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Coseismic And Monsoon-Triggered Landslide Impacts On Remote Trekking Infrastructure, Langtang Valley, Nepal, J. N. Jones, M. Stokes, S. J. Boulton, G. L. Bennett, M. R.Z. Whitworth Jan 2020

Coseismic And Monsoon-Triggered Landslide Impacts On Remote Trekking Infrastructure, Langtang Valley, Nepal, J. N. Jones, M. Stokes, S. J. Boulton, G. L. Bennett, M. R.Z. Whitworth

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Auto-Rewilding In Post-Industrial Cities: The Case Of Inland Cormorants In Urban Britain, Cara Clancy, Kim Ward Jan 2020

Auto-Rewilding In Post-Industrial Cities: The Case Of Inland Cormorants In Urban Britain, Cara Clancy, Kim Ward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


The Sheeted Dyke-Gabbro Transition Zone: The Key To Unravelling The Palaeomagnetic Record Of The Oman Ophiolite, Louise Maria Theresia Koornneef Jan 2020

The Sheeted Dyke-Gabbro Transition Zone: The Key To Unravelling The Palaeomagnetic Record Of The Oman Ophiolite, Louise Maria Theresia Koornneef

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The Oman ophiolite is a natural laboratory for the study of processes operating above a nascent subduction zone. It formed in the Late Cretaceous by supra-subduction zone spreading and shortly afterwards was emplaced onto the Arabian continental margin. Twelve massifs in the ophiolite expose complete sections of the Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere, including upper mantle peridotites, lower crustal gabbros, and upper crustal sheeted dykes and lava flows. Previous palaeomagnetic studies have suggested that the southern massifs of the ophiolite were affected by a large-scale remagnetization event during emplacement, which completely replaced original remanences acquired during crustal accretion. In contrast, primary magnetizations …


Particle-Water Interactions Of Bismuth Under Simulated Estuarine Conditions, Lydia J. Knight, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

Particle-Water Interactions Of Bismuth Under Simulated Estuarine Conditions, Lydia J. Knight, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Foraminifera Of The Gault Clay Formation: An Update, Malcolm B. Hart, Thomas Fogerty, Christopher W. Smart Jan 2020

Foraminifera Of The Gault Clay Formation: An Update, Malcolm B. Hart, Thomas Fogerty, Christopher W. Smart

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The foraminifera of the Gault Clay Formation (Middle and Upper Albian) are reviewed and their biostratigraphy compared to that of the standard ammonite-based zonation and the original bed numbers that are used by most workers on the formation. The change from an aragonitic assemblage in the Lower Gault to an assemblage dominated by agglutinated foraminifera in the Upper Gault is discussed in terms of changing palaeogeography and sea-level.


Mobilisation Of Antimony From Microplastics Added To Coastal Sediment, Elanor James, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

Mobilisation Of Antimony From Microplastics Added To Coastal Sediment, Elanor James, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Kohl Containing Lead (And Other Toxic Elements) Is Widely Available In Europe, Montserrat Filella, Agathe Martignier, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

Kohl Containing Lead (And Other Toxic Elements) Is Widely Available In Europe, Montserrat Filella, Agathe Martignier, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Additives On The Fate Of Plastics In The Marine Environment, Exemplified With Barium Sulphate, Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella Jan 2020

The Influence Of Additives On The Fate Of Plastics In The Marine Environment, Exemplified With Barium Sulphate, Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Atomic Spectrometry Update: Review Of Advances In Elemental Speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, Julian F. Tyson Jan 2020

Atomic Spectrometry Update: Review Of Advances In Elemental Speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, Julian F. Tyson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This review covers advances in elemental speciation by a range of coupled techniques, including HPLC-ICP-MS, HPLC-HG-AFS and GC-ICP-MS.


