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Impact Of Culture On Stock Market Development And Corporate Governance, Walaa Wahid Eldin Elkelish Jan 2007

Impact Of Culture On Stock Market Development And Corporate Governance, Walaa Wahid Eldin Elkelish

Plymouth Business School Theses

This study takes a step forward to explore the dynamic relationship between cultural values and stock market development in the United Kingdom, during the period 1991- 2004. Cultural values are represented by the cultural model of Hofstede (1980) which consists of five dimensions, which are: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity and time horizon. Stock market developmenti s representedb y four indicators, which are: stock market activity, size, liquidity and concentration. Empirical results, using structural equation modelling (SEM), show that some cultural values have significant relationships with stock market development indicators. Power distance has a significant negative relationship with stock …

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Soil Fertility And Productivity Relationships In Rice Production System, Bangladesh, S Rahman, Rj Parkinson Jan 2007

Soil Fertility And Productivity Relationships In Rice Production System, Bangladesh, S Rahman, Rj Parkinson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper presents an econometric analysis of the influence of soil fertility status on productivity and resource use in rice production utilizing survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Detailed crop husbandry input-output data were collected from 380 paddy rice (Oryza sativa) farmers. Data collected included fertilizer, pesticide, labour, animal power services, irrigation, farm capital assets and rice yield. The soil fertility status in each region was determined by analysis of soil organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentration. Analysis was based on a profit function, where the selected soil fertility parameters were incorporated as …

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Learning Through Ritual, R Brown Jan 2007

Learning Through Ritual, R Brown

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This paper considers how mitate, the act of drawing an analogy between two seemingly unrelated things, was used to give students a ‘way in’ to designing an addition to the main hall of a Shinto Shrine in Japan. The challenge of the project was to create places that celebrate local identity; yet without the opportunity to visit Japan, how then to avoid external preconceptions or misinterpretations, and to develop an awareness of another culture’s sensibilities towards the built environment, particularly concepts alien to a Western perspective? Using mitate, students engaged with Japanese beliefs and values through an exploration of the …

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Port Competitiveness In North East Asia : An Integrated Fuzzy Approach To Expert Evaluations, Gi-Tae Yeo Jan 2007

Port Competitiveness In North East Asia : An Integrated Fuzzy Approach To Expert Evaluations, Gi-Tae Yeo

Plymouth Business School Theses

Despite the fact that the Northeast Asia (NEA) region, which had four of the top five and 20 of the top 30 container ports in the world in 2003, can be regarded as holding a central position in liner shipping and the handling of container cargo volumes, very little research has been done into the evaluation of its port competitiveness (EPC). For this reason, the EPC in NEA can be regarded as a problematic and urgent issue to be solved, and worthy of academic attention. From this aspect, this research set out to attempt to address the above issue by …

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The Characteristics Of Sino-Taiwanese Joint Ventures In The People's Republic Of China, Chen-Yu James Liu Jan 2007

The Characteristics Of Sino-Taiwanese Joint Ventures In The People's Republic Of China, Chen-Yu James Liu

Plymouth Business School Theses

The main objective of this thesis is to shed light on the characteristics and performance of Sino-Taiwanese joint ventures (JVs) in the People's Republic of China and in particular to investigate the role played by guanxi (interpersonal relationships) in their formation and in the way they function. The research shows that guanxi enhances the effectiveness of Taiwanese joint venture partners by overcoming unanticipated external environmental factors and enabling them to deal with the complex internal managerial issues associated with the Chinese market. The different political and economic relations between Taiwan and China make the joint venture entry strategy attractive to …

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Skill Mix In Primary Care : Patient, Professional And Management Perpectives, Christine Branson Jan 2007

Skill Mix In Primary Care : Patient, Professional And Management Perpectives, Christine Branson

Plymouth Business School Theses

Aim: This research is a study into the organisation and management of health services in Torbay Care Trust. It takes an overview of skill mix in primary care, considering the topic from the perspective of service recipients (patients), providers (professionals) and shapers and resourcers (management). The topic focuses on delegation and service diversification involving general practitioners, their directly employed team and community nurses attached to practices. Between and within the groups there are areas of agreement but also divergence of opinions and the key issues to be explored emerge from the literature. Approach: The study takes a combined case study, …

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Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood Jan 2007

Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper examines the perceived shift from police to policing in developed world countries. It focuses on the development of multi-agency policing in rural Western Australia and, using ideas from governance theory, questions whether these partnerships are leading to more inclusive policing and new forms of rural governance. Evidence is taken from the development of a Rural Crime Prevention Strategy and interviews with various stakeholders in rural Australia. It is concluded that multi-agency work does offer a more inclusive way forward but that it is still mainly driven by government, rather than radical changes in rural society and power.

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The Ecology And Conservation Of The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena Phocoena) Along The West Coast Of The Uk, Lissa Goodwin Jan 2007

The Ecology And Conservation Of The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena Phocoena) Along The West Coast Of The Uk, Lissa Goodwin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Whilst the harbour porpoise {Phocoena phocoena) is the most j&equently observed cetacean in the UK, it. is at risk from habitat degradation, pollution, incidental capture in fishing nets and anthropogenic disturbance. UK, European and International initiatives have highlighted the conservation need to obtain a better understanding of this species. This research, conducted over 5 years (1999-2004) aimed to fiirther the scientific knowledge of the harbour porpoise in order to influence fiiture conservation initiatives. Studies into the relative abundance, density, distribution, habitat use and behaviour were conducted through combinations of shore- and boat-based research. Technical trials of a towed acoustic device …

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Characterisation Of Grain Quality Of Syrian Durum Wheat Genotypes Affecting Milling Performance And End-Use Quality, Jihad Samaan Jan 2007

Characterisation Of Grain Quality Of Syrian Durum Wheat Genotypes Affecting Milling Performance And End-Use Quality, Jihad Samaan

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Durum wheat is a strategic crop in Syria produced in high quantities and used mainly for the production of Arabic bread, bulgur and pasta. This investigation is the first known systematic study relating the grain quality of nine domestic cultivars to milling performance and pasta quality in order to map the Syrian durum wheat characteristics onto the world market requirements and hence determine the potential export development. Furthermore, it examines the influence of environment, genotype and their interaction on the physiochemical characteristics of five durum wheat cultivars grown in five different locations under rainfed and irrigated conditions in Syria. AACC …

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Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett Jan 2007

Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Contamination of the environment by petrogenic hydrocarbons continues to pose a threat to marine biota. Studies into the effects of hydrocarbon contamination have mainly been directed at a small number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are known to be highly toxic to a wide range of biota. The majority of the hydrocarbons present in sediments and tissues are unresolved by conventional gas chromatography and have received little attention. Studies directed at these unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons have previously identified the monoaromatic fraction as containing toxic UCM compounds. The studies reported herein have explored the toxicity of UCM …

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Ambiguous Women: Debates Within American Evangelical Feminism, A Syska Jan 2007

Ambiguous Women: Debates Within American Evangelical Feminism, A Syska

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This article is an analysis of major debates within American evangelical feminism since its emergence in early 1970s. It examines ways in which American evangelical feminists negotiate their identity in the daily struggle between the mundane and the sacred, home setting and church practice, and their private and public lives. Through presentation of personal stories and lived experiences it argues that evangelical feminists' ambiguity is a significant and powerful force that not only forges distinctive self-awareness among evangelical feminists, but also shapes diverse understandings of evangelical feminism and shifts the boundaries of both evangelicalism and feminism in America.

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Colour, Copies And Confinement, A Ilderton, M Lavelle, D Mcmullan Jan 2007

Colour, Copies And Confinement, A Ilderton, M Lavelle, D Mcmullan

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

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Analysis Of Supercritical Stratified Tidal Flow In A Scottish Fjord, Nataliya Stashchuk, Mark Inali, Vasiliy Vlasenko Jan 2007

Analysis Of Supercritical Stratified Tidal Flow In A Scottish Fjord, Nataliya Stashchuk, Mark Inali, Vasiliy Vlasenko

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The baroclinic tidal regime of the fjord Loch Etive (Scotland) is studied. Analysis is performed on the basis of both in situ data and numerical simulations, with the use of a fully nonlinear nonhydrostatic fine-resolution model. It was found that the crest of the sill that separates Loch Etive into inner and outer parts is subjected to a supercritical flow regime with maximum Froude numbers in excess of 5. Strong supercritical conditions lead to the formation of flow separation just above the sill's crest. As is inherent to jet-type fjordic systems, this, in turn, leads to a weak nonlinear baroclinic …

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Behavioural Syndromes In Brook Charr, Salvelinus Fontinalis: Prey-Search In The Field Corresponds With Space Use In Novel Laboratory Situations, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Robert L. Mclaughlin Jan 2007

Behavioural Syndromes In Brook Charr, Salvelinus Fontinalis: Prey-Search In The Field Corresponds With Space Use In Novel Laboratory Situations, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Robert L. Mclaughlin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Dose-Banding Of Carboplatin: Rationale And Proposed Banding Scheme, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner Jan 2007

Dose-Banding Of Carboplatin: Rationale And Proposed Banding Scheme, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

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The Fading Of Reported Effectiveness. A Meta-Analysis Of Randomised Controlled Trials, Bt Gehr, C Weiss, F Porzsolt Dec 2006

The Fading Of Reported Effectiveness. A Meta-Analysis Of Randomised Controlled Trials, Bt Gehr, C Weiss, F Porzsolt

More Faculty of Health Research

Abstract Background The "real" effect size of a medical therapy is constant over time. In contrast, the effect size reported in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) may change over time because the sum of all kinds of bias influencing the reported effectiveness is not necessarily constant. As this would affect the validity of meta-analyses, we tested the hypothesis that the reported effect size decreases over time. Furthermore, we tested three hypotheses that would explain a possible change. Methods Because of well established outcome measures, the lipid-lowering drugs Pravastatin and Atorvastatin (serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C) and the anti-glaucoma drugs Timolol and …

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Bend It Like Beckham: Embodying The Motor Skills Of Famous Athletes, P Bach, Sp Tipper Dec 2006

Bend It Like Beckham: Embodying The Motor Skills Of Famous Athletes, P Bach, Sp Tipper

School of Psychology

Observing an action activates the same representations as does the actual performance of the action. Here we show for the first time that the action system can also be activated in the complete absence of action perception. When the participants had to identify the faces of famous athletes, the responses were influenced by their similarity to the motor skills of the athletes. Thus, the motor skills of the viewed athletes were retrieved automatically during person identification and had a direct influence on the action system of the observer. However, our results also indicated that motor behaviours that are implicit characteristics …

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Can Learning Organizations Survive In The Newer Nhs?, Rod Sheaff, David Pilgrim Oct 2006

Can Learning Organizations Survive In The Newer Nhs?, Rod Sheaff, David Pilgrim

Peninsula Medical School

Background: This paper outlines the principal characteristics of a learning organisation and the organisational features that define it. It then compares these features with the organisational conditions that currently obtain, or are being created, within the British NHS. The contradictory development of recent British health policy, resulting in the NHS becoming both more marketised and more bureaucratised has correspondingly ambiguous implications for attempts to implement a 'learning organisation' model. Methods: Texts that define and debate the characteristics of a learning organisation were found by snowballing references from the founding learning organisation books and published papers, and then by searching a …

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Inclusion And Equity In Hpe Policy And Practice: An Evaluation Of School Responses Within Three Brisbane Catholic Education (Bce) Primary Schools., Tj Lynch Oct 2006

Inclusion And Equity In Hpe Policy And Practice: An Evaluation Of School Responses Within Three Brisbane Catholic Education (Bce) Primary Schools., Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

The 1999 Queensland P-10 Health and Physical Education syllabus adopted a socio-cultural approach to learning, underpinned by social justice principles which include diversity, equity and supportive environments. This approach has afforded HPE even greater relevance in Catholic schools. Successful implementation of inclusion and equity within the syllabus requires teachers to have an understanding of various pedagogies and an awareness of when to choose the most appropriate. This research has been designed within a constructionist paradigm. An interpretivist study was conducted employing symbolic interactionism. This qualitative, interpretive study is most appropriate as meanings were constructed. The case study methodology was chosen …

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Thinking About Current And Future Research In The Area Of Human Movement And Heath Education., Tj Lynch Jul 2006

Thinking About Current And Future Research In The Area Of Human Movement And Heath Education., Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

How is Health and Physical Education taught in primary schools? Paper presented to the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney (NSW).

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Report Of The Working Group On Deep-Water Ecology (Wgdec), 4-7 December 2005, Miami, Usa., Jm Hall-Spencer, M Tasker Feb 2006

Report Of The Working Group On Deep-Water Ecology (Wgdec), 4-7 December 2005, Miami, Usa., Jm Hall-Spencer, M Tasker

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Active Security Vulnerability Notification And Resolution, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alayed Jan 2006

Active Security Vulnerability Notification And Resolution, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alayed

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The early version of the Internet was designed for connectivity only, without the consideration of security, and the Internet is consequently an open structure. Networked systems are vulnerable for a number of reasons; design error, implementation, and management. A vulnerability is a hole or weak point that can be exploited to compromise the security of the system. Operating systems and applications are often vulnerable because of design errors. Software vendors release patches for discovered vulnerabilities, and rely upon system administrators to accept and install patches on their systems. Many system administrators fail to install patches on time, and consequently leave …

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Supplementary Prescribing By Pharmacists In England, Rj Hobson, Gj Sewell Jan 2006

Supplementary Prescribing By Pharmacists In England, Rj Hobson, Gj Sewell

School of Health Professions

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Stability Of Paclitaxel Infusions In Different Container Types, Gj Sewell, P Donyai Jan 2006

Stability Of Paclitaxel Infusions In Different Container Types, Gj Sewell, P Donyai

