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Jackson, Linda Anne. "A study of part time undergraduate students in two Greater Manchester universities." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274242.
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This study examines part-time undergraduate students in the areas of health and business, at the University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan University. The literature review examines the history of part-time education, the factors that influence the decision to study in higher education, the issues affecting widening participation and an analysis of the infonnation available to prospective students. The literature review gave rise to a number of issues that were examined in the survey. The research methodology employed: A survey Interviews The sample selected was surveyed using a questionnaire. These were conducted with senior members of staff at the two universities involved to detennine why they had adopted their chosen approach to part-time study and to validate the sample analysis. The study concludes that: The sample reflected the national picture in that the areas of study were vocationally based, respondents were employed in non-manual occupations and had a wide range of entry qualifications. The sample differs from the national picture in the level of study, the preponderance of females in both subject areas and the fact that ethnic minority groups were not represented in significant numbers. There was evidence to show that respondents had undertaken part-time study previously although the vast majority were first generation higher education students. Overall students agreed that the most important reason for selecting their course was its practical relevance followed by the actual course content. Broadening of their experience by study was considered a positive aspect. Both employers and work colleagues were influential when selecting a course and health students were particularly directed by their employers. The price of the course was the least important factor when making a selection. The main reason for studying was to assist students with their present job although there was evidence that business students were more likely to be looking at career advancement rather than retaining their current positions. Health students are more likely to remain with the sam~ employers for longer. Both subject areas agreed that the most important factors related to course provision was contact with other students and face to face contact with tutors. Respondents were of the view that they had been influenced by their school as to whether or not to progress into FEIHE and a significant proportion felt that they had not been encouraged to do so. Analysis of part-time and fuII-time applications in the area surrounding the two universities showed that the full-time "cold spots" are generaIIy reflected by part-time study. The geodemographic data for the universities indicated that greater. proportions of group 3 and 4 students (lower income groups) are mature or part-time. . Neither university had a part-time strategy although there is some evidence that both are reacting to demands from students and employers but the part-time provision is not weII co-ordinated at a central level. The study resulted in a number of recommendations to the institutions involved to help improve their provision of part-time higher education.
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Martinoty, Laurine. "Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Consumption during Hard Times." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSL1021/document.
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Les conséquences des chocs économiques négatifs sur les ménages ont été documentés extensivement, mais on en sait beaucoup moins sur la manière dont ces chocs sont transmis aux individus à travers la médiation du ménage. Le ménage contribue-il à modérer l'effet des chocs négatifs ? Dans quelle mesure le choc économique pèse-t-il dans la négociation familiale ? À partir de données sur la crise économique argentine de 2001, je montre d'abord que les femmes en couple ont une plus grande probabilité de devenir actives si leur mari a fait l'expérience d'un choc de revenu. Ensuite, je montre que le cycle économique importe dans les décisions d'investissement en capital humain. Sur le long terme, les profils de salaire et d'employabilité des hommes argentins sont affectés de manière persistante par les conditions économiques initiales au moment de l'obtention du diplôme. Enfin, je considère la dimension “man-cession” de la crise économique de 2009 en Espagne et montre que la part des ressources du ménage reçues par les femmes pour leur consommation privée augmente avec la diminution de l'écart des taux de chômage hommes-femmes, confortant l'hypothèse que les chocs négatifs modifient le pouvoir de négociation des individus au sein du ménageThe consequences of adverse aggregate shocks on households have been repeatedly documented, but far less has been said on the way they are passed over to individuals through the mediation of the household. Does the household contribute in mitigating the effects? Or does the economic shock rather invite itself at the family negociating table? Using the Argentine 2001 economic crisis as a natural experiment, I first show that married women are more likely to enter the labor market if their husband experienced a loss in income, giving credit to the insurance mechanism. Then, I show that the business cycle matters for investments in education, and that long run labor outcomes of Argentine men are persistently affected by the initial conditions upon graduation. Finally, I consider the “Mancession” dimension of the Great Recession in Spain and demonstrate that the resource share accruing to wives for own consumption increases together with the decreasing unemployment gap, which comes in support to the bargaining hypothesis
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Laidlaw, Kaitlin Elizabeth Wiggins. "Greater distractor interference during vertical saccades : the time course of horizontal, vertical, and oblique saccadic curvature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27270.
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In three studies, we characterize the effect of a nearby distractor on vertical, horizontal and oblique saccadic curvature under normal saccade preparation times. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants made saccades to targets in the presence or absence of a nearby distractor. Consistent with previous findings, longer-latency vertical saccades showed greater curvature away from a distractor than did oblique or horizontal saccades. At short latencies, vertical saccades showed greater curvature towards the distractor. We propose that vertical saccades may be prone to greater distractor interference due to the superior colliculus, a midbrain region implicated in attentional and saccadic shifts, under-representing vertical target objects, which results in a relative over-representation of non-vertical distractor objects. In Experiment 3, we tested this hypothesis by having participants make saccades to vertical or horizontal targets in the presence or absence of bright or dim distractors. We reasoned that weaker representations for vertical targets would allow for greater interference from nearby distractors, which would be especially pronounced when distractors are highly salient. Consistent with this prediction, we found that only the trajectory of vertical saccades was modulated by distractor luminance.
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Bye, Cristine Georgina. "Times are hard, a Saskatchewan farm woman's experience of the Great Depression." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65027.pdf.
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Bremner, Barbara. "The Life, times and correspondence of Maria Josepha Holroyd (later Lady stanley of Alderley) /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17772.pdf.
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Dawkins, Peter J. "Working time in Great Britain and Australia : an economic analysis." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1986. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32402.
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The subject of this thesis is the economics of working time in Great Britain and Australia, with special reference to the length and timing of working hours. First, the incidence of and trends in work patterns, in Great Britain and Australia, are examined. The incidence of and trends in, normal hours, actual hours, overtime and part-time work in Britain and Australia, show a great deal of similarity. It is more difficult to compare "non-standard working hours" (hours outside of the normal spread of hours, e.g. shift work) because of problems with the data. It is clear, however, that non-standard hours of work are important in both countries.
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Jones, Amanda Claire. "'Commotion time' : the English risings of 1549." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1246/.