The Global Abundance Of Tree Palms, Robert Muscarella, Thaise Emilio, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ferry Slik, Wj Baker, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Jens Christian Svenning, K Affum‐Baffoe, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Ec Almeida, Ss Almeida, Ea Oliveira, E Álvarez‐Dávila, Luciana F. Alves, Cm Alvez‐Valles, Fabrício Alvim Carvalho, Fernando Alzate Guarin, Ana Andrade, Luis E.O.C. Aragão, Alejandro Araujo Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter S. Ashton, Gerardo A.Aymard Corredor, Tr Baker, Jose L.C. Camargo, Jos Barlow, Jean François Bastin, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Erika Berenguer, Nicholas Berry, Lilian Blanc, K Böhning‐Gaese, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Matt Bradford, Fabian Brambach, Francis Q. Brearley, Steven W. Brewer, Jose L.C. Camargo, David G. Campbell, Carolina V. Castilho, Wendeson Castro, Damien Catchpole, Martínez Ce Cerón, Shengbin Chen, Phourin Chhang, Percival Cho, Wanlop Chutipong, Connie Clark, Murray Collins, James A. Comiskey, Massiel Nataly Corrales Medina, Flávia R.C. Costa, Heike Culmsee, H David‐Higuita, Priya Davidar, J Aguila‐Pasquel, Géraldine Derroire, Fiore A Di, Do T Van, Jean Louis Doucet, Aurélie Dourdain, Donald R. Drake, Andreas Ensslin, Terry Erwin, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Robert M. Ewers, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, J Ferreira, Lv Ferreira, Markus Fischer, Janet Franklin, Gabriella M. Fredriksson, Thomas W. Gillespie, Martin Gilpin, Christelle Gonmadje, Arachchige Upali Nimal Gunatilleke, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Jefferson S. Hall, Keith C. Hamer, David J. Harris Jan 2020

The Global Abundance Of Tree Palms, Robert Muscarella, Thaise Emilio, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ferry Slik, Wj Baker, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Jens Christian Svenning, K Affum‐Baffoe, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Ec Almeida, Ss Almeida, Ea Oliveira, E Álvarez‐Dávila, Luciana F. Alves, Cm Alvez‐Valles, Fabrício Alvim Carvalho, Fernando Alzate Guarin, Ana Andrade, Luis E.O.C. Aragão, Alejandro Araujo Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter S. Ashton, Gerardo A.Aymard Corredor, Tr Baker, Jose L.C. Camargo, Jos Barlow, Jean François Bastin, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Erika Berenguer, Nicholas Berry, Lilian Blanc, K Böhning‐Gaese, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Matt Bradford, Fabian Brambach, Francis Q. Brearley, Steven W. Brewer, Jose L.C. Camargo, David G. Campbell, Carolina V. Castilho, Wendeson Castro, Damien Catchpole, Martínez Ce Cerón, Shengbin Chen, Phourin Chhang, Percival Cho, Wanlop Chutipong, Connie Clark, Murray Collins, James A. Comiskey, Massiel Nataly Corrales Medina, Flávia R.C. Costa, Heike Culmsee, H David‐Higuita, Priya Davidar, J Aguila‐Pasquel, Géraldine Derroire, Fiore A Di, Do T Van, Jean Louis Doucet, Aurélie Dourdain, Donald R. Drake, Andreas Ensslin, Terry Erwin, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Robert M. Ewers, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, J Ferreira, Lv Ferreira, Markus Fischer, Janet Franklin, Gabriella M. Fredriksson, Thomas W. Gillespie, Martin Gilpin, Christelle Gonmadje, Arachchige Upali Nimal Gunatilleke, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Jefferson S. Hall, Keith C. Hamer, David J. Harris

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Distributed Ledger Technology For Trust Management Optimisation In M2m, B Shala, U Trick, A Lehmann, B Ghita, S Shiaeles Jan 2020

Distributed Ledger Technology For Trust Management Optimisation In M2m, B Shala, U Trick, A Lehmann, B Ghita, S Shiaeles

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Decentralised environments with a high number of end-users and M2M devices used in several M2M services increasethe importance of a secure trust management and comprehensive trust evaluation system to avoid frauds from maliciousnodes. Blockchain, as part of the distributed ledger technology (DLT), helps to improve the overall security in a decentralised M2M community in various aspects. This research publication summarises several existing trust managementand evaluation approaches, concluding with their benefits and limitations. Besides these, it highlights the advantages ofthe distributed ledger technology with the focus on blockchain and consensus mechanisms. In this context, most relevantconsensus mechanisms are reviewed and an …


