Browsing Theses by Title

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    • "Victims of our history", the Labour Party and In Place of Strife, 1968 to 1969 

      Tyler, Richard John (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 

      Bowley, Victor E.A. (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. 

      Shepherd, Jade Victoria (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 

      Mo, YTN
      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 

      Seixas Dias, Andre (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 

      Ito, M (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 

      Apostolidis, E (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 

      Dymond, C (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, ...

    • Violin Augmentation Techniques for Learning Assistance 

      Pardue, Laurel S. (Queen Mary University of London, 2017-06-21)
      Learning violin is a challenging task requiring execution of pitch tasks with the left hand using a strong aural feedback loop for correctly adjusting pitch, concurrent with the right hand moving a bow precisely with ...

    • Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Figuring Sisterhood. 

      Råback, Jenni (Queen Mary University of London, 2020)
      This thesis argues that Virginia Woolf’s writing must be understood as enacting her sororal relationship with her sister Vanessa Bell. The argument is grounded in theorisations of kinship that regard relationships as ...

    • Virtual Reality Training Simulator for Physical Diagnosis 

      Bálint, Luis Andrés Puértolas (Queen Mary University of London, 2022-01)
      The backdrop to the creation of the simulator was the ongoing trend to improve medical students' tuition by exploiting recent advances in virtual reality technologies. Previously, state-of-the-art education in physical ...

    • Virtuosity in Computationally Creative Musical Performance for Bass Guitar 

      Goddard, C
      This thesis focuses on the development and implementation of a theory for a computationally creative musical performance system aimed at producing virtuosic interpretations of musical pieces for performance on bass guitar. ...

    • The visco-elastic properties of the arterial wall. 

      Bergel, D.H. (Queen Mary University of London, 1960)
      The visco-elastic properties of the arterial wail are of importance in determining the behaviour of the circulatory system for the pulse wave is a relatively rapid event. It has been reported that arteries show very little ...

    • The viscoelastic properties of rubber under a complex loading 

      Suphadon, Nutthanun (Queen Mary University of London, 2010)
      This thesis aims to explore the effect of pre-strain on the viscoelastic behaviour of rubber materials. There are various conflicting theories in the literature regarding the strain dependence and resulting anisotropy ...

    • The viscoelastic properties of some dental soft lining materials. 

      Saber-Sheikh, Kambiz (Queen Mary University of London, 1997)
      The viscoelastic properties of soft lining materials are of enormous interest and importance as they clearly govern the biomechanical function of these materials. Forced vibration (Non-resonant) dynamic mechanical analysis ...

    • Viscoelastic response of cells and the role of actin cytoskeletal remodelling. 

      Pravincumar, Priyanka (Queen Mary University of London, 2012)
      The mechanical properties of living cells provide useful information on cellular structure and function. In the present study a micropipette aspiration technique was developed to investigate the viscoelastic parameters of ...

    • Visual Affordance Prediction of Hand-Occluded Objects 

      Apicella, T
      The prediction of affordances i.e., the potential actions an agent can perform on objects in the scene, is fundamental for human-robot collaboration and wearable robotics scenarios in which objects may be on a tabletop or ...

    • Visual Learning in Limited-Label Regime. 

      Chen, Yanbei (Queen Mary University of London., 2021-02-01)
      Abstract Deep learning algorithms and architectures have greatly advanced the state-of-the-art in a wide variety of computer vision tasks, such as object recognition and image retrieval. To achieve human- or even ...

    • Visualization Tools for Comparative Genomics applied to Convergent Evolution in Ash Trees 

      Seaman, Josiah (Queen Mary University of London, 2021)
      Assembly and analysis of whole genomes is now a routine part of genetic research, but effective tools for the visualization of whole genomes and their alignments are few. Here we present two approaches to allow such ...

    • Vitamin D and endothelial function in chronic kidney disease 

      Dreyer, Gavin (Queen Mary University of London, 2014-09-14)
      Vitamin D deficiency in patients with chronic kidney disease, measured by reduced serum concentrations of 25 hydroxy vitamin D, is highly prevalent and associated with both endothelial dysfunction and an increased risk of ...