All Outputs (1366)

Spatial assessment and management of regional ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta Region (2019)
Thesis
Cai, W. (2019). Spatial assessment and management of regional ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta Region. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224316

The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) metropolitan region is one of the most rapidly urbanized regions in China and has experienced a remarkable period of population growth (at an annual growth rate of 3.0%), and urbanization (at an annual growth rate of 9.2... Read More about Spatial assessment and management of regional ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta Region.

The trial that goes wrong : application of the model of organizational accidents to understanding the failure of clinical trials : case study of a UK public sector-funded clinical trial of an investigational medicinal product (2019)
Thesis
Parsons, S. (2019). The trial that goes wrong : application of the model of organizational accidents to understanding the failure of clinical trials : case study of a UK public sector-funded clinical trial of an investigational medicinal product. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222031

Successful clinical trials are essential to guide clinical practice, however, there is significant risk involved in ensuring the delivery of a successful clinical trial. The most common reason for randomized controlled trial failure in the UK is the... Read More about The trial that goes wrong : application of the model of organizational accidents to understanding the failure of clinical trials : case study of a UK public sector-funded clinical trial of an investigational medicinal product.

Caring for the elderly - identity transitions in informal carers (2019)
Thesis
Trees, R. (2019). Caring for the elderly - identity transitions in informal carers. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221956

Population demographics in the UK are changing, with an increased number of elderly and infirm individuals which is expected to continue to rise. The requirements of care need for this population outstrip the present level of informal care provision... Read More about Caring for the elderly - identity transitions in informal carers.

The development of a multimodal imaging agent for the management of diabetes mellitus type 2 (2019)
Thesis
Garrod, A. J. (2019). The development of a multimodal imaging agent for the management of diabetes mellitus type 2. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221898

Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disorder with multiple aetiologies with an estimated 422 million people with the condition, which is characterised by the chronic presence of hyperglycaemia and dysfunction in carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism... Read More about The development of a multimodal imaging agent for the management of diabetes mellitus type 2.

Exploring the barriers to work-life balance for women in Saudi Arabia (2019)
Thesis
Bahudhailah, M. O. (2019). Exploring the barriers to work-life balance for women in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221887

In recent years, the increasing demands of organisations on their employees, together with more family and non-work commitments, raise questions of how to balance these conflicting demands. This is especially relevant currently for women in the Kingd... Read More about Exploring the barriers to work-life balance for women in Saudi Arabia.

Computational methods toward early detection of neuronal deterioration (2019)
Thesis
Sadegh-Zadeh, S.-A. (2019). Computational methods toward early detection of neuronal deterioration. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221749

In today's world, because of developments in medical sciences, people are living longer, particularly in the advanced countries. This increasing of the lifespan has caused the prevalence of age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia. Research... Read More about Computational methods toward early detection of neuronal deterioration.

Bereavement experiences of male prisoners : grief, cumulative loss and imprisonment (2019)
Thesis
Wilson, M. (2019). Bereavement experiences of male prisoners : grief, cumulative loss and imprisonment. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221745

The central aim of this research was to explore and understand the grief experience of male prisoners as it occurs, and the impact of cumulative loss caused by death, prior to custodial sentencing. The responses of other inmates and the ways in which... Read More about Bereavement experiences of male prisoners : grief, cumulative loss and imprisonment.

Dune dynamics under unsteady flows (2019)
Thesis
Hu, H. (2019). Dune dynamics under unsteady flows. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221728

River bedforms keep translating and deforming perpetually during their migration. During flow field unsteadiness they also change in size and shape over time and in space. However, our knowledge of how bedforms adapt to changing flows remains inadequ... Read More about Dune dynamics under unsteady flows.

Functional and organic dystonia : a psychological and kinematic study (2019)
Thesis
Newby, R. E. (2019). Functional and organic dystonia : a psychological and kinematic study. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221709

Since David Marsden’s studies on dystonia, it has generally been considered a disorder of the basal ganglia. His ideas steadily supplanted psychogenic models of dystonia, which held sway for much of the 20th century. Yet dystonia still sits in a bord... Read More about Functional and organic dystonia : a psychological and kinematic study.

The effect of human rhinovirus-16 on thermo-TRP channels, hypotonic activation and ATP release (2019)
Thesis
Atkinson, S. K. (2019). The effect of human rhinovirus-16 on thermo-TRP channels, hypotonic activation and ATP release. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221658

Human rhinovirus (RV-16) infections are major cause of upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and are associated with acute exacerbations of asthma and COPD. URTIs are associated with excessive production of mucus within the airway, particularly i... Read More about The effect of human rhinovirus-16 on thermo-TRP channels, hypotonic activation and ATP release.

The effectiveness of non-regulated HSE cases in the drilling industry (2019)
Thesis
Ali, K. A. Y. H. (2019). The effectiveness of non-regulated HSE cases in the drilling industry. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221629

Background and Purpose
The safety case regime, as a control measure to major accident hazard, was introduced to the oil and gas industry, three decades ago, following the Piper Alpha disaster. It appeared that safety cases had not passed the cost-be... Read More about The effectiveness of non-regulated HSE cases in the drilling industry.

