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Diatom‐based reconstruction of multi‐timescale climate and environmental change from Lakes Dojran and Ohrid in the northeastern Mediterranean region (2015)
Thesis
Zhang, X. S. (2015). Diatom‐based reconstruction of multi‐timescale climate and environmental change from Lakes Dojran and Ohrid in the northeastern Mediterranean region. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217210

The southern Balkans is located at the juncture between the west–east and north–south contrasting hydroclimatic domains across the Mediterranean, and this study focuses on diatoms as indicators of late Quaternary climate change and recent human impac... Read More about Diatom‐based reconstruction of multi‐timescale climate and environmental change from Lakes Dojran and Ohrid in the northeastern Mediterranean region.

A theory of intellectual expertise (2015)
Thesis
Webb, R. K. (2015). A theory of intellectual expertise. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217203

Experts pervade public life. We live in an expertise saturated society. Experts are turned to in order to solve problems, justify positions, and are thought to progress our thinking and technology. But what makes an expert an expert? In answering thi... Read More about A theory of intellectual expertise.

Rational chemical design of solar-powered nano photocatalysts for environmental applications (2015)
Thesis
Katubi, K. M. M. (2015). Rational chemical design of solar-powered nano photocatalysts for environmental applications. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217184

Photo-catalysis, which relies on semiconducting materials as catalysts, has become an important approach in the search for ways to utilise solar energy. Because titanium dioxide has excellent properties, shows oxidative power and has a high efficienc... Read More about Rational chemical design of solar-powered nano photocatalysts for environmental applications.

A question of balance : accountability and autonomy in twenty-first century English state schools (2015)
Thesis
Godfrey, R. P. (2015). A question of balance : accountability and autonomy in twenty-first century English state schools. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217166

Accountability has always been important in taxpayer-funded English state schools. This accountability has become more complex over the past 30 years as policymakers have introduced market forces into public education.

The Education Reform Act, (l... Read More about A question of balance : accountability and autonomy in twenty-first century English state schools.

Behavioural responses by marine fishes and macroinvertebrates to underwater noise (2015)
Thesis
Roberts, L. (2015). Behavioural responses by marine fishes and macroinvertebrates to underwater noise. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217006

The aim of this thesis was to explore and evaluate the key behavioural responses of coastal UK marine fishes and macroinvertebrates to anthropogenic noise. Work focussed upon two key aspects, water-borne acoustics and the relatively unstudied substra... Read More about Behavioural responses by marine fishes and macroinvertebrates to underwater noise.

Exploring the experience of psychogenic syncope following diagnosis (2015)
Thesis
Hansen, B. S. (2015). Exploring the experience of psychogenic syncope following diagnosis. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216881

This portfolio has three parts.

I. Part one is a systematic literature review entitled ‘What are the psychological factors associated with psychogenic syncope or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures? Psychological factors that appear to be commonly... Read More about Exploring the experience of psychogenic syncope following diagnosis.

Adapting fisheries-based livelihoods to hydrological changes in the Lower Mekong River Basin : a case study of Lao PDR (2015)
Thesis
Kaviphone Phouthavong. (2015). Adapting fisheries-based livelihoods to hydrological changes in the Lower Mekong River Basin : a case study of Lao PDR. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216840

Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam was selected for this study to assess how local communities respond to hydrological changes and examine the impacts of these changes to ecology and livelihoods of people around the Nakai reservoir and downstream in the Xe B... Read More about Adapting fisheries-based livelihoods to hydrological changes in the Lower Mekong River Basin : a case study of Lao PDR.

Study of power plant, carbon capture and transport network through dynamic modelling and simulation (2015)
Thesis
Oko, E. (2015). Study of power plant, carbon capture and transport network through dynamic modelling and simulation. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216833

The unfavourable role of CO₂ in stimulating climate change has generated concerns as CO₂ levels in the atmosphere continue to increase. As a result, it has been recommended that coal-fired power plants which are major CO₂ emitters should be operated... Read More about Study of power plant, carbon capture and transport network through dynamic modelling and simulation.

Metabolic regulation during early embryo development (2015)
Thesis
McKeegan, P. (2015). Metabolic regulation during early embryo development. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216544

The preimplantation embryo must satisfy dynamic changes in energy demand during development to the blastocyst stage. Energy is provided through regulated metabolic pathways including glycolysis, β-oxidation and oxidative phosphorylation. Oxygen consu... Read More about Metabolic regulation during early embryo development.

Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Ajwad, S. A., Iqbal, J., Khan, A. A., & Mehmood, A. (2015). Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques. Studies in Informatics and Control, 24(4), 401-408. https://doi.org/10.24846/v24i4y201504

Robotic manipulators deployed in automation industry require high speed with precision and accuracy to perform sophisticated control tasks. Whereas, the factors like highly coupled dynamics, internal and external perturbation forces, joint friction a... Read More about Disturbance-observer-based robust control of a Serial-link robotic manipulator using SMC and PBC techniques.

Impact of the operating conditions and position of exhaust gas recirculation on the performance of a micro gas turbine (2015)
Book Chapter
Ali, U., Palma, C. F., Hughes, K. J., Ingham, D. B., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2015). Impact of the operating conditions and position of exhaust gas recirculation on the performance of a micro gas turbine. In K. V. Gernaey, J. K. Huusom, & R. Gani (Eds.), 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (2417-2422). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63576-1.50097-2

Gas turbines are a viable and secure option both economically and environmentally for power and heat generation. The process simulation of the micro gas turbine with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and its impact on performance is evaluated. This stu... Read More about Impact of the operating conditions and position of exhaust gas recirculation on the performance of a micro gas turbine.

Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems (2015)
Journal Article
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., Sharvia, S., & Mahmud, N. (2015). Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 307, 91-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08964-5_6

The promise of model-based engineering is that by use of an integrated and coherent system model both functional and non-functional requirements may be analysed, implemented and tested in a rigorous and cost-effective manner. An important part of mod... Read More about Model transformation for multi-objective architecture optimisation of dependable systems.

Plantation societies (2015)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2015). Plantation societies. In J. H. Bentley, S. Subrahmanyam, & M. E. Wiesner-Hanks (Eds.), The Cambridge World History Vol.6 The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 2: Patterns of Change (263-282). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022460.012

Few institutions define world history in the early modern era as completely as the plantation complex. Initiated in Europe; realised in the tropical and semi-tropical regions of the Americas; involving both Asia as a source of capital and Asians as l... Read More about Plantation societies.

The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government (2015)
Book
Beech, M., & Lee, S. (2015). M. Beech, & S. Lee (Eds.). The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461377

This book offers a unique full term analysis of the Cameron-Clegg Government. From austerity to gay marriage, the Scottish referendum to combating IS, it brings together expert academic voices to provide rigorous yet readable insights on the key area... Read More about The Conservative-Liberal Coalition: Examining the Cameron-Clegg Government.

Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival (2015)
Journal Article
Ward, E. M. (2015). Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival. German life and letters, 68(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12067

This article examines the previously unexplored role of the Cannes Film Festival as an alternative arena for Cold War politics and the playing out of the West German Hallstein Doctrine in 1957 and 1959. The Hallstein Doctrine was an important strateg... Read More about Screening out the East: the playing out of inter-German relations at the Cannes film festival.

Uniform estimates for averages of order statistics of matrices (2015)
Journal Article
Lechner, R., Passenbrunner, M., & Prochno, J. (2015). Uniform estimates for averages of order statistics of matrices. Electronic Communications in Probability, 20, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v20-3992

We prove uniform estimates for the expected value of averages of order statistics of matrices interms of their largest entries. As an application, we obtain similar probabilistic estimates for ℓp norms via real interpolation.

On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes (2015)
Journal Article
Alonso-Gutiérrez, D., & Prochno, J. (2015). On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 143(2), 821-832. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12401-4

© 2014 American Mathematical Society. We show that the expected value of the mean width of a random polytope generated by N random vectors (n ≤ N ≤ e√n) uniformly distributed in an isotropic convex body in ℝnis of the order√logNLK. This completes a r... Read More about On the Gaussian behavior of marginals and the mean width of random polytopes.

Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories (2015)
Journal Article
Robens, C., Alt, W., Meschede, D., Emary, C., & Alberti, A. (2015). Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories. Physical Review X, 5(1), Article 011003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011003

We report on a stringent test of the nonclassicality of the motion of a massive quantum particle, which propagates on a discrete lattice. Measuring temporal correlations of the position of single atoms performing a quantum walk, we observe a 6σ viola... Read More about Ideal negative measurements in quantum walks disprove theories based on classical trajectories.