Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Medicine and Health Sciences (49)
- Business (44)
- Tourism and Travel (39)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics (36)
- Psychiatry and Psychology (36)
-
- Engineering (33)
- Life Sciences (10)
- Education (9)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (7)
- Arts and Humanities (5)
- Special Education and Teaching (5)
- Art and Design (4)
- Disability and Equity in Education (4)
- Law (4)
- Marine Biology (4)
- Accessibility (3)
- Communication (3)
- Graphic Communications (3)
- Graphic Design (3)
- Biology (2)
- Criminal Law (2)
- Educational Psychology (2)
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (2)
- Music (2)
- Psychology (2)
- Adult and Continuing Education (1)
- Aerospace Engineering (1)
- Anthropology (1)
- Art Education (1)
- Cognitive Science (1)
- Keyword
-
- Humans (154)
- Female (75)
- Male (72)
- Education (61)
- Adult (53)
-
- Middle Aged (42)
- Mental health (41)
- Sustainability (41)
- Children (38)
- Communication (38)
- Dementia (38)
- Climate change (34)
- Autism (33)
- United Kingdom (33)
- Psychology (30)
- Aged (29)
- Animals (29)
- Qualitative (29)
- Students (28)
- Ecology (27)
- COVID-19 (26)
- Biodiversity (25)
- Identity (25)
- Performance (25)
- Art (24)
- Behaviour (24)
- Young Adult (24)
- Cornwall (23)
- Creativity (23)
- Culture (23)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Peninsula Medical School (982)
- School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (941)
- School of Psychology (690)
- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (633)
- School of Biological and Marine Sciences (612)
-
- School of Nursing and Midwifery (554)
- School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses (552)
- Plymouth Business School (525)
- The Plymouth Student Scientist (466)
- School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses (458)
- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses (442)
- Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses (433)
- Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses (405)
- School of Art, Design and Architecture (396)
- School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences (337)
- School of Health Professions (333)
- Plymouth Business School Theses (304)
- Plymouth Institute of Education (295)
- Other Faculty of Health Theses (204)
- Peninsula Dental School (176)
- School of Biomedical Sciences (165)
- School of Psychology Theses (160)
- School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses (120)
- School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses (97)
- SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective) (73)
- Plymouth Institute of Education Theses (70)
- More Faculty of Health Research (58)
- Peninsula Medical School Theses (52)
- The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review (51)
- Professional Services (45)
- Publication Type
- File Type
Articles 9091 - 9120 of 10900
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
A Narrative In Relief: The Historiography Of English Modern Painting (1910-1915), From The 1910s To The 1950s, Carol Frances Brand
A Narrative In Relief: The Historiography Of English Modern Painting (1910-1915), From The 1910s To The 1950s, Carol Frances Brand
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The groups of painters in England who experimented with new visual expressions of modernity between 1910 and 1915 are the subject of this historiographical research. More precisely, the accounts of Vorticism, Bloomsbury post-Impressionism and the modern art of painters associated with Sickert, (principally the Camden Town Group), have been critically examined over a forty year period in order to trace the narrative of their place in contemporary art criticism and their entry into histories of what soon became the recent past. This textually-based methodology has produced an insight into the forces acting upon the critical reception of a particular period …
Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering A Praxis Of Adaptation, Sally Waterman
Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering A Praxis Of Adaptation, Sally Waterman
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and analysis of how literature functions as a device to represent autobiographical experience within my media arts practice. The study considered the relevance and usage of the literary source in relation to specific adaptation procedures, in terms of what complexities were encountered and how these were understood. Whilst orthodox film adaptation provided a theoretical framework for initial …
Shifting Interfaces: Art Research At The Intersections Of Live Performance And Technology, Scott Delahunta
Shifting Interfaces: Art Research At The Intersections Of Live Performance And Technology, Scott Delahunta
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This collection of published works is an outcome of my practice-led inter-disciplinary collaborative artistic research into deepening understanding of creative process in the field of contemporary dance. It comprises thirty written works published from 1999 to 2007 in various formats and platforms. This collection is framed by a methodological discussion that provides insight into how this research has intersected over time with diverse fields of practice including contemporary dance, digital and new media arts and non-art domains such as cognitive and social science. Fields are understood in the context of this research to be largely constituted out of the expert …
Amergent Music: Behavior And Becoming In Technoetic & Media Arts, Norbert F. Herber
Amergent Music: Behavior And Becoming In Technoetic & Media Arts, Norbert F. Herber
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Technoetic and media arts are environments of mediated interaction and emergence, where meaning is negotiated by individuals through a personal examination and experience—or becoming—within the mediated space. This thesis examines these environments from a musical perspective and considers how sound functions as an analog to this becoming. Five distinct, original musical works explore the possibilities as to how the emergent dynamics of mediated, interactive exchange can be leveraged towards the construction of musical sound. In the context of this research, becoming can be understood relative to Henri Bergson’s description of the appearance of reality—something that is making or unmaking but …
