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Obesity and health outcomes in an ethnically diverse child population: methodological approaches using electronic health records linked at child and household level
Childhood obesity is a growing and important problem, with one quarter of children leaving primary school in England with obesity. While social and economic factors are driving this epidemic, little is known about the ... -
Obesity and oral health among adolescents in the United Arab Emirates
(2010)Aims: To investigate the relationship between oral health and obesity in adolescents attending Public and Private Schools in Sharjah City, United Arab Emirates. Methods: 1094 adolescents attending secondary school in Sharjah ... -
Object and feature based modelling of attention in meeting and surveillance videos
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)The aim of the thesis is to create and validate models of visual attention. To this extent, a novel unsupervised object detection and tracking framework has been developed by the author. It is demonstrated on people, ... -
Object coding of music using expressive MIDI
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)Structured audio uses a high level representation of a signal to produce audio output. When it was first introduced in 1998, creating a structured audio representation from an audio signal was beyond the state-of-the-art. ... -
Object localisation, dimensions estimation and tracking.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-03-30)Localising, estimating the physical properties of, and tracking objects from audio and video signals are the base for a large variety of applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, extraction of objects’ patterns ... -
Objective localisation of oral mucosal lesions using optical coherence tomography.
(2011)Identification of the most representative location for biopsy is critical in establishing the definitive diagnosis of oral mucosal lesions. Currently, this process involves visual evaluation of the colour characteristics ... -
The Obligation not to Defeat the Object and Purpose of a Treaty in Light of Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and New Developments
(2023)Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) imposes an obligation on States not to defeat the object and purpose of a treaty prior to its entry into force when: (a) it has signed the treaty or; (b) ... -
Observable predictions of generalised inflationary scenarios.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Inflation is an early period of accelerated cosmic expansion, thought to be sourced by high energy physics. A key task today is to use the influx of increasingly precise observational data to constrain the plethora of ... -
Observations and Plasma Simulations of Whistler Mode Emissions in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Whistler mode waves are strong electromagnetic emissions naturally occurring in the Earth’s magnetosphere. It is well recognised that these waves play a pivotal role in controlling the particle dynamics in the Van Allen ... -
Occupying Vacant Spaces: Precarious Politics of Temporary Urban Reuse.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Temporary urban projects are often portrayed as offering innovative and experimental solutions to the challenges of countering the negative perceptions associated with vacancy, and of providing rent-free open spaces for ... -
Oesophageal hypersensitivity in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms: Prevalence and novel treatments
(Queen Mary University of London, 04/02/2019)Background Gastro oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a leading cause of morbidity and economic importance worldwide. It is currently defined by the Montreal definition as a condition, which develops when the reflux of ... -
Oesophageal mucosal integrity in non-erosive reflux disease and refractory GORD.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Background: 20 to 30% of patients with GORD respond inadequately to conventional therapy. Most of these patients belong to the non-‐erosive reflux disease group. Despite not having oesophagiti ... -
Of Haunted Speech
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020-05-22)The preponderance of thinking in UK counterterrorism circles is that speech that incites terrorism (at least online) is not only a contributor to terrorism but it is also a form of terrorism/radicalisation/extremism in ... -
The old drama and the new: conceptions of the nature of the theatrical experience in the work of William Archer, G.B. Shaw, W.B. Yeats, E.G. Craig and H. Granville-Barker.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1976)Two opposing philosophical outlooks can be discerned in the thought of the men discussed in this dissertation.. The humanist view, associated with Archer and Barker, sees life as centred solely on man; the religious ... -
Older People and Digital Technology From digital learners to digital leaders through participatory design with community-based organisations
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-12-07)It is predicted that there will be more people over the age of 65 than under 5 by 2050 in developed countries. In recognition of the needs of an ageing population, there is a growing field of research in HCI focused on ... -
Older people’s identities on YouTube: an interactional account
How do older people present and manage their age identities, and other social identities, through their YouTube videos and interactions with their viewers? Older YouTubers are a growing but frequently overlooked part of ... -
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS, BIOACTIVE LIPID MEDIATORS AND THE CONTROL OF JOINT INFLAMMATION
(2023)The aim of this project is to investigate how an omega-3 fatty acids diet (n-3) and its lipid mediators could promote resolution of inflammation in arthritis. C57BL/6 mice were administered with K/BxN serum to induce ... -
On a new construction in group theory
(2011)My supervisors Ian Chiswell and Thomas M¨uller have found a new class of groups of functions defined on intervals of the real line, with multiplication defined by analogy with multiplication in free groups. I have extended ... -
On an octonionic construction of the groups of type E6 and 2E6.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020-05-27)We present a uniform approach to the construction of the groups of type E6 over arbitrary fields without using Lie theory, in the spirit of RobertWilson’s ‘The Finite Simple Groups’. Where possible, proofs are obtained ... -
On automorphisms of free groups and free products and their fixed points.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998-01)Free group outer automorphisms were shown by Bestvina and Randell to have fixed subgroups whose rank is bounded in terms of the rank of the underlying group. We consider the case where this upper bound is achieved and ...