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The Importance Of Knowledge Exchange As A Method To Help Farmers Transition To Sustainable Farming Methods And Mitigate Climate Change., Rebecca Willson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Climate change is among the world’s greatest challenges in the 21st century. This research aimed to evaluate the opportunities for knowledge exchange to support farmers in the transition to more sustainable farming practices. This study used a mixed method analysis to understand current views on knowledge exchange and identify barriers and drivers for farmers to change practice specifically focused on the provision of advice. Key informant interviews were completed with a range of participants involved in sustainable agriculture. To complement opinions from the interviews, farmers were surveyed at three on-farm events and an online survey for farm advisors was completed. …

Guanxi 2.0: Social Capital Within A Cultural Context Revealed By The Use Of Social Media By Chinese International Students, Xu Zhang

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

The group of Chinese overseas students has become a very important part of the cross-border communication group. The number of Chinese students studying in the UK continues to increase. For foreign students from other countries, constructing a new social network is a key step for them to obtain necessary help and support to carry out their new study and life. This thesis takes Chinese international students studying at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom as an example, using the ethnographic research methods of participatory observation and in-depth interviews to explore the process of Chinese international students building their …

Prosthetic Realities, Prosthetic Futures: Challenging The Status Quo Of External Breast Prosthesis Design, Rosie Brave

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

This practice-based research identifies the need and opportunity to update the design approach used in the production of external breast prostheses (EBP) for women post mastectomy. Spurred by accounts of some women’s negative experiences with their EBP, this research took influence from colour psychology, emotional design and consumer psychology to explore the potential to create a satisfying and transformative product and user-experience. Drawing on grounded theory, design ethnography and human-centred design practices, an iterative, empathic and participant-centred design process and methodology emerged. Insights from interviews, cultural probes, co-design activities and solo practice were combined to inform the making of speculative …

The Liminal Event And Its Symbols: On The Intersection Of Human And Technology, Blanka Deroko

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

This thesis is an exploration of practical and theoretical modes of constituting hybrid subjectivities on the intersection of human and technology. Taking as a point of departure the posthuman and postphenomenological perspectives, I develop an approach to articulating hybrid subjectivities, where the distributed human and nonhuman entities come together in a relational way, expressing hybrid agencies. This thesis explores an emergent affective dimension in technological spaces, which provide a sensory stimulation to the human enabling a sense of presence in the distributed and virtual space. Further, I demonstrate a systematic manner, in which an integrated liminal event between the human …

Distribution Ecology Of The Harpy Eagle: Spatial Patterns And Processes To Direct Conservation Planning, Luke James Sutton

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Accurately demarcating species distributions has long been at the core of ecology. Yet our understanding of the factors limiting species range limits is incomplete, especially for tropical species. Human-driven threats to the survival of many taxa are increasing, particularly habitat loss and climate change. Identifying distributional range limits of at-risk species can thus inform spatial conservation planning to mitigate these threats. The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is a large raptor distributed across Neotropical lowland forests, from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, currently threatened by habitat loss and persecution. Coupled with climate change, harpy eagle distribution may contract or shift leading …

The Role Of Environmental Temperature In Immunocompetence And Disease Susceptibility In Bivalves, George Mason

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Disease outbreaks and mass mortality events affecting marine species and ecosystems during periods of high temperature have increased in frequency and intensity over the past several decades. Accordingly, understanding the causes of such thermally-induced outbreaks is increasingly important, particularly in the context of global climate change and predictions of increased pathogen prevalence and disease incidence. Whilst our understanding of immune functions and their adequate energetic provisioning for disease resistance is well developed, little is known on how temperature affects immunological and energetic status in bivalves. Furthermore, even less is known on the potential combined effects between thermal and pathogenic stressors …

Wave And Tide Influence On Headland Bypassing And Shelf Scale Sand Transport, Erin Victoria King

