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Analysis Of Marketing Strategies In Polish Ports, Aleksandra Urszula Pieczek
Analysis Of Marketing Strategies In Polish Ports, Aleksandra Urszula Pieczek
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
The service sector of economy is a field of growing interest to marketing research and in particular such services as provided by seaports. However, these activities have rarely been considered to date. This project consists of three parts. Firstly a review of service marketing approaches, their status and development, the nature of marketing strategies and the marketing mix had to be provided. Also the development of marketing in seaports had to be examined. The focal elements discussed were the elements of the services provided by seaports, and competition between them in the context of Poland Secondly the situation in Eastern …
Live Interpretation: An Asset, Or An Indulgence? In The Fields Of Education And Entertainment, How Valuable Is Live Interpretation As An Effective Tool Of Communication?, Dawn Helen Stevens
Live Interpretation: An Asset, Or An Indulgence? In The Fields Of Education And Entertainment, How Valuable Is Live Interpretation As An Effective Tool Of Communication?, Dawn Helen Stevens
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This thesis aims to assess the value of live interpretation as a tool of communication, by treating it as a form of design, and by comparing examples of practice in the field with other contemporary design techniques. Chapter two lists a selection of active practitioners across the field of informal and formal education, and entertainment within the area of Britain's cultural heritage. It provides a taste of the professional industry, and includes information like how many interpreters are employed, what techniques they favour, and what educational programmes they run. Likewise in the voluntary /hobbyist sector, the chapter notes membership numbers, …
Writing The Real: The Collages Of Hannelore Baron, Valerie James Reardon
Writing The Real: The Collages Of Hannelore Baron, Valerie James Reardon
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
Baron's work has not been extensively studied nor is it known in full. Critical writings and scholarly attention have focused on the work as representative of Holocaust suffering. This thesis intervenes in that assumption by arguing that it is possible to understand Baron's processes of making collage as a significant case study in the problematic of signification and a complex of differences none of which are reducible to or deducible from each other. Drawing together a range of biographical information, primary source material and close readings of many of Baron's collages (including two hitherto unseen series) traces are revealed of …
Acts Of Writing: Writings On Contemporary Performance, Richard David Allsopp
Acts Of Writing: Writings On Contemporary Performance, Richard David Allsopp
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
The work published between 1992- 2000 and presented here forms a continuing meditation on, and exploration of contemporary performance. The term 'contemporary performance' is used to refer to practices and discourses in the performance arts that have occurred over the last decade. There is a particular emphasis on those unstable, hybrid and interdisciplinary areas of performance (including performance art, installation, 'new' dance, 'experimental' theatre, 'live' art) which resist easy definition or categorisation, and which may be further characterised as postmodern in the sense of a reflexive, contextualised and knowingly problematic practice. More specifically the work builds a sustained thesis on …
Processing Writing: From Text To Textual Interventions, Caroline Bergvall
Processing Writing: From Text To Textual Interventions, Caroline Bergvall
Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses
This submission comprises the main bulk of the critical and textual work I have researched and developed over the last five years. Throughout this period, I have been particularly interested in exploring issues of interdisciplinarity for writers and text-practitioners, at both a critical and a methodological level. An interest in cross-media and site-related approaches to writing plays an important role in this. This is reflected in the thematics of the various critical texts, as well as in the fairly broad range of textual modes submitted. As a whole, this work can be seen in close continuity with my pedagogical involvement …
The Roles Of Motivation And Ability In Controlling The Consequences Of Stereotype Suppression, Na Wyer, Jw Sherman, Sj Stroessner
The Roles Of Motivation And Ability In Controlling The Consequences Of Stereotype Suppression, Na Wyer, Jw Sherman, Sj Stroessner
School of Psychology
Two experiments investigated the conditions under which previously suppressed stereotypes are applied in impression formation. In Experiment 1, the extent to which a previously suppressed racial stereotype influenced subsequent impressions depended on the race of the target who was subsequently encountered. Whereas impressions of race-unspecified targets were assimilated to the stereotype following its suppression, no such effects were observed when the target belonged to the racial group whose stereotype had been initially suppressed. These results demonstrate that when perceivers are motivated to avoid stereotyping individuals, the influence of a stereotype that has been previously activated through suppression is minimized. Experiment …
Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling, James Antony Craen
Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling, James Antony Craen
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Resin infusion under flexible tooling (RIFT) can be considered to be a variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM) in which one stiff mould face is replaced by a flexible film. It is seen as an alternative to conventional hand lay-up techniques as it offers many benefits, particularly with regards to health and safety whilst not involving the high tooling costs of a change to RTM. It is a vacuum driven process and as such fibre compaction may occur during vacuum bag preparation, prior to resin infusion and during resin infusion. The aim of the work was to examine the effect …
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems For Conceptual Design, Dragan Cvetkovic
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems For Conceptual Design, Dragan Cvetkovic
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
In this thesis the problem of conceptual engineering design and the possible use of adaptive search techniques and other machine based methods therein are explored. For the multi-objective optimisation (MOO) within conceptual design problem, genetic algorithms (GA) adapted to MOO are used and various techniques explored: weighted sums, lexicographic order, Pareto method with and without ranking, VEGA-like approaches etc. Large number of runs are performed for findingZ Dth e optimal configuration and setting of the GA parameters. A novel method, weighted Pareto method is introduced and applied to a real-world optimisation problem. Decision support methods within conceptual engineering design framework …
Optimisation And Decision Support During The Conceptual Stage Of Building Design, Jim David Mathews
Optimisation And Decision Support During The Conceptual Stage Of Building Design, Jim David Mathews
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Modern building design is complex and involves many different disciplines operating in a fragmented manner. Appropriate computer-based decision support (DS) tools are sought that can raise the level of integration of different activities at the conceptual stage, in order to help create better designs solutions. This project investigates opportunities that exist for using techniques based upon the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to support critical activities of conceptual building design (CBD). Collective independent studies have shown that the GA is a powerful optimisation and exploratory search technique with widespread application. The GA is essentially very simple yet it offers robustness and domain …
The Effects Of Hydrology And Nutrient Inputs At South Milton Ley On The Ecology Of The Common Reed Phragmites Australis (Cav. Trin. Ex Steudal), Paula Angele Powell
The Effects Of Hydrology And Nutrient Inputs At South Milton Ley On The Ecology Of The Common Reed Phragmites Australis (Cav. Trin. Ex Steudal), Paula Angele Powell
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
South Milton Ley is a small coastal wetland in Southern England. A sand-bar forms periodically at its seaward end and separates fresh water from the sea. The common reed Phragmites australis dominates the wetland and when a sand bar is present a shallow freshwater lake forms. Monthly water budgets were prepared for the years 1994, 1995 and 1996 and intermittent flooding of the Ley was also monitored. This information was used to calculate a range of residence times (between one hour and eleven days) and the characteristics of various flow regimes when the sandbar, which dams the Ley, is open …
Limaria Hians (Mollusca: Limacea): A Neglected Reef-Forming Keystone Species, J. M. Hall-Spencer, P. G. Moore
Limaria Hians (Mollusca: Limacea): A Neglected Reef-Forming Keystone Species, J. M. Hall-Spencer, P. G. Moore
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
1. The case is made for recognition of the marine bivalve Limaria hians as a reef-forming species, which plays a key architectural role in certain benthic communities around the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2. This species uses byssal threads to construct nests that can coalesce to form reefs that cover hectares of seabed, contain multiple conspecifies and bind sediment. In so doing, L. hians modifies physical, chemical and biological processes at the sediment-water interface. 3. Such nests support a high diversity of associated organisms in coarse-grade sediments (19 species of algae and 265 species of invertebrates from six discrete nests …
Scallop Dredging Has Profound, Long-Term Impacts On Maerl Habitats, J. M. Hall-Spencer, P. G. Moore
Scallop Dredging Has Profound, Long-Term Impacts On Maerl Habitats, J. M. Hall-Spencer, P. G. Moore
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Tgf-Beta And Ifn-Gamma Direct Macrophage Activation By Tnf-Alpha To Osteoclastic Or Cytocidal Phenotype., Sw Fox, K Fuller, Ke Bayley, Tj Chambers
Tgf-Beta And Ifn-Gamma Direct Macrophage Activation By Tnf-Alpha To Osteoclastic Or Cytocidal Phenotype., Sw Fox, K Fuller, Ke Bayley, Tj Chambers
School of Biomedical Sciences
No abstract provided.