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This thesis is focused on the smaller, lesser-known risings throughout southern, eastern and midland England, investigating the nature, scale and experience of rebellion in the years 1548-49. More specifically, it aims to demonstrate the significance of the risings outside Norfolk, Suffolk and the West and, in giving these so-called 'lesser stirs' the more systematic analysis they deserve, to build up a more complete picture of the mid- Tudor 'crisis' of 1549. It is argued that this wider geographical focus is the key to understanding the 'commotion time'. The analysis is organised according to broad geographical clusters of risings. Beginning with a detailed case study of the insurrection at Northaw, Hertfordshire in 1548, the thesis sweeps across the 1549 disorders in southern England; the eastern counties; the Thames Valley; Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London; and the Midlands and the North. Microhistories of local disorder are linked to the general picture to convey the movement's significance. This 'episodic' approach results largely from the extraordinarily fragmented evidence relating to the risings. The rich body of evidence in the records of the prerogative courts has been supplemented by State Paper material, elite correspondence, chamberlains' accounts, consistory court depositions, books of remembrance, proceedings of courts of Burghmote, aldermen and common council, and chronicle accounts, among other sources. An alternative typology of protest is offered, which takes seriously the sheer scale of disorder, elaborates the response of the authorities, and recognises important generic similarities in the rebels' organisation, action and mentalities. The thesis concludes that the commotion time's significance lies not only in its sheer scale but also in its 'halflife'. Even after the movement had been quelled, its spirit lived on in popular and official memory, allowing a number of after-shocks to trouble the realm between 1550 and 1596 and leaving a permanent mark on the authorities' response to disorder.
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Hodler, Matthew Ross. "The greatest Olympian of all-time? The ideological implications of celebrating Michael Phelps." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5501.
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On August 4, 2012, white American swimmer Michael Phelps was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the international swimming federation in recognition of his Olympic achievements. The unprecedented award – a specially commissioned sculpture – proclaimed Phelps as “the greatest Olympian of All Time.” This title may, at one level, be perceived as a benign honorific bestowed upon an extra-ordinary athlete. On another level, the title should be viewed as a result of the hidden ideological work done by and through discourses of swimming in America, discourses that are always racialized, classed, nationalized, and gendered.
Michael Phelps is the point of entry to unpack how modern sport and the Olympics reproduce these dominant views and processes that lead to contemporary social inequalities. My focus is an examination of the power relations that enabled and produced him as the Greatest Olympian of All-Time. Phelps’s phenomenal performance in the pool is undeniable, but I argue that the ensuing adulation and recognition results as much from his privileged position as a white American man as from his hard work, skill, and determination. This dissertation unpacks and explains how these processes work in the contemporary sporting world.
Scholars have long argued that sport is a site for understanding how race, class, gender, and nationalisms are performed and/or constructed. In this dissertation, I take a critical cultural studies approach to demonstrate that, from an ideological and cultural point of view, Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time because he is the physical and symbolic embodiment of the modern Olympic movement, a movement founded upon 19th century ideals of humanism, liberalism, and modernity that continues to stabilize and reinforce dominant views of race, gender, class, nationalism and sexuality.
To make this argument, I first historicize the sport of swimming itself. As one of the sports at the first Modern Olympics in 1896, swimming is an ideal site for understanding the modernization process through sport. Swimming has long been dominated by white athletes, and I deploy the recent concept of the sporting racial project to grasp how modernization is a racialized project fundamental to constructions of institutional racism. Next, I examine media representations of Michael Phelps in the early 21st century. These representations reveal the role of sport in popular imaginations of the nation and, specifically, the importance of the white male sporting hero in constructions of America in the post-9/11 world. Then, I explore and contextualize notions and meanings of “amateur” and “eligibility” within late 20th and early 21st century structures of Olympic swimming, including the complex and contradictory relationships between inter/national governing bodies. Finally, I show how these three seemingly independent processes involving race, class, gender, and nation are interdependent and fundamental to modern sport and the Olympics.
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Bosque, Edward F. "Time series analysis of RTC Great Lakes recruit graduate data." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA359541.
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Brown, Joseph Andrew. "The sociology of first-time voting in Great Britain, (1964-1987)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316954.
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Butler, Robert William. "Habitat selection and time of breeding in the Great Blue Heron, (Ardea herodias)." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30965.
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This thesis examines the causes and consequences of habitat selection and timing of breeding of the Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). My general hypothesis was that the duration of low tides and seasonal abundance of prey strongly influenced the location of colony-sites; timing of the breeding season; habitat shifts; and the use of space by foraging herons of different age- and sex-classes.
I studied Great Blue Herons along the Pacific coast of Canada for five breeding seasons and four winters. Breeding herons were studied at a colony of 85 to 100 pairs on Sidney Island near the town of Sidney, and periodic visits were made to about 40 other colonies around the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. At Sidney, I studied the foraging behaviour, food availability, habitat use and reproductive success in detail. At other colonies, I recorded the reproductive success of herons, located their main feeding areas and searched for nests of a predator, the Bald Eagle. In the non-breeding season, I investigated the foraging behaviour, dispersion pattern and habitat shifts of juvenile and post-breeding adult herons in the Fraser River delta.
I hypothesized that heron colony-sites were located near food supplies or away from predators. Twenty-nine of 33 colony-sites were located within 6 km of their main feeding site. The number of heron pairs was slightly greater where eagles nested in high abundance than where eagle abundance was low, contrary to the hypothesis that breeding herons avoid areas with active eagle nests.
I hypothesized that herons began breeding in spring shortly after females acquired enough food energy to make eggs, or so chicks were in nests when food was most plentiful to their parents. Egg-laying began about 9 days after a
female's daily food intake crossed an energy threshold of 1715 kJ/day, whereas the peak availability of food energy to adults occurred about 35 days before the peak food demands of their chicks. Food intake rates by adults increased gradually in March and April with the increasing duration of low tides and the inshore movement of fishes. Adult food intake rates reached a peak in May when sea perch were most abundant, and diminished through June and July.
Most juvenile and adult female herons foraged on beaches from February to October and in marshlands and grasslands from November to January. Some males returned to territories along riverbanks in August and remained there until the start of the next breeding season in March.
I tested the hypothesis that herons leave foraging habitats in autumn when they can no longer catch enough food or when interference from conspecifics reduced foraging intake rates below a threshold required to maintain their energy balance. In October and November adults moved to marshlands and juveniles moved to grasslands when they could no longer maintain daily energy balance on beaches as a result of declining duration of low tides and food intake rates. Interference competition was too infrequent to explain habitat shifts by adult or juvenile herons in autumn.Science, Faculty of
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Hill, Scott L. "Serum and plasma metabolites and insemination timing associated with greater pregnancy risk in suckled beef cows subjected to artificial insemination programs." Diss., Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34458.
