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Politics of budget decision-making in South Africa
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-18)This thesis examines the deep structure of South Africa’s legislative budget decision-making process, in an attempt to understand how political and budgeting institutions coexist to shape the behaviour of actors and influence ... -
Understanding the role of ontogeny for the development of infant MLL-AF9 leukaemia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-18)Infant leukaemia (0-1 years) remains a challenge in the clinic and is likely a reflection of a still developing understanding of its origins. Specific to infants with acute leukaemia is an in utero origin and a disproportionally ... -
W. G. Sebald's emblematics: opaque images of broken rebellion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-18)This thesis represents perhaps the first extensive study of allegorical imagery in general, and emblematics in particular, across the œuvre of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001). In so doing, it seeks to place Sebald in a long, ... -
Development and validation of an in vitro porcine skeletal muscle model
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-18)The projected rise in world population to 9.7 billion by 2050 will require an increased production of meat globally to meet human requirements for protein without compromising environmental and financial sustainability. ... -
From Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust perpetrators as immigrants to the post-war United States
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)In the period following the end of World War II, an unknown number of collaborators with the Nazi regime immigrated to the United States from Europe. This included active perpetrators of the Holocaust, around 200 of which ... -
Models and mechanisms of sexual dimorphism in cardiovascular calcification
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)Cardiovascular calcification is the active process of calcification of the cardiovascular soft tissue. It is currently predicted to be present in over 70 % of the population aged 65 years and over. One of the most common ... -
Orchestration spaces in inter-organizational developments of information infrastructures: early orchestration of a large-scale regional interoperability infrastructure in NHS England
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)This study addresses the phenomenon of orchestration, defined as the long-term mobilization, convergence, and arrangement of actors in the development of an inter-organizational information system for integrating and sharing ... -
Environmental controls on tephra layer morphology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the use of tephra layer morphology to infer surface qualities of past landscapes. By examining how environmental processes affect the development of an enduring tephra record, ... -
Remediation of potentially toxic elements using live, nuisance macroalgae
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)Rapid industrialisation over the last century has led to the rise of complex pollution issues in freshwater and marine environments. Pollutants from industrial, domestic, and municipal sources include antibiotics, nutrients, ... -
Drug policing in China: drug laws, police culture, and police professionalisation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)The Chinese government has made efforts to professionalise the police and make legal reforms concerning the treatment of drug users. However, when legal changes were evaluated by some scholars (Chu, 2015; Yao, 2016), there ... -
Predictive modelling of soil lead in urban environments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)Lead (Pb) is a naturally occurring, potentially toxic, element, which may result in health effects. In particular, Pb is a neurotoxin so can cause neurological damage (for example lower IQ scores) even at low exposure ... -
Understanding the challenges of blockchain technology adoption: evidence from China’s developing carbon markets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)Blockchain promises to be a globally disruptive technology for industry and society. Although academic researchers and practitioners have engaged with and supported this prediction for years, actual adoption rates of ... -
Estimates of space derivatives for functions of non-autonomous and McKean-Vlasov processes. Application to uniform weak error bounds induced by the approximating subsampled particle system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)This thesis is split in three parts, all of which obtain derivative estimates for the solution to the backward Kolmogorov equation associated to diverse stochastic process and study their application to uniform weak error ... -
On the spectrum and in the room: the role of identity and empowerment in autistic women’s recovery from psychological trauma
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)Autistic women are at an increased risk of experiencing trauma and mental health issues compared with the general population. This is further compounded by significant barriers to diagnosis and to accessing appropriate ... -
Parametric investigation of the fire development in parallel plate systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)The factors which influence the rate of fire growth for a parallel plate system of dissimilar materials are investigated. This work has been undertaken within the context of cladding fires and this defines the scope of the ... -
Adversarial neural networks for associated top pair and Higgs Boson production in the di-photon decay channel
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)The main topic of this thesis is classification with Adversarial Neural Networks, which are for the first time used in an analysis targeting final states in which the Higgs boson decays to pairs of photons (H → γγ). The ... -
Biochemical determinants of CDK1 phosphorylation of cell cycle substrates using mass spectrometry-based phospho-proteomics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)The cell cycle is a complex series of events that results in one parental cell dividing into two daughter cells. Division only occurs when cells have successfully replicated their DNA, to create progeny each with a copy ... -
Alcohol, clan councils and colloquial understandings of the state in rural Uganda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-16)In Uganda, as in many African countries, traditional authorities are important institutions that contribute to the provision of welfare services and settle disputes in rural communities. At times their voices take precedence ... -
Advances in open ad hoc teamwork and teammate generation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-15)Many real-world problems require an agent that can adapt its policy to efficiently collaborate with different groups of teammates whose composition may change over time. Previous work to design agents with such adaptive ... -
Investigating the development of Peyer’s patches and the transcriptome of M cells in chickens
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-15)Considering the approximately 8 billion world population in 2022 and its predicted growth rate of 1.1% per year, there is an increasing demand for food for this growing population. Poultry products such as meat and eggs ...
