Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Content-Free Cueing and ‘Remembering Goals’ Training: The Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory Deficits in a Paediatric Population
(University of ExeterSchool of Psychology, 2015-05-05)Background: It is often considered that, following paediatric acquired brain injury (pABI) and epilepsy, higher-level cognitive deficits, such as prospective memory (PM), are impaired and may only become apparent over time ... -
The Contentious Politics of Socio-Political Engagement: The Transformation of the Tablighi Jamaat in London
(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2012-05-04)The thesis examines the extent to which the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) as an Islamic, theocratic and social movement has negotiated and adapted to the British context, especially London in the post 7/7 period. TJ is the largest ... -
Contesting Security and the Binding Effect in the US and the UK Discourse and Policy of “War on Terror”: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration through a Dialogical-Relational Framework
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2014-10-07)Post-structuralist IR has often treated foreign policy/security discourses and their effects on policy through a “representational model”, i.e. how one dominant representation makes possible particular policy outcomes. ... -
Contextuality in Life Science Ethics: Dual-Use as a Case Study
(University of ExeterSociology and Philosophy, 2013-04-17)In the rapidly advancing field of the life sciences, issues relating to responsibility for research are becoming a key area of discussion. Attempting to conceptualise how individual and collective responsibilities may be ... -
Contextualizing Conflict: The Persecutions of 1 Peter in Their Anatolian Setting
(University of ExeterTheology, 2010-10-06)From beginning to end, the epistle of 1 Peter is concerned with responding to the conflict in which the Anatolian readers have presently become involved. Nevertheless, throughout the history of Petrine scholarship the ... -
Continuous States Conditional Random Fields Training Using Adaptive Integration
(University of ExeterCollege of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 2010-12-17)The extension of Conditional Random Fields (CRF) from discrete states to continuous states will help remove the limitation of the number of states and allow new applications for CRF. In this work, our attempts to obtain ... -
A Continuum from Medieval Literary Networks to Modern Counterparts: The Attractions and Operations of Social Networks.
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2016-02-18)While the benefits of analysing social networks within the wider humanities are becoming more accepted, very little work of this kind has been done in medieval studies. This thesis seeks to begin to fill this lacuna by ... -
Contrastive Lexicology and Comparable English-Arabic Corpora-Based Analysis of Vague and Mistranslated Arabic Equivalence: The Case of the Modern English-Arabic Dictionary of Al-Mawrid
(University of ExeterInstitute for Arab and Islamic Studies, 2012-12-12)The main concern in this research is to reveal the existence of shortcomings in the representation of meaning in the equivalents provided in a given context of the bilingual English-Arabic dictionary of al-Mawrid (Ba<albaki ... -
The Contribution of Tangible and Intangible Resources, and Capabilities to A Firm’s Profitability and Market Performance: Empirical Evidence from Turkey
(University of ExeterBusiness School, 2013-12-23)This study aims to investigate the relative contribution of tangible and intangible resources, and capabilities on firm performance based on the measures of market share, sales turnover and profitability and explore the ... -
The Contribution of Theory and Practice to the Professional Development of Students Learning to Become Secondary Teachers in Zimbabwe
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2014-06-06)This research investigated the perceptions of student-teachers and lecturers regarding Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for secondary teachers in Zimbabwe. The ways in which factors in and between the university and school ... -
Contributory Conditions to Community Sustainability: Cornwall's Look Group Network
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2014-11-07)This thesis aims to contribute new understandings of community sustainability through a detailed case study of public sector and community relations within Cornwall. The Look Group Network is a multi-layered public sector ... -
Controlling the Electromagnetic Properties of Magnetic Composites and Metamaterials
(University of ExeterPhysics, 2015-06-01)Ferrites are a class of magnetic oxides with superior electromagnetic (EM) properties at microwave frequencies when compared to conventional metallic magnetic materials for use in antenna miniturization and radar ... -
Convergence of Time Averages Near Statistical Attractors and Ratcheting of Coupled Oscillators
(University of ExeterMathematics, 2010-09-10)In this thesis, convergence of time averages near statistical attractors of continuous flows are investigated. A relation between statistical attractor and essential $\omega$-limit set is proved, and using this a general ... -
Cooks, Cooking, and Food on the Early Modern Stage
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2013-02-04)This project aims to take the investigation of food in early modern drama, in itself a relatively new field, in a new direction. It does this by shifting the critical focus from food-based metaphors to food-based properties ... -
Cooperation and Conflict at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2010-03-05)This dissertation aims to examine The Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, the largest mechanism in the history of international arbitration, located in The Hague. The central thesis considered is the unique nature of the Tribunal ... -
Coping with drought and flooding: a framework for engendering household and community resilience to water management extremes
(University of ExeterEngineering, 2017-09-26)Achieving resilient outcomes in the water sector is an area of emerging policy and research focus in light of a combination of threats such as climate change, increasing demand, urbanisation, and population growth. ... -
Coping with dyslexia: A transactional perspective
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2012-09-26)This thesis explores the phenomenon of coping with dyslexia based on the perspectives of six Greek dyslexic adults, as expressed by themselves. The research is concerned with exploration of the phenomenon by standing out ... -
Copper shaft-hole axes and early metallurgy in south-eastern Europe: an integrated approach
(University of ExeterArchaeology, 2011-05-24)Although the copper axes with central shaft-hole from south-eastern Europe have a long history of research, they have not been studied on a transnational basis since the 1960s. What has also been missing is an integrated ... -
The Cornish church heritage as a tourism attraction: the visitor experience
(University of ExeterSchool of Geography, 2006-07)The principal aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between visitors and the Cornish church heritage. From the tourism literature, the concepts of the marker (MacCannell 1976), collage tourism (Rojek 1997) and ... -
Corporate Default Prediction: Models, Drivers and Measurements
(University of ExeterThe Business SchoolXFi Centre, 2011-12-12)This thesis identifies the optimal set of corporate default drivers and examines the prediction performance of corporate default measurement tools, using a sample of companies in the United States from 1970 to 2009. In the ...