Research Centres and Institutes: Recent submissions
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The United Nations and terrorism : a long term assessment of changes and continuities
(2020-07-28) - ThesisAlthough terrorism continues to retain its localised nature in some respects, the threat has taken on an international character for some time now. Consequently, national efforts to curb terrorism are not sufficient in ... -
Simulating cetacean responses to sonar exposure within a Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework : technical report
(University of St Andrews, 2020-04-21) - ReportIn this report, we present a framework for simulating responses of cetaceans to various military sonar exposure contexts using Bayesian hierarchical modelling. This work was motivated by the need to assess the utility of ... -
C. S. Lewis and the neurotic imagination : a Horneyan analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06) - ThesisStandard accounts of C. S. Lewis’s life and work have typically struggled to explain the complexity of the data and its apparent contradictions, and reduce his conversion to an inscrutable metaphysical event of unquestioned ... -
‘This distressing malady’ : childbirth and mental illness in Scotland 1820 – 1930
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-25) - ThesisMy thesis explores the experiences of women who suffered from mental disorder related to childbirth and pregnancy, looking in particular at Dundee, Fife and Forfarshire in the north-east of Scotland, during the period 1820 ... -
Energetics of moulting in phocid seals
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-26) - ThesisThe moult in phocid seals is a distinct period when behavioural and physiological changes occur. During this key stage in the annual life cycle animals elevate skin temperature to facilitate proliferation of hair ...