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Yoga as a complex intervention and its development for health-related quality of life in adult cancer

The aim of this thesis was to develop yoga as a complex intervention in health care for the improvement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adult cancer. As the Indian tradition of practising yoga increases in popularity worldwide, populations in the West are beginning to see yoga as an opportunity to prevent and treat health conditions. The Medical Research Council’s framework has provided a methodology to address a paucity of coherent evidence for the myriad of unsupported health claims made by yoga enthusiasts. The thesis structure included a step-by-step approach to investigate biomedical theories of how yoga might work to improve health, to synthesise evidence of yoga interventions, to model their process and outcomes, and to test evaluation procedures in the context of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The results of a bibliometric analysis indicated an overall increase in the publication rate of yoga research in health care, and in 2005 this research began to focus on cancer. A component analysis, semi-structured patient interviews (n=10) and oncologist surveys (n=29) were successively designed, implemented and analysed to advance a model of yoga intervention specific to adult cancer. The cumulative results were applied to design three yoga interventions randomly allocated to men and women receiving treatment for cancer (n=15). Outcomes of the feasibility study demonstrated that yoga intervention is appropriate for adult patients and can be administered safely in a clinical setting. In its conclusion, this thesis produces evidence-based support for the optimisation of yoga intervention in the context of a large-scale RCT for HRQoL in adult cancer, and it provides recommendations to improve research methodology and reporting of complex interventions in health care.

Keywords: evidence-based health care
cancer
yoga
complex intervention
Advisor: Heneghan, C
Ward, A
Maurice Maeterlinck and English and Anglo-Irish literature

Maurice Maeterlinck fulfilled a unique role in England at the end of the nineteenth century. He interpreted the symbolist vision for the English. His symbolist plays established the expressive power of a very simple style and offered an alternative to melodrama and realism. The mystical direction of his art appealed to the writers of the Celtic Renaissance. W.B. Yeats drew on Maeterlinck's theory and practice until the end of his career. During the 1890s, it was Maeterlinck's translation of the symbolist aesthetic in terms of the dramatic form which appealed to Yeats. The Shadowy Waters is Yeats's most extended exercise in a style indebted to "Symbolisme". During the years of Yeats's involvement in the Irish Literary Theatre, Maeterlinck's dramatic theories took over from his plays as the prime source of interest to Yeats. In addition, Yeats was strongly interested in the scenic innovations associated with Maeterlinck's work.
The second chapter deals with the important speculations about anti-illusionist modes of dramatic presentation which were developed in France and England at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth centuries, and which were anticipated in the prose writings of Charles Lamb.
Chapter three consists of a discussion of Arthur Symons's unpublished play, Barbara Roscorla's Child, which registers Maeterlinck's influence.
Chapter four examines Harley Granville Barker's encounter with Maeterlinck. It shows that Barker was particularly impressed by Maeterlinck's stress on inwardness. Barker's writings on acting and dramatic theory reflect his familiarity with Maeterlinck's Le Trésor des humbles, in particular the essay "Le Tragique quotidien". The chapter includes a discussion of Barker's unpublished play, A Miracle.
Finally, the chapter on Henry James concentrates on the manner in which Maeterlinck provides one of the chief contexts of The Wings of the Dove. The frequent invocation of Maeterlinck's theory and practice is one of the important ways in which James suggests meaning and shapes the reader's response.
Early effects of fluoxetine on emotional processing: implications for adolescent depression

