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The potential impact of utilising social media platforms in Saudi higher education : academic practitioners perception (2022)
Thesis
Bugulah, O. A. (2022). The potential impact of utilising social media platforms in Saudi higher education : academic practitioners perception. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4200917

The use of social media has penetrated the field of education during the past decade, but it is still not widely accepted or used to support teaching and learning despite their potential usefulness. However, since the start of the Coron... Read More about The potential impact of utilising social media platforms in Saudi higher education : academic practitioners perception.

The impact of BBC Blue Planet II on awareness of and attitude to plastic pollution (2022)
Thesis
Mirzakhani, Z. (2022). The impact of BBC Blue Planet II on awareness of and attitude to plastic pollution. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4252332

This research study addresses the issue of environmental pollution caused by plastic waste, which has had extensive negative impact on the ecological systems and human life worldwide. Recent studies have found microplastics in every single aquatic sp... Read More about The impact of BBC Blue Planet II on awareness of and attitude to plastic pollution.

Emerging environmental contaminants and human health : risk assessment of dietary exposure to microplastics (2022)
Thesis
Ntanopoulos, E. (2022). Emerging environmental contaminants and human health : risk assessment of dietary exposure to microplastics. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224197

Microplastics (MPs) are an emerging contaminant ubiquitous in the environment. There is growing concern regarding potential human health effects. A major human exposure route is hypothesised to be the dietary pathway via ingestion of contaminated foo... Read More about Emerging environmental contaminants and human health : risk assessment of dietary exposure to microplastics.

Appraising the curricula of UK non-medical prescribing programmes and its role in producing high-level prescribers (2022)
Thesis
Omer, U. N. (2022). Appraising the curricula of UK non-medical prescribing programmes and its role in producing high-level prescribers. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224134

In recent years, healthcare systems have sought to decrease workload pressures on doctors by expanding the authority to prescribe medications to other healthcare professionals. This authority is most advanced in the UK, where healthcare professionals... Read More about Appraising the curricula of UK non-medical prescribing programmes and its role in producing high-level prescribers.

Making sense of ‘best start’ : exploring the early experiences of mothers in low-socioeconomic areas (2022)
Thesis
Miles, H. B. (2022). Making sense of ‘best start’ : exploring the early experiences of mothers in low-socioeconomic areas. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224605

The central concern of this thesis is to better understand how mothers in low- socioeconomic areas, in a city in the north of England experience early mothering. It is particularly interested in broadening understandings of how these lived experience... Read More about Making sense of ‘best start’ : exploring the early experiences of mothers in low-socioeconomic areas.

Development of personalised optimisation of advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients with volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy (2022)
Thesis
Tambe, N. S. (2022). Development of personalised optimisation of advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients with volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224655

Background and Aim of the study: Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. A significant number of these patients are diagnosed with inoperable advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Until recently, the standard of care for these pat... Read More about Development of personalised optimisation of advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients with volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy.

Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography (2022)
Thesis
Devine, R. (2022). Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224248

‘Epistolary Larkin’ is the first comprehensive study to focus primarily on Philip Larkin’s letters as literary constructs. The publication of Anthony Thwaite’s Philip Larkin: Selected Letters 1940-1985 (1992) caused widespread division across the cri... Read More about Epistolary Larkin : life, letters and the literary biography.

Developing an evidence-based system to facilitate the predictive assessment and optimisation of older adults with cancer (2021)
Thesis
McKenzie, G. A. G. (2021). Developing an evidence-based system to facilitate the predictive assessment and optimisation of older adults with cancer. (Thesis). The University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4192792

Introduction: Older adults with cancer have worse outcomes than their younger counterparts, including higher postoperative complications, chemotherapy toxicity and treatment allocation to best supportive care. Oncogeriatric assessment (OGA) can provi... Read More about Developing an evidence-based system to facilitate the predictive assessment and optimisation of older adults with cancer.

New routes to chiral-at-metal organometallic complexes and their application in asymmetric synthesis (2021)
Thesis
Shroot, S. (2021). New routes to chiral-at-metal organometallic complexes and their application in asymmetric synthesis. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224096

This project develops new organometallic frameworks, to target the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and hydrosilylation of ketones, aiming for enhanced activity and substrate scope relative to current state-of-the-art. The anticancer activity of som... Read More about New routes to chiral-at-metal organometallic complexes and their application in asymmetric synthesis.

