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Innovative Tidal Notch Detection Using Tls And Fuzzy Logic: Implications For Palaeo-Shorelines From Compressional (Crete) And Extensional (Gulf Of Corinth) Tectonic Settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, K. Reicherter
Innovative Tidal Notch Detection Using Tls And Fuzzy Logic: Implications For Palaeo-Shorelines From Compressional (Crete) And Extensional (Gulf Of Corinth) Tectonic Settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, K. Reicherter
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Stepping Through The Daylight Gate:Compassionate Spaces For Learning In Higher Education, Joanna Haynes, Emma Macleod-Johnstone
Stepping Through The Daylight Gate:Compassionate Spaces For Learning In Higher Education, Joanna Haynes, Emma Macleod-Johnstone
Plymouth Institute of Education
No abstract provided.
Communicating Contested Geoscience To The Public: Moving From ‘Matters Of Fact’ To ‘Matters Of Concern’, Iain S. Stewart, Deirdre Lewis
Communicating Contested Geoscience To The Public: Moving From ‘Matters Of Fact’ To ‘Matters Of Concern’, Iain S. Stewart, Deirdre Lewis
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geological issues are increasingly intruding on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Whether it is the onshore extraction of oil and gas, the subsurface injection of waters for geothermal power or the deep storage of waste products, communities across the world are being confronted with controversial geological interventions beneath their backyards. Communicating these complex scientific and technical issues is made more challenging by the general public's unfamiliarity with the geological realm. Cognitive studies confirm a cultural dissonance with the subsurface and highlight lay anxieties about tampering with nature. In addressing those concerns, factual information is argued to be subordinate to …
Evaluating The Competing Effects Of Lithology And Sediment Supply On The Erosional Dynamics Of Rivers Crossing Active Faults., A Whittaker, S Boulton, E Kent, J Zondervan, M Hann, S Watkins, R Bell, S Brooke
Evaluating The Competing Effects Of Lithology And Sediment Supply On The Erosional Dynamics Of Rivers Crossing Active Faults., A Whittaker, S Boulton, E Kent, J Zondervan, M Hann, S Watkins, R Bell, S Brooke
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lithology and sediment supply influence the erosional dynamics of rivers crossing active faults and together these effects govern the style, timescale and means by which landscapes respond to their tectono-climatic boundary conditions. Here, for transient bedrock catchments in the Gediz Graben, Turkey, and the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, for which the timing and rate of active faulting is known, we quantify the relative importance of rock strength and sediment supply on models of fluvial incision. We determine rock type, strength and erodibility using a Schmidt hammer and structural measurements of joint density and size. We evaluate the downstream distribution of …
Annual Prediction Of Shoreline Erosion And Subsequent Recovery, Mark A. Davidson, Ian L. Turner, Kristen D. Splinter, Mitchel D. Harley
Annual Prediction Of Shoreline Erosion And Subsequent Recovery, Mark A. Davidson, Ian L. Turner, Kristen D. Splinter, Mitchel D. Harley
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Open State: Event Spaces Of Infinite Perspective, Mh Emmett, A Benjamin
Open State: Event Spaces Of Infinite Perspective, Mh Emmett, A Benjamin
School of Art, Design and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Authenticity And Quality Of Muscle Foods: Assessing Consumer Trust And Fraud Detection Approaches, Salih Mustafa Salih
Authenticity And Quality Of Muscle Foods: Assessing Consumer Trust And Fraud Detection Approaches, Salih Mustafa Salih
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Authenticity issues and fraudulent practices regarding animal products are affecting consumer confidence. Verifying the description, composition, processing or origin of foods can be challenging. To explore British and Kurdish consumers’ perceptions of kebab meat products, focus groups and questionnaire surveys were applied. About 40% of participants in the UK tend to purchase fewer processed meats after the European horsemeat scandal. Issues raised by participants indicated their concerns about the declaration of species, meat content, and other ingredients incorporated in kebab and other meat products. Lack of consumer trust has been linked to authenticity issues. Reactions towards the addition of fat-replacing …
Field Observations Of Infragravity Wave Response To Variable Sea-Swell Wave Forcing, Kris William Inch
Field Observations Of Infragravity Wave Response To Variable Sea-Swell Wave Forcing, Kris William Inch
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Infragravity waves are low frequency (0.005-0.04 Hz) waves that can dominate the spectrum of water motions and sediment transport processes within the inner surf zone. Despite the established importance of infragravity waves in shaping our coasts and numerous studies dating back to the 1950s, several aspects of infragravity wave analysis, generation and dissipation remain poorly understood. As much of the recent infragravity research has focussed on fetch-limited coasts, less is known about the climatology of these waves on energetic coastlines subject to both swell and fetch-limited waves. It has been postulated that bed friction only plays a significant role in …
Seismic Faults And Sacred Sanctuaries In Aegean Antiquity, Iain S. Stewart
Seismic Faults And Sacred Sanctuaries In Aegean Antiquity, Iain S. Stewart
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The ancient destructive capability of earthquake faults is well chronicled by historians and their cultural impact widely uncovered by archaeologists. Archaeological and geological investigations at some of the most renowned sites in the ancient Greece world, however, suggest a more nuanced and intimate relationship between seismic faults and past human settlements. In the Aegean's karstic landscape earthquake fault scarps act as limestone ramparts on which fortifications, citadels and acropoli were constructed, and underlying fault lines were preferred pathways for groundwater movement and egress. The vital purifactory or therapeutic role of natural springs in the ritual practices of early settlements implies …
Dockyard, Naval Base And Town: The Social And Political Dynamics Of Plymouth 1800-1950, Gh Bennett
Dockyard, Naval Base And Town: The Social And Political Dynamics Of Plymouth 1800-1950, Gh Bennett
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
Sonic Affects And The Production Of Space: ‘Music By Handle’ And The Politics Of Street Music In Victorian London, Paul Simpson
Sonic Affects And The Production Of Space: ‘Music By Handle’ And The Politics Of Street Music In Victorian London, Paul Simpson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
This article examines the affective capacities of sound and its role in the on-going production of social spaces. More specifically, the article seeks to understand the situated nature of sound’s affectivity within particular social-political-material contexts or circumstances. This is developed through a discussion of an empirical case study related to the history of street music: the ‘street music debates’ of Victorian London. The interrelation here of the sounds street musicians made, the broader urban soundscape of the time, who played street music and who it was that found themselves listening to this music demonstrate clearly the situated affective capacities of …
Evaluation Of Salt Marsh Restoration By Means Of Self-Regulating Tidal Gate – Avon Estuary, South Devon, Uk, Gerd Masselink, Mick E. Hanley, Anissa C. Halwyn, Will Blake, Ken Kingston, Thomas Newton, Mike Williams
Evaluation Of Salt Marsh Restoration By Means Of Self-Regulating Tidal Gate – Avon Estuary, South Devon, Uk, Gerd Masselink, Mick E. Hanley, Anissa C. Halwyn, Will Blake, Ken Kingston, Thomas Newton, Mike Williams
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Self-Attenuation Corrections For Pb-210 In Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Using Well And Coaxial Hpge Detectors, A. R. Iurian, G. E. Millward, O. Sima, A. Taylor, W. Blake
Self-Attenuation Corrections For Pb-210 In Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Using Well And Coaxial Hpge Detectors, A. R. Iurian, G. E. Millward, O. Sima, A. Taylor, W. Blake
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Eco-Efficiency Of High-Yielding Variety Rice Cultivation After Accounting For On-Farm Environmental Damage As An Undesirable Output: An Empirical Analysis From Bangladesh, N-E Sabiha, R Salim, S Rahman
Eco-Efficiency Of High-Yielding Variety Rice Cultivation After Accounting For On-Farm Environmental Damage As An Undesirable Output: An Empirical Analysis From Bangladesh, N-E Sabiha, R Salim, S Rahman
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study computes the eco-efficiency of high-yielding variety (HYV) rice production by including an on-farm environmental damage index (OFEDI) as an undesirable output using data envelopment analysis. It then identifies its determinants by applying an interval regression procedure on a sample of 317 farmers from north-western Bangladesh. Results reveal that the mean level of the OFEDI-adjusted production efficiency (i.e. eco-efficiency) is 89 per cent, whereas ignoring OFEDI adjustment (i.e. with OFEDI = 0) reduces the mean level of efficiency to 69 per cent, implying that the production of undesirable output or on-farm environmental damage induces an efficiency loss of 20 …
Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution Of The Offshore Benin Basin, Sw Nigeria, Israel Aruoriwo Abiodun Etobro
Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution Of The Offshore Benin Basin, Sw Nigeria, Israel Aruoriwo Abiodun Etobro
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This thesis presents an evaluation of the tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the offshore Benin Basin based on the analysis of 2D and 3D seismic data, in addition to exploration well data of four closely-spaced wells. To date, little has been published on this part of the African Equatorial Atlantic margin because of the lack of publicly available datasets, and this is the first academic study to be provided with 3D seismic data from this basin. The aims of the study were to establish a tectono-sequence stratigraphic framework for the basin, and to establish the timing, distribution, and nature of …
