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Using Particle Jamming to Create Soft Haptic Interfaces for use in Telerobotics
Haptic technology is no longer limited to rendering simple effects in game controllers and smartphones. Recent advances in the design of haptic devices have made important advances in both the rendering of high-definition ... -
Using re-randomisation to increase the recruitment rate in clinical trials
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020)Re-randomisation trials allow patients to be re-enrolled and re-randomised for each new treatment episode they experience. For example, in a trial evaluating treatments for acute sickle cell pain crises, patients could ... -
UV-triggered Encapsulation and Release by Multilayer Microcapsules.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-06)Nowadays, the development of externally stimuli responsive vesicles possessing novel functionalities is full of challenging for various potential applications. As a practical matter, ultraviolet (UV) light responsive ... -
Valuated matroid polytopes and linking system composition.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-07-24)Valuated matroids are a generalisation of matroids; matroids themselves being an abstraction of the notion of independence. Valuated matroids have many equivalent de nitions including via independent sets and circuits, ... -
VALUE OF DERIVATIVE USAGE FOR NON FINANCIAL AND FINANCIAL FIRMS IN INDIA: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL LEVERAGE AND FUNDING TYPE
(Queen Mary University of London, 2022)The value of derivatives usage is a topic of intense academic debate. While the subject has been widely explored in the context of advanced economies, there is still limited research for emerging markets due to lack of ... -
THE VALUE OF EFFORT: HOW DO WE MAKE DECISIONS WHEN EFFORT IS INVOLVED?
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-08-24)Effort-based decision-making is an instance of value-based decision-making in which effort is the main cost associated with obtaining rewards. Despite the fact that we engage in this process on a daily basis, many assumptions ... -
Variations in the parasite fauna of the three-spined stickleback related to salinity and other parameters
(Queen Mary University of London, 1972)Although the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L, is a common euryhaline fish, the salinity tolerances of its parasites have not been studied. The present survey was undertaken to remedy this. Sticklebacks were ... -
The vascular renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
(Queen Mary University of London, 2001)The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is one of the major regulators of blood pressure. The actions and generation of RAAS components at the tissue level are less well appreciated. This work was designed to ... -
Vascular Stem/Progenitor Cell Migration Induced by Smooth Muscle Cell-derived CCL2 and CXCL1
(2016-08-04)Recent studies have shown that Sca-1+ (stem cell antigen-1) stem/progenitor cells within blood vessel walls may contribute to neointima formation, but the mechanism behind their recruitment has not been explored. In this ... -
Vascularization pattern following peri-implant soft tissue augmentation with connective tissue graft or a collagen matrix
(2023)Objective: The objective of the present thesis was to pilot the use of a new cutting-edge technology (laser speckle contrast imaging, LSCI) to describe and characterize the revascularization of peri-implant soft tissues ... -
Verba Vana: Empty Words in Ricardian London
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-03)Verba Vana, or ‘empty words’, are named as among the defining features of London by a late fourteenth-century Anglo-Latin poem which itemises the properties of seven English cities. This thesis examines the implications ... -
The viability of modified gravity theories
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)This thesis studies the viability of classes of modified gravity (MG) theories based on generalisations of the Einstein-Hilbert action. Particular emphasis is given to f(R) theories in both the metric and Palatini ... -
"Victims of our history", the Labour Party and In Place of Strife, 1968 to 1969
(Queen Mary University of London, 2004)This thesis consists of a detailed chronological examination of the events leading up to the publication of the white paper, In Place of Strife in January 1969, and its subsequent replacement with a 'solemn and binding' ... -
Victor Hugo in the light of English criticism and opinion during the nineteenth century
(Queen Mary University of London, 1944)in the follovina pages I have set out to discover what English critics of the nineteenth century thought of the works of Victor Hugo* It has not been my intention to study the extent to which the general public of the ... -
Victorian Madmen: Broadmoor, Masculinity and the Experiences of the Criminally Insane, 1863-1900.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Through an analysis of records from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, this PhD thesis sheds new light on current understandings of the asylum, masculinity and the relationship between medicine and the law in late-Victorian ... -
Victorian Tinder: Examining New Media Technologies in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
This thesis argues that new media technologies’ impact on real-life romantic relationships opened the door for authors to portray new modes of desire and intimacy in nineteenth-century fiction. While a variety of new media ... -
Video compression algorithms for HEVC and beyond
(Queen Mary University of London, 20/02/2019)Due to the increasing number of new services and devices that allow the creation, distribution and consumption of video content, the amount of video information being transmitted all over the world is constantly growing. ... -
Video Stabilisation Based on Spatial Transformer Networks
(2021)User-Generated Content is normally recorded with mobile phones by non-professionals, which leads to a low viewing experience due to artifacts such as jitter and blur. Other jittery videos are those recorded with mounted ... -
Video Summarization Using Unsupervised Deep Learning
(Queen Mary University of London, 2023)In this thesis, we address the task of video summarization using unsupervised deep-learning architectures. Video summarization aims to generate a short summary by selecting the most informative and important frames ... -
A View of Things to Come
(2024-04-12)A View of Things to Come explores how bacteria, fungi, and plants can produce cinematic art, with or without us. I approach these beings as artistically and pedagogically insightful companions, interrogating, rethinking, ...