Renewing approaches to understanding the minerals and waters at alkaline waste sites (2021)
Thesis
Bastianini, L. (2021). Renewing approaches to understanding the minerals and waters at alkaline waste sites. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224152

Highly alkaline (pH 9-12) waters can arise from a range of natural and anthropogenic processes. The latter include drainage waters from a range of globally significant anthropogenic by-products such as lime, cement and steel wastes, bauxite processin... Read More about Renewing approaches to understanding the minerals and waters at alkaline waste sites.

Investigation of graphene oxide-based composite material strategies as possible candidates for leading edge erosion protection of offshore wind turbines (2021)
Thesis
Glanville, L. B. L. (2021). Investigation of graphene oxide-based composite material strategies as possible candidates for leading edge erosion protection of offshore wind turbines. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224240

At present the current climate and energy crisis has highlighted the global need for more renewable energy generation. Offshore wind provides a reliable source of this green energy however the harsh environments these assets operate in result in freq... Read More about Investigation of graphene oxide-based composite material strategies as possible candidates for leading edge erosion protection of offshore wind turbines.

Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors impair FcγRIIa-mediated platelet responses to bacteria in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (2021)
Thesis
Naylor-Adamson, L. (2021). Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors impair FcγRIIa-mediated platelet responses to bacteria in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224129

Ibrutinib is highly effective in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), disrupting B cell receptor signalling through the inhibition of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (Btk). However, ibrutinib has off-target effects, inhibiting platelet aggr... Read More about Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors impair FcγRIIa-mediated platelet responses to bacteria in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Lab-on-a-chip platforms for pathogen analysis (2021)
Thesis
Rodriguez Mateos, P. (2021). Lab-on-a-chip platforms for pathogen analysis. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224144

Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms are a big burden in developed and developing countries. The emergence and rapid global spread of virus and antimicrobial resistant bacteria is a significant threat to patients, healthcare system... Read More about Lab-on-a-chip platforms for pathogen analysis.

Development of fluorine-18 radiolabelled peptides for targeted imaging of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor (2021)
Thesis
Plater, J. (2021). Development of fluorine-18 radiolabelled peptides for targeted imaging of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223832

The chemokine receptor CXCR4 has been shown to be over-expressed in multiple cancer types and is often linked to a poor prognosis, making it a significant target of interest for both imaging and therapeutics. Early diagnosis, imaging and identificati... Read More about Development of fluorine-18 radiolabelled peptides for targeted imaging of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor.

Sporopollenin : applications in water purification (2021)
Thesis
Meichanetzoglou, A. (2021). Sporopollenin : applications in water purification. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223849

Water pollution from emerging contaminants is increasingly in the spotlight, as research on the impacts on the environment is revealing more about the dangers to both animals in the aquatic environment and human health. Pharmaceuticals, personal care... Read More about Sporopollenin : applications in water purification.

Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets (2021)
Thesis
Wang, J. (2021). Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224272

This thesis investigates herding behaviour among major world stock markets from 2002 to 2018. It also studies the herding behaviour at sector level from 2001 to 2020. In the first chapter, we introduce the background and motivation for this study. In... Read More about Evidence of herding behaviour in stock markets.

Mechanochemical ablation in the treatment of superficial venous incompetence (2021)
Thesis
Mohamed, A. (2021). Mechanochemical ablation in the treatment of superficial venous incompetence. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223528

Background The routine management of venous incompetence has undergone considerable changes in the last two decades led by the introduction of minimally invasive endovenous techniques. At the heart of these changes has been a drive to offer patients... Read More about Mechanochemical ablation in the treatment of superficial venous incompetence.

Yorkshire’s folk culture in digital spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic : cultural practice, digitalisation and localisation (2021)
Thesis
Sewell, C. T. (2021). Yorkshire’s folk culture in digital spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic : cultural practice, digitalisation and localisation. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224009

This thesis critically assesses the digital spaces where Yorkshire’s folk community practiced sonic and material cultures and developed identities of communal belonging during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data gathered throughout... Read More about Yorkshire’s folk culture in digital spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic : cultural practice, digitalisation and localisation.