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Four experiments were conducted in beef cows to determine factors that increased the probability of pregnancy per AI when cows are inseminated by appointment. Cows in all experiments were inseminated after a 7-d CO-Synch + CIDR program (100 μg GnRH [2 mL Factrel, Pfizer Animal Health, Whitehouse Station, NJ] 7 d before 25 mg PGF₂[subscript]α [d 0; 5 mL Lutalyse; Pfizer Animal Health]). Experiment 1 compared 1 vs. 2 inseminations and GnRH injection times at 60 and 75 h after the CO-Synch + CIDR program. Delaying AI until 75 h, according to interpretation of estrus-detection patches, for cows not in estrus by 60 h after CIDR insert removal increased (P < 0.05) pregnancy risk (PR) compared with cows not in estrus and inseminated at 60 h (51.4 vs. 41.7%), respectively. The necessity of GnRH injection concurrent with AI was tested in experiment 2. Cows displaying estrus by 65 h that were injected with GnRH had similar PR to cows in estrus and not treated with GnRH (61.9 vs. 60.4%), respectively. Cows in experiment 2 that did not display estrus, but were treated with a GnRH injection at 65 h and then inseminated at 84 h after CIDR insert removal had increased PR compared with similar cows not treated with GnRH (33.4 vs. 15.0%; P < 0.01), respectively. Experiments 3 and 4 were observational studies conducted to determine if blood metabolites glucose and beta-hydroxy butyrate (BHB experiment 3), or physical body and blood metabolites, (glucose, BHB, non-esterified fatty acids [NEFA], blood urea nitrogen [BUN], body weight, rump fat [RF], or BCS; experiment 4) were indicative of future reproductive success in suckled beef cows enrolled in a timed AI program. In experiment 3, plasma glucose concentration 10 d before AI was lesser (P = 0.01; 52.2 vs. 56.9 mg/dL) and serum BHB concentration was lesser (P < 0.01) in cows that became pregnant 35 d after timed AI than for cows that did not become pregnant (600 vs. 690 μM), respectively. Experiment 4 identified relationships between indicators and reproductive success including the finding that serum NEFA concentration 2 to 4 wk before AI is negatively correlated (P < 0.05) with PR to AI.
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Foxton, David Andrew. "Property, liberty and obligation : the judicial role in the Great War." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367528.
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Ashfold, Thomas Edward. "Work, time and rhythm : investigating contemporary 'time squeeze'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5fc9e00-fc82-4574-9099-3eb9d4e56bdb.
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In contemporary capitalist economies such as the UK, it is commonly held that an increasing number of people and households experience anxiety over time and symptoms of 'time squeeze'. Existing accounts of the character and causes of this phenomenon are rather one-dimensional and lacking in nuance, however. In part, this is because they typically lack any substantial theoretical engagement with the concept of time itself. Accordingly, this research aims to provide a more complex and contextual account of experiences of working time (both paid and unpaid), and to investigate how and why experiences of time squeeze vary between individuals and social groups. This is achieved by calling upon an enriched understanding of time, and employing an instrumental case study built around a set of 50 semi-structured interviews with employees working in Oxford University's central IT department and four of its constituent colleges. The empirical findings reveal that the (quantitative) extent and (qualitative) nature of participants' temporal anxieties vary with occupation, social class, gender, age and family status, as well as the importance of institutional and local context. Furthermore, they demonstrate that contemporary time squeeze is generated by a variety of causal mechanisms relating to the duration, tempo and timing of both paid employment and unpaid reproductive work, and their intersections with the personal, natural, social, institutional and technological rhythms that variously constitute everyday life.
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Adjei-Darko, Priscilla. "Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Flood Risk Mapping and Near Real-time Flooding Extent Assessment in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area." Thesis, KTH, Geoinformatik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-205191.
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Disasters, whether natural or man-made have become an issue of mounting concern all over the world. Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, cyclones, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are yearly phenomena that have devastating effect on infrastructure and property and in most cases, results in the loss of human life. Floods are amongst the most prevalent natural disasters. The frequency with which floods occur, their magnitude, extent and the cost of damage are escalating all around the globe. Accra, the capital city of Ghana experiences the occurrence of flooding events annually with dire consequences. Past studies demonstrated that remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) are very useful and effective tools in flood risk assessment and management. This thesis research seeks to demarcate flood risk areas and create a flood risk map for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area using remote sensing and Geographic information system. Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) is used to carry out the flood risk assessment and Sentinel-1A SAR images are used to map flood extend and to ascertain whether the resulting map from the MCA process is a close representation of the flood prone areas in the study area. The results show that the multi-criteria analysis approach could effectively combine several criteria including elevation, slope, rainfall, drainage, land cover and soil geology to produce a flood risk map. The resulting map indicates that over 50 percent of the study area is likely to experience a high level of flood. For SAR-based flood extent mapping, the results show that SAR data acquired immediately after the flooding event could better map flooding extent than the SAR data acquired 9 days after. This highlights the importance of near real-time acquisition of SAR data for mapping flooding extent and damages. All parts under the study area experience some level of flooding. The urban land cover experiences very high, and high levels of flooding and the MCA process produces a risk map that is a close depiction of flooding in the study area. Real time flood disaster monitoring, early warning and rapid damage appraisal have greatly improved due to ameliorations in the remote sensing technology and the Geographic Information Systems.
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Olson, Ted. "Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' from the Great Smoky Mountains." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1217.
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Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”
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Seman, Taylor J. "Dickens against the Grain: Gendered Spheres and Their Transgressors in Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1307384151.
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Riggs, Bruce T. (Bruce Timothy). "Geoffrey Dawson, Editor of The Times (London), and His Contribution to the Appeasement Movement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278388/.
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The appeasement movement in England sought to remove the reasons for Adolph Hitler's hostility. It did so by advocating a return to Germany of land and colonial holdings, and a removal of the penalties inflicted upon Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. While the movement itself is well documented, the contribution of The Times under the leadership of Geoffrey Dawson is not. This work deals with his direct involvement with appeasement, the British leaders and citizens involved in the movement, and the use of The Times to reinforce their program.
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Edwards, Gruffudd. "Time series methods for the simulation of wind speed fields across Great Britain." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642026.
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This thesis presents the development of a time series model and associated algorithms capable of generating synthetic time-series datasets representing the hourly-averaged wind-speed field across the Country – as represented by a set of 20 points. This field is of interest as the energy resource available to wind generators connected to the Great Britain (GB) electricity networks. A wind power output dataset was also generated for an example distribution of wind generation capacities. The datasets generated are suitable for use in sequential Monte Carlo simulations of the GB electricity system – either the present system or future scenarios, potentially with full consideration of network constraints. Accurate representation of the spatio-temporal behaviours of renewable resources are an essential aspect of such simulations, along with their relationship to demand, with rarely occurring extreme events of particular interest. Therefore, variability in the resource occurring on all timescales – from turbulence to climatic shifts between decades must be represented. The synthetic data are time-stamped with time of the day and day of the year, so care was taken to ensure that all relevant deterministic and stochastic patterns are accurately reproduced. A major component of the research project was identification of the optimum level of complexity for various aspects of the model structure, and the associated computational expense of generating the series, particularly given the high dimensionality of the problem. The final choice of wind speed model was 2-factor-VGARMA-APARCH, along with several deterministic transformations.
