All Outputs (46)

Learning mentors: A study of identity, policy and practice (2013)
Thesis

This study has investigated the role of learning mentoring within one secondary school with a focus on developing an understanding of practice, professional identity and policy enactment at an institutional level. Learning mentors were first introduc... Read More about Learning mentors: A study of identity, policy and practice.

Road traffic injury prevention in children in rural Bangladesh (2013)
Thesis

Background
Childhood road traffic injuries (RTIs) are a major public health problem internationally; little research has been conducted on preventing childhood RTIs in Bangladesh.

Aim and Objectives
Aim: to develop a pilot intervention to reduc... Read More about Road traffic injury prevention in children in rural Bangladesh.

Knowledge acquisition in knowledge transfer partnerships: An activity theory based study of business process improvement using process mapping (2013)
Thesis

Knowledge and its acquisition are seen to be an increasingly important aspect of business management. Universities, through initiatives such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), are influential in the effective co-production and transfer of busi... Read More about Knowledge acquisition in knowledge transfer partnerships: An activity theory based study of business process improvement using process mapping.

The language of narrative drawing: A close reading of contemporary graphic novels (2013)
Thesis

The study offers an alternative analytical framework for thinking about the contemporary graphic novel as a dynamic area of visual art practice. Graphic narratives are placed within the broad, open-ended territory of investigative drawing, rather tha... Read More about The language of narrative drawing: A close reading of contemporary graphic novels.

Epidemiology, impact and prevention of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal (2013)
Thesis

Background: Injury is a major health problem in children throughout the world and its burden is borne particularly in poor countries. Nepal not only has a challenging economic environment but has a uniquely challenging physical environment, which exp... Read More about Epidemiology, impact and prevention of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal.

The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language (2013)
Thesis

Authenticity is a salient issue within endangered language contexts, particularly where revitalisation efforts are in place. There is currently much activity worldwide to document and describe endangered languages, but whose language should go into t... Read More about The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language.

Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class (2013)
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This thesis offers a new approach to the work of the British filmmaker Shane Meadows. In contradiction to the conventional reading of his work as part of the long tradition of social realism in British cinema, this thesis offers a new approach which... Read More about Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class.

ZAP-70 Phosphorylation and other prognostic factors in adult B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients (2013)
Thesis

Abstract
B chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) is a disease with an enormously heterogeneous prognosis. Due to lack of effective treatments and the heterogeneity in its course, B-CLL has remained largely incurable. In the last two decades a number... Read More about ZAP-70 Phosphorylation and other prognostic factors in adult B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients.

Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations (2013)
Thesis

The published work presented in this submission examines the nature and form of psychosocial processes that lead towards and away from mental health, social security and community and organisational cohesion. It demonstrates the application of psycho... Read More about Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations.

An engineering method for modeling the interaction of circular bodies and very low aspect ratio cruciform wings at supersonic speeds (2013)
Thesis

An engineering method using a 2D unsteady potential formulation (called the free vortex model or FVM) has been developed to predict the normal force, centre-of-pressure and vortex position for cruciform wing-body combinations in the “plus” orientatio... Read More about An engineering method for modeling the interaction of circular bodies and very low aspect ratio cruciform wings at supersonic speeds.

The psychosocial impact of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in black and south asian women (2013)
Thesis

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women of all ethnic groups. The diagnosis and treatment of the disease can be challenging and distressing for any individual. Research in this area has documented a range of physical, psychological a... Read More about The psychosocial impact of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in black and south asian women.

An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children (2013)
Thesis

Children with specific receptive language impairments (SRLI) have been found to be vulnerable to negative outcomes later in life, in terms of mental health, behaviour and literacy. Currently there is little evidence of the efficacy of speech and lang... Read More about An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children.

Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK (2013)
Thesis

There is an increasing drive to achieve sustainability agenda, as well as climate change challenges. The construction industry is facing increasing pressure to address environmental performance earlier in the design process. For UK buildings, design... Read More about Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK.

In-migration and economic activity in rural areas of Wales (2013)
Thesis

Rural areas are changing – a population turnaround was first identified in the 1970’s (Beale 1975). Since that time more and more research has uncovered the numbers and types of people moving into rural areas (Boyle 1995, Boyle and Halfacree 1998, Bo... Read More about In-migration and economic activity in rural areas of Wales.

An approach to managing the complexity of knowledge intensive business processes (2013)
Thesis

Organisations face ever growing complexity in the business environment and use processes to deliver value in a stable, sustainable and controllable way. However complexity in the business environment is threatening the stability of processes and forc... Read More about An approach to managing the complexity of knowledge intensive business processes.

Identification of volatile compounds as indicators of spoilage insects and mites in grain and flour (2013)
Thesis

Solid-phase micro-extraction (SPME) fibres and automated thermal desorption (ATD) tubes were used with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), to investigate volatile secretions from the headspace gas of adults and larvae of confused flour bee... Read More about Identification of volatile compounds as indicators of spoilage insects and mites in grain and flour.

Teaching polysemous words to arab learners: A cognitive linguistics approach (2013)
Thesis

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to compare the pedagogic efficiency of two methods for teaching polysemous vocabulary – the image-schema-based vocabulary instruction method (ISBM) and the translation-based vocabulary instruction method (TBM)... Read More about Teaching polysemous words to arab learners: A cognitive linguistics approach.

Globalisation and language policy in Tunisia: Shifts in domains of use and linguistic attitudes (2013)
Thesis

This thesis builds on previous studies on the linguistic situation, attitudes and domains of language use in the Maghreb countries undertaken by Marley (2000, 2004, 2005, 2008) in Morocco, Benrabah (2007a, 2007b), in Algeria, and by Jabeur (1999) Da... Read More about Globalisation and language policy in Tunisia: Shifts in domains of use and linguistic attitudes.

Talking about careers: Personal and professional constructions of career by careers advisers (2013)
Thesis

The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990 (2013)
Thesis

This thesis explores radical left-wing documentary produced in Britain since 1990. Despite constituting a lively and diverse part of contemporary British film culture, oppositional documentary has been overlooked by film and media scholars for much o... Read More about The political avant-garde: Oppositional documentary in Britain since 1990.