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Musicology And Mediation: An Examination Of The Cultural Materialisms Of Raymond Williams And Pierre Bourdieu In Relation To The Fields Of Contemporary Music And Musicology, With A Case Study Of Arvo Part And Ecm, Tom Begbie Jan 2008

Musicology And Mediation: An Examination Of The Cultural Materialisms Of Raymond Williams And Pierre Bourdieu In Relation To The Fields Of Contemporary Music And Musicology, With A Case Study Of Arvo Part And Ecm, Tom Begbie

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis examines the usefulness of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams for discussions of material mediation in musicology. In part I, I focus on Bourdieu's discussions of cultural production as set out in The Rules of Art and "The Field of Cultural Production", and reconstruct the terms of Williams's late theoretical project. In establishing the terms of these projects, I draw a parallel between their attempts to materialize the categories of Marx's superstructure - noting in Williams's subsequent use of a revised Marxist production paradigm a proximity to the work of Adorno - before noting the differences …

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Speaking Of Gender, Language And Identity: Writing The Personal, Barbara Bridger Jan 2008

Speaking Of Gender, Language And Identity: Writing The Personal, Barbara Bridger

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis features a range of texts that exemplify my practice. They include experimental prose, poetry, hybrid forms of writing that merge theory and practice, and scripts for live performance and digital film. To these examples I apply an autobiographical writing method, one that simultaneously reflects and creates, in an enquiry designed to uncover the detail and complexity of my writing motivation through a discursive account of its context. In a process that acknowledges the centrality of language to the construction of female identity, I begin by exploring the importance of autobiography to both my writing and this thesis. Next …

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Policing Partnerships: An Investigation Into The Police Response To Partnership Working In The Wake Of The 1998 Crime And Disorder Act, Stuart David Lander Jan 2008

Policing Partnerships: An Investigation Into The Police Response To Partnership Working In The Wake Of The 1998 Crime And Disorder Act, Stuart David Lander

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis is based upon empirical research, which explores how the police service in one Constabulary area has accommodated the mandate to work in crime prevention partnerships with other agencies, following the implementation of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. The focus is specifically upon crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRPs). The research is based upon a multi-method research design. It draws most heavily upon data obtained from semi-structured interviews with police officers holding varying experiences of crime prevention partnership working across one Constabulary area. It also analyses official documents, and draws upon the results of a short survey combined …

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Developing A Homelessness Prediction Model, Louise Forty Jan 2008

Developing A Homelessness Prediction Model, Louise Forty

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The purpose of this research was to produce a model to predict levels of homelessness within a local authority area. The research considered data on a wide range of issues embedded in theory and supported by the literature as being common precedents to homelessness. Areas of investigation included housing, migration, poverty, deinstitutionalisation. ethnicity, poor health, drug abuse, sex and age, relationship breakdown as well as general variables profiling the area. Data was compared both to the numbers of homeless decisions made within a local authority area as well as the numbers of those decisions that resulted in the full homeless …

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Investigation Into Land-Use Change In Two Contrasting Areas In The Nile Delta, Egypt, Rawad S. Echtaie Jan 2008

Investigation Into Land-Use Change In Two Contrasting Areas In The Nile Delta, Egypt, Rawad S. Echtaie

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Understanding land-use change in developing countries, particularly those situated in environmentally vulnerable and and semi-arid zones, is crucial given the considerable pressures arising due to rapid population growth, climate change and desertification. The purpose of this research was to investigate the main drivers affecting land-use change in the eastern part of the Nile Delta, Egypt in the last two decades. Two contrasting cities in the region were selected for detailed analysis. Almansourah is an ancient settlement relatively close to the Damietta branch of the Nile whereas Alzaqazig is a recent development and the surrounding area was reclaimed from the desert. …

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A Sociological Critique Of 'Grand Narratives' In The History Of Hospice And Palliative Care, Mary Curtis Jan 2008

A Sociological Critique Of 'Grand Narratives' In The History Of Hospice And Palliative Care, Mary Curtis

