Browsing PhD by Title

Gay Men and Surrogacy: Navigating Boundaries in the Procreative Realm

Norton, Wendy (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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. ...

Gender discrimination in the Turkish labour market.

Kocak, Serap (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

Gender in terrestrial television sport.

Kennedy, Eileen Teresa (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

Gender Performance and Social Media Platforms: Identity Presentation among Facebook Users in Iraq

Bahiya, Ahmed (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

This thesis investigates individual Iraqis’ performance and use of social network sites, and particularly the Facebook platform to determine the potential challenges and opportunities that this offers when they construct ...

Gender, feminism and talk on British television, 1970-1990

Kay, Jilly (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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 ...

Gene expression programming for Efficient Time-series Financial Forecasting

Alghieth, Manal (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

Stock market prediction is of immense interest to trading companies and buyers due to high profit margins. The majority of successful buying or selling activities occur close to stock price turning trends. This makes ...

A genealogy of the embodied theatre practices of Suzanne Bing and Michael Chekhov: the use of play in actor training

Fleming, Cassandra (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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 ...

A general algebra of business rules for heterogeneous systems

Ramsey, Frederick V. (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

A general methodology for designing and developing Intelligent Database Decision Aids, with application to medicine.

Jackson, Susan Amani (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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. ...

A Generic architecture for semantic enhanced tagging systems

Magableh, Murad (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

The Social Web, or Web 2.0, has recently gained popularity because of its low cost and ease of use. Social tagging sites (e.g. Flickr and YouTube) offer new principles for end-users to publish and classify their content ...

Geometric algorithms for input constrained systems with application to flight control.

Demenkov, Maxim (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

In this thesis novel numerical algorithms are developed to solve some problems of analysis and control design for unstable linear dynamical systems having their input constrained by maximum amplitude and rate of the control ...

Geometric Fuzzy Logic Systems

Coupland, Simon (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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 ...

Gestures towards a better place : approaches to contemporary British fiction.

Armstrong, David (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

A global policy in a regional setting : the Eisenhower administration, Latin America & Brazil, 1953-1961

Sewell, Bevan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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 ...

Governance for Sustainable Systems: The Development of a Participatory Framework

Sajeva, Maurizio (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

Despite an increasing recognition of the need for an integrative approach to sustainable development, there remains a tendency for this to be anthropocentric. Attempts to govern sustainability are invariably focused on the ...

A governance framework for sustainable development in the built environment.

Gilham, Alan (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

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 ...

Grammar-oriented object design : towards dynamically reconfigurable business and software architecture for on-demand computing

Arsanjani, Ali (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)

Grammar-oriented Object Design was shown to be a potent combination of extending methods, incorporating DSLs from a given business domain (BDSLs) and Variation-oriented Design in order to provide a seamless transition ...