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The Contributions Of Dissenting Protestantism To Western Views Of Human Dignity And Freedom, Nicholas P. Miller
The Contributions Of Dissenting Protestantism To Western Views Of Human Dignity And Freedom, Nicholas P. Miller
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Brain-Computer Music Interfacing: Interdisciplinary Research At The Crossroads Of Music, Science And Biomedical Engineering, Er Miranda
School of Art, Design and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Talking On The Move: Place‐Based Interviewing With Undergraduate Students, Mark Holton, Mark Riley
Talking On The Move: Place‐Based Interviewing With Undergraduate Students, Mark Holton, Mark Riley
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Recent research has begun to pay attention to the importance of place to the research encounter. This paper makes a contribution to these discussions through an investigation into the lived experiences of higher education students. Although there is a burgeoning literature on what has been termed ‘student geographies’, there has been relatively little attention focused on the methods that we might employ in exploring these geographies. Here we consider ‘walking interviews’ as an approach to helping better comprehend students’ experiences and understandings of University towns and cities. Accompanying students ‘in the field’ allowed us to explore students’ narratives ‘in place’ …
Parameterization Of Pharmaceutical Emissions And Removal Rates For Use In Uk Predictive Exposure Models: Steroid Estrogens As A Case Study., J. D. Heffley, S. D.W. Comber, B. W. Wheeler, C. H. Redshaw
Parameterization Of Pharmaceutical Emissions And Removal Rates For Use In Uk Predictive Exposure Models: Steroid Estrogens As A Case Study., J. D. Heffley, S. D.W. Comber, B. W. Wheeler, C. H. Redshaw
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Newly available prescription data has been used along with census data to develop a localised method for predicting pharmaceutical concentrations in sewage influent and effluent for England, and applied to a case study: the steroid estrogens estrone, 17β-estradiol, and 17α-ethinylestradiol in a selected catchment. The prescription data allows calculation of the mass consumed of synthetic estrogens, while use of highly localised census data improves predictions of naturally excreted estrogens by accounting for regional variations in population demographics. This serves two key purposes; to increase the accuracy of predictions in general, and to call attention to the need for more accurate …
Chapter 21 Controls On Variations In Cristobalite Abundance In Ash Generated By The Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat In The Period 1997 To 2010, Cj Horwell, Se Hillman, Pd Cole, Sc Loughlin, Ew Llewellin, De Damby, Te Christopher
Chapter 21 Controls On Variations In Cristobalite Abundance In Ash Generated By The Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat In The Period 1997 To 2010, Cj Horwell, Se Hillman, Pd Cole, Sc Loughlin, Ew Llewellin, De Damby, Te Christopher
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
An Investigation Of The Current System Of Destination Management Organisations- The Case Of China, Xiaoran Tian
An Investigation Of The Current System Of Destination Management Organisations- The Case Of China, Xiaoran Tian
Plymouth Business School Theses
This research investigates Destination Management Organisation (DMOs) in China, and looks at their functions and their adoption of Performance Measurement Systems (PMSs). A two-stage questionnaire survey has adopted to achieve the pre-determined aims of the research. Finally, ninety-three DMOs took part in the first stage survey and thirty-four DMOs were involved in the second stage survey. The key findings from the research are as follows. (1) Irrespective of their nature and level, Chinese DMOs attached most importance to the functions of “economic-driver”, “marketing” and “coordination & collaboration”. (2) DMOs attached a second level of importance to the functions of “operator”, …
Tracking Discourses Of Occupation And Genocide In Lithuanian Museums And Sites Of Memory, Alexander Craig Wight
Tracking Discourses Of Occupation And Genocide In Lithuanian Museums And Sites Of Memory, Alexander Craig Wight
Plymouth Business School Theses
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific methodologies to understand issues such as the motivations of visitors to consume dark tourism experiences and visitor interpretations of the various narratives that are part of the consumption experience. This thesis offers an alternative conceptual perspective for carrying out research into museums that represent genocide and occupation by presenting a discourse analysis of five Lithuanian …
Port Sustainability Management System For Smaller Ports In Cornwall And Devon, Andrei Kuznetsov
Port Sustainability Management System For Smaller Ports In Cornwall And Devon, Andrei Kuznetsov
Plymouth Business School Theses
Many smaller ports in Cornwall and Devon (CAD) are situated in environmentally sensitive habitats and generate benefits for stakeholders and local communities. Such ports are often embedded in tourist based economies. Increasing environmental legislation is placing a strain on the resources of smaller ports making compliance a threat to profitability and thus the future of some ports and local economies. Over-reliance on environmental management systems (EMS) across the ports industry has predominated over the importance of holistic sustainability. This project develops and disseminates a port sustainability management system (PSMS) in CAD, assisting ports to plan marine and maritime operations more …
