Browsing Queen Mary University of London Theses by Title
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Laboratory studies examining aspects of scent marking, traplining and remote detection of reward in the foraging bumblebee.
(2007)Energy from food is essential for the survival of all animals. For decades, bumblebees have been used as model organisms for studying animal foraging strategies. Here, I use bumblebees to examine two foraging strategies: ... -
The Labour Governments 1964-1970 and the Other Equalities.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)This thesis explores the idea that an equality state has evolved in Britain since the 1960s. The policies and institutions that make up the equality state are those that seek to ensure some forms of equality between its ... -
Laminar separation bubbles in two and three dimensional incompressible flow.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1968)A theoretical and experimental study is made of the closed 'bubbles` of separated flow formed when a laminar boundary layer separates from an aerofoil surface and, after undergoing transition to turbulence, subsequently ... -
The landscape of vascular accessible chromatin and prioritisation of functional risk alleles for cardiovascular disease
(2022)Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality and disability. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 181,522 coronary artery (CAD) cases and 984,058 controls identified 897 CAD risk variants ... -
Language & Normativity in Sexuality & Gender-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a Netnographic-Informed Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-11-18)Psychologists generally agree that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is caused by intrinsic biopsychological factors and extrinsic sociocultural factors that influence the topic of obsessions (e.g., cleanliness, symmetry, ... -
Language attitudes in Quebec: a contemporary perspective
(2009)Language attitudes studies are a central part of both sociolinguistics and social psychology, and Quebec, Canada’s only province with a francophone majority, has proved to be one of the most fascinating places for this ... -
Language ideologies and discourses of national identity in Canadian newspapers: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-02)The idea that Canada consists of “two solitudes” (MacLennan, 1945), according to which the two dominant (English and French) linguistic groups live in separate worlds with little interaction or communication, has also ... -
Language policy and language contact in Barcelona: a contemporary perspective.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)The present thesis provides an analysis of language policy and language contact in present-day Barcelona. On the one hand, the effectiveness of the implementation of Catalan-medium education in Catalonia will be critically ... -
Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2007)While not essential, the link between language and national identity is nevertheless often a highly important and salient one, a fact illustrated by the centrality of linguistic concerns in many nationalist discourses ... -
Language policy and national identity in Georgia
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)Language has been long recognised as a powerful marker of national identity, as has its role in transforming multi-ethnic societies into unified nations. Such is the case of multi-ethnic and multilingual Georgia, where ... -
Language Variation and Social Identity in Beijing
(Queen Mary University of London, 05/03/2018)This thesis investigates language variation among a group of young adults in Beijing, China, with an aim to advance our understanding of social meaning in a language and a society where the topic is understudied. In this ... -
Language Variation and Social Positioning at a Brazilian terreiro
(2023)This study focuses on how language variation correlates with the social structure of a terreiro, the place for religious practices of Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion. It sets out to examine the plural configuration ... -
Large deviation methods for the study of nonequilibrium systems: variational and spectral approaches.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-09-27)In this thesis we study rare events in di erent nonequilibrium stochastic models both in discrete and continuous time by means of spectral and variational large deviation approaches. Large deviation theory is a branch ... -
Large Eddy Simulation of separating flows from curved surfaces
(Queen Mary University of London, 2004)The capabilities and limitations of LES in predicting separation from curved surfaces at high Reynolds number are at the centre of this Thesis. Issues of particular interest are mesh resolution, subgrid-scale modelling ... -
Large Scale Pattern Detection in Videos and Images from the Wild
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-28)Pattern detection is a well-studied area of computer vision, but still current methods are unstable in images of poor quality. This thesis describes improvements over contemporary methods in the fast detection of unseen ... -
Large Section Ceramic Injection Moulding
(Queen Mary University of London, 2000)Ceramic injection moulding is already established as a production technique for complex shaped ceramic components. However the process is limited to thin section mouldings generally not exceeding a wall thickness of 10 ... -
LARGE WOOD IN FLUVIAL SYSTEMS: QUANTITY, STRUCTURE AND LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT RETENTION; AND RIPARIAN SEED BANK DEVELOPMENT
(Queen Mary University of London, 24/06/2014)This thesis investigates the characteristics and impacts of large wood accumulations within river reaches of different size and style. Four reaches were studied: (i) a wide, braided, headwater reach, characterised by dead ... -
Laser scanning system for microscopic and macroscopic investigations of chemical semiconductor-sensors.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011-01)The aim of this thesis was to develop laterally resolved measurement systems for analysing Metal Insulator Semiconductor (MIS)-based potentiometric chemical sensors. Therefore, the Light-Addressable Potentiometric Sensors ... -
The Last Serious Thing: Modernist Responses to the Bullfight.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-09)This thesis investigates the ways in which literary and artistic modernism interpreted the Spanish institution of the corrida, or the bullfight. The sheer volume of modernist intellectuals who engaged with the corrida ... -
The Late Inhibition of IκB Kinase Attenuates Acute Kidney Injury and the Subsequent Development of Renal Fibrosis in Animal Models of Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury and Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-08-24)Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). For patients who recover from AKI, there is a 25% increase in the risk of CKD, and a mortality rate of up to 50% after 10 years. Nuclear ...