Participation As Media: A Compositional System For Staging Participation With Reflective Scenography, Karin Sondergaard
Participation As Media: A Compositional System For Staging Participation With Reflective Scenography, Karin Sondergaard
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The practice-led research develops a compositional system for staging participation within reflective scenographies, and suggests an artistic concept of 'participation as media', which propose the participatory involvement as compositional material in itself. The research takes a starting point in the author's expert practice as a performer and director, and identifies key compositional problems from analysis of previous productions of participatory artworks. The practice-led research processes were organised into two laboratory events, a series of method investigations, and the production of two participatory installation artworks Mirror-Zone-Site and Zen- Sofa Arrangement. The approach is to rethink theatre as a complex communicational system …
Inter-Continental Patterns In The Fine-Scale Spatial Ecology Of Rain Forest Termites, Olivia Ingrid Scholtz
Inter-Continental Patterns In The Fine-Scale Spatial Ecology Of Rain Forest Termites, Olivia Ingrid Scholtz
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
In this thesis I describe fine-scale spatial patterns in rain forest termites, from the colony to the assemblage level, sampled from one hectare plots in Central African and South East Asian lowland rain forest. By so doing the ecological interactions that structure this functionally important and abundant soil community were identified. The African termite assemblage, dominated by soil-feeding termites, saturated the upper soil profile (collected from 90% of soil pits). In contrast termites were collected from <50% of soil pits in Asia, with this difference reflecting the lower species densities and abundances of soil-feeding termites in Asian forests. Territoriality and inter-specific competition was shown to be important between colonies of soil-feeding species in the African plot. The termite assemblages were spatially associated with several environmental properties. However these could not explain the spatial patterns in the functional components of the assemblages. Wood-feeding termites were highly patchily distributed, due to the heterogeneous nature of their food material, but also due to possible competitive interactions for this. Humus-feeding termites were homogenously structured, due to the continuous nature of soil as their feeding and nesting material. True soil-feeding termites, unique to the African assemblage, were heterogeneously distributed despite the equally continuous nature of their feeding and nesting material. This structure may arise from facilitative interactions, such as co-operative defence against ant predation which may be intense in African systems, or through the transfer of soil material at different stages of decomposition. Competition for space is apparent in both regions, both at the colony level among soil-feeding genera, and between aggregations of functional groups. Positive and negative biotic interactions, operating at various spatial and functional scales, appear to be important in influencing how assemblage composition is spatially structured. If indeed facilitation is important in maintaining the taxonomic and functional diversity in termite assemblages, it would be valuable to confirm the mechanism(s) that drives this (i.e. predation and/or food transfer), as these may then influence ecosystem stability.
Application Of Fractional Calculus To Rainfall-Streamflow Modelling, Martin Borthwick
Application Of Fractional Calculus To Rainfall-Streamflow Modelling, Martin Borthwick
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
There is evidence that hydrologic systems exhibit memory processes that may be represented by fractional order systems. A new theory is developed in this work that generalises the classical unit hydrograph technique for the rainfall-runoff transformation. The theory is based upon a fractional order linear deterministic systems approach subject to an initial condition and is taken to apply to the entire rainfallstreamflow transformation (i.e. including baseflow). The general equation for a cascade of time-lagged linear reservoirs of fractional order subject to a constant initialisation function is derived, and is shown to be a form of fractional relaxation model. Dooge's (1959) …
The Physiological And Molecular Characteristics Of Chemically Induced Abiotic Stress Resistant Mutants Of Cauliflower (Brassica Oleracea Var. Botrytis), Fazal Hadi
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
N-nitroso-N-ethyleurea (NEU) and N-nitroso-N-methyleurea (NMU) induced mutants and control plants had been maintained in in-vitro condition for 3 years by continuous sub-culturing and screened 2 generations for resistant mutants selection. In this study highly resistant mutants were regenerated and assessed by leaf discs assay for drought, salt and frost resistance to confirm the persistence of mutation over generations of subculture. Assessment was carried out using mannitol (drought stress), NaCl (salt stress) and freezing (frost stress). Cold-acclimated and non-acclimated leaves were assessed for frost resistance. Results confirmed the persistence of mutations in clones with enhanced tolerance levels to stresses over control …
An Evaluation Of The Relative Influences Of Elevated Temperature And Ocean Acidification On Processes Influencing The Distribution Of Intertidal Barnacles, Helen Sarah Findlay
An Evaluation Of The Relative Influences Of Elevated Temperature And Ocean Acidification On Processes Influencing The Distribution Of Intertidal Barnacles, Helen Sarah Findlay
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Ocean acidification and climate change are occurring as a result of anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide (C02) into the atmosphere. Changes in climate and ocean chemistry are occurring concomitantly and at a faster rate than previously recorded in Earth's history, yet little is understood about how they will influence the population dynamics and ecology of many marine organisms. The barnacle Semibalanus balanoides is a major space occupier on rocky shores in northern Europe and hence changes in its population ecology can have a broad influence on other species. An intertidal high CO2 microcosm system was developed in order to determine …
