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Takaful Insurance: A Critical Evaluation of Takaful Business in the UAE and its Prospects for Growth
(2023-05-03)In 1979, the first Takaful insurance was established in Sudan as an alternative option of conventional insurance which is impermissible by Sharia Compliance. The business witnessed a dramatic prosperity during the mid-years ... -
Taking Experience Seriously: a Critical Inquiry Into Consultant-Led Leadership Development Programmes in Global Corporations
(2017-09-21)Corporate Leadership Development (LD) is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is estimated that in the US alone corporations spend between US$14-20 billion annually on LD (Pfeffer, 2015: 10), yet academics and practitioners ... -
Talking and Making Meaning About Parental Mental Health Problems: the Role of Children's Family Caregivers
(2018-10-12)When parents with severe and enduring mental health problems (MHP) are less able to meet their children’s needs, other family members often help with childcare. Research with children and parents with MHP has pointed to ... -
Talking Through the Silence: How do Clinical Psychologists Who Have Experienced Suicide Bereavement ‘Make Sense’ of Suicide? - A Thematic Analysis
(2020-11-11)Aims: From the perspective of an insider researcher, this study focuses on how clinical psychologists make sense of suicide, specifically when they too hold their own personal or professional experiences of suicide ... -
Targeted Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma and Methodological Improvements in Assessment of Therapeutic Response with Imaging Biomarkers
(2018-04-14)Background: Drugs targeting angiogenic pathway remain the mainstay of treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKI) as Sunitinib, Pazopanib as single agents and humanised monoclonal ... -
Techniques to Assess Volume Status and Haemodynamic Stability in Patients on Haemodialysis
(2010-09-06)Volume overload is a common feature in patients on haemodialysis (HD). This contributes significantly to the cardiovascular disease burden seen in these patients. Clinical assessments of the volume state are often inaccurate. ... -
Temperature Scales and the "Lithium Problem"
(2010-04-12)The discovery of the Spite plateau in the abundances of 7Li for metal-poor stars led to the determination of an observationally deduced primordial lithium abundance. However, with the determination of the baryon density, ... -
A Thematic Analysis Exploring Young Black Men's Experiences of Accessing and Engaging in Psychological Therapy within Primary Care
(2021-10-22)BACKGROUND: Despite the increase in initiatives to improve the accessibility of psychological therapy within the NHS, Young Black men’s (YBM) experiences of psychological therapy are under researched. Young Black men are ... -
The Theory-Practice Relationship in Paramedic Undergraduate Education
(2018-09-13)A theory-practice gap has previously been proposed as existing in paramedic education. This proposal has been based on the literature, predominantly drawn from nursing, which describes the phenomenon as being a detrimental ... -
A thermal desorption method for determining atmospheric Semi-Volatile Organic Compound concentrations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)It is now recognised that indoor environments contribute significantly to human exposure to airborne pollutants. People spend a large amount of time in indoor environments and there are many indoor sources that are not ... -
Thermogelling Materials for Topical Drug Delivery
(2021-02-26)This thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of thermogelling materials and their evaluation as topical drug delivery excipients. Thermogelling materials are polymers which transition from solution to gel ... -
'They are Exactly as Bank Notes are': Perceptions and Technologies of Bank Note Forgery During the Bank Restriction Period, 1797 - 1821
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-12-10)Previous studies of Bank Note forgery in England during the Bank Restriction Period have adopted a highly institutional focus. Thus, much is known about the role played by both the Bank of England and the workings of the ... -
Thrombotic Risk Assessment in End Stage Renal Disease Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy
(2016-04-18)End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have an excess cardiovascular risk, above that predicted by traditional risk factor models. Despite the advances in both Cardiovascular disease (CVD) management and renal replacement ... -
The Tidal Features of the Magellanic Cloud System
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-02-10)The Magellanic System at a distance of 50 kpc from the Milky Way (MW), is a prime target in the study of stellar populations, star formation histories and galactic dynamics in low metallicity environments. The Large ... -
TouchStory: Interactive Software Designed to Assist Children with Autism to Understand Narrative
(2009-08-05)The work described in this thesis falls under the umbrella of the Aurora project (Aurora 2000). Aurora is a long-term research project which, through diverse studies, investigates the potential enhancement of the everyday ... -
Towards a Digital Capability Maturity Framework for Tertiary Institutions
(2023-10-19)Background: The Digital Capability (DC) of an Institution is the extent to which the institution's culture, policies, and infrastructure enable and support digital practices (Killen et al., 2017), and maturity is the ... -
Towards a Localisation of Trust Framework for Pervasive Environments
(2008-11-17)Pervasive computing envisions an environment in which we are surrounded by many embedded computer devices. The existence of those networked devices provides us with a mobile, spontaneous and dynamic way to access ... -
Towards Atmospheric Characterisation of Exoplanets
(2014-04-02)This thesis provides a multi-pronged approach towards paving the way for future space and ground based exoplanet characterisation e↵orts as well as providing new analysis of the atmosphere of the exoplanet HD 179949 b. ... -
Towards the Evolution of Multicellularity: A Computational Artificial Life Approach
(2011-09-13)Technology, nowadays, has given us huge computational potential, but computer sciences have major problems tapping into this pool of resources. One of the main issues is how to program and design distributed systems. Biology ... -
Tracing Large-Scale Structure with Radio Sources
(University of Hertfordshire, 2015-02-04)In this thesis, I investigate the spatial distribution of radio sources, and quantify their clustering strength over a range of redshifts, up to z _ 2:2, using various forms of the correlation function measured with data ...