Theses

Men of a thousand days : death-sentenced inmates at Utah State Prison

Supervisor: King, R. D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mental health professionals' perspectives on spirituality and psychosis

Supervisor: Daley, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Metabolic adaptation on muscular and whole body levels in response to altered nutrient availability and energy demand

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Metabolomic and volatilomic profiling for the assessment of soil carbon cycling and biological quality

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Metabolomic fingerprinting and profiling of plant materials using HRAM UPLC-MS

Supervisor: Murphy, L. (Supervisor) & Paizs, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Metagenomics approaches to discover new industrially-relevant enzymes

Supervisor: Golyshin, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Metagenomics to determine land use effects on soil ecosystem services

Supervisor: Griffiths, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Methane in two temperate coastal marine environments

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Methodological considerations for the assessment of extracellular heat shock protein 72

Supervisor: Whitham, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microalgal photobioreactors for power plant CO2 mitigation and bioenergy

Supervisor: Thomas, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microbial metabolism and temperature : comparative studies in the Southern Ocean and a temperate coastal ecosystem

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microencapsulation : studies on the preparation and characterisation of liquid filled capsules

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor) & Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Micronutrient studies on cotton growth on Syrian calcareous soils.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microsatellites of Mites in Forensics

Supervisor: Braig, H. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microwave I.F Signal Processing Strategies For Coherent Optical Communications

Supervisor: O'Reilly, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Migration, Memory and Identity: Italians and Nation-Building in Wales, 1940-2010

Supervisor: Tanner, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mind over muscle? Psychobiolgy of exercise tolerance

Supervisor: Parkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mineral Dynamics in Sea Ice Brines

Supervisor: Kennedy, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Minors' crimes in Saudi Arabia: Analytical thematic study on Saudi juveniles’ system

Supervisor: Wali, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Missionary vocation : a study of British Assemblies of God's world missions 1965-2000

Supervisor: Kay, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mitigating greenhouse gases emission from cattle slurry: An approach for small-medium scale farms

Supervisor: Chadwick, D. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mitigating the impacts of intensive agriculture on lowland organic soils

Supervisor: Evans, C. D. (External person) (Supervisor), Jones, D. (Supervisor), Chadwick, D. (Supervisor) & McNamara, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mode spectrum of laser diodes subject to optical feedback

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelau Cyfrifiadurol ar gyfer Prosesu Lleferydd Cymraeg

Supervisor: Cooper, S. (Supervisor), Prys, D. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modeling and Rendering Three-Dimensional Impossible Objects

Supervisor: Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling and forecasting pharmaceutical life cycles

Supervisor: Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling greenhouse gas emissions for the UK and overseas food production

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor) & Edwards-Jones, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling growth of volume sample and stem analysis trees with reference to site conditions in Wales

Supervisor: Pommerening, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling human short-term memory for serial order

Supervisor: Brown, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling oscillatory flow over vortex ripples using the discrete vortex method

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modelling the impacts of agri-environment scheme options on plants and soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor) & Smart, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Models and treatment relapse and a pilot prevention intervention

Supervisor: Hoerger, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Models of care in diagnostic radiography.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Moderate-to-high intensity aerobic interval training versus continuous aerobic training in real life, centre based, cardiac rehabilitation

Supervisor: Moore, J. (Supervisor) & Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Moderately thermophilic acidophiles and their use in mineral processing

Supervisor: Johnson, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modernising Iraq : a vision for a comprehensive petroleum arbitration regime in Iraq

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modernising Iraq: A Legislative Proposal to Regulate Timesharing Agreements in Iraq

Supervisor: Owen, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modification of starch and isolated hemicelluloses

Supervisor: Tomkinson, J. (Supervisor) & Hill, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modified Peptides for Drug Delivery

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modulating the attentional blink: investigations in attentional investment, conscious perception, attentional capture and visual masking

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modulation of Human ATM-Chk2 and ATR-Chk1 Kinases by Period-1 in the Response to DNA Damage and the Role of the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Per1-A962P in the Response to Genotoxic Stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modulations of cerebellar predictive language function through continuous theta burst stimulation

Supervisor: Bracewell, R. (Supervisor) & Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular Detection of Totiviruses in Medically Important Arthropods and Parasites

Supervisor: Papadopulos, A. (Supervisor) & Braig, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular Phylogeography and Venom Evolution of Trimeresurus stejnegeri in Taiwan.

