my thesis is to examine …

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Factors Controlling The Quality And Safety Of Fish Using Mackerel (Scomber Scombrus) Shelf-Life Model In The Context Of Sanitary And Phytosanitary (Sps) Measures For The Gambian Fisheries., Bamba A.M. Banja

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Food quality, including safety, is a major concern facing the food industry today. The effects of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in the fisheries sector of The Gambia including the factors affecting the safety and spoilage of fish were investigated. Effects of SPS measures are important impediments for exporting fish and fishery products originating from The Gambia to the international food commodity trade. The inadequate scientific and technical expertise in addition to the general lack of information and finance are the major contributing factors to these impediments. The Government must build capacity, improve infrastructure and increase the number of trained …

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Conditional Reasoning In Autism Spectrum Disorder: Activation And Integration Of Knowledge And Belief., Becky Stancer

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Reasoning from all knowledge and belief is an adaptive approach to thinking about the world. It has been robustly shown that conditional ‘if then’ reasoning with everyday content is influenced by the background knowledge an individual has available. If we are presented with the statement ‘if it rains, then John will get wet’ then we are told that it is raining and asked if John will get wet, we may consider a number of possibilities before answering the question; perhaps John has an umbrella or is sheltered from the rain. Hence, when engaged in conditional reasoning of this sort people …

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Perception Of Accents And Dialects In Adults And Infants, Joseph Patrick Butler

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

This thesis has been undertaken with the purpose of investigating how adult speech processing systems are affected by. and how they cope with, the presence of different regional and foreign accents in speech, and to investigate the developmental origins of adult accent perception capabilities. Experiments 1 to 4 were designed to investigate the long term effects of exposure to different accents, and whether short term adaptation to an accent was possible, using a lexical decision task. The results demonstrated an effect of accent familiarity but no short term adaptation was evident. Experiments 5 to 7 investigated the short term effects …

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Communicating Marine Environmental Health: Connecting Science, Social And Policy Values, Rebecca Louise Jefferson

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Human activities are degrading marine ecosystems and undermining the ecological functions and processes which provide valued goods and services. European and UK marine policy developments aim to implement the Ecosystem Approach to support better management of activities and maintain the health of regional seas. Current public perceptions of the UK marine environment are overwhelmingly negative, creating a barrier to engaging society with marine environmental issues and policy. This thesis conducts a study of the attributes of a suite of 72 UK marine species to identify those which contribute most to marine ecological health. The findings show that structurally complex species …

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Session Texts, Martin Shaw

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Welcome to this, the beginning of the year programme. Glad you found us! I think we may be in for even more rain over the weekend. Over the programme we will study seven main stories and their relationship to initiatory rites-of-passage. A core of you will go on to undergo the wilderness fast itself I am going to lay some introductory ground over the next couple of hours - on both initiation and myth - and touch on our first story. The stories we will explore over the year are thick with paradox - they are not moral allegories in …

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Foraging Behaviour And Brain Morphology In Recently Emerged Brook Charr, Salvelinus Fontinalis, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Robert L. Mclaughlin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Effects Of Ocean Acidification On Invertebrate Settlement At Volcanic Co2 Vents, M. Cigliano, M. C. Gambi, R. Rodolfo-Metalpa, F. P. Patti, J. M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The Development Of A Semantic Model For The Interpretation Of Mathematics Including The Use Of Technology, Michael Peters

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

A Review Of Graduate Schools In The Uk., Mp Fuller, P Denicolo, D Berry, C Raven

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Fabrication And Characterizations Of Ysz Electrolyte Films For Sofc, M-F Han, Z Yang, Z Liu, H-R Le

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Do You Ask The Work Question?, Ag Rickard, L Tipping, L Westcott

School of Health Professions

Key Determinants Of The Voluntary Adoption Of Corporate Internet Reporting And Its Consequence On Firm Value : Evidence From Egypt, Amr Nazieh Mahmoud Ezat Elsayed

Plymouth Business School Theses

Online Disclosure: An Analysis Of Egyptian Listed Companies, Aa El-Masry, A Elsayed, I Elbeltagi

Plymouth Business School

The Transition From Medical Student To Junior Doctor: Today's Experiences Of Tomorrow's Doctors., Nicola Brennan, Oonagh Corrigan, Jon Allard, Julian Archer, Rebecca Barnes, Alan Bleakley, Tracey Collett, Bere Sr De

Peninsula Medical School

Negative Intrusive Thoughts And Dissociation As Risk Factors For Self-Harm., Helen Batey, Jon May, Jackie Andrade

School of Psychology

A Review Of Human Factors Principles For The Design And Implementation Of Medication Safety Alerts In Clinical Information Systems., Shobha Phansalkar, Judy Edworthy, Elizabeth Hellier, Diane L. Seger, Angela Schedlbauer, Anthony J. Avery, David W. Bates

School of Psychology

The Partnership Approach To Environmental Governance: The Case Of The Moor Trees Partnership Network, Clive Bastin

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Accumulation Of Platinum Group Elements By The Marine Microalga, Chlorella Stigmatophora, Leyla Shams

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Cultural Responses To Volcanic Hazards On Mt Merapi, Indonesia, Katherine Helen Mary Donovan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

An Investigation Into Sustainable Forest Policies And Practices In Syria, Rim Rateb Al Berni

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Regulating Geopolitical Space: Eu Interaction With East Africa, Veit Klemens Bachmann

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Aqueous And Solid Phase Interactions Of Radionuclides With Organic Complexing Agents, Estela Reinoso-Maset

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Localisation And Resilience At The Local Level: The Case Of Transition Town Totnes, Robert John Hopkins

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

When Distance Learning Meets With Foreign Academic Cultures, Jingjing Xu

Plymouth Business School

Risk And Farmers' Decisions To Farm Organically: The Case Of Devon (Uk), Saer Lssa Barhoum

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The Concept Of Consent Under The Sexual Offences Act 2003, Jacqueline Scott

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

Numerical Models For Natural Fibre Composites With Stochastic Properties, Amandeep Singh Virk

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Resilience Against Death Anxiety In Relationship To Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Psychiatric Co-Morbidity, Mark Hoelterhoff

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Effects Of Oil Exposure And Oil-Related Compounds On The Immune System Of The Arctic And Temperate Scallops, Chlamysislandica And Pecten Maximus, Marie Lyn Lynhannam

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

The Development Of Reasoning Heuristics In Autism And In Typical Development, Kinga Ella Morsanyi

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Factors Controlling The Quality And Safety Of Fish Using Mackerel (Scomber Scombrus) Shelf-Life Model In The Context Of Sanitary And Phytosanitary (Sps) Measures For The Gambian Fisheries., Bamba A.M. Banja

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Conditional Reasoning In Autism Spectrum Disorder: Activation And Integration Of Knowledge And Belief., Becky Stancer

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Perception Of Accents And Dialects In Adults And Infants, Joseph Patrick Butler

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Communicating Marine Environmental Health: Connecting Science, Social And Policy Values, Rebecca Louise Jefferson

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Session Texts, Martin Shaw

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses