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Elaborated Intrusion Theory: A Cognitive-Emotional Theory Of Food Craving, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, David J. Kavanagh, Marion Hetherington Jan 2012

Elaborated Intrusion Theory: A Cognitive-Emotional Theory Of Food Craving, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, David J. Kavanagh, Marion Hetherington

School of Psychology

A clear understanding of the cognitive-emotional processes underpinning desires to overconsume foods and adopt sedentary lifestyles can inform the development of more effective interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity. The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desires offers a framework that can help in this endeavor through its emphases on the roles of intrusive thoughts and elaboration of multisensory imagery. There is now substantial evidence that tasks that compete for limited working memory resources with food-related imagery can reduce desires to eat that food, and that positive imagery can promote functional behavior. Meditation mindfulness can also short-circuit elaboration of dysfunctional …


Expanded Narrative: An On-Line Resource For Students, Lecturers And Practitioners, Emma Whittaker Jan 2012

Expanded Narrative: An On-Line Resource For Students, Lecturers And Practitioners, Emma Whittaker

School of Art, Design and Architecture

To investigate the ways in which the development of linear and interactive narrative features within undergraduate arts curricula at Plymouth University and partner colleges. To investigate the methods used to create expanded narratives by specialists in the field, within and outside of the arts. To develop an on-line resource that brings together expanded narrative practices from the arts, creative industries and research institutions, that provides relevant content for integration with HE arts curricula, that showcases student work and provides an evolving document of the student experience and offers opportunities for sharing knowledge and skills. The development of a community of …


Internationalising Chinese Maritime Higher Education: Developing Content And English Language Integrated Teaching And Learning, Robyn Morgan Pyne Jan 2012

Internationalising Chinese Maritime Higher Education: Developing Content And English Language Integrated Teaching And Learning, Robyn Morgan Pyne

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis examines how new maritime nations, which are engaged in the export of seafaring labour, need to respond to the demands of the international maritime industry. In particular, traditional maritime nations are calling for greater internationalisation of maritime education and training. The global labour market for seafarers, which is dominated by employers from traditional maritime nations, demands internationally minded graduates. China’s response to these demands for quality labour exports from new maritime nations is the subject of exploration in this thesis. Within the specific context of Maritime English teaching and learning, a significant opportunity for innovation and change is …


Measuring The Performance Of Partnerships: Why, What, How, When?, C Kelly Jan 2012

Measuring The Performance Of Partnerships: Why, What, How, When?, C Kelly

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Partnerships have become increasingly prevalent across a wide range of sectors for the delivery of services and implementation of policy. Partnerships are seen as a more effective way of delivering policy interventions than state-led or ‘top-down’ approaches. Evaluating partnership performance is therefore crucial in order to determine whether partnerships really are better than more traditional methods of policy implementation. To date, however, partnership effectiveness has often been conceptualised as cumulative; the result of a set of variables acting in a one dimensional, linear way which results in the ability (or not) of a partnership to achieve its goals. This paper …


The Socio-Temporary In Architecture: Territories Of Second-Order Cybernetics, S Murrani Jan 2012

The Socio-Temporary In Architecture: Territories Of Second-Order Cybernetics, S Murrani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Drawing Into Knowing: A Natural History, Sm Black, L Imperatore Jan 2012

Drawing Into Knowing: A Natural History, Sm Black, L Imperatore

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Co-presentation w/ Lynn Imperatore. ABSTRACT Whether drawing commences in strategic suspension of cognition or from a posture that seeks deeper recognition of the considered object, this research pair share a method of practice that employs the drawn line to trace paths commencing outward from acknowledged deficiencies of information. Both view drawing as tool for exploration; a kind of raw material of thought-made-visible in marks that nibble away at preconception and other barriers to knowledge. The resultant records of such active thinking reveal discoveries to both the artists and a wider audience. A practice-based drawing project was devised in order to …


Investigating E-Commerce Adoption In Small And Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises: A Case Of Travel Agents In Egypt, Mohamed Ahmed Abd-Elraouf Abou-Shouk Jan 2012

Investigating E-Commerce Adoption In Small And Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises: A Case Of Travel Agents In Egypt, Mohamed Ahmed Abd-Elraouf Abou-Shouk

Plymouth Business School Theses

SMEs are often described as slow adopters of technology. However, adopting e-commerce is one of many strategies taken by travel agents to re-intermediate themselves in the global travel market against the threat of disintermediation. Exploratory studies have revealed that Egyptian travel agents are laggards when it comes to technology adoption, although they perceive e-commerce as a beneficial tool that can increase their chances of survival. As many as 59.2% of Egyptian travel agents were found not to have websites (Egyptian Travel Agents Association, 2008), this study investigates the factors affecting e-commerce adoption by travel agents. Past literature has shown that …


Developing Strategic Information System Planning Model In Libya Organisations, Esam Osman Jan 2012

Developing Strategic Information System Planning Model In Libya Organisations, Esam Osman

Plymouth Business School Theses

This quantitative research study investigated the impact of organisational context on the process and success of strategic IS planning (SISP) in post-implementation information systems in Libyan organisations. A set of direct and indirect relationships were investigated in the research model. The organisational context presented as a contingent situational variable mediated by SISP process and predicted by SISP success (the criterion variable). The causality of the relationship set was developed from the contingency theory of information systems and supported by fit models in strategic management research. The study deployed multivariate analysis represented in the structural equation modelling (SEM) to develop robust …


Evolution Of Grasping Behaviour In Anthropomorphic Robotic Arms With Embodied Neural Controllers, Gianluca Massera Jan 2012

Evolution Of Grasping Behaviour In Anthropomorphic Robotic Arms With Embodied Neural Controllers, Gianluca Massera

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The works reported in this thesis focus upon synthesising neural controllers for anthropomorphic robots that are able to manipulate objects through an automatic design process based on artificial evolution. The use of Evolutionary Robotics makes it possible to reduce the characteristics and parameters specified by the designer to a minimum, and the robot’s skills evolve as it interacts with the environment. The primary objective of these experiments is to investigate whether neural controllers that are regulating the state of the motors on the basis of the current and previously experienced sensors (i.e. without relying on an inverse model) can enable …


The Behavioural Consequences Of Reduced Sea Water Ph In Decapod Crustaceans, Kate De La Haye Jan 2012

The Behavioural Consequences Of Reduced Sea Water Ph In Decapod Crustaceans, Kate De La Haye

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The studies presented in this thesis were designed to investigate the effects of reduced sea water pH on the behaviour of intertidal decapod crustaceans, both within the context of the variations occurring naturally in the pH of rock pool habitats, and in relation to predicted changes to ocean pH resulting from ocean acidification and potential carbon dioxide (CO2) leaks from carbon capture storage (CCS) sites. Recent studies on marine fish have shown behavioural disruptions as a result of increased CO2 concentrations in sea water and reduced pH, but the effects on crustaceans are as yet unknown. The first two studies …


The Effects Of Manufactured Nanoparticles On Fish Physiology, Reproduction And Behaviour, Christopher Ramsden Jan 2012

The Effects Of Manufactured Nanoparticles On Fish Physiology, Reproduction And Behaviour, Christopher Ramsden

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Over the last decade the development and use of nanomaterials (NMs) and nanoparticles (NPs) has increased at a great rate. As a result there is an ever increasing risk of exposing humans and wildlife to these potentially harmful materials. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are two of the most widely used NMs at present. Their potentially harmful effects on organisms and physicochemical properties have been investigated in a growing number of scientific studies. However understanding the level of risk they may pose is far from satisfactory. The present body of work has addressed various aspects of …


Doing, Seeing, Or Both: Effects Of Learning Condition On Subsequent Action Perception, Alison J. Wiggett, Matthew Hudson, Angela Clifford, Steven P. Tipper, Paul E. Downing Jan 2012

Doing, Seeing, Or Both: Effects Of Learning Condition On Subsequent Action Perception, Alison J. Wiggett, Matthew Hudson, Angela Clifford, Steven P. Tipper, Paul E. Downing

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.


