PEARL
PEARL is the open access research repository for the University of Plymouth. It safe-guards, preserves and provides access to a growing body of full text materials generated through the research activities of the University.
University of Plymouth staff can deposit full text of research outputs on PEARL via Symplectic Elements
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Employee Engagement: Understanding the ‘Personal’ Dimension of Engagement
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Kahn’s ‘personal engagement’ (PE) concept centres on the ways which ‘people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances’ (1990, p.694). However, engagement has been ... -
Development and Validation of a Patient-Reported Experience Measure for Older Adults Attending the Emergency Department: The PREM-ED 65 Study
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Emergency Department (ED) care traditionally focuses on resolving single-organ pathology, emphasising rapid patient flow. As such, ED care may fall short of addressing the holistic needs of older adults, where atypical ... -
The Thermal Performance and Tolerance of Tropical cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
(University of Plymouth, 2024)This thesis explores the theoretical and experimental applications of ecophysiological research for the management of aquatic organismal health within the ornamental trade. Ecophysiology investigates the interactions ... -
Mapping a lived experience in landscape: An artist’s analysis of GPS and GIS data
(University of Plymouth, 2024)This thesis involves a critical analysis of data types and digital interfaces used in a socially engaged arts practice aligned with the concerns of participatory mapping. The research identifies a problem which occurs ... -
Resilience thinking and the influence of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of EU environmental policies in overseas territories: lessons from Gibraltar.
(University of Plymouth, 2024)The policy implementation literature has provided important insights on how policy formulation processes affect the achievement of policy goals and how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) involved in policy implementation ... -
Secure Container-based High Performance Computing Architecture
(University of Plymouth, 2024)This PhD thesis addresses the evolving landscape of High Performance Computing (HPC) by focusing on the critical challenge of securing the use of container virtualisation within HPC environments. The traditional approach ... -
Entrepreneurship Intentions: The case of Saudi University Students.
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Research in the area of entrepreneurship and its potential contributions to economic growth and employment has grown a significant momentum and has now become a matter of utmost concern for a large number of academicians ... -
Decoding mechanisms of brain tumour initiating cell adaption and tumour growth
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Despite the many therapeutic advances in oncology in the last few decades, glioblastoma (GBM) remains the most common malignant brain tumour with only 5% and 0.76% of patients surviving for 5 and 10 years beyond diagnosis, ... -
Simplification of high graphene/n-Si Schottky junction solar efficiency
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Because of the outstanding properties of graphene such as optical transmission and mobility of charges [1], it incorporates to Schottky solar cells. These properties of graphene also reduces the optical and electrical ... -
Explainable Deep Learning for Medical Imaging Classification
(University of Plymouth, 2024)Machine learning is increasingly being applied to medical imaging tasks. However, the "black box'' nature of techniques such as deep learning has inhibited the interpretability and trustworthiness of these methods, and ...