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What does Privacy by Design mean for Digital Rights Management?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-06)This thesis sets out the privacy by design provisions in the draft GDPR, before considering the primary DRM approaches and the ways in which they can be abused to undermine user privacy. It describes the infamous Sony BMG ... -
Linguicide or Linguistic Suicide?: A Case Study of Indigenous Minority Languages in France
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)This paper considers two, frequently opposing, perspectives to describe the decline and death of minority and endangered languages, namely linguicide (e.g. Skutnabb-Kangas & Phillipson, 1995) and linguistic suicide (Beck ... -
Transcript of an Inventory of Preparations in The Veterinary Museum, 1834
(2002-07-18)Inventory of Anatomical Preparations and specimens illustrative of the healthy structure and morbid anatomy of the Horse and other Domestic Animals, prepared and collected by Mr Dick, and now the property of the Highland ... -
Controlling the thermal and photochemical reactivity of the Uranyl ion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-28)Chapter one of this thesis introduces the chemistry of the element uranium, and its environmentally ubiquitous ion, the urany(VI) ion, UVIO2 2+. Fundamental chemical properties of this oxycation are discussed, alongside ... -
Derived contraction algebra
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)All minimal models of a given variety are linked by special birational maps called flops, which are a type of codimension two surgery. A version of the Bondal–Orlov conjecture, proved by Bridgeland, states that if X and ... -
Design and evaluation of contracts for gradual typing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)Gradual typing aims to improve the correctness of dynamically typed programs by incrementally adding type information. Sound gradual typing performs static type checking and inserts run-time checks when a type cannot be ... -
Study of MIMO techniques for optical wireless communications
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-28)With its huge spectral resource, optical wireless communication (OWC) has emerged as a promising complementary technology to the radio frequency (RF) communication systems. OWC provides data communications for a variety ... -
Children’s understandings and experiences of peer friendships in a rural Chinese boarding school
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-28)Research is limited on friendships in childhood, particularly that of Chinese rural children. To fill this gap, this research explores Chinese children’s understandings and practices of peer friendships in the context ... -
Physiology of Escherichia coli at high osmolarity and its use in industrial ethanol production
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-02)Biofuels are becoming increasingly important in the light of climate change, increasing energy demands and higher fuel prices. Their production must be carefully balanced against the production of foods and use of fresh ... -
Understanding the impact of psychosocial risk factors on the maternal-fetal/infant relationship in the perinatal period
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)BACKGROUND: Maternal-fetal relationship quality is a known predictor of maternal infant relationship quality. Maternal-infant relationship quality is associated with infant attachment style, and both are predictive of ... -
Mapping galaxy evolution at multiple wavelengths and cosmic epochs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-12)Some of the most fundamental measurements we can make of the Universe are where and when stars formed in galaxies. In recent years, astronomers have converged on a picture in which the star formation rate density of the ... -
Automatic performance optimisation of parallel programs for GPUs via rewrite rules
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-11)Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now commonplace in computing systems and are the most successful parallel accelerators. Their performance is orders of magnitude higher than traditional Central Processing Units (CPUs) ... -
Tidal evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and dark matter subhalos
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-07)Understanding the distribution of dark matter (DM) on galactic scales is at the root of constraining the nature of DM and processes of galaxy formation like baryonic feedback. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs), lying at ... -
Elucidating the RNA-binding mechanisms and functions of E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM25 in cell biology and innate immunity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-04)Pathogenic viruses have a huge impact on human health and have caused numerous major epidemics both in the past and during the 21st century. The innate immune system is the body’s first line of defence against viruses, ... -
Peer learning in the clinical setting
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-06)Qualified doctors must work and learn together. Peer learning - where students at a similar level teach one another - seems well suited to achieving these complementary goals of competence and collaboration. Peer ... -
Separating polar ionospheric and lithospheric magnetic signals in satellite data
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-09)Both the interior of the Earth and near-Earth space contain a variety of interacting magnetic field sources, which together make up the “geomagnetic field”. When a magnetic field measurement is made, either on Earth or ... -
Impact of Baryonic astrophysics and intrinsic alignments on dark energy and neutrino constraints in cosmology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-09)In the early 2020s, cosmology will enter an era of unprecedented precision when the next generation of large scale structure surveys begin receiving data. As a result, it is expected that stronger constraints on major ... -
Regimes of land dispossession, crisis, and uneven development on Crete’s contested edge
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-10)By examining the political economy of two ongoing investments in land on Eastern Crete’s area of Sitía, this thesis contributes intellectually to the research fields of the geographies of the crisis in Europe and the ... -
Taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus ‘Steneosaurus’
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-10)Teleosauroidea represented an extraordinary group of crocodylomorphs that thrived in predominately shallow marine environments during the Mesozoic Era. While they have previously been considered as ‘marine gharials’ of ... -
Telegraphists’ cramp: the emergence and disappearance of an occupational disease between 1875 and 1930
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-25)This thesis is a historical, qualitative case study of the emergence and disappearance of telegraphists’ cramp in the British Post Office between 1875, when it was first reported, and 1930, by which point it was in ...
