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‘The Wandering Adolescent of Contemporary Japanese Anime and Videogames’
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-07-15)This thesis examines the figure of the wandering adolescent, prominently visible in Japanese television anime and videogames produced from 1995 to the present. Japan in the 1990s and at the millennium experienced intense ... -
War in the ‘cradle of civilization’: British perceptions of Mesopotamia, 1907- 1921
(2010)Drawing on a wide variety of historical and literary sources, this thesis argues that the First World War transformed British perceptions of Mesopotamia, distancing it from long-established associations with myth, antiquity ... -
'Waste', Value and Informal Labour: The Regional E-Waste Recycling Production Network in Malaysia and Singapore.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-05)This thesis examines the regional electronic and electrical waste (e-‐waste) recycling network in Malaysia and Singapore, with a secondary focus on the articulations of informal labour within ... -
The Water Uptake of Experimental Soft Lining Materials
(Queen Mary University of London, 1997)In order to develop a successful soft lining material various factors have to be considered; physical strength, adhesion to the denture base ( or prosthetic) and the durability of the material's properties when in the ... -
Waves of Invaders: Interactions among Invasive Species and their Impacts on Ecosystem Structure and Functioning
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-06-25)Many freshwater ecosystems sustain several invasive species. Here I examine multiple invasions in two highly invaded and well catalogued catchments; Lake Naivasha, Kenya and River Thames, England. New metrics, derived from ... -
The Way to Optimistic Land: The role of attunement and theatre in reducing child and adolescent mental distress.
(Queen Mary University of London., 2021)This thesis explores the impact of an original applied theatre practice of attunement, on reducing the mental distress of children and adolescents with experiences of trauma. This practice, the Theatre Troupe Model (TTM), ... -
“We got cancer”- A mixed methods study of quality of life and psychological distress in head and neck cancer patients and their families
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-09-01)Background: A diagnosis of cancer and its subsequent treatment can have a profound impact on the quality of a person’s life, as well as on the lives of their partners and family members. While the role of families as a ... -
Weakly Supervised Learning of Objects and Attributes.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-05-05)This thesis presents weakly supervised learning approaches to directly exploit image-level tags (e.g. objects, attributes) for comprehensive image understanding, including tasks such as object localisation, image ... -
Wearable RF sensors for non-invasive detection of blood-glucose levels
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-09)Radio frequency (RF) techniques have the potential to provide blood glucose readings through sensing the glucose dependent change in dielectric properties of the biological tissue. Such technique can enable much desired ... -
Wearable Technology for Mental Wellness Monitoring and Feedback
This thesis investigates the transformative potential of wearable monitoring devices in empowering individuals to make positive lifestyle changes and enhance mental well-being. The primary objective is to assess the efficacy ... -
What do stories tell us about whistleblowing conflict in the NHS in England and its resolution?
(2023)This thesis examines NHS whistleblowing as conflict from the perspective of story and narrative theory to seek insights about the underlying nature of whistleblowing conflict. It aims to contribute to more informed ... -
What drives invertebrate communities in a chalk stream : from trophic relationships to allometric scaling
(Queen Mary University of London, 2007)Despite a slow start freshwater meiofauna research is now gathering pace. Evidence is accumulating which indicates the importance of their inclusion in lotic metazoan studies. Here I contribute towards this research ... -
‘What has defeated historical enquiry’: the representation of the past in the novels of Beryl Bainbridge
(2010)This thesis examines the novels of Beryl Bainbridge from her earliest published work, A Weekend with Claud (1967), to her most recent, According to Queeney (2001). It argues that issues of historical representation are ... -
What influences the effectiveness of Quality Improvement in surgery?
Background Robust evaluations of the effectiveness of Quality Improvement (QI) remain rare, and subsequently the evidence for the use of QI, and what may influence the success of such efforts, is weak. Methods EPOCH was ... -
What Lies Above: Using Poetic Methods to Interrogate User Positions Across GNSS Infrastructures
(Queen Mary University of London, 17/10/2018)This thesis argues for the use of what I term `poetic methods' in approaching the study of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) infrastructures. Poetic methods frame research experiments with techniques drawn from ... -
What lies beneath riparian black poplar (Populus nigra L.): Root distributions, associations and structures.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-04-25)Vegetation plays a central role in river dynamics and riparian forest is itself a rare and valuable habitat. Tree roots stabilise riparian sediments and are key to regeneration after disturbance. However, despite mechanistic ... -
What's in a Name? Intelligent Classification and Identification of Online Media Content
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016)The sheer amount of content on the Internet poses a number of challenges for content providers and users alike. The providers want to classify and identify user downloads for market research, advertising and legal purposes. ... -
Whittaker coefficients of automorphic forms and applications to analytic Number Theory
(2022)The formalism of automorphic representations makes the study of automorphic forms amenable to representation-theoretic methods. In particular the Whittaker model, when it exists, permits to extract interesting arithmetic ...