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A Social Dimension For Digital Architectural Practice, Chris Speed
A Social Dimension For Digital Architectural Practice, Chris Speed
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This thesis proceeds from an analysis of practice and critical commentary to claim that the opportunities presented to some architectural practices by the advent of ubiquitous digital technology have not been properly exploited. The missed opportunities, it claims, can be attributed largely to the retention of a model of time and spaces as discrete design parameters, which is inappropriate in the context of the widening awareness of social interconnectedness that digital technology has also facilitated. As a remedy, the thesis shows that some social considerations essential to good architecture - which could have been more fully integrated in practice and …
Looking For A Fairer Assessment Of Children's Learning Development And Attainment In The Infant Years: An Educational Action Research Case Study, Margaret Follows
Looking For A Fairer Assessment Of Children's Learning Development And Attainment In The Infant Years: An Educational Action Research Case Study, Margaret Follows
Plymouth Institute of Education Theses
This thesis tells the story of an infant head teacher researcher's journey into the heart of a living educational assessment landscape. She embarks on this journey to search for a fairer assessment of young children's learning, development and attainment. It is a journey that forces her to question everything about the professional world in which she works and lives. The story is intended to use and evoke the human senses within the context of a real infant school (for children aged 3-7 years) - seeing, touching, hearing, and listening. It provides the vehicle to experience and gain an Insight into …
The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif
The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The total concentrations of trace metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Na, Cu, Zn, Mo, Ni, V, Cd, Pb) have been determined in the marine aerosol at two contrasting coastal sites, Plymouth UK, (December 2001 to April 2003) and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (August 2002-January 2004). Trace metal concentrations in the Plymouth urban aerosol were lower (2-13 times) than those observed at other comparative UK. urban locations and generally comparable with those observed at European coastal non-urban locations. Statistically significant differences were found in aerosol metal concentrations associated with populations of contrasting air mass sources (i.e. Atlantic and UK/European), being greatest in …
Distribution, Causes And Nature Of Natural Landslides In Devon And Cornwall, Claire Foster
Distribution, Causes And Nature Of Natural Landslides In Devon And Cornwall, Claire Foster
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Between 1985 and 1990 a computerised database was assembled that contains information concerning the distribution and nature of 9000 landslides in Great Britain. The South West accounts for 1,700 of the listed slope failures. Problems have arisen because in many areas the database merely serves as an archive of previous studies and is not a true representation of landsliding in an area. The aim of this research was to identify landslide environments correlated with landslide frequency and character and through this develop a landslide susceptibility map. Analyses were undertaken so that distinct inland and coastal landslide environments could be defined. …
The Evolution Of Language Universals: Optimal Design And Adaptation, Huck Turner
The Evolution Of Language Universals: Optimal Design And Adaptation, Huck Turner
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Inquiry into the evolution of syntactic universals is hampered by severe limitations on the available evidence. Theories of selective function nevertheless lead to predictions of local optimaliiy that can be tested scientifically. This thesis refines a diagnostic, originally proposed by Parker and Maynard Smith (1990), for identifying selective functions on this basis and applies it to the evolution of two syntactic universals: (I) the distinction between open and closed lexical classes, and (2) nested constituent structure. In the case of the former, it is argued that the selective role of the closed class items is primarily to minimise the amount …
Magnetic Field Sensor Utilizing Magneto Impedance In Thin Film Multi-Layers, Paul Delooze
Magnetic Field Sensor Utilizing Magneto Impedance In Thin Film Multi-Layers, Paul Delooze
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Since the discovery of the Magneto Impedance (MI) effect in 1994 there has been a global increase in the research devoted to understanding the effect. In certain magnetic materials, the impedance change, often referred to as the MI ratio, is in the range of 50 to 100% for an excitation current in the MHz frequency range for external magnetic fields of a few Oe. The use of thin film multilayer structures allows the increase of sensitivity and the reduction of size for MI effect to be integrated with micro magnetic sensor technologies. In the present work, we explain the origins …
A Generic Architecture For Insider Misuse Monitoring In It Systems, Aung Htike Phyo
