Dissertations / Theses: 'Creative PhD'

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Harris, Jane. "Home rules : a PhD in creative and critical writing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389331.

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Manwaring, Kevan. "The Knowing : a Fantasy ; An epistemological enquiry into creative process, form, and genre." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/43111.

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This creative writing PhD thesis consists of a novel and a critical reflective essay. Both articulate a distinctive approach to the challenges of writing genre fiction in the 21st Century that I define as 'Goldendark' - one that actively engages with the ethical and political implications of the field via the specific aesthetic choices made about methodology, content, and form. The Knowing: A Fantasy is a novel written in the High Mimetic style that, through the story of Janey McEttrick, a Scottish-Cherokee musician descended from the Reverend Robert Kirk, a 17th Century Episcopalian minister from Aberfoyle (author of the 1691 monograph, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies), fictionalises the diasporic translocation of song- and tale-cultures between the Scottish Lowlands and the Southern Appalachians, and is a dramatisation of the creative process. In the accompanying critical reflective essay, 'An Epistemological Enquiry into Creative Process, Form and Genre', I chart the development of my novel: its initial inspiration, my practice-based research, its composition and completion, all informed both by my practice as a storyteller/poet and by my archival discoveries. In the section 'Walking Between Worlds' I articulate my methodology and seek to defend experiential research as a multi-modal approach - one that included long-distance walking, illustration, spoken word performance, ballad-singing and learning an instrument. In 'Framing the Narrative' I discuss matters of form - how I engaged with hyperfictionality and digital technology in destabilising traditional conventions of linear narrative and generic expectation. Finally, in 'Defining Goldendark' I articulate in detail my approach to a new ethical aesthetics of the fantasy genre.

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Singh, Nicola. "On the 'thesis by performance' : a feminist research method for the practice-based PhD." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36132/.

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This doctoral project challenges the conventions of academic enquiry that, by default, still largely shape the procedures of practice-based PhDs. It has been submitted in the form of a ‘thesis by performance’ - a thesis that can only be realized through live readings that present knowledge production as something done in and around bodies and their contexts. The aim has been to reposition institutional and educational knowledge in an intimate, subjective relationship with the body, particularly the researchers own body. The ideas gathered together in this ‘thesis by performance’ address the body and its context using material that was sometimes appropriated, sometimes invented and sometimes autobiographically constructed. From the start, these approaches and sources were used to directly address those listening in the present, the ‘now’ in which words were spoken. An approach influenced by feminist thinkers in the arts, Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus, Katrina Palmer and Linda Stupart. The methodological development of the research has been entirely iterative – developed through the making and presenting of performance texts. Each text was presented live as part of mixed-media installations, experimenting with how language and voice can be visualised and choreographed. Consequently, the resulting ‘thesis by performance’ is a doctoral submission unimpeded by a printed script - only an introductory statement and two appendices are available outside of a live reading. In this way the process of performance can inspire new terms of reference in the field of postgraduate practice-led research entirely on its own terms.

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Capelo, Maria Jose de Brito. "Away, a novel, and a critical essay on narrative space with reference of Paul Auster's fiction." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1191.

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My novel, Away, is mainly the story of a woman travelling alone, leaving all friends and relatives behind. She seeks out remote, beautiful and difficult places where, firstly, she has travelled to before and, then, different locations that she hasn’t known in the past. We discover that, through trauma, she has lost her sense of identity – she is in the midst of a psychological crisis that becomes clear only after the journey has been underway for some time, when circumstances force her to accept help from others. With the protagonist my aim was to portray a permanent and continuous possibility of ending, stretching endlessly. This idea is irretrievable from the notion of space, as conceived here. In Part I, I explore how not only this main character, but also, Fred embody space. Here, I examine the conception of space, taking in various perspectives raging from philosophy, geography, culture and literature studies, where we find an interdisciplinary approach to space. My contention, drawing on mainly Lefebvre’s and Massey’s investigations, is that space is produced and is simultaneously a product embodied by the characters. In addition, I analyse how a particular territory – the desert – enacts the nature of space, as defined before, in selected works by T. E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger and Paul Bowles. Also, I argue that this conception of space is explored in some narratives of Paul Auster - CG, MC and CLT - in part II. Further, I examine other features of space. I contend that Auster’s writing explores space as a realm upon which Auster’s characters engage in a process of construction and disintegration both of space and their identity. Therefore, here, space is considered as a sphere constituted by a process of an ever-opened, changing and ongoing interrelation with the characters and the text. Finally, although space is presented in this essay as the major tool for investigation through composition and critical analysis, other tools, intrinsically, and I argue inseparable in fact, I proceed to an investigation, in part III, of notions of time, identity, writing and narrator in my creative work. Beside these, I investigate particularly the relationships between characters. The thesis concludes by demonstrating that writing as space evolves in more subtle, more transient and labyrinthian ways through the reference to other writers whose writing has significantly influenced my creative work.