School of Health Professions

Objectives. To determine the physicochemical stability of generic (Teva Pharmaceuticals) paclitaxel infusions (0.3 and 1.2 mg/mL) in 0.9% sodium chloride or 5% glucose in polyolefin (Viaflo®), low-density polyethylene (Ecoflac®), and glass containers at 2-8 and 25°C. Methods. Paclitaxel infusions of various concentration/diluent/container combinations were prepared. Containers were light-protected and incubated at test temperatures with further analysis at predetermined intervals of 1-3 days for up to 30 days. Infusions were monitored for pH, weight loss, precipitation, colour change, and subvisual particulates as indicators of physical stability, and assayed for drug concentration to determine chemical stability. Results. Precipitation was the limiting factor. …

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Understanding Of The Variability Of Phytoplankton Ecosystem Function Properties: A Synergistic Use Of Remote Sensing And In Situ Data, Dionysios Raitsos-Exarchopoulos Jan 2006

Understanding Of The Variability Of Phytoplankton Ecosystem Function Properties: A Synergistic Use Of Remote Sensing And In Situ Data, Dionysios Raitsos-Exarchopoulos

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The majority of the earth's surface (-71%) is covered by the aquatic environment where 97% of that is the oceanic regime. Almost every part of the aquatic regime is dominated by microscopic plants called phytoplankton. Being at the bottom of the food chain, these ecological drivers influence the earth's climate system as well as the biodiversity trends of other organisms such as zooplankton, fish, sea birds and marine mammals. The aim of this research was to understand the ecology of phytoplankton and assess which environmental, physical, biological, and spatiotemporal factors influence their distribution and abundance. Using this information a knowledge-based …

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Foraminiferal And Stable Isotope Investigation Of The Cenomanian-Turonian Extinction And Oceanic Anoxic Event, Jodie Fisher Jan 2006

Foraminiferal And Stable Isotope Investigation Of The Cenomanian-Turonian Extinction And Oceanic Anoxic Event, Jodie Fisher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The Cretaceous was a time of significant global change, particularly around the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary (CTB) (93.5 Ma). The mid-Cretaceous is considered to mark a period of intense global warming related to widespread tectonic activity, leading to periods of high sea level and no polar ice. This had great effects on the ocean's structure, chemistry and circulation, and led to both extinction and diversification of biota. At the time of the CTB a number of events occurred. Particularly well researched is the oceanic anoxic event (OAE 2) and the organic-rich black shales deposited during this interval. Associated with these organic-rich sediments …

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European Integration And European Identity : Case Study : The European Dimension In Secondary Schooling, Sandra Barkhof Jan 2006

European Integration And European Identity : Case Study : The European Dimension In Secondary Schooling, Sandra Barkhof

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis explores some of the issues concerning the concept of European identity. In particular, the aim is to assess how far school education is a suitable method to foster a European identity and support for European integration. In this context, the thesis aims to investigate whether the historic and more recent political and national developments in England and Germany have resulted in different attitudes to European integration, European identity and subsequently to a European dimension in education. The analysis also compares the general attitude towards national and European identity and European integration in England and Germany and assesses if …

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The Navy As The Ultimate Guarantor Of Freedom In 1940?, Anthony John Cumming Jan 2006

The Navy As The Ultimate Guarantor Of Freedom In 1940?, Anthony John Cumming

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The widely held public view that Britain was saved from invasion during 1940 because the RAF denied the Luftwaffe control of the air is challenged here. Although the heroism of `the few' is not in question, the ability of Fighter Command to act as a serious physical barrier to German plans is refuted with the Luftwaffe holding the initiative between 24 August and 6 September and its ability to bomb Britain by night for months virtually unopposed. Archival and other evidence show that even without adequate fighter cover, the Royal Navy retained considerable potential to resist German air attacks on …

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An Enquiry Into Fully Lived Moments, Philip Hawkins Jan 2006

An Enquiry Into Fully Lived Moments, Philip Hawkins

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The thesis explores facets of human agency and fully lived moments in the Cobra group, the ideas of Henri Lefebvre, and the ideas of Victor Burgin and psychoanalysis. Connective elements, and their relevance or not, through different disciplines, are a central part of its thinking. To this end some connections are found, some speculative connections are tracked, and there are some ideas that don't connect, yet come close to doing so but which become valuable for the examination of productive tensions and excesses about the lived in a cross-disciplinary enquiry. To begin with, an original set of historical and thematic …

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Reading Neuroscience: Ventriloquism As A Metaphor For Multiple Readings Of Self, David Evans Jan 2006

Reading Neuroscience: Ventriloquism As A Metaphor For Multiple Readings Of Self, David Evans

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis argues that the consensus models of self forwarded and upheld in the fields of discourse most concerned with its description, indicate a process of ventriloquism where agency slips between dual poles of body and mind and cannot be tracked to a hiding place. Just as with ventriloquism, in these models of self it is unclear who is doing the 'talking', and the skill of performance would seem to make the distinction almost redundant. The self seems a complicity of often conflicting agents when analysed as its constituent parts, and not there at all when viewed as a whole. …

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