Performance Characteristics Of A Low-Cost, Field-Deployable Miniature Ccd Spectrometer., S. Coles, M. Nimmo, P. J. Worsfold
Performance Characteristics Of A Low-Cost, Field-Deployable Miniature Ccd Spectrometer., S. Coles, M. Nimmo, P. J. Worsfold
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Miniature spectrometers incorporating array detectors are becoming a viable, low-cost option for field and process deployments. The performance characteristics of one such instrument are reported and compared with those of a conventional benchtop instrument. The parameters investigated were wavelength repeatability, photometric linearity, instrumental noise (photometric precision) and instrumental drift.
Performance Characteristics Of A Low-Cost, Field-Deployable Miniature Ccd Spectrometer, S Coles, M Nimmo, Pj Worsfold
Performance Characteristics Of A Low-Cost, Field-Deployable Miniature Ccd Spectrometer, S Coles, M Nimmo, Pj Worsfold
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Miniature spectrometers incorporating array detectors are becoming a viable, low-cost option for field and process deployments. The performance characteristics of one such instrument are reported and compared with those of a conventional benchtop instrument. The parameters investigated were wavelength repeatability, photometric linearity, instrumental noise (photometric precision) and instrumental drift.
Evolutionary Decomposition Of Complex Design Spaces, Christopher Richard Bonham
Evolutionary Decomposition Of Complex Design Spaces, Christopher Richard Bonham
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This dissertation investigates the support of conceptual engineering design through the decomposition of multi-dimensional search spaces into regions of high performance. Such decomposition helps the designer identify optimal design directions by the elimination of infeasible or undesirable regions within the search space. Moreover, high levels of interaction between the designer and the model increases overall domain knowledge and significantly reduces uncertainty relating to the design task at hand. The aim of the research is to develop the archetypal Cluster Oriented Genetic Algorithm (COGA) which achieves search space decomposition by using variable mutation (vmCOGA) to promote diverse search and an Adaptive …
A Predictive Fuzzy-Neural Autopilot For The Guidance Of Small Motorised Marine Craft, Ralph Richter
A Predictive Fuzzy-Neural Autopilot For The Guidance Of Small Motorised Marine Craft, Ralph Richter
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This thesis investigates the design and evaluation of a control system, that is able to adapt quickly to changes in environment and steering characteristics. This type of controller is particularly suited for applications with wide-ranging working conditions such as those experienced by small motorised craft. A small motorised craft is assumed to be highly agile and prone to disturbances, being thrown off-course very easily when travelling at high speed 'but rather heavy and sluggish at low speeds. Unlike large vessels, the steering characteristics of the craft will change tremendously with a change in forward speed. Any new design of autopilot …
Design Models For Multimedia Learning Environments Based On Interactive Drama, Thomas John Rogers
Design Models For Multimedia Learning Environments Based On Interactive Drama, Thomas John Rogers
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Interactive multimedia offers a degree of richness that lies outside the scope of conventional design methods for computer based learning. This research seeks to develop an interdisciplinary approach to design, that recognises the ways in which the combination and integration of different media forms can be exploited to stimulate experiential, intuitive, perceptual, and social/communicative aspects of learning. The goal of the project has been to develop a conceptual design model for the development of multimedia learning environments (MLEs), for humanistic learning applications, by using interactive drama. The models and methods developed though a practical design project have been founded upon …
On Turbo Codes And Other Concatenated Schemes In Communication Systems, Adrian Ambroze
On Turbo Codes And Other Concatenated Schemes In Communication Systems, Adrian Ambroze
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
The advent of turbo codes in 1993 represented a significant step towards realising the ultimate capacity limit of a communication channel, breaking the link that was binding very good performance with exponential decoder complexity. Turbo codes are parallel concatenated convolutional codes, decoded with a suboptimal iterative algorithm. The complexity of the iterative algorithm increases only linearly with block length, bringing previously unprecedented performance within practical limits.. This work is a further investigation of turbo codes and other concatenated schemes such as the multiple parallel concatenation and the serial concatenation. The analysis of these schemes has two important aspects, their performance …
