Visualise Your Thesis Competition

The second question regards the relationship between the places and the communities, asks whether city-ness can be completely lost, or can one read it as a salient state between periodic reincarnations? 

The current global tendency is to "normalize" mining towns previously under companies' control. The literature tends to take a negative view of company control of a town, seeing it as socially damaging and addressing how normalization, a neoliberal approach, is the guardian. However, a clear gap in the literature remains in the social implications of the lost mining towns following the normalization process. 

Therefore, the research suggests that understanding company mining towns as a contemporary relationship between the discourses of power, people, and palimpsest would contribute to drawing on multidisciplinary research to inform a context-sensitive and socially-inclusive series of recommendations for communities and authorities dealing with change. The work engages mapping and reconstructing community narratives through critical cartography that shall be instrumental, not only to identify different conceptions and understand their relations but also to assist in uncovering ways in which urbanization could be exercised through alternative discourses.  

My research builds upon this idea by analysing works by African American women who have utilised their texts as spaces where characters are given the task of dealing with their inherited trauma through some form of “return”. 

My image shows the hand of a woman from the present reaching out to an enslaved ancestor who reaches back to guide her on her journey. My aim was to illustrate how in order to move forward, we must first go back. By showing the women on a path which transforms from a dirt track in the countryside to a modern road leading to a city, I hoped to convey that the modern woman had stepped back in time and was being led back to the present by her ancestor. Her “return” signifies how the past exists in the present and shows how the authors of my chosen texts view listening to and learning from the voices of the past as being an integral part of moving forward.

By employing advanced techniques such as digital volume correlation and morphometry analysis, we quantify the geometric and mechanical properties of these microstructures. Our findings highlights the significant role of lacunae in the mechanical behaviour of the enthesis, illustrating how their microscopic organization contributes to the tissue's function and resilience under mechanical stress.

Understanding these relationships is essential for developing improved treatments for musculoskeletal injuries and diseases, which frequently impact this transitional tissue. This study bridges the gap between microscopic imaging and biomechanical analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of tendon-to-bone attachment.

We can use a scanning electron microscope to visualise this difference and what the digested plastic actually looks like after enzymatic treatment.

In this image, you can see the areas where the enzyme has broken down the PET and the areas it has not been able to tackle yet.

Do you see that large heart shape? This is an example of a crystalline region where the enzyme has found it difficult to break the plastic down.

Although the enzymatic degradation of plastic offers a promising approach for plastic waste management, the enzymes identified so far have a natural affinity for amorphous PET. This is problematic because most polymer materials have a high crystalline PET content. Therefore, the discovery and engineering of novel plastic degrading enzymes that can handle crystalline PET is important and subsequently understanding their structural biology is key to making them more effective and useful for industrial applications.

In the UK, people focused more on the mouth for impressions, while in Bahrain, the eyes were key. This suggests that in the UK, where individuality is valued, the mouth matters most for forming opinions, whereas in Bahrain, where community is more central, the eyes carry more weight. These findings show how cultural backgrounds can affect how we see and judge others based on their facial features.

My research considers the contributions of women to the study and culture of ferns in the long nineteenth century. The contributions of women to the scientific study of ferns have largely been overlooked by scholars. My research considers their scientific impact through a range of previously underexplored sources, including popular fern books, women’s scientific illustration and early forms of photography, in which women had pioneering roles. The first person to produce a book illustrated with photographic images was the botanist and early photographer Anna Atkins, who used cyanotypes to create her Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in 1843. Atkins also produced cyanotypes of ferns which were some of the first photographic images of ferns in Britain. By making my own cyanotype, I was able to fully appreciate the process which Atkins went through in creating her prints. It also reinforced the importance of considering these “less traditional” scientific sources, as without them women’s contributions to the study and culture of ferns cannot be fully appreciated.

To explore the SMEs in crises environment, the case of SMEs operating in Ukraine was selected. To research aim is further specified through the achievement of the following objectives: to explore the HRT principles applicability in High Reliability Organisations; to investigate the degree of HRT principles adherence and ERM aspects utilisation by SMEs in Ukraine; to examine the effect of these on organisational resilience in Ukraine. These objectives are to be achieved through the literature review and the conduct of the experiment. The former is to be performed on the matter of crises environment and organisational resilience, including the areas of HRT and ERM, as well as the Ukrainian context. In scope of the latter the different nature of the above-mentioned research objectives is to be considered. This will require the usage of the mixed methods methodology. As a result, the HRT-ERM roadmap, concerning the ERM practices enhancement with HRT principles for SMEs in crises environment, is to be developed.

It prevents the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which can lead to the development of resistant bacterial strains. Ineffective treatments fail to alleviate the infection and contribute to the growing problem of resistance. By identifying which antibiotics the bacteria are susceptible to, AST ensures that treatments are both effective and targeted, reducing the likelihood of resistance.

Moreover, AST can detect resistant infections early, allowing for timely intervention with alternative therapies that are more likely to succeed. This personalised approach to treatment, guided by AST, improves patient outcomes and supports broader public health efforts to combat antibiotic resistance. By tailoring antibiotic use to the specific bacteria involved, AST helps preserve the efficacy of these vital medications for future generations, showing the significant impact of healthcare providers in improving health.

In essence, antimicrobial susceptibility testing is an essential component of modern UTI management. It optimises treatment efficacy, enhances patient recovery, and plays a pivotal role in the global effort to curb antibiotic resistance. This research aims to identify the resistance and susceptible properties of bacteria causing UTIs in elderly adults in care settings. To achieve our aims and objectives, this study used 6 currently used antibiotics in clinical practice.

Moreover, archaeotheatre includes the archaeological kit as part of the costume and stage props while the object, artefact or site of investigation — or replicas where the former are not possible, create the set design. This image shows the ex-situ performance of my one-woman archaeodrama, Still Life “Movy” at the Ventnor Free Fringe on the Isle of Wight in St Catherine’s Churchyard. This image reflects the line from Rupert Brooke’s poem “Doubts”: “Wings where I may never go” which features in the archaeodrama. Although during the ex-situ performance the replica transom of ML286 transforms into the wings of Brooke’s “Doubts”, the line also symbolises my own personal experience in the creation of my project. While I will never have the wings to go back in time and experience first-hand the life of ML286 and the lives of those who served in the Great War, I can actively tell their story and honour their ghosts and their memories in the present.