Theses

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

Functional analysis of the cancer-associated proteins Translin and Trax reveal a novel function in genome stability control

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of learning strategies in vocabulary acquisition

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor) & Foltz, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Function Of SPO11 In Human Cancer Cells

Supervisor: Stuart, N. (Supervisor), Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor) & Wakeman, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The arbitrability of international online consumer disputes

Supervisor: Telles, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Aspects of bacterial disease prevention and control in penaeid prawns

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of food 'wanting' and 'liking' in free-living individuals using a novel smart phone application: mind eating

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

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

Evaluation of novel naked barley lines for β–glucan, amylose and field performance

Supervisor: Steele, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of an α-mycolic acid from Mycobacterium brumae containing a cis-alkene and an α-methyl-trans-alkene

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Al-Dulayymi, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of stem cell genome stability and cancer-associated developmental programmes

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mathematical modeling of marine environment contamination using fuzzy set theory

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The development of an electrode for the detection of potassium phosphate

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology and ecology of the rocky shore crab Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) on the coast of Kuwait

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor), Gimenez Noya, J. (Supervisor) & Behbehani, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Amino Acid Substituted Guanidines as Organocatalysts

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Function of cancer associated protein translin

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Improved TIPS-Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors and Their applications; Memory Transistor and Gas Sensing

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of the dye sensitization of inorganic colloids used in dye-sensitized solar cells

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology, population dynamics and fishery management of the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758), in Bahraini waters : (Crustacea: Decapoda; Brachyura; Portunidae).

Supervisor: Walker, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

DSP-based Real-Time Enabling Technologies for Future Cloud Access Networks

Supervisor: Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Writers in conflict : a comparative study of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Social change and alienation in Kuwait.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effect of exercise and fish oil capsules on serum blood lipid and lipoprotein levels in pre and post menopausal women

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The truth of the legend of successful criminal procedure reform in post-Saddam Iraq : a critical analysis of pre-trial rights in the light of international human rights law

Supervisor: Linton, S. (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

Towards a new understanding of the right of self-determination in the post-colonial context : the case of the Iraqi Kurdistan region

Supervisor: Linton, S. (Supervisor) & McDermott Rees, Y. (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

Analysis, Design and Implementation of Multiple View Visualisations

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (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

Visualisation, optimisation and Machine Learning: Application in PET Reconstruction and Pea segmentation in MRI Images

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Automatic Emotion Recognition in English and Arabic text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of epoxy-mycolic acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microsatellites of Mites in Forensics

Supervisor: Braig, H. R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Compression-based Methods for the Automatic Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Efficiency in Arabian banking

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of low cost biological photovoltaic cells

Supervisor: Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The representation and interpretation of abstract concepts : an LCCM theory approach

Supervisor: Evans, V. (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

Public Values and Project Management Practices & Processes in the Public Sector in the case of the State of Qatar

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor) & Nikolopoulos, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Disciplining Public Employees in Kuwait: A search for increased fairness, coherence, and protection in the light of prevailing and expanding employee duties, particularly the duty to Whistleblow.

Supervisor: Griffiths, A. (Supervisor) & Hodgkinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Resource discovery and distributed computing over peer-to-peer networks

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (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

Reform of the Iraqi Private International Law on Transnational Online Contracting: Lessons from the EU and the USA

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Seasonal variation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) in relation to primary production and yellow substrates (g440). in the Menai Strait, North Wales

Supervisor: Thomas, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of spatial data in forest ecology and management; windthrow, carbon sequestration and climate change

Supervisor: Williams, J. (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

Aspects of multiple categories

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The role of UNESCO in sustaining cultural diversity in the Sultanate of Oman, 1970-2020

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Reformist framework of the foreign investment environment in the post-conflict : critical appraisal of Iraq case

Supervisor: Shi, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Hofstede's cultural dimensions and work-related values in Kuwait : implications for employment policy

Supervisor: Sambrook, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy