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The Correlation Between Teaching Collocations and Lexical Bundles and the Improvement in the Writing Skill of First-Year University Students
(University of Exeter Humanities ,Arts and Social Sciences, 5 June 2023)This study explores the correlation between the teaching of collocations and lexical bundles and the improvement of the writing skill of first-year university students. The thesis addresses three research questions. First, ... -
Investigating Chromatin-Driven Spindle Assembly in the Drosophila melanogaster syncytial Embryo
(University of Exeter Health and Life Sciences, 15 May 2023)Faithful segregation of chromosomes between daughter nuclei is crucial for the proliferation of all eukaryotic cells. The process is facilitated by the mitotic spindle, a bipolar array ofmicrotubules (MTs) and associated ... -
Senescence in wild European badgers: the roles of parental age effects and immunosenescence
(University of Exeter Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, 30 May 2023)Extensive evidence now exists for senescence (within-individual age-related declines in components of fitness) in natural animal populations. Research has now expanded to investigate the inter-generational effects of ... -
Surface analysis and fingerprint recognition from multi-light imaging collections
(University of Exeter Computer Science, 15 May 2023)Multi-light imaging captures a scene from a fixed viewpoint through multiple photographs, each of which are illuminated from a different direction. Every image reveals information about the surface, with the intensity ... -
Multi-Spacecraft Investigations of Solar and Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in Complex Solar Wind Environments
(University of Exeter Mathematics, 5 June 2023)Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large, dynamically evolving structures of plasma and magnetic fields ejected from the Sun's atmosphere, the corona. As they propagate outward from the Sun into the heliosphere, they are ...