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LeBeau, Raymond Paul. "Simulations of time-dependentthree-dimensional vortices with application to Neptune's Great Dark Spot." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17433.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204).
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Magnusson, Tylan Wayne. "High Salinity Stabilizes Bacterial Community Composition and Activity Through Time." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5535.
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Dormancy is a plausible strategy for bacteria to overcome the effects of temporal fluctuations in resources or stresses and await more “optimal” conditions to resume metabolic activity and growth. Seasonal changes in environmental conditions force microbes to adjust their metabolic activity accordingly, and community composition drastically shifts. In extreme environments, however, the overriding effects of a constant stress may constrain the need or benefit of bacteria entering dormancy. In hypersaline lakes, high metabolic activity is required to maintain adaptations that permit survival. Sampling from six lakes on a salinity gradient (0.05% – 30.3%), we measured seasonal fluctuations in bacterial dormancy patterns in summer, fall, winter, and spring of 2013-14. Dormancy was calculated based on ratios of OTU recovery between 16S rRNA-based communities (only the active bacteria) and 16S rRNA gene-based communities (all bacteria present in the community) from lake water. Dormancy was linked to lake chemistry shifts through time. We found that salinity was strongly related to relative bacterial dormancy. There was a negative linear relationship (R2 = .89 P <0.01) between total dormancy and salinity. Total phosphorus (R2 = .63, P < .001) and relative community contribution by rare taxa (R2 = .89, P < .001) were also important in structuring dormancy. Our findings suggest that temporal nutrient flux is highly influential on bacterial community composition and activity, but that the presence of an extreme variable decreases change in both through time.
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Matthews, Karyn. "A spherical coordinate tidal model of the Great Australian Bight using a new coastal boundary representation /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm4391.pdf.
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Rye, Ståle Angen. "Conditions of connectivity : the Internet and the time-space of distance education in Indonesia /." Trondheim : Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Department of Geography, 2008. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:174183/FULLTEXT02.
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Wang, Lei. "Coseismic Deformation Detection and Quantification for Great Earthquakes Using Spaceborne Gravimetry." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1331098701.
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Doleac, Miles. "Triclinium pauperum| Poverty, charity and the papacy in the time of Gregory the Great." Thesis, Tulane University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3569007.
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This dissertation examines the role of Gregory I (r. 590-604 CE) in developing permanent ecclesiastical institutions under the authority of the Bishop of Rome to feed and serve the poor and the socio-political world in which he did so. Gregory's work was part culmination of pre-existing practice, part innovation. I contend that Gregory transformed fading, ancient institutions and ideas—the Imperial annona, the monastic soup kitchen-hospice or xenodochium, Christianity's "collection for the saints," Christian caritas more generally and Greco-Roman euergetism—into something distinctly ecclesiastical, indeed "papal." Although Gregory has long been closely associated with charity, few have attempted to unpack in any systematic way what Gregorian charity might have looked like in practical application and what impact it had on the Roman Church and the Roman people. I believe that we can see the contours of Gregory's initiatives at work and, at least, the faint framework of an organized system of ecclesiastical charity that would emerge in clearer relief in the eighth and ninth centuries under Hadrian I (r. 772-795) and Leo III (r. 795-816). Gregory's efforts at caritative organization had significant implications. This dissertation argues that Gregory's response to poverty and want in Rome from 590 to 604 CE permanently altered the trajectories of both ecclesiastical charity and the office that came to oversee its administration.
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Stone, Charles Russell. "A dubious hero for the time Roman histories of Alexander the Great in Plantagenet England /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872217431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sudomir, Judith C. "Effects of multiple time scale water level fluctuations on a Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Community." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1271704850.
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Ponder, Caroline Sage. "The life and debt of great American cities : urban reproduction in the time of financialization." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63172.
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The Life and Debt of Great American Cities: Urban Reproduction in the Time of Financialization, investigates the relationship between finance and the intensification of racialized patterns of urban development in the US since the turn of the 21st century. I employ mixed methods to explore the spatiality of the municipal bond market, especially regarding its role in the uneven redevelopment of the nation’s aging urban water systems. Moving qualitatively and quantitatively between one site in particular - Jackson, Mississippi - to the political-economies of the 21 largest Black-majority cities in the US, and to the entire country more broadly, I find that redeveloping urban water infrastructures by way of the private municipal bond market collapses new spaces of accumulation into the reproduction of racialized geographies of exclusion. Field research utilizing participant observation and semi-structured expert interviews in Jackson revealed that cities under austerity governance encounter complex financial arrangements in their search for infrastructural funding that they do not retain the capacity to accurately assess or manage, while the analysis of more than 5.3 million municipal bonds over the 44 year period 1970-2014 shows that the largest Black-majority cities have consistently received higher interest rates in the bond market than other cities since the deregulation of the financial industry under the Financial Services Modernization Act of 2000. One of the consequences of the racialization of municipal finance is that the impoverished Black-majority city of Jackson pays more for federally mandated infrastructure upgrades than other cities. The socio-spatial marginalization thus produced creates sites of intense urban vulnerabilities, places lacking both economic and ecological “resilience” in the face of crisis. Austerity, as a method of urban governance and economic recovery, is, I conclude, motivated by the logics of financialization – which is both a mode of accumulation, and significantly, a geography of racialized social reproduction.Arts, Faculty of
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Tucker, Derek B. "Molecular Studies of South American Teiid Lizards (Teiidae: Squamata) from Deep Time to Shallow Divergences." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6419.
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I focus on phylogenetic relationships of teiid lizards beginning with generic and species relationship within the family, followed by a detailed biogeographical examination of the Caribbean genus Pholidoscelis, and end by studying species boundaries and phylogeographic patterns of the widespread Giant Ameiva Ameiva ameiva. Genomic data (488,656 bp of aligned nuclear DNA) recovered a well-supported phylogeny for Teiidae, showing monophyly for 18 genera including those recently described using morphology and smaller molecular datasets. All three methods of phylogenetic estimation (two species tree, one concatenation) recovered identical topologies except for some relationships within the subfamily Tupinambinae (i.e. position of Salvator and Dracaena) and species relationships within Pholidoscelis, but these were unsupported in all analyses. Phylogenetic reconstruction focused on Caribbean Pholidoscelis recovered novel relationships not reported in previous studies that were based on significantly smaller datasets. Using fossil data, I improve upon divergence time estimates and hypotheses for the biogeographic history of the genus. It is proposed that Pholidoscelis colonized the Caribbean islands through the Lesser Antilles based on biogeographic analysis, the directionality of ocean currents, and evidence that most Caribbean taxa originally colonized from South America. Genetic relationships among populations within the Ameiva ameiva species complex have been poorly understood as a result of its continental-scale distribution and an absence of molecular data for the group. Mitochondrial ND2 data for 357 samples from 233 localities show that A. ameiva may consist of up to six species, with pairwise genetic distances among these six groups ranging from 4.7–12.8%. An examination of morphological characters supports the molecular findings with prediction accuracy of the six clades reaching 72.5% using the seven most diagnostic predictors.
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Rincon, Guillermo. "Kinetics of the electrocoagulation of oil and grease." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/131.
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Research on the electrocoagulation (EC) of hexane extractable materials (HEM) has been conducted at the University of New Orleans using a proprietary bench-scale EC reactor. The original reactor configuration forced the fluid to follow a vertical upward-downward path. An alternate electrode arrangement was introduced so that the path of flow became horizontal. Both configurations were evaluated by comparing the residence time distribution (RTD) data generated in each case. These data produced indication of internal recirculation and stagnant water when the fluid followed a vertical path. These anomalies were attenuated when the fluid flowed horizontally and at a velocity higher than 0.032 m s-1 . A series of EC experiments were performed using a synthetic emulsion with a HEM concentration of approximately 700 mg l-1. It was confirmed that EC of HEM follows first-order kinetics, and kinetic constants of 0.0441 s-1 and 0.0443 s-1 were obtained from applying both the dispersion and tanks-in-series (TIS) models, respectively. In both cases R2 was 0.97. Also, the TIS model indicated that each cell of the EC behaves as an independent continuous-stirred-tank reactor.
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Olson, Ted. "Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band: Old-Time Bluegrass From The Great Smoky Mountains." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://www.amzn.com/B00OAVOIEO.
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[Compilation CD featuring 1950s-era field recordings]
Recently recovered recordings of Haywood County, N.C., musicians made nearly 60 years ago – which an Appalachian music expert describes as “the missing link between old-time string music and bluegrass” – are once again seeing the light of day and finding a new audience thanks to Great Smoky Mountains Association.
Four years after the release of their Grammy-nominated “Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music,” GSMA producers follow up now with “Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band: Old-time Bluegrass from the Great Smoky Mountains, 1956 and 1959.” The new collection features more than 30 tracks, including such old-time favorites as “Tennessee Wagoner,” “Arkansas Traveler,” “Old Joe Clark,” “Soldier’s Joy,” as well as such modern tunes as “Banjo Boogie” and “Smoky Mountain Melody.”https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1169/thumbnail.jpg
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Comrie, Andrew. "Teaching in real time : a pedagogical analysis of the dynamic structuring of interactive subject matter discourse in the classrooms of student teachers on teaching practice." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2159.
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It would be difficult to overstate the complexity of the task a student teacher undertakes when she assumes responsibility for teaching her subject to a class during teaching practice. Vet, while issues surrounding teaching practice - such as the attitudes of trainees and their socialization - have frequently been studied (Zeichner, 1986a; Wragg,1982; Al-Hidabi, 1986), it is only recently that the actual classroom teaching of student teachers has attracted much sustained research attention (see, for example, Feiman-Nemser & Buchmann, 1986a, b, c; Leinhardt & Greeno, 1986; Bork & Livingstone, 1989). Consequently, little is known in detail about what students do, moment by moment, while engaging in the key practical component of their professional training. Considering that teaching practice - variously called the practicum, field experience, professional experience, teaching rounds, and so on - plays an essential part in all schemes of training (Collins, 1982), that training institutions in general have tended to increase the proportion of time devoted to school experience (Furlong, et al., 1988) and that students have frequently been found to view the practicum as the most valuable aspect of their course (Feiman-Nemser, 1983; Turney et al., 1985), the fact that the teaching of student teachers has been so little studied appears somewhat anomalous. This situation contrasts markedly with what is known about leaching in general from studies of experienced teachers. Research into the cognitive aspects of pedagogy has revealed something of the manifold complexities inherent in teaching. Thus the teacher may be viewed as a reflective professional who demonstrates 'knowledge-in- action' (Schon, 1983). Similar conceptions underlie perspectives which focus variously upon 'teacher decision making (Calderhead, 1980), 'teacher's craft knowledge' (McNamara & Desforges, 1978; Desforges & MacNamara,1979), or 'the knowledge base for teaching' (Shulman, 1986a, 1967). Drawing from such overlapping viewpoints, a composite picture of teaching emerges. Interacting with, say, thirty disparate individuals, who comprise the pupils in her care, the teacher engages in activities designed to illuminate her subject (Shulman, 1990). Her action is based on rapid and intricate discriminations among a multiplicity of overlapping events which often pass with bewildering speed (Doyle, 1986). She must simultaneously manage both the social order in the classroom and the development of academic work, and, where there is conflict between these twin goals, the former concern often seems to be accorded priority (Carter & Doyle, 1987). Thus the teacher's action seems designed to ensure that orderly states of activity are initiated and sustained (Brown & McIntyre,1989). An additional aspect of the teacher's action, which pervades the classroom, is the way she improvises pedagogical language, in an interactive setting, in an attempt to disclose subject matter knowledge (Erickson, 1982). The teacher also possesses an awareness of the differential abilities of pupils in the class and seeks to involve them in appropriate ways (Calderhead, 1980). Yet all her pedagogical action may be orchestrated into a seamless performance of such skill that its intricacy can easily be overlooked by an observer (McNamara, 1980). Thus it would appear that if teaching practice is conceived as an opportunity for learning through attempting to emulate what experienced teachers do, the student faces a central difficulty: much of the professional activity teachers engage in is not directly observable (Feiman-Nemser & Buchmann, 1986a, b, c). The student teacher may view the overt actions of a co-operating teacher, but she is not privy to the professional discriminations which inform these actions. Nor have teachers, in common with other professionals, been found to be naturally able to be explicit about their expertise in this regard (Berliner, 1986; McIntyre et el., 1988). And the student suffers still other disadvantages. Salient among these is the fact that she has to teach pupils she is barely acquainted with. Thus she does not possess the knowledge of the class, built up over many dozens of hours of interaction, that the co-operating teacher has, and so is likely to be hesitant in interpreting pupil behaviour. Nor does she have the store of knowledge, built up from years of exposure to other pupils and classes, that the experienced teacher may fall back on when she encounters a new class (Wragg & Wood, 1984). Similarly, while she may be enthused by her subject, she does not have the pedagogical knowledge of the subject matter that the experienced teacher will have accumulated (Shulman,1987). For instance, she is unlikely to know accurately what may be expected of pupils of different ages and abilities. Nor will she be keenly aware of the common misunderstandings that may need to be guarded against when she introduces pupils to a particular topic. Neither will she possess a store of useful analogies for explaining certain concepts, and so on (see, Shulman, 1986a, 1990; Wilson, et al. 1986).
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Truelsen, Kris R. "“The Great Speckled Bird”- Early Country Music and the Popularization of Non-Secular Song." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2547.
