Understanding the global pattern of glaciation can aid interpretation of what caused late-Pleistocene glacial cycles. Here I investigate the glacial history of the Khumbu Glacier of the Mount Everest region of Nepal. Prominent hypotheses for Himalayan glaciation suggest importan…
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The aim of this thesis was to develop understanding of women’s experiences of inpatient mental health services. The thesis comprises three separate papers: 1) systematic literature review, 2) an empirical study and 3) a critical appraisal of the research process. Paper One is a …
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
Understanding of extensional flow mechanism is utmost important for the efficient operation of many industrial processing such as fiber spinning, extrusion, injection molding, and electrospinning, particularly if these involve non-Newtonian fluids such as polymer fluids, gels, f…
An accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) is one of the most critical inputs for power plant units’ planning commitment. STLF reduces the overall planning uncertainty added by the intermittent production of renewable sources; thus, it helps to minimize the hydro-thermal ele…
In this thesis, we show that the conventional workflows for tracking objects in a warehouse can be enhanced by a new Augmented Reality (AR) service. In particular, we have designed a Unity implementation of an AR toolkit for the Microsoft HoloLens based on a “indoor greenhouse” …
As coleções científicas, reunindo uma enorme quantidade e diversidade de objetos e os dados que lhes estão associados, constituem um valioso património histórico, científico e cultural. Estas coleções estão, geralmente, sob a responsabilidade dos museus e dos seus respetivos cur…
The purpose of the current study was to provide both additional evidence of the psychometric properties of the TIPSA by examining reliability and validity coefficients, and to add to the empirical evidence for the application of betrayal trauma theory outside the context of comp…
As restrições financeiras têm sido um tópico de pesquisa constante na literatura. Para micro e pequenas empresas o seu impacto é particularmente importante, considerando a sua dependência de crédito para sobreviver. Estas empresas são responsáveis por grande parte do dinamismo d…
Bathymetric mapping is an important tool for reservoir management, typically completed before reservoir construction. Historically, bathymetric maps were produced by interpolating between points measured at a relatively large spacing throughout a reservoir, typically on the orde…
Large, complex system development projects take several years to execute. Such projects involve hundreds of engineers who develop thousands of parts and millions of lines of code. During the course of a project, many design decisions often need to be changed due to the emergence…
Today's road workers increasingly demand computing and communications capability that is available from any place, in any form, and at any time. Such network access primarily needs to be independent of location and device, which identifies ‘global mobility support’ across wired …
This dissertation seeks to examine the impact of technology importation on occupational health and safety in both Saudi Arabian and the U.S. oil refining industries. Technologies imported to the Saudi oil industry take two forms: hardware (sophisticated equipment to run oil faci…
Several software process assessment methods are available today such as CMMI and ISO-15504. The success of these assessment methods and improvement frameworks has been supported by many studies on the validity, reliability and effectiveness of these methods. Unfortunately, many …
This dissertation examines the strategies by which enterprises and enterprise information technology (IT) vendors, particularly vendors of enterprise software, handle complex incentive and contracting problems arising from the unusual industry economics, product characteristics …
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has experienced increase in health expenditure and the demand for healthcare services. Health statistics indicate inefficiency in resource utilization within the healthcare system, particularly in the hospital sector. This thesis assessed the ef…
Application-specific parsing can be used to extract application data presented in a format that is customized to a particular application. Effective parsing of application data found in network traffic sets a solid ground to develop application-level traffic analysis software. A…
Vehicle manufacturers are installing a large number of Electronic Control Units (ECU) inside vehicles. ECUs communicate among themselves via a Controller Area Network (CAN) to ensure better user experience and safety. CAN is considered as a de facto standard for efficient commun…
Standard pullout tests (e.g. 200 mm cubes) with a short embedment length have shown a significant reduction (80% loss at 200 °C) in the bond strength of GFRP bars at high temperatures. More detailed bond behaviour of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcing bars has bee…