Tectonic And Climatic Controls On Knickpoint Retreat Rates And Landscape Response Times, Alexander C. Whittaker, Sarah J. Boulton Jan 2012

Tectonic And Climatic Controls On Knickpoint Retreat Rates And Landscape Response Times, Alexander C. Whittaker, Sarah J. Boulton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


Determinants Of Household Livelihood Security In Poor Urban Settlements In Bangladesh, S Rahman, S Akter Jan 2012

Determinants Of Household Livelihood Security In Poor Urban Settlements In Bangladesh, S Rahman, S Akter

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The paper applies a quantitative approach to measure and identify the determinants of household livelihood security (HLS) status in poor urban settlements of two cities in Bangladesh. Indices were computed for five HLS areas (economic, food, health, education and empowerment) using a large set of socio-economic characteristics of the households. Results reveal that economic security is the dominant component of the overall livelihood security status followed by food security. Irrespective of regional differences in opportunities, people in poor urban settlements appear equally insecure. Development programs focusing on improvements in access to assets, education and livestock/fisheries based livelihoods programs are suggested.


Not Just Ticking The Box: An Investigation Into Safeguarding Adults Training Transfer In Cornwall, Uk, Lindsey Anne Pike Jan 2012

Not Just Ticking The Box: An Investigation Into Safeguarding Adults Training Transfer In Cornwall, Uk, Lindsey Anne Pike

School of Health Professions Theses

Safeguarding adults is a priority in adult social care, and training is one of the main ways in which policy and guidance around it is implemented. Training transfer refers to the use of new learning on the job, and while the transfer literature is well developed, it does not extend to safeguarding adults training. This research aimed to identify, develop and refine a programme theory of safeguarding adults training transfer by identifying factors that facilitate or inhibit the use of safeguarding adults training in practice, and the impact that the training has. A cross sectional mixed methods realist synthesis approach …


Producing Multimedia Resources For Teaching Medical Students About The Social Context Of Medicine: A Partnership Approach, Tracey J Collett, Priska Schoenborn, Verity Campbell Barr, Fiona Dalton, Valerie Huggins, Oxana Poverjuc, Lynne Wyness Jan 2012

Producing Multimedia Resources For Teaching Medical Students About The Social Context Of Medicine: A Partnership Approach, Tracey J Collett, Priska Schoenborn, Verity Campbell Barr, Fiona Dalton, Valerie Huggins, Oxana Poverjuc, Lynne Wyness

Plymouth Institute of Education

The UK General Medical Council (GMC) requires medical school graduates to be able to apply social science principles to medical practice (1993, 2009). At the policy level it is recognised that understanding of the social context of medicine results in drastic improvements to health care, morbidity and mortality (see, for example, Russell, 2009) but many undergraduate students tend to see the social sciences as ‘nice to know’ rather than ‘need to know’ (Armstrong 1979, Bolman et al, 1995, Benbassett et al, 2003, Litvia and Peters, 2008). The emphasis on disciplinary integration (Harden, 2000) and pedagogic transition from didactic to ‘problem …


The Application Of Writing As Method Of Inquiry And Pedagogic Practice: The Promotion And Enhancement Of Teaching, Learning, Research And Scholarly Activity Within A Framework Of Continuing Professional Development., Ken Gale, Rebecca Turner, Liz Mckenzie, Andrew Edwards-Jones Jan 2012

The Application Of Writing As Method Of Inquiry And Pedagogic Practice: The Promotion And Enhancement Of Teaching, Learning, Research And Scholarly Activity Within A Framework Of Continuing Professional Development., Ken Gale, Rebecca Turner, Liz Mckenzie, Andrew Edwards-Jones

Plymouth Institute of Education

The project aimed to inquire into the application of different forms of writing as both method of inquiry and pedagogic practice. Therefore, the intended outcome of the project was measured in terms of the promotion and enhancement of teaching, learning, research and scholarly activity within a framework of continuing professional development. The focus group for the research activity will be HE in FE practitioners, who were identified as interested in undertaking scholarly professional development. The research considered: • How writing could be used as a method to inquire into learning; • How this could contribute to individual teaching practice and …


Exploring Prejudice: Mapping Hate Crime In The South West, Z James, L Simmonds Jan 2012

Exploring Prejudice: Mapping Hate Crime In The South West, Z James, L Simmonds

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


Participatory Partnerships In Education, Jane Seale, Suanne Gibson, Joanna Haynes Jan 2012

Participatory Partnerships In Education, Jane Seale, Suanne Gibson, Joanna Haynes

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

The focus of this proposal is student voice and participation as well as the promotion of partnership between staff and students. The overarching aim of PIE therefore, is to provide guidance about how to facilitate effective participatory partnerships between students and teachers that will have a positive impact on the first year undergraduate student experience. Specifically, the project objectives are to:• Capture “student voices” on the second year BA Education Studies programme in the Faculty of Education regarding their learning experiences by using participatory methods students will have the opportunity to design and choose the methods by which “voices” are …