Supervisor: Malhotra, A. (Supervisor) & Thorpe, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular methods for species –specific identification of Bacillus species

Supervisor: Braig, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular phylogeography of the neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus

Supervisor: Wüster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular recognition of peptides.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular recognition of petides: basis for design and delivery of peptide therapeutics

Supervisor: Payne, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular rectification from ultra-thin organic films

Supervisor: Ashwell, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Molecular studies using the Aspergillu nidulans a-COP homologue

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mona maritime trail llwybr Mon a mor

Supervisor: Morris, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Monitoring and analysis of the structure, function and biodiversity of soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor), Robinson, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Monitoring the condition of semi-natural vegetation: the application of remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Morality and gender in the works of the playwrights of the New Drama Movement 1894-1914.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

More than mobility: applying health economics to wheelchair interventions for disabled children

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor), Noyes, J. (Supervisor) & Harris, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Morphological processing in dyslexic children

Supervisor: Tainturier, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Morphosyntactic complexity and exposure in the acquisition of gender in Welsh

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motion processing in the upper and lower visual fields

Supervisor: Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motivation and visual selective attention

Supervisor: Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motivational and affective responses to exercise: issues for adherence and the role of causality orientations

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motivational and cognitive determinants of attentional bias for alcohol-related stimuli : implications for a new attentional-training intervention

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motivational and emotional salience effects on working memory

Supervisor: Raymond, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motivational modulation of decision making processes

Supervisor: Parkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Motor imagery as a potential tool for improvement of musculoskeletal function in physiotherapy practice

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Movin' On Up? The economics of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in terms of health care costs and social mobility

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Moving on together: what makes a successful transition into adulthood for young disabled people (14-25 years of age)?

Supervisor: Noyes, J. (Supervisor) & Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multidisciplinary approach to support the design of a local policy of payment for hydrological ecosystem services, in a microwatershed located in northern Veracruz Mexico

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multilocus phylogeography and species delimitation in the widespread African puff adder (Bitis arietans), and the systematics of the genus Bitis

Supervisor: Wüster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multiples of the same : a semiotic study of Steve Reich's Counterpoint series

Supervisor: Collins, C. (Supervisor) & ap Sion, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multivariate analysis and survival analysis with application to company failure.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Multivariate statistical analyses in lipid biomarker studies

Supervisor: Mudge, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Muscle function after exercise-induced muscle damage

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Music in the blood & Poetry in the soul? National identity in the life and music of Grace Williams

Supervisor: Thomas, W. (Supervisor) & Schmidt-Beste, T. C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Muslims and crime : a comparative criminological study of South Asian Muslims in Britain and Pakistan

Supervisor: Wardhaugh, J. (Supervisor)

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

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

Supervisor: Murphy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mutual fund performance : evidence of stock selection and market timing ability from Islamic mutual funds

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

My mother's handbag: : questioning categorisation in English literary canonisation

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor) & Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

NEXAFS Spectroscopy Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites

Supervisor: Campo, E. (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

Naming and categorisation in pre-school infants

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor) & Lowe, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming and generalisation of behaviour in infants

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor) & Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming and levels of categorisation in young children

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor), Hughes, C. (Supervisor) & Lowe, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Naming, gesture, and categorisation in young children

Supervisor: Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nanofabrication approaches for Group IV Photonic MEMS devices

Supervisor: Nezhad, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Narration in the Screenplay Text