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis is a sociological history and critique of hospice and palliative care: their goals, narratives, and social, clinical and ethical practices. Hospice developed in Britain as a result of and challenge to interventionist biomedicine within hospitals where dying came to be viewed as medical failure. From the mid twentieth century hospice was promoted as a 'philosophy of care' that had at its locus a concept of 'whole' person family care for people who are dying. For the first tune patients and then: relatives became the unit of care. Henceforth, hospice established for itself three major 'goals'; (1) hoUstic symptom …

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Marlow Moss (1889-1958), Lucy Harriet Amy Howarth Jan 2008

Marlow Moss (1889-1958), Lucy Harriet Amy Howarth

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis is the first full-length academic study of Marlow Moss in English. The methodology of this research has been to combine biographical, historical, and analytical approaches, and the chapters (a literature review; a biographical account; an examination of gender I identity issues; a European art historical perspective; a British art historical perspective; and a critical analysis of Moss's oeuvre), function as thematic lenses through which to view Moss. It could seem that Moss's historical position, a British artist working in Europe and a European-influenced artist working in England, should have secured her a more prominent role in the history …

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Building Positive Peace? : A Gendered Analysis Of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 On Women, Peace And Security, Annette M. Elliott Jan 2008

Building Positive Peace? : A Gendered Analysis Of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 On Women, Peace And Security, Annette M. Elliott

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) forms part of the United Nations approach to international peacebuilding. Whereas the resolution has been critiqued in terms of its implementation, there is a gap in the existing analysis concerning a deeper critical understanding of gender and the significant link between the constructions of gender and cultures of violence and peace. Grounded in a theoretical framework of a gendered analysis of peacebuilding theory, the empirical research combines policy analysis and qualitative interviews in order to examine how the concept of gender is understood within peacebuilding policy and how this impacts on implementation. Using the principle …

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Accountability And Democracy In The New Local Governance : An Evaluation, Michael Stephen Cole Jan 2008

Accountability And Democracy In The New Local Governance : An Evaluation, Michael Stephen Cole

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis addressesth e themeso f the democracya nd accountability of British local governance, in the context of the modernising agenda, through an evaluation of research in five areas: the role(s) of local councillors; external scrutiny inquiries; consultations; community appraisals; and changes to local boundaries. Key issues in relation to democracy and accountability include the role of external scrutiny in holding the unelected local state accountable to elected representatives; updating the literature on the activities of county councillors; and assessingth e limited impact of local authority consultations and community appraisals. In particular, the assessmenot f consultations suggestsa processt hat is …

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Politicizing A Film Practice, Gary Anderson Jan 2008

Politicizing A Film Practice, Gary Anderson

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This is a practice-based Ph. D. in filmmaking and concerns the generation of a radical film practice. It is situated in the field of no-budget experimental film and video making and deploys a combination of deconstruction and critical perspectives of cultural production in the construction of its modus operandi. The contribution to knowledge is in two parts. First the bringing together in a film practice established and various knowledges from other areas; contemporary and historical experimental film and video, observational documentary and amateur film practices, specifically Home Movies, in connection to established but various extant modes of reading that material. …

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Family And Other Relations A Thesis Examining The Extent To Which Family Relationships Shape The Relations Of Art., Penelope Dalton Jan 2008

Family And Other Relations A Thesis Examining The Extent To Which Family Relationships Shape The Relations Of Art., Penelope Dalton

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis is sited in contemporary issues concerning gender and identity in relation to the arts. It aims to examine the nature of the family and the extent to which relationships and identities in the family might be analogous to the relations of fine art; these include relations between the artist and the artwork, between what is defined as 'art' and what is not, between the artwork and the viewer. It also touches on some of the other, innumerable relationships encountered in the arts: relations of materials form, feeling, thinking and making. The thesis contains a discussion of the nature …

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Musical Composition Focusing On The Quality Of Presence In Performance, Ruth Wiesenfeld Jan 2008

Musical Composition Focusing On The Quality Of Presence In Performance, Ruth Wiesenfeld

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This practice-based research into the quality of presence in performance explores a compositional approach that originates from the question of what might lead a person to seek musical or sounding utterance. It aims at opening the awareness-space towards a listening not only to the musical-acoustic event, but to the performer as a whole. Consequently different forms of notation and processes of rehearsing that address the psycho-physical constitution of a performer are investigated; a strong focus lies on the sensorimotor aspect of playing an instrument. The portfolio comprises fourteen pieces (for soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestra) as well as four collaborative …

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Energy Balance During Backpacking, L. C. Hill, D. P. Swain, E. L. Hill Jan 2008

Energy Balance During Backpacking, L. C. Hill, D. P. Swain, E. L. Hill

Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Energy expenditure and energy intake were determined in three Subjects during a 160-kilometer backpacking trip. Prior to the trip, heart rate and oxygen consumption during treadmill walking while carrying a backpack were measured. Subjects recorded heart rate during hiking. Heart rate Was used to estimate energy expenditure based on the heart rate: oxygen consumption relationship (Heart Rate Method). Expenditure was also estimated from distance walked and elevation gained (Terrain Method). Subjects recorded food consumption, and were weighed upon finishing the hike. Mean heart rate during biking was 105 +/- 12 beats per Minute. According to the Heart Rate Method, net …

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Improving The Flow Of Materials In A Cataloging Department: Using Addie For A Project In The Ohio State University Libraries, Melanie Mcgurr Jan 2008

Improving The Flow Of Materials In A Cataloging Department: Using Addie For A Project In The Ohio State University Libraries, Melanie Mcgurr

Research, Publications, and Presentations

The Cataloging Department at the Ohio State University Library continuously reviews workflow to see which areas need improvement. In 2004, the Cataloging Department began receiving complaints about the time it took to locate unprocessed materials within Technical Services. Locating these materials was difficult and time consuming, causing problems for both patrons and staff. The author reports on a project that examined the workflow of unprocessed materials in the Cataloging Department at Ohio State. Using the instructional design ADDIE model, a new workflow was designed and implemented to ensure that items could be located, processed, and delivered to patrons in a …

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On The Role Of Informativeness In Spatial Language Comprehension, Michele Burigo Jan 2008

On The Role Of Informativeness In Spatial Language Comprehension, Michele Burigo

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

People need to know where objects are located in order to be able to interact with the world, and spatial language provides the main linguistic means of facilitating this. However, the information contained in the description about objects locations is not the only message conveyed; there is evidence in fact that people carry out inferences that go beyond the simple geometric relation specified (Coventry & Garrod, 2004; Tyler & Evans, 2003). People draw inferences about objects dynamic and objects interaction, and these information become critical for the apprehension of spatial language. Among the inferences people draw from spatial language the …

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Ais Operation For Effective Bridge Lookout, Hsu Hua-Zhi Jan 2008

Ais Operation For Effective Bridge Lookout, Hsu Hua-Zhi

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

The shipborne Automatic Identification System (AIS) supports its end-users with independent traffic information that is in addition to the information available from RADAR and visual lookout. AIS is able to provide similar traffic information to RADAR, however, RADAR is a standalone device whereas AIS relies on the data contributed by other AIS equipped targets. AIS has been mandatory bridge equipment onboard SOLAS ships since July 2004 and as a relatively new bridge system, a consensus among deck officers as to its effectiveness has yet to be reached. The potential of AIS to be a significant aid to bridge lookout necessitated …

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Conducting Systematic Reviews For Social Policy: The Role Of Understanding Discourses In Methodological Development, Mark Pearson Jan 2008

Conducting Systematic Reviews For Social Policy: The Role Of Understanding Discourses In Methodological Development, Mark Pearson

