The Plymouth Student Scientist - Volume 14, No. 2 - 2021: Recent submissions
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A comparison of the risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma development between individuals with different ABO blood group phenotypes: A meta-analysis
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Pancreatic adenocarcinoma aetiology is complex and incompletely understood, and with incidence and mortality rate increasing annually, discovery of associated risk factors is essential. One such risk factor is ABO blood ... -
Predicting Emergency Repairs using Classification Method
(University of Plymouth, 2021)This paper discusses how each explanatory variable affects the possibility of having an emergency repair to people’s home with the help of machine learning. Here, the outcome variable is binary. The aim of this is to ... -
Gender differences in attitudes towards trauma/abuse disclosure
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Research has indicated there may be gender differences in responses to trauma disclosure. Currently, the literature is dominated by the sexual abuse of female survivors, largely neglecting male survivors. The present study ... -
What effect do government policies have on the transmission of COVID-19?
(University of Plymouth, 2021)This investigation aimed to determine the effect of government policies on the transmission of COVID-19 during the period 30/01/2020 – 03/01/2021. This investigation used qualitative data from policy legislation and ... -
How are defendants of high-profile court cases framed in the media? A qualitative analysis of news media coverage of Caroline Flack’s arrest
(University of Plymouth, 2021)This present study aims to investigate whether news media coverage on Caroline Flack’s arrest, in December 2019, showed characteristics of ‘Trial by Media’ (TBM) through identification of one-sided, unbalanced or predominantly ... -
The effect of onshore wind on wave overtopping of a vertical sea wall
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Strong winds can produce overtopping rates that are considerably higher than predicted by the EurOtop formulae, which do not make provision for wind. However, no detailed industry guidance exists about the quantification ... -
Scale model behaviour and float geometry influence on an oscillating water column system
(University of Plymouth, 2021)A numerical model based on a 1:60 scale Lazy-S Mooring Line has been developed using the dynamic analysis software OrcaFlex, to determine the software’s capabilities when analysing discretized scale models, and to quantify ... -
Spontaneous visual perspective-taking: level 2 representations of another’s perspective are not related to what they actually see
(University of Plymouth, 2021)The ability to understand what another person can see is a fundamental feature of human interaction, commonly referred to as ‘visual perspective-taking’ (VPT). Traditionally, this ability has been conceptualised along two ... -
Constrained Portfolio Optimisation
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Portfolio optimisation is an important problem in finance; it allows investors to manage their investments effectively. This paper considers finding the efficient frontier associated with the mean-variance portfolio ... -
Handedness: Does it affect interhemispheric transfer?
(University of Plymouth, 2021)Left- handed people have different patterns of cerebral dominance to the rest of the population, as explained by Annett’s (1996) right shift theory. Left handers are considered to have bilateral functionality unlike right ...
