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George Morland (1763-1804) and the representation of social types
(University of Plymouth, 2023)George Morland was an eighteenth century artist, who was very popular not only during his lifetime, but in the following hundred years as well. He then fell out of popularity after changes in fashion and trends following ... -
The Phonetic Specificity of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition in Their First Year of Life
(University of Plymouth, 2023)Consonants and vowels have been proposed to have distinct functions in speech perception: a consonant bias for lexical processing and a vowel bias for syntactic/prosodic processing (Nespor et al., 2003). Research in adults ... -
Towards Quantum Computing for Audio and Music Expression
(University of Plymouth, 2023)This research delves into the initial approaches of the use of emerging Quantum Computing technologies in music practice, anchored on preliminary studies on Quantum Representation of Audio (QRA). The approach is ... -
Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium
(University of Plymouth, 2023)This thesis introduces the term Hauntological Form as a means of examining the contemporary form of mainstream videogames. The increasing presence of nostalgia is deemed paradoxical to a forward-facing high technology ... -
Evaluation of miR-497 & miR-219 as non-invasive biomarkers for meningioma and glioma
(University of Plymouth, 2023)Introduction: The current WHO classification aids in predicting meningioma and glioma recurrence and prognosis. However, there is a dearth of circulating biomarkers with clinical value for meningioma diagnosis and ... -
Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
(University of Plymouth, 2023)This practice-as-research project uses performance writing to understand, illustrate and work through aspects of millennial experience, with a specific interest in precarious housing and labour. For us, experiencing ... -
Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
(University of Plymouth, 2023)This practice-as-research project uses performance writing to understand, illustrate and work through aspects of millennial experience, with a specific interest in precarious housing and labour. For us, experiencing ... -
Development of two disease specific scales to assess the impact of severe asthma on patients' lives
(University of Plymouth, 2023)Joseph W Lanario Title: Development of two disease specific scales to assess the impact of severe asthma on patients’ lives Asthma is a disease of the airways, characterised by airway obstruction, inflammation, ... -
Metabolism, Swimming Performance, and a Behavioural Syndrome in Schoolmaster Snapper (Lutjanus apodus)
(University of Plymouth, 2023)Commercial overexploitation and climate change can alter the physiology and behaviour of affected marine organisms, although depending on the environment, species, and severity, intraspecific phenotypic response to such ... -
Single-System and Dual-Process Accounts of Explicit and Implicit Memory
(University of Plymouth, 2023)While some expressions of memory are accompanied by conscious awareness, others do not elicit this awareness yet still impact task performance. Theorists have long questioned whether these explicit and implicit forms of ...