Supervisor: Price, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Narratives of Belonging: Experiences of Learning and Using Welsh of Adult “New Speakers” in North West Wales

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural regeneration and bark production in Prunus Africana (Hook.F.) Kalkman (Rosaceae) and its sustainable utilization and conservation in Kenya

Supervisor: Hall, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural regeneration models for Sitka spruce and other conifers in continuous cover forestry

Supervisor: Gibbons, J. (Supervisor) & Cahalan, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Natural variations in the zooxanthellae of temperate symbiotic Anthozoa.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nature and magic: rediscovering connections - a portfolio of compositions

Supervisor: Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neoliberalism and accounting in everyday relational practices: The effects of the UK tax credits system on the financial hardship of claimants

Supervisor: Merkl-Davies, D. (Supervisor) & Bartels, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nestling begging in Southern Grey Shrikes

Supervisor: Wright, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Network-state dependent effects in naming and learning

Supervisor: Tainturier, M. (Supervisor) & Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neural and mechanical factors associated with exercise-induced muscle damage and the repeated bout effect.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuroanatomical and perceptual deficits in auditory agnosia : a study of an auditory agnosia patient with inferior colliculus damage

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive Processes Underpinning Different Aspects of Mental Robustness in British Military Personnel

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor), Hardy, L. (Supervisor) & Roberts, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive investigation of objectin-scene representations

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neurocognitive study of mindfulness with primary school pupils

Supervisor: Dorjee, D. (Supervisor) & Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuroimaging of Chronic Pain

Supervisor: Mullins, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuromuscular performance and exercise stress associated with the stabilisation of synovial joints

Supervisor: Gleeson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Neuropsychology of Motivated Forgetting

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Bracewell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Directions in Team Resilience

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Impulses for Disability Studies: Bringing Together the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, Foucault’s Theory of Power, and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Feminism as Responses to the Postmodern Critique of the Social Model of Disability

Supervisor: Stoetzler, M. (Supervisor) & Davies, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New Voice : the patterns and provisions for girl choristers in the English cathedral choirs

Supervisor: Collins, C. (Supervisor) & Harper, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New reactions relating to Lewis acidic properties of borate esters

Supervisor: Beckett, M. A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

New roles of S.pombe Casein kinase 1 epsilon (Hhp1) in DNA replicatation stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

News in Late-Seventeenth Century Britain

Supervisor: Claydon, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nid trwy sbectol y sais y dylai Cymro edrych ar wlad ddieithe: astudiaeth o gyfieithiadau T. Hudson-Williams o'r rwseg i'r Gymraeg

Supervisor: Price, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nietzsche's Will To Power: A Naturalistic Account of Metaethics Based on Evolutionary Principles and Thermodynamic Laws

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor) & Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nimby, network or social movement? individual and collective opposition to windfarms

Supervisor: Day, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nitrogen donor complexes of molybdenum and tungsten and new routes to bis-1,2 & tris-1,2,3 substituted ferrocenes

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor) & Baker, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nitrogen dynamics in boreal forests

Supervisor: DeLuca, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

No-take or no way: The case for a no-take policy along the Cocos-Galapagos Swimway: Critical analysis of published works

Supervisor: Turner, J. (Supervisor) & McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Non-invasive techniques for studying behavioural mechanisms and physiological states of marine invertebrates

Supervisor: Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Noncommutative involutive bases

Supervisor: Wensley, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nonlinear Dynamics of Discrete Mode Lasers and Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor) & Spencer, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Normative and practical recommendations toward improved judicial independence in contemporary Iraq: The question of embedding judicial independence

Supervisor: Nason, S. (Supervisor) & Mawhinney, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Norovirus contamination of Mytilus edulis shellfisheries : assessing the threat to human health

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Not Just the Usual Suspects: Designing a new method for public consultation

Supervisor: Calder, G. (External person) (Supervisor) & Doloriert, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Note taking in English lectures: A study of Omani EFL university students