Global Trends In Water And Sediment Fluxes Of The World’S Large Rivers, Li Li, Jinren Ni, Fang Chang, Yao Yue, Natalia Frolova, Dmitry Magritsky, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Philippe Ciais, Yichu Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Desmond E. Walling Jan 2020

Global Trends In Water And Sediment Fluxes Of The World’S Large Rivers, Li Li, Jinren Ni, Fang Chang, Yao Yue, Natalia Frolova, Dmitry Magritsky, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Philippe Ciais, Yichu Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Desmond E. Walling

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Arsenic Speciation And Its Dna Fractionation In The Rice Plant Oryza Sativa, Me Foulkes, Ba Sadee, Sj Hill Jan 2020

Arsenic Speciation And Its Dna Fractionation In The Rice Plant Oryza Sativa, Me Foulkes, Ba Sadee, Sj Hill

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The transport of arsenic from soil through to edible crop is important when assessing the potential health risks from a food source.


Hot Food Takeaways Around Schools: Can Fast Food Be Healthier?, Claire Louise Turbutt Jan 2020

Hot Food Takeaways Around Schools: Can Fast Food Be Healthier?, Claire Louise Turbutt

Other Faculty of Health Theses

Obesity is the greatest global health challenge facing this generation; over half of the adult population are overweight or obese. Calls for food environment interventions include recommendations for restriction or banning of new fast food retailers (FFRs). The Takeaway Toolkit was published by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and aimed to alter consumption of unhealthy takeaway food through reformulation and behavioural insights. A systematic review assessing evidence on FFRs in the environment around schools in the United Kingdom (UK) was completed and published. This revealed a research gap around food environment interventions. A study was designed to investigate “the …


Heathland Restoration After Mineral Extraction, Mary Louise Lane Jan 2020

Heathland Restoration After Mineral Extraction, Mary Louise Lane

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Restoration Ecology has been developed over the last 40 years in efforts to better understand how to restore, recreate or reclaim land damaged by human activities. Lowland heath is one of the more difficult habitats to recreate due to the complicated interactions of soil chemistry and plant physiology and structure. This study investigated the ecological restoration of heathlands at a china clay mineral extraction site in the UK. Assessment of historical restoration practices revealed that previous work carried out on the study site is not achieving Atlantic Lowland Heath (ALH) and that specific amendments might be necessary. Consequently, work carried …


Bodycloth In Performance Art, Natalie Raven Jan 2020

Bodycloth In Performance Art, Natalie Raven

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Bodycloth is a term coined to describe a third entity which emerges when the boundaries between body and cloth (as separate elements) collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order to understand the performance, experience, and presence of bodycloth in performance art. Drawing upon a wide range of contemporary and historical examples of textiles represented in relation to the body in art history – including as sculpture, painting, dance, tableau vivant and performance art – the main method of this research investigation is …


Prison Space, Social Control And Relationships In A Post-Soviet Women’S Prison, Arta Jalili Idrissi Jan 2020

Prison Space, Social Control And Relationships In A Post-Soviet Women’S Prison, Arta Jalili Idrissi

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis attempts to capture, at the macro, meso and micro levels, the ideological rupture, which has emerged after the breakdown of the Soviet project in Latvia, and in particular its effect on penality and women’s imprisonment. This rupture has been conceptualized as a ‘clash of the titans’, which is the ongoing struggle between a Soviet legacy that refuses to die and an increasingly dominant neoliberal regime. While the breakdown of Soviet hegemonic power signaled a victory for democracy and market economics, the spread of western liberal democracies has been a challenge for post-Soviet societies. While democratic traditions took centuries …


Gender And Devotion In Dominican Painting In Renaissance Florence: Suor Plautilla Nelli In The Context Of The Nine Modes Of Prayer And The Frescoes Of San Marco Monastery, Shannon Lewis Jan 2020