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Perhaps no melody in the country music canon has been as widely recognized and borrowed from as that of the song “The Great Speckled Bird.” This significant song has become resonant and representative of both country music culture and religious culture of the Protestant South.
Through this historiographical study, I have traced the influences that helped shape “The Great Speckled Bird” and in so doing have illustrated distinct movements that led to popularizing the non-secular song through commercial country music. The composer’s use of sentimentality, neo- traditionalism, and religious ideas made it appealing to a rural southern culture struggling with the social, racial, and economic changes of the early twentieth century. As I develop and explore the diverse influences that helped to shape “The Great Speckled Bird,” I will illustrate the interconnectedness of country music culture and the wider popular and religious cultures of the white Protestant South.
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Lau, Pui Yan Flora. "Recruitment and promotion : the role of social ties in publishing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a4063169-258b-4fb2-953c-0208d9e5f6d2.
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This thesis is an in-depth study of the labour market in the UK publishing sector. The aim is to study the role of social ties in publishing in external recruitment and internal promotion. Conventional sociological studies on social ties and labour market outcomes either neglect the perspective of the recruiter and the referrer or fail to explore the mechanisms by which social ties bring about labour market outcomes. This thesis fills these gaps. I used qualitative research methods, i.e. semi-structured interviews and participant observation for this research. The semi-structured interviews were with 40 interviewees, who were working in different roles (e.g. editorial and design) and levels (e.g. senior and junior) in Oxford and London-based publishing houses. I also served as a committee member of a publishing association in Oxford for seven months. Participant observation serves to triangulate the information I obtained through semi-structured interviews. This thesis examines different aspects of the labour market process and mechanisms. Regarding recruitment methods, I found that whether recruiters use formal or informal (word of mouth) methods depend on the level of uncertainty of recruiting a wrong person and the cost of making such mistakes. The greater the uncertainty and the cost, the more likely recruiters are to use social ties. Social ties serve to provide information about the availability of suitable employees. With regard to selection processes, I found that professional skills are a must but not enough in themselves. Recruiters use informal method at the final stage of selection to ensure the recruits possess the relevant qualities. As for job-hunting methods, I found that most newcomers introduce themselves using formal methods to get into publishing but in fact informality is often embedded in formal methods. Interviewees at managerial level almost entirely got their job through informal channels. Social ties have different functions as people rise through the different levels: whereas first entrants use social ties to obtain information about job opportunities, senior level staff members and freelancers carry with them reputation of their fitness to fill a particular position. Finally, when it comes to internal promotion, employers in my sample promote staff from within the company who already possesses the relevant skills, so as to minimize training costs and get around the uncertainties in settling in new staff. From the employees’ point of view, so long as they perform well in the job and establish a cooperative link with their boss and team members, they would be able to be promoted.
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LECLUYSE, MEGAN ALYSE. "TO THINK OF TIME: THE ROLE OF THE NEOLITHIC SITES OF GREAT BRITAIN IN MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190678.
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Towner, Alison. "Great white sharks Carcharodon carcharias in Gansbaai, South Africa : environmental influences and changes over time, 2007-2011." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8497.
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Includes bibliographical references.The South African Government introduced protective legislation prohibiting targeted fishing of the great white shark Carcharodon carcharias in 1991. This pre-emptive measure was intended to protect this species from increasing fishing pressure to allow researchers to gather information of this shark’s distribution, basic life history traits, breeding behaviour, and habitat use. Following this, the species conservation status was placed on CITES Appendix II and classified on the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Red List as Vulnerable. This thesis investigates white sharks at Gansbaai, in particular their occurrence, changes over time and the influence of environmental variables on their numbers there. The size and numbers of white sharks were recorded from an anchored cage diving vessel over a five-year period between 2007 and 2011. The study was conducted around Dyer Island and the inshore region of Gansbaai in the Western Cape of South Africa. A change in size frequency between seasons suggests that the white sharks are not resident for long periods, but that different size classes use the coastal bay at different times. There was a statistically significant change of size distribution over the five years for both male and female sharks. The trend of larger sizes recorded later in the study could infer a change in the cohorts visiting the bay or growth of the same individuals exhibiting site fidelity to the area.
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Lee, Cheryl. "Fantasy Versus Fairy Tale: How Modern Fairy Tale Variants Measure up to One of the Greatest Literary Traditions of All Time." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/87.
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This thesis will examine both the history of the fairy tale and the modern adaptations of these popular stories in order to illustrate how fairy tales have evolved into their modern counterparts. The implications and circumstances of several recent variants are questioned and compared to a concise definition of the fairy tale. It is determined that, although the modern versions resemble classic fairy tales, they are not a detriment to the tradition of the tales, and may, in fact, begin their own literary tradition.
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Malone, Martin. "'That other life so near in time and distance' : new perspectives on Great War poetry at the time of the centenary : a practice-led critical study." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16574/.
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The multidisciplinary approach I’ve adopted looks to use both critical and practice-led research in order to open up new space between the broader literary and cultural registers of the Great War alongside those of the 21st century. At its core is a desire to exert some pressure upon notions of an “appropriate” linguistic register for the imaginative commemoration of a century-old war that has grown to represent a core mythology for subsequent poetic constructions of modern warfare. The resulting poetry collection, Ghosts of the Vortex, seeks then, to create a transitional idiolect of commemoration more suited to our times. In order to achieve this, I adopt a number of approaches that might be characterized as manifestations of a “neo-modernism”. These include self-translation/ transposition, palimpsest, the use of reconfigured quotation, the poetic re-writing of literary criticism and an extension of the license for a self-conscious use of anachronism suggested by Geoffrey Hill in Mercian Hymns. Alongside this, the critical chapters reflect some of the key concerns of the poetry and share its desire to find new ways of scrutinising Great War poetry in the light of all that has already been written. Chapter 1 revisits a foundational critical text – Jon Silkin’s Out of Battle – and mimics his close reading style to examine a compositional tic identified by him as being typical of much trench poetry. Chapter 2 revisits the Great War canon on the basis of the atypical circumstantial nature of its composition, using the theoretical model of Bakhtin’s chronotope to do so. The third chapter is an exercise in reception studies, examining noteworthy poetic responses to the fiftieth anniversary of the Great War and the final chapter examines the contested nature of Irish involvement in the conflict through its nuanced manifestations in the work of Seamus Heaney.
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Henrikson, Marina Helena. "Nation-building in times of conflict : the discursive construction of Russian national identity through the Russo-Georgian War." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/nationbuilding-in-times-of-conflict-the-discursive-construction-of-russian-national-identity-through-the-russogeorgian-war(effdcae1-69b8-40a5-a990-311d5f404dc5).html.