Looking Forward Through The Past. Identification Of Fifty Priority Research Questions In Palaeoecology., A Seddon, A Mackay, A Baker, Et Al
Looking Forward Through The Past. Identification Of Fifty Priority Research Questions In Palaeoecology., A Seddon, A Mackay, A Baker, Et Al
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Priority question exercises are becoming an increasingly common tool to frame future agendas in conservation and ecological science. They are an effective way to identify research foci that advance the field and that also have high policy and conservation relevance. To date, there has been no coherent synthesis of key questions and priority research areas for palaeoecology, which combines biological, geochemical and molecular techniques in order to reconstruct past ecological and environmental systems on time-scales from decades to millions of years. We adapted a well-established methodology to identify 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology. Using a set of criteria designed …
Repositioning For Pressure Ulcer Prevention In Adults, Brigid M. Gillespie, Wendy P. Chaboyer, Elizabeth Mcinnes, Bridie Kent, Jennifer A. Whitty, Lukman Thalib
Repositioning For Pressure Ulcer Prevention In Adults, Brigid M. Gillespie, Wendy P. Chaboyer, Elizabeth Mcinnes, Bridie Kent, Jennifer A. Whitty, Lukman Thalib
School of Nursing and Midwifery
No abstract provided.
Self-Regulating Smoking And Snacking Through Physical Activity., Hwajung Oh, Adrian H. Taylor
Self-Regulating Smoking And Snacking Through Physical Activity., Hwajung Oh, Adrian H. Taylor
Peninsula Medical School
OBJECTIVE: Emotional snacking contributes to weight gain after smoking cessation. Exercise acutely reduces cravings for cigarettes and snack food. This study examined if different exercise intensities acutely reduces snack and cigarette cravings and attentional bias (AB) to video clips of snacks and cigarettes among abstinent smokers. METHODS: Abstinent smokers (and snackers; N = 23) randomly did 15 mins of moderate and vigorous cycling and a passive control in a cross-over design. Visual initial AB (IAB) and maintained AB (MAB) were assessed pre- and after treatment while watching paired snacking/neutral or smoking/neutral video clips. Desire to snack and smoke were assessed …
Modelling Particle Residence Times In Agricultural River Basins Using A Sediment Budget Model And Fallout Radionuclide Tracers, Hugh G. Smith, William H. Blake, Alex Taylor
Modelling Particle Residence Times In Agricultural River Basins Using A Sediment Budget Model And Fallout Radionuclide Tracers, Hugh G. Smith, William H. Blake, Alex Taylor
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Investigating Women's Experiences Of Asthma Care In Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study., Chervonne Chamberlain, Graham R. Williamson, Beatrice Knight, Mark Daly, David M.G. Halpin
Investigating Women's Experiences Of Asthma Care In Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study., Chervonne Chamberlain, Graham R. Williamson, Beatrice Knight, Mark Daly, David M.G. Halpin
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Background : Most asthmatic women have normal pregnancies and complications are infrequent when their asthma is well-controlled. Symptom control and medical treatment are concerning to pregnant asthma suffers, as is the impact that their illness and treatment might have on their unborn baby. The aim was to investigate in a qualitative study the thoughts and feelings of women's experiences of asthma in pregnancy. Twenty-two women with asthma who had a pregnancy within two years were asked to participate. Seven women were interviewed when data saturation was achieved. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using the 'Framework' Method, independently analysed by two …
South African Critical Care Nurses' Views On End‐Of‐Life Decision‐Making And Practices, Gayle Langley, Shelley Schmollgruber, Paul Fulbrook, John W. Albarran, Jos M. Latour
South African Critical Care Nurses' Views On End‐Of‐Life Decision‐Making And Practices, Gayle Langley, Shelley Schmollgruber, Paul Fulbrook, John W. Albarran, Jos M. Latour
School of Nursing and Midwifery
ABSTRACTBackgroundCare of patients at the end‐of‐life (EOL) may be influenced by the experiences, attitudes and beliefs of nurses involved in their direct care.AimTo investigate South African critical care nurses' experiences and perceptions of EOL care.DesignCross‐sectional survey.MethodsSouth African critical care nurses completed a modified version of the ‘VENICE’ survey tool. Data were collected concerning: attitudes towards EOL care; involvement in EOL decision‐making; and beliefs about EOL practices.ResultsOf 149 surveys distributed, 100 were returned (response rate 67%). Seventy‐six percent stated that they had had direct involvement in EOL care of patients, but a minority (29%) had participated in EOL decision‐making processes. Whilst …
Developing And Testing The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect) For Critical Care Nursing Practice, Fenella J. Gill, Gavin D. Leslie, Carol Grech, Duncan Boldy, Jos M. Latour
Developing And Testing The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect) For Critical Care Nursing Practice, Fenella J. Gill, Gavin D. Leslie, Carol Grech, Duncan Boldy, Jos M. Latour
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Background: Nurses working in critical care often undertake specialty education. There are no uniform practice outcomes for critical care programs, and consumer input to practice standards has been lacking. Methods: A structured multiphase project was undertaken to develop practice standards and an assessment tool informed by critical care nursing stakeholders as well as patients and families—the Standards of Practice and Evaluation of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (SPECT). Results: Testing of the SPECT revealed adequate content validity index (CVI), domain CVI (range, 0.772 to 0.887), and statement CVI (range, 0.66 to 1.00). Reliability was adequate in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach’s α > 0.864) …
Implementing The Family-Centered Care Model, Parents’ Satisfaction And Experiences In Neonatology, I Dall’Oglio, A Portanova, M Fiori, O Gawronski, R Fida, A Cocchieri, G Rocco, E Tiozzo, Jm Latour
Implementing The Family-Centered Care Model, Parents’ Satisfaction And Experiences In Neonatology, I Dall’Oglio, A Portanova, M Fiori, O Gawronski, R Fida, A Cocchieri, G Rocco, E Tiozzo, Jm Latour
School of Nursing and Midwifery
No abstract provided.
Key Attitudinal Competences For Early Childhood Practitioners: Exploring European Approaches To Teaching And Learning, Verity Campbell Barr, Jan Georgeson
Key Attitudinal Competences For Early Childhood Practitioners: Exploring European Approaches To Teaching And Learning, Verity Campbell Barr, Jan Georgeson
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
The European Key Competences for Lifelong Learning provide a European-level reference tool for education providers, including Higher Education institutions, to focus national- and European-level efforts to support students towards personal fulfillment, social inclusion, active citizenship and employability in a knowledge-based society. The European Lifelong Learning Programme defines competences as:“a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the context” (European Commission, 2007: 3).Whilst not wishing to undermine the importance of knowledge and skills, we are interested in how to develop attitudes for the particular context of early childhood practice. Within Europe there is a complex array of terminology for those …
The Multidimensional Depth Of The Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A Philosophical Reflection For Graphic Design), Martyn Stuart Woodward
The Multidimensional Depth Of The Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A Philosophical Reflection For Graphic Design), Martyn Stuart Woodward
School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses
The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact Current discourses within cultural studies are re-iterating the limitations of language to adequately describe the affective domains of corporeality and materiality in the study of cultural artefacts. Within the discourse of graphic design, however, there remains an enduring focus placed upon models of language and communication to understand the meaning of designed materials. Rather than upholding a focus upon language, this thesis undertakes a theoretical investigation to extend the literature available to the discourse of graphic design to better understand how visual materials ‘come to mean’ within the experience of an embodied subject …
Towards An Articulation Of Architecture As A Verb; Learning From Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities And Textual Values., Richard Bower
Towards An Articulation Of Architecture As A Verb; Learning From Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities And Textual Values., Richard Bower
School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses
Originating from a disenfranchisement with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of economic absence, most notably in the global South. This thesis explores whether such examples can be interpreted as practical realisations of key theoretical advocacies for positive social space that have emerged in the context of post-Second World-War capitalism. The principal methodological framework utilises two differing trajectories of spatial discourse. …
Towards Harmonic Extensions Of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing Further Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Aj Kirke, Er Miranda
Towards Harmonic Extensions Of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing Further Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Aj Kirke, Er Miranda
School of Art, Design and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Is Neolithic Land Use Correlated With Demography? An Evaluation Of Pollen-Derived Land Cover And Radiocarbon-Inferred Demographic Change From Central Europe, Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan
Is Neolithic Land Use Correlated With Demography? An Evaluation Of Pollen-Derived Land Cover And Radiocarbon-Inferred Demographic Change From Central Europe, Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Thermography Methodologies For Detecting Energy Related Building Defects, Matthew Fox, David Coley, Steve Goodhew, Wilde P De
Thermography Methodologies For Detecting Energy Related Building Defects, Matthew Fox, David Coley, Steve Goodhew, Wilde P De
School of Art, Design and Architecture
No abstract provided.
