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Impact of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s intellectual project on his views on Christianity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-08)This thesis explores Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210) views on Christianity to answer the question: How does al-Rāzī’s intellectual project impact his examination of Christianity? The use of the term ‘intellectual ... -
Towards efficient universal neural machine translation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-03)Humans benefit from communication but suffer from language barriers. Machine translation (MT) aims to overcome such barriers by automatically transforming information from one language to another. With the rapid development ... -
Designing for spatial justice: repurposing Armenia’s post-Soviet rural-urban region
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-03)This study assesses landscape changes in rural Armenia in the 30 years since the formation of the independent republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The research applies spatial justice theory to interpret ... -
Living journals: young children and digital media practices in Azerbaijani families
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-02)The aim of this qualitative study was to explore young children’s digital media practices at home in Azerbaijan. Five families, each including a five-year-old child, participated in multiple case studies over a period ... -
Improving inversions of regional outer core surface flow models through the application of spherical slepian function
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)There are multiple applications of the Earth's magnetic field to industry and science (for example navigation and satellite operations) so it is critical to understand how the magnetic field is generated and to accurately ... -
Advanced bioprocessing strategies for optimised high-value isoprenoid production using microbial cell factories
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Currently over 95% of transport fuels and most pharmaceutical products are derived from petroleum. Sustainable alternatives are critical to achieving net-zero emissions without detriment to quality of life. The blockbuster ... -
Investigation into Brain and Intracranial Structure Representations in FE Head Models
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-29)Concussion is a common injury within contact sports, carrying risks of life-long consequences. Over the past two decades, Finite Element Head Models (FEHM) have become a valuable tool in researching the intracranial effects ... -
Interactions between ice shelves and phytoplankton blooms in the Amundsen Sea, and their relevance to the Southern Ocean
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The coastal Southern Ocean is both highly sensitive to climate change and disproportionately important as a regulator of global carbon and nutrient fluxes. In particular, the polynyas which occur at many locations along ... -
Compact battery free implantable wireless medical device - antenna design and system integration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-01)To ensure that a patient does not experience hypothermia, during surgery, the patient’s core body temperature is continuously monitored, when under general anaesthetic. As such, temperature monitoring and perioperative ... -
Mitochondrial metabolism in livestock Trypanosomes: acetate production in Trypanosoma congolense
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-01)African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT) is a debilitating disease affecting livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. AAT is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Trypanosoma, with T. congolense being the species primarily ... -
Distributions of RNA polymerase and transcript numbers in models of gene expression describing the mRNA life-cycle
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Transcription, the production of RNA from a gene, is an inherently stochastic process, as recent experiments have firmly established. This stochasticity makes the modelling of genetic networks highly challenging. Recent ... -
Fox, the nun and the dragon: an autoethnographical opera
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)This thesis re-narrativises the fiction of the dominant composer, deploying a mixed methodology combining Actor Network Theory [ANT] and autoethnography. I propose the concept of the ‘Operatic Collaborator Network [OCN]’, ... -
C. A. Doxiadis and the Islamabad master plan: social engineering in a developing world, from the individual to the global
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The end of empires signified the emergence of new nation-states, bringing to the fore a complex nexus of needs on a global scale. The transfer of Western expertise to the Global South and the dissemination of a modernist ... -
Hand colouring of prints and illustrations from Nuremberg in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century was a significant transitional period for printmaking, book printing, and manuscript production. Owners bought single-sheet illuminations and hand-coloured prints on the open ... -
What role does family play? The relationship between living arrangements and the well-being of women aged 60 and over in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)In traditional Chinese family life, intergenerational households provided support for older people. Social and cultural changes in the past decades have seen a growing trend towards smaller families and new family ... -
Suffering for our sakes: the soteriological thought process of Ignatius of Antioch
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)This thesis provides a comprehensive account of the understanding of salvation in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Ignatius' surviving writings date from the first quarter of the second century and are some of the few ... -
Reporting racism in the public domain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances onto machineinterpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment to obtain desired responses (e.g., a SQL query against a ... -
Generalization challenges in semantic parsing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances onto machine-interpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment to obtain desired responses (e.g., a SQL query against a ... -
Data-driven frameworks for robust and interpretable damage detection in wind turbine blades
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Wind energy has rapidly become one of the pillars of the energy transition generating more than 20% of the world’s renewable electricity in 2019. By the end of 2020, 743 GW of wind capacity had been installed globally. ... -
Molecular and functional characterisation of an extracellular Argonaute protein secreted by a gastrointestinal nematode
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Parasites manipulate their hosts to promote infection by secreting bioactive molecules including proteins, lipids and RNAs. Helminths (parasitic worms) secrete a plethora of such molecules possessing immunogenic and ...
