UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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The effect of airborne dust on astronomical polarization measurements
(2008-05-11)In the past, it has generally been assumed that polarization observations made with ground-based telescopes are unaffected by the passage of light through the Earth's atmosphere. Here, we report observations with a new ... -
Quantifying the imprint of a severe Hector thunderstorm during ACTIVE/SCOUT-O3 onto the water content in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere
(2009)The development of a severe Hector thunderstorm that formed over the Tiwi Islands, north of Australia, during the Aerosol and Chemical Transport in Tropical Convection/Stratospheric-Climate Links with Emphasis on the Upper ... -
A comparison of fuzzy strategies for corporate acquisition analysis
(2007)Analysing all prospective companies for acquisition in large market sectors is an onerous task. A strategy that results in a shortlist of companies that meet certain basic criteria is required. The short-listed companies ... -
Individual Perspectives in Family Therapy: a Comparison of Perspectives
(2012-12-20)There has been relatively little robust research investigating the experience of family therapy from a client’s perspective. Much of the literature fails to make clear their methods for analysing the data, and takes an ... -
Trade union responses to migrant workers from the 'new Europe' : a three sector comparison in Norway, Germany and the UK
(2012-12)This article compares trade union strategies towards migrant workers from the ‘new Europe’. The analysis focuses on three sectors in the UK, Norway and Germany. We conclude that trade union responses to these migrant workers ... -
Cognitive behaviour therapy : from rationalism to constructivism?
(2008)Treatment guidelines indicate that the treatment of choice for most psychological problems is cognitive-behavioural therapy. This paper suggests that there are alternative constructions of the evidence base from which such ... -
Self-construing in former child soldiers
(2012)This article presents a repertory grid study of young people who had experienced civil war in Sierra Leone, some as child soldiers and others as noncombatants. Unexpected findings included that the former combatants viewed ... -
Family characteristics and long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse
(2011-11)Objectives. This study investigated the role of family variables in the development of psychological problems in childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors, contributing to the debate between the 'abuse related' perspective, ... -
Is trauma the product of over- or under-elaboration? : A critique of the personal construct model of posttraumatic stress disorder
(2009)A clinical sample of people diagnosed with PTSD (n = 36) was tested using repertory grids and questionnaires. The study examined the viability of the personal construct model of PTSD (Sewell et al., 1996). Results did not ... -
TV's Betty Goes Global : From Telenovela to International Brand
(I.B. Tauris, 2012-10-01)Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous Betty Suarez is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in ... -
Children's behaviour and cognitions across different balance tasks
(2008-02)Children's understanding of the way objects balance has provided important insights about cognitive development [e.g., Karmil-off-Smith, A. (1992). Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. ... -
A dynamic model of the effects of project complexity on time to complete construction projects
(2011-12-01)The aim of this paper if to investigate the factors driving project complexity in construction projects and how they impact on project cycle time. This issue has been addressed by building a framework for project complexity ... -
Ice-marginal sediment delivery to the surface of a high-arctic glacier: Austre Broggerbreen, Svalbard
(2010)Enhanced delivery of water-saturated, ice-marginal sediments to the glacier surface is a response to glacier thinning that has the potential to increase both levels of sediment transfer through the glacier hydrological ... -
Recent High-Arctic glacial sediment redistribution : a process perspective using airborne lidar
(2010)Progressive glacier thinning, retreat and mass loss in the High-Arctic is increasingly exposing forefield sediments to processes of mobilisation and redistribution. In this paper, we quantify forefield sediment redistribution ... -
A re-vision of Ukrainian identity : Tatyana Yablonskaya's Corn 1949
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Soviet Superwoman in the Landscape of Liberty : Aleksandr Deineka's Razdol'e, 1944
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Material World : the Myth of the Weightless Economy
(1999)The task I have set myself in this essay is to re-embody cyberspace: to try to make visible the material components of this virtual world. In this, I find myself rather oddly positioned. Having been arguing for over two ... -
Implications for conservation biocontrol of spatio-temporal relationships between carabid beetles and coleopterous pests in winter oilseed rape
(2008)1: The spatio-temporal distributions of predatory carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and their potential prey, the larvae of three coleopterous pests, Meligethes aeneus (Fabricius) and Ceutorhynchus spp. [Ceutorhynchus ... -
Decision support for optimising energy consumption in European greenhouses
(2008)Improving existing greenhouse structures in terms of insulation and other features can save energy with significantly lower investment costs than building new greenhouses. Within the EU Framework VI project GREENERGY a ...