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Electrically directed gene expression (EDGE): using switchable DNA triplexes and electrolysis to modulate transcription in a cell-free medium
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)External control of gene expression is a powerful tool for molecular biology that benefits both research and commercial applications. Being able to control genetic systems using electrical signals would enable more ... -
Large-scale perspective on the meteorological modulation of air quality over China in winter
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Rapid economic and industrial growth in China has led to serious air pollution with high concentrations of suspended fine particulate matter (PM2.5), in particular during winter. On a regional scale, meteorological ... -
Group 13 exchange for catalytic turnover
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Transition metals are able to undergo redox-active processes, such as oxidative addition and reductive elimination with carbon-element bonds. These two fundamental steps have allowed for the majority of metal-catalysed ... -
Ex-risk architecture: anticipating existential catastrophes through design
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-19)The planet is heating up. Rapid-paced human change in the earth systems is increasing frequencies of catastrophic events, ranging from tropical cyclones to ecological collapse, oceanic increase to coastal floods, unprecedented ... -
Tidal stream power resource assessment of the Churchill Barriers in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)In order to tackle climate change challenges, various renewable energy sources are required to provide sufficient energy to phase out fossil fuel and decarbonise electricity generation. This research project aimed to present ... -
Low- and high-resource opinion summarization
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Customer reviews play a vital role in the online purchasing decisions we make. The reviews express user opinions that are useful for setting realistic expectations and uncovering important details about products. However, ... -
Learning the structure of clusters in graphs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Graph clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning, with numerous applications in computer science and in analysing real-world data. In many real-world applications, we find that the clusters have a significant ... -
“A self in process”: contemporary biofictions of Virginia Woolf
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)This thesis studies the presence of Virginia Woolf as the protagonist-subject in a sudden plethora of contemporary biofictions published within decades or so from the end of last century. The main hypothesis of this research ... -
Water treatment in rural India using sunlight and low-cost materials
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Access to safe drinking water is essential yet threatened for many, with the United Nations highlighting the importance of providing clean water for all as one of their Sustainable Development Goals to be met by 2030. ... -
Chemical biotechnology strategies for adipic acid synthesis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Adipic acid is one of the most widely-used and valuable platform chemicals. However, industrial adipic acid synthesis is environmentally damaging, as it produces greenhouse gas and relies on non-renewable petrochemical ... -
Justice as a point of equipoise: an Aristotelian approach to contemporary corporate ethics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)How can contemporary companies and corporations, necessarily operating within market-derived norms, act justly in their dealings? Why should they care about doing so? I claim in this thesis that Aristotle’s conception of ... -
Investigating the genetic and immunological aetiology of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)This thesis describes two investigations into the disease Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), specifically its genetic aetiology and immune system alterations. The first study investigated the ... -
Health-related decision-making in its personal, social and health service contexts: a critical review of relevant findings from seven publications and consideration of their contribution to understandings of decision-making and the wider field of applied health services research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Health-related decision-making, in particular patients’ involvement in decision-making about their treatment and care, has been an important and enduring concern for many practitioners and researchers working in applied ... -
New York geologics: retrospective readings from the Anthropocene of late 20th century Manhattanism - Woods / Koolhaas / Tschumi
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Conventional representations of Manhattan often reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal forms of capitalism. These forces have expanded the city along an orthogonal grid and continuously ... -
Understanding the physiological basis of post-flowering nitrogen (N) dynamics in spring barley to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Identifying ways to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in cereal production is a major international research priority. It has been estimated that globally only around 40% of N from fertilizer is recovered in the grain ... -
Inclusion de-moderation hypothesis: Egyptian secularists in democratization
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Democratization could lead to de-moderation. This is the proposed argument of this thesis which studies the impact of political openings on secularist forces in Egypt between 1970 and 2013, a timeframe which crosses ... -
In-depth enquiry into the implementation of a large-scale social health protection scheme in the context of the drive towards universal health coverage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)BACKGROUND: In the wake of Goal 3 (ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the resulting push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Pakistan’s ... -
Opportunity at the crossroads, where do we go from here? Evidence and conceptualisation of a non-dichotomous emergent opportunity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Intended as a counterargument, this thesis evaluates the premise of several key arguments that have been made against the opportunity construct. As a result, several issues were recognised and distilled into a root ... -
Data-efficient neural network training with dataset condensation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)The state of the art in many data driven fields including computer vision and natural language processing typically relies on training larger models on bigger data. It is reported by OpenAI that the computational cost to ... -
Accounting for resilience capabilities: structuring rationales for decision-making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-16)Organisational processes which address disruption such as risk management, business continuity and disaster management have acknowledged limitations in that they do not cater for disruptions which cannot be imagined or ...
