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The Effect of Enhanced Personal Protective Equipment on The Quality of Tooth Preparations Performed by Undergraduate Dental Students
Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has instigated significant changes in dental practice, especially the mandatory usage of Enhanced Personal Protective Equipment (EPPE) during aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs). ... -
Political Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global South: Evidence from Post-Revolution Tunisian Extractive, Primary and Textile Industries
Political CSR has gained the attention of scholars researching the Global South, especially in countries with political instability and where economic, social, and environmental issues are pressing. This thesis uses the ... -
Leveraging Document Structures for Analytical and Investigative Information Retrieval
Due to data leaks, social media and the opening of various government databases, data-driven investigative methods have become available to a wider set of actors, including journalists. Retrieval, search and discovery are ... -
Delivery of therapeutic mRNA into extracellular vesicles for cartilage regeneration: proof of concept using Agrin
The capacity of some RNAs to be transported between cells within the EVs enables the delivery of therapeutic RNAs to some tissues where drug delivery can be challenging, such as the cartilage. We have developed a technology ... -
Higher Order Processes on Multiplex Networks and Simplicial Complexes
Simplicial complexes and multiplex networks are higher order networks that are commonly used to encode underlying network geometry and topology of a vast number of complex systems. These structures provide us with the ... -
Gender and ethnic diversity management within the Speech and Language Therapy profession in the UK
The UK’s Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) workforce is predominantly White and female. Drawing on scholarship about workforce diversity issues and its management, SLT and the UK health sector were explored. SLT workforce ... -
Investigating the Role of VEGF-D in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Coronary Ischaemia
This thesis investigates the role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-D as a biomarker for clinical conditions and symptoms and its therapeutic potential in coronary ischaemia. The initial chapters provide a detailed ... -
Exploring Electromagnetic Interaction with Metallic Microparticles for Prospective Biomedical Applications
This work offers a novel exploration of the interaction between a 2.4 GHz electromagnetic (EM) field and metallic microparticles, particularly iron, silver, copper, and aluminium. It employs numerical simulations, theoretical ... -
An investigation into interactional patterns for Alzheimer's Disease recognition in Natural dialogues
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss, together with cognitive deficits affecting language, emotional affect, and interactional communication. Diagnosis and assessment ... -
Colombia and the International Criminal Court. A Case for Legal Diversity in International Criminal Justice
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long advocated for a universalist model of justice, according to which perpetrators of international crimes should be held accountable following state-based, retributive, judicial ... -
Allosteric regulation of the proton-sensing G-protein-coupled receptor GPR68
GPR68 is a proton-sensing G-protein-coupled receptor activated by changes in extracellular pH. It is involved in various physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms, including cancer. In neoplastic pathologies, it has ... -
Deploying Home: US Military Homemaking Practices Overseas
Over the past decades, the United States military has sent millions of American military personnel and family members to hundreds of sites in at least 150 countries. Wherever they find themselves, in or out of combat zones, ... -
A comparison of Technologies for the Generation of Novel Antibodies
Rapid, accurate identification of biological material is critical for many areas. These include in medical diagnosis to enable correct treatment, environmental surveillance in the agriculture industry, and in the case of ... -
A View of Things to Come
(2024-04-12)A View of Things to Come explores how bacteria, fungi, and plants can produce cinematic art, with or without us. I approach these beings as artistically and pedagogically insightful companions, interrogating, rethinking, ... -
Stable Topological Structures in Data
Topological data analysis is a relatively new and emerging field - it combines concepts from computational geometry and algebraic topology to analyze data. This thesis builds on the recent result on continuous optimization ... -
Essays on Bank Culture and its Impact on Liquidity Creation and Bank Performance
In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on the significance of bank culture in influencing the conduct, effectiveness, and resilience of financial institutions. Despite recognizing the importance of corporate ... -
Defect engineering of BiFeO₃ photocathodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting
Rapidly growing energy demand leads to research on the development of sustainable energy resources. Photocatalytic (PC) or photoelectrochemical (PEC) processes are considered a potential route for producing sustainable ... -
Improving 1.5 μm emission efficiency in organo-erbium thin films by controlling impurities and deposition conditions for integrated optics applications.
The global market for integrated optics is expected to quadruple in the next five years as the need for innovative photonics technology is surging in sectors of telecommunications, high-performance computing, biomedical ... -
Assessing Platelet RNA as a Potential Biomarker for Prostate Cancer Detection
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major carcinoma among Western men. The current prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test has limited sensitivity and specificity, necessitating the exploration of alternative non-invasive diagnostic ... -
Organic-praseodymium system for telecommunication wavelength
Praseodymium-doped materials exhibit appealing optical properties with potential applications in phosphors, fibre optical amplifiers and lasers, and solid-state single photon emitters. However, the emission at around 1.5 ...