Browsing Theses by Title
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Acetylation: a critical factor in maintaining intestinal inflammation?
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), both chronic pro-inflammatory pathways and failure of anti-inflammatory (healing) mechanisms sustain disease. The two major anti-inflammatory gut cytokines are transforming growth factor ... -
ACHIEVING A VALID APPLICATION OF EU LAW IN INTRA- EU ENERGY CHARTER TREATY DISPUTES: A MATTER OF FUNCTIONS.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-08-23)The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was extensively negotiated and signed by the European Union (EU). However, there are clear indications that legal and policy changes in the EU are gradually challenging the validity of the ... -
Achieving regulatory efficiency: a study of the Greek telecommunications authority
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)This thesis is an original examination of the structural characteristics that render an administrative agency, entrusted with the regulation of the telecommunications sector, ‘efficient’ or ‘better’ in the sense of the ... -
ACORNS OF THE RESOLVER ‘Are there identifiable characteristic traits within the leading UK mediators and is there a correlation between these characteristics and their position as the pioneers of ADR?
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-18)Despite the extensive literature regarding mediation, there remains very little empirical and objective research that gives regard to the characteristics of the Mediator as a neutral third party to a dispute. There is a ... -
Acoustically Inspired Probabilistic Time-domain Music Transcription and Source Separation.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020)Automatic music transcription (AMT) and source separation are important computational tasks, which can help to understand, analyse and process music recordings. The main purpose of AMT is to estimate, from an observed audio ... -
Action recognition using deep learning
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-10-18)In this thesis we study deep learning architectures for the problem of human action recognition in image sequences, i.e. the problem of automatically recognizing what people are doing in a given video. As unlabeled video ... -
Activating senescence in p16-positive Basal-like breast cancer.
(Activating senescence in p16-positive Basal-like breast cancer., 2016-01-05)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and Basal-like breast cancer (a highly aggressive subtype) accounts for approximately 8-22% of all cases depending on ethnicity. Unlike most human malignancies and indeed ... -
Active and Reconfigurable Millimetre-Wave Antennas and Systems
(Queen Mary University of London, 2018-06-05)The millimetre-wave (mm-wave) spectrum offers considerable advantages in terms of antenna form factor and spectrum availability. However, use of this region often requires reconfigurable antennas and systems. Initially, a ... -
Active visual tracking in multi-agent scenarios
(Queen Mary University of London, 2018-06-06)Camera-equipped robots (agents) can autonomously follow people to provide continuous assistance in wide areas, e.g. museums and airports. Each agent serves one person (target) at a time and aims to maintain its target ... -
An Active-Template Mechanistic Approach to Homo- and Hetero-Circuit [3]Rotaxanes
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-07-22)Although known to chemists for nearly a century, interlocked structures have only been synthetically accessible since the 1980s when “passive template” methods allowed the pre-complexation of components to increase yields. ... -
Activity of oncolytic vaccinia virus vectors in ovarian cancer.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-03)Oncolytic vaccinia virus has great potential in the treatment of cancer and two engineered strains have entered clinical trials. As the advent for oncolytic vaccinia virus as an approved therapy beckons, it is critical ... -
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 ... -
Acts of Passage: Making rights claims in the Franco-Italian borderzone
This thesis concerns how citizens and noncitizens act together in solidarity and how the state criminalises such actions, focusing on a case study of the Franco-Italian borderzone. Taking a performative approach to ... -
Actualising economic development through privatisation legal reform: a general assessment of privatisation in Africa with a specific case study of Nigeria and sub focus on the Nigerian electricity sector
(2009)This dissertation analysed the outcome of the adoption and implementation of privatisation by Nigeria, of which a legal framework has been put in place by the government to legalise the process of transferring the ownership ... -
Acute myeloid leukaemia in the elderly: Clinical management and the application of molecular cytogenetic techniques
(Queen Mary University of London, 2000-11)In Western Europe and North America, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is predominantly a disease of the elderly, with a median age at the time of presentation in excess of 60 years. However, many clinical trials in AML fail ... -
Adam of Buckfield and the early universities
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998)This thesis represents a systematic analysis of one of the commentaries of Adam of Buckfield on the physical works of Aristotle. The aim is to indicate how natural philosophy was taught in the early universities and how ... -
Adapting to Change: The Temporal Persistence of Text Classifiers in the Context of Longitudinally Evolving Data
This thesis delves into the evolving landscape of NLP, particularly focusing on the temporal persistence of text classifiers amid the dynamic nature of language use. The primary objective is to understand how changes in ... -
Adaptive filtering applications to satellite navigation
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems employ the extended Kalman filter to estimate the reference position error. High accuracy integrated navigation systems have the ability to mix traditional inertial sensor ... -
An Adaptive Parameterisation Method for Shape Optimisation Using Adjoint Sensitivities.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-03-25)Adjoint methods are the most e cient approach to compute the design sensitivities as the entire gradient vector of a single objective function is obtained in a single adjoint system solve. This in turn opens up a wide ... -
Adaptive visual sampling
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)Various visual tasks may be analysed in the context of sampling from the visual field. In visual psychophysics, human visual sampling strategies have often been shown at a high-level to be driven by various information ...