Gender And Devotion In Dominican Painting In Renaissance Florence: Suor Plautilla Nelli In The Context Of The Nine Modes Of Prayer And The Frescoes Of San Marco Monastery, Shannon Lewis

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis examines the gender dynamics of the Italian Renaissance in relation to the devotional imagery created by Dominican painters. It draws attention to the representations of Dominican saints used as models for male and female devotion, such as St Dominic and St Catherine of Siena. The thesis begins with a broad history of gender differences which essentially affected the cultural developments limiting female productivity in image-making, as well as an understanding of how social views and values dictated the ideal behaviours expected for women to abide by. It is pointed out that the core limitations women faces was through …


The Photosynthesiser - A Methodology For Mapping Environmental Conditions, Pivotal To The Speed Of Photosynthesis In Plants, Through Sonification., Oliver Brand Jan 2020

The Photosynthesiser - A Methodology For Mapping Environmental Conditions, Pivotal To The Speed Of Photosynthesis In Plants, Through Sonification., Oliver Brand

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Traditionally, the close inspection of data requires visual guidance in the form of displays depicting numeric or graphical representations over time. Sonification offers a way to convey this data through auditory means, relinquishing the need for constant display monitoring. To enable horticulturists to continue to move and work around their environment a proposed sonification mapping system for the key environmental conditions, vital for optimum levels of photosynthesis, has been developed. The outcome of this research was to provide a monitoring system that was both musical and meaningful with regards to data fluctuations and most importantly, could be interpreted by a …


Poor Copy: Fan Practices And Producerly Art Making, Beth Emily Richards Jan 2020

Poor Copy: Fan Practices And Producerly Art Making, Beth Emily Richards

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis includes a body of artworks including performance, video, photography and audio installation, a zine, and textile artwork, documentation of which is presented via a YouTube channel, also titled Poor Copy. This research explores methodological similarities between fan and art practices, and analyses how fans, artists, and their methods of making engage with extant narratives. Two histories act as a narrative throughline for this investigation: a 1999 Michael Jackson concert in Barnstaple, North Devon, where the performer may or may not have been a tribute artist; and a day in 2002 when Michael Jackson visited Exeter City Football Club, …


Digital Porosity And Its Impact On The Mediation Of Networked Images, Claudia Pilsl Jan 2020

Digital Porosity And Its Impact On The Mediation Of Networked Images, Claudia Pilsl

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This doctoral research examines digital porosity and how this effect of the Internet influences the mediation of networked images. This practice research is informed by the hypothesis that digital porosity affects the communication of data with it the perception of context and chronological order of events. Digital porosity, intended as a loose analogy to the kind of porosity depicted by Benjamin and Lacis (1925) in their description of everyday life in ‘Naples’, is a neologism that I devised to describe one of the consequences of the Internet since web 2.0. As the area afflicted by digital porosity is potentially large, …


To The Wall: London's Murals And 'The Left', 1975-1986, Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann Jan 2020

To The Wall: London's Murals And 'The Left', 1975-1986, Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis examines the relationship between Left-wing politics and a body of exterior murals made in London between 1975 and 1986. Across this period approximately three hundred murals were made on the walls of London’s streets. Funded by a complex amalgam of predominantly state patronage, many of these murals gave form to the politics of the radical and oppositional Left. While murals featured briefly in art critical debates of the late 1970s and have since been included within broader histories of community and public art, this is the first extended study centred upon this remarkable moment of cultural production. Applying …


A Bite Of Nostalgia: The Influence Of Nostalgia In Consumers’ Loyalty Intentions At Traditional Restaurants, Qian Chen, Rong Huang, Aiping Zhang Jan 2020

A Bite Of Nostalgia: The Influence Of Nostalgia In Consumers’ Loyalty Intentions At Traditional Restaurants, Qian Chen, Rong Huang, Aiping Zhang

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Relocation Mobility In Tax And Subsidy Competition, Alexander Haupt, Tim Krieger Jan 2020

The Role Of Relocation Mobility In Tax And Subsidy Competition, Alexander Haupt, Tim Krieger

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.


