Theses

A study of paired associate learning and sequential memory in dyslexic and non-dyslexic subjects.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of some of the factors which determine the degree of bilingualism of a Welsh child between 10 and 13 years of age

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the archaeological remains of vernacular boat finds from North Wales in the care of University of Wales Bangor.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the behavioural profiles of elite slalom canoeists

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the genre of T.H. White's Arthurian books.

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

A study of the microbiological populations of mine wastes

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the midgut (reservoir zone) and haemolymph lectins of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study on diversity in classifier ensembles

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study on protein sugar interactions: implications for bioprotection

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A stylistic analysis of administrative English through a qualitative and quantitative investigation of government information leaflets

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A synthetic approach to C₂ symmetric guanidine bases and the synthesis of model compounds of ptilomycalin A

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A tangible augmented reality anatomy teaching tool

Supervisor: John, N. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical study of carrier dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical study of coupling and dephasing in semiconductor quantum dots

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theory of lay ministry praxis: Kenya Assemblies of God, Nairobi county

Supervisor: Beaumont, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A three-dimensional approach to time conceptualization in Chinese-English bilinguals

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A time domain description of large amplitude mode vibrations in small molecules

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A total population study of challenging behaviour and evaluation of Positive Behavioural Support outcomes

Supervisor: Totsika, V. (Supervisor), Hastings, R. (Supervisor) & Toogood, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A transtheoretical approach to exercise : self-determination, stages of change, processes of change and personal construction of exercise.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A.C. electrokinetic bioassays development of electrorotation assay for analytes in water.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

ABA-based interventions to increase social and mathematical skills in children with developmental disabilities in school settings

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AC electrokinetic bioassays: development of electrorotation assay for detection of viable and non-viable bacteria and macromolecules

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor) & Pethig, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

ADHD symptons and academic performance in adolescents

Supervisor: Daley, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AFLP markers for the study of somatic recombination in Phytophthora infestans

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor) & Shaw, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ab-initio and Experimental NEXAFS Spectroscopy Investigations of Graphene: growth and post-processing effects

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Abiotic Controls on Soil Enzyme Activity and Community Composition of Micro-eukaryotes: A Comparison of Arctic, Temperate and Tropical Peatlands

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Abodes of Harmony: An investigation of traditional music session culture along the Menai Strait

Supervisor: Rees, S. (Supervisor) & Ifan, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accent and intonation in a Malagasy dialect.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Access to nature and its impact on peoples' wellbeing

Supervisor: Willcock, S. (Supervisor), Jones, J. (Supervisor) & Bullock, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accessing and assessing fibromyalgia through pain drawings

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acclimation of cotton (Gossypium) to abiotic stress

Supervisor: Gorham, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accounting harmonisation in Europe : country effects and sector effects

Supervisor: Mcleay, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acetamiprid in the environment : The impact of commercial neonicotinoid formulations on soil function and ecology

Supervisor: Cross, P. (Supervisor), Jones, D. (Supervisor), Pywell, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Hayward, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acidophilic sulphate reducing bacteria : candidates for bioremediation of acid mine drainage pollution.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acting for the Right Reasons: An Investigation of the Utility of Fear of Failure from a Positive Psychology Perspective

Supervisor: Parkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive Models of Chinese Text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive models of Arabic text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Addressing Human Trafficking through Public Procurement: An Examination of US and Australian Federal Procurement Frameworks

Supervisor: Eyo, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adfer yr hyn a gollwyd dan yr eira: T. James Jones a Dylan Marlais Thomas

Supervisor: Davies, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adhesion in lepadomorph barnacles.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adjustment and well-being among parents of children and adults with intellectual disabihties : Aetiology and behavioural phenotypes

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adjustment problems of Zambian University students

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced Optical Fibre Grating Sensors for Biochemical Applications

Supervisor: Chen, X. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced Optical OFDM transceivers for Optical Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced avalanche photodiode receivers in optical communications.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced materials for organic solar cells: influence of generation and pH on PAMAM-Based devices

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced study of pentacene-based organic memory structures

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advancing knowledge of microbiallymediated lignocellulose degradation in soil using metagenomics and high-throughput in situ cultivation

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor), McDonald, J. (Supervisor) & Griffiths, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advancing mitogenomics : a case study in the Araneae

Supervisor: Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advancing process evaluation oresearch within the filed of neurological rehabilitation

Supervisor: Burton, C. (Supervisor) & Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advancing the ecological knowledge base of the dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) off Southern Africa

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advancing the understanding of factors which influence job satisfaction of care home staff

