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Calorimetric and related studies of disorder in solid electrolyte and similar materials.
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Can environmental citizenship be enhanced through social media? A case study of engagement in a UK University
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The research presented in this thesis focuses around the question: “can social media tools be used effectively to foster a participatory process that increases environmental citizenship and promote pro-environmental ... -
Canvassed and Delivered: Direct Selling at Keystone View Company, 1898-1910
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis addresses an under-studied aspect of the stereoscopic photograph industry: the business and sales practices employed by American stereograph publishers at the dawn of the twentieth century, as exemplified by ... -
Capturing Culture: The Practical Application of Holographic Recording for Artefacts Selected from the Heritage and Museums of the Arabian Peninsula
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Recording cultural heritage is one of the most important issues for consideration in the twenty- first century. Safeguarding, protecting and preserving heritage, through effective mechanism, is of crucial importance. ... -
A Case Study of the Evolution of Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (as an instance of Advanced Practice Nursing) Roles in Palestine
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis investigated the evolution of the Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (ONP) role in Palestine. The study aimed to explore and explain how and why the ONP role developed and what were the contextual factors that both ... -
Changes and developments in dance education from 1965-1996 and an evaluation of the contribution made by Jacqueline Smith-Autard
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This exposition accompanies twenty items of published materials submitted in partial fulfilment of the Ph.D. degree. It demonstrates the consistency of direction in my published contributions to the changes and developments ... -
Changing Practices in a Developing Country: The Issues of Teaching English in Libyan Higher Education
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)ibya is a country which is trying to find its place in the international community. It has a mainly youthful population of about 5.6 million with a median age of 24.8 years and large numbers of young people are accessing ... -
Changing relationships with the self and others: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of a Traveller and Gypsy life in public care
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Background: The implementation of the Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care Green Paper (Department for Education and Skills, (DfES) 2006) and the subsequent Care Matters: Time for Change ... -
The changing situation of institutions and practitioners in British twentieth century theatre
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis sets out to demonstrate that my published works represent a sustained, substantial, continuous and coherent research effort and an independent and original contribution to the literature in this field. Within ... -
Characterisation and Classification of Protein Sequences by Using Enhanced Amino Acid Indices and Signal Processing-Based Methods
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Protein sequencing has produced overwhelming amount of protein sequences, especially in the last decade. Nevertheless, the majority of the proteins' functional and structural classes are still unknown, and experimental ... -
Characterisation of a sugar beet gene encoding a novel cdk-like kinase
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Characterisation of Tablets and Roller-Compacted Ribbons with Terahertz Time-Domain Pulsed Imaging
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)The pharmaceutical process of dry granulation using roller-compaction (DG/RC) is effectively a non-batch based procedure orientated to deliver a continuous stream of material free of a pre-defined batch-size with reduced ... -
Characterisation of the moisture content and growth of donkey hoof horn.
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Characterising Space Use and Electricity Consumption in Non-domestic Buildings
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Energy used in the operation of the United Kingdom’s non-domestic buildings contributes 18% of national carbon dioxide emissions and reducing these is government policy. The use of electrical equipment in buildings is a ... -
Charles and Ray Eames : furniture, architecture, interior design, film and photography.
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The chemical and physical analyses of new and degraded lubricating oils.
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Chinese Tertiary Students' Willingness to Communicate in English
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)With the growing number of students from China who study abroad, many initially struggle to engage with native English speakers due to limited opportunities to develop oral English skills within their homeland (Gu and ... -
Choosing to be deaf: leisure and sport in the deaf community of north-west England, 1945 – 1995
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis reconstructs the history of deaf people‘s leisure and sporting activity since World War Two. Using north-west England as a case study, the research covers a period of fifty years and has resulted in both ... -
Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis examines the way in which dance work produced by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products ... -
Classification of skin tumours through the analysis of unconstrained images
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Skin cancer is the most frequent malignant neoplasm for Caucasian individuals. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, the incidence of melanoma, the most malignant of skin tumours, and resultant mortality, have increased ...