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Plastic fragmentation in the environment
(Plymouth University, 2016)
Microplastics are small piece of plastic debris < 5 mm in diameter, which arise and enter the environment either as a consequence of the direct release of small pieces of plastic debris or as a consequence of the fragmentation ...
User-Centric Traffic Engineering in Software Defined Networks
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
Software defined networking (SDN) is a relatively new paradigm that decouples individual network elements from the control logic, offering real-time network programmability, translating high level policy abstractions into ...
LABYRINTH PSYCHOTICA - SIMULATING PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA
(Plymouth University, 2016)
This thesis forms a valuable tool of analysis, as well as an important reference guide to anyone interested in communicating, expressing, representing, simulating and or imagining what it is like to experience psychotic ...
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
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
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 ...
An intelligent, fast-acquisition remote sensing system for locating and measuring burial of subsea power and telecommunication cables
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
This thesis describes novel methods to localise and estimate the burial depth of subsea cables. The limitation of the current methods is that they can measure the distance to the cable only in a small vicinity, usually up ...
Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
(Plymouth University, 2016)
In her book How We Became Posthuman (1999), Katherine Hayles analysed the process through which the conception of the liberal humanist subject led the way to the posthuman subject, a subject who lives in complete entwinement ...
Visual Odometry and Mapping in Natural Environments for Arbitrary Camera Motion Models
(Plymouth University, 2016)
This is a thesis on outdoor monocular visual SLAM in natural environments. The techniques proposed herein aim at estimating camera pose and 3D geometrical structure of the surrounding environment. This problem statement ...
Factors affecting food intake and the role of Nutrition Education in the understanding and implementation of healthy dietary habits in Saudi adolescent girls
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
Over the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity has increased among Saudi adolescents. Amongst the many environmental factors predisposing to obesity is the increase in the quantity of certain foods and changes in ...
Do superfast broadband and tailored interventions improve use of eHealth and reduce health related travel?
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
Do superfast broadband and tailored interventions improve use of eHealth and reduce health related travel?
Introduction – eHealth has been shown to have promising health outcomes in numerous areas, however many people ...
AN EXPLORATION OF SLOVENIAN OLDER PEOPLE’S OCCUPATIONS AND THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSITION INTO A CARE HOME ON THEIR OCCUPATIONAL ENGAGEMENT
(University of Plymouth, 2017)
This research explored older Slovenians’ occupations, including the ways in which the transition into a care home influenced their occupational engagement. The research encompassed three stages. Stage 1 investigated Slovenian ...