'It's All A Question Of Business': Investment Identities, Networks And Decision-Making In The Cleantech Economy, Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey
'It's All A Question Of Business': Investment Identities, Networks And Decision-Making In The Cleantech Economy, Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Making Sense Of The Gren Economy, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey
Making Sense Of The Gren Economy, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
The Green Economy: Functional Domains And Theoretical Directions Of Enquiry, Ian Bailey, Federico Caprotti
The Green Economy: Functional Domains And Theoretical Directions Of Enquiry, Ian Bailey, Federico Caprotti
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi
An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi
Plymouth Business School Theses
This research aims to analyse the direct and indirect effects of human capital, social capital and customer capital on the different types of innovations via organisational capital in the service sector. It also examines the interaction among the different types of innovations including product, process and organisational innovations and tests the role of human capital, social capital and customer capital in supporting organisational capital. This research employs the first stage of Actor Network Theory named problematisation to justify the research model. This study adopts a positivism philosophy, a deduction approach and a quantitative method as the research methodology. Hence, a …
From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby
From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby
Plymouth Business School Theses
Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is an evolving discipline, and incorporates the environmental and social performance dimensions of sustainability with the traditional measure of economic performance; current SSCM research indicates a skew towards economic performance and its interaction with environmental performance, while social performance is underrepresented (Pagell and Wu, 2009, Schaefer, 2004, Sharma and Ruud, 2003). The UK clothing industry represents a relevant research focus due to its supply chain complexity, and scale and scope of its environmental and social impacts; this thesis further recognises the tendency for academic research to focus on Large Enterprises (LE) (Curran and Blackburn, 2001) …
Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins
Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins
Plymouth Business School Theses
This thesis sets out to explore factors external to the individual that encourage creative idea generation in SME environments, understanding their importance in a variety of organisational contexts. The original contribution to knowledge made by this thesis is the creation of a framework which aids understanding by splitting the various factors into those responsible for initiating and sustaining idea generation. Literature concerning creative idea generation is continuously developing and contains a broad spectrum of topics and understandings. Key amongst these are leadership, the nature of creative idea generation, theories such as the ‘strength of weak ties’, collective creativity and the …
Church-Based Alcohol Rehabilitation In The Former Soviet Union, Mark R. Elliott
Church-Based Alcohol Rehabilitation In The Former Soviet Union, Mark R. Elliott
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
Insulin Acutely Improves Mitochondrial Function Of Rat And Human Skeletal Muscle By Increasing Coupling Efficiency Of Oxidative Phosphorylation., Raid B. Nisr, Charles Affourtit
Insulin Acutely Improves Mitochondrial Function Of Rat And Human Skeletal Muscle By Increasing Coupling Efficiency Of Oxidative Phosphorylation., Raid B. Nisr, Charles Affourtit
School of Biomedical Sciences
Insulin is essential for the regulation of fuel metabolism and triggers the uptake of glucose by skeletal muscle. The imported glucose is either stored or broken down, as insulin stimulates glycogenesis and ATP synthesis. The mechanism by which ATP production is increased is incompletely understood at present and, generally, relatively little functional information is available on the effect of insulin on mitochondrial function. In this paper we have exploited extracellular flux technology to investigate insulin effects on the bioenergetics of rat (L6) and human skeletal muscle myoblasts and myotubes. We demonstrate that a 20-min insulin exposure significantly increases (i) the …