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Waves and tidal currents resuspend and transport littoral and shelf sediments, and it is important to understand the processes impacting the net transport of sand, with implications for various topics including benthic habitats, marine operations, marine spatial planning, and long-term coastal change. Continental shelf areas comprise ~8% of global sea floor, and embayed beaches separated by rocky headlands represent 50% of global shorelines. These areas host a large proportion of global marine economic activity and recreation. Sandy sediments are potentially mobilised by wave-induced currents across > 40% of the earth’s shelf. Mobilised sediments are susceptible to net transport by tidal residual …

How Does Familiarity With A Voice Affect Trait Judgements?, Nadine Lavan, Mila Mileva, Carolyn Mcgettigan

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

The Co-Development Of Hedgedate, A Public Engagement And Decision Support Tool For Air Pollution Exposure Mitigation By Green Infrastructure, Yendle Barwise, Prashant Kumar, Arvind Tiwari, Fahad Rafi-Butt, Aonghus Mcnabola, Stuart Cole, Benjamin C.T. Field, Justine Fuller, Jeewaka Mendis, Kayleigh J. Wyles

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Seeing Lockdown Through The Eyes Of Children From Around The World: Reflecting On A Children's Artwork Project, S Neill, Mj Foster, M Al-Motlaq, B Carter, T O'Sullivan, A Quaye, M Majamanda, K Abdullah, Ik Hallstrom, C English, A Vickers, I Coyne, E Adama, E Morelius

School of Nursing and Midwifery

The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for children including access to education and limiting social and emotional connections to extended family, friends, and the community. Globally, opportunities for sharing children’s self-reported experiences during lockdown were limited. The primary aim of this project was to create an art-E-Book that reflects children’s experiences of life during the COVID-19 pandemic that could be shared with other children around the world. Secondly, we wanted to reflect on the consultation undertaken within the International Network of Child and Family Centered Care (INCFCC) using Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle framework. Children from around the world were invited …

The Pregnant Pause, Sarah Blissett

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Hepatic Steatosis By Controlled Attenuation Parameter Using The M And Xl Probes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis, David Petroff, Valentin Blank, Philip N. Newsome, Shalimar, Cosmin Sebastian Voican, Maja Thiele, Lédinghen V De, Stephan Baumeler, Wah Kheong Chan, Gabriel Perlemuter, Ana Carolina Cardoso, Sandeep Aggarwal, Magali Sasso, Peter J. Eddowes, Michael Allison, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Quentin M. Anstee, David Sheridan, Jeremy F. Cobbold, Sylvie Naveau, Monica Lupsor-Platon, Sebastian Mueller, Aleksander Krag, Marie Irles-Depe, David Semela, Gl-H Wong, Vw-S Wong, Cristiane A. Villela-Nogueira, Harshit Garg, Harshit Garg, Johannes Wiegand, Thomas Karlas

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The Effect Of The Time For Dementia Programme On Medical Students, Sube Banerjee, Christopher Jones, Juliet Wright, Wendy Grosvenor, Molly Hebditch, Leila Hughes, Yvonne Feeney, Nicolas Farina, Sophie Mackrell, Ramin Nilforooshan, Chris Fox, Stephen Bremner, Stephanie Daley

Peninsula Medical School

BackgroundTraditional healthcare education typically focuses on short block clinical placements based on acute care, investigations and technical aspects of diagnosis and treatment. It may therefore fail to build the understanding, compassion and person-centred empathy needed to help those with long-term conditions, like dementia. Time for Dementia was developed to address this.MethodParallel group comparison of two cohorts of UK medical students from universities, one participating in Time for Dementia (intervention group) and one not (control group). In Time for Dementia students visit a person with dementia and their family in pairs for 2 hours three times a year for 2 years, …

Geopolitics Of Finance In Africa: Birth Of Financial Centres, Not Monetary Unions, Elizabeth Cobbett

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Cost Of Elearning Within The Field Of Health Professions Education: Scoping Review, Edward Meinert, S Reeves, Jessie Eerens, Christina Banks, Stephen Maloney, George Rivers, Dragan Ilic, Kieran Walsh, A Majeez, Josip Car

