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The Use of Social Media by Orthognathic Patients: A Systematic Review and Cross-sectional Survey
Aims 1. To assess the information seeking behaviours of orthognathic patients by examining their use of social media. 2. To investigate the impact of social media on the decision-making process of prospective orthognathic ... -
User Association Optimisation in HetNets: Algorithms and Performance
(Queen Mary University of London, 26/11/2015)The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks expect significantly higher transmission rate and energy efficiency than existing networks. Heterogeneous networks (HetNets), where various low power base stations (BSs) are underlaid ... -
User Mobility Detection using Foot Force Sensors and Mobile Phone GPS.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-06)A user (or human) mobility context is defined as a type of user context that describes a type of whole body posture (e.g., standing versus sitting) and/or a type of travel or transportation mode (e.g., walking, cycling, ... -
A User-assisted Approach to Multiple Instrument Music Transcription
(Queen Mary University of London, 21/05/2014)The task of automatic music transcription has been studied for several decades and is regarded as an enabling technology for a multitude of applications such as music retrieval and discovery, intelligent music processing ... -
User-developer cooperation in software development: building common ground and usable systems
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998)The topic of this research is direct user participation in the task based development of interactive software systems. Building usable software demands understanding and supporting users and their tasks. Users are a ... -
The Uses of Maternal Distress in British Society, c.1948-1979
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-03-01)After the Second World War mothering became an object of social, political, medical and psychiatric investigation. These investigations would in turn serve as the bases for new campaigns around the practice, meaning and ... -
Using a pathway dynamics approach to characterise the role of ions, accessory proteins and ligands on G protein-coupled receptor signalling.
Accessory proteins and ions are able to modulate the signalling mechanisms of certain GPCRs, and it’s been established that accessory proteins are necessary for processes such as receptor trafficking to the membrane, ligand ... -
Using ancient DNA methods to reconstruct population histories of Neotropical mammals: case studies on extinction and conservation.
Although South and Central America both have high endemism of mammal species in the present, this diversity and uniqueness is much reduced since the end-Pleistocene and Holocene extinction waves that decimated this group. ... -
Using Bayesian networks to represent parameterised risk models for the UK railways
(Queen Mary University of London, 2009)The techniques currently used to model risk and manage the safety of the UK railway network are not aligned to the mechanism by which catastrophic accidents occur in this industry. In this thesis, a new risk modelling ... -
Using collections to explore the evolution of plant associated lifestyles in the Ascomycota
The Ascomycota form the largest phylum in the fungal kingdom and show a wide diversity of lifestyles, some involving beneficial or harmful associations with plants. Distinguishing between fungal endophytes – species which ... -
USING COPYRIGHT LAW TO ENHANCE EDUCATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCEPTIONS, WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO UGANDA
(Queen Mary University of London, 27/06/2014)Strict enforcement of copyright in least developed countries like Uganda would negatively affect realisation of the right to education which is both intrinsic and instrumental to realisation of economic development goals ... -
Using Particle Jamming to Create Soft Haptic Interfaces for use in Telerobotics
Haptic technology is no longer limited to rendering simple effects in game controllers and smartphones. Recent advances in the design of haptic devices have made important advances in both the rendering of high-definition ... -
Using re-randomisation to increase the recruitment rate in clinical trials
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020)Re-randomisation trials allow patients to be re-enrolled and re-randomised for each new treatment episode they experience. For example, in a trial evaluating treatments for acute sickle cell pain crises, patients could ... -
UV-triggered Encapsulation and Release by Multilayer Microcapsules.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-06)Nowadays, the development of externally stimuli responsive vesicles possessing novel functionalities is full of challenging for various potential applications. As a practical matter, ultraviolet (UV) light responsive ... -
Valuated matroid polytopes and linking system composition.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-07-24)Valuated matroids are a generalisation of matroids; matroids themselves being an abstraction of the notion of independence. Valuated matroids have many equivalent de nitions including via independent sets and circuits, ... -
VALUE OF DERIVATIVE USAGE FOR NON FINANCIAL AND FINANCIAL FIRMS IN INDIA: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL LEVERAGE AND FUNDING TYPE
(Queen Mary University of London, 2022)The value of derivatives usage is a topic of intense academic debate. While the subject has been widely explored in the context of advanced economies, there is still limited research for emerging markets due to lack of ... -
THE VALUE OF EFFORT: HOW DO WE MAKE DECISIONS WHEN EFFORT IS INVOLVED?
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-08-24)Effort-based decision-making is an instance of value-based decision-making in which effort is the main cost associated with obtaining rewards. Despite the fact that we engage in this process on a daily basis, many assumptions ... -
Variations in the parasite fauna of the three-spined stickleback related to salinity and other parameters
(Queen Mary University of London, 1972)Although the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L, is a common euryhaline fish, the salinity tolerances of its parasites have not been studied. The present survey was undertaken to remedy this. Sticklebacks were ... -
The vascular renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
(Queen Mary University of London, 2001)The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is one of the major regulators of blood pressure. The actions and generation of RAAS components at the tissue level are less well appreciated. This work was designed to ... -
Vascular Stem/Progenitor Cell Migration Induced by Smooth Muscle Cell-derived CCL2 and CXCL1
(2016-08-04)Recent studies have shown that Sca-1+ (stem cell antigen-1) stem/progenitor cells within blood vessel walls may contribute to neointima formation, but the mechanism behind their recruitment has not been explored. In this ...