Theses: Recent submissions
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High temperature effects on wheat yield, grain quality, and pollen lipids
Published 2025Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) contributes ~20% of global dietary calories and 21% of daily protein intake, underpinning global food security. However, high-temperature (HT) stress increasingly threatens wheat yield and ...Open AccessThesis -
The Effect of Dietary Tryptophan Supplementation, and An Oral Tryptophan Challenge, on Urinary Excretion of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic Acid in Domestic Dogs
Published 2025Chronic enteropathic disease, commonly referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), is a multi-factorial disease that affects a substantial population, including humans and domestic animals. Over the past two decades, ...Open AccessThesis -
Sociality and Proximity in Hunter-Gatherer Settlements
Published 2025The aim of the present study is to investigate the determinants of household separation in hunter-gatherer settlements. The study proposes that two neurobiological phenomena play a key role: ‘social homeostasis’ and ‘social ...Open AccessThesis -
A Corpus-Based Study of Contemporary Chinese Translation of the Verbal System in Biblical Hebrew Prose: With special reference to Genesis 37-50
Published 2024Despite numerous linguistic studies on Biblical Hebrew (BH) and on Contemporary Chinese (CC), crosslinguistic research between the two languages remains limited. This thesis adopts a corpus-based approach to explore the ...Open AccessThesis -
Development of vascularised human brain cell co-cultures to improve translation in Alzheimer's disease drug discovery
Published 2025Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive decline, amyloid β (Aβ) and tau pathology, neuroinflammation, and neurovascular dysfunction. Despite increasing recognition of the ...Open AccessThesis