Social Resilience In Cornish Fishing Communities, Huw Thomas
Social Resilience In Cornish Fishing Communities, Huw Thomas
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Rural Cornish coastal fishing communities express, and have expressed, varying degrees of ability to develop and retain social resilience capacity, or the ability to withstand ‘shock’ over both ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ onset events in social, political, economic and natural domain terms (Wilson, 2012a). Endogenous and exogenous influences may include natural changes in resources and resource dependency resulting in the loss or depletion of community livelihoods associated with a decline in fishing activities (Brookfield, 2005; Marshall, 2007a), issues of tourism driven change and notions of ‘community’. Four capitals are initially conceptually considered, those of natural, political, social and economic capitals driving …
The Role Of Sound Recordings In The Revitalisation Of Minority Languages Of The Ainu People (Japan) And The West Frisians (The Netherlands), Malgorzata Fryzlewicz
The Role Of Sound Recordings In The Revitalisation Of Minority Languages Of The Ainu People (Japan) And The West Frisians (The Netherlands), Malgorzata Fryzlewicz
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This thesis explores the use of sound recordings in the revitalisation of two minority languages – the Ainu (Japan) and the West Frisian (the Netherlands). Over the last few decades, a growing concern about linguistic diversity in the world has led to an increasing awareness of minority languages, which are endangered by loss. The concept of language revitalisation calls for work which will affect the vitality of these languages. The nature of these revitalisation efforts is inscribed into place-related processes and the interpretations of the relationships between language speakers and the place they live in. Sound recordings can afford language …
Testing The Late-Holocene Climate Signal From Ombrotrophic Bogs In Southernmost Chile And The Falkland Islands: A Multi-Proxy, Multi-Profile And Multi-Site Approach, Emma May Rice
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Peatlands in Southern South America (SSA), in the path of the Southern Westerly Wind belt (SWW), offer the potential of reliable palaeoclimate archives. This investigation aimed to test the late-Holocene climate signal related to variability of the SWW. Three sites were investigated: San Juan and Karukinka bog, southernmost Chile and San Carlos, a Sphagnum dominated bog, discovered in the Falkland Islands, to form a regional comparison. A multi-proxy approach was used, combining both palaeoecological and stable isotopic methods. At one site, Karukinka, intra-site replicability was tested across three profiles located along a microtopographical gradient. A low number of statistically significant …
An Intergenerational Perspective On Migrant Senses Of Identity And Belonging: The Case Of Greek-Cypriot Families In South West England, Uk, Gina Kallis
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This thesis takes an intergenerational perspective to investigate how senses of identity and belonging are constructed in a Greek-Cypriot community in the UK. This aim is particularly necessary given increasing rates of migration and mobility worldwide, which has resulted in growing acknowledgment across a number of disciplines of the need to explore the everyday lives of migrants and how ethnic identities are reconstituted across all generations. Despite this acknowledgment, research on the third-generation remains limited. This thesis addresses this gap by exploring how three generations of Greek-Cypriot migrants express feelings of identity and belonging and engage with translocal spaces. It …
Holocene Sea-Level Changes In The Falkland Islands: New Insights Into Accelerated Sea-Level Rise In The 20th Century, Thomas Lee Newton
Holocene Sea-Level Changes In The Falkland Islands: New Insights Into Accelerated Sea-Level Rise In The 20th Century, Thomas Lee Newton
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This thesis investigates sea-level changes in order to test the hypothesis that the main contribution to early 20th century sea-level rise was Northern Hemisphere land-based ice melt. Multiproxy sea-level reconstructions were established for the Falkland Islands, a location where models suggest sea-level rise from Northern Hemisphere ice melt produces the largest signal. The Falklands reconstruction indicated sea levels in the early 20th century accelerated compared to the long-term rate, synchronous with accelerations observed globally. The magnitude of the acceleration in the Falklands reconstruction was greater than Northern Hemisphere rates, consistent with the spatial pattern from a Northern Hemisphere melt source, …
Copper And Zinc Speciation In The Tamar Estuary, Holly Beverley Clare Pearson