An investigation into the health, safety and environmental management of migrant workers engaged in the construction industry in the United Kingdon (UK) (2019)
Thesis
Greef, N. J. (2019). An investigation into the health, safety and environmental management of migrant workers engaged in the construction industry in the United Kingdon (UK). (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221607

The overall purpose of this research project was to investigate the Health, Safety and Environmental Management of migrant workers engaged in the Construction Industry in the United Kingdom (UK).

With the expansion of the European Union in 2004 an... Read More about An investigation into the health, safety and environmental management of migrant workers engaged in the construction industry in the United Kingdon (UK).

Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector (2019)
Thesis
Nguyen, T. D. E. (2019). Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221597

The main objective of this research is to investigate factors affecting customer loyalty of different supermarket strategic groups, as the term of strategic groups in the grocery sector appears to have been ignored by most researchers and the topic o... Read More about Factors affecting customer loyalty of different strategic groups in the Vietnamese supermarket sector.

Urban agriculture : established and emerging projects in Hull and Copenhagen (2019)
Thesis
Wright, L. R. (2019). Urban agriculture : established and emerging projects in Hull and Copenhagen. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221392

Communities and organisations are increasingly appropriating urban land for food production. Claims are made that urban agriculture (UA) projects "are reclaiming food production and consumption from the market” (McClintock 2014: 19), can address food... Read More about Urban agriculture : established and emerging projects in Hull and Copenhagen.

Rab-KAMS: A reproducible knowledge management system with visualization for preserving Rabbit Farming and Production Knowledge (2019)
Journal Article
Fagbola, T. M., Thakur, S. C., & Olugbara, O. (2019). Rab-KAMS: A reproducible knowledge management system with visualization for preserving Rabbit Farming and Production Knowledge. International journal of advanced computer science and applications : IJACSA, 10(1), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100135

The sudden rise in rural-to-urban migration has been a key challenge threatening food security and most especially the survival of Rabbit Farming and Production (RFP) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, significant knowledge of RFP is going into extinc... Read More about Rab-KAMS: A reproducible knowledge management system with visualization for preserving Rabbit Farming and Production Knowledge.

Investigating the effect of implementation languages and large problem sizes on the tractability and efficiency of sorting algorithms (2019)
Journal Article
Fagbola, T. M., & Thakur, S. C. (2019). Investigating the effect of implementation languages and large problem sizes on the tractability and efficiency of sorting algorithms. International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, 12(2), 196-203

Sorting is a data structure operation involving a re-arrangement of an unordered set of elements with witnessed real life applications for load balancing and energy conservation in distributed, grid and cloud computing environments. However, the rear... Read More about Investigating the effect of implementation languages and large problem sizes on the tractability and efficiency of sorting algorithms.

TERMHIGEN – A hybrid metaheuristic technique for solving large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows (2019)
Journal Article
Fagbola, T. M., & Thakur, S. C. (2019). TERMHIGEN – A hybrid metaheuristic technique for solving large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows. International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, 12(2), 180-195

Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) involves traversing a coordinated set of vehicular paths such that a set of customers is visited once within a given time-stamped boundary. VRPTW poses a great challenge to logistics distribution and... Read More about TERMHIGEN – A hybrid metaheuristic technique for solving large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows.

Resolution-aware Ensemble of Pose and Illumination-Invariant Feature Descriptors for Face Identification in Unconstrained Videos (2019)
Journal Article
Fagbola, T. M., & Thakur, C. S. (2019). Resolution-aware Ensemble of Pose and Illumination-Invariant Feature Descriptors for Face Identification in Unconstrained Videos. International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, 12(12), 3114-3126

The recurring global security insurgence has posed new opportunities for massive deployment of Video Surveillance Systems (VSS). However, videos captured by such systems suffer characterized Low Resolution (LR), varying illumination and pose challeng... Read More about Resolution-aware Ensemble of Pose and Illumination-Invariant Feature Descriptors for Face Identification in Unconstrained Videos.

The political economy of the third way: the relationship between globalisation and national economic policy (2019)
Book Chapter
Lee, S. (2019). The political economy of the third way: the relationship between globalisation and national economic policy. In J. Michie (Ed.), The Handbook of Globalisation (347-357). (3rd ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118606.00031

The past 30 years are often depicted as an era of globalisation, and even more so with the recent rise of global giants such as Google and Amazon. This updated and revised edition of The Handbook of Globalisation offers novel insights into the rapid... Read More about The political economy of the third way: the relationship between globalisation and national economic policy.

Gain-scheduled proportional integral derivative control of taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicles (2019)
Journal Article
Wasim, M., Ullah, M., & Iqbal, J. (2019). Gain-scheduled proportional integral derivative control of taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicles. Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques : Série Électrotechnique et Énergétique, 64(1), 75-80

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively used for defense and surveillance applications. To ensure desirable performance under all conditions, a UAV requires an appropriate control strategy. For the design of control law, a complete understand... Read More about Gain-scheduled proportional integral derivative control of taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicles.