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Geographic profiling in biology.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-07)
In Chapter one I introduce the subject of geographic profiling, its use in criminology
and its previous application to biology.
I go on in Chapter two to examine the original model and develop a likelihood-based
approach ...
Global Warming in Freshwaters: Implications for the Microbial-Meiofaunal Loop
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-09)
Climate change can have potentially catastrophic effects upon biodiversity and
food web structure and according to the fourth IPCC report, ambient
temperatures will rise by between 3.0 -5.0 °C over the next century, with ...
Phylogeography and diversification of Taiwanese bats
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-09)
Gene flow is a central evolutionary force that largely determines the level of differentiation
among populations of organisms and thus their potential for divergence from each other.
Identifying key factors that influence ...
Assemblage and genetic structure of insectivorous bats in Peninsular Malaysia.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-02)
Past climate change and recent human activity have had major impacts on the
distribution of habitats as well as the community and population genetic structure of the
species occupying these habitats. In temperate zones, ...
Impacts of watercress farming on stream ecosystem functioning and community structure.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-09)
Despite the increased prominence of ecological measurement in fresh waters within recent national regulatory and legislative instruments, their assessment is still almost exclusively based on taxonomic structure. Integrated ...
Stream food webs in a changing climate: the impacts of warming on Icelandic freshwaters.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-09)
Climate change and the accompanying increase in global surface temperatures pose a major threat to freshwater ecosystems, especially at high latitudes where warming is predicted to be particularly rapid. To date many aspects ...
Nonverbal communication in schizophrenia: A 3-D Analysis of patients’ social interactions
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)
Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness affecting approximately 0.4% of the
population. A core feature of schizophrenia is social dysfunction, however, the precise
nature of patients’ social deficits remain ...
The Intergovernmental Dimension of Local Government Financial Stress: A European Comparative Analysis
(Queen Mary University of London, 23/11/2015)
This thesis investigates the relationship between intergovernmental structures and financial stress in local government. The research compares three European constitutional systems: England, as a centralised case; Germany, ...
Investigation of the distribution of nitrite and nitrate and nitrite reductase activity in models of cardiovascular disease
(Queen Mary University of London, 05/12/2014)
Recently, it has emerged that the NO metabolites, nitrite and nitrate can be chemically reduced in vivo to biologically active nitric oxide (NO). This generation of NO is dependent on reduction of nitrate to nitrite by ...
Failure of Rubber Components under Fatigue
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)
Rubber components under cyclic loading conditions often are considered to
have failed as a result of the stiffness changing to an amount that makes the part no
longer useful. This thesis considers three distinctive but ...