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The oral care experiences of palliative care patients, their relatives and healthcare professionals.
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Background: Oral symptoms in a growing number of people receiving palliative care are often neglected. Dental professionals are not always involved in palliative care and research on oral care of palliative care patients ...
The Photosynthesiser - A methodology for mapping environmental conditions, pivotal to the speed of photosynthesis in plants, through sonification.
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Traditionally, the close inspection of data requires visual guidance in the form of displays depicting numeric or graphical representations over time. Sonification offers a way to convey this data through auditory means, ...
The Optimisation of cultivation conditions for Basil (Ocimum sp. L) production in multi-tier hydroponics and the role of light quality in the enhancement of growth and quality
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Basil (Ocimum sp. L.) is considered an important herb in Herbalism, Agronomy, Ethnobotany, Gastronomy, and Bromatology. Increases in population have led to an increase in the demands for food including Basil and thus there ...
Hot Food Takeaways around schools: Can fast food be healthier?
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Obesity is the greatest global health challenge facing this generation; over half of the adult population are overweight or obese. Calls for food environment interventions include recommendations for restriction or banning ...
Constructions of Space in Fiction of Neil Gaiman
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
This thesis conducts a spatial reading of a selection of novels written by Neil Gaiman to
demonstrate how constructions of space in contemporary fiction can be analysed to
reveal the underlying politics and cultural ...
Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s assertion ‘the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the White man’ (Fanon,1982:110) this research project analyses the ways in which representation has affected the performativity ...
Enhancing Video Streaming Quality of DASH over Cloud/Edge Integrated Networks
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
With the advancement of mobile technologies and the popularity of mobile devices, mobile video streaming applications/services have increased considerably in recent years. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) or ...
EXPERIMENTS IN MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS' CO-OPERATIVE 1968 – 1979
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
My thesis is centered around the experimental films of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative. Through the shared workshop spaces and the vision to defy conventional mainstream cinema, the self-led collective was influential ...
EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE ON ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE SEMI-TERRESTRIAL AMPHIPOD ORCHESTIA GAMMARELLUS
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Ecophysiological responses vary during development in ways that may determine the ecological and evolutionary consequences of climate change. How temperature alters processes vital to organismal homeostasis (e.g. cardiac ...
The Representation of the Outlaw Biker in California, 1953-1969: Film, Counterculture and Commodity
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
My thesis is an exploration of the representation of the outlaw biker from 1953-1969. I will use three films to anchor my work: Easy Rider (1969), The Wild One (1953), The Wild Angels (1965). Each of these films will be ...