Theses

Genetic influences on emotion/cognition interactions : from synaptic regulation to individual differences in working memory for emotional faces

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Kampfen um die kelten: Archaologische argumente in der neuheidnischen literatur und der keltenbegriff in der fachliteratur

Supervisor: Karl, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular rectification from ultra-thin organic films

Supervisor: Ashwell, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ozone sensitivity and population genetics of Anthoxanthum odoratum L.

Supervisor: Mills, G. (External person) (Supervisor), Gliddon, C. (Supervisor) & Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Patient preferences in the delivery of cancer genetic services

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population genetics and divergence in the Lesser Antillean anole (Anolis roquet)

Supervisor: Thorpe, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preparation and characterization of electrografted polymer films for surface functionalization

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stylistic destinations: the prosodies of R.S. Thomas, 1936-2000

Supervisor: Brown, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual orienting to emotion

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Chemical modification of rubberwood (Hevea Brasiliensis Muell. Arg) with acetic anhydride and hexanoic anhydride

Supervisor: Hill, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Imagery perspectives, imagery ability and personality

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

When the curtain calls: stories of Filipino urban poor children in the performing arts

Supervisor: Hester, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

The Response of Extracellular Phenol Oxidase Activity to Environmental Change, and the Implications for the Stability of Soil Carbon Stores

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor), Evans, C. (Supervisor) & Fenner, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

High value products from unused, indigenous plants

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of Calix(4)arenes and their use in sensors.

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor) & Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of single enantiomers of ketomycolic acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Temporal variation, occurrence and factors controlling the production and concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the marine environment

Supervisor: Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Palynology of late pleistocene and holocene sediments from the African Atlantic equatorial margin

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Spatial considerations and environmental constraints on benthic prey resources for common scoter

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mutagenesis, spectroscopic and crystallographic studies of recombinant cytochrome c' from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans

Supervisor: Murphy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical remote sensing of sediments and phytoplankton pigments in an estuary: towards retrieving CDOM and salinity

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor) & Thomas, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The detection of VOCs using sensors based on nanostructured metal oxides

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor), Beckett, M. (Supervisor) & Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A phenomenological approach to the experience of chronic pain

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of triglycerides using quantitative NMR techniques

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

From soil to stream: Spatial and temporal variations in the decomposition, generation and transport of Dom.

Supervisor: Freeman, P. C. (Supervisor) & Thomas, P. D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Genetic linkage mapping in the blue mussel Mytilus edulis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, and the search for quantitative trait loci of resistance to a disease in O. edulis

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mussel assemblages as biomonitors of anthropogenic disturbance in estuarine environments

Supervisor: Seed, R. (Supervisor) & Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Numerical Study of the Internal Tide in Upper Loch Linnhe

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Growth and inter-specific interactions in young silvopastoral systems with native timber trees in the dry tropics of Costa Rica

Supervisor: Brook, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Landscape-scale genetic diversity in Fraxinus excelsior L. : genetic structure within and among populations and the influence of regeneration practices on genetic variation

Supervisor: Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

NMR studies of borate and silicate systems involving Na / TAA cations.

Supervisor: Beckett, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation of the interactions between amino acid derivatives and phenolic compounds

Supervisor: Croft, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fluid and energy deficits : hydration markers, saliva immunoglobulin A and endurance performance

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Schenkerian analysis of the seven symphonies of Jean Sibelius

Supervisor: Pascall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A pragmatic analysis of family mediation

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical investigation of factors affecting corporate tax avoidance strategies for public listed companies in Malaysia

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Approach and avoid responses to Valenced Stimuli

Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aspects of the economics of transformation : harvesting productivity, a case study of different intervention types in the conversion of Welsh sitka spruce to continuous cover forestry

Supervisor: Price, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Business data integration framework for small to medium enterprises (BDIFS) : a service-based framework to support eBusiness data interoperability for small to medium enterprises (SMEs)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Comparative physicochemical characterisation of thermally modified wood

Supervisor: Breese, M. (Supervisor) & Hale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Environmental and biological controls of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Mn/Ca ratios in the shells of the bivalves Pinna nobilis, Mytilus edulis and Pecten maximus : implications for palaeo-environmental reconstructions

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Enwau pentrefi, prif anheddau a chaeau pum plwyf yn arfon: Llanbeblig, Llandwrog, Llanfaflan, Llanrug a Llanwnda

Supervisor: Owen, H. W. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Feature selection and classification of non-traditional data : examples from veterinary medicine

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Financial deregulation and bank performance in south east Asia, 1985-2004

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Financial integration and dynamic linkage in the ASEAN-5

Supervisor: Altunbas, Y. (Supervisor) & Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Infection Control Practices within the Diagnostic Imaging Department