Transformation Of Wave Shape And Spatial Distribution Of Wave Overtopping Water Over A Coastal Structure, Zhong Peng
Transformation Of Wave Shape And Spatial Distribution Of Wave Overtopping Water Over A Coastal Structure, Zhong Peng
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
This work investigates the transformation of wave shapes and the landward spatial distribution of overtopping water over coastal structures by experimental data and a numerical model based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and Volume of Fluid (VOF) surface capturing scheme (RANS-VOF). The aim of this study is to understand the transformation of wave shapes and the landward spatial distribution of overtopping water in the presence of coastal structures. This work provides new insights on the role of wave skewness and asymmetry on the breakwaters stability and sediment transport around the structure and on the beaches behind it. Also …
A Biophysical Model Of The Role Of The Outer Hair Cell In Cochlear Nonlinearity, Beibei Jiang
A Biophysical Model Of The Role Of The Outer Hair Cell In Cochlear Nonlinearity, Beibei Jiang
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
It has been observed that the response characteristics of the basilar membrane in normal living cochleae are both frequency and level-sensitive (Robles & Ruggero 2001). The quality factor of the tuning curve is large at low sound levels and decreases as the sound level increases, and the peak of the tuning curve moves towards lower frequencies as the sound level increases. The current study proposes a nonlinear cochlear model that responds adaptively to the incoming sounds via feedback control arising from the mechanical attributes of the cochlear partition. These attributes are dependent on the membrane potential of the outer hair …
Twig Dances: Improvisation Performance As Ecological Practice, Malaika Sarco-Thomas
Twig Dances: Improvisation Performance As Ecological Practice, Malaika Sarco-Thomas
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
ecology by analyzing data collected from a series of experiments in improvisation. Conducted in a number of locations in Europe and Asia, these experiments examine the usefulness of improvisation performance practices to notions of “ecology” and common understandings of humans’ relationships to our environment. Using “ecology” to describe an investigation of interrelationship as well as a commitment to act with an awareness of one’s actions in the social, mental and natural spheres discussed by Felix Guattari (2000), I outline ways contemporary improvisation practices can facilitate this investigation. To do this I draw on my own experience as a dancer at …
An Exploration Into How Students With Dyslexia Identify With Their Condition, With Particular Reference To The Tensions Which Surround Public And Private Perceptions Of Dyslexia, Deborah A Shenton
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This thesis, discusses the implications of the social and private constructions of dyslexia for the individual with dyslexia and the dyslexic identity. In view of the difficulties inherent in higher education this study interviews people with dyslexia who successfully entered degree courses at university. It explores their experiences in an effort to gain an understanding of how people with dyslexia form an identity. Issues surrounding 'dyslexia' have increasingly focused on its credibility as a 'genuine' medical and disabling condition. The social expectations of the condition and the differing social and medical models of conditions warranting the label 'disability' have complicated …
Traces, Boundaries, Surfaces: An Investigation Through Art Practice Of Institutional Sites With Particular Reference To A Former Lunatic Asylum, Sarah Bennett
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This doctoral research project by art practice examines a former site of exclusion, a nineteenth-century county pauper lunatic asylum, in particular its methods of containment and coercion. It involves an initial unearthing of narratives relating to the site's histories, including its recent redevelopment as a gated residential community, and consideration of other similar institutional settings. An exploration is subsequently developed through appropriation and interrogation of spatial and durational processes involved in selected mechanisms of control, and the impact of their repetition on those present, constituting the core of this practice-based research, and evidenced in the artworks arising from the enquiry. …
The Habitual Eccentricities Of The Solons Of Staffordshire: An Investigation Of The Circumstances Surrounding The Parliamentary Enquiry Into The Ill-Treatment Of Mrs Eliza Price Of Brierley Hill, 1845, David Cox
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
This article investigates the circumstances surrounding a dramatic petition read out in the House of Commons in the late spring of 1845 which detailed the alleged ill-treatment of a heavily pregnant young married woman from Brierley Hill, Staffordshire by two parish constables acting upon the instructions of a county magistrate. What began as a minor squabble in two competing provincial magistrates' courts in the rapidly urbanizing Black Country resulted in a Parliamentary Enquiry and quickly escalated into a nationally aired debate on the capability and legality of the methods used by both the provincial magistracy and police to arrest, detain …
Purdy: The First Step On The Road Towards Assisted Suicide, Laura Sayer
Purdy: The First Step On The Road Towards Assisted Suicide, Laura Sayer
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
This article considers how likely it is that English law will be amended in the near future to provide legal recognition and acceptance of assisted suicide in light of the 2009 House of Lords decision in Purdy. The extent to which Purdy has acted as a catalyst to generate formal legislative amendment is explored in the light of recent attempts to achieve a change in the law. Within this context the underlying and conflicting arguments of those in support and against the legalisation of assisted suicide are examined.