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This thesis examines the discursive construction of Russian national identity through the 2008 war in Georgia with a focus on how this process was influenced by the Russian leadership’s desire to gain the support of both the domestic and international audiences for its actions outside its borders. These actions involved forceful military intervention, the recognition of the independence of the two Georgian break-away republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the decision to place Russian military troops in the two republics during the aftermath of war. The study critically examines the official Russian discourse, with a focus on particular visions of national identity that this discourse utilized. The study demonstrates how the official discourse in the context of the 2008 war contributed to the construction of Russian national identity and thereby seeks to highlight the performative power of language. By placing considerable focus on the internal dimension of the Russian leadership’s conduct in the international arena, i.e. the consolidation of the national community in the event of war, the thesis contributes to an oft overlooked element of Russian foreign policy initiatives. Consequently, it seeks to challenge the tendency to explain Russian actions with regard to the war as a natural result of a neo-imperialistic identity – a tendency that fails to take into account how national identity can be constructed in its more immediate context. By making use of Rogers Brubaker's concept of nationalism as an event, the study discusses the increased force of nationalism during war and demonstrates how this was clearly the case during the 2008 war in Georgia. The analysis concentrates on three main identity visions within the official Russian discourse. Firstly, it examines how contemporary Russia was constructed as a great power, partly as a response to the claims that it was an imperialist state. Secondly, it discusses the role of certain historical concepts, i.e. the Cold War and the Soviet Union, within the discourse and elaborates upon the act of politicising history. Thirdly, the study analyses the Russian leadership’s protection narrative that emphasised the responsibility to protect Russian citizens and compatriots in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is demonstrated how these different identity visions were intertwined, resulting in a rather contradictory official discourse that speaks to many different audiences simultaneously, while foregrounding the first of the above-mentioned identity visions, namely of Russia as a great power.
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Andreas, Repeta, and Palm Carl. "Capital flows during times of crises : A study of 21st century economic crises and their impact on FDI-flows." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-434216.
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Foreign direct investment has been sharply affected by the global SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, as quarantine measures have decimated global trade, aviation and domestic economies through lockdowns which have wreaked havoc on markets. Macroeconomic indicators including GDP growth rates, unemployment, business confidence, consumer confidence, retail sales and inflation have all been negatively affected due to the simultaneous supply & demand shock caused by the pandemic. Economic crises are a regularly occurring feature, with a degree of cyclicality determining their emergence. The uniqueness of crises, in their appearance and dissipation, stems from a large variance in relevant macroeconomic, fundamental and societal factors giving rise to the crisis in the first place, with the uniqueness being bound and pertinent to a selected period of time in history under which they occurred. In this thesis we explored the impact of the two most significant economic crises of the 21st century, the Great Recession and the ongoing SARS-CoV-19 pandemic and their impact on capital flows, specifically on FDI-flows in two developed markets and two emerging markets. Our findings suggest that FDI-flows display a high synchronicity with stages of economic cycles, and tend to decrease during economic recessions and increase during economic expansions.
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Portin, Bradley S. "Primary headship in a time of systemic change : conceptions of leadership : case studies of three Oxfordshire primary headteachers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a7bc8ed0-ae19-41b9-be25-9d75025e1185.
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The primary headship in England and Wales is in a time of fundamental change and increasing expectations. The influences of recent education acts, and forces, such as choice, parent and governor participation, and increasing LMS responsibility have contributed to a changing headship context. The relative paucity of research which develops a qualitative understanding of primary headteacher perspectives lends an imperative to this qualitative study. A number of central research questions are posed to explore headteacher conceptions of leadership, the influential forces which shape those conceptions, and the context of primary school development. Particular attention is paid to the influence of reflective practice and critical theory as a contribution to professional development. The literature review examines the historic and thematic development of 20th century leadership and management theory. Particular emphasis is placed on what has been termed 'transformational leadership' and the influence of 'reflective practice' in professional development. A case is made for substantive differences between leadership and management, with leadership forming the central core of the study. The data sources were case studies of three perceived 'effective' Oxfordshire primary headteachers; the headteachers represented an opportunity sample of large, multiplestaff primary schools. Semi-structured interviews represented the primary data source, however a breadth of methods were used to form a 'thick' description of the headteacher and school ethos. The repertory grid technique was utilised to illuminate the central constructs which guided the headteachers' conceptions of leadership. Findings from the study are grouped in three areas. The findings suggest headteacher conceptions of leadership were largely idiosyncratic and person-oriented. In addition, a mixed nominal understanding of the terms 'leader' and 'manager' was expressed by the participants. It was found that the headteacher's conception of leadership were influenced by the transitional nature of the headship role. Greater responsibility for LMS, and other governmental forces were indicated as strongly shaping factors. Findings point to the espousal of a number of transformational views, and all headteachers used language of reflective practice to describe a number of the professional development goals of the school. A sense of 'critical' reflection was also present, especially as schools prepared for inspection. The study concludes by discussing the implications for leadership theory and the suggestions for further research in area of headteacher development and evolving conceptions of leadership.
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Gray, David Paul. "A hierarchy of regional unemployment rates : a time series analysis of economic relationships in Great Britain, 1974 to 1994." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395514.
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Best, Melanie. "Wheeling to London 2012 : the psycho-social health and well-being of Great Britain's Wheelchair Basketball players over time." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18458.
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The purpose of this PhD was to explore the psycho-social health (PSH) and well-being (WB) of Great Britain's (GB) Wheelchair Basketball (WhB) players over time, starting from when they became disabled and culminating in the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The sample comprised 16 players (8 male, 8 female) and 4 coaches. They were interviewed on three occasions - 2 years before, within a year of and a year after London. Observations spanned this period, whilst data was also collected via two visual methods: auto-photography (AP) and timelining. All data was analysed using a thematic analytical approach. First the challenges to PSH and WB of being disabled are discussed, with the diversity of experience highlighted. Secondly in exploring the role of spinal units and story-tellers in initiating players into sport, a lottery which risked their PSH and WB is exposed. Whilst copious benefits of recreational disability sport are described, being a GB WhB player is revealed as an extreme health rollercoaster. Just as being a Paralympian offers perks and privileges, so too does it risk players becoming obsessed. Performance and health are shown to be uniquely related and yet not always simultaneously achievable. Finally, from the pride of wearing the jersey and competing at a home Paralympics, to shattered dreams and unfulfilled ambitions, London 2012 is relived. The research concludes that creating a 'Healthy Paralympian' is a challenging task and yet winning formula. Recommendations are made to realise this aim, whilst those which have already been adopted by GB WhB are also shared.
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Miller, Roger Steven. "Ultraviolet extinction in boundary layer aerosols : chromatic variations in size and time resolved particulate matter collected on Teflon filters and greased Mylar strips /." 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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Wu, Chunyan. "British newspaper coverage of the Tibet issue over time, 1949-2009 : representations of repression and resistance." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33602.
