Browsing Doctoral Theses by Title
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Constructive Drinking in the Roman Empire: The First to Third Centuries AD
(University of ExeterClassics and Ancient History, 2015-04-09)This thesis explores ancient ideas regarding the constructive properties of intoxicating drinks, as presented in Greco-Roman sources from the first to third centuries AD. In doing so, it responds to Mary Douglas’ Constructive ... -
The Constructive Use of Film Genre for the Screenwriter: Creating Film Genre's Mental Space
(University of ExeterHumanitiesFilm Studies, 2011-10-05)This practice-led PhD project consists of two sections: the first examines a breakdown of the components of film genre to be used as practical guideposts for my own creative practice as a screenwriter and (hopefully in the ... -
Constructivism, Contestation and the International Detention Regime
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2008-09-26)The international detention regime has been placed under a considerable amount of strain in the context of the war on terror. Political elites in both the USA and UK have significantly challenged accepted standards of ... -
Consumer Culture in Saudi Arabia (A Qualitative Study among Heads of Household)
(University of ExeterSociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, 2012-09-14)As Saudi Arabia turns towards modernisation, it faces many tensions and conflicts during that process. Consumerism is an extremely controversial subject in Saudi society. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ... -
Consuming Others: The Social Production of Rapable Bodies and Rapist Mentalities
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2013-10-01)Sexual violence is ubiquitous throughout the Anglophone West and shows no sign of abating. Feminist analysis has long demonstrated that this is a problem grounded in gender relations, patterns of masculine socialisation, ... -
Containment? An investigation into psychoanalytic containment and whether it is provided by staff in an NHS institution in relation to someone with a diagnosis of personality disorder.
(University of ExeterPsychology, 2016-06-03)This research investigated the psychoanalytic idea of containment in the context of NHS staff responses to a person diagnosed with personality disorder. The aim was to identify what, if any, containment was provided by ... -
Contemporary British Poetry and The Objectivists
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2017-04-11)This thesis examines a neglected transatlantic link between three post-war British poets – Charles Tomlinson, Gael Turnbull and Andrew Crozier – and a group of Depression-era modernists: the Objectivists. This study seeks ... -
The Contemporary Hollywood Film Soundtrack: Professional Practices and Sonic Styles Since the 1970s
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2008-11)Since the 1970s, the soundtrack in Hollywood has come of age as a complex and sophisticated site of cinematic art. Greater combinations of sounds expressing a wider spectrum of tones, textures and volumes can be heard at ... -
Contemporary Wahhabism rebranded as Salafism : the issue of interpreting the Qur'anic verses and hadith on the Attributes of God and its significance
(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2009-04-15)This research studies the theology of those Wahhabis who have now named themselves Salafis. For the purpose of the study, they are referred to as the ‘Wahhabis-self-named-Salafis’ (WSNS). The thesis starts with the observation ... -
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 ...