Why Bother With Podcasting? A View From The Legal Practice Course, Maggie Hemsworth
Why Bother With Podcasting? A View From The Legal Practice Course, Maggie Hemsworth
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
No abstract provided.
You're Hired!': Bridging The Gap Between Law Student Career Aspirations And Employment Opportunities, Penny Childs, Nigel Firth
You're Hired!': Bridging The Gap Between Law Student Career Aspirations And Employment Opportunities, Penny Childs, Nigel Firth
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
No abstract provided.
Synchronization And Resource Allocation In Downlink Ofdm Systems, Fan Wu
Synchronization And Resource Allocation In Downlink Ofdm Systems, Fan Wu
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
The next generation (4G) wireless systems are expected to provide universal personal and multimedia communications with seamless connection and very high rate transmissions and without regard to the users’ mobility and location. OFDM technique is recognized as one of the leading candidates to provide the wireless signalling for 4G systems. The major challenges in downlink multiuser OFDM based 4G systems include the wireless channel, the synchronization and radio resource management. Thus algorithms are required to achieve accurate timing and frequency offset estimation and the efficient utilization of radio resources such as subcarrier, bit and power allocation. The objectives of the …
Electron Dynamics In High-Intensity Laser Fields, Christopher Harvey
Electron Dynamics In High-Intensity Laser Fields, Christopher Harvey
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
We consider electron dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields, such as those expected from the next generation of high-intensity laser facilities. Beginning with a review of constant classical fields, we demonstrate that the electron motion (as given by the Lorentz force equation) can be divided into one of four Lorentz invariant cases. Parameterising the field tensor in terms of a null tetrad, we calculate the radiative energy spectrum for an electron in crossed fields. Progressing to an infinite plane wave, we demonstrate how the electron orbit in the average rest frame changes from figure-of-eight to circular as the polarisation changes from …
Cyber-Bullying: The Irish Experience, M O’Moore, Sj Minton
Cyber-Bullying: The Irish Experience, M O’Moore, Sj Minton
School of Psychology
No abstract provided.
A Study Of Erasure Correcting Codes, Jing Cai
A Study Of Erasure Correcting Codes, Jing Cai
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This work focus on erasure codes, particularly those that of high performance, and the related decoding algorithms, especially with low computational complexity. The work is composed of different pieces, but the main components are developed within the following two main themes. Ideas of message passing are applied to solve the erasures after the transmission. Efficient matrix-representation of the belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm on the BEG is introduced as the recovery algorithm. Gallager's bit-flipping algorithm are further developed into the guess and multi-guess algorithms especially for the application to recover the unsolved erasures after the recovery algorithm. A novel maximum-likelihood …
Changes In Iron-Regulatory Gene Expression Occur In Human Cell Culture Models Of Pd, Cb Carroll, Ml Zeissler, N Chadborn, K Gibson, Gj Williams, Ke Morrison, Jp Zajicek, Co Hanemann
Changes In Iron-Regulatory Gene Expression Occur In Human Cell Culture Models Of Pd, Cb Carroll, Ml Zeissler, N Chadborn, K Gibson, Gj Williams, Ke Morrison, Jp Zajicek, Co Hanemann
Peninsula Medical School
No abstract provided.
Behavioral Correlations Across Activity, Mating, Exploration, Aggression, And Antipredator Contexts In The European House Cricket, Acheta Domesticus, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Emily M. Whattam, Rachel Bennett, Laksanavadee Visanuvimol, Chris Lauzon, Susan M. Bertram
Behavioral Correlations Across Activity, Mating, Exploration, Aggression, And Antipredator Contexts In The European House Cricket, Acheta Domesticus, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Emily M. Whattam, Rachel Bennett, Laksanavadee Visanuvimol, Chris Lauzon, Susan M. Bertram
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Bite Size Oral Health Promotion., Robert Witton
Bite Size Oral Health Promotion., Robert Witton
Peninsula Dental School
UNLABELLED: Improving health is part of the Government's wider public health agenda and central to this theme is the requirement to help patients make informed healthy choices. The aim of the article is to review the basis of oral health promotion in primary dental care, explain why it is necessary and to give some practical tips on behaviour change in practice. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Understanding and relating well to your patients can make oral health promotion more successful, with communication skills being paramount in achieving this goal, along with the creation of a supportive health-orientated practice environment.
Risk, Rescue And Emergency Services: The Changing Spatialities Of Mountain Rescue Teams In England And Wales, Richard Yarwood
Risk, Rescue And Emergency Services: The Changing Spatialities Of Mountain Rescue Teams In England And Wales, Richard Yarwood
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
When Not Thinking Leads To Being And Doing: Stereotype Suppression And The Self, Na Wyer, G Mazzoni, Tj Perfect, G Calvini, Hl Neilens
When Not Thinking Leads To Being And Doing: Stereotype Suppression And The Self, Na Wyer, G Mazzoni, Tj Perfect, G Calvini, Hl Neilens
School of Psychology
Suppressing stereotypes often results in more stereotype use, an effect attributed to heightened stereotype activation. The authors report two experiments examining the consequences of suppression on two self-relevant outcomes: the active self-concept and overt behavior. Participants who suppressed stereotypes incorporated stereotypic traits into their self-concepts and demonstrated stereotype-congruent behavior compared to those who were exposed to the same stereotypes but did not suppress them. These findings address issues emerging from current theories of suppression, priming, and the active self.
A Review Of Bast Fibres And Their Composites. Part 2 - Composites, John Summerscales, Nilmini Dissanayake, Amandeep Virk, Wayne Hall
A Review Of Bast Fibres And Their Composites. Part 2 - Composites, John Summerscales, Nilmini Dissanayake, Amandeep Virk, Wayne Hall
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Bast fibres are defined as those obtained from the outer cell layers of the stems of various plants. The fibres find use in textile applications and are increasingly being considered as reinforcements for polymer matrix composites as they are perceived to be "sustainable". The fibres are composed primarily of cellulose which potentially has a Young's modulus of similar to 140 GPa (being a value comparable with man-made aramid [Kevlar/Twaron] fibres). The plants which are currently attracting most interest are flax and hemp (in temperate climates) or jute and kenaf (in tropical climates). Part 2 of this review will consider the …
Gesturing Meaning: Non-Action Words Activate The Motor System, P Bach, D Griffiths, M Weigelt, Sp Tipper
Gesturing Meaning: Non-Action Words Activate The Motor System, P Bach, D Griffiths, M Weigelt, Sp Tipper
School of Psychology
Across cultures, speakers produce iconic gestures, which add - through the movement of the speakers' hands - a pictorial dimension to the speakers' message. These gestures capture not only the motor content but also the visuospatial content of the message. Here, we provide first evidence for a direct link between the representation of perceptual information and the motor system that can account for these observations. Across four experiments, participants' hand movements captured both shapes that were directly perceived, and shapes that were only implicitly activated by unrelated semantic judgments of object words. These results were obtained even though the objects …
Cognitive Distortions As Social Practices: An Examination Of Cognitive Distortions In Sex Offender Treatment Froma Discursive Psychology Perpective, Tc Auburn
School of Psychology
This article presents a critique of the concept of cognitive distortion as it has been developed within the domain of sex-offender treatment programme theory and practice. Drawing upon a discursive psychology perspective, it is argued that cognitive distortions should not be considered as mental entities but as social practices. This argument is illustrated by closely examining how offenders’ accounts of their offences during sex offender treatment sessions were organised. Recordings and transcriptions of treatment group sessions were analysed for the occurrence of regular patterns of talk and interaction. This analysis focused on how minimisation was achieved through well documented rhetorical …