Complications And Disturbance In University Teaching: Researching Dangerous And Troublesome Knowledge., Joanna Haynes, Wendy Lambert-Heggs, Emma Macleod-Johnstone, Tony Brown, Heather Knight Jan 2012

Complications And Disturbance In University Teaching: Researching Dangerous And Troublesome Knowledge., Joanna Haynes, Wendy Lambert-Heggs, Emma Macleod-Johnstone, Tony Brown, Heather Knight

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

1. Research and develop current conceptualisations of teaching troublesome, difficult and dangerous knowledge in universities, through a comprehensive literature review and further dialogue within the UoP research group. 2. Create a log of episodes of teaching and learning that are experienced as troublesome, difficult and/or dangerous - ,through research dialogues with students and tutors, from a range of applied fields of study, such as education, nursing and other health professions, psychology, social work, early childhood studies, the built environment. 3. Develop an analysis of students' and tutors’ accounts of complications in teaching and learning through the creation of illustrative case …


Non-Transferrin-Bound Iron And Protein Glycation In Type 2 Diabetes, Desley White Jan 2012

Non-Transferrin-Bound Iron And Protein Glycation In Type 2 Diabetes, Desley White

School of Health Professions Theses

Background and Methods The involvement of iron in the risk for, and complications of, type 2 diabetes has generated substantial interest over the past 15 years, initially sparked by an association with raised serum ferritin, and the observation that people with iron overload diseases frequently develop diabetes. Considerable advances have since been made in understanding the effect glucose has on molecules, cells, and tissues; and the role that oxidative stress plays in the development of the pathologies of long-term diabetes. Poorly liganded iron is potentially both a contributor to, and consequence of, these complications. In vitro experiments with glucose-incubated transferrin …


Sigma Terms And Strangeness Content Of The Nucleon With N F  = 2 + 1 + 1 Twisted Mass Fermions, Simon Dinter, Vincent Drach, Roberto Frezzotti, Gregorio Herdoiza, Karl Jansen, Giancarlo Rossi Jan 2012

Sigma Terms And Strangeness Content Of The Nucleon With N F  = 2 + 1 + 1 Twisted Mass Fermions, Simon Dinter, Vincent Drach, Roberto Frezzotti, Gregorio Herdoiza, Karl Jansen, Giancarlo Rossi

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Abstract We study the nucleon matrix elements of the quark scalar-density operator using maximally twisted mass fermions with dynamical light (u,d), strange and charm degrees of freedom. We demonstrate that in this setup the nucleon matrix elements of the light and strange quark densities can be obtained with good statistical accuracy, while for the charm quark counterpart only a bound can be provided. The present calculation which is performed at only one value of the lattice spacing and pion mass serves as a technical feasibility study for a future computation of the scalar quark content of the nucleon with a …


Community-Level Response Of Coastal Microbial Biofilms To Ocean Acidification In A Natural Carbon Dioxide Vent Ecosystem., Ian Lidbury, Vivienne Johnson, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Colin B. Munn, Michael Cunliffe Jan 2012

Community-Level Response Of Coastal Microbial Biofilms To Ocean Acidification In A Natural Carbon Dioxide Vent Ecosystem., Ian Lidbury, Vivienne Johnson, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Colin B. Munn, Michael Cunliffe

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The impacts of ocean acidification on coastal biofilms are poorly understood. Carbon dioxide vent areas provide an opportunity to make predictions about the impacts of ocean acidification. We compared biofilms that colonised glass slides in areas exposed to ambient and elevated levels of pCO(2) along a coastal pH gradient, with biofilms grown at ambient and reduced light levels. Biofilm production was highest under ambient light levels, but under both light regimes biofilm production was enhanced in seawater with high pCO(2). Uronic acids are a component of biofilms and increased significantly with high pCO(2). Bacteria and Eukarya denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis …


Global Habitat Suitability Of Cold-Water Octocorals, Chris Yesson, Michelle L. Taylor, Derek P. Tittensor, Andrew J. Davies, John Guinotte, Amy Baco, Julie Black, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Alex D. Rogers Jan 2012