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

This thesis uses a case study of the process of conducting a systematic review in the field of substance misuse in order to analyse critically how knowledge is cumulated for the purposes of informing social policy. The analysis is grounded in two areas of social research that are seldom drawn together; the methodological (in this instance, the work of the social research methodologist Donald Campbell) and the linguistic (in the form of a measured application of discourse analysis). By means of this dual approach it is proposed that a better understanding can be obtained not only of how systematic review …

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Impact Of Metal Mining On The Water Quality In The Tamar Catchment, Krongkaew Mighanetara Jan 2008

Impact Of Metal Mining On The Water Quality In The Tamar Catchment, Krongkaew Mighanetara

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

This study discusses the effects of past mining activities on sediment and water quality in streams and rivers in the Tamar catchment. High trace element concentrations, both in water and sediments, were observed in streams and rivers draining areas associated with abandoned mine sites. Maximum concentrations were observed in the Gunnislake/Calstock mining district, where intense metalliferous mining took place during the 19th century. Mine waste from abandoned mine sites in this area contained up to 6.3% arsenopyrite, 5.8% pyrite, 0.3% chalcopyrite and 24% scorodite. As a result, high concentrations of trace elements of up to 180000 mg kg‾¹ As, 6500 …

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Demarcating The Right To Gather News: A Sequential Interpretation Of The First Amendment, Erik Ugland Jan 2008

Demarcating The Right To Gather News: A Sequential Interpretation Of The First Amendment, Erik Ugland

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

The recent spate of cases in which reporters have been subpoenaed, fined, jailed, or otherwise disciplined has laid bare the divisions among the courts over the existence and scope of the “reporter’s privilege.” The cases have also exposed the doctrinal, historical, and theoretical infirmities of the broader law of newsgathering, which encompasses not only source relationships, but also rights of access to places and records, protections against civil and criminal liability for torts and crimes committed in the pursuit of news, and protections against government searches of newsrooms and phone records, among other things. Resolving these conflicts has grown more …

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On The Nature Of Fieldwork A Composer's Interdisciplinary Theory And Practice, Matthew Thomas Martin Jan 2008

On The Nature Of Fieldwork A Composer's Interdisciplinary Theory And Practice, Matthew Thomas Martin

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The following text serves to accompany a body of practical work in music (composing) and mark-making. The two elements, when taken together, are an illustration of the role which certain types of fieldwork developed by the author may offer the composer if adopted into the process of acoustic invention. The introduction sets forth the conditions in which such an approach to the relationship between the natural, the sonic and the visual becomes relevant and important. Ideas of interconnectivity are introduced and terms are defined. Chapter two deals with the ideas of connecting patterns and sets of relationships in more detail, …

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Tourism And Crime, Whose Problem? : A Cornish Perspective, Carol Jones Jan 2008

Tourism And Crime, Whose Problem? : A Cornish Perspective, Carol Jones

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Relating crime to tourism has seemingly been a taboo subject among tourism experts and researchers and it may be speculated, this is because crime is not a problem. Even fewer criminologists have thought to give the relationship a first, let alone a second glance and yet evidence exists which suggests that people on holiday are not only more likely to be victimised but are also routinely let down the criminal justice system. It is also likely that the breadth of the problem continues to grow as travel becomes increasingly routine for holidays, business and educational purposes. International Crime Victim Surveys …

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Cohabitation And Property: The End Of The Road For The Traditional Trust?, Paul Todd Jan 2008

Cohabitation And Property: The End Of The Road For The Traditional Trust?, Paul Todd

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

It is generally assumed that financial apportionment between cohabiting parties, when the relationship ends, is determined by the law of property, in which the institution of the trust has a large role to play. Until recently, it has also been assumed that the ordinary law applies, rather than a special law for cohabitants. The trust developed to deal with fact situations far removed from those of modern cohabitation, and it may not be the most appropriate device for the resolution of what are essentially financial disputes between cohabitants. This article examines the limitations of the trust concept in this regard.