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Background: Existing research on the costs associated for design and deploying eLearning in health professions education is limited. The way in which these learning platforms compare in cost to face-to-face learning is also not well understood. The lack of pre-defined costing models used for eLearning cost data capture has made it difficult to complete cost evaluation. Objective: The key aim of this scoping review is to explore the state of evidence concerning cost capture within eLearning in health professions education. The review explores what data exists to define cost calculations related to eLearning. Methods: Scoping review using a search strategy …

Where Are The Children? An Autoethnography Of Deception In Dementia In An Acute Hospital, G Hodge

School of Nursing and Midwifery

An acute hospital environment is a confusing place for many patients requiring admission, especially when they are presenting as acutely unwell. This can be particularly difficult for people living with dementia. As cognition changes it is not uncommon for people living with dementia to have difficulties with their ability to orientate to time, place and person. These disorientating moments can lead to personal distress, and at times behavioural changes. As well as being distressing for the person living with dementia, it can also be emotionally and ethically challenging for acute hospital staff; including nurses. One area found to be particularly …

Chloroplast Immunity Illuminated, George R. Littlejohn, Susan Breen, Nicholas Smirnoff, Murray Grant

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Measuring Individual And Group Flow In Collaborative Improvisational Dance, Klara Łucznik, Jon May

School of Psychology

This study investigated flow experience during group collaborations of creative dance improvisation, where group flow was defined as periods when most members of a group reported a flow experience. Sixteen dancers took part in the experimental sessions, performing improvisational tasks in groups of four. We chose two different types of dance task, hypothesising that dancers’ external focus upon the group's shared surroundings and awareness of others might facilitate group flow experience; while an internal focus upon one's own mental imagery might inhibit it. A novel, video-stimulated recall method to assess flow experience was used to track time patterns and shared …

Exploring The Practical Implementation Of Marine Biodiversity Offsetting In Australia, Holly J. Niner, Peter J.S. Jones, Ben Milligan, Craig Styan

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

X-Linked Serotonin 2c Receptor Is Associated With A Non-Canonical Pathway For Sudden Unexpected Death In Epilepsy, Cory A Massey, Samantha J Thompson, Ryan W Ostrom, Janice Drabek, Olafur A Sveinsson, Torbjörn Tomson, Elisabeth A Haas, Othon J Mena, Alica M Goldman, Jeffrey L Noebels

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy is a leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality, and the analysis of mouse Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy models is steadily revealing a spectrum of inherited risk phenotypes based on distinct genetic mechanisms. Serotonin (5-HT) signalling enhances post-ictal cardiorespiratory drive and, when elevated in the brain, reduces death following evoked audiogenic brainstem seizures in inbred mouse models. However, no gene in this pathway has yet been linked to a spontaneous epilepsy phenotype, the defining criterion of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy. Most monogenic models of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy invoke a failure of inhibitory synaptic …

Physiological Measurements For Real-Time Fatigue Monitoring In Train Drivers: Review Of The State Of The Art And Reframing The Problem, Bojana Bjegojevic, Maria Chiara Leva, Nora Balfe, Sam D. Cromie, Luca Longo

Conference papers

The impact of fatigue on train drivers is one of the most important safety-critical issues in rail. It affects drivers’ performance, significantly contributing to railway incidents and accidents. To address the issue of real-time fatigue detection in drivers, most reliable and applicable psychophysiological indicators of fatigue need to be identified. Hence, this paper aims to examine and present the current state of the art in physiological measures for real-time fatigue monitoring that could be applied in the train driving context. Three groups of such measures are identified: EEG, eye-tracking and heart-rate measures. This is the first paper to provide the …

Assessment Of The Impact Of Tardive Dyskinesia In Clinical Practice: Consensus Panel Recommendations, Richard Jackson, Matthew N Brams, Leslie Citrome, Amber R Hoberg, Stuart H Isaacson, John M Kane, Rajeev Kumar

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

PURPOSE: Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a hyperkinetic movement disorder in which patients experience abnormal involuntary movements that can have profound negative impacts on physical, cognitive, and psychosocial functioning. Use of measures to assess the functional impact of TD in routine clinical practice is lacking. To address this gap, an advisory panel of experts in psychiatry and movement disorder neurology was convened to develop consensus recommendations on assessment of the impact of TD on patients' functioning that can be used in clinical practice.

