Theses

Exercise As Adjunctive Therapy In Chronic Kidney Disease

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise and immune function: the effects of acute exercise, training, nutrition and environmental stress

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise and joint health in rheumatoid arthritis

Supervisor: Thom, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise motives and gains: implications for health behaviour change

Supervisor: Ingledew, D. (Supervisor) & Markland, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise rehabilitation after hip or knee joint replacement: The effects of illness representations and self-efficacy on adherence, physical recovery and emotional well-being

Supervisor: Morrison, V. (Supervisor) & Burton, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise stress, nutrition and novel measures of in vivo immunity

Supervisor: Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise, neuromuscular control and performance, and stability of the knee joints

Supervisor: Gleeson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise-related sensorimotor and neuromuscular performance of the knee joint

Supervisor: Gleeson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exhibiting the everyday: anythe musealization of 1950s material culture in France and Germany

Supervisor: Saunders, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Experimental studies of communications with chaotic semiconductor lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploration of the processes and outcomes associated with participation in outdoor sports

Supervisor: Woodman, T. (Supervisor) & Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Explorative coastal oceanographic visual analytics : oceans of data

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring Attentional Bias and the Overall Recovery Experience of Individuals with a Drug or Alcohol Dependency

Supervisor: Hogan, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring Relationships Between Catchment Dissolved Organic Matter Characteristics and the Formation of Disinfection Byproducts.

Supervisor: Fenner, N. (Supervisor), Holliman, P. (Supervisor) & Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring and Explaining the Role of Boundary Objects in Implementation through the National Institute of Health Research’s Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRCs)

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring decision making in intellectual disability nursing: provider and user perspectives

Supervisor: Irvine, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring decision making to create an active offer of planned home birth

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring novel techniques to quantify habitat use, diet, and ecological effects of deer, with a focus on fallow deer (Dama dama) in the Elwy Valley, North Wales

Supervisor: Shannon, G. (Supervisor), Healey, J. (Supervisor), Eichhorn, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Creer, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring payments for ecosystem services in the context of native tree planting in Lebanon

Supervisor: Hockley, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring real and hypothetical impacts of community-based conservation interventions

Supervisor: Jones, J. P. G. (Supervisor), Gibbons, J. M. (Supervisor) & Young, R. P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the Cost, Long-Term Outcomes and Sibling Benefits of the Incredible Years (IY) Autism Spectrum and Language Delays Programme

Supervisor: Hutchings, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Williams, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the Economic Case for Universal and Targeted Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Prevention: the trial feasibility stage

Supervisor: Edwards, R. (Supervisor) & Crane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the Understanding of Epistemic Beliefs and Approaches to Teaching of In-Service University Teachers in Colombia, South America.

Supervisor: Fazey, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the Unexplored: An Assessment of the Implications of Low and Negative Interest Rates for the Banking Sector

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the agronomic and environmental effects of herbal leys on lowland sheep production

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the application of remote sensing to the monitoring of continuous cover forestry

Supervisor: Valbuena, R. (Supervisor), Suarez-Minguez, J. (External person) (Supervisor) & Rayment, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the biodiversity of the lakes of the Malay Archipelago using environmental DNA metabarcoding

Supervisor: De Bruyn, M. (Supervisor), Creer, S. (Supervisor) & Carvalho, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the educational ideas and practice of UK transnational education in China from the perspective of citizenship

Supervisor: Feng, A. (Supervisor) & Sullivan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the experiences of dialysis in young adulthood

Supervisor: Parry-Jones, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the interface between emotion and cognition

Supervisor: Mills, D. (Supervisor) & Bentall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the mismatch between policy objectives and outcomes in Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania

Supervisor: Hockley, N. (Supervisor) & Wynne-Jones, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exploring the possible negative effects of self-efficacy upon performance

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

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

Exploring ways to increase the use of evidence-based methods in a cluster of schools in Wales

Supervisor: Hughes, J. (Supervisor) & Watkins, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Extraction of Frankincense Resins

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Eye movements and the visual perception of shape

Supervisor: Leek, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

FMRI and ERP investigations of body representations in the human lateral and ventral occipitotemporal cortex

Supervisor: Downing, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

FORECASTING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES AND VOLATILITY WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor) & Vasilakis, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facial Signals of Personality in Humans and Chimpanzees

Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facial cues to mental health symptoms

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facilitating exercise behaviour change: a self-determination theory and motivational interviewing perspective

Supervisor: Markland, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facilitating integrative agreements through fostering trust in negotiations between labour and management

Supervisor: Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facilitation and biodiversity in the marine benthos

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. G. (Supervisor), Kaiser, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ramsay, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Facilitation in perceptual and conceptual networks and rapid response learning: Two types of memory for priming in person recognition

Supervisor: Boehm, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors Influencing Welsh Medium School Pupils’ Social Use of Welsh