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How Effective Are Anti-Doping Sport Measures In The Uk?, Louise Harris Jan 2008

How Effective Are Anti-Doping Sport Measures In The Uk?, Louise Harris

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

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The Halliday Report: In Pursuit Of A New Sentencing Framework Or A Catastrophic Failure?, Chivonne Boothe Jan 2008

The Halliday Report: In Pursuit Of A New Sentencing Framework Or A Catastrophic Failure?, Chivonne Boothe

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

In 2001 the Halliday Report, Making Punishments Work: A Review of the Sentencing Framework for England & Wales devised a sentencing framework where sentences – custodial and non-custodial - meant what they said, benefited offenders and society, and ultimately made sense. The new framework was designed to successfully rehabilitate offenders, reduce re-offending and reserve prison for those offenders that justify it by creating novel but ingenious ways of changing the attitudes and behaviours of offenders. The framework was to be one that generated public confidence. Changes were proposed of such magnitude that it was believed the reform would lead to …

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Food Fraud, Current Issue But An Old Problem, Peter Shears Jan 2008

Food Fraud, Current Issue But An Old Problem, Peter Shears

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

Purposes: This article addresses the topic of food fraud which has been so widely and variously reported over recent months and years. Its purposes are to set current experience into an historical context and to illustrate the tension between the science of deception and the science of detection. Approach: This is a desk study of published literature and historical documentation, together with interviews with those professionally concerned with detection and enforcement. Findings: The piece concludes that with all the scientific developments and analytical techniques that seem so mind-bendingly sophisticated, there remains the basic problem of a lack of resources. Implications: …

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Access To Justice - Rights Or Rations? Comparing European Legal Aid Systems In The Context Of A Shrinking Budgetary Environmentâ, Lynne Follett Jan 2008

Access To Justice - Rights Or Rations? Comparing European Legal Aid Systems In The Context Of A Shrinking Budgetary Environmentâ, Lynne Follett

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

The inspiration for this thesis was derived from a week spent in the family law department of a local solicitor's practice. The UK government's reforms to the legal aid system were about to be implemented and appeared to be affecting the work undertaken as well as the morale of the solicitors working there. The discussion reviews the recent and proposed reforms to legal aid in England and Wales and their effect on access to justice. A comparison is made with other legal aid systems within the EU, examining best practices and the rationale behind implementation of reforms in order to …

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The Human Rights Act 1998 - The Needs Of The Many And The Rights Of One': Annual Pilgrim Father's Lecture, 20 November 2008, David Neuberger Jan 2008

The Human Rights Act 1998 - The Needs Of The Many And The Rights Of One': Annual Pilgrim Father's Lecture, 20 November 2008, David Neuberger

The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review

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Data Mining Techniques In Fraud Detection, Rekha Bhowmik Jan 2008

Data Mining Techniques In Fraud Detection, Rekha Bhowmik

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The paper presents application of data mining techniques to fraud analysis. We present some classification and prediction data mining techniques which we consider important to handle fraud detection. There exist a number of data mining algorithms and we present statistics-based algorithm, decision treebased algorithm and rule-based algorithm. We present Bayesian classification model to detect fraud in automobile insurance. Naïve Bayesian visualization is selected to analyze and interpret the classifier predictions. We illustrate how ROC curves can be deployed for model assessment in order to provide a more intuitive analysis of the models.

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Book Review: Challenges To Digital Forensic Evidence, Gary C. Kessler Jan 2008

Book Review: Challenges To Digital Forensic Evidence, Gary C. Kessler

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This issue presents the fifth Book Review column for the JDFSL. It is an experiment to broaden the services that the journal provides to readers, so we are anxious to get your reaction. Is the column useful and interesting? Should we include more than one review per issue? Should we also review products? Do you have suggested books/products for review and/or do you want to write a review? All of this type of feedback -- and more -- is appreciated. Please feel free to send comments to Gary Kessler ([email protected]) or Glenn S. Dardick ([email protected]).

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Book Review: The Dotcrime Manifesto: How To Stop Internet Crime, Gary C. Kessler Jan 2008

Book Review: The Dotcrime Manifesto: How To Stop Internet Crime, Gary C. Kessler

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.

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