METHODS: An advisory panel provided recommendations using an iterative process, beginning with a narrative literature review regarding current …

Smaller Spared Subcortical Nuclei Are Associated With Worse Post-Stroke Sensorimotor Outcomes In 28 Cohorts Worldwide, Sook-Lei Liew, Catherine E Lang, Anup K Bhattacharya, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Up to two-thirds of stroke survivors experience persistent sensorimotor impairments. Recovery relies on the integrity of spared brain areas to compensate for damaged tissue. Deep grey matter structures play a critical role in the control and regulation of sensorimotor circuits. The goal of this work is to identify associations between volumes of spared subcortical nuclei and sensorimotor behaviour at different timepoints after stroke. We pooled high-resolution T

Lrrtm4 Is A Member Of The Transsynaptic Complex Between Rod Photoreceptors And Bipolar Cells, Melina A Agosto, Theodore G Wensel

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Leucine rich repeat transmembrane (LRRTM) proteins are synaptic adhesion molecules with roles in synapse formation and signaling. LRRTM4 transcripts were previously shown to be enriched in rod bipolar cells (BCs), secondary neurons of the retina that form synapses with rod photoreceptors. Using two different antibodies, LRRTM4 was found to reside primarily at rod BC dendritic tips, where it colocalized with the transduction channel protein, TRPM1. LRRTM4 was not detected at dendritic tips of ON-cone BCs. Following somatic knockout of LRRTM4 in BCs by subretinal injection and electroporation of CRISPR/Cas9, LRRTM4 was abolished or reduced in the dendritic tips of transfected …

Long Noncoding Rnas And Their Therapeutic Promise In Diabetic Nephropathy, Juan D Coellar, Jianyin Long, Farhad R Danesh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Recent advances in large-scale RNA sequencing and genome-wide profiling projects have unraveled a heterogeneous group of RNAs, collectively known as long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which play central roles in many diverse biological processes. Importantly, an association between aberrant expression of lncRNAs and diverse human pathologies has been reported, including in a variety of kidney diseases. These observations have raised the possibility that lncRNAs may represent unexploited potential therapeutic targets for kidney diseases. Several important questions regarding the functionality of lncRNAs and their impact in kidney diseases, however, remain to be carefully addressed. Here, we provide an overview of the main …

Genomic Mapping Of Dna-Repair Reaction Intermediates In Living Cells With Engineered Dna Structure-Trap Proteins, Jingjing Liu, Qian Mei, Sadeieh Nimer, Devon M Fitzgerald, Susan M Rosenberg

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Diverse DNA structures occur as reaction intermediates in various DNA-damage and -repair mechanisms, most of which results from replication stress. We harness the power of proteins evolutionarily optimized to bind and "trap" specific DNA reaction-intermediate structures, to quantify the structures, and discern the mechanisms of their occurrence in cells. The engineered proteins also allow genomic mapping of sites at which specific DNA structures occur preferentially, using a structure-trapping protein and ChIP-seq- or Cut-and-Tag-like methods. Genome-wide identification of sites with recurrent DNA-damage intermediates has illuminated mechanisms implicated in genome instability, replication stress, and chromosome fragility. Here, we describe X-seq, for identifying …

Repair Of Vesicouterine Fistula By Not Using Traditional O' Connor Method, Lubna Razzak, Raheela Mohsin Rizvi

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

A 25-year-old female patient visited our clinic with complaint of cyclic haematuria. She had previous two Caesarean Sections at a secondary care hospital. Her complete urinalysis showed abundant red blood cells. Through computed tomography a fistula tract between the posterior wall of the bladder and the anterior wall of the lower uterine segment was diagnosed. The Cystoscopy revealed a fistulous opening with a diameter of nearly 1.5 cm localized between the bladder and uterine cavity. Fistulae was repaired by abdominal approach without transection of bladder. Surgery was performed by mobilization of bladder and wide anterior uterine dissection. A 2cm defect …

Managerial Cost Accounting, Christopher M. Fairchild

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Federal Income Taxation I, Natasha Ware

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Auditing, Natasha Ware

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.