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Analysing a season of death and excess mortality in Scotland’s past
(Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, 2021-06-10)In the face of Covid‐19, we can look at the past disease outbreaks to find parallels and learn lessons that can be applied today to better respond to the current crisis. We investigated a 20‐year period from 1911 to 1930 ... -
The Poetics and Politics of Withdrawal: cultural negotiations of dynastic change in seventeenth-century China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores modalities of withdrawal by individuals from educated elites in seventeenth-century China when faced with the catastrophe of dynastic transition. Examining how withdrawal was enacted, manipulated, ... -
Effects of high pressure on the electronic spectra and crystal structure of molecular materials
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The fluorescence of solid-state molecular materials is a field of growing research interest, stimulated by technological applications, such as organic light-emitting diodes and optical sensing. Investigation of the ... -
Soil matters: impacts of farming practices on natural regulation of root pests of field vegetables
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Agricultural intensification and over-reliance on pesticides have had serious detrimental effects on ecosystems. Agroecology research is attempting to restore healthier agroecosystems, capable of delivering a wide range ... -
Enabling tools for the development of marine renewable energy: A case study of wave energy converter ocean trials; and, A novel sensor to measure energetic marine currents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-12-16)Marine renewable energies, including wave and tidal are considered part of the solution to decarbonise electricity generation and contribute to meeting widely agreed Greenhouse Gas emission reduction targets. Differences ... -
Investigating the effects of preclinical prion disease on blood protein composition and infectivity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Since 1996 there have been 226 cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the UK following dietary exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the late 80s to early 90s. A recent study on archived ... -
Investigating the role of the tumour microenvironment and E-cadherin in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common histological subtype of breast cancer after invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), which account for 10-15% and 80% of diagnosed breast cancers, respectively. ILC ... -
Church of Scotland periodicals and the shaping of Scottish opinion regarding South African apartheid and the Central African Federation, c. 1912–c. 1965
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Using textual and visual material from Scottish Christian periodicals, this thesis examines the role of Christian humanitarianism in influencing Scottish public opinion relative to empire and race between c. 1912 and ... -
Arene activation and functionalisation by reducing complexes of uranium and iron
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The primary focus of the work described herein concerns the synthesis of uranium complexes and their reactivity towards small-molecules i.e. simple unsaturated kinetically inert compounds. Chapter 4 investigates the ... -
Implementation and impact of isotope depletion for improved protein mass spectrometry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)One of the fundamental challenges of high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of protein occurs as the molecular weight increases. This is due to the increased chemical complexity of the protein analyte, as ... -
Frailty increases the likelihood of elder abuse - a systematic literature review; and, A cross-sectional study exploring frailty in older people and the possible inter-relationship with early adverse childhood experiences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis aimed to review abuse across the lifespan of an individual, from childhood to older age and how frailty may be both a consequence and a predictor of abuse. The thesis is split into two chapters. The first ... -
Enabling assemblages: a public transport system held together by embodied practices
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Transantiago was a promise. Inaugurated in 2007, it was a system supposed to be a ‘world class’ solution to the public transport needs of Santiago de Chile. Order, regularity, and predictability were the core elements ... -
Towards resilience evaluation of buildings when exposed to fire based on English and USA fire statistics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research arises from the necessity to fill the lack of data present in the international fire safety community related to pre and post-fire conditions of real buildings subjected to real fires and create probabilistic ... -
Imaging extracellular vesicles arising from apoptotic tumour cells for cancer diagnosis and monitoring
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)As a large part of all health-related research is focused on cancer, and with several diagnostic and therapeutic procedures continuously emerging, the fact that this disease remains mostly uncured often seems overwhelming. ... -
Design tools for wave energy converters with flexible membranes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The Earth’s oceans contain vast amounts of energy in the form of ocean waves that propagate towards our shores. As we aim to meet the challenge of limiting global heating to, at most, 2 degrees Celsius the use of Wave ... -
Non-linear equalisation techniques for high-speed step-index plastic optical fibre communication
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Step-index plastic optical fibres (SI-POF) have become a promising candidate as the media for short-range in-home and automotive networks due to their low cost and their ease of installation. However, they have the ... -
Thermal Hall and heat capacity studies of topological magnetic insulators and superconductors
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis describes the development, and implementation, of effective low temperature thermal measurements, and their application in investigating the thermal transport and heat capacity of topological systems. The ... -
City of marble, a city of song: Roman monuments and the poetics of space in Ovidian poetry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the interaction between place and poetry in Ovid’s poetic corpus. Throughout his works, the poet’s repeated depictions of Roman urban space and monumental architecture confirm the fundamental ... -
Implicit dimensions of explicit faith: inquiring into the centrality of belief by attending to the holistic character of Christian believing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis is first and foremost a work of Christian systematic theology that brings in interdisciplinary resources as is deemed fit for its inquiry into why believing is centrally significant in and for Christianity ... -
Victimization experiences in the forensic mental health population; the impact of childhood abuse on adult psychopathology, and predictors of inpatient victimization
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Background: Mental health services have undergone a paradigm shift in recognition of the widespread and long-lasting impact of trauma; changing the central question from “what is wrong with you?” to “what happened to ...