Supervisor: Murphy, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intraprelearning (corporate entrepreneurship, organisational learning and change) within two Welsh NHS Trusts: an autoethnography

Supervisor: Sambrook, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Market discipline, large bank dominance and bank valuation in an emerging market

Supervisor: Altunbas, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parent training for young people with hyperactivity : efficacy of a self-directed intervention

Supervisor: Daley, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Peace Child : towards a global definition of the young adult novel

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pragmatic evaluation of group cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

Supervisor: Lyon-Jones, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Psychological distress in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse : the role of shame, self-esteem and blame

Supervisor: Hargreaves, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Stephen Charnock's doctrine of the knowledge of God : a case study of the balance of head and heart in restoration Puritanism

Supervisor: Morgan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effects of integrating reading strategy training into the university English foundation course in Thailand

Supervisor: Williams, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The obfuscation hypothesis re-examined : analyzing impression management in corporate narrative report documents

Supervisor: Mcleay, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between autobiographical memory, coping and symptoms of depression following transition to secondary school

Supervisor: Burnside, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the geochemical and microbial interactions in acidic environments and their potential application for the bioremediation of acid mine drainage

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive Models of Chinese Text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of internal mixing processes in a seasonally stratified shelf sea

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ehangu'r defnydd o'r Gymraeg mewn addysg ol-orfodol

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Information enhancement and goal setting: interventions for enhancing motivation

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor), Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Ingledew, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Projection of personal space and schema beyond the physical body

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor), Tipper, S. (Supervisor) & Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a three-dimensional conceptualization of performance anxiety : conceptual model, measurement development and initial validations

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Effect of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on phosphorus cycling in a short rotation poplar plantation

Supervisor: Godbold, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of the synthesis of Cyclopropanes and Cyclobutenes

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The synthesis of dynamic combinatorial libraries of peptidomimetic receptors by alkene metathesis

Supervisor: Fletcher, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Medicinal plant resources with special reference to Pterocarpus Tinctorius and Strychnos Spinosa at Urumwa, Tabora region, Tanzania

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Regional modelling of nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised agricultural soils within Europe

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical approach to aromatic-radical interaction

Supervisor: Croft, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The stress of parenting a child with an intellectual disability: a longitudinal study of the impact of child factors and parental resources on positive and negative parental well-being

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Variations in subjective well-being : the role of psychological resilience in older age

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor) & Woods, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Decoherence, dephasing and quantum tunnelling in molecules with large amplitude vibrations

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Measuring and modelling sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (bong.) carriere) and birch (Betula spp.) crowns, with special reference to terrestrial photogrammetry

Supervisor: Pommerening, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Persistence of escherichia coli O157 in contrasting environments and its implications for human health

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A bluetooth-based communications architecture for lightweight mobile robots

Supervisor: Mansoor, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Biodiversity and colonisation of macrofauna in an artificial lagoon, Qatar

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations of the role of the human anterior cingulate cortex in observing others' pain

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Polychlorinated biphenyls and their effects on the early life stages of the European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L.

Supervisor: McCarthy, D. I. (Supervisor), Kaiser, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Mudge, D. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Birds using a contemporary neotropical landscape: the effects of forest fragmentation and agricultural landscape structure on neotropical birds

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Feeding and nutrition in the marine shrimp Penaeus semisulcatus.

Supervisor: Le Vay, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Distribution of the plankton community in the Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in south eastern Portugal

Supervisor: Yule, D. A. B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Biology and fisheries management of king soldier bream, Argyrops spinifer and spangled emperor, Lethrinus nebulosus in the Arabian Sea, Oman.

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor) & Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Genetic variation of Castanea sativa Mill

Supervisor: Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Genetic variation of juglans regia L.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Socioeconomic and ecological implications of an ecosystem approach to marine resource management for Wales, UK

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Amperometric biosensors for the detection of explosives

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Real-Time and Interactive Computer Graphics in Grid Environments

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The absolute stereochemistry of various naturally occurring fatty acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Anxiety, self-confidence, self-efficacy and performance : some challenges to current thinking

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Autobiographical memory, emotional intelligence, emotion focusing and depression in children

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Body selectivity in human visual cortex

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Climate change and dissolved organic carbon : impacts on drinking water supplies

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Comparative morphologies and life histories amongst montane tree species in north-western Argentina

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Economics of production and export of vegetables in Bangladesh

Supervisor: Bright, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical studies on polythiophene derivatives

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluation of vermicompost from composts for agricultural and horticultural uses

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Examining trauma systems in children exposed to domestic violence

Supervisor: Burnside, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Exploring the potential of sound management of forest and tree resources on cattle farms located in tropical dry forest of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Feeding, swimming and respiration in barnacle larvae (Cirripedia: Thoracica)

Supervisor: Yule, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Holocene sea-level change in North Wales : the evolution of the Menai Strait

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy