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Practice as Role Enactment: Managing Purposive Sophisticated Cooperation
(2009-06-17)
This doctoral dissertation proposes a fuller, more inclusive account of practice than that which dominates current discourse on organizations, which typically turns upon occupations, professions and jobs as manifestations ...
The Rise of Co-Productions in the Film Industry: The Impact of Policy Change and Financial Dynamics on Industrial Organization in a High Risk Environment
(2009-06-03)
The main aim of this study is to examine the interrelationship of finance and government
intervention in explaining the rise of co-productions in the international film industry in the time period between 1997 and ...
Self-Stigmatization and Ageism Amongst Older People Accessing Mental Health Services
(2009-06-03)
The aim of this novel piece of research was to explore experiences of self-stigma
amongst a group of older people (aged 65+) currently using mental health services. In
order to try and identify possible contributing ...
Reflective Practice and the Learning of Health Care Students
(2009-06-03)
Reflective practice, though ill-defined, has become an accepted educational concept
within many health care disciplines particularly in nursing. Subsequently it has become benchmarked within Paramedic Sciences as a ...
Inclusion and Exclusion in the NHS: Power, Innovation and Rejection in Nursing
(2009-06-03)
In this thesis, I investigate my professional practice as an independent health adviser in the UK National Health Service. Inclusion and exclusion, power, innovation and rejection in nursing are themes that have emerged ...
Searching for Brown Dwarf Companions
(2009-06-03)
In this thesis I present the search for ultracool dwarf companions to main sequence stars, subgiants and white dwarfs. The ultracool dwarfs identified here are benchmark objects, with known ages and distances.
The online ...
Popular Attitudes Towards Rural Customs and Rights in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England
(2009-06-03)
The central aim of this study is to explore rural attitudes concerning subsistence customary practices, such as gleaning from the harvested fields, catching wild rabbits, birds or fish; gathering wild foods; and collecting ...
The Performance of Associative Memory Models with Biologically Inspired Connectivity
(2009-04-01)
This thesis is concerned with one important question in artificial neural networks, that is, how biologically inspired connectivity of a network affects its associative memory performance.
In recent years, research on the ...
Examining Clinical Supervison with Palliative Care Nurses
(2009-03-19)
This study focuses on the current issues regarding the provision of clinical supervision for palliative care nurses. NICE (2004) recommendations stated that the task of supervision should be undertaken by „Level 4‟ ...
Facilitating Play Between Children with Autism and an Autonomous Robot
(2009-03-05)
This thesis is part of the Aurora project, an ongoing long-term project investigating
the potential use of robots to help children with autism overcome some of their
impairments in social interaction, communication and ...