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Populist communication and strategic behaviour on Twitter
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Background While earlier studies on the German right-wing populist party AfD on Twitter have noted a very high frequency of the party’s hashtag use, there is a lack of understanding if this expresses support or opposition ... -
Tentamen physiologicum inaugurale, de concoctione ciborum
(The University of Edinburgh, 1821)The boundaries between nature animals and plants placing the alimentary canal us The highest support. Zoophytes that bond to set up a connection between the two, it seems, endowed with a simple cavity, in which Absorption ... -
Modelling the psychophysics of eye movements in a large corpus of binocular reading behaviours
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-25)The position and shape of the pupil entrance of the eye plays a central role in video-based eye-tracking. As a result, any unexpected translation and deformation of the pupil image on camera may introduce systematic ... -
Of all the places - a novel & A life in search of a narrative: the construction of narrative identity in the autobiographical fiction of J.M. Coetzee.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)A novel – Of All the Places. Drawing on parallels between apartheid South Africa and the present far-right politics of Italy, Of All the Places explores matters of race, nationalism, and language, and the inevitable ... -
Representations of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' within the British media, 1973-1997
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This thesis investigates British media representations of the conflict in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1997, and how these affected the lived experiences of the Irish in Britain over this period. The ‘Troubles’ ... -
Small-area estimates in local governance: Use of small-area estimates in local governance in the development of service-delivery and resource-allocation mechanisms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)The existing decision-making processes informing local resource-allocation mechanisms across Scotland tend to utilise historic or most recent data on life outcomes and deprivation without placing sufficient emphasis on ... -
How telomerase and Dna2 govern the fate of chromosome ends in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Genome stability in eukaryotic cells relies heavily on their ability to differentiate between telomeres - natural ends of linear chromosomes - and double strand breaks (DSBs), pathological lesions which can occur throughout ... -
Neighbourhood effects, local crime and mental health: longitudinal analyses over the life course
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-03)Mental health conditions are major contributors to global disability and suffering, with a substantial social and economic burden. Besides well-established individuallevel biopsychosocial determinants, emerging literature ... -
Mapping Middle-earth: tracing environmental and political narratives in the literary geographies and cartographies of J.R.R Tolkien's Legendarium
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-30)In 1954, shortly before the publication of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to friend and author Naomi Mitchison, “I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit” (Letters 177). This reciprocal relationship ... -
Collaborative individualisms in the autobiographical writings of H.D., Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Emily Coleman
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)In this thesis I investigate how far ‘collaboration’ can be used an aesthetic interpretative category to examine the subjectivities narrated in the autobiographical writing of H.D., Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes and ... -
Exploration of how curriculum co-creation advances student and staff aims for Scottish higher education
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-30)The Scottish higher education landscape has been evolving to place a greater emphasis on student engagement, in common with the higher education sector internationally. In the last ten years, discussion of curriculum ... -
Learning space design and the negotiation of power
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-30)Although a growing body of research directly relates learning space design to student experience, it is insufficiently taken forward in practice, particularly with respect to the negotiation of power. This thesis argues ... -
Analysis of Land Suitability for Woodland Expansion in Scotland: update 2020
(Forest Research, 2020-07)The Scottish Government has a statutory commitment to achieve ‘Net Zero’ greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2045. One land use change that will help to meet this target is to increase woodland planting, and the Climate ... -
Property Flood Resilience - Scottish Baseline study
(JBA Consulting, 2020-06)This research provides an up-to-date baseline assessment of the potential for Property Flood Resilience (PFR) across Scotland. The findings will support the Scottish Government and its partners in the Property Flood ... -
Data Insights: Postal deliveries of drugs in Scotland
(Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, 2020-06-16)Developments in technology are making it easier to anonymously access sites on the internet, known as ‘cryptomarkets’, to order illegal drugs. These drugs are then delivered via standard postal services. Our work uses ... -
Complex musical behaviours via time-variant audio feedback networks and distributed adaptation: a study of autopoietic infrastructures for real-time performance systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020)The research project presented here is a study of the application of complex adaptive systems (CASes) for live music performance and composition by fully autonomous or semi-autonomous machines. The fundamental artistic ... -
Yamanaka and Company: transforming the East Asian art market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Yamanaka and Company is one of the most prolific art dealers in the history of Asian art market studies. However, research surrounding the operations of his company remain limited. Contemporary publications have begun ... -
Women and religious racisms in Inverclyde: feminised intra-Christian sectarianism and gendered Islamophobia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)This thesis re-problematises the issue of intra-Christian sectarianism from the standpoints of women from different denominational backgrounds, social classes and age groups. It foregrounds alternative gendered knowledge, ... -
Limits of liberal plurality: from political identity to strong recognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-06)Through the analysis of liberal theories of plurality and diversity –multiculturalism, interculturalism, nationalisms, cosmopolitanism, communitarianism-, I make a series of arguments regarding the positive recognition ... -
Engineering a library of orthogonal genetic NAND gates from intein-split transcriptional repressors
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-04)Living cells are natural computing systems that exhibit complex behaviours such as decision making, signal processing and spatial organisation. Engineered genetic circuits take advantage of this capability to produce ...