Supervisor: Williams, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Isoforms and Functions of the S.pombe Rad9 Checkpoint Protein

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Roles of the Circadian Clock Protein Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 2 (NPAS2) in the Response to Oxidative andHeat Stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Variants of the DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Cds1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Variants of the DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Hus1 in Fission Yeast and Human Cells

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel bio-active fatty acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel di- and multitopic hydroxamate ligands towards discrete and extended network complexes

Supervisor: Jones, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel dielectrophoretic techniques for the manipulation of bio-particles

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel insights into heat acclimation by post-exercise hot water immersion

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel isoforms and functions of the S. pombe Rad9 checkpoint protein

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel roles of the Canadian clock protein neuronal PAS domain protein 2 (NPAS2) in the response to oxidative and heat stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nucleotide excision repair-independent functions of the XPG homologue Rad13 of fission yeast

Supervisor: Fleck, O. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nutritional studies on fish and crustacean larvae

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

O'r sect i'r enwad datblygiad enwadau ymneilltuol Cymru, 1840-1870.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object representations in the human brain: a functional MRI survey

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object- and location-based forms of representation in inhibition of return.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Object-based representations facilitate memory for inhibitory processes

Supervisor: Tipper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Observations and modelling of the western Irish Sea gyre

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Oes modd ail-greu rhyngweithio dosbarth cyfathrebol Cymraeg i Oedolion drwy ddulliau digidol i gefnogi cywirdeb ac ynganiad iaith dysgwyr ar lefel dechreuwyr cwrs Mynediad (A1)?

Supervisor: Thomas, E. (Supervisor) & Cooper, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Older people and end of life choices : an exploration of the options and related discourses

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Olfactory stimuli and social behaviour in the guinea pig

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Olympic trials

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On books that sell 192-book study of the American YA fiction market showing particularly strong audience resonance in matters of race, gender and moral identity

Supervisor: Harper, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the banking capital in Europe and its relationship with risk and efficiency.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the lexical representation and selection of written words in proficient Welsh-English bilinguals: A behavioural and fMRI investigation

Supervisor: Tainturier, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the mechanical properties of bast fibre reinforced thermosetting polymer matrix composites.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On the normal use of oculomotor reflexes

Supervisor: Rafal, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems as Sources of Phosphorus and other Pollutants in Rural Catchments: Characteristics and Tracing Approaches

Supervisor: Withers, P. (Supervisor) & Stutter, M. I. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

One generation and two different age groups on arrival: Arabic-English code-switching in the conversations of Iraqi Arabic male immigrants living in Greater Manchester

Supervisor: Webb-Davies, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Operational Ocean Modelling: a Critical Evaluation of Published Works

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical Effects on the Dynamical Properties of Semiconductor Laser Devices and Their Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical Measurements of Suspended Sediments

Supervisor: Bowers, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical OFDM with Multiple Information-carrying Dimensions for Elastic Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical effects on the spectral, dynamical and noise properties of semiconductor laser devices

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical pulse generation using an optically injected Nd:YVO4 laser

Supervisor: Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical receiver design and optimisation for multi-gigahertz applications

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

Optimal operating conditions and security considerations for optical chaos communications

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optimisation of biogas production by advanced process monitoring and the effect of mixing frequency on biogas reactors with and without microbial support media

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optimising Kinematic Systems Using Crowd-Sourcing and Genetic Algorithms

Supervisor: Ap Cenydd, L. (Supervisor) & Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optimising patient function following elective total hip replacement surgery

Supervisor: Lemmey, A. (Supervisor) & Maddison, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Oral and nasal infectivity and immunogenicity of Plasmodium berghei and yoelii sporozoites and longevity of Plasmodium falciparum trophozoites and schizonts

Supervisor: Braig, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organ and tissue donation : factors influencing nurses' willingness to discuss post mortem donation wishes.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organic MIS devices based on a high-k dielectric

