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Effects of multinational team and team member characteristics on subgroup formation, group identification, and trust in team (2016)
Thesis
Multinational teams (MNTs) consist of members from different national backgrounds who work interdependently to achieve a shared objective (Earley & Gibson, 2002). These teams are frequently employed in global organizations because they provide severa... Read More about Effects of multinational team and team member characteristics on subgroup formation, group identification, and trust in team.
HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture (2016)
Thesis
Workflows are a way to describe a series of computations on raw e-Science data. These data may be MRI brain scans, data from a high energy physics detector or metric data from an earth observation project. In order to derive meaningful knowledge from... Read More about HyDRA Hybrid workflow Design Recommender Architecture.
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The aim of this study is to inform the design and development of an online surveillance intervention, which could have a role in improving the management of paediatric respiratory tract infections (RTI) in primary care, including aiding... Read More about “What’s it gonna change?” Real-time paediatric respiratory infection community surveillance: A qualitative interview study of clinicians’ perspectives on the use, design and potential impact of a planned intervention.
Iron overload cardiomyopathy (IOC) has been recently described as a dilated cardiomyopathy, characterized by left ventricular (LV) remodelling with chamber dilatation and reduced LV ejection fraction (LVEF). However, primary haemochromatosis, a genet... Read More about Investigations on potential digenic HAMP(hepcidin) and HFE haemochromatosis gene mutations in the development of iron overload in Irish patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic (2016)
Thesis
A review of the extensive separate literatures on salesmanship and entrepreneurship highlights interesting similarities between the two professions, but there is a lack of studies examining these similarities or explaining the differences. In particu... Read More about Exploring the salesperson / entrepreneurship dynamic.
An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings (2016)
Thesis
The role of credit rating agencies has come under severe scrutiny following the recent financial crisis, due to their claim, ab initio, of assigning true creditworthiness in the form of rating notches to financial institutions and their instruments.... Read More about An empirical investigation of the determinants and impact of bank credit ratings.
Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture (2016)
Thesis
Contemporary Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) design practice in the industry still suffers from issues that hamper the investment in the EIA design. First and foremost of these issues is the shortcoming of EIA design research to bridge the... Read More about Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture.
An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement (2016)
Thesis
An Honourable Practice is a cohesive study of the operative and ethical framework around the role of the artist and printmaker. The research project uses the artist’s prints as a strategy for social engagement, drawing on the dynamic between a person... Read More about An honourable practice: The artist’s print as a strategy for social engagement.
Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction (2016)
Thesis
This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncovers how his tragic vision of a changing world led him into proto-modernist forms of writing. By first positing Hardy within his milieu and exploring th... Read More about Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction.
Recent commentators have considered how the institutional changes that have taken place within the context of clinical practice in the UK over the past ten years exert pressures upon counselling psychologists to practice in particular ways. The aim o... Read More about Analysis of counselling psychologists’ self-reported experiences of drawing upon two or more theoretical orientations to inform their practice.
Development of generic methods for the analysis and purification of polar compounds by high performance liquid chromatography (2016)
Thesis
Generic methods were developed using different columns for analysis and purification of hydrophilic compounds by hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC). Mobile phases were investigated in detail, and across each column chemistry tested (BEH A... Read More about Development of generic methods for the analysis and purification of polar compounds by high performance liquid chromatography.
Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material (2016)
Thesis
This thesis analyses the importance of supplementary material for art history and philosophy by addressing its shifting and problematic relationship to the ‘work of art’. Through the use of philosophical and critical theories, including Heidegger, Be... Read More about Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material.
An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945 (2016)
Thesis
Pressure for Indian independence had been building up throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, initially through the efforts of the Indian National Congress, but also later, when matters were complicated by an increasingly vocal Muslim... Read More about An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945.
The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre (2016)
Thesis
Diversity is a key concept in urban and planning theory and policy with important physical,social and economic dimensions. It is also central to the sustainable city and a key component of vital and viable urban centres. Urban form plays a key role i... Read More about The role of fine urban grain in securing the diversity of the urban centre.
This thesis examines experiences and critical incidents that parents and their children with special educational needs encountered in mainstream school settings.
Research was carried out within the methodological framework of autoethnography, re... Read More about Students’ and their parents’ experiences of inclusion in mainstream schools. What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system?.