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Li, Fuli. "A stress and coping perspective on creativity : a reward for creativity policy as a stressor in organizations = Cong ya li he ying dui de jiao du li jie chuang xin : zu zhi chuang xin jiang li zheng ce zuo wei yi zhong ya li yuan / Li Fuli." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-mgt-b30082468f.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.
"Submitted to Department of Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-173)

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Cseh, Genevieve. "Flow in visual creativity." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225306.

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Although flow theory (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975; being 'in the zone') arose from early observations of artists, experimental research of creative flow is lacking, particularly in the visual arts. Assumptions are made about the universality of flow in all domains; however creativity is a uniquely complex domain which may have different antecedents, experiences, and consequences related to flow. This thesis focuses on potential mechanisms and effects of feedback/goal ambiguity and the sense of control that are thought essential to flow but which have unclear relationships to creativity. Using an experimental simulation of the visual creative process, the creative mental synthesis task (Finke & Slayton, 1988), four experiments were conducted. The role of perceptual feedback (sketching) to potentially disambiguate limited mental imagery feedback, or to offload cognitive load, was explored. Also inspected were the impacts of expectation-outcome incongruence, perceived task difficulty, and access to conscious choice vs. constraint. Results show sketching significantly increased flow by decreasing perceived task difficulty, though this effect was independent of cognitive load. Factors potentially influencing perceived difficulty were explored in relation to feedback ambiguity variables such as expectation-outcome discrepancies and mental imagery vividness. Choice did not significantly affect flow, but did decrease expectation-outcome discrepancy, suggesting total autonomy and control are not essential for flow development, but choice may affect how creative ideas are selected. These experimental results were compared with fine artist and commercial designer interviews, suggesting flow in visual creativity may require adaptability, tolerance of uncertainty, and interaction with perceptual feedback to resolve ambiguity. Flow was, as theorised, strongly related to affect improvement and self-rated creativity; however no direct links to higher externally-rated or objective creativity measures were found. Although flow does not directly enhance creativity, it and factors related to it (e.g., sketching, affect) may have an indirect motivating influence which could enhance mastery over time.

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Malakate, Anna. "Assessing creative potential : recruitment and selection in creative SMEs in the UK." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=174685.

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This thesis tackles the assessment of job candidates‟ creative potential through the processes of recruitment and selection in UK creative SMEs. Literature on individual creativity (Rogers, 1954; Oldham and Cummings, 1996; Sternberg and Lubart, 1996; Sternberg, O‟Hara and Lubart, 1997; West, 1997; Simonton, 2000), has placed importance on the individual characteristics and personality traits that distinguish a creative individual from a non-creative. Lack of knowledge regarding creativity assessment through recruitment and selection in creative SMEs has triggered the author to investigate this area. The author has designed a theoretical framework which comprises three elements, namely personality traits, individual knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) and team KSAs, which, according to the literature review, need to be taken into account when assessing individuals‟ creative potential in creative SMEs. This framework was tested with the use of a mixed methodological approach. Firstly, the qualitative approach involved the performance of 17 interviews with the owners/managers and directors of creative SMEs in Scotland. The quantitative approach involved the design and distribution of a questionnaire to a larger sample of creative companies across the UK, which resulted in 140 answered questionnaires. From the analysis of these data, interesting findings arose which indicated that creative SMEs use a mix of criteria when assessing job candidates‟ creativity. Personality traits, individual and team KSAs were highlighted, as well as the importance of motivation, which influenced selection decisions. Variations on the importance of such criteria were evident when the researcher investigated the different creative sectors and the different positions the respondents held. The most commonly used recruitment and selection practices in creative SMEs were provided. Additionally, differences in the recruitment methods used between creative SMEs who have and have not won creative awards were highlighted.

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Utter, Emily Kathryn. "Wedgewood : a novel extract with exegesis : memory, place and the 'pain of individuality'." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230592.

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Book I of Wedgewood tells the story of two generations of women struggling to define themselves as individuals within the boundaries of a sometimes abusive, strongly patriarchal family. This first half of the novel exposes the distinct and powerful ways that women use language to recall and narrate the past through performative narrative strategies, and it navigates these complex familial relationships through its remote, distinctly Canadian setting, and themes. The first chapter of the exegesis analyses the intersection of memory, identity and trauma in the family. Various narratological interpretations of inherited memory are explored in the context of a patriarchal family dynamic. John McGahern's Amongst Women and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping are approached in terms of the representational strategies they employ to engage with and illuminate theories of inherited memory, domestic trauma, and the patriarchal family dynamic. Insight into how these texts compare and contrast with my own writing are considered throughout. Chapter Two analyses the formal and structural outcomes of my approach to Wedgewood. My analysis draws on elements of Frank O'Connor's writings on the short story and Alberto Moravia's writings on novel and short story ideologies. Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, and Donna Tartt's novel, The Goldfinch are explored in terms of their uses of voice and tense, and their capacity to self-consciously represent memory in fiction. Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad is discussed in terms of its categorisation as a story cycle, and its influence on Wedgewood's form and structure. Chapter Three builds on the discussion of memory, trauma, and family by analysing their narratological implications through a gendered lens. The subjugation and marginalisation of female voices and narratives within the family are explored against the backdrop of the current socio-political climate. Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic figures prominently in the discussion about the novel's 'polyvocality' and its influence on my own writing. The fourth chapter approaches many of the key ideas and methodologies outlined thus far by engaging with notions of 'life writing,' and provides an in-depth reflection on the writing process, including Wedgewood's varied uses of lived experience and family history, and its formal progression from a short story to a novel.