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor) & Williams, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Affections and Ethics in Middle English Romance: The Overlap of Poetic and Philosophical Discourses of Emotions in King Horn, the Stanzaic Guy of Warwick and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Supervisor: Radulescu, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Affective factors in fluencing compliance to Health Screening

Supervisor: Fazey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Affective responses to imaged motor fluency

Supervisor: Hayes, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Affiliation Motivation : A Psychological Examination of Some Aspects of its Origins, Nature and Effects

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

African bamboos: an appraisal with special reference to Oxytenanthera abyssinica, the savanna bamboo

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Age, growth and reproductive assessment of the whelk, Buccinum undatum, in coastal shelf seas

Supervisor: Richardson, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agency Problems and Ownership Structure in Large Private Firms in the UK

Supervisor: Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor) & Ashton, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agent based modelling of Malaria

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agreement in relative clauses and the theory of phrase structure : a study of Standard Arabic

Supervisor: Macdonald, P. (Supervisor) & Deuchar, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agroforestry in the buffer zone of Uganda's Budongo Forest.

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agweddau ar asesu'r Gymraeg fel ail iaith yn y Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol 1990-1993: i ba raddau y llwyddwyd i ddatblygu cyfundrefn o dasgau a phrofion statudol Cymraeg ail iaith i gynnal bwriadau ac amcanion y Grwp Gwaith ar Asesu a Phrofi a'r Gorchymyn Cymraeg?

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor) & Williams, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agweddau ar brofiad merch yn oes Fictoria: Dwy nofel hanesyddol

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agweddau ar gender, iaith ac addysg yng Nhgymru

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Alginate from brown seaweeds: extraction, characterisation, modification and the studies on its applications for hydrogels

Supervisor: Tai, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

All-dielectric superlens and applications

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Allfudiaeth pobl ifanc o'r bröydd Cymraeg

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aluminium tolerance in Brachiaria decumbens and Brachiaria ruzizenis

Supervisor: Godbold, D. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Amino Acid Substituted Guanidines as Organocatalysts

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Amperometric biosensors for the detection of explosives

Supervisor: Kalaji, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Advanced Virtual Environment for Rugby Skills Training

Supervisor: John, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Analysis of Country Houses Interpretation in Wales

Supervisor: Evans, S. (Supervisor) & Pollock, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Evaluation of the Incredible Years School Readiness Parenting Programme Delivered in Welsh Schools

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (Supervisor) & Bywater, T. J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Exploration of the potential markers of literacy difficulties in Welsh-English Bilinguals

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Integrated Low-Cost Agent-Based Environment for Simulating And Validating the Design of Interesting Behaviours for Robots

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor) & Ritsos, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An International Criminal Framework to Prosecute the Legacy of Forced Internal Displacement in Iraq

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Investigation into How the Expanded Core Curriculum is Conceptualised and Implemented in the Vision Impairment Field for Female Students in the Saudi Arabian Educational System and How Its Implementation Relates to Teachers’ Professional Background and Training

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Douglas, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An assessment of the contribution of Sir Hugh Owen to education in Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An ecological study of Chaetogaster limnaei( von Baer)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic appraisal of forestry and the forest industries of Greece 1950-1990.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic approach to assessing the value of recreation with special reference to forest areas.

Supervisor: Price, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic evaluation of a value added tax for Greece

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An economic evaluation of agroforestry, forestry and agriculture projects in Orissa, India : with particular reference to financial profitability and basic needs fulfilment.

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

An empirical study into the effectiveness of performance management in the United Kingdom public sector

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical study of stream-based techniques for text categorization

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empowerment evaluation using a critical ethnographic approach to examine the development of an empowerment education programme in Romania

Supervisor: Poland, F. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of disciplinary guarantees of public employees in Libyan law

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of perennial mobile green manures for climate change mitigation in agriculture

Supervisor: Hill, P. (Supervisor) & Chadwick, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of the effectiveness of Cymraeg bob dydd across the curriculum in English-Medium schools in North Wales

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor) & Young, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of two brief interventions aimed at reducing college students' alcohol use.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of some leading motifs in the prophetic oracles against foreign nations

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the "Jewish Conspiracy Theory" from its inception to the present day.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the adequacy of the Libyan Penal Code to deal with credit and debit card forgery

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the precise nature of ironic performance breakdown

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Cooke, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An experimental analysis of the momentary DRO schedule

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An experimental study on the migration of the African armyworm moth, Spodoptera exempta (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of factors affecting goal choice, attrition and attendance at follow-up in an alcohol treatment unit.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy