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Between the Panels: How the Interactions Between Commerce and Art Shape Superhero Comic Book Film Adaptations (2000-13)
(2018-07-13)This dissertation’s principal contribution to knowledge lies in its demonstration of the thesis that while economic considerations are ultimately determinant, artistic considerations have a degree of influence in shaping ... -
Beware the recent past: a bias in spectral energy distribution modelling due to bursty star formation
(2024-03-19)We investigate how the recovery of galaxy star formation rates (SFRs) using energy-balance spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting codes depends on their recent star formation histories (SFHs). We use the Magphys and ... -
'Bewitched in their privities' : Medical Responses to Infertility Witchcraft in Early Modern England
(2012)For much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries medical writers accepted that both infertility and sexual dysfunction, which were intimately connected disorders, in men and women could be caused by the devil and ... -
Beyond adoption: A new framework for theorising and evaluating Non-adoption, Abandonment and challenges to Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) of health and care technologies
(2017-11-01)Background: Many promising technological innovations in health and social care are characterized by nonadoption or abandonment by individuals or by failed attempts to scale up locally, spread distantly, or sustain the ... -
Beyond advertising : in-home promotion of "fast food"
(2007)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the range of potential influences on children's food choices, while suggesting that recent restrictions on advertising of some foods may not be as effective as expected. It aims to ... -
Beyond Animal Rights : Food, Pets and Ethics
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Beyond Being A Student : An Exploration of Student & Graduate Start-Up’s (SGSU’s) Operating From University Incubators
(2013)The purpose of this paper is to explore, evaluate and share the motivations and behaviours of student and graduate entrepreneurs (referred to as SGSUs) operating from university incubators. The study aims to understand the ... -
Beyond Boundaries: offering substance misuse services to new migrants in London
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Beyond Hacker's Wittgenstein : Discussion of HACKER, Peter (2012) “Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism” Philosophical Investigations 35:1, January 2012, 1–17
(2013-10)In 'Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism', Peter Hacker addresses what he takes to be misconceptions of Wittgenstein's philosophy with respect to 1) the periodisation of his thought and to what should properly be ... -
Beyond HRV. Extending the range of autonomic measures associated with heart rate variability – the effects of transcutaneous electroacupuncture (TEAS)
(2021-03-27)Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is useful in acupuncture research as a measure of autonomic response. However, although it accurately reflects parasympathetic activity, there is less agreement on whether and how ... -
Beyond Knowledge: : Growing Capability for an Uncertain Future
(2014-03-24)The quest for knowledge has played a major part in the intellectual development and evolution of individuals, societies, and cultures. Socrates viewed knowledge as a virtue, a path to perfection. Prometheus was punished ... -
Beyond loop bounds : comparing annotation languages for worst-case execution time analysis
(2011-07)Worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis is concerned with computing a precise-as-possible bound for the maximum time the execution of a program can take. This information is indispensable for developing safety-critical ... -
Beyond Mind And Body: Person In (Inter)Action
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Beyond Narrative: A Cross-Modal Approach to Soundtrack Composition
(2017-06-28)This research project addresses the problem of scoring non-narrative film work. Deprived of a narrative content to follow, the composer faces the fundamental problem of deciding what other elements should be considered ... -
Beyond normal failures : Dynamic management of software projects
(2003-12)The skillset focusing on the life cycle of projects is critical to both understanding and practising sound management. In practice, attention is often paid to the actions and procedures required to build the system to the ... -
Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services
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Beyond physicalism
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000)Beyond Physicalism attempts to establish the nature of the limits to our understanding of basic experiences and to stake out the consequences these have for an appropriate metaphysics. The argument of the book advances in ... -
“Beyond sensitivity” : Understanding caregiving compromises in adverse contexts using the Meaning of the Child Interview
(Routledge, 2023-11-08)Attachment theorists have frequently highlighted the adaptiveness of so-called “insecure” patterns of attachment to adverse and unsafe contexts, but the same understanding has rarely been extended to “insensitive” caregiving. ... -
Beyond symptom dimensions : schizophrenia risk factors for patient groups derived by latent class analysis
(2009)Introduction : Patients grouped by latent class analysis of symptoms show some consensus between studies, and may be less etiologically heterogeneous than current diagnoses. If so, the effect size of ‘neurodevelopmental’ ...