Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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Energy Transitions and Development: Electricity access at the global, national and household scales in Eswatini
(University of Exeter Geography, 16 December 2024)Landlocked nations and island states are lagging behind in progress on Sustainable Development Goal 7, which calls for a transition to low carbon energy as well as universal access to electricity (UN, 2022). More than ... -
Leveraging Evolutionary Algorithms for Black-Box Adversarial Attacks in Robustness Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks
(University of Exeter Computer Science, 13 January 2025)Deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited remarkable performance in various applications, notably in within the field of computer vision. However, the suscepti- bility of these networks to subtle input perturbations has ... -
Turquerie and Consumption in England from the Early Modern Period until the end of the Eighteenth Century
(University of Exeter Art History and Visual Culture, 16 December 2024)This thesis is the first study to investigate Turquerie in England, combining the consumption of carpets, ceramics and portraits in Ottoman dress. How did Turquerie begin in England? How did the ethnic and cultural aspects ... -
The Acoustic Landscape of Shark Habitat
(University of Exeter Biosciences, 13 January 2025)In a rapidly changing world, human modifications to sensory landscapes are interrupting the natural detection and processing of sensory cues with harmful consequences from individual to population scales. Sharks are revered ... -
Gamification of Optimisation for Operations Research
(University of Exeter Computer Science, 2 December 2024)Many operational research problems such as the 2D Bin-Packing Problem (2DBPP) are categorised as NP-Hard. For these problems it is either very unlikely or simply not feasible to find the global optimum within a reasonable ...