Browsing 01 Research Theses Main Collection by Title
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Auschwitz: Art, Commemoration and Memorialisation: From 1940 To The Present
(University of Plymouth, 2012)STEFAN LUDWIK ALOSZKO AUSCHWITZ: ART, COMMEMORATION AND MEMORIALISATION: FROM 1940 TO THE PRESENT ABSTRACT This thesis explores chronologically the art, commemoration and memorialisation of the Nazi concentration and ... -
THE AUTECOLOGY OF THE MEADOW THISTLE (Cirsium dissectum L. Hill) ON DEVON RHoS PASTURES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EFFECT OF MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS
(University of Plymouth, 1999)Semi-natural wet grassland communities are rapidly disappearing from the farmed landscape. Protection of remaining areas and restoration of degraded areas has become a priority with organisations concerned with the ... -
Authentication Aura: A cooperative and distributed approach to user authentication on mobile devices
(Plymouth University, 2015)As information technology pervades our lives we have increasingly come to rely on these evermore sophisticated and ubiquitous items of equipment. Portability and the desire to be connected around the clock has driven the ... -
Authenticity and Quality of Muscle Foods: Assessing Consumer Trust and Fraud Detection Approaches
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Authenticity issues and fraudulent practices regarding animal products are affecting consumer confidence. Verifying the description, composition, processing or origin of foods can be challenging. To explore British and ... -
AUTHOR VERIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEMS
(University of Plymouth, 2020)Messaging systems have become a hugely popular new paradigm for sending and delivering text messages; however, online messaging platforms have also become an ideal place for criminals due to their anonymity, ease of use ... -
Authority and Crime, 1835-1860: A Comparison between Exmouth and Torquay
(University of Plymouth, 2013)Authority and Crime, 1835-1860: A Comparison between Exmouth and Torquay This thesis explores the impact of crime on seaside resorts in mid-nineteenth century England, together with the implications and challenges presented ... -
Automated Creation and Provisioning of Value-added Telecommunication Services
(Plymouth University, 2015)The subject of this research is to find a continuous solution, which allows the description, the creation, the provisioning, and the execution of value-added telecommunication services. This work proposes a framework for ... -
AUTOMATED DIESEL ENGINE CONDITION & PERFORMANCE MONITORING & THE APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO FAULT DIAGNOSIS
(University of Plymouth, 1998)The overall aim of this research was to design, configure and validate a system which was capable of on-line performance monitoring and fault diagnosis of a diesel engine. This thesis details the development and evaluation ... -
Automated Digital Forensics and Computer Crime Profiling
(University of Plymouth, 2016)Over the past two decades, technology has developed tremendously, at an almost exponential rate. While this development has served the nation in numerous different positive ways, negatives have also emerged. One such ... -
AUTOMATED FLOW INJECTION INSTRUMENTATION FOR MONITORING NITROGEN SPECIES IN NATURAL WATERS
(University of Plymouth, 1999)The provision of high quality analytical data is an essential prerequisite for understanding the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in the aquatic environment. Due to the instability of samples collected for nutrient ... -
Automated Identification of Digital Evidence across Heterogeneous Data Resources
(University of Plymouth, 2018)Digital forensics has become an increasingly important tool in the fight against cyber and computer-assisted crime. However, with an increasing range of technologies at people’s disposal, investigators find themselves ... -
AUTOMATED INTERPRETATION OF THE BACKGROUND EEG USING FUZZY LOGIC
(University of Plymouth, 1998)A new framework is described for managing uncertainty and for deahng with artefact corruption to introduce objectivity in the interpretation of the electroencephalogram (EEG). Conventionally, EEG interpretation is time ... -
THE AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF LARGE SHIPS IN CONFINED WATERS
(University of Plymouth, 1984)The design and evaluation of a control system, which can be utilised for the automatic guidance of large ships in confined or restricted waters, is investigated. The vessel is assumed to be a multivariable system and it ... -
Automatism and art practice
(University of Plymouth, 2006)The research project is to develop an understanding of the use of automatism in the practice of art derived from an interrelationship between the material process of art and critical text. As these practices converge in ... -
Automotive Cognitive Access: Towards customized vehicular communication system
(University of Plymouth, 2020)The evolution of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Virtualization of mobile Network Functions (NFV) have enabled the new ways of managing mobile access systems and are seen as a major technological foundation of the ... -
Autonomic Management of Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Autonomic Management of Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing Cloud computing has been one of the major trending topics of recent years in the Information Technology (IT) industry. In contrary to the previous IT ... -
Autonomous decentralised M2M Application Service Provision
(University of Plymouth, 2018)Machine-to-Machine Communication (M2M) service platforms integrate M2M devices and enable realisation of applications using the M2M devices to support processes, mostly in the business domain. Many application-specific ... -
Autonomous Drone Landings on an Unmanned Marine Vehicle using Deep Reinforcement Learning
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This thesis describes with the integration of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, also commonly known as drone) in a single Multi-Agent System (MAS). In marine robotics, the advantage ... -
Autonomous learning of multiple skills through intrinsic motivations: A study with computational embodied models
(Plymouth University, 2016)Developing artificial agents able to autonomously discover new goals, to select them and learn the related skills is an important challenge for robotics. This becomes even crucial if we want robots to interact with real ... -
AVOIDING COLLAPSE: RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN VULNERABLE SMALL ISLANDS
(University of Plymouth, 2007)Small islands dependent on reef fisheries, farming and tourism are vulnerable to rising human and natural pressures and may target "sustainable" development. Marine Protected Areas (MPA) have a proven ability to meet ...