Copper And Zinc Speciation In The Tamar Estuary, Holly Beverley Clare Pearson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The chemical speciation of trace metals controls their potential bioavailability and therefore toxicity to exposed organisms. Despite previous studies demonstrating the ameliorative effects of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on metal toxicity, the effectiveness of ligands from varying sources and of potentially variable composition in controlling speciation has not been studied in detail in estuarine waters. In addition, the effect of DOC on radionuclide contaminants in combination with trace metals has not been investigated in any waters. This is of particular interest in the estuarine environment, where both anthropogenic and natural ligands, and contaminants that pose a potential threat to ecosystem …
The Seasonal Cycling And Physico-Chemical Speciation Of Iron On The Celtic And Hebridean Shelf Seas, Antony James Birchill
The Seasonal Cycling And Physico-Chemical Speciation Of Iron On The Celtic And Hebridean Shelf Seas, Antony James Birchill
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Shelf seas represent an important source of iron (Fe) to the open ocean. Additionally, shelf seas are highly productive environments which contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide drawdown and support large fisheries. The work presented in this thesis describes the seasonal cycle of Fe in the Celtic and Hebridean Shelf Seas, and determines the physico-chemical speciation of Fe supplied from oxic margins. The results from repeated field surveys of the central Celtic Sea showed a nutrient type seasonal cycling of dissolved Fe (< 0.2 µm; dFe), which is surprising in a particle rich shelf system, suggesting a balance of scavenging and remineralisation processes. Coincident drawdown of dFe and nitrate (NO3-) was observed during the phytoplankton spring bloom. During the bloom, preferential drawdown of soluble Fe (< 0.02 µm; sFe) over colloidal Fe (0.02-0.2 µm; cFe) indicated greater bioavailability of the soluble fraction. Throughout summer stratification, it is known that NO3- is drawn down to < 0.02 µM in surface waters. This study revealed that both dFe and labile particulate Fe (LpFe) were also seasonally drawn down to < 0.2 nM. Consequently, it is hypothesised that the availability of Fe seasonally co-limits primary production in this region. At depth both dFe and NO3- concentrations increased from spring to autumn, indicating that remineralisation is an important process governing the seasonal cycling of dFe in the central Celtic Sea. In spring, summer and autumn, distinctive intermediate nepheloid layers (INL) were observed emanating from the Celtic Sea shelf slope. The INLs were associated with elevated concentrations of dFe (up to 3.25 ± 0.16 nM) and particulate Fe (up to 315 ± 1.8 nM) indicating that they are a persistent conduit for the supply of Fe to the open ocean. Typically > 15% of particulate Fe was labile and 60-90% of dFe was in the colloidal fraction. Despite being < 50 km from the 200 m isobath, the concentration of dFe was < 0.1 nM in surface waters at several stations. Broadly, the concentration of nutrients in surface waters described an oligotrophic environment where co-limitation between multiple nutrients, including Fe, appears likely. Over the Hebridean shelf break, residual surface NO3- concentrations (5.27 ± 0.79 µM) and very low concentrations of dFe (0.09 ± 0.04 nM) were observed during autumn, implying seasonal Fe limitation. The dFe:NO3- ratio observed is attributed to sub-optimal vertical supply of Fe relative to NO3- from sub-surface waters. In contrast to the shelf break, surface water in coastal regions contained elevated dFe concentrations (1.73 ± 1.16 nM) alongside low NO3-. Seasonal Fe limitation is known to occur in the Irminger and Iceland Basins; therefore, the Hebridean shelf break likely represents the eastern extent of sub-Arctic Atlantic seasonal Fe limitation, thus indicating that the associated weakening of the biological carbon pump exists over a wider region of the sub-Arctic Atlantic than previously recognised. These key findings demonstrate that the availability of Fe to phytoplankton may seasonally reach limiting levels in temperate shelf waters and that oxic margins persistently supply Fe dominated by colloidal and particulate fractions to the ocean.
Nanoporous Calcium Carbonate-Based Substrates For The Controlled Delivery Of Functional Materials, Charlotte Luanne Victoria Levy
Nanoporous Calcium Carbonate-Based Substrates For The Controlled Delivery Of Functional Materials, Charlotte Luanne Victoria Levy
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
The overall aim of this project was to study `functionalised' calcium carbonates (FCCs) for use as a carrier for the controlled release of `actives,' by permeation and diffusion, and is being proposed as an environmentally friendly and non-toxic pharmaceutical excipient, nutraceutical, and flavour carrier. The delivery of a drug to its target site in the appropriate amount and time-frame in order for it to have a controlled release effect whilst achieving the maximum therapeutic effect remains a topic of design and development for novel drug delivery systems. FCCs encompass a family of new pharmaceutical excipients in which the conditions of …
Piracy And Plymouth: Privateering, Profiting And Policing, Plymouth Law School's Contribution To The Esrc Festival Of Social Science 2016, Dale Teobald
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
No abstract provided.
