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Loquacious legislature: are statutes ‘always speaking’?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis concerns: (a) how we should understand legislative words and phrases if they have changed in meaning since they were enacted; and (b) how the UK courts have actually done so. The key question is: should we give ... -
Thread and blood: the fabrication of female devotion in medieval english literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the representation and development of female devotion through textiles in medieval English literature. Drawing from a broad range of texts that can be termed as “devotional” narratives (including lives ... -
Most difficult and least glamorous: the politics of style in the late works of Nadine Gordimer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Much of the established scholarship on Nadine Gordimer regards her as a chronicler of the injustices of apartheid, as scholars like Stephen Clingman and Dominic Head describe her mature works as writing ‘history from the ... -
Instream generation using tethered kites in the carousel configuration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In recent years, kites are beginning to be considered as viable alternatives to oshore wind turbines, due to the potential reduction in levelised cost of energy and the increase in exploitable resource due to versatility ... -
ye saidꝭ lettreʒ: the orthographic representation of inflectional morphemes in Older Scots
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The general tendencies characterising Older Scots (OSc) inflectional morphology and differentiating it from that of Middle English (ME) have been described (Minkova 1991; King 1997; Aitken 1977; Aitken and Macafee 2002; ... -
Modelling cosmological structure formation in the non-linear regime
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)We are entering an age of precision cosmology with upcoming instruments and surveys such as Euclid, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) or the Rubin Observatory and ... -
Domain-aware ontology matching
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)During the last years, technological advances have created new ways of communication, which have motivated governments, companies and institutions to digitalise the data they have in order to make it accessible and ... -
Time evolution of the electric field by the rapid expansion method in controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) applications
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)I address the problem of modelling the low-frequency, time-domain controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) data by the rapid expansion method (REM). The CSEM method is an active EM exploration method that is recognized as ... -
Exploring correlates of threat related attention bias in community sample children and adolescents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Attention bias for threatening information is an acknowledged factor that plays a causal or maintaining role in childhood anxiety with small to medium effect sizes. Both clinically anxious and trait anxious children and ... -
Daylighting pedagogy: How can new pedagogic approaches for daylighting enhance opportunities for engaging with daylight in spatial design education?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Experience of spatial design practice (architecture, interior and lighting design) and spatial design teaching in the UK has highlighted a growing dichotomy in the field of architectural daylighting design. A separation ... -
Potential of mechanical and physicochemical analysis of human cortical bone for forensic age estimation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Age estimation remains one of the most challenging tasks for forensic practitioners when establishing the biological profile of unknown skeletonised remains. Morphological methods based on developmental markers of bones ... -
From novel to network: digital intertextuality in twenty-first-century fiction and fanfiction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Literature has never existed in isolation, from other texts, from the circumstances of its creation or from effecting change. While the prominence of the novel form is partly responsible for the idea that works of literature ... -
MIST: a portable and efficient toolkit for molecular dynamics integration algorithm development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The main contribution of this thesis is MIST, the Molecular Integration Simula- tion Toolkit, a lightweight and efficient software library written in C++ which provides an abstract interface to common Molecular Dynamics ... -
Meaning of patient involvement and participation in Chinese hospitals
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Increased patient involvement and participation in health care is embraced by researchers and practitioners due to the benefits of improving health outcomes and safety, reducing cost and enhancing a democratic relationship ... -
Conservative in theology, liberal in spirit: modernism and the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand, 1891-1941
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis examines to what extent, and in what ways, modernism impacted the American Presbyterian Mission (APM) in Thailand between 1891 and 1941. At the end of the nineteenth century, an American Protestant missionary ... -
Role of object semantics in guiding overt attention of younger and older adults, and AD patients
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-01-08)For decades, vision research has investigated the influence of object semantic information on visual attention by examining eye movements. However, it has provided contrasting evidence about the extent to which object ... -
Fragile dreams: exploring narratives of support, widowhood & caring in later life migration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)My ethnographic work in the Costa del Sol region of Spain explores the complex social relationships that constitute and shape the daily lives of older British migrants. Through individual narratives and ethnographic ... -
Comparative analysis of the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to stress testing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Stress testing is necessary for banks as it is required by the Basel Accords for loss predictions and regulatory and economic capital computations. It has become increasingly important especially after the 2008 global ... -
Iconoclast imperial authority and its contested legacy: from the Arab siege (717/18) until the death of Michael III (867)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis studies the first two iconoclast Byzantine emperors, Leo III (r. 717-41) and his son Constantine V (r. 741-75), and their highly-contested legacy. It first revisits the evidence for the reigns of Leo III and ... -
Profitable reading of newspapers: Thomas Hardy and mass media culture
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)This thesis examines the ways in which the development and repercussions of the evolving nineteenth-century newspaper and periodical press, and the mass media culture it generated, can be found exemplified in the works ...
