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Identity Formation and Emerging Intentions in Consultant-Client Relationships
(2008-03-28)
My original contribution to theory and practice formulates management consultancy as a social act evolving within interaction with clients whereby identity, as an emerging process, can form and be formed within consultant-client ...
The Design Space for Robot Appearance and Behaviour for Social Robot Companions
(2008-03-17)
To facilitate necessary task-based interactions and to avoid annoying or upsetting people a domestic robot will have to exhibit appropriate non-verbal social behaviour. Most current robots have the ability to sense and ...
Ethical Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Assurance Practice: A New Approach that Acknowledges Compromise, Trust and Relationality
(2008-02-25)
Assurance of corporate sustainability reports relies on the idea of a third-party assuror who is independent and objective. The assurance approaches typically used by accountancy companies have been developed over many ...
Development of an Ultra-Low Concentration Vapour Detection System Implemented in Microfluidics
(2008-02-12)
This thesis discusses the preliminary development of a microfluidic system for low
concentration vapour analysis incorporating a novel analyte preconcentration method to
extend vapour detection limits. The topicality of ...
Cognitive Processing of Threat Information in Female Eating Disorder Patients: The Role of Attentional Bias and Cognitive Avoidance
(2008-02-12)
This study considers and explores the relationship between eating disorders and the cognitive processes of attentional bias and cognitive avoidance. These processes are also considered in terms of their contribution to ...
Score-Level Fusion for Multimodal Biometrics
(2008-01-14)
This thesis describes research into the score-level fusion process in multimodal biometrics. The emphasis of the research is on the fusion of face and voice biometrics in the two recognition modes of verification and ...
Workplace Industrial Relations in the General Print Sector Covered by National Bargaining
(2008)
Set against a background of technological change, national bargaining and union merger, this thesis considers the impact of a changing structural, economic and political climate on the resilience of national pay bargaining ...
The development of a performance measurement methodology in support of the new product introduction process
(University of Hertfordshire, 2008)
This thesis describes the application of performance measurement indicators in New Product Introduction (NPI). The NPI process is important in any business context as a result of constant competition and market globalisation. ...
Pharmacological Analysis of Cannabinoid Receptor Activity in Isolated Nerve-Smooth Muscle and Epithelial Preparations
(2007-12-14)
This study was directed at characterising the cannabinoid receptor activity modulating the electrical field stimulation (EFS) evoked contractions of the rat isolated ileum myenteric plexus longitudinal muscle (MPLM) ...
The Development and Application of Computer-Adaptive Testing in a Higher Education Environment
(2007-12-07)
The research reported in this thesis investigated issues relating to the use of computer-assisted assessment in Higher Education through the design, implementation and evaluation of a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for the ...