Desire and motivation to parent has often been conceptualised as a women’s reproductive concern whilst relatively little is known about men’s reproductive desires, reproductive decision making and reproductive experiences. ...

This thesis uncovers and analyses the relationship between forms of talk on British television between 1970-1990, and the uneven transformations in gender politics that occurred in this period, which encompasses both the ...

This project investigates the previously unrecognised significance of the ways in which the Embodied Theatre practices of Suzanne Bing (1885-1967) and Michael Chekhov (1891-1955) utilised forms of what I term Embodied Play ...

After more than twenty years of development effort in expert and knowledge-based applications, there are indications of a growing uncertainty in the practical potential of such systems, especially within medical domains. ...

The changes in chlorophyll content, rate of senescence and cytokinin (CK) levels in the top three leaves of field-grown New Plant Type (NPT) rice were determined during the grain filling period. The chlorophyll content ...

Human cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) are a superfamily of haem-binding monooxygenase enzymes involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics such as toxins, carcinogens and pharmaceutical drugs as well as in the biosynthesis ...

There has recently been a significant increase in academic interest in the field oftype-2 fuzzy sets and systems. Type-2 fuzzy systems offer the ability to model and reason with uncertain concepts. When faced with uncertainties ...

This thesis re-examines the Eisenhower administration's policies in Latin America, focusing specifically on the case study of Brazil (1953-1961). In doing so it moves beyond the existing historiography, which has divided ...

This project was inspired by a declaration made by built environment professionals at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (GABS, 2002), of the need for a common framework to improve decision making for sustainable ...