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organic acids behavior in calcareous soils

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organic polymers and solid state fabrication

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organisational innovation in food sector SMEs: innovation orientation, types and process

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Orlando di Lasso's psalm settings: an examination of genre in late sixteenth-century psalm motets and German Leider

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Oscar Wilde and postmodern thought

Supervisor: Price, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ostracod palaeoecology and biogeochemistry of marine and estuarine interglacial deposits in North West Europe.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Our city and Chamber of London : the relationship between the City of London and the Crown in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Outdoor stability studies in Organic Photovoltaics

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Overcoming Barriers to ABA Implementation in Maintained SEN Schools in the UK

Supervisor: Hoerger, M. (Supervisor) & Roberts-Tyler, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Overlap not Gap: conceptualising natural language and its co-existence with non-human communication and cognition using Prototype Theory.

Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor) & Shannon, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Overseas expeditions ; : self-esteem and transformational leadership

Supervisor: Callow, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Oviposition site selection by Anopheles gambiae sensu lato (Diptera: Culicidae) at coastal sites in Kenya

Supervisor: Steele, K. (Supervisor) & Creer, S. (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

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

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parent-mediated interventions for children with social-communication difficulties

Supervisor: Healy, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parental bereavement when a child with an intellectual disability dies

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parenting a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities : Psychological variabilities and their relationship to well-being

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parenting a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Psychological variables and their relationship to well-being

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Parkia biglobosa (Jasq.) benth. in Nigeria : a resource assessment.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Participatory crop improvement for maize/millet intercropping with trees in the middle hills of Nepal.

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Partitioning of stable isotopes between scallop shell calcite and sea water and factors influencing shell growth and microgrowth patterns.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Past Imperfect

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pastoral care of the clergy

Supervisor: Francis, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pathway 2 Podium: A Multidisciplinary and Mixed Method Approach to Enhancing the Efficacy of Talent Development Systems

Supervisor: Gottwald, V. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (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

Patrymau defnydd iaith disgyblion cyfnod allweddol 2 a chyfnod allweddol 3

Supervisor: Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Patterns and processes of saltmarsh area change at three spatial scales

Supervisor: Skov, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Paul Lazarsfeld and the Trajectory of the American Media Reform Movement, 1922-1955

Supervisor: McStay, A. (Supervisor) & Bakir, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Peculiar versions of the species song: aesthetic outworkings of language and literature in the middle years of childhood (8 to 12 years)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pedagogical strategies to teach and support children with both EAL and SEN

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pelagic sharks are poorly understood because of limitations inherent in studying

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pentecostal Perspectives on Social Justice: Rationale, Form and Practice. A Dialogue with Jürgen Moltmann.

Supervisor: Macchia, F. D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Perception and Structure in Electroacoustic Music: A Portfolio of Compositions

Supervisor: Lewis, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Perceptions of Justice and Equity in Energy Infrastructure: Stakeholder perspectives on electricity transmission infrastructure planning. Where does power lie?

Supervisor: Griffiths, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Performance assessment of subcarrier multiplexed optical systems: implications of laser nonlinearities

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

Personal Epistemology and its Influence on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Supervisor: Fazey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Personal control, performance and health

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Personality and emotional consequences of spiritual experiences

Supervisor: Jackson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Personality and motivational determinants of alcohol use

Supervisor: Cox, W. M. (Supervisor), Ingledew, D. (Supervisor) & Parkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Perspectives in vegetation monitoring: an evaluation of approaches currently used in the UK

Supervisor: McDonald, M. (Supervisor) & Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Saudi Desert Sands: Survey, Ecotoxicity and Remediation

Supervisor: Fitzsimmons-Thoss, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Petrov-Galerkin finite element methods

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pharmacologically-based mechanistic modelling in health economic evaluation

Supervisor: Hughes, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Philosophical history in Scott's Waverley novels

Supervisor: Jones, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phonological impairment in developmental dyslexia during reading: when, insights from event-related potentials

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phosphate and micronutrient behaviour under flooded and aerated soil conditions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phosphorus Speciation in Soil and Plants.

