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• Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?

  Author: Freund, A., 26 Feb 2020

  Supervisor: Sanmark, A. (Supervisor) & Brink, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Organic Enrichment of Scottish Salmon Fish Farm Sediments: A Quantitative Analysis of Sulphur Biogeochemistry

  Author: Gosling, J., 14 Jan 2020

  Supervisor: Crocket, K. (Supervisor), Black, K. (Supervisor) & Stahl, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Sediment Deposition in the Deep Sea: from Seamounts to the Hadal Trenches

  Author: Stehlikova, J., 7 Jan 2020

  Supervisor: Turnewitsch, R. (Supervisor), Howe, J. (Supervisor) & Glud, R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• To what extent can an embedded problem-solving approach to teaching computer programming deliver a learning experience which meets learner and industry recruiter expectations?

  Author: Wilson, G., 18 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Davies, G. (Supervisor) & Rennie, F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Investigating the foraging ecology of black guillemots Cepphus grylle in relation to tidal stream turbines and marine protected areas

  Author: Johnston, D. T., 5 Nov 2019

  Supervisor: Masden, E. (Supervisor), Furness, B. (External person) (Supervisor) & Robbins, A. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

• Towards a sustainable production of Osmundea pinnatifida: insight into the cultivation and biochemical composition of the species

  Author: Biancacci, C., 12 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Stanley, M. (Supervisor), Day, J. (Supervisor) & Mcdougall, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Eukaryotic Parasites of Toxic and Bloom-forming Diatoms: Molecular insights in their diversity and physiology

  Author: Garvetto, A., 12 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Gachon, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Microplastic pollution in the deep sea ecosystem: a study from the Rockall Trough, North East Atlantic Ocean

  Author: Courtene-Jones, W., 4 Jun 2019

  Supervisor: Narayanaswamy, B. (Supervisor), Gary, S. (Supervisor) & Quinn, B. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Nuclear fission and social fusion: the impact of the Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment on Caithness, 1953-1966

  Author: Ross, L. M., 4 Sep 2019

  Supervisor: MacPherson, J. (Supervisor), Kirk, N. (External person) (Supervisor) & McDonald, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• The response of arthropod assemblages to peatland restoration in formerly afforested blanket bog

  Author: Fernandez, A. P., 29 Jan 2019

  Supervisor: Andersen, R. (Supervisor), Boyd, K. (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Reduction of the Premature Aging of PEM Fuel Cell - Battery systems by Implementing an Advanced Hybrid Control System Based on Double PID, Neural Network Load Predicting Algorithm and Optimal Battery Sizing Algorithm.

  Author: Ortisi, V., 26 Aug 2019

  Supervisor: MacLeod, A. (Supervisor) & Gazey, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by UHI)

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• Today's No Ground to Stand Upon: A Study of the Life and Poetry of George Campbell Hay

  Author: Artymiuk, A., 29 Aug 2019

  Supervisor: Heddle, D. (Supervisor), Riach, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Baker, T. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• To what extent do personality and problem solving ability determine software development role suitability?

  Author: Wilson, G. A., 18 Dec 2019

  Supervisor: Davies, G. (Supervisor), Rennie, F. (Supervisor) & De Lima, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Investigating the distribution, seasonal dynamics and toxicity of Azadinium spinosum in Scottish waters using qPCR

  Author: Paterson, R., 5 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Davidson, K. (Supervisor) & Green, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Hospitality in Adventure Tourism: Being, dwelling, guiding

  Author: Farkić, J., 4 Oct 2018

  Supervisor: Varley, P. (Supervisor), Taylor, S. (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Telebhisean mar ghoireas poileasaidh cànain: a chleachdadh aig cloinn dà-chànanaich

  Author: NicNèill, C. M., 17 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Armstrong, T. C. (Supervisor), Bateman, M. (Supervisor) & Munro, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Wave Energy Extraction and Coastal Protection

  Author: Vögler, A., 4 Oct 2018

  Supervisor: MacLeod, A. (Supervisor) & Venugopal, V. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Remediation and restoration of ocean exposed cliff-top, in the context of Dounreay (Scotland) nuclear power plant decommissioning

  Author: Braidwood, D., 4 May 2018

  Supervisor: Andersen, R. (Supervisor), Taggart, M. (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The Experience of Space and Place in World Heritage Site Management

  Author: Renwick, E. K., 1 Mar 2017

  Supervisor: Downes, J. (Supervisor), Clarke, S. (Supervisor) & Howard, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The Adorable Trinity: Old Columbia Seminary’s Stand for Trinitarianism in the Nineteenth-Century American South

  Author: Nance, M., 12 Jun 2017

  Supervisor: Needham, N. (Supervisor) & Shillaker, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Assessing the suitability of Pleurochrysis and associated strains, for simultaneous biofuel production and carbon capture

  Author: Reid, J., 14 Mar 2017

  Supervisor: Day, J. (Supervisor) & Stanley, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Late Devensian ice sheet dynamics and the deglaciation of the Hebridean shelf, western Scotland, UK

  Author: Arosio, R., 5 Oct 2017

  Supervisor: Howe, J. (Supervisor), Crocket, K. (Supervisor), O'Cofaigh, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & dove, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Understanding Pedagogic Collaboration in the Online Environment

  Author: Coker, H., 24 May 2017

  Supervisor: Rennie, F. (Supervisor), Davies, G. (Supervisor) & Smith, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Environmental drivers and advective transport of harmful phytoplankton in North West European shelf seas

  Author: Siemering, B., 4 Aug 2017

  Supervisor: Davidson, K. (Supervisor), Inall, M. (Supervisor) & Bresnan, E. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• What is, is what ought to be: Providence and Benjamin Morgan Palmer’s public theology

  Author: Pierce, K. A., 13 Dec 2017

  Supervisor: Needham, N. (Supervisor) & Ritchie, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Between Scotland and Norway: connected cultures and intercultural encounters after 1700

  Author: Reeploeg, S., 20 Mar 2017

  Supervisor: Heddle, D. (Supervisor) & Brink, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• How the Vikings inhabited Scotland: a social zooarchaeological approach

  Author: Cooke, S., 18 Dec 2017

  Supervisor: Downes, J. (Supervisor) & MacLeod Rivett, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The effects of bog restoration in formerly afforested peatlands on water quality and aquatic carbon fluxes

  Author: Gaffney, P. P. J., 19 Jul 2017

  Supervisor: Andersen, R. (Supervisor), Taggart, M. (Supervisor), Hancock, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Robinson, R. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Romantic subjectivity: women’s identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland

  Author: Beattie-Smith, G., 5 Jun 2017

  Supervisor: Heddle, D. (Supervisor), Fielding, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Lumsden, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Seeds and Bodies: Cosmology, Anthropology and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49

  Author: kirk, D. R., 1 Oct 2016

  Supervisor: Maston, J. (Supervisor) & Clarke, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Molecular biology approach to anaerobic digestion of marine biomass: Anaerobic digestion from marine materials. What makes a methanogen happy?

  Author: Obata, O. O., 16 May 2016

  Supervisor: Hatton, A. (Supervisor), Ditchfield, A. (Supervisor) & Akunna, P. J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The Impact of Large Scale Wave Energy Converter Farms on the Regional Wave Climate

  Author: Greenwood, C., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Christie, D. (Supervisor), Rennie, F. (Supervisor), Venugopal, V. (External person) (Supervisor) & McClatchey, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Role and mechanism of action of the anthocyanin, delphinidin, in protecting endothelial cells against oxidative stress

  Author: Goszcz, K., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Megson, I. (Supervisor), Stewart, D. (External person) (Supervisor) & Duthie, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Determining the Rates of Protein Synthesis in the Zebrafish Heart in Response to Chronic Unpredictable Stress

  Author: Geary, B., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Doherty, M. (Supervisor), Whitfield, P. D. (Supervisor), Young, I. S. (External person) (Supervisor) & Cash, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Heather and hill and Highland cattle: ath-mheasadh air ìomhaighean den Ghàidhealtachd, c.1850 – 1910

  Author: MacDougall, E. B., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Bateman, M. (Supervisor), MacDonald, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Wall, G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The role of agents for change in the sustainable development of wave energy in the Highlands and Islands Region of Scotland

  Author: Billing, S., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Black, K. (Supervisor), Calder, L. (Supervisor) & Rennie, F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Sport and Physical Education in the Northern Mainland Burghs of Scotland c. 1600-1800

  Author: Cormack, W., 2 Dec 2016

  Supervisor: Worthington, D. (Supervisor), Durie, A. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ritchie, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Winter vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton

  Author: Hobbs, L., 7 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Cottier, F. (Supervisor), Last, K. (Supervisor) & Berge, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Science (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The impact of antipsychotic drugs on the expression of genes associated with obesity

  Author: Mustard, C., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Wei, J. (Supervisor), Megson, I. (Supervisor), Whitfield, P. D. (Supervisor) & Bermano, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Linking environmental variation across the Scottish Highlands with red deer (Cervus elaphus) trace element status, parasite burden, and skeletal morphometry

  Author: French, A. S., 4 Mar 2016

  Supervisor: Taggart, M. (Supervisor), Gibb, S. (Supervisor) & Shaw, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• What lies beneath: probing the cultural depths of a nature conservation conflict in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

  Author: Brennan, R., 31 Jul 2016

  Supervisor: Mee, L. (Supervisor), Rennie, F. (Supervisor) & Potts, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Walking the land: Examining an ecosystem approach for private estates through the lens of woodland expansion

  Author: Bowditch, E., 2 Aug 2016

  Supervisor: Smith, M. (Supervisor), McMorran, R. (Supervisor) & Price, M. F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Art and Architecture in Neolithic Orkney: Process, Temporality and Context

  Author: Thomas, A., 11 Feb 2016

  Supervisor: Downes, J. (Supervisor) & Edmonds, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Predator movements in complex geography: Spatial distribution and temporal occurrence of low-density bottlenose dolphin communities off western Scotland

  Author: Nienke, C. F., 2 Jun 2016

  Supervisor: Wilson, B. (Supervisor) & Hastie, G. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Nanotoxicity of oxide-derived engineered nanomaterials: impact on cell viability and function, with conventional assays and evaluation of novel eicosanoid profiling

  Author: Garrison, E., 1 Nov 2016

  Supervisor: Megson, I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Matthew’s Presentation of The Son of David: Davidic Tradition and Typology in the Gospel of Matthew

  Author: Zacharias, H. D., 3 Jun 2015

  Supervisor: Morrison, H. (Supervisor), Bird, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Nolland, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century: The motivations of landowners in upland Scotland: Exploring challenges to sustainability

  Author: Wagstaff, P., 4 Mar 2015

  Supervisor: Price, M. F. (Supervisor) & Warren, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility

  Author: Miller, C., 5 Jan 2015

  Supervisor: Visagie, I. (Supervisor) & Helm, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The impact of high and intermittent-high glucose on ROS generation and bioenergetic metabolism in vascular endothelial cells

  Author: Shaw, A., 31 Jul 2015

  Supervisor: Megson, I. (Supervisor), MacRury, S. (Supervisor) & Doherty, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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• The Investigation of the HLA System and Wheat Gluten in Determining Risk of Schizophrenia

  Author: Halley, L. L., 21 Jan 2015

  Supervisor: Wei, J. (Supervisor), Doherty, M. (Supervisor) & St Clair, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (awarded by OU/Aberdeen)

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