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Reading the inventory: household goods, domestic cultures and difference in England and Wales, 1841–81
(2011)
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 potential therapeutic role of selenium in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
(2011)
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 ...
Depression and cancer: physiological and psychological markers
(2010)
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 ...
Tracking interacting targets in multi-modal sensors
(2009)
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 ...
Limitations of bone formation in oral implantology: inhibition of osteoblast functions by gingival tissues
(2010)
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 ...
FDTD modelling of electromagnetic transformation based devices
(2010)
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 ...
Prostate cancer targeting using replication-selective adenoviruses in combination with phytochemicals
(2009)
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 ...
Combustion, performance and emissions characteristics of compression-ignition engines fuelled by sustainable fuels
(2011)
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 through insect eyes: the contribution of pollinator vision to the evolution of flower colour
(2010)
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, ...
Activity understanding and unusual event detection in surveillance videos
(2010)
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 ...