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LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Presenters will share experiences measuring impact at different scales, including what methods and data they use to measure impact, and the robustness of those measurements. The community will be invited to provide feedback ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Producers and other actors are making significant investments in livestock farming systems and value chains. How should we plan investments that safeguard sustainable livestock development now and in the future? How should ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)How are technology applications supporting livestock health and productivity in LMICs? This dynamic and interactive session will showcase well-established solutions as well as new and emerging tech that support value chains ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Longitudinal datasets provides valuable insights to changes over time at a national level. This session will consider which longitudinal datasets are currently available, how they contribute to knowledge in the sector, and ... -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)Speakers will present their insights into future livestock trends (increased demand for meat, climate change impacts on food production, etc) and present key opportunities and challenges for the livestock sector. -
LD4D - Proceedings of Meeting 4-6 February 2020, Rome
(2020-02-06)The 2020 LD4D Community of Practice meeting was hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome from 4-6 February. There was a special focus on “making the most of FAO’s livestock data”. -
Exploration of power relations in the sexual and contraceptive choices of adolescents in South West Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Background: Nigeria has one of the highest populations of young people worldwide including the widest health and economic inequalities. There are high levels of maternal deaths from pregnancy-related causes and sexually ... -
Spells of our inhabiting: transitioning from the spectre of Gnostic estrangement to a philosophy of entangled overflowing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This doctoral thesis explores the cardinal importance of cosmological and theological narratives in our engagement with the contemporary ecological transition. Drawing upon the analyses of political philosophers Hans Jonas ... -
Hybrid rotational femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy of nitrogen at high pressures and temperatures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-03)In this thesis, the use of two-beam hybrid rotational femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (HR-CARS) for temperature measurements in nitrogen gas at high pressures (1-70 atm) and temperatures ... -
Kinetic model of a CO2 recycling rotary adsorption wheel for gas turbine power plants with carbon capture
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-03)The selective recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) upstream of post-combustion capture processes can greatly reduce both the size of equipment and capital costs by process intensification. For combined cycle gas turbine ... -
Language and identity amongst Irish migrants in London, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 1850-1920
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This thesis examines the Irish language in London, Philadelphia and San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Exploring the ways in which Irish speakers used and maintained their language in the ... -
Female directors on board: the roadmap for India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-01)“One woman” to “one independent woman” director … where next? This statement explains the core of this thesis, which aims to craft a future roadmap for India in relation to boardroom gender diversity. In line with global ... -
Flexible neural architectures for sequence modeling
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-25)Auto-regressive sequence models can estimate the distribution of any type of sequential data. To study sequence models, we consider the problem of language modeling, which entails predicting probability distributions over ... -
Accelerating and simulating detected physical interations
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-25)The aim of this doctoral thesis is to present a body of work aimed at improving performance and developing new methods for animating physical interactions using simulation in virtual environments. To this end we develop a ... -
'I see you': exploring the stories of people without dementia who have meaningful connections with people with advanced dementia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Dominant narratives in a hypercognitive Western society invite others to see people with advanced dementia as those whose human identity is disappearing and fading away. Dementia is often presented in catastrophic and ... -
Complex dynamics of solid-fluid systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-03)The focus of this thesis was the investigation of the complex dynamics of solid-fluid systems. These systems are of great industrial importance, such as in methane clathrate formation in sub-sea pipelines. As well as being ... -
Investigating mechanisms of RNAi-dependent heterochromatin establishment in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Heterochromatin is a condensed conformation of eukaryotic DNA, which plays an essential role in genome homeostasis. In depth research across various species showed that RNA interference (RNAi) is one of the pathways ... -
Novel fluorescent probes for monitoring T cell localisation and activity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-03-19)Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. In the UK someone is diagnosed with cancer every two minutes. The associated mortality rates vary depending on the type of cancer but despite this being such ... -
Cardstock and containment: exploring therapeutic affect in magic: the gathering for adults
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)The field of mental health and gaming has grown with the surge of the digital gaming industry in the last thirty years. While research on video games in regard to mental health, especially their effects on children, concerns ... -
Active interfaces, a universal approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-25)This thesis proposes and characterises a stochastic model of an active interface within the framework of statistical mechanics. Statistical methods have indeed proven successful in probing the dynamics of kinetically ...
