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Access to Land, the Household, and Food Security: Exploring gendered links in Rural South India
(2022-02-17)Despite sufficient food production on the national level, an estimated 37% to 60% of households in India are food insecure. Food security is defined as when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to ... -
Accessing Mental Health Services for the First Time: The Black African and Caribbean Experience
(2021-05-24)Background: Significant disparities and complex inequalities are experienced by individuals from black African and Caribbean communities and perpetuate the formation of barriers and the perception of poor outcomes from NHS ... -
Accessing Mental Health Support: Where do Young Adults Seek Help and what Barriers do they Face?
(2016-04-28)Over half of all lifetime mental health disorders emerge during early adulthood and is associated with many adverse outcomes including: lower educational achievement, substance misuse and premature death. Despite the ... -
Accounting for the Divergence Between Privatisation Theory and Practice in Developing Countries: The Case of the Water Sector in Ghana
(2011-08-03)The performance and operation of privatisation in the water sector in developing countries typically diverges from that proposed within the rationalising theoretical framework. There is a broad literature that considers ... -
Accretion Modes, AGN Feedback and Star Formation
(2016-08-23)I study mid-infrared and star formation properties of AGN samples using infrared observations, and star-forming galaxies using radio observations in order to investigate the link between star formation, AGN activity and ... -
Acting Into the Living Present: Taking Account of Complexity and Uncertainty when Leading Consultancy Teams in International Water Projects
(2018-01-29)This thesis addresses how leaders find themselves doing something even when they don’t know what to do. It is based on my own practice as an experienced team leader and it deals with questions of action, time, identity and ... -
Adaptability and Survival in Populations of Small and Medium Enterprises
(2013-02-06)There is disagreement in the literature about the relative roles of selection (competition) and adaptation in explaining industrial change. For some, the possibilities for adaptation by individual firms are highly limited, ... -
Adaptation of Heuristic Evaluation for Mobile Applications and the Impact of Context of Use
(2021-02-25)The aim of this programme of research was to build upon prior work regarding the heuristic evaluation of mobile applications in two important areas. A mixed methods approach was taken to address the research questions ... -
Adapting Robot Behaviour in Smart Homes: a Different Approach Using Personas
(2017-07-20)A challenge in Human-Robot Interaction is tailoring the social skills of robot companions to match those expected by individual humans during their rst encounter. Currently, large amounts of user data are needed to con ... -
Adapting Shakespearean Drama for and in the Middle East: Process and Product
(2018-08-03)This dissertation chronicles the development of a series of plays, collectively referred to as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, from the perspective of their playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam. Together, The Al-Hamlet Summit ... -
Adapting Shakespearean Drama for and in the Middle East: Process and Product
(2018-08-29)This dissertation chronicles the development of a series of plays, collectively referred to as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, from the perspective of their playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam. Together, The Al-Hamlet Summit ... -
Adapting Shakespearean Tragedy into Arab Theatre: A Critical Comparative Edition of Sulayman Al Bassam’s An Arab Tragedy
(2022-10-27)This dissertation presents an annotated critical edition of Sulayman Al-Bassam’s 2006 play Richard III: An Arab Tragedy, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III set in the contemporary Arab world. The play has ... -
Adapting to Organisational Culture: A Staged Adapatation Model
(2018-09-10)Adapting to Organizational Culture: A Staged Adaptation Model In today’s fast paced world, a job for life is a concept from the past. As individuals frequently move from one organisation to ... -
Adapting to Organisational Culture: a Staged Adaptation Model
(2018-07-13)In today’s fast paced world, a job for life is a concept from the past. As individuals frequently move from one organisation to another, so they move from one organisational culture to another. Change is a constant and as ... -
Adaptive Constraint Solving for Information Flow Analysis
(2015-08-25)In program analysis, unknown properties for terms are typically represented symbolically as variables. Bound constraints on these variables can then specify multiple optimisation goals for computer programs and nd application ... -
Adaptive Mid-term and Short-term Scheduling of Mixed-criticality Systems
(2019-02-22)A mixed-criticality real-time system is a real-time system having multiple tasks classified according to their criticality. Research on mixed-criticality systems started to provide an effective and cost efficient a priori ... -
Admission Tutors' Experiences of Recruiting Racially Diverse Trainee Clinical Psychologists
(2022-09-30)Background: Clinical Psychology has made many attempts to discuss and increase racial diversity in its profession for more than 30 years. Previous research focused mainly on the factors preventing applicants meeting the ... -
Adolescents' Experience of 'Adjustment' to Life with Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2010-05-25)Aim: A wealth of quantitative literature exists exploring the adjustment of children and young people with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. However, results are often confusing and contradictory, at least partly due to studies ... -
The Adoption of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes in Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia
(2018-10-31)Aim: This thesis aims to explore and investigate the level and process of adoption of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes (ASPs) and factors influencing their implementation in Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals. ... -
Adoption, Diffusion and Use of E-Government Services in the Abu Dhabi Police Force
(2013-05-23)Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in peoples’ daily lives due to the presence of e-government. This research aims to identify and understand factors affecting the adoption ...