Browsing Theses by Title
Now showing items 4059-4078 of 4235
-
U-dualities in Type II string theories and M-theory.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-10)In this thesis the recently developed duality covariant approach to string and Mtheory is investigated. In this formalism the U-duality symmetry of M-theory or Tduality symmetry of Type II string theory becomes manifest ... -
Ultra wideband gigabit powerline communication
(2009)Powerline Communication (PLC) has long been established for low data rate applications by the electric supply companies. Since 1991, the European CENELEC standard EN 50065 has ruled the use of 3 - 148.5KHz frequency ... -
Ultra Wideband Wearable Sensors for Motion Tracking Applications
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-09-21)The increasing interest and advancements in wearable electronics, biomedical applications and digital signal processing techniques have led to the unceasing progress and research in novel implementations of wireless ... -
Ultra-Small Magnetic Field Effects of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminium
(Queen Mary University of London, 29/08/2019)Magnetic field effects (namely, magnetoconductance (MC) and magnetoelectroluminescence (MEL)) in organic devices have been extensively studied in the last two decades and several theories and models have been developed to ... -
ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF SYNOVITIS: RELATIONSHIP TO PATHOBIOLOGY AND RESPONSE TO THERAPY
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-02-06)Ultrasound (US) imaging has made significant progress over the past 20 years in relation to its role in inflammatory arthritis, and in particular, Rheumatoid Arthritis. Modern US machines provide ... -
Uncertainty in Postmodern Literature: With Special Reference to the Novels of Alasdair Gray and Salman Rushdie.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1999)This thesis is a selective study of Postmodern literature, focusing on the work of Alasdair Gray and Salman Rushdie. Postmodern literature is an expression of and response to the profound uncertainty that characterises ... -
Uncommon ground: the distribution of dialogue contexts
(2009)Context in dialogue is at once regarded as a set of resources enabling successful interpretation and is altered by such interpretations. A key problem for models of dialogue, then, is to specify how the shared context ... -
Uncovering rare genetic variants predisposing to coeliac disease
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Coeliac disease is a common (1% prevalence) inflammatory disease of the small intestine, involving the role of tissue transglutaminase and HLA-‐DQ binding immuno-‐dominant wheat peptides. The ... -
Uncovering the Mechanisms of Science Activation in p-16 Positive Cancer Cells.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021-03-12)Pro-senescence therapy, the process of activating a stable cell cycle arrest in cancer cells, increasingly draws interest as a novel mechanism for cancer treatment, especially for cancers with unmet clinical needs, such ... -
Uncovering the selection on non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination for genome downsizing in polyploid plants
An analysis of over 10,000 plant genome sizes (GSs) indicates that most species have smaller genomes than expected given the incidence of polyploidy in their ancestries, suggesting selection for genome downsizing. Given ... -
Understanding Agreement and Disagreement in Listeners’ Perceived Emotion in Live Music Performance
(2023)Emotion perception of music is subjective and time dependent. Most computational music emotion recognition (MER) systems overlook time- and listener-dependent factors by averaging emotion judgments across listeners. In ... -
Understanding and Assessing the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care
(2006)The clinician-patient relationship is at the core of community mental health care and impacts on outcome, but no instrument has been specifically developed for its assessmentE. xisting scalesh ave either unproven ... -
Understanding and Supporting Collaborative Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-05-02)With the ubiquity of current information retrieval systems, users move beyond individual searching to performing complex and exploratory information seeking tasks together with collaborators for social, leisure or ... -
Understanding and Supporting Cross-modal Collaborative Information Seeking
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-02-24)Most previous studies of users with visual impairments (VI) access to the web have focused solely on single user human-web interaction. This thesis explores the under investigated area of cross-modal collaborative information ... -
Understanding and targeting c-Met signalling in bladder cancer
(2022)Background Bladder cancer is the 11th most common cancer, overall, and the 8th most common one in males in the UK. It affects in excess of 10,200 people every year leading to approximately 5,500 deaths. Over the last three ... -
Understanding and targeting PI3K downstream of oncogenic Met mutant
(Queen Mary University of London, 28/05/2015)The Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) Met, overexpressed or mutated in cancer, plays a major role in cancer progression and represents an attractive target for cancer therapy. This study aimed to investigate whether PI3K plays ... -
Understanding Audio Deep Learning Classifiers Through Adversarial Attacks and Interpretability
The rise of deep learning as an effective tool for classification tasks in the audio domain came at the cost of transparency in the model prediction process. Deep learning models have a lot of parameters and non-linearities ... -
Understanding liquid movements in textiles for the development of liquid repellent strategies
(2018-06-01)The understanding of the liquid movements in textiles is important to the development of novel liquid repellent strategies based on the manipulation of liquid motion. In this thesis we focus on the two areas that have ... -
Understanding local neuromuscular mechanisms that explain the efficacy of interventions for patellofemoral pain
Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is a common and persistent knee pain complaint among all age ranges, especially highly active people. Multiple approaches have been used to understand symptom persistence, including identifying a ... -
Understanding mechanisms of defective macrophage efferocytosis in dyslipidaemia
The prompt clearance of apoptotic cells by a specialized process called efferocytosis is critical for successful resolution of inflammation and maintenance of immune homeostasis. Defects in this process are associated with ...