Browsing University of Exeter Theses by Title
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Behaviour of alpha-elastin in bulk and at aqueous surfaces
(University of ExeterCollege of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 2011-04-28)The purpose of this work was to examine the behaviour of the soluble elastin derivative, alpha-elastin, under a variety of conditions. Please see electronic files for full abstract text. -
The behaviour of badgers (Meles meles) in response to a period of pre-baiting and trapping undertaken for disease management research
(University of ExeterBiosciences, 2011-10-25)Badgers (Meles meles) have long been implicated in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis ( bTB) and as a result, a considerable amount of time, effort and money have been invested in TB research programmes and control ... -
Behavioural Activation for Depression in Long Term Conditions: Developing a Behavioural Activation Guided Self-Help Intervention for Depression in Dementia
(University of ExeterPsychology, 2017-03-03)Depression is common in people with long term conditions (LTCs) and is associated with worse quality of life, higher degrees of functional disability and increased risk of mortality. Treating comorbid depression in people ... -
Behavioural Phenotypes: Associated Life-History Traits and Environmental Effects on Development
(University of ExeterPsychologyCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2011-08-09)It is widely documented that non-human organisms express individual differences in behavioural patterns. For example individuals can be categorised as bold or shy and when these individual behavioural differences are ... -
Being a Female English Teacher: Narratives of Identities in the Iranian Academy
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2010-09-28)Despite the growing interest in the issue of identity formation in the broader TESOL research field, few studies have been concerned with the question of female teachers’ identity formation from a feminist poststructuralist ... -
Being a Young Learner English Language Teacher in a Polish Primary School- Professional Self- Construction In a Climate Of a Reform
(University of ExeterCollege of Social Sciences and International Studies, 2017-01-18)The study reported in the thesis sought to explore how semi- specialists TEYL teachers who have not received specialized TEYL training and did not graduate from public 3- years teachers’ training colleges construct their ... -
Being Good with Money: Economic Bearings in George Eliot's Ethical and Social Thought
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2011-06-01)In a world of material needs and wants, economics and ethics are inextricably linked. George Eliot recognised this seminal inter-relationship and sought to unravel its intricacies and complexities through her writing. My ... -
Being in Brazil: An Autoethnographic Account of Becoming Ethically Responsible as a Practitioner-Researcher in Education
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2013-11-01)This thesis explores an autoethnography which is written in the spirit of ubuntu, with and through others. Viewing this as an ethically responsible methodology for educational research conducted in and between the Global ... -
Belly Dance and Glocalisation: Constructing Gender in Egypt and on the Global Stage
(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic StudiesSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010-04-15)This thesis is an ethnography of the global belly dance community with particular reference to the transmission of dance paradigms from Cairo to the international dance community. Key words describing my topic include ... -
Benchmarking the Performance of Homogenisation Algorithms on Daily Temperature Data
(University of ExeterMathematics, 2016-03-04)Reliable temperature time series are necessary to quantify how our world is changing. Unfortunately many non-climatic artefacts, known as inhomogeneities, affect these time series. When looking at real world data it is ... -
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre après Paul et Virginie: Une étude des journaux et de la correspondance sur ses publications au début de la Révolution (1789-1792)
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2009-10-01)Bernardin de Saint-Pierre survived the French revolution and was subsequently lionised, becoming a member of the École Normale and the Institut. Maurice Souriau, and most recently Malcolm Cook have looked at his contributions ... -
Between Dislocation and Domination: Palestinian Dual Marginality and Identity Construction in East Jerusalem 1993-2017
(University of ExeterCollege of Social Sciences and International Studies, 2017-10-03)This thesis adopts a bottom-up, qualitative approach to Palestinian identity construction in East Jerusalem and asks how the new politics and altered geography of the city since Oslo are recreating Palestinian subjectivities ... -
Between Performances, Texts, and Editions: The Changeling
(University of ExeterDrama, 2016-01-05)This thesis is about the ways in which Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s play The Changeling has been edited, performed, and archived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It proposes a more integrated way of ... -
Between Philosophy and ʿIrfān: Interpreting Mullā Ṣadrā from the Qajars to Post-Revolutionary Iran
(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2015-11-30)This thesis examines the interpretive tradition of Mullā Ṣadrā in the context of the schools of Tehran and Qum. Mullā Ṣadrā’s transcendental philosophy (al-ḥikmah al-mutaʿālīyah or ḥikmat) avails itself to a number of ... -
Between Policy Making and the Public Sphere: The Role of Rhetoric in Anglo-French Imperial Relations, 1940-1945
(University of ExeterHistory, 2016-09-01)The long history of Anglo-French relations has often been acrimonious. After the German defeat of France in June 1940 the right to represent the French nation was contested by Philippe Pétain’s Vichy government and Charles ... -
Beyond Sheikhs and Merchants: The Role of Balancing Powers in Pre-Independence Kuwaiti Politics (1921-1962)
(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2017-04-18)This study re-examines the history of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing scholarship on the subject suffers from several shortcomings due to the lack of consideration given to the role played by ... -
Beyond the Code: Unpacking Tacit Knowledge and Embodied Cognition in the Practical Action of Curating Contemporary Art
(University of ExeterSociology & Philosophy, 2009-09-18)Re-evaluating classic work in the sociology of the visual arts, this Ph.D. thesis explores the tacit and practical bases of artistic mediation with reference to curatorial exhibition making in contemporary art. Data presented ... -
Beyond the Dyad: The Role of Groups and Third-Parties in the Trajectory of Violence
(University of ExeterPsychology Department, 2017-06-07)Episodes of aggression and violence continue to beset our public spaces. This thesis explores how well we understand the transition to violence—and how aggression and violence in public spaces can be managed or controlled. ... -
Beyond Words: A Multimodal Approach to Translation Applied to Global Standardised Advertising Campaigns in International Women's Magazines
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2012-07-24)This thesis draws critically on approaches to globalisation, translation and advertising to analyse current translation practices using multimodal advertising texts. The purpose of this study is both to show evidence of ... -
Bharata’s Natyashastra-based Theatre Analysis Model: An experiment on British South Asian and contemporary Indian theatre in English
(University of ExeterDrama, 2015-01-05)This thesis tests a newly developed model based on the Natyashastra, an Indian treatise on performing arts, and uses this for theatrical analysis in the contexts of British Asian theatre productions and contemporary Indian ...