All Outputs (29)

Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies (2012)
Thesis
Burton, K. Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies. (Thesis). University of Exeter. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949193

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)
Thesis
Carter, A. Assessment in action: A study of lecturers' and students' constructions of BTEC national assessment practice in a college engineering programme area. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949201

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)
Thesis
Clark, B. Understanding how household car ownership changes over time. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949211

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)
Thesis
Hale, P. User driven modelling: Visualisation and systematic interaction for end-user programming with tree-based structures. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949334

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)
Thesis
Sheffield, R. Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949569

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)
Thesis
Khan, S. G. Adaptive and reinforcement learning control methods for active compliance control of a humanoid robot arm. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/950370

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
McGlinchey, S. Arming the Shah: U.S. Arms Policies Towards Iran, 1950-1979. (Thesis). Cardiff University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/954681

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)
Thesis
McLeod, F. Nursing and physiotherapy students' perceptions of participating in Practice Based Peer Learning as a vehicle for developing interprofessional understanding. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/954687

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)
Thesis
Vlachidis, A. Semantic indexing via knowledge organization systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to archaeological grey literature. (Thesis). University of Glamorgan. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/956163

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.