Obesity And Dental Caries In Children In Plymouth, Martha Paisi
Obesity And Dental Caries In Children In Plymouth, Martha Paisi
Other Faculty of Health Theses
Background: Obesity and dental caries are two of the most common conditions affecting children and both have significant implications on children’s wellbeing and future health. Even though research into the relationship between the two conditions has been conducted for many years, results to date remain equivocal. Furthermore, the majority of the studies only examined individual-level determinants of the two conditions. Aim: The current work aimed to examine the nature, direction and effect size of the relationship between obesity and caries in children in Plymouth, United Kingdom. It also aimed to better understand the individual and the broader environmental determinants of …
Imagining The Scottish Economy: Economic (In)Security And The 'Hidden Politics' Of Independence, James Gilgrist
Imagining The Scottish Economy: Economic (In)Security And The 'Hidden Politics' Of Independence, James Gilgrist
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
On September 18th 2014, voters in a Scottish independence referendum were asked the yes/no question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" Scotland voted ‘no’ to independence from the United Kingdom by a margin of 55% to 45%. The majority of the debate focused on what was termed ‘the economics of independence’. Whilst economic implications ought always to have been an important consideration, the key arguments for and against independence were built almost exclusively on how independence could influence the economic prospects of Scottish people. Essentially, through the articulation of the economic insecurities of either union or independence, unionists and nationalists …
Dutch Artists In England: Examining The Cultural Interchange Between England And The Netherlands In ‘Low’ Art In The Seventeenth Century., Joanna Mavis Ruddock
Dutch Artists In England: Examining The Cultural Interchange Between England And The Netherlands In ‘Low’ Art In The Seventeenth Century., Joanna Mavis Ruddock
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The seventeenth century was an incredibly fascinating time for art in England developmentally, especially because most of the artists that were receiving the commissions from English patrons and creating the art weren’t English, they were Dutch. Over this one hundred year period scores of Dutch artists migrated over from the Dutch Republic and showed England this Golden Age of painting that had established Dutch artists back in the Netherlands as pioneers in their line of work. In studies of Anglo-Dutch art, portraiture is a genre that has been widely researched; Peter Lely (a Dutch-born portraitist) is one of many widely …
Laughter, Inframince And Cybernetics - Exploring The Curatorial As Creative Act, Edith M. Doove
Laughter, Inframince And Cybernetics - Exploring The Curatorial As Creative Act, Edith M. Doove
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This thesis identifies and responds to a contemporary impasse in the curatorial, which is thought of as the realm that encompasses curating as a complex action and interaction; a verb that includes the conceiving, organising and executing of exhibitions as well as critical thinking around curation as a discipline. The current impasse in curation the thesis responds to is caused, on the one hand, through its rapid expansion since the late 1980s and, on the other, through its mainstream and populist appropriation, which confuses understandings of it. The thesis proposes a strategy for the recovery for curating’s most basic work …
Haplós: Towards Technologies For And Applications Of Somaesthetics, Diego Silang Maranan
Haplós: Towards Technologies For And Applications Of Somaesthetics, Diego Silang Maranan
School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses
How can vibrotactile stimuli be used to create a technology-mediated somatic learning experience? This question motivates this practice-based research, which explores how the Feldenkrais Method and cognate neuroscience research can be applied to technology design. Supported by somaesthetic philosophy, soma-based design theories, and a critical acknowledgement of the socially-inflected body, the research develops a systematic method grounded in first- and third-person accounts of embodied experience to inform the creation and evaluation of design of Haplós, a wearable, user-customisable, remote-controlled technology that plays methodically composed vibrotactile patterns on the skin in order to facilitate body awareness—the major outcome of this research …
A Translocal Approach To Dialogue-Based Art, Rachelle Marie Viader Knowles
A Translocal Approach To Dialogue-Based Art, Rachelle Marie Viader Knowles
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This thesis is a practice-led investigation into a translocal approach to dialogue-based art. The research has been undertaken through the practice of the ‘artist/academic’, drawing on my professional experience in artistic research, academic leadership and teaching, each informing my methods and findings. The problem which emerged through the practice is how to devise an approach to dialogue-based art that is responsive to twenty-first century social relations and telecommunications and attendant to the politics of mobility that constrain and control human movement. The research develops and tests out the application of ideas from the interdisciplinary field of translocality to the practice …