Browsing PhD Theses Collection by Title
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The Dark Side of Emotional Labour: Machiavellianism and Emotion Management Strategies within a Cultural Context
(2018-05-10)The current literature presents inconsistencies with regard to the ‘Bright’ and ‘Dark Sides’ of emotional labour and related emotion management strategies: it indicates that the negative effect of emotional labour cannot ... -
Darwinian Evolutionary Ideas in Business Economics and Organization Studies
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006-04)This thesis is a study of the use of Darwinian evolutionary ideas in business economics and organization studies. Mindful of the explosion of evolutionary rhetoric in the socio-economic domain over the last three decades ... -
David Roberts' Egypt & Nubia as Imperial Picturesque Landscape
(2010-06-29)This thesis examines and contextualises historically significant aspects of the ways in which David Roberts’ lucrative lithographic publication Egypt and Nubia (1846-49) represented the “Orient”. The analysis demonstrates ... -
Deceitful Bodies: Ideas, Performance and the Physicality of Bodily Fraud, 1540 - 1750
(2020-02-11)In early modern England it was believed that many people possessed the ability to alter and thereby mispresent their bodies. Various texts claimed that they were able to do so by either creating or restoring different ... -
Decolonising Clinical Psychology Training in Singapore: Trainee and Recently Qualified Psychologist Views about Diversifying Therapeutic Models
(2022-11-30)Despite literature suggesting that Western psychology and models might not be as culturally appropriate in other cultures (e.g. Henrich et al., 2010; Llewelyn & Shimoyama, 2012), clinical psychology courses in Singapore ... -
Defining 'Hard to Reach': the Work of Health Visitors with Vulnerable Families
(2015-08-20)The term ‘hard to reach’ first appeared in the Health Visiting Review (Lowe 2007). This review claimed that the health visiting service was able and experienced in reaching the ‘hard to reach’. Yet there was a dearth of ... -
A Defining Moment: Malaysian Nurses' Perspectives of Trans-National Higher Education
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-08-29)Abstract Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes are relatively new in Malaysia and their impact in clinical settings is unknown. This research interprets Malaysian nurses’ ... -
Deglaciation Dynamics of the Feegletscher Nord, Switzerland: Implications for Glacio-Fluvial Sediment Transfer
(2016-04-14)Understanding of the processes of sediment transfer within, and from, glaciated catchments is of fundamental importance in order to establish rates of sediment transfer and resultant landscape evolution. Rates of ... -
Deleuze, Judgment and Artistic Research
(2016-07-19)The debate concerning the legitimacy of artistic research that has taken place over the last two decades is notable for the way in which it has drawn attention to rival 'representational' and 'performative' conceptions of ... -
Delivering Drug Treatment to New Minority Communities: Fresh Perspectives
(2017-05-12)This thesis addresses the confluence of the issues of drug use and migration. Using data that explores the needs of new communities, it argues that members of new minority communities who use drugs suffer double ... -
Demand and Capacity Modelling of Acute Services Using Simulation and Optimization Techniques
(2019-05-09)The level of difficulty that hospital management have been experiencing over the past decade in terms of balancing demand and capacity needs has been at an unprecedented level in the UK. Due to shortage of capacity, hospitals ... -
Demand Response Management and Control Strategies for Integrated Smart Electricity Networks
(2023-09-20)Demand Response (DR) programs are being introduced by some electricity grid operators as resource options for curtailing and reducing the demand of electricity during certain time periods for balancing supply and demand. ... -
The Democratization and Popularization of Luxury
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-08-22)This dissertation examines the nature of luxury and luxury branded products, and the meanings attached to them. This is the first study of its kind as materials, manufacturing, sales and marketing processes are analyzed ... -
Deploying Process Innovation in Manufacturing
(2023-05-05)Manufacturing companies are increasingly under pressure to innovate due primarily to the intense competition they face, particularly under global market conditions. Innovation is recognised as a precondition for survival. ... -
Design and Analysis of an Energy Efficient Dehumidification System for Drying Applications
(2016-06-23)The motivation of this research project was in response to problems of re-condensation in drying, reduced drying rate encountered by the food and beverage packaging industry which led to the aim of developing a better ... -
Design and Analysis of an Energy Efficient Dehumidification System for Drying Applications
(2016-08-26)The motivation of this research project was in response to problems of re-condensation in drying, reduced drying rate encountered by the food and beverage packaging industry which led to the aim of developing a better ... -
Design and construction of a small gas turbine to drive a permanent magnet high speed generator
(University of Hertfordshire, 2002)Radial gas turbines engines have established prominence in the field of small turbomachinery because of their simplicity, relatively high performance and installation features. Thus they have been used in a variety of ... -
The design and evaluation of non-visual information systems for blind users
(University of Hertfordshire, 1999)This research was motivated by the sudden increase of hypermedia information (such as that found on CD-ROMs and on the World Wide Web), which was not initially accessible to blind people, although offered significant ... -
Design and Implementation of a Re-Configurable Arbitrary Signal Generator and Radio Frequency Spectrum Analyser
(2016-06-29)This research is focused on the design, simulation and implementation of a reconfigurable arbitrary signal generator and the design, simulation and implementation of a radio frequency spectrum analyser based on digital ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Distributed Space Time Coding Schemes for Cooperative Wireless Networks
(2012-09-07)In this thesis, space-time block codes originally developed for multiple antenna systems are extended to cooperative multi-hop networks. The designs are applicable to any wireless network setting especially cellular, ...