An Exploratory Work on the Research Approaches and PhD Dissertation Process of PhD Students

Phd Research Students

Debate continues regarding the impact on infected farms of Ovine Johne’s disease (OJD), a chronic enteric disease of sheep caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Accurate estimation of annual mortality rates and the proportion attributable to OJD could provide an insight into the financial significance of this disease. The study quantified OJD mortalities in 12 flocks across fo...

Phd Research Students

Johne’s disease is characterised by a lengthy incubation period, measured in years. It is well known that cows with severe infections commonly shed the causative organism, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, into their milk, and may also infect their unborn calf in utero. The organism can be isolated from extra-intestinal sites in such cases. There is a smaller body of evidence for this in sheep, b...

PhD Dissertation

Self-Adaptive Software systems (SAS) adapt at run-time in response to changes in user’s needs, operating contexts, and resource availability, by requiring minimal to no involvement of system administrators. The ever-greater reliance on software with qualities such as flexibility and easy integrability, and the associated increase of design and maintenance effort, is raising the interest towards...

THESES OF PhD DISSERTATION

DOCTORAL (PhD) DISSERTATION THESES