We’ve had a great number of theses added to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during May. Some of these are publicly available now:
Towards a robust Arabic speech recognition system based on reservoir computing by Abdulrahman Alalshekmubarak. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21733
Ensemble classification and signal image processing for genus Gyrodactylus (Monogenea) by Rozniza Ali. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21734
‘I’D RATHER HAVE MUSIC!’: the effects of live and recorded music for people with dementia living in care homes, and their carers by Claire Garabedian. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21757
A phenomenological critique of the idea of social science by J D F Tuckett. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21785
‘Community means the World to me’: an ethnographic study of a public house and bowling club by Ian Glen. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21793
Assessing the welfare of laboratory-housed marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): effects of breeding and infant rearing background by Hayley Ash. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21794
Assessment practices and their impact on home economics education in Ireland by Kathryn McSweeney. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21804
Comparative and Critical Analysis of the Doctrine of Exemption/Frustration/Force Majeure under the United Nations Convention on the Contract for International Sale of Goods, English Law and UNIDROIT Principles by Ndubuisi Augustine Nwafor. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21805
The CHSE-214 salmon cell line as a model to study molecular regulation of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in salmonids by Olga Liliana Rubio Mejia. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21807
Essays on poverty and wellbeing by Sian E. M. O’Hare. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21806
Conversing with the nation: Consultations and referendums in Scotland and Wales under devolution by Malcolm Harvey. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21808
A journey of academic inquiry: exploring capabilities and play by Malida Mooken. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21820
The other theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication:
Meaning in distress: Exploring religion, spirituality and mental health social work practice in Northern Ireland by Patricia Carlisle. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21736
Diversity Management and the Political Economy of Policing by Kerstin Maier Barcroft. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21788
Uncanny Modalities in Post-1970s Scottish Fiction: Realism, Disruption, Tradition by Neil Syme. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768
Evolutionary and Cognitive Approaches to Voice Perception in Humans: Acoustic Properties, Personality and Aesthetics by Kristen K Knowles. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21784
Reading Chernobyl: Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Literature by Stuart Lindsay. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21790
Packaging as a marketing tool: Adolescents’ perceptions of branded and plain tobacco packaging by Allison Ford. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21789
There’s nothing funny about the evolution of humour; The impact of sex, style, and status on humour production and appreciation by Mary Louise Cowan. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21792
The Power of Digital Storytelling to Influence Human Behaviour by Mark Grindle. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21800
‘I’m Just the Sunday Boy!’: Exploring the Role Uncertainty in ‘Becoming’ a pharmacist by Brian Addison. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21799
Impact of mitochondrial genetic variation and immunity costs on life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster by Sumayia Bashir. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21855
Disfluency as… er… delay: An investigation into the immediate and lasting consequences of disfluency and temporal delay using EEG and mixed-effects modellingby Jennifer A E Bouwsema. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21809
Coves of departure: field notes from the Sea of Cortez by John S Farnsworth. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21811
The fish pathogen Francisella orientalis: characterisation and vaccine development by J G Ramirez Paredes. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21822
The potential role of ABC transporters as factors influencing drug susceptibility in the salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Kroyer, 1837) by Jan H Heumann. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21812
A study on elephant and human interactions in Kodagu, South India by M H Narayana. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21813
Relationships of pesticides, agri-aquatic systems and livelihoods; insights from Asia by Garry K Milwain. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21821
Congratulations to all those who have successfully completed their doctorates!
Clare Allan
Subject Librarian