Astudiaethau Achos: Prifysgol Bangor

Datblygu system newydd o roi pro-gyffur quinon ar gyfer canser (Cyflwyniad)

(English) The chemotherapy agents which are in current use are highly toxic compounds and are also non selective meaning that in effect the patient is being medically “poisoned” in the hope that the cancer will die first. Prodrug technology allows for the selective deployment of highly toxic drugs into cancer cells, whilst healthy cells are left relatively unaffected.

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Datblygu Rhaglen Bwyta’n Iach a Gweithgareddau Food Dudes ar gyfer plant cyn-oed ysgol mewn meithrinfeydd, a’u teuluoedd yn y cartref (Cyflwyniad)

(English) My project is in collaboration with Food Dudes Health Ltd, who already have an award winning Healthy Eating Intervention and are now keen to develop a physical activity intervention to tackle the ongoing issue of obesity.

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Datblygu Rhaglen Bwyta’n Iach Food Dudes ar gyfer plant cyn-oed ysgol mewn meithrinfeydd, a’u teuluoedd yn y cartref (Cyflwyniad)

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Myfyriwr: Catherine Sharp Cwmni: Food Dudes Health Ltd (SR) Goruchwyliwr Academaidd: Dr Pauline Horne a Dr Mihela Erjavec

Rôl gwaddodion mewn aberoedd fel cronfa ar gyfer micro-organebau pathogenig (Cyflwyniad)

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(English) Anthropogenic activity resulting from agriculture, storm water discharge and sewage treatment has a significant impact upon the transport of human microbial pathogens from catchment to coast. As the global climate changes and storm and flood events become more frequent, it is imperative that we understand how the increased flow of microbial pathogens from land to sea will affect human health and the environment.

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Mary Richards (Darowen) a chasglu alawon traddodiadol Cymru (Safbwynt Academaidd)

(English) The project provided the opportunity to reveal music from the past with great benefits for present day Welsh culture and music, highlighting aspects of Welsh music that has never been seen, heard or performed before in Wales.

The collection of 88 folk songs from the 19th Century had been archived in the National Library in Aberystwyth. Through Leila’s KESS PhD project in conjunction with Curiad Music this collection was published for the first time.

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Treuliad Anaerobig: potensial hyn i wella perfformiad economaidd ac amgylcheddol systemau ffermio organig (Safbwynt Academaidd)

(English) 
What this project did that was different from other projects was that it placed an economic value on the environmental benefits that anaerobic digestion can offer over the short term. Over the long term, this type of work has the potential to offer wider societal benefits, for instance an improvement in water quality; this in turn can affect the tourism industry, water companies and so on. In addition to this is of course the fact that anaerobic digestion provides a source of renewable energy, reducing CO2 emissions.
There are many people who can benefit financially from the results of this research, the taxpayer benefits, as do large, medium and small private companies; so there are many economic and environmental advantages and I think that this is highlighted in the project.

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Datblygu Rhaglen Bwyta’n Iach Food Dudes ar gyfer plant cyn-oed ysgol mewn meithrinfeydd, a’u teuluoedd yn y cartref (Safbwynt Academaidd)

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(English) The KESS project was a development of an early year’s nursery intervention for children to learn to eat fruits and vegetables; it was undertaken in co-operation with our company partner Food Dudes. Food Dudes have award winning programmes proven to work with children who are in primary schools, however because we know that eating habits are established early on, we know that we should intervene as early as possible.

The KESS project was to develop an intervention for children who were about 2-3 years old and then pilot it in nurseries in the area. To my knowledge this is the only project of its kind that has successfully completed the research and immediately translated the results by the company into a commercially viable product, therefore an intervention that can be administered in nurseries nationwide.

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Effeithiolrwydd cynnyrch goroesi Reflexcell i warchod pobl mewn amgylcheddau eithafol / Goblygiadau cynnyrch Reflexcell o ran iechyd pobl (Safbwynt Academaidd)

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In the short term this research has helped Blizzard to understand how their products compare to other widely used products, like polythene survival bags. The research project has given the company some empirical evidence and some real numbers to help support their assertion that their product competes well against the best on the market.

In the long term, we are hoping that the emergency and armed services will look to adopt these products, so enabling them to better care for cold casualties in the field as a result of this research.
Positives for the school and other students

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(English) An Advanced Virtual Environment for Rugby Skills Training (The Academic Perspective)

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(English) Most projects today need multi-disciplinary skills; it’s getting more and more difficult to only apply computer science techniques when developing novel applications, so we need to be collaborating.

This project is the first time that we’ve done a sporting application as well as computer science; it has allowed us to collaborate with the School of Sports, Health and Exercise Science and the School of Psychology here at Bangor, so there has been an excellent team involved in this project. It has been good in establishing links with other schools in the University and we’ve also been able to establish links internationally because of the project.

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