Browsing by Author "Faculty of Arts and Humanities"
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Airport Territory as Interface: Mobile Work and Travel in Hybrid Space.
(Plymouth University, 2015)Premise In order to understand the future potential of work and air travel experience for constant travellers, design approaches from architecture and research methods from social studies should be combined. Abstract Global ... -
Algorithmic Sovereignty
(University of Plymouth, 2018)This thesis describes a practice based research journey across various projects dealing with the design of algorithms, to highlight the governance implications in design choices made on them. The research provides answers ... -
Analysis and Correction of Corneal Astigmatism in Modern Pseudophakia
(Plymouth University, 2016)Toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) are designed to reduce spectacle dependency by correcting corneal astigmatism at the time of surgery. However, these IOLs are reliant on the accurate prediction of post-operative corneal ... -
Analysis of competition in European open access long-distance passenger rail markets
(University of Plymouth, 2020)This thesis explores factors influencing open access competition in long-distance passenger rail transport in Europe. It fills a gap in the existing literature by providing expert opinions on open access competition, by ... -
ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF OVERSHOOTING IN THE CONTEXT OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
(University of Plymouth, 2020)Persistently improving certain performance characteristics of products, like functionality, reliability or usability, may make for difficulties in consuming those products, which is the situation of overshooting (Christensen, ... -
Apophenoesis & the Origins of Creativity: Virtual Pattern Recognition, Error, Paths to Consciousness & Augmenting the Evolution of Self
(University of Plymouth, 2020)This research defines apophenoesis as a convergent practical tool that can enhance one’s creative process by introducing deviations from the familiar in such a way to allow new creative pathways to form and result in new ... -
APPLICATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT FOR CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY
(University of Plymouth, 2020)In the light of the current debate on climate change and its ever-growing impact on the corporate world this thesis deals with the integration of sustainability into corporations. Its focus lies on the integration of ... -
Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
(Plymouth University, 2015)This thesis begins from a concern over the perceived lack of female involvement in performances of play in the public built environment. Its starting point is the male-dominated practice of skateboarding. Although a popular ... -
Arhitectura 1950-1989. Interstitial Spaces of Communist Romanian Architecture
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This thesis examines the relationship between communist Romanian architecture as a politicised field of cultural production, and power embodied in the state’s institutions. While it is generally acknowledged that the ... -
Art as a Generator of New Mental Patterns: From an epistemological perspective of Modern Physics, Neuroscience and the Buddhist system of thought.
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This thesis draws upon research in Eastern philosophy and neuroscience to argue that art is capable of metabolizing and embodying different levels of reality, and therefore functions as an instrument that can generate ... -
Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
(Plymouth University, 2015)Exploring both political aesthetics and the politics of aesthetics to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its ... -
An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(Plymouth University, 2015)An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Thomas Baugh Abstract In this research I explore my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and make manifest equivalent experiences of it through art practice. I ... -
Artistic Modulation of Consciousness by Bioelectromagnetic Stimulation
(University of Plymouth, 2019)The thesis demonstrates why the application of bioelectromagnetic stimulation as a medium of artistic expression allows for the production of new and unprecedented realisations of integrative art. Furthermore, the modulation ... -
'As you were': Military-bureaucratic control and the employment relationship in the British armed forces
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Service in the British armed forces has not previously been considered a subject for employment and industrial relations research, but military personnel are in an employment relationship and thus worthy of such study. ... -
Assessment of a solid-state fermentation product in contemporary and lupin-containing diets for commercial finfish
(Plymouth University, 2016)This body of research explores the dietary application of a bioactive, solid-state fermentation (SSF) product in contemporary and lupin-containing diets of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niltoticus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus ... -
Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene
(University of Plymouth, 2020)This project by the artist and researcher Laura Hopes develops from a methodology built around the idea of the ‘vulnerable practitioner’, open to failure, seeking collaboration and acceptant of unknowns. Her practice has ... -
Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
(Plymouth University, 2016)Young children’s experiences, which include their transition to school, can influence not only their academic outcomes but also their life chances. This understanding has led to governments in England investing in the ... -
Between Selves and Others: Exploring Strategic Approaches within Visual Art
(Plymouth University, 2014)This body of research investigates how visual artists express ideas or meanings about Otherness and issues of belonging in their art. The focus of this study is on women artists with an (East) Asian diasporic background; ... -
BICCHERNA COVERS AND SIENESE TRECENTO SOCIETY: FIVE CASE STUDIES
(University of Plymouth, 2019)In the study of trecento Sienese Biccherna covers several questions immediately arise: how and why did the iconographies of their figurative and inscriptive parts change and did the magistrates whose names appear as ... -
Biodiversity crisis and recovery during the Triassic-Jurassic greenhouse interval: testing ocean acidification hypotheses
(Plymouth University, 2014)The Late Rhaetian (Late Triassic) extinction event is characterised by shelled species showing a reduction in size, and thickness, which together with changed mineralogy is thought to be as a result of increased atmospheric ...
