09 Plymouth University Research Theses: Recent submissions
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A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCES OF ROLE-PLAY IN TWO PACK-AWAY EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS.
(University of Plymouth, 2017)In this thesis, I explored children’s experiences of role-play in relation to notions of self. The research took place in two pack-away settings in the Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sector of Early Childhood ... -
Model Fit Diagnostics for Hidden Markov Models
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are an efficient tool to describe and model the underlying behaviour of many phenomena. HMMs assume that the observed data are generated independently from a parametric distribution, conditional ... -
Behavioural Monitoring via Network Communications
(University of Plymouth, 2017)It is commonly acknowledged that using Internet applications is an integral part of an individual’s everyday life, with more than three billion users now using Internet services across the world; and this number is growing ... -
Development of a conditionally-attenuated cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine vector platform, and initial investigations into use of CMV as a vaccine against pandemic influenza A virus
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Abstract Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-based vectors are a promising vaccine platform with an ability to induce high levels of durable, immediate, effector memory T (TEM) cell responses against their heterologous encoded pathogen ... -
DESIGNING A TAXONOMY FOR VIRTUAL MUSEUMS FOR THE USE OF AVICOM PROFESSIONALS
(Plymouth University, 2015)This thesis aims to go beyond the concept of so called ‘virtual museums’. In this work I will attempt to trace a new definition of the term ‘virtual museum’ providing the concept with renewed dignity, comparable to ICOM’S ... -
Group Creativity: An Interpersonal Perspective
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Creativity has received significant interest in variety of fields and disciplines with a major focus on individual level creativity. As more and more achievements started originating from groups, researchers turned their ... -
Enhancing Civil Military Integration for Strategic Sealift
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Our political and military leaders consider the efficient deployment and maintenance of personnel and hardware to be of equal importance to the task of planning the military operation. However, inasmuch as today’s military ... -
ON THE ROLE OF AERATION, ELASTICITY AND WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION ON HYDRODYNAMIC IMPACT LOADING
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Local and global loadings, which may cause the local damage and/or global failure and collapse of offshore structures and ships, are experimentally investigated in this study. The big research question is how the aeration ... -
Assessment of Ocular Accommodation in Humans
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Accommodation is the change in the dioptric power of the eye altering the focus from distance to near. Presbyopia is the loss of accommodative function that occurs with age. There are many techniques used to measure ... -
The impact of voice on trust attributions
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Trust and speech are both essential aspects of human interaction. On the one hand, trust is necessary for vocal communication to be meaningful. On the other hand, humans have developed a way to infer someone’s trustworthiness ...