Supervisor: Fitzsimmons-Thoss, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phosphorus redistribution in acid archaeological soils from North Wales.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Photo-assisted growth of CdO by metal-organic chemical vapour depositio

Supervisor: Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Photo-effects in Organic MIS Devices and Related Structures

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physical activity, kidney function and kidney injury

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physical and bioeconomic analysis of ecosystem services from a silvopasture system

Supervisor: Walmsley, J. (Supervisor) & Rayment, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physico-mechanical and decay resistance properties of bio-resin modified wood

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological and phylogenetic studies of some novel acidophilic mineral-oxidising bacteria

Supervisor: Johnson, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological aspects of tillering in barley (Hordeum distichum).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological capacities of Gammarid amphipods to survive environmental change

Supervisor: Whiteley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiological stressors : the effects of sleep disruption, energy restriction and prolonged exercise on thermoregulation and immune function

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiology at high altitude: understanding mechanisms and identifying countermeasures

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor), Oliver, S. (Supervisor) & Mullins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Physiology of decapod crustacean larvae with special reference to diet.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Phytochemical Investigation of Trichilia emetica (Natal mahogany)

Supervisor: Fitzsimmons-Thoss, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Picture name agreement as a measure of lexical co-activation in word production: Behavioral and electrophysiological insights

Supervisor: Oppenheim, G. (Supervisor) & Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pioneering comprehensive schooling. The politics of education: reform and response on Anglesey circa 1935-1974

Supervisor: Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Rees, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pivoting the Player: A Methodological Toolkit for Player Character Research in Offline Role-Playing Games

Supervisor: Ensslin, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Plant processing for multiple products using environmentally benign extraction techniques

Supervisor: Tomos, A. (Supervisor) & Marriott, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Plant traits and litter decomposition of tree species naturally regenerating in Central America pasturelands

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pliers as parts of the body: a kinematic analysis of visuomotor control in tool use

Supervisor: Watt, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pneumatic Discernment in the Apocalypse: An Intertextual and Pentecostal Exploration

Supervisor: Thomas, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Podcasting Penrhyn: Communicating the multilayered narratives of heritage sites through audio digital interpretation

Supervisor: Evans, S. (Supervisor), Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Thomas, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Polarisation properties of externally driven vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Polish Mothers on the Move: Gendering Migratory Experiences of Polish Women Parenting in Germany and the United Kingdom

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Political Preferences and Financial Stability: The Case of European Countries

Supervisor: Alsakka, R. (Supervisor) & Mantovan, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Political change in North-West Wales 1960-1974 : the decline of the Labour Party and the rise of Plaid Cymru

Supervisor: Tanner, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Politics of the Spirit: Memory, Identity, and Imagination

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Politics, government and society in Edinburgh, 1780-1833

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

Polyembryony, brood chamber development and gender specialisation in cyclostome bryozoans

Supervisor: Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Pontio’r bobl a’r gymuned : Y rhwystrau a’r heriau sy’n wynebu prosiectau pontio’r cenedlaethau gan ganolbwyntio ar gynaliadwyedd.

Supervisor: Jones, C. H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population biology of two species of grey mullet, Liza abu in CentralIraq (Heckel, 1843) and Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1827) in North West Wales

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population characteristics and environmental interactions of the king scallop fishery in the English Channel

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population dynamics and secondary production of the small copepods in the Menai Strait

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population dynamics of plaice Pleuronectes platessa L in the inshore waters of North West Wales and Eastern Anglesey

Supervisor: McCarthy, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population ecology of dab (Limanda limanda L.) in the eastern Irish Sea, North Wales.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Population genetic markers in biomonitoring programmes : a case study of flatfish around the British Isles

Supervisor: Carvalho, G. (External person) (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