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Slatter, Angela Gaye. "Sourdough & other stories : a story told in parts (a mosaic novel and exegesis)." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50910/1/Angela_Slatter_Thesis.pdf.

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The mosaic novel - with its independent 'story-tiles' linking together to form a complete narrative - has the potential to act as a reflection on the periodic resurfacing of unconscious memories in the conscious lives of fictional characters. This project is an exploration of the mosaic text as a fictional analogue of involuntary memory. These concepts are investigated as they appear in traditional fairy tales and engaged with in this thesis's creative component, Sourdough and Other Stories (approximately 80,000 words), a mosaic novel comprising sixteen interconnected 'story-tiles'. Traditional fairy tales are non-reflective and conducive to forgetting (i.e. anti-memory); fairy tale characters are frequently portrayed as psychologically two-dimensional, in that there is no examination of the mental and emotional distress caused when children are stolen/ abandoned/ lost and when adults are exiled. Sourdough and Other Stories is a creative examination of, and attempted to remedy, this lack of psychological depth. This creative work is at once something more than a short story collection, and something that is not a traditional novel, but instead a culmination of two modes of writing. It employs the fairy tale form to explore James' 'thorns in the spirit' (1898, p.199) in fiction; the anxiety caused by separation from familial and community groups. The exegesis, A Story Told in Parts - Sourdough and Other Stories is a critical essay (approximately 20,000 words in length), a companion piece to the mosaic novel, which analyses how my research question proceeded from my creative work, and considers the theoretical underpinnings of the creative work and how it enacts the research question: 'Can a writer use the structural possibilities of the mosaic text to create a fictional work that is an analogue of an involuntary memory?' The cumulative effect of the creative and exegetical works should be that of a dialogue between the two components - each text informing the other and providing alternate but complementary lenses with which to view the research question.

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Luukkonen, Jukka-Pekka. "Creating a modular context management system." Thesis, University West, Department of Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-450.

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Flint, Paul Martin. "Managing the creative mind /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1136089471&sid=15&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Singer, Jessica Elizabeth. "Being and becoming : the creative balance of the artist teacher." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=235793.

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In this study, identity is conceptualised as a joint accomplishment between individuals and their interactions with norms, practices, cultural tools, relationships, and institutional and cultural contexts (Gee, 2000; Holland et al., 1998; and Wenger, 1998). From this stance, this research is within a situative approach which aims to understand motives and engagement of people as they participate in formal and informal learning contexts. This is accumulated from experiences (Dewey, 1934) which are processed and retained. From this state of being, the individual's identity is in the process of becoming; affected by personal circumstances and experiences gathered throughout the life course. In response to this, this research views identity not as a thing but as a process of being and becoming. (Beijaard, 2003). Through the process of living, individuals come into constant interaction with different contexts and cultures which inform their personalised identities. Individuals live in the world and, in so doing, create a 'meshwork' (Ingold, 2011) in which individuals do not exist in one location but move along paths acknowledging the role of other people and places in the formation of identity. Transitions throughout the individually lived life course (Elder, 1994) and the emotional experiences (Dutton and Heaphy, 2003) of these transitions aid in the identity formation of the artist teacher. The artist teacher is in a constant state of 'negotiating' between the identities of the artist and the artist teacher. The theoretical framework guiding this study merges Urie Bronfenbrenner's theory of ecological systems (1979)- the micro-, meso-, and macro- levels of human development with Barbara Rogoff's three planes of analysis (1995) - the personal, interpersonal and community levels of development. Data were built with the participation of six artist teachers living and working in North East Scotland, Aberdeen. Findings revealed fascinating ways in which the six artist teachers negotiated their artist and artist teacher identities in/through: art practice and pedagogy, collaborations with others in processes of dialogue and joint activity, and both solo and collaborative participation across persons in-contexts (Nolen et al., 2015).This study contributes to knowledge in exploring both psychological and sociological emotional experiences of the artist teacher to provide a more comprehensive and thorough examination of identity formation from a situative perspective.

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Frost, Sophie Louise. "Art at work : creativity and participation in the public cultural institution." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230630.

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This thesis reflects upon the nature of creativity and participation in the UK public cultural institution. It asks: to what extent is creative agency enabled or disabled within this context? In order to answer this question a qualitative study of Southbank Centre, one of the UK's leading public cultural institutions, has been constructed. The thesis considers the institution in its totality, analysing and interpreting both internal, subjective dimensions and external, public-focused dimensions. An interdisciplinary approach characterises a theoretical and methodological framework that draws upon concepts and methods from sociology, visual culture, museum studies and institutional ethnography. The case study is contextualised through analysis of three key historical examples that provide the preconditions for current perspectives on the relationship between art and work in the public cultural institution: the 1951 Festival of Britain, Artist Placement Group (APG) and the Arts and Crafts Movement. The Southbank case study involves employee interviews, fieldwork observations and the interpretation of cultural objects. These provide the empirical evidence that enables reflection on how creative work and the public are constituted, and how the institution might be seen to exist as a site of struggle. These methods facilitate an assessment of the critical potential of creative work within and around the public cultural institution's self-defined boundaries and the specific historical, discursive and symbolic conditions through which it is enabled or disabled. Although the influence of neoliberal cultural policy cannot be underestimated in this context, the thesis concludes with an alternative suggestion for what the public cultural institution could be. It claims that the discursive tension between artistic and managerial agendas can act as a productive terrain for creative work in its broadest sense.

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Kraft, Reiner. "Cost-effective creation of specialized search engines /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Flynn, Lori. "Tree creation and repair for qualified multicast /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Milota, Andre' D. "Multimodal multi paradigm interface for graphics editing and creation /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Welch, Dwight. "Conflict and the promise of creative interchange /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203558111&sid=24&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cooper, Jennifer Ruth. "'Into the life of things' : a creative exploration of nature in poetry since Romanticism." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227434.

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The idea that, in John Felsteiner's words, 'poems live on the sensory shock of things', is one which I see as vital to an authentic poetics of nature. This project seeks to explore, partly through research and scholarship but mainly through creative practice, ways of expressing and understanding a poetics of nature that is not just relevant and 'alive' in a twenty-first-century context but which is also rooted in the kind of nature writing that has made my own journey possible. Chapter one considers the relevance of 'nature' in contemporary poetry in light of our current ecological crisis and in particular explores Alice Oswald's unease with the more 'imprisoning' aspects of William Wordsworth's poetry and with nature poetry in general. The second chapter attempts to address the question of how one can engage in language with 'self-organising' nature. It explores the liminal metaphorical spaces and thresholds where language and nature come together and where a strong poetry of wilderness can exist. It takes as its touchstones the work of Nan Shepherd, Gary Snyder and Kathleen Jamie. Chapter three explores notions of habitation and 'thingliness' in the context of the contemporary garden poetry of Oswald and Gillian Clarke. It takes the garden as a 'threshold' and 'habitation' in phenomenological terms: an example of a natural space which encourages the reciprocity and attentiveness important not just for making sense of our relation to wilderness, but also to our relationship with cultivated nature. The final chapter begins with a discussion of language as aperture with particular focus on Oswald's long poem Dart and reflects on some of the practical challenges faced when attempting to write a reciprocal and attentive poetry of nature. Finally, and most importantly, 'Northerlies' is a collection of poems inspired by the Scottish Highlands and draws on, but is not tied exclusively to, the ideas summarised above. The central sequence of poems is based on experiences during my time walking and camping in the Rothiemurchus forest in the heart of the Cairngorms.

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Ginn, Sarah M. "Creating community in Spanish California : an investigation of California plainwares /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Thamboon, Prissana. "Creation of a second-order optical susceptibility in phosphate glasses /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Johnsson, Nathalie, and Fredrik Steuer. "Bioplastic material from microalgae : Extraction of starch and PHA from microalgae to create a bioplastic material." Thesis, KTH, Materialvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231508.

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Microalgae used in sewers to capture CO2 eventually turns into waste material. Through the use oftheir biomass, the waste algae can be given a new purpose. In this study attempts to extract starch or PHA from three different algae; Calothrix Scytonemicola, Scenedesmus Almeriensis and Neochloris Oleoabundans, were made. We also attempted to create a bio-based plastic material. Both Scenedesmus Almeriensis and Neochloris Oleoabundans are starch rich microalga. By washing with acetone, cryo grinding, use of ultrasonic homogenizer and dialysis, starch was likely extracted successfully. The extracted material and the plasticiser Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) was used to cast plastic film. The cast film was very thin and brittle; perhaps by using different plasticisers or additives a more usable bio-based plastic material can be created. The PHA rich algae Calothrix Scytonemicola was used to extract PHA. The algae was washed with acetone, cryo grinded and then mixed with Sodium Hypochlorite(aq) and deionised water to extract the desired PHA. Due to a shortage of algae very small amounts of material could be extracted. Therefore, the casting of a plastic film was performed with commercial PH3B, which is a type of PHA. Three attempts were conducted. The first one with only chloroform, the second one with CMC and chloroform and the last one with Sucrose Octaacetate and chloroform. The film with Sucrose Octaacetate gave the best plastic material in regards to mechanical properties.
Mikroalger som används i kloaker för att binda CO2 blir till slut restavfall. Genom att använda dess biomassa kan restalgerna få ett nytt syfte. I denna studie utfördes extraktionsförsök av stärkelse samt PHA från tre olika alger, Calothrix Scytonemicola, Scenedesmus Almeriensis och Neochloris Oleoabundans. Ytterligare försök genomfördes för att försöka framställa ett biobaserat plastmaterial. Både Scenedesmus Almeriensis och Neochloris Oleoabundans är stärkelserika mikroalger. Genom att tvätta dem med aceton, kryomalning, användning av en ultrasonic homogenizer och dialys kunde stärkelse troligtvis extraheras. Det extraherade materialet blandades med karboxymetylcellulosa (CMC) för att skapa en plastfilm. Filmen blev väldigt tunn och spröd, således behövs antingen en annat mjukningsmedel eller tillägg av additiv för att skapa ett mer användningsbart biobaserat plastmaterial. Den PHA-rika algen Calothrix Scytonemicola användes vid extraktionen av PHA. Algerna tvättades med aceton och kryomaldes innan PHA förhoppningsvis extraheras med hjälp av natriumhypoklorit(aq) och avjonat vatten. På grund av en för liten mängd tillgänglig alg extraherades endast en liten mängd material. Det var därför inte möjligt att skapa en plastfilm av vårt extrakt utan istället användes kommersiell PH3B, som är en typ av PHA. Tre försök genomfördes, en med endast kloroform, en med CMC och kloroform och den sista med sucrose octaacetate och kloroform. Den sistnämnda filmen gav det bästa plastmaterialet med avseende på de mekaniska egenskaperna.

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Lilley, David. "At the invitation of the God who rests : the fidelity-producing Sabbath ethic of Karl Barth's doctrine of creation." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239455.

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This thesis narrates an ethic of Sabbath-keeping with and for others within a world that directs people to act chiefly for themselves. It engages with Karl Barth's The Doctrine of Creation to narrate the Sabbath as a fidelity-producing practice for the people of God. It demonstrates Sabbath's architectonic importance within The Doctrine of Creation and its generative capacity within the faithful life of the Christian community, thereby recommending Sabbath to the closer attention of Barth scholars, Barth's theologically located account to the closer attention of Sabbath scholars, and Sabbath to the closer attention of the living community of Christ in the world. Structured according to the logic of Barth's account, the thesis begins with "The God Who Rests," which narrates the Sabbath revelation of divine freedom, contentment, and joy as the Creator's movement of fidelity into a covenantal relationship with the creation. "The Creatures with whom God Rests" provides the basic framework within which faithful creaturely existence corresponds to this movement of God's rest. "Sabbath Freedom," "Sabbath Contentment," and "Sabbath Joy" then narrate the correspondence of creatures' action to their Creator's according to these central aspects.

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Curtis, Robert F. "Distributing leadership and creating new leadershhip [sic] roles in the context of school redesign /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Eder, Paul Joseph. "Integrating the componential and interactionist models of employee creativity." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 145 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397915881&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Riley, Nathan T. "Decadence and creation /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1453232581&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Young, Charles Andrew. "Issues associated with the creation of regional-scale variably saturated groundwater flow models in irrigated areas /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Clark, Ava Stacey Marion. "Oscillating between chaos and order : self organization in the creative process." Thesis, Connect to online version, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1407493851&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=10306&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Perez, Silva Rodrigo A. "Amenities and the Location of High-Educated Workers: Effects on Knowledge creation, Wages, and Housing Rents and Prices." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu154308107104963.

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McGlennen, Molly Suzanne. "It is evidence of faith to create : spirituality and contemporary Native American women's poetics /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Wood, Matthew D. "Impact of strength- versus problem-focus in the revision of creative ideas." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1707247561&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thomas, Christopher. "The place of art in Spinoza's naturalist philosophy." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=237177.

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The lack of discussion on art in Spinoza's works has led to the belief that a) the principles of his philosophy are actively hostile to art, and b) that his philosophy has nothing to offer regarding art's theorisation. This thesis examines the few places that Spinoza refers to art in order to discern three things: I) what Spinoza's thoughts on art are; II) how his views on art fit into the wider themes of his philosophy; and III) how his general philosophical position as well as his specific ideas on art might contribute to new models of theorising art. In Chapter One I develop Spinoza's relational and naturalistic concept of individuation, therein providing the theoretical ground for the subsequent chapters which, following Spinoza, treat the work of art as a complex body that conforms to the rules of individuation as they are developed across the Ethics. Chapter Two locates Spinoza's views on the creative act from what he notes of architecture, painting, and other 'things of this kind' in IIIP2Schol. Here I argue that Spinoza radically naturalises the creative act, deriving it from the complex causal activity of extended substance itself. To this extent art is given in IIIP2Schol as an expression of the complexity of Nature. Chapter Three turns to Spinoza's brief words on art and culture in IVP45Schol to ascertain his position on artistic experience. Here I argue that according to IVP45Schol art's necessity for the wise man lies in its ability to foster affective complexity. Chapter Four turns to that other peculiarly human artefact, Holy Scripture, to identify how 'nonnatural' objects come to be differentiated from merely 'natural' objects in Spinoza's strong naturalism. Finally I end with an appendix that brings Spinozistic principles to bear on a consideration of a poem by Futurist poet Mina Loy.

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Peppler, Kylie Aine. "Creative bytes literacy and learning in the media arts practices of urban youth /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481669181&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cadena, Carlos. "Evolutionary feature creation for ensembles." Thèse, Montréal : École de technologie supérieure, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1472144241&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=46962&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thèse (M. Ing.) -- École de technologie supérieure, 2008.
"by Cadena, Carlos" -- p. de. t. "Thesis presented to École de technologie supérieure in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of engineering." CAQMUQET CaQMUQET Bibliogr. : f.[223]-229. Également disponible en version électronique. CaQMUQET

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Morris, Paul Edmund Neuleib Janice. "Moving grammar from the margins exploring an integrated and constructivist approach to teaching microstructure /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1251867071&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1178892538&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on May 11, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Janice Neuleib (chair), Paula Ressler, Ronald Strickland. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-192) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Crow, Lydia M. T. "Digital ethnography and a virtual Orkney : the role of folklore in creating an online Orkney place." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239475.

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This thesis explores the role of folklore in creating an online Orkney place, referring to key literature from the discipline of folklore and the study of place, including the study of island places. The research introduces the concept and theory of Virtually Filtered Places: places created in the digital environment which are related to identifiable physical places in the non-digital environment. Such virtually filtered places are created by multiple users, meaning they are subject to compounded subjectivity; and are created across a range of digital platforms, meaning a virtually filtered place is one which has a range of possibilities and multiples depending on the nature of the data collection, including which platforms are analysed. This theory is grounded in the fields of space and place research, and of potential relevance to a wide variety of disciplines which focus on the interaction and engagement of users in digital environments which are linked to places in non-digital environments. The research develops a methodological approach grounded in digital ethnography, focussing upon three case studies using the social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. As a participant observer on Twitter, the researcher hosted a Twitter Hour discussing the #OrkneySupernatural, and hosted three Hosted Hashtags on Twitter, discussing three key themes that arose from early thematic analysis: the physical environment (#OrkneyAndPlace), the human environment (#OrkneyAndPeople), and the online environment (#OrkneyOnline). The researcher collated data from Facebook Groups and Pages as an invisible observer. Following iterative thematic analysis, nine sub-themes were identified. Referring to users' utilisation of platform-specific functionality and the themes and sub-themes identified, the creation of space and place relating to Orkney in the online environment is discussed, specifically considering the role that branding, media, and people play in the creation of place. The research considers the role of folklore in creating an online Orkney place (or a virtual Orkney), focussing on the importance of both the physical environment and the human environment. Finally, the features of this virtual Orkney are discussed, concluding with a proposal for how to approach the study of similar virtually filtered places. The research offers potential ways in which to investigate emerging and developing virtual places, and what folklore as a discipline can contribute to such studies in the context of place and the fluctuating digital environments in which these places are created.

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Raffield, Ben. "Landscapes of conflict and control : creating an archaeological atlas of Scandinavian occupied England, AD 878-954." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=202947.

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This study re-analyses and re-interprets the Scandinavian occupation of England during the period AD 878-954, which has hitherto been dominated by traditional interpretations based on partial and at times unreliable historical sources. Interpretations of the area commonly referred to as the ‘Danelaw' largely focus on the role of the City of York and the ‘Five Boroughs' of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford. The reliance on inevitably sparse Anglo-Saxon texts, whilst providing a chronological framework within which to work, has “streamlined” history, producing only a partial picture of the period. Many aspects of this traditional history have been challenged in recent years. Indeed, even terminology traditionally used, such as the word ‘Danelaw', has been subject to investigation and revision. Our archaeological knowledge, however, has not always been applied to these advances and a number of long-established interpretational models and frameworks remain unmodified or unchallenged. This project addresses the Scandinavian occupation through the study of conflict, warfare and power in Viking Age England. A wide range of data was studied, with the integration of this into GIS allowing evidence to not only be analysed within individual topographic contexts, but also on a landscape-wide scale. The study not only provides a re-analysis of the Viking Age English landscape, but highlights new and exciting bodies of evidence from which future research may derive. The data revealed that whilst some aspects of conflict, such as battle, are thus far not represented archaeologically, territorial consolidation, socio-political and religious changes within a context of endemic warfare can be identified. The study suggests a number of potential avenues of research through which our knowledge of the Viking Age might be augmented.

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MacQuarrie, Aisling. "Running the rivers : the North West Company and the creation of a global enterprise, 1778-1821." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=210105.

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The North West Company, a Montreal based fur trading corporation, dominated by Scots, developed a commercial operation that between 1779 and 1821 extended to the Atlantic and Pacific axes of the British Empire. The enterprise emerged at a critical juncture in the development of Empire. It was a period of colossal growth and partial dismemberment as well as one of redefinition. Adapting Atlantic and trans-oceanic perspectives this dissertation examines the socio-entrepreneurial networks forged by the North West Company as it sought to expand its commercial reach to encompass Montreal, Quebec, London, New York, Calcutta, Bombay and Canton in a hitherto unexplored form of global economy. To date Imperial and fur trade studies have viewed the fur trade within the confines of a British North Atlantic triangle. This historiographical tendency towards a geographically limited concept of the trade has been exacerbated by the perceived political and economic dislocations brought about by the loss of the American colonies in 1783. The dissertation revises historical orthodoxies to reveal the scale and scope of the fur trade as a pan-imperial activity. Exploring the Company's multi-layered networks highlights not only how the merchants integrated their operation into the Anglo-American Atlantic and beyond but also demonstrates how the Empire actually operated, bringing together its maritime and continental spheres. Identifying the origin, character and evolution of their business practices and linkages modifies conceptions of an increasingly centralised imperial economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Merchants negotiated between competing and at times overlapping tensions on a local, provincial, imperial and global level as they traversed a plurality of political, cultural and legal frameworks. The manner in which the fur traders co-ordinated and structured their organisation in response to these tensions further challenges the idea of an uncomplicated metropolitan control to reveal the existence of a negotiated imperialism. Placing the North West Company in a broad context allows for a critical and meaningful revision of key geographic, economic, political and chronological disjunctures within the historiography of this crucial phase of Britain's Empire.

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Chin, Mark Henry. "Creating atlases of gene expression using voxelation." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1566568391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Owens, Mark D. ""Behold, I make all things new" an intertextual analysis of new creation in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186637.

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This thesis investigates the relationship between the portraits of new creation in the Hauptbriefe (specifically, in 2 Corinthians and Galatians) and Ephesians. The thesis partly responds to those scholars who argue for a limited understanding (whether cosmological, anthropological, or ecclesiological) of the phrase kainh; ktivsiV in 2 Cor 5.17 and Gal 6.15. This thesis also partly responds to the lack of attention devoted to the new creation theme in Ephesians by investigating the depiction of new creation in Eph 1–2. Chapters two and three of this thesis investigate the background of new creation in the Pauline tradition through an analysis of various texts in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 1 Enoch, and Jubilees. These chapters demonstrate that new creation and restoration were frequently associated with anthropological and cosmological renewal, the salvation of the Gentiles, and an Urzeit-Endzeit typology. The strong correlation between Isaiah’s new exodus and ANE temple-building traditions is a particularly significant contribution of the inquiry of Isaiah. Chapters four and five of this thesis primarily analyze the depictions of new creation in Gal 6.11–16; 2 Cor 5.11–21; and Eph 1–2. A salient point of this analysis is the suggestion that Eph 1.20–2.22 may be understood as an extended discussion of new creation modeled after Isaiah’s portrait of the new exodus as an act of temple-building. This examination demonstrates that the descriptions of new creation in all three of these texts are strongly linked with anthropological, eschatological, and ecclesiological notions, as well as an Urzeit-Endzeit typology. This thesis also points to a number of other correspondences between the portraits of new creation in the Hauptbriefe and that of Ephesians.

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Michael, Graham J. L. "The end of creation : an exegetical and theological reflection on the concept of rest in Genesis 1-11." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=237813.

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While studies have explored and analyzed the concept of rest in a variety of literary works in the Hebrew Bible (HB) and the Ancient Near East (ANE), attention given to its theological significance and rhetorical function in the literary context of Genesis 1–11 has been wanting. This thesis thus examines how the concept contributes to the thematic development and rhetorical design of Genesis 1–11. It is an exegetical and theological reflection that approaches Genesis 1–11 as a unified textual unit with a coherent literary message. In this light, the primary method to explicate the significance of rest from this literary context is by means of exegesis or a “close reading” of the text. The concept of rest in the ANE signifies not mere inactivity, but rather, the ideal conditions in which another activity or state of being is engaged or experienced. Rest thus includes both elements: cessation from one activity or state of being (rest from) and the engagement of another activity or state of being (rest for). The concept of rest (expressed in a wide variety of lexical terms and associated ideas) within the HB can be broadly described as the ideal conditions (characterized by stability, security, and order) intended for blessing, holiness, and justice within the covenantal relationship with YHWH, that in turn results in the worship of YHWH and the flourishing of his created order. In this light, the provision of rest functions as a powerful soteriological symbol, in which the act of providing rest is regularly expressed as movement (or transition) from particular circumstances or situations (i.e. rest from) to an ideal state for an intended purpose (i.e. rest for). This conceptual pattern can be portrayed as: rest from (particular conditions) → rest to (ideal state) → rest for (purpose). At the same time, a state of unrest indicates the result of God's judgment for rebellion and the fracturing of his relationship with his people, which also has adverse effects on the created order. The concept of rest can be expressed with a broad semantic field of lexical terms, but is most prominently expressed with the terms, שׁבת and נוח . Although scholars have tended to isolate these terms into separate “traditions,” they share a close semantic, conceptual, and theological relationship that is expressed in several passages throughout the HB, which demonstrates the ability to utilize these terms as a coherent literary motif. This understanding is crucial to appreciate the utilization of the rest motif in Genesis 1–11, for the goal of creation is initially expressed with שׁבת but is thematically developed with נוח (along with associated terms and ideas). The rhetorical function of the concept of rest as a literary motif is understood in the light of the overarching theme of Genesis 1–11, which may be expressed as Rest–Unrest– vi Comfort. This theme effectively articulates the development of Genesis 1–11, in which the essential goodness and the intended purposes of God's created order (Rest) are affected by human rebellion that results in the destructive flood (Unrest) but leads to a new reality that humanity must face the enduring consequences of sin with the enduring hope of God's grace (Comfort). Thus, along the contours of this thematic development, the rest motif is traced: the goal of creation is expressed as the rest of God on the seventh day, in which humanity is intended to participate and to provide to the created order. The undoing of creation is expressed with concepts of unrest such as humanity's exile, wandering, wearisome toil, and oppression that culminates with the destructive flood. Finally, the renewal of creation— characterized as a mixture of rest and unrest, blessing and curse—is aptly portrayed as mere comfort (Genesis 5:29) forcing humanity to long for (and even anticipate) the fulfillment of God's intended purposes for his created order. In this light, the concept of rest not only informs the thematic development of Genesis 1–11, but also provides further clarity and greater complexity to its overall rhetorical design and theological message.

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Smith, Aimee J. "An exploration of the creation and maintenance of Catholic identity in young people in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225960.

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This research explores the creation and maintenance of young Catholic identity in Northern Ireland. It examines the influence of segregation and deprivation on identity, seeks evidence of change and continuity and the capacity for young people to contribute to peacebuilding and social change. Taking into account that identity is not created within fixed spaces, but is subject to change in location and over time, a multi-sited ethnographic research design was employed across locations in Belfast and Derry. These included Catholic majority/minority and mixed spaces. We find that segregation has an impact on identity content; in single-identity areas we find exclusive identities based on opposition. In shared spaces we find that identities can be inclusive. In addition, we find that performance of identity ranges from strong to low, given quality of intergroup contact. Deprivation had an impact on the strengths of these performances rather than the content (exclusive/inclusive) of identity. In conclusion identity in young people can operate along a continuum, with differing levels of content and performance where identity is subject to change within spaces and movement between locations. Therefore divisive identities are not inevitable; given the right circumstances and support, social cohesion can flourish in a divided society.

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Malin, Steven K. "Short-term creatine supplementation does not enhance work capacity in multiple sclerosis individuals." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 79 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203575661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Midgette, Ekaterina. "The effects of comprehensive text structure strategy instruction on students' ability to revise persuasive essays." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 279 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397899531&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Knöll, Stefanie A. "Creating academic communities : funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tübingen 1580 - 1700 /." [Oss] : Equilibris Publ, 2003. http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1739760&custom_att_2=simple_viewer.

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Roach, Joy Leia. "Factors affecting written business communication creation and productivity perceptions /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1147196271&sid=24&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gazan, Rich. "Creating hybrid knowledge a role for the professional integrationist /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=765350831&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Schroeder, Filip W. "Using The GPU To Speedup The Creation Of Dotplots." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1866278181&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Švejda, Milan. "Podpůrný systém pro řízení projektů v malé softwarové firmě." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-81993.

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The subject of the work was to create a project support software application designed for work in smaller companies. The opening parts of the thesis concern on market research and are followed by chapters concerning on request specifications and possible usage possibilities of the application. In following parts is covered the analysis of possible means to create the application. Closing chapters of the thesis cover detailed user and administrator instructions. The application itself is attached to the thesis.

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Lukose, Susan. "Ontology learning for online course creation using nlp techniques and graph theory /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1798967591&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1258130866&clientId=22256.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2008.
Typescript. Vita. "December 2008." Major professor: Pamela Lawhead. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90). Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users.

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Brown, Kyndall Allen. "Culture, identity, and mathematics creating learning spaces for Africa-American males /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1866445251&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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