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News media play a significant role in shaping the national image of other countries, especially in the context of China (PRC). They have been and remain the main source of information for the British public about developments in China but representations evolve over time. This thesis examines how a particular aspect of China s state actions has been reported. The study examines how the national imagery of China and Tibet has been represented in the British national press over the Cold War period and beyond. This study investigates media representations of the Tibetan conflict and how the events related to this were represented and portrayed in the British national daily newspapers from 1949 to 2009. It examines the frames chosen by the press and the influence of the sources (especially external journalistic influence) on the frame-building process. Through a comparison of coverage by the British newspapers over time, it determines the changing similarities and differences in representations of Tibet according to their partisanship and newspaper formats. The research involved a quantitative content analysis and a qualitative frame analysis. The research showed that generally there were greater similarities than differences in the way the British press represented the Tibet issue from 1949 to 2009. Only the pro-Communist Daily Working/Morning Star with a purely Communist canon of news values adopted a completely different framing strategy to report the events. Other British press aligned closely with the UK government by reproducing and reinforcing the dominant capitalist ideology. This political motivation resulted in their approval of stable and familiar frames. In addition, there were differences in the frame types used by the British press between the early Cold War, near the end of the Cold War and the post-Cold War periods. The year 1989 could be seen as a turning point. The research enriches the concept of Herman and Chomsky s propaganda model and contributes to existing media framing studies on Western media s representations of China.
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Araújo, Renan Bandeirante de [UNESP]. "O modo de vida just-in-time do novo perfil metalúrgico jovem-adulto flexivel do ABC: antigos dilemas, novas contradições e possibilidades." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106302.
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Current research analyzes the car-building industry in the greater São Paulo region as from 1992 when a deep modification process in its productive structure occurred. The above-mentioned process caused the emergence of a labor segment, or rather, the flexible young man / adult, featuring a new historical, social and professional profile. Actually it is a new set of ‘collaborators’ within the 15-35-year-old bracket, whose just-in-time life style, proper of the metalworking section hailing from production restructuring, is related to the bonding strategies of worker subjectivity. This fact is brought about by the personnel’s new management/coercion styles which looks beyond the factory environment and reveals the new life style of capital’s productive and social metabolism in a period of flexible labor
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Wallace, John. "An examination of the influence of labour demand on the growth of part-time employment in Great Britain, 1951-1984." Thesis, University of Bath, 1985. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.353695.
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Since 1951 the creation of approximately 4 million part-time jobs has been the only source of employment growth in Great Britain. Part-time employment, defined as regular work for not more than 30 hours per week, is concentrated amongst married women, in low-paid occupations and in service sector industries. This thesis examines the influence of employers' demands for labour on the growth of part-time employment, which has been hitherto investigated almost exclusively in the context of economic and social aspects of female labour supply. The increasing utilisation of part-time labour has been responsible for raising the rate of female labour force participation above a level which had remained unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century, and has more than offset the loss of 1 3/4 million jobs in manufacturing, agriculture and mining during the last thirty years. Part-time employment has therefore been instrumental in the transfer of labour resources necessary to the process of restructuring an economy in the advanced stages of industrial development. The research involved comprehensive analyses of the macro employment statistics pertaining to the British economy since 1881, and in-depth empirical research undertaken over the past five years, into the utilisation of full-time and part-time labour at organisational and establishment level in manufacturing and service industries. Workers entering part-time employment have for the most part been recruited by extending the supply of female labour. Expansion of the service sector has not provided sufficient suitable employment for those displaced from declining industries in the primary and secondary sectors of the economy, as part-time jobs offer neither the occupations, hours of work nor the earnings associated with the established structures of employment in these industries. Even the most optimistic forecasts of economic growth do not anticipate a return to previous levels of full-time employment. Future employment policies must be based on cognisance of the fundamental changes which have taken place in the patterns of employers' labour requirements in the more labour-intensive service industries.
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Wilson, Darrin Hugh Eugene. "Local government decisions in a time of economic decline| A study of county government budget policy during the Great Recession." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10154944.
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This dissertation examined the literature of cutback management in the context of the Great Recession. Specifically, it studied the relationship between cutback management policies used by county governments during the recession and revenue changes.
The purpose of this dissertation was to test whether or not the percent change in revenue had an impact on the probability that cutback management policies were used in the recession. According to the cutback management literature developed in the 1970s and 1980s, there should be a relationship.
The theoretical framework used for this study was the rational-approach framework, which proposes that every expenditure reducing and revenue increasing policy is enacted based on the percent decrease in revenue the government faces. This suggests that the cutback management policies are a proportional response to revenue decline. The framework was operationalized by using a binary logistic regression that used policy enactment as the dependent variable and the percent change in revenue as the independent variable. Eighty-six counties were sampled and 7 years of each county’s budget book were examined for policies and financial data.
The research found that eleven expenditure policies and three revenue policies had a statistically significant relationship with the percent change in revenues. This resulted in the conclusion that the framework and, therefore, the cutback management literature were useful in explaining primarily expenditure policies.
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Smigelski, Jeffrey Ralph. "Water Level Dynamics of the North American Great Lakes:Nonlinear Scaling and Fractional Bode Analysis of a Self-Affine Time Series." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1379087351.
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Bell, Mark Robert. "The theology of violence : just war, regicide and the end of time in the English Revolution." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cdb766b2-f75e-40b0-acfb-61196cc60ebe.
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This thesis investigates the theology of violence in early modern England. It finds that violence had an important place in the theology of the English Revolution, which is at variance with many twentieth-century perceptions of Christianity. After introducing these ideas in the first chapter, chapter two begins with an outline of the general conceptions of the relationship between the Divine and violence, contrasting the image of a God of peace with a God of war. It also outlines just war theory, which was central to early modern English views of legitimate violence. Additional aspects of contemporaries' conceptions involved ideas of authorisation, violence as punishment, and a hierarchy of legitimate violence. These ideas are further developed in chapter three, first with reference to the Elizabethan Homilies and then in relation to theologians during the civil wars. This discussion of theologies of obedience anticipates chapter four's analysis of the theologies of resistance in relation to the theology of violence. Chapter four addresses a variety of themes concerning the illegitimacy of suicide and the corresponding legitimacy of self defence. The chapter concludes by addressing the idea of direct divine authorisation for violence, which is modelled by the biblical Book of Joshua and developed by examining Calvin's commentaries on the text. Direct authorisation lays the groundwork for chapter five, which addresses the apocalyptic perspective in relation to the theology of violence. The three interrelated themes of anti-Catholicism, anti-idolatry, and a new dispensation are examined. In chapter six, the previous themes are considered in an analysis of the regicide. The discussion of the regicide not only draws on the preceding discussion of the theology of violence but also examines the "scapegoating" dimension of the execution of the king. The final chapter offers reflections on the importance of the theology of violence for the view of the English civil wars as "wars of religion."