A Generic Architecture For Insider Misuse Monitoring In It Systems, Aung Htike Phyo
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been widely deployed within many organisations' IT nenvorks to delect network penetration attacks by outsiders and privilege escalation attacks by insiders. However, traditional IDS are ineffective for detecting o f abuse o f legitimate privileges by authorised users within the organisation i.e. the detection of misfeasance. In essence insider IT abuse does not violate system level controls, yet violates acceptable usage policy, business controls, or code of conduct defined by the organisation. However, the acceptable usage policy can vary from one organisation to another, and the acceptability o f user activities can also change depending …
Managing Community: A Philosophical Analysis Of Praxis, Alan Sanderson
Managing Community: A Philosophical Analysis Of Praxis, Alan Sanderson
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
If communities are to become a viable means of implementing social policy then community practitioners must individually examine their personal praxis. Therefore, in discovering a community's aims and objectives, a management model is needed that offers every practitioner a reflexive means of understanding peoples' beliefs, values, and attitudes. This proposition is critically examined through a philosophical framework that explores individuals' diverse perspectives on community, derived from their adherence to contending ontological and epistemological propositions about the social world, and its related ethical and motivational dimensions. Following a philosophical analysis, the taxonomy of social reality perspectives, developed by Dixon (2003) and …
The Transport And Fate Of Fluoxetine Hydrochloride, Diazepam And Their Human Metabolites In Sewage Sludge-Amended Soil, Clare Helen Redshaw
The Transport And Fate Of Fluoxetine Hydrochloride, Diazepam And Their Human Metabolites In Sewage Sludge-Amended Soil, Clare Helen Redshaw
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
The European Union (EU) banned disposal of sewage sludge (SS) at sea in 1998. Since that time the application rate of SS to land has risen significantly and is set to rise further. Fifty-two percent of SS was disposed to land in the UK in 2000. Land application is thus possibly an important transport route for SS-associated organic chemicals into the environment. There are now over 3000 different pharmaceutical ingredients in use in the EU and the last decade has also seen an increase in reports of pharmacologically active compounds in the environment (e.g. in watercourses, open ocean, soil). Regardless …
Video Quality Measurement For 3g Handset, Zeeshan
Video Quality Measurement For 3g Handset, Zeeshan
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
The quality of video has become a decisive factor for the consumer of 3G video services to choose his mobile operator. It is, therefore, critical for 3G network operator, equipment provider and service provider to measure and hence maintain the video quality of video services they offer. A project has been proposed in University of Plymouth to develop a test platform to evaluate video quality for 3G handset using Asterisk PBX server. For this purpose, support for 3G-324M protocol and all the audio and video codecs (i.e. H.263 baseline level 10 and MPEG-4 simple profile @ level 0) mandated and …
Mis-Guided Exploration Of Cities: An Ambulant Investigation Of Participative Politics Of Place, Simon Bernard Persighetti
Mis-Guided Exploration Of Cities: An Ambulant Investigation Of Participative Politics Of Place, Simon Bernard Persighetti
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The politics of place and walking as an arts practice form the core concerns of my research. The research is being conducted with particular reference to the ongoing Mis-Guide projects, conceived and produced by the site-specific arts company, Wrights & Sites, of which I am a member. Our apparent rejection of performance-making for an audience has led to walking with spectators as collaborators in the work, and has made the physical journeys and verbal exchanges along the way an integral part of the practice. Through this work, which revolves around place, site-specific arts and urban walking, I am harnessing existing …
The Rape Of Mary Raymond : A Radical View Of Rape In Mary Hays's The Memoirs Of Emma Courtney And The Victim Of Prejudice, Sarah Ann Oliver
The Rape Of Mary Raymond : A Radical View Of Rape In Mary Hays's The Memoirs Of Emma Courtney And The Victim Of Prejudice, Sarah Ann Oliver
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The thesis is an examination of Mary Hays's first and second novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and The Victim of Prejudice (1799) in order to claim a reworking of political and gender constructions of women that underwrite rape narratives produced in the Long Eighteenth Century. To discuss ways in which Hays's novels challenge the assumptions and constructions of femininity disseminated in earlier rape texts I have selected examples of polemic and narratives written between the 1670s and the 1790s together with some of the contemporary Radical texts which exhibit similar concerns and views expressed in the writer's feminist …
Shared Habitats: The Moverwitness Paradigm, Eila Goldhahn
Shared Habitats: The Moverwitness Paradigm, Eila Goldhahn
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This practice-led research thesis analyses and visualises central components of Authentic Movement, with particular reference to the work of Dr Janet Adler. By contextualising and comparing this improvisation method with modern, post-modern and contemporary movement practices the author describes the emergence of Authentic Movement and distinguishes it from other practices. A new and original viewpoint is adopted and the practice's aesthetic, visual and empathetic characteristics are explored in relationship to and through visual art. The author, a learned Authentic Movement practitioner, critiques, deconstructs and reframes the practice from a visual arts- and performance-based, phenomenological perspective renaming it 'the MoverWitness exchange'. …
William Andrews Nesfield [1794-1881] Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans
William Andrews Nesfield [1794-1881] Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Contrary to past opinions William Andrews Nesfield's garden layouts were not solely designed to provide appropriate accompaniments to the Elizabethan and Jacobean revival architecture of his brother-in-law Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Nor were they conceived chiefly to provide his wealthy patrons with a variation on the French seventeenth-century parterre-de-broderie. Undoubtedly, this device helped to forge a sympathetic bond between Nesfield and his patrons, for it had been a symbol of power and status in seventeenth-century France when it was associated with the upper echelons of French society. It therefore represented to the aristocracy and upper gentry of nineteenth-century Britain, during the …
Vesica: Using Neolithic British Ritual Art And Architecture As A Model For Making Contemporary Art, Michael Pearce
Vesica: Using Neolithic British Ritual Art And Architecture As A Model For Making Contemporary Art, Michael Pearce
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Can the creative practices of British Neolithic art and architecture be used in the making of contemporary art? This dissertation describes my practice making works of art based on the Neolithic model, presented in a gallery setting and occasionally in the landscape. The creative process is grounded on research into prehistoric British art and ritual architecture and records my process of understanding the work of ancient Britons as a framework for the concurrent process of making new objects for display. Without extensive research and direct experience of the Neolithic art and architecture I would not have been able to create …
Gestures Towards Emptiness: An Exploration Of Ritual With Reference To Buddhist Tradition And Innovation, Luise Holtbernd
Gestures Towards Emptiness: An Exploration Of Ritual With Reference To Buddhist Tradition And Innovation, Luise Holtbernd
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This thesis is a cross-relational enquiry into the nature of ritual as the subject of arts-based research. It can be described as ritual-led; or as an artist's manifestation of ritual. The core of the submission consists in an exhibition, comprising 30 pieces of framed, wall-hung artwork; 3 artist's books; some small-scale sculptural work and a documentary film. The research is concerned with parallel, related disciplines and modes of working: visual art, music, general ritual studies, pedagogy and the practice of Buddhist meditation and ritual. The following areas are being addressed: 1. The context of ritual in general, and Buddhist ritual …
William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans
William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Contrary to past opinions William Andrews Nesfield's garden layouts were not solely designedt o provide appropriatea ccompanimentsto the Elizabethana nd Jacobean revival architecture of his brother-in-law Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Nor were they conceived chiefly to provide his wealthy patrons with a variation on the French seventeenth-centuryparterre-de-broderieU. ndoubtedly,t his device helpedt o forge a sympathetic bond between Nesfield and his patrons, for it had been a symbol of power and statusi n seventeenth-centurFy rancew hen it was associatedw ith the upper echelonso f Frenchs ociety. It thereforer epresentedto the aristocracya nd upper gentry of nineteenthcenturyB ritain, during the time Nesfield was …
The Lived Experiences Of Four Overweight Hispanic Adolescent Females, Wanda Lee Rhodes
The Lived Experiences Of Four Overweight Hispanic Adolescent Females, Wanda Lee Rhodes
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of four overweight/obese Hispanic adolescents as individuals by utilizing Social Cognitive Theory’s (SCT) (Bandura, 1977, 1986, & 1989) reciprocal interaction of the environment, personal factors and behaviors of the participants in order to investigate the health risk behaviors of the participants as they related to overweight and obesity. Additionally, the commonalities and differences across participants were examined. Four female Hispanic adolescents whose BMI measured at the 99th percentiles for age and gender were randomly chosen from students enrolled in a junior high school physical education intervention class. Experiences of …
The Challenge Of Interagency Information Sharing: A Systemic Analysis Of Two Sure Start Children's Centres, Susan Moira Richardson
The Challenge Of Interagency Information Sharing: A Systemic Analysis Of Two Sure Start Children's Centres, Susan Moira Richardson
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This study investigates a problem facing professionals working in public service agencies, in the current policy context of partnership working. This is the question of how to share personal service user information across agency boundaries, so that there is minimal risk of important information being ‘lost down the cracks' between agencies, while at the same time avoiding the risk of breaching confidentiality. This study aims to understand better the day to day difficulties faced by those grappling with this problem. This research contributes to the theoretical understanding of this challenge by proposing a new model of information sharing behaviour and …
Tarmac Cowboys : An Ethnographic Study Of The Cultural World Of Boy Racers, Zannagh Hatton
Tarmac Cowboys : An Ethnographic Study Of The Cultural World Of Boy Racers, Zannagh Hatton
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Through my varying degrees of engagement with the street car culture which existed around the area where I lived in Cornwall, I had become aware of the extent to which cars played an important role and represented the norm of daily discourse, entered into by others, and particularly young men. Yet as one of the dominant forms of mobility, the car appears to have been a neglected topic within sociology, cultural studies and related disciplines. Furthermore, I was unable to find a great deal of academic literature on the combined subjects of young men and motorcars, and in particular how …
A Practice Of Painting : Living With The Reception And Generation Of Image On The Visual Threshold, Gladin Fryer
A Practice Of Painting : Living With The Reception And Generation Of Image On The Visual Threshold, Gladin Fryer
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
My work as an artist takes an image on a journey beginning with a photographic source image and ending in a painted image, passing through the remembered, imagined and perceived. It is important for me that the images in my work are encountered physically through the materials constituting the surface of the painting and mentally through the 'language' of images. Each viewer uniquely completes the image's journey of becoming a painting. My paintings explore and realise the materiality of an image through the layering of paint, varnish, pebbles, gravel and found objects. Through the activity of painting these 'textured' images …
Environmental And Biological Consequences Of Microplastic Within Marine Habitats, Mark Anthony Browne
Environmental And Biological Consequences Of Microplastic Within Marine Habitats, Mark Anthony Browne
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Large pieces of plastic greater than a millimetre in diameter contaminate marine habitats worldwide and the associated environmental problems are well documented. In addition tiny fragments of plastic debris less than a millimetre in size have recently been reported. This thesis examines the distribution and environmental consequences of microscopic particles of plastic within marine habitats. To quantify the relative influence of wind and depositional environment on the accumulation of plastic debris, a mensurative experiment was conducted in a macrotidal Estuary. The overall trend was that material accumulated in down-wind sites. However, the relative importance of wind as a transport agent …
Evaluating The Impact Of Organic Contamination Upon The Physiology Of The Shore Crab Carcinus Maenas (L.), Awantha Dissanayake
Evaluating The Impact Of Organic Contamination Upon The Physiology Of The Shore Crab Carcinus Maenas (L.), Awantha Dissanayake
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
This thesis has focused on answering fundamental questions regarding the 'normal' physiological ranges of the male shore crab Carcinus maenas. knowledge of the responses to environmental variables is needed before the effects of anthropogenic stress can be identified. Anthropogenic stress was imposed in the form of contamination by a ubiquitous priority pollutant of the aquatic environment (polyaromatic hydrocarbon, pyrene). The first hypothesis focused on identifying the physiological differences between juvenile and adult male shore crabs. Differences at the cellular level (cell and immune function) determined the relative contaminant sensitivity between the two ontogenetic stages, with juveniles expressing increased physiological sensitivity …
Towards A Phenomenological Theory Of The Visceral In The Interactive Arts, Diane J. Gromala
Towards A Phenomenological Theory Of The Visceral In The Interactive Arts, Diane J. Gromala
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
This thesis explores the ways in which certain forms of interactive art may and do elicit visceral responses. The term "visceral" refers to the cardiovascular, respiratory, uro-genital and especially excretory systems that affect mind and body on a continuum of awareness. The "visceral" is mentioned in the field of interactive arts, but it remains systematically unexplored and undefined. Further, interactive artworks predominantly focus on the exteroceptive (stimuli from outside) rather than the interoceptive (stimuli arising within the body, especially the viscera) senses. The existentialist phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty forms the basis for explorations of the visceral dimension of mind/body. New …
Migration & Economy In Cornwall, Stuart James Burley
Migration & Economy In Cornwall, Stuart James Burley
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Cornwall is arguably the poorest county in England, but since the 1960s it has been the recipient of some of the highest levels of in-migration. The result of this has seen Cornwall experience some of fastest rates of population growth. This has taken place in the context of counterurbanisation, a process that has been argued to be economically beneficial. Cornwall therefore seems to provide two paradoxical conditions; first, comparative economic poverty has not deterred large numbers of people wishing to live in the county and second, sustained population growth seems to have failed to lift Cornwall from economic poverty. This …
Feature Binding In Visuo-Spatial Working Memory, Jane Victoria Elsley
Feature Binding In Visuo-Spatial Working Memory, Jane Victoria Elsley
School of Psychology Theses
Four series of experiments using a paradigm adapted from Prabhakaran at al. (2000) are presented exploring the characteristics of bound visuo-spatial representations in memory. This thesis was guided by the following theoretical questions: (1) Can location binding be demonstrated in a recognition paradigm? (2) What are the temporal dynamics of location binding? (3) Is location binding automatic, or rather, does it require attentional resources? (4) What are the products of location binding: Whole new objects or links between features that contribute in an asymmetrical manner? Series 1 addressed the first question through the demonstration of binding effects across two experiments. …
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Plymouth Business School
Twentieth-century writers frame Paris as a locus of desire for their characters, whether working in fiction or in the more contemporary ethno¬graphic journaling exemplified by the writing of Annie Ernaux in La Vie extérieure (2000) and Journal du dehors (1993). This article draws on the critical approaches taken by Christopher Thompson (1992) and Richard Burton (1988) in their respective works on French nineteenth-century literature and uses their critical frameworks as a starting point with which to explore this travel writing of Ernaux.
Controls On Long-Term Drainage Development Of The Carboneras Basin, Se Spain, Astrid Juliette Blum
Controls On Long-Term Drainage Development Of The Carboneras Basin, Se Spain, Astrid Juliette Blum
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The impact of external and internal controls on long-term drainage evolution can play an important role in the research on global changes. For longer term controls such as tectonics and climate this necessitates the use of a long time-scale such as the Plio/Pleistocene, and the integration of both geological and geomorphological data. This thesis uses data from Plio/Pleistocene alluvial deposits (deltaic and fluvial) of the Carboneras Basin in southeast Spain to address these issues. The Carboneras Basin, an intermontane basin of the Belie Cordillera, was one of the last of a series of sedimentary basins which underwent transition from marine …
Competences, Skills, Learning Sources And The Support Needs Of Individuals Who Purchase Small Established Enterprises, Susan Jane Perry
Competences, Skills, Learning Sources And The Support Needs Of Individuals Who Purchase Small Established Enterprises, Susan Jane Perry
Plymouth Business School Theses
Although a significant number of small firms are purchased as going-concerns these businesses are rarely studied as a separate sub-group. The research conducted here therefore focuses on small businesses that were purchased as established enterprises, namely the skills and competences that are required to operate them successfully. The study also looks to identify the learning and knowledge sources that are the most beneficial to the Owner-Managers of these firms and determine how their needs might best be supported. The study concerns small firms that are located in the South West of England (Torbay and South Hams) and comprises quantitative and …
Export Commitment And Characteristics Of Management Critical Factors For Success : An Empirical Study In The Portuguese And United Kingdom Smes In A Textile, Clothing And Knitwear Sector, Francisco Jose Dias Serra
Export Commitment And Characteristics Of Management Critical Factors For Success : An Empirical Study In The Portuguese And United Kingdom Smes In A Textile, Clothing And Knitwear Sector, Francisco Jose Dias Serra
Plymouth Business School Theses
The internalisation of small and medium sized firms (SMES) is emerging as an area of research interest as an increasing number of such firms become actively engaged in international activity, often from inception. All available literature reveals that conventional theories were mainly developed to describe the internationalisation of large multinationals companies MNC and not SME(s). This study provides an overview of the macro economics as well as the microeconomic theory that supports the process of internationalisation of firms. Furthermore, each theory was critically analysed in relation to their limitations, as well as their theoretical contribution to the process of the …