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Unravelling the role of the membranecortex coupling in mechanotransduction in the context of mechanical stimulation
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A critical metaphysics of economy (oikonomia): dramatizing G. Deleuze’s reading of Plato, Stoics, Spinoza and Byzantines
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Model checking for trustworthy reasoning in autonomous driving
Get PDFThis thesis proposes model checking for trustworthy reasoning in autonomous driving. We combine closed-loop input control and model checking to plan sequences of closed loop controllers for obstacle avoidance in real-time—the former for its superior reactivity to immediate stimuli, and the latter for its strength in modal reasoning. In addition, as both closed-loop control and model checking are transparent, decisions can in principle be explained. To demonstrate our approach, we implement a bespoke model checker on low powered autonomous robot, an additional measure to further promote resource efficient planning. We conduct two case studies. In the first we focus simply on avoiding obstacles to investigate whether using model checking for real-time planning and obstacle avoidance is reliable on our platform. In the second we extend our approach to support goal-directed obstacle avoidance an again characterise its reliability. We show that it is possible to use model checking to develop an approach to real-time obstacle avoidance which is light on resources, transparent, and suitable for online decision-making
A series of cycles: watching Outlander and visiting Scotland
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Historical narratives and subtexts of identity: case studies of Glasgow’s public portrait statues
Get PDFPortrait monuments function as public history ‘texts’ that express an audience-specific local history by drawing on the past to inform the present through historical narrative. These narratives are grounded not so much in the biography of a portrait statue’s subject, but rather in group and place identities. Using a narrative theory framework and a place-based, people-centred approach, this thesis will demonstrate how public portrait statues function as historiographical texts, the ways in which those texts are coloured by the contexts in which they were formed, and the ways in which subtexts of identity inform or are shaped by the selection of public figures for commemoration in a given place. The examples of contexts and subtexts described in four Glaswegian case studies are intended to provide historians and policy makers with a deeper means of evaluating the benefit of public monuments in public spaces, particularly around discussions of installing new statues or removing those that are contested, anachronistic, or irrelevant.
The first case study on the nineteenth-century monuments of George Square demonstrates that the primary aim of these portrait statues was to project an image of Glasgow as the exceptional Second City of the Empire, whose social and environmental negativities were blended out by the assemblage of great personages in the city centre. The case study on La Pasionaria, erected in 1980, argues that while the monument was meant to honour the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades, with Dolores Ibárruri as an avatar of their sacrifices and determination, the portrait statue was also an instrument and production of modern concerns relating to political power, deindustrialisation, and collective identity. An examination of the 2018 Mary Barbour monument in Govan describes how a broader understanding of the history on their doorstep reinvigorated pride and self-determination in the community and the district. Finally, the examination of the Duke of Wellington monument contrasts and compares conflicts around identity both at the time of its installation in the nineteenth century and when a traffic cone began to appear on his head in the late twentieth century. Each of these case studies will show that historical narratives imbued in portrait statues tell only a prologue of the subjects they portray and that the thrust of the narrative and its accompanying subtexts are initially formed by monument commissioners, but can be interpreted in a variety of ways by the public
Metabolomic approaches to investigate pathophysiological biomarkers of ischaemic stroke
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Viral diversity, emergence, and reservoirs: insights from marine mammal viral communities and genomic data
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Substance use, grief, and Scotland’s drug death crisis: exploring lived experiences
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An investigation of the mechanism of action of paroxetine in chronic myeloid leukaemia
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