STORRE

Breastfeeding is crucial for infant survival, growth, and health, and it enhances maternal-infant bonding and well-being. However, breastfeeding rates typically fall below international targets, partly due to a high prevalence of latching difficulties, intermittent sucking, refusing the breast, or poor milk supply. Here, we propose that such uniquely human difficulties might be ameliorated by recognising, understanding, and facilitating the olfactory mechanisms that, in other mammals, regulat...

Innovation is seen as critical to the advancement of organisations and services alike. The innovation literature highlights the processes of managing change and the key components of the innovation process. Within these generic processes, there is also a general view that the commercial sector is more flexible and innovative when compared to public services, which are often perceived to be less entrepreneurial, resistant to change, and less inclined to integrate digital technologies. This st...

Septic tank systems (STS) are widely used in rural areas without centralised sewerage, but they are increasingly recognised as potential sources of faecal pollution, especially under changing climate conditions. Such pollution, commonly measured by reporting levels of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs), typically Escherichia coli (E. coli), arises when effluent containing high loads of FIOs bypasses adequate attenuation processes and reaches surface and groundwater. Quantifying STS-related pol...

This PhD thesis covers a number of topics relating to glaciomarine sediment archives. It presents a novel method for quantifying ice-rafted debris (IRD) and characterising glaciomarine sediments. It identifies strengths and weaknesses of existing IRD techniques and combines traditional and innovative approaches to constrain Minch Ice Stream behaviour before and after its demise. A new IRD method which automatically characterises glaciomarine sediments, based on X-ray imaging properties, affor...