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor) & Hodges, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors affecting the conscious control of movement

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor) & Khan, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors affecting the early growth and form of Fraxinus excelsior L. in Britain

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors affecting the enhancement of Acacia hybrid particleboard

Supervisor: Hale, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors affecting variation in forest community characteristics and leaf-litter decomposition in tropical montane forest of Chiapas, Mexico: a functional ecology approach

Supervisor: Healey, J. (Supervisor) & Finegan, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors associated with the severity of Apnoea Hypopnoea Index (AHI) in Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Chemosensitivity and Perception of Effort before and after loading of respiratory and locomotor systems

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Factors influencing competition and mortality in barnacles.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Faithful visualization and dimensionality reduction on graphics processing unit

Supervisor: Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Family and staff perspectives on quality of life, well-being and human rights for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a case study approach

Supervisor: Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Algar-Skaife, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fantastical journeys : an investigation of magical realist travel fiction, including Eithe's Way, a magical realist novel and Fantastical journeys: a fusion form, a critical thesis

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Farmers' ecological and agronomic knowledge about the management of multistrata cocoa systems in Southern Cameroon.

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Farmers' knowledge and the development of complex agroforestry practices in Sri Lanka.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Farmers, ecological knowledge about the management and use of farmland tree fodder resources in the mid-hills of eastern Nepal

Supervisor: Sinclair, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fatigue and exercise in cancer

Supervisor: Marcora, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fatty acid metabolism in a flexibacterium and its role in crustacean nutrition

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fearest Enden: Including: Fearest Enden, a fantasy novel: Saviors, Scapegoats & Sacred Trees: A Critical Discussion

Supervisor: Gregson, I. (Supervisor), Wilcox, H. (Supervisor) & Rumens, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Feasibility of soil amendments and ryegrass in circum-neutral and acidic mine tailings remediation

Supervisor: Roberts, P. (Supervisor) & Bird, G. (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

Feeding and energetic relationships of Pollicipes pollicipes (Gemlin, 1790) (Cirripedia; Lepadomorpha).

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Feeding and growth in an inshore population of plaice, Pleuronectes Platessa L

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

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

Supervisor: Yule, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Female Suicide and Attempted Suicide in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Study of Social Factors

Supervisor: Davies, H. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ferroelectric composites for pyro-and piezoelectric applications

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Field observation and modelling of near-shore sediment transport processes

Supervisor: Davies, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Film and history : 'Planet of the Apes' as history

Supervisor: Abrams, N. (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

Financial liberalisation in Thailand

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Financial strength ratings: Evolution, split ratings, and market impact within the insurance sector

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor) & Williams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fine Scale Survey of Metals, Nutrients and Lipid Biomarkers in the Conwy Estuary

Supervisor: Malham, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fine chemicals from cashew nut shell liquid

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Tomkinson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fingerprinting ice-rafted detritus ice stream sources in the northeast Atlantic during the Last Glacial Stage

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element analysis of magnetization reversal in granular thin films

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element simulation of the micromagnetic behaviour of nanoelements

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element studies of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element studies of the modified KdV equation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Firm size and growth and the evolution of market structure in European banking.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

First language attrition and second language acquisition: exploring the role of phonetic aptitude and language use in highly proficient late Arabic-English and English-Arabic bilinguals

Supervisor: Foltz, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fiscal decentralization and the poor.

Supervisor: Thornton, J. (Supervisor) & ap Gwilym, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fisheries and aspects of the biology of Penaeid shrimps of Bahrain.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fisheries ecology of the brown crab (Cancer pagurus L.) in the Isle of Man

Supervisor: Kaiser, M. (Supervisor), Murray, L. (Supervisor) & Kaiser, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Fisheries-induced evolution : a genetic approach using selection experiments on Poecilia reticulata

Supervisor: Carvalho, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Flagging in English-Italian code-switching

Supervisor: Deuchar, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Flexible Microwave and RF Antennae for Soft Tissue Ablation

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Flow : the concept and implication for mental well-being and health.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Flow-sediment interactions in turbidity currents moving over soft, muddy beds

Supervisor: Baas, J. (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

Focus of attention and anxiety’s respective effect on motor control

Supervisor: Gottwald, V. (Supervisor) & Lawrence, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Focus of attention execution of form, anxious performance and consideration in imagery application

Supervisor: Lawrence, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Focus on Feelings: Emotion Regulation and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation after Acquired Brain Injury

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Focussing selection to the letter level: understanding the letter search task

Supervisor: Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor) & Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Folklore as a Means to Sustain African-American Identity: A Study of Selected Novels by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker

Supervisor: Niebrzydowski, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Food Experiences and Place-Making: An Exploration of the North Wales Foodscape

Supervisor: Lane, E. (Supervisor) & Pierce, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Food consumption patterns and dietary digestibility of whiting (Merlangius merlangus L.) fed in laboratory conditions

Supervisor: Grove, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy