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Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research (2012)
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The focus of this thesis is the experiential landscape viewed through the lens of a performative visual arts research inquiry. The project explores the dialogue between practice and theory through a series of research projects that focus on the exper... Read More about Location, dislocation, translocation: Navigating a space between place and becoming through practice-led research.

Mechanisms of red cell turnover (Eryptosis) (2012)
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Abstract
Title: Mechanisms of Red Cell Turnover (Eryptosis).
Author: Kris Patrick Jeremy
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of the West of England, Bristol for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
When C... Read More about Mechanisms of red cell turnover (Eryptosis).

The essence of the art of a midwife: Holistic, multidimensional meanings and experiences explored through creative inquiry (2012)
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In the United Kingdom midwives have a key role in caring for women and their families throughout the childbirth continuum. Midwifery is assumed by many to be both an ‘art’ and a ‘science’. The term ‘midwife’ comes from an Old English phra... Read More about The essence of the art of a midwife: Holistic, multidimensional meanings and experiences explored through creative inquiry.

Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies (2012)
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This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During th... Read More about Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies.

Assessment in action: A study of lecturers' and students' constructions of BTEC national assessment practice in a college engineering programme area (2012)
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This research examines the nature and form of Edexcel’s BTEC National assessment policy and practice, as found within a small college Engineering Programme Area. The study investigated the salient influences and considerations underpinning both the... Read More about Assessment in action: A study of lecturers' and students' constructions of BTEC national assessment practice in a college engineering programme area.

Understanding how household car ownership changes over time (2012)
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The PhD study presented in this thesis sets out to address the question: How and why does household car ownership change over time? This question is justified on the basis that the study of car ownership has traditionally been dominated by cross-sect... Read More about Understanding how household car ownership changes over time.

User driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programming with tree-based structures (2012)
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This thesis addresses certain problems encountered by teams of engineers when modelling complex structures and processes subject to cost and other resource constraints. The cost of a structure or process may be ‘read off’ its specifying model, but th... Read More about User driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programming with tree-based structures.

Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation (2012)
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Abstract: Understanding the complex organizational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation. Robert James Sheffield, February 2012.

This study looks at the topics of creativity and innovation and how they are experienced as ordinar... Read More about Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation.

Adaptive and reinforcement learning control methods for active compliance control of a humanoid robot arm (2012)
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Safety is an important requirement for human-robot interaction. Compliance control can often help to ensure safety in human-robot interaction (HRI). The aim of this work is to develop a compliance control strategy for safe HRI. Compliance can be achi... Read More about Adaptive and reinforcement learning control methods for active compliance control of a humanoid robot arm.

Arming the Shah: U.S. Arms Policies Towards Iran, 1950-1979 (2012)
Thesis

This thesis reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omi... Read More about Arming the Shah: U.S. Arms Policies Towards Iran, 1950-1979.

Nursing and physiotherapy students' perceptions of participating in Practice Based Peer Learning as a vehicle for developing interprofessional understanding (2012)
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Peer learning has been successfully introduced into professional education within the practice setting (Secomb 2008). This thesis provides a chronological narrative presentation of a qualitative case study that evaluated an interprofessional peer lea... Read More about Nursing and physiotherapy students' perceptions of participating in Practice Based Peer Learning as a vehicle for developing interprofessional understanding.

Semantic indexing via knowledge organization systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to archaeological grey literature (2012)
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The volume of archaeological reports being produced since the introduction of PG161 has significantly increased, as a result of the increased volume of archaeological investigations conducted by academic and commercial archaeology. It is highly desir... Read More about Semantic indexing via knowledge organization systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to archaeological grey literature.

An ethnographic approach to understanding the place of leisure time physical activity in 'working class' British culture: Implications for social marketing (2011)
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Physical activity has a well understood set of benefits. UK leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is socially patterned, with lower socio-economic groups participating less. There is evidence from the literature that in addition to structural causes,... Read More about An ethnographic approach to understanding the place of leisure time physical activity in 'working class' British culture: Implications for social marketing.

Verifying requirements for resource-bounded agents (2011)
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This thesis presents frameworks for the modelling and verification of resource-bounded reasoning agents. The resources considered include the time, memory, and communication bandwidth required by agents to achieve a goal. The scalability and expressi... Read More about Verifying requirements for resource-bounded agents.

A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective (2011)
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In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, a... Read More about A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective.

Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa (2011)
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Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is a novel technique which can be used to build up a 2D pseudo-section of resistivity distribution of a porous material. Here, it is used to visualise internal moisture regimes by measuring the resistivity dist... Read More about Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa.

Everyday reveries: recorded music, memory & emotion (2011)
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This thesis investigates recorded music in everyday life and its relationship to memory. It does this by establishing the social and historical context in which sound recording was invented and developed, and by formulating a theory of how recorded m... Read More about Everyday reveries: recorded music, memory & emotion.

Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer (2011)
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This thesis investigates the collaborative production of fine art digital prints for artists,a process which is used by many contemporary practitioners including Richard
Hamilton and Damien Hirst. Digital print as a fine art process has emerged over... Read More about Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer.

Epidemiology of injuries in primary school aged children (2011)
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Representation in the appointed state: The case of councillors in the West Midlands Regional Assembly (2011)
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The rise of indirectly elected institutions, such as the West Midlands Regional Assembly, has democratic implications for notions of accountability, legitimacy and representation. The representative function of these bodies must be explicitly fulfill... Read More about Representation in the appointed state: The case of councillors in the West Midlands Regional Assembly.