Theses: Recent submissions
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Development and Utility of Novel Tests of Anticoagulation to Risk Stratify Haemodialysis Patients
End stage kidney disease is associated with an increased risk of both bleeding and clotting. Patients receiving haemodialysis have excess morbidity and mortality from major bleeding, as well as cardiovascular events. During ... -
Struggles over Camps and Global Logics of Detention
Recent decades have seen the expansion and intensification of immigration detention practices across the globe. The resulting system of dispersed, yet interlinked sites of enforcement forms a carceral archipelago, characterised ... -
Telemetry for Next-Generation Networks
Software-defined networking enables tight integration between packet-processing hardware and centralized controllers, highlighting the importance of deep network insight for informed decision-making. Modern network telemetry ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL FAMILY OF BIOACTIVE BIORESORBABLE POLYLACTIC ACID – SILICATE SUBSTITUTED HYDROXYAPATITE COMPOSITES FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL APPLICATIONS
Bio-resorbable composite biomaterials can be used clinically as alternatives to near-inert biomaterials such as medical grade titanium alloys, stainless-steels, high molecular-weight poly-ethylene or polyether-ether-ketone ... -
Efficient Federated Learning over Wireless Networks
Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning paradigm for protecting data privacy. In FL, edge devices collaboratively train machine learning (ML) models under the orchestration of a parameter server (PS), ... -
Implications of Epicardial Fat Inflammation in Atrial Fibrillation
Despite its prevalence, the underlying aetio-pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF) remains incompletely understood. One area of novel interest lies in the adipose tissue that directly overlies the myocardium, namely ... -
Development and evaluation of an educational intervention designed to improve clinician’s gait-related practice in ambulant children and young people with cerebral palsy.
BACKGROUND: Instrumented gait analysis (IGA) is an assessment and research tool with proven impacts on clinical decision-making for the management of ambulant children and young people with cerebral palsy (CYPwCP) but is ... -
Adapting to Change: The Temporal Persistence of Text Classifiers in the Context of Longitudinally Evolving Data
This thesis delves into the evolving landscape of NLP, particularly focusing on the temporal persistence of text classifiers amid the dynamic nature of language use. The primary objective is to understand how changes in ... -
Understanding Trauma: a Journey through Single and Multi-Omics
Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. This thesis explores the immune response to trauma using molecular indicators of injury severity through single and multi-omics data. Specifically, we aimed to ... -
Hedgehogs in Greater London: Investigating fragmented populations in urban environments
The west European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) is undergoing severe declines in the UK but appears to thrive in urban environments. However, habitat loss and fragmentation, in which wildlife populations become restricted ... -
Mental Health Advocacy on Social Media: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Mental health remains one of today’s most relevant global issues. Mental health organisations (Mind, Rethink Mental Illness, Time to Change) provide resources on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) with the goal ... -
Hybrid Perovskite Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Stability and Defect Tolerance
This thesis aims to fabricate doped halide perovskite materials (HPM) by using targeted elements, which have provided a dimension beyond structural and compositional modification to achieve desired properties. The doping ... -
The Great Book of the World: the formation and use of the library of Robert Ashley (1565-1641)
Robert Ashley (1565-1641) was a bibliophile, lawyer, and translator who built up one of the most important and largest private libraries in Renaissance England. Ashley’s library has not been studied in any depth until now, ... -
Characterisation of the mechano-chemical relationship between actin and microtubule cytoskeletons and the active motion of cytoplasmic components
The advancements in imaging techniques have markedly enhanced the ability to observe and reconstruct dynamic cellular processes, thereby deepening our understanding of cell behaviour. This study's primary objective is to ... -
Identification and Prioritisation of Cardiovascular Disease Genes
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is known to be highly prevalent in individuals from South Asian (SA) heritage such as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis [1, 2]. However, conclusive causal inference explaining this increased risk ... -
Zeal and Sacrifice: The Woman Missionary and Women’s Writing, 1830-1900
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014)This thesis explores the development of the ‘female missionary’ character both within the developing literary form of the female missionary biography and as she was invoked in the writings of other women through ... -
International Law and Uncertainty in Shared Freshwater Resources
Freshwater flowing above and below ground crosses international boundaries and becomes a resource shared between States. Cooperation between riparians neighbours facilitates the management of such resources and treaties ... -
Understanding the functional impact of alternative splicing in human cancer through Proteomics Informed by Transcriptomics
Recent advances in the fields of next generation sequencing and mass spec- trometry have enabled additional depth in sequencing, allowing further de- velopments for the fields of transcriptomics and proteomics. Additionally, ... -
Few-shot Claim Verification for Automated Fact Checking
In an era characterized by the rapid expansion of online information and the widespread dissemination of misinformation, automated fact-checking has emerged as an essential area of research. As digital platforms continue ... -
IP-Related Technical Assistance: Lessons for developing countries
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)This thesis highlights the fact that intellectual property (IP) related technical assistance available and provided to developing countries thus far has focussed on aspects of enforcement of intellectual property rights ...