This thesis employs almost five hundred household inventories relating to properties in England and Wales between 1841 and 1881; they provide the first large-scale evidence for what people’s houses during this period ...

The clinical background to this work confirms the very poor outcome of patients with recurrent diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and highlights the need for better therapies. One such potential option would be to add ...

Aim: To investigate potential markers for depression and poor quality of life (QoL) in head and neck (HN) and colorectal (CR) cancer patients. Background: Comorbid depression is strongly related to decreased QoL in cancer ...

Object tracking is one of the fundamental tasks in various applications such as surveillance, sports, video conferencing and activity recognition. Factors such as occlusions, illumination changes and limited field of ...

Clinical observation suggest that bone formation is influenced by the environmental niche where it takes place and specifically that soft connective tissues may inhibit the bone healing process. The aim of the studies ...

During this PhD study, several finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods were developed to numerically investigate coordinate transformation based metamaterial devices. A novel radially-dependent dispersive FDTD ...

Oncolytic adenoviral mutants have demonstrated good safety profiles but, despite some encouraging clinical results, efficacy as a single agent was limited. Combinations with conventional chemo- or radiotherapy significantly ...

Internal combustion engines are approaching their theoretical maximum efficiency, which could indicate limited future technological improvements in performance and exhaust emissions with standard fuels. In addition, ...

Flowers’ colours are an essential element of their ability to attract visits from pollinators. However, the colours as they appear to human observers can differ substantially from their appearance to insect pollinators, ...

Computer scientists have made ceaseless efforts to replicate cognitive video understanding abilities of human brains onto autonomous vision systems. As video surveillance cameras become ubiquitous, there is a surge in ...