Depression in adolescence is a major health problem, associated with poor psychological function and key risk factors both for later illness and suicidal behaviours. The antidepressant fluoxetine is commonly used in this population and it is shown to have a favourable benefit-to-risk profile. However, controversy still exists about the use of antidepressants in young people and there is little research focusing on underlying mechanisms of wanted and unwanted actions in this group.
This doctoral thesis aims to investigate, for the first time, the acute effects of fluoxetine on emotional processing, using a combination of behavioural and neuroimaging techniques. The aim is to achieve a greater understanding of the mechanisms underlying fluoxetine use in depressed adolescents, in light of differences seen in their clinical presentation and response to antidepressant drugs.
In the first study (Chapter Two), a single dose of fluoxetine was shown to decrease the recognition of anger in a sample of young adult volunteers, an effect not previously seen in acute studies of older participants. This effect may be particularly relevant for the treatment of adolescent depression, in which symptoms of anger and irritability are often prominent. Beyond this, fluoxetine was shown to increase the recognition of positive vs. negative facial information, and also exerted an anxiolytic-like influence, eliminating the emotion-potentiated startle effect. However, no influence was seen in measures of attentional vigilance to threat. In an attempt to overcome methodological limitations of this study, a paradigm was developed that is particularly sensitive to the detection of automatic biases towards threatening information (Chapter Three).
Chapter Four describes a neuroimaging study with depressed adolescents, in which a single dose of fluoxetine was found to reduce amygdala activity in response to anger. Early changes in amygdala activity to fear correlated with decreased symptoms of anxiety and depression in the first 7-10 days of treatment.
Chapter Five explores the effects of acute fluoxetine in a sample of high trait anger males. This study replicated the finding that fluoxetine acts to increase the recognition of positive information, whilst showing preliminary evidence for a reduction in attentional vigilance to angry faces.
Overall, fluoxetine was found to decrease the processing of anger across studies. This effect was seen alongside a broader influence on positive vs. negative information and anxiolytic-like properties. Together, these results indicate that fluoxetine has direct effects on processes that are especially relevant to adolescent depression and suggest a potential cognitive mechanism for the efficacy of this particular antidepressant in adolescent patients.

Keywords: adolescent depression
antidepressants
psychopharmacology
affective neuroscience
Advisor: Harmer, C
Murphy, S
Studies in Atticistic lexica of the second and third centuries AD

This thesis provides individual studies in and a comparison of the Atticistic lexica of the second and third centuries AD. Modern European classicists have looked at the lexicogra-phers separately, but never as a group or in direct comparison. German philologists of the 19th and early 20th centuries looked at them in depth, but did not draw conclusions for their social context, other than the supposed rivalry between Phrynichus and Pollux, while modern classicists of the late 20th century referred to them mainly as source to strengthen their theories for the broader social context of the Second Sophistic.
Most extant Atticistic lexica stem from the second and third centuries AD, and it seems natural to concentrate on this period of time in this context. The first chapter of this thesis summarises the linguistic developments leading up to this period of time to provide a bet-ter understanding of Atticism. Atticism cannot be understood fully without special consid-eration of the Atticistic lexicographical movement and vice versa. Chapter II discusses Ae-lius Dionysius and Pausanias, the so-called “forefathers of Atticistic lexicography”, and establishes their neutral approach to the promotion of Atticism. Philemon and the Antiatti-cist are briefly introduced in Chapters III and IV, [but not discussed in length due to exist-ing literature and fragmentary character of the former and the unusual approach of the sub-ject matter and the weak manuscript tradition of the latter.] Chapters V, VI and VII form the core of this analysis with the discussion of Phrynichus’ feisty promotion of Atticism, Moeris’ close links to Phrynichus and his unusual tripartite criteria (Ἀττικόν, Ἑλλήνικον, κοινόν), and Pollux��� Onomasticon which provides us with a unique insight to the lexicog-rapher’s methods, intentions and readership. Chapter VIII reveals that there was harsh crit-icism of those who “over-Atticised,” and discusses who of these lexicographers might have fallen under this criticism. Just as there was no standardised approach to the imitation of Attic Greek, there was no standardised lexicographical approach to providing guidance.

Keywords: Second Sophistic
Atticism
lexicography
Advisor: Bowie, E
The romanization of Spain

This thesis treats three interconnected topics of Spanish history between 206 B.C. and Augustus: immigration from Italy, provincial and local government and the extension of civitas Romana and ius Latii to Spaniards. In different ways, these formed the framework of, and lent encouragement to, the Romanization of the Peninsula, the effects of which still endure.
Though not overlooked by English-speaking scholars, Spain has not attracted attention as consistent and extensive as that accorded other lands of the Roman empire. Moreover, apart from some research by Spaniards, investigation of the period generally has tended to be particularist - concerning itself with limited problems such as Caesarian and Augustan colonization, second-century-B.C. military policy and the economic state of the country at various moments; and often occurs as part of a broader survey of conditions over several provinces (if not of the whole empire), with some loss of depth. Concentration on Spain alone, of course, can suffer from a lack of breadth and analogy, especially as paucity of evidence permanently afflicts nearly every topic in Republican Spanish history save military affairs (where it is intermittent). Yet the risk is worth taking: the problems are important as well as interesting.
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Cationic rhodium complexes with chelating phosphine and phosphine alkene ligands. Application in dehydrogenation and dehydrocoupling reactions

A series of cationic Rh(I) diphosphine and phosphine-alkene complexes have been isolated and fully characterised. The reactivity of these species towards hydrogenation, dehydrogenation and dehydrocoupling reactions has been investigated.
The use of potentially hemilabile ligands DPEphos and XANTphos in the intramolecular dehydrogenation chemistry of tricyclopentylphosphine is reported. The comparison in reactivity of these isolated diphosphine phosphine-alkene complexes towards hydrogenation and with acetonitrile is discussed along with their ability to dehydrocouple secondary silane, Ph₂SiH₂, and amine-borane H₃B·NMe₂H. The acceptorless dehydrogenation of a tethered cyclopentane with cationic Rh(I) diphosphine complexes has also been extended to include thioethers.
Isolated cationic Rh(I) phosphine-alkene complexes with labile fluorobenzene ligands are found to act as a source of the reactive 12-electron [Rh{PR₂(ƞ²-C₅H₇)}]+ (R = cyclopentyl (Cyp)/ iPr) fragment in solution and can coordinate two amine-borane ligands (either H₃B·NMe₃, H₃B·NMe₂H or H₃B·NMeH₂) in a novel and unique bis-σ-binding mode. The catalytic activity of some of these isolated complexes in the dehydrocoupling of H₃B·NMe₂H and H₃B·NMeH₂ has been determined. With a view to further understanding the mechanism of catalytic transition metal assisted amine-borane dehydrogenation and dehydrocoupling, known B-N intermediates H₃B·NMe₂BH₂·NMe₂H and [H₂B·NMeH]₃ were also coordinated to the [Rh{PCyp₂(ƞ²-C₅H₇)}]+ fragment and investigated with regard to their role in the catalytic cycle.
Structure activity relationships determined from stoichiometric reactions of cationic Rh(I) diphosphine fluorobenzene complexes with amine-boranes enabled the design of a highly efficient homogeneous catalyst capable of dehydrogenating H₃B·NMe₂H to [H₂BNMe₂]₂ at 0.2 mol% loading in 30 minutes at 298 K. Rapid dehydrogenation and dehydrocoupling of H₃B·NMeH₂ to form high molecular weight poly(N-methylaminoborane) with a low PDI has also been achieved. Investigations using model aminoborane H₂B=NiPr₂ and intermediate B-N species H₃B·NMe₂BH₂·NMe₂H and [H₂B·NMeH]₃ has helped establish an overall mechanistic rationale for this process.

Keywords: amine-boranes
reaction mechanisms
catalysis
dehydrogenation
dehydrocoupling
rhodium
phosphine-alkene
Advisor: Weller, A
Varieties and politics of skill protection: a micro level analysis of unemployment protection systems in Europe

Varieties of Capitalism theory predicts that the skill specificity of workers determines their demand for social protection. In this thesis, I test this assumption using a measure of occupational mobility between pre- and post-unemployment, which I apply to European workers in different skill groups as defined by Fleckenstein et al., (2011). Using this measure as an indicator of the portability of workers' skills, I then evaluate whether the lower marketability of human capital investments is associated with greater demand for unemployment protection. The findings demonstrate that whilst this relationship is apparent in certain countries, notably Coordinated Market Economies such as Germany, the assumptions do not apply across institutional settings. Consequently, skill specificity cannot explain variation in attitudes towards unemployment protection policies between countries.

Keywords: vocational and professional training
human capital
social policy preferences
VoC
Varieties of Capitalism
labour economics
skill specificity
Advisor: Seeleib-Kaiser, M
Basil Bunting's late modernism : from Pound to poetic community

This study examines Basil Bunting's development as a poet from his meeting with Ezra Pound in Paris in 1923, through his collaborations with Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and other members of the Objectivist circle in the 1930s, up to his meeting with Allen Ginsberg and Tom Pickard in 1960s Britain against a backdrop of social activism and modernist revival. In particular, it seeks to query the critical commonplace that Bunting was a sceptic interested solely in the autotelic form of poetry, and to argue that his revival at the time of the long poem Briggflatts in the sixties should be read historically - as a case study that shows the Poundian tradition of praxis and orality acquiring a newly communitarian, leftist emphasis in the context of post-war Anglo-American poetry. The study draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and letters held at the Basil Bunting Archive, Durham University, the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Austin), and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Keywords: Ezra Pound
20th century poetry
political literature
Basil Bunting
modernist poetry
poetry
modern poetry
modernism
Advisor: Bush, R
Goulder and the Gospels

The value of Michael Goulder's contribution to Gospel studies is underlined by uncovering both strengths and weaknesses in his work. Goulder's theories are divisible into three major areas and are analysed in the three parts of this thesis, Part One on Luke's knowledge of Matthew, Part Two on the creativity of the evangelists and Part Three on the lectionary theory.
A screening of 'QC' Words discovers Matthean and Lucan vocabulary in roughly equal proportions, a conclusion detrimental to Goulder's theory that Matthew composed the Q material and that Luke copied it from him.
Goulder argues strongly on the Minor Agreements that Matthean, un-Lucan language could indicate Luke's knowledge of Matthew. At least six Minor Agreements satisfy these criteria but one or two satisfy the reverse criteria. Goulder's arguments over the Minor Agreements require revision but still provide problems for a 'hardline' Two-Source Theory.
Goulder's case that the L material is the substantial handiwork of the evangelist is plausible given the distinctiveness of many of the features he lists, but the data also suggests that Luke interacted with oral traditions.
There is much to commend in Goulder's lectionary theory, particularly the strengths of the correspondences adduced, but there are difficulties which may be insurmountable.
Seismic analysis of knee elements for steel frames

The 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes, which were moderate in seismological terms, showed that many buildings were subjected to demolition or very expensive repairs because of severe damage in principle members, mainly in the column-beam connections. As a result, the development of dissipative systems was encouraged, which limit the damage parts to easily replaceable elements, in case of moderate earthquakes. One such system is the knee braced frame. Knee braced frames are a modified form of cross bracing in which the brace is cut short and connected to the mid point of a knee element spanning between the adjacent beam and column. The key component is the knee element, which controls both the initial elastic stiffness of the frame, and the onset of yield and subsequent energy dissipation. The knee elements are required to ensure energy absorption through repeated large deformations without suffering collapse or instability. This thesis describes the development of different knee element designs and their performance assessments. It is shown that the dissipative mechanism of the web yielding in shear is advantageous because it is independent of the moment distribution and it does not affect the connections and extends the dissipative zones to all its lengths. Extensive finite element modelling and experimental testing have been undertaken. In the shear yielding mode excellent performance was achieved using standard hot rolled sections, modified by the addition of web stiffeners to prevent localised buckling failure. Weakening of the knee element's webs so that it yields very early in an earthquake has potential benefit, but is shown to be unsafe as it promotes premature failure of the element. A knee element model for non-linear dynamic analysis of an entire building has been developed. Time history analyses showed that knee braced frames with the developed knee element have a large global ductility and an outstanding performance. Results obtained with different pushover analysis methods (Eurocode 8, FEMA-356 and ATC-40) have been compared to those obtained wit the time history analyses. Moreover FEMA-356 method, which includes a more accurate representation of the structure's significant post-yield stiffness, gave the closest agreement with the time history analyses and is recommended for the design of knee braced frames.