Relational Rural Geographies, Resilience, And Narratives Of Small-Scale Fruit Farming In The Metropolitan Countryside Of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Felipe Da Silva Machado Jan 2020

Relational Rural Geographies, Resilience, And Narratives Of Small-Scale Fruit Farming In The Metropolitan Countryside Of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Felipe Da Silva Machado

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis analyses the processes through which farming and rural communities in transition economies build resilience in the face of changes to rural areas caused by globalisation and urbanisation. The study is based on analysis of how urban-rural interactions have affected small-scale farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an area where land-use, economic and environmental policies and urban land speculation have prompted increasing competition between agricultural, industrial, residential and conservation land uses within a highly multifunctional countryside. To achieve this, the research examined the pressures facing farmers in areas affected by the metropolitan dynamics of Rio …


Using Spatial Patterns Of Fluvial Incision To Constrain Continental-Scale Uplift In The Andes, L. A. Evenstar, A. E. Mather, A. J. Hartley Jan 2020

Using Spatial Patterns Of Fluvial Incision To Constrain Continental-Scale Uplift In The Andes, L. A. Evenstar, A. E. Mather, A. J. Hartley

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geomorphic archives, particularly longitudinal river profiles, are increasingly used as a proxy to reconstruct uplift rates in mountainous regions. Within the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, slow, long-term erosion creates exceptional preservation of fluvial and alluvial surfaces. This enables river incision patterns to be used on a continental-scale (>250 km) along the western margin of the Andes (18°00'S to 20°15′S) and over a time frame from Miocene to Present day. The data show marked compartmentalisation of fluvial system behaviour with changes in incision rates from south to north creating 3 distinctly different regions. Within these different sectors, incision rates are …


Arsenic Concentrations, Distributions And Bioaccessibilities At A Unesco World Heritage Site (Devon Great Consols, Cornwall And West Devon Mining Landscape), Charlotte Braungardt, Xiaqing Chen, Daniel Chester-Sterne, James G.A. Quinn, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

Arsenic Concentrations, Distributions And Bioaccessibilities At A Unesco World Heritage Site (Devon Great Consols, Cornwall And West Devon Mining Landscape), Charlotte Braungardt, Xiaqing Chen, Daniel Chester-Sterne, James G.A. Quinn, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Magnetic Anisotropy Reveals Acadian Transpressional Fabrics In An Appalachian Ophiolite (Thetford Mines, Canada), A Di Chiara, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Luca Menegon, Alain Tremblay Jan 2020

Magnetic Anisotropy Reveals Acadian Transpressional Fabrics In An Appalachian Ophiolite (Thetford Mines, Canada), A Di Chiara, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Luca Menegon, Alain Tremblay

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

SUMMARY Magnetic anisotropy has proved effective in characterizing primary, spreading-related magmatic fabrics in Mesozoic (Tethyan) ophiolites, for example in documenting lower oceanic crustal flow. The potential for preservation of primary magnetic fabrics has not been tested, however, in older Palaeozoic ophiolites, where anisotropy may record regional strain during polyphase deformation. Here, we present anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility results from the Ordovician Thetford Mines ophiolite (Canada) that experienced two major phases of post-accretion deformation, during the Taconian and Acadian orogenic events. Magnetic fabrics consistent with modal layering in gabbros are observed at one locality, suggesting that primary fabrics may survive deformation …


Protracted Shearing At Midcrustal Conditions During Large‐Scale Thrusting In The Scandinavian Caledonides, Francesco Giuntoli, Luca Menegon, Clare J. Warren, James Darling, Mark W. Anderson Jan 2020

Protracted Shearing At Midcrustal Conditions During Large‐Scale Thrusting In The Scandinavian Caledonides, Francesco Giuntoli, Luca Menegon, Clare J. Warren, James Darling, Mark W. Anderson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


In Vitro Avian Bioaccessibility Of Metals Adsorbed To Microplastic Pellets, Luke A. Holmes, Richard C. Thompson, Andrew Turner Jan 2020

In Vitro Avian Bioaccessibility Of Metals Adsorbed To Microplastic Pellets, Luke A. Holmes, Richard C. Thompson, Andrew Turner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.