Global Habitat Suitability Of Cold-Water Octocorals, Chris Yesson, Michelle L. Taylor, Derek P. Tittensor, Andrew J. Davies, John Guinotte, Amy Baco, Julie Black, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Alex D. Rogers

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


Sea Anemones May Thrive In A High Co2 World, David J. Suggett, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Toby G. Boatman, Ross Payton, Dt Pettay, Vivienne R. Johnson, Mark E. Warner, Tracy Lawson Jan 2012

Sea Anemones May Thrive In A High Co2 World, David J. Suggett, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, Toby G. Boatman, Ross Payton, Dt Pettay, Vivienne R. Johnson, Mark E. Warner, Tracy Lawson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


High Metabolic Potential May Contribute To The Success Of St131 Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli., Tarek M. Gibreel, Andrew R. Dodgson, John Cheesbrough, Frederick J. Bolton, Andrew J. Fox, Mathew Upton Jan 2012

High Metabolic Potential May Contribute To The Success Of St131 Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli., Tarek M. Gibreel, Andrew R. Dodgson, John Cheesbrough, Frederick J. Bolton, Andrew J. Fox, Mathew Upton

School of Biomedical Sciences

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the predominant cause of urinary tract infection in both hospital and community settings. The recent emergence of multidrug-resistant clones like the O25b:H4-ST131 lineage represents a significant threat to health, and numerous studies have explored the virulence potential of these organisms. Members of the ST131 clone have been described as having variable carriage of key virulence factors, and it has been suggested that additional unidentified factors contribute to virulence. Here we demonstrated that ST131 isolates have high metabolic potential and biochemical profiles that distinguish them from isolates of many other sequence types (STs). A collection of …


Guided Self-Help Concreteness Training As An Intervention For Major Depression In Primary Care: A Phase Ii Randomized Controlled Trial., E. R. Watkins, R. S. Taylor, R. Byng, C. Baeyens, R. Read, K. Pearson, L. Watson Jan 2012

Guided Self-Help Concreteness Training As An Intervention For Major Depression In Primary Care: A Phase Ii Randomized Controlled Trial., E. R. Watkins, R. S. Taylor, R. Byng, C. Baeyens, R. Read, K. Pearson, L. Watson

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: The development of widely accessible, effective psychological interventions for depression is a priority. This randomized trial provides the first controlled data on an innovative cognitive bias modification (CBM) training guided self-help intervention for depression. METHOD: One hundred and twenty-one consecutively recruited participants meeting criteria for current major depression were randomly allocated to treatment as usual (TAU) or to TAU plus concreteness training (CNT) guided self-help or to TAU plus relaxation training (RT) guided self-help. CNT involved repeated practice at mental exercises designed to switch patients from an unhelpful abstract thinking habit to a helpful concrete thinking habit, thereby targeting …


Producing Multimedia Resources For Teaching Medical Students About The Social Context Of Medicine: A Partnership Approach, Tracey Collett, Priska Schoenborn Jan 2012

Producing Multimedia Resources For Teaching Medical Students About The Social Context Of Medicine: A Partnership Approach, Tracey Collett, Priska Schoenborn

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.


Speech Development: Toddlers Don't Mind Getting It Wrong, Piers Messum, Ian S. Howard Jan 2012

Speech Development: Toddlers Don't Mind Getting It Wrong, Piers Messum, Ian S. Howard

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Modeling Volatility And Interdependencies Of Thai Rubber Spot Price Return With Climatic Factors, Exchange Rate And Crude Oil Markets, Wc Sang, S Sriboonchitta, S Rahman, Wt Huang, A Wiboonpongse Jan 2012

Modeling Volatility And Interdependencies Of Thai Rubber Spot Price Return With Climatic Factors, Exchange Rate And Crude Oil Markets, Wc Sang, S Sriboonchitta, S Rahman, Wt Huang, A Wiboonpongse

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Thailand is a leading producer and exporter of rubber in the world market. The interdependencies and volatility of Thai rubber price return with climatic factors (precipitation and temperature), exchange rate, and crude oil market returns are determined in this paper. Vector autoregressive moving average process with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (VARMA-GARCH), VARMA with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (VARMA-AGARCH), and copula-based GARCH models were employed for the analyses. The results demonstrated the interdependencies of Thai rubber price return with dollar and crude oil returns as well as with crude oil return and climatic factors in the VARMA-AGARCH and the copula-based GARCH …