Keywords: earthquake
dynamics
Advisor: Williams, M
Blakeborough, A
'Cloth, cull and cocktail: anatomising the performer body of "Alba"'

Where and how can the live experience 'being there' be positioned in Scottish live art culture? Such transformatively liminal corporeity is situated in three examples of performative objects intrinsically linked to readings of Scottish identity. By collating a 'blood culture imprint' of 1970s performance art with Scottish live artist Alastair McLennan's positioning of the artist body as art, the thesis presents a revised understanding of how and where the live can be placed within Highland Gaelic culture. The specificity of this frame is intrinsically linked to the 'blood culture imprint' of Culloden and as such presents a liminal outworking in the three examples chosen which collectively portray an object body in the form of a textual anatomy of 'Scotland' or 'Alba'. Using contemporary live art discourse, the ontological origins of performance art in Scotland are situated as potentially live within the transfixed frame of the thesis itself, thereby positioning the authorship and readership of its contents as a revivifying act per se, reflecting the theoretical argument. I will argue that despite a seeming lack of performance art tradition in Scotland, this 'blood culture imprint' of the 1970s can be used to define Culloden and post- Culloden culture as necessarily animated by instances of live art. The examples chosen are James Clerk Maxwell's first colour photograph of a tartan ribbon, scalping survivor Scotsman Robert McGee's cabinet card and James MacPherson's Ossian repositioned as a post-genocide numinous wish text. Each performative object betrays its ontological origins, displaying a textual anatomy which argues that collating a performer body of 'Alba' can demonstrate a fundamental and historical performance culture.

Keywords: Scottish studies
Fine art
performance art
Advisor: Catling, B
Smith, M
Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919-1985

This thesis analyzes the socio-economic consequences of the Tanzania population's exposure to food insecurity between 1919 and 1985.
The thesis covers: the incidence of food inadequacy in peasant households throughout the country; the impact of famine relief measures of the colonial state and the Native Authorities; the role of Asian traders; the development of an African wage labour force and its food demand; the problems of supplying food to plantation workers and other geographically dispersed wage labourers during the inter-war period; state food policies arising from the exigencies of World Mar II; decolonisation and the restructuring of the social division of labour on a non-racial basis between 1950 and 1973; state food production and Marketing policy in response to rapid urban growth; African marketing cooperatives, the national economic crisis years between 1973 and 1985; the parastatalisation of national marketed food supply; the parallel food market; the state's difficulties in implementing its industrialisation and peasant agricultural transformation policies; and the deterioration of the functional division of labour to the extent that the occupational division of labour between rural and urban areas blurs.
The central argument of the thesis is that food insecurity retards development of functional social groups and the organisational structure of the market and state relative to the household and clientage networks. This situation arises from the prevalence of risk-averting, household-based strategies of all functional groups in contradistinction to the maximizing strategies of market and state agents. With domination of household and clientage networks, the formation of functional groups is restricted to that made possible by face-to-face accountability or household ties. A circular process begins. Food insecurity is perpetuated and often intensified by the limited scale of the division of labour, its barriers to outside innovation and to the free flow of food between deficit and surplus areas through market channels. In the process, the technological development of food production is severely hindered.