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 ...

My research focuses on selected discourse features of spoken French, especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two main parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based ...

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 ...

Concealed weapon detection (CWD) has been a hot topic as the concern about pub- lic safety increases. A variety of approaches for the detection of concealed objects on the human body based on earth magnetic ¯eld distortion, ...

A series of experiments were performed to understand the ionic processes in glass ionomer cements. Fluoride release from fluoroaluminosilicate glasses in deionised water and artificial saliva Inorganic artificial ...

Within a number of Western nation-states, internal national minorities are advancing demands for political recognition and a measure of autonomy short of full independence. General acceptance of democratic ideals places ...