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The Contribution by Women to the Social and Ecomomic Development of the Victorian Town in Hertfordshire
(2013-05-01)
This study focuses on the role and contribution of women in the context of the social and economic development of two towns in Hertfordshire during the nineteenth century. Although the age saw an increase in urbanisation, ...
The Emotional Landscape of Working in a Learning Disability Service
(2013-04-30)
Aims: The UK policy documents ‘Valuing people’ (DOH, 2001) and ‘Valuing people now’ (DOH, 2009) presaged a new direction in learning disability services: towards a human-rights model of care with the underlying principles ...
Exploring Dynamic Processes: a Qualitative Study of Problem-Based Learning Experiences within Clinical Psychology Training
(2013-04-30)
Aim: The existing literature on the experiences of individuals who have undertaken Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as part of their doctoral Clinical Psychology training in the UK is scarce, particularly from the perspective ...
Emission Line Stars In and Beyond the Perseus Arm
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013-04-23)
I present low-resolution (Dl 6 A° ) follow-up spectroscopy of 370 Ha emitters (12 . r .
17) identified with IPHAS, in a 100 deg2 wide section of the Galactic plane that is located
between ` = (120 ; 140 ) and b = (1 ...
Professional Learning for Children's Centre Leaders
(2013-04-16)
This thesis investigates the experiences of Children’s Centre leaders of the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) who find themselves in a newly developed role and lacking a professional ...
The Epistemology of Know-How
(2013-04-16)
There is an as yet unacknowledged and incomparable contribution to the philosophical debates about know-how to be found in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It is sourced in his investigations into knowledge and certainty ...
The Effects of Foot Structure and Athletic Taping on Lower Limb Biomechanics
(2013-04-12)
Context: Despite an association between foot structure and the incidence of lower limb
injury in sport, few studies have measured the effects of neutral, pronated and supinated foot
structures during dynamic activity. ...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Mothers' Experiences of Parenting
(2013-04-12)
Background: The death of a child has been found to have long term consequences for both individual and family functioning. This is particularly true for bereaved siblings who have been found to be at increased risk of ...
Learning from Practice: the Value of Story in Nurse Education
(2013-04-10)
The central contention of this thesis is that story as an aid to learning, particularly student nurses' own stories of practice, is not being used to its full potential in nurse education. The dominant tendencies in nurse ...
A Complete Study of Radio Galaxies at z ~ 0.5
(2013-04-10)
In this thesis I investigate the hosts and cluster environments of a sample of 41 radio
galaxies between z = 0.4 and z = 0.6. I use spectroscopic data for a 24 object subsample
to investigate their star formation histories ...