Development Of The Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna (Rapd) Technique To Measure The Effects Of Genotoxinsin Aquatic Organisms, Franck Andre Atienzar
Development Of The Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna (Rapd) Technique To Measure The Effects Of Genotoxinsin Aquatic Organisms, Franck Andre Atienzar
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Studies were undertaken to evaluate the potential of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) to detect DNA effects (including DNA damage and mutations) in aquatic invertebrates, following their exposure to a variety of environmental contaminants under laboratory conditions. After rigorous optimisation of the RAPD method, the protocol, which used a high annealing temperature (50"C for 10-mer primers), was found to generate good-quality DNA profiles from groups of organisms belonging to the bacterial, plant and animal kingdoms. The RAPD method was initially used to detect benzo(a)pyrene [B(a)P] and copper-induced DNA effects in the water flea Daphnia magna and ultraviolet-mediated DNA effects in …
Spatial Variation In Zooplankton Size And Taxonomic Community Structure Along A 50ºn To 50°S Transect Of The Atlantic, Rachel Sarah Woodd-Walker
Spatial Variation In Zooplankton Size And Taxonomic Community Structure Along A 50ºn To 50°S Transect Of The Atlantic, Rachel Sarah Woodd-Walker
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Zooplankton play a vital role in the world's oceans in terms of transport of carbon out of the surface layer and providing food for fish. Zooplankton are patchily distributed on all scales, and this has important consequences for both sampling and understanding their role in the ocean. The distribution of zooplankton on different scales forms the focus of this study. Three Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) cruises were carried out and data made available from three previous cruises. Zoo plankton data were collected using a combination of vertical nets and using an optical plankton counter (OPC) sampling from the pumped seawater …
From Rivers To Oceans: A Comparison Of Contrasting Aquatic Ecosystems Using Benthic Size Spectra, Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Abada
From Rivers To Oceans: A Comparison Of Contrasting Aquatic Ecosystems Using Benthic Size Spectra, Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Abada
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
This thesis uses a range of different size spectra to compare contrasting benthic habitats in the aquatic realm. Temporal and spatial variation in benthic size spectra were investigated across a full salinity gradient (i.e. from freshwater, through estuarine to marine) in the River Yealm, south Devon, in order to gauge the influence of large differences in taxonomy and evolutionary history. Abundance and biomass size spectra showed a similar pattern among sites in all seasons but winter, suggesting that the size structure of benthic communities may be similar in sites with very different community compositions. A subsequent study comparing size spectra …
1989 Revolutions In East-Central Europe : A Comparative Analysis, Ruth Rodda
1989 Revolutions In East-Central Europe : A Comparative Analysis, Ruth Rodda
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses
There is a substantial amount of existing literature that focuses on the revolutionary events of 1989 in East-Central Europe. Yet, there are few comparisons which apply a comparative-historical approach to a small set of cases. A large body of existing literature provides the ideal situation for a comparative-historical study. This thesis will test the utility of applying a comparative-historical methodological approach to the events of 1989 in four countries in East-Central Europe. The four countries are paired into two cases. The case of Poland and Hungary is compared with the case of Bulgaria and Romania. A theoretical frame of reference …
Large-Scale Temporal And Spatial Patterns Of Marine Phytoplankton In The North-East Atlantic, Martin Edwards
Large-Scale Temporal And Spatial Patterns Of Marine Phytoplankton In The North-East Atlantic, Martin Edwards
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Phytoplankton constitute the main algal biomass in pelagic ecosystems and, therefore, play a fundamental role in the functioning of the marine trophic web. Information on long-term trends in marine phytoplankton may help to distinguish between biological responses to natural oscillations in climate and global warming, and to evaluate possible regional effects of eutrophication. The aim of this work was to contribute to the general understanding of how phytoplankton are spatio-temporally structured at the large-scale. To achieve this aim, the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey data were used to identify the dominant large-scale spatial patterns of phytoplankton in north-western European continental …
Survey Of Home Infusion Care In England, J Loader, G Sewell, S Gammie
Survey Of Home Infusion Care In England, J Loader, G Sewell, S Gammie
School of Health Professions
No abstract provided.
Seeing More Than We Can Know: Visual Attention And Category Activation, Cn Macrae, Gv Bodenhausen, Ab Milne, G Calvini
Seeing More Than We Can Know: Visual Attention And Category Activation, Cn Macrae, Gv Bodenhausen, Ab Milne, G Calvini
School of Psychology
Extending existing work on the conditional automaticity of category activation, the present research investigated the extent to which category activation is moderated by the resolution of visual attention. As visual attention gates access to material in semantic memory, so too should it regulate the activation of social categories when triggering verbal labels are encountered. Accordingly, only when triggering stimuli fall within the spotlight of attention did we expect category activation to occur. The results of two studies supported this prediction. We consider the implications of our findings for recent treatments of category automaticity.
Optimization Of An Automated Fi-Ft-Ir Procedure For The Determination Of O-Xylene, Toluene And Ethyl Benzene In N-Hexane, Ian Wells, Paul J. Worsfold
Optimization Of An Automated Fi-Ft-Ir Procedure For The Determination Of O-Xylene, Toluene And Ethyl Benzene In N-Hexane, Ian Wells, Paul J. Worsfold
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development and optimization of an automated flow injection (FI) manifold coupled with a Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) detector for the determination of toluene, ethyl benzene and o-xylene in an n-hexane matrix is described. FT-IR parameters optimized were resolution and number of co-added scans; FI parameters optimized were type of pump tubing, carrier flow rate and sample volume. ATR and transmission flow cells were compared for the determination of o-xylene, the ATR cell was easier to use and gave better figures of merit, except for sensitivity, for which the transmission cell was twice as good. Multivariate calibration routines were applied …
Upogebia Deltaura (Crustacea: Thalassinidea) In Clyde Sea Maerl Beds, Scotland, J. M. Hall-Spencer, R. J.A. Atkinson
Upogebia Deltaura (Crustacea: Thalassinidea) In Clyde Sea Maerl Beds, Scotland, J. M. Hall-Spencer, R. J.A. Atkinson
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Rapido Trawling For Scallops, Pecten Jacobaeus (L.), On The Benthos Of The Gulf Of Venice, J. M. Hall-Spencer, C. Froglia, R. J.A. Atkinson, P. G. Moore
The Impact Of Rapido Trawling For Scallops, Pecten Jacobaeus (L.), On The Benthos Of The Gulf Of Venice, J. M. Hall-Spencer, C. Froglia, R. J.A. Atkinson, P. G. Moore
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Advanced Magnetic Thin-Film Heads Under Read-While-Write Operation, Frank Zhigang Wang
Advanced Magnetic Thin-Film Heads Under Read-While-Write Operation, Frank Zhigang Wang
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
A Read-While-Write (RWW) operation for tape and/or potentially disk applications is needed in the following three cases: 1. High reliability; 2. Data servo systems; 3. Buried servo systems. All these applications mean that the read (servo) head and write head are operative simultaneously. Consequently, RWW operation will require work to suppress the so-called crossfeed field radiation from the write head. Traditionally, write-read crossfeed has been reduced in conventional magnetic recording heads by a variety of screening methods, but the effectness of these methods is very limited. On the other hand, the early theoretical investigations of the crossfeed problem concentrating on …