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What drives invertebrate communities in a chalk stream : from trophic relationships to allometric scaling
(Queen Mary University of London, 2007)Despite a slow start freshwater meiofauna research is now gathering pace. Evidence is accumulating which indicates the importance of their inclusion in lotic metazoan studies. Here I contribute towards this research ... -
‘What has defeated historical enquiry’: the representation of the past in the novels of Beryl Bainbridge
(2010)This thesis examines the novels of Beryl Bainbridge from her earliest published work, A Weekend with Claud (1967), to her most recent, According to Queeney (2001). It argues that issues of historical representation are ... -
What influences the effectiveness of Quality Improvement in surgery?
Background Robust evaluations of the effectiveness of Quality Improvement (QI) remain rare, and subsequently the evidence for the use of QI, and what may influence the success of such efforts, is weak. Methods EPOCH was ... -
What Lies Above: Using Poetic Methods to Interrogate User Positions Across GNSS Infrastructures
(Queen Mary University of London, 17/10/2018)This thesis argues for the use of what I term `poetic methods' in approaching the study of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) infrastructures. Poetic methods frame research experiments with techniques drawn from ... -
What lies beneath riparian black poplar (Populus nigra L.): Root distributions, associations and structures.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-04-25)Vegetation plays a central role in river dynamics and riparian forest is itself a rare and valuable habitat. Tree roots stabilise riparian sediments and are key to regeneration after disturbance. However, despite mechanistic ... -
What's in a Name? Intelligent Classification and Identification of Online Media Content
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016)The sheer amount of content on the Internet poses a number of challenges for content providers and users alike. The providers want to classify and identify user downloads for market research, advertising and legal purposes. ... -
Whittaker coefficients of automorphic forms and applications to analytic Number Theory
(2022)The formalism of automorphic representations makes the study of automorphic forms amenable to representation-theoretic methods. In particular the Whittaker model, when it exists, permits to extract interesting arithmetic ... -
Who is what and what is who: the morpho-syntax of Arabic WH
(2012)This thesis advances a micro-parametric analysis for the variation in wh-dependencies in a number of modern Arabic dialects, especially, Iraqi, Lebanese and Jordanian. It will be shown that although these dialects have ... -
Who joins a UK right to die society and why? : a study of members of Friends at the End (FATE)
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)The thesis presents quantitative and qualitative thematic analyses of a postal survey and interview study of members of Friends at the End (FATE), a Glasgow-based right to die society. This is one of the first UK studies ... -
Whose Gertrude Stein? Contemporary Poetry, Modernist Institutions and Stein’s Troublesome Legacy
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-01-19)This thesis is an examination of the ways in which, in what Bourdieu theorises as the ‘space of literary or artistic position-takings’, Gertrude Stein has been continually positioned and repositioned, constructed and ... -
Why did video screens get slimmer? A study of the role of Intellectual Property in the commercial development of organic light-emitting diodes
(Queen Mary University of London, 30/05/2017)This research project consists of a critical analysis of the role of intellectual property amongst other factors in the successful commercial development at the Cavendish Laboratory of optoelectronic light emitting diode ... -
‘Why do you go on living?’: Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, H.D. and the ‘Poetics of Ageing’
(Queen Mary University of London, 2022)This thesis explores a ‘poetics of ageing’ in the creative, biographical and archival materials of H.D. (1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966) and Djuna Barnes (1892- 1982). A ‘poetics of ageing’ indicates the ongoing inner ... -
Why don't we ask people what they need? Teaching and learning communication in healthcare
(Queen Mary University of London, 2003)There are numerous empirically described problems of communication in healthcare. The doctor/patient relationship is fundamental to many such problems. The changing nature of healthcare and the doctor/patient relationship ... -
Wideband Dual-Circular-Polarization Antennas for Millimetre-Wave Wireless Communications.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-03-22)Millimetre-wave (mmWave) wireless communications has attracted great interest in recent years as a promising technology that can provide high data rate beyond 5G. Circular Polarization (CP) radiation is preferable to ... -
William Blake and the visionary poetry of the law.
(2005)This dissertation examines the meaning of law in Blake's work. I argue that Blake's poetry intersects with contemporaneous challenges to the traditional model of the ancient constitution, a debate which I present as a ... -
Wills and inheritance in late Anglo-Saxon England 871-1066.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1991)In this thesis, the sources considered suitable for the study of inheritance were reviewed, and a theoretical model for a system of customary inheritance was developed. The study divides into two part seach relating ... -
Wireless Links for Telecare and Telemedicine Applications using Compact Body-Worn Antennas.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-06)This thesis concerns the design of body-centric wireless communications for short-range indoor Telecare/Telemedicine applications. Such communications are starting to be used to convey key, relatively low data-rate body-sensor ... -
Wireless Sensing for Human Activity Recognition with Deep Learning
This dissertation delves into the potential of WiFi-based sensing for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a promising avenue for smart healthcare and remote monitoring due to WiFi's ubiquity and non-intrusiveness. It confronts ... -
WNK1 and its role in hypertension
(2010)WNK1 is a serine-threonine protein kinase involved in blood pressure (BP) control and electrolyte homeostasis. Intronic deletions in the WNK1 gene result in over-expression and lead to pseudohypoaldosteronism type II, a ...