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Geographic Information Systems (Gis) In Higher Education: A Study Of Provision, Pedagogy And Employability In The United Kingdom And Turkey, Mehmet Seremet Jan 2013

Geographic Information Systems (Gis) In Higher Education: A Study Of Provision, Pedagogy And Employability In The United Kingdom And Turkey, Mehmet Seremet

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer-based systems designed to store, organize, analyse and present spatial data. They can be used to help understand and answer a wide variety of problems in fields such as environmental management, resource planning and retail location and development. This thesis aims to explore the GIS education provided within university Geography departments (or units) in both the UK and Turkey. The main topics for investigation are the nature and scale of the GIS provision, the principal characteristic of the teaching, learning and assessment processes and also graduate employability – how far the courses and their students …

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Distant Relations: A Study Of Identity, Ethics And Power In The Relationship Between Britain And The United Kingdom Overseas Territories, Nichola Harmer Jan 2013

Distant Relations: A Study Of Identity, Ethics And Power In The Relationship Between Britain And The United Kingdom Overseas Territories, Nichola Harmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis contributes to new understandings of the contemporary relationship between Britain and the fourteen remaining United Kingdom Overseas Territories. By examining the discourse of social and political elites in Britain and in several Overseas Territories it identifies the significance of the role of identity in shaping perceptions and relations between these international actors. The thesis explores how understandings of the Overseas Territories as either part of, external to, or occupying an intermediate position with regard to the British state, shapes power relations and ethical considerations in the relationship between Britain and the territories. The importance of identity in this …

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Synthesis, Fractionation, Characterisation And Toxicity Of Naphthenic Acids From Complex Mixtures, David Jones Jan 2013

Synthesis, Fractionation, Characterisation And Toxicity Of Naphthenic Acids From Complex Mixtures, David Jones

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Amongst the polar organic compounds occurring in unrefined and refined crude oils and the associated polluted production waters, complex mixtures of acids, known historically as naphthenic acids (NAs), have achieved prominence. This is particularly because NAs have been designated a toxicant class of concern in the oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) that has accumulated in vast quantities following exploitation of the oil sands of Northern Alberta, Canada in recent years. However, though there have been calls for NAs to be added to pollutant inventories, at the initiation of the current study, little knowledge existed of the exact composition of refined …

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A Critical Evaluation Of Community Rail Policy And Practice During The New Labour Years 2003 - 2010, Andrew Seedhouse Jan 2013

A Critical Evaluation Of Community Rail Policy And Practice During The New Labour Years 2003 - 2010, Andrew Seedhouse

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Seedhouse, Andrew Colin A Critical Evaluation Of Community Rail Policy And Practice During The New Labour Years 2003 - 2010 This thesis examines how the changing governance environments introduced under New Labour compromised or assisted the delivery of the 2004 Community Rail Development Strategy. It considers the origins of Community Rail and the circumstances which led to the adoption of the 2004 Strategy and its content. It explores the wider processes of governance change across multiple scales and the rise of a new neoliberal approach favoured by recent administrations, with particular emphasis of New Labour’s introduction of the Third Way …

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Networks, News And Communication: Political Elites And Community Relations In Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603, Ian David Cooper Jan 2013

Networks, News And Communication: Political Elites And Community Relations In Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603, Ian David Cooper

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Focusing on the ‘second reign’ of Queen Elizabeth I (1588-1603), this thesis constitutes the first significant socio-political examination of Elizabethan Devon – a geographically peripheral county, yet strategically central in matters pertaining to national defence and security. A complex web of personal associations and informal alliances underpinned politics and governance in Tudor England; but whereas a great deal is now understood about relations between both the political elite and the organs of government at the centre of affairs, many questions still remain unanswered about how networks of political actors functioned at a provincial and neighbourhood level, and how these networks …

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Imagining The Thames: Conceptions And Functions Of The River In The Fiction Of Charles Dickens, Stephen Chapman Jan 2013

Imagining The Thames: Conceptions And Functions Of The River In The Fiction Of Charles Dickens, Stephen Chapman

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis examines Dickens‟s uses of images of the river throughout his fiction, and also in the early sketches, the reprinted pieces from Household Words and The Uncommercial Traveller. The river concerned is usually but not exclusively the Thames, usually but not exclusively in London. The thesis offers some practical evidence to account for the powerful influence of the Thames upon Dickens‟s imagination and shows how he conceives of it both within existing frames of reference and in some distinctively Dickensian ways. It considers how Dickens‟s representations of the river play into the cult of the picturesque which emerged at …

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Authority And Crime, 1835-1860: A Comparison Between Exmouth And Torquay, Jacqueline Bryon Jan 2013

Authority And Crime, 1835-1860: A Comparison Between Exmouth And Torquay, Jacqueline Bryon

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Authority and Crime, 1835-1860: A Comparison between Exmouth and Torquay This thesis explores the impact of crime on seaside resorts in mid-nineteenth century England, together with the implications and challenges presented for authority and control. The evidence is based on a case study of two contrasting south Devon resorts, Exmouth and Torquay. The research findings are based mainly on the period between 1835 and 1860. In particular, the thesis considers the nature and scale of crime committed and the reactions produced amongst those in positions of power and authority. The responses of these influential individuals and groups were shaped by …

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Diffracting Representation: Towards A Situated Aesthetics Of Technospaces, Federica Timeto Jan 2013

Diffracting Representation: Towards A Situated Aesthetics Of Technospaces, Federica Timeto

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

My research for this thesis focusses on the concepts of representation and space in order to demonstrate their theoretical and practical co-implications. Discussing various theorists of space in the first part and analyzing a number of artists and artworks as case studies in the second part, I elaborate a critique of the representational imaginary in order to articulate an alternative notion of representation by means of which a relational, qualitative and performative spatiality can emerge. I specifically focus on technospaces, which I consider a privileged field for observing the intersections of representation and spatiality; it is a field in which …

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The Composer Isn't There: A Personal Exploration Of Place In Fixed Media Composition, Hilary Mullaney Jan 2013

The Composer Isn't There: A Personal Exploration Of Place In Fixed Media Composition, Hilary Mullaney

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This practice-based research is concerned with a collection of fixed media compositions written between 2005 and 2012 with accompanying contextual writing. The primary focus of this research was to produce sound works, but the concept of place has played a significant role throughout both the compositional process and in the reflection of each composition. This research explores how place is ‘heard and felt’ (Feld, 2005) in a composition and how recollected memory impacts on the compositional process. Artistic decisions made with regard to creating the compositions reflect my personal place and associations with these sound materials at a given time …

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Borders And Objects: Representing The Geopolitical In New World Art Histories, 1990-2010, Fang-Lin Hou Jan 2013

Borders And Objects: Representing The Geopolitical In New World Art Histories, 1990-2010, Fang-Lin Hou

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Several contemporary art historians have been interested in exploring how their discipline could respond to the increasing globalisation of knowledge and information by encompassing global perspectives into the methodologies that underpin their approaches to art historiography. This dissertation aims to explore how, in developing their new approaches to world art history, they have drawn on a range of natural and social sciences, thus enabling their work to be placed in a wider social, political and indeed global context. While their individual approaches are many and varied it is important to identify commonalities between them so as to highlight unifying approaches …

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Mythogeographic Performance And Performative Interventions In Spaces Of Heritage-Tourism, Phil Smith Jan 2013

Mythogeographic Performance And Performative Interventions In Spaces Of Heritage-Tourism, Phil Smith

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Abstract MYTHOGEOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN SPACES OF HERITAGE-TOURISM by PHIL SMITH This thesis offers new models for participatory and performative interventions in sites of heritage tourism through a theorized practical engagement. Drawing on both Tourism Studies and Performance Studies, the primary aim of these interventions is to reveal and provoke ways of seeing and using these sites as places of multiple meanings rather than as ones constricted and bounded by normative heritage narratives in their production and management. The experimental phase of the project discussed in the thesis includes three contrasting case studies: GeoQuest, Sardine Street, and Water …

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Collecting En Route: An Exploration Of The Ethnographic Collection Of Gertrude Emily Benham, Catherine Cummings Jan 2013

Collecting En Route: An Exploration Of The Ethnographic Collection Of Gertrude Emily Benham, Catherine Cummings

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the collecting of objects from colonized countries and their subsequent display in western museums was widespread throughout Western Europe. How and why these collections were made, the processes of collection, and by whom, has only recently begun to be addressed. This thesis is an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham (1867-1938) who made eight voyages independently around the world from 1904 until 1938, during which time she amassed a collection of approximately eight hundred objects, which she donated to Plymouth City …

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The Working Class On Holiday: British Comedy In Benidorm And Classed Tourism, Mark E. Casey Jan 2013

The Working Class On Holiday: British Comedy In Benidorm And Classed Tourism, Mark E. Casey

Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice

In drawing from the popular TV comedy Benidorm this paper seeks to engage with research and discourses held around working class tourism. The paper will at first discuss Benidorm, focusing upon the characters within the show and asking how is social class presented and performed? And ask who or what are we really laughing at? The paper then moves to examine the background to the birth of the package holiday and the development of the mass tourism resort in Spain. It then draws on writing and research focused around social class and tourism, in particular the work of Andrews (2009, …

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The Muslim Sports Tourist And The Olympic Games Movement, Karl A. Russell, Noëlle O'Connor Jan 2013

The Muslim Sports Tourist And The Olympic Games Movement, Karl A. Russell, Noëlle O'Connor

Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice

This paper explores the view that the Olympic Games Movement and the modern day Olympic Games while seeking to be a secular event is regarded by many participants and spectators as an event where they are able to demonstrate expressions of their religious faith. The first Olympic Games were staged in ancient Greece and they comprised a series of sporting events staged as a way of honouring the Greek God; Zeus, considered by the Romans to be a pagan god. The origins and mythology surrounding the early Olympic Games had a non-secular basis and led to an almost intrinsic belief …

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Worship & Sightseeing; Building A Partnership Approach To A Ministry Of Welcome, Peter Wiltshier, Alan Clarke Jan 2013

Worship & Sightseeing; Building A Partnership Approach To A Ministry Of Welcome, Peter Wiltshier, Alan Clarke

Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice

This paper explores diverse opportunities for partnerships between the sacred and secular at religious sites. It identifies ways in which tourism suppliers can work collaboratively with sacred sites to enable sites to meet the demands of contemporary secular and sacred stakeholders. In the review of contemporary literature we consider supply and demand issues, site management, key components of partnership, ecumenical co-creation resources, cost-benefit and marketing needs. The paper is predicated on the provision of information and interpretation services for guidance, and development of all of these services. Methodologically, a participant observation approach was employed to confirm that tourism fits the …

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Linking The Pilgrimage Experience To Best Practice: The Lessons Of The Recultivatur Project, Alan Clarke, Ágnes Raffay Jan 2013

Linking The Pilgrimage Experience To Best Practice: The Lessons Of The Recultivatur Project, Alan Clarke, Ágnes Raffay

Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice

This paper will focus on the early findings of the RECULTIVATUR project, a SEE funded partnership which is exploring the inclusion of religious-related cultural values in the planning and development processes of urban centres, systems of settlements and surrounding rural areas. The 15 partners have contributed 35 case studies based on the religious tourism in their areas and the University of Pannonia have been responsible for collating and conducting the initial analysis of these cases. Here we will focus on pilgrimage and the linkages which have emerged from these examples regarding other cultural and heritage tourism experiences. Our analysis of …

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Visitors To Religious Sites In South Western Nigeria - Their Experience Of The Physical Infrastructure, Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson Jan 2013

Visitors To Religious Sites In South Western Nigeria - Their Experience Of The Physical Infrastructure, Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson

Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice

This paper assesses the tourism experience and activities of visitors to religious sites in South Western Nigeria, in order to develop an effective and efficient strategy for the development of religious tourism. Religious tourism is a form of tourism whereby people of faith travel individually or in groups for pilgrimage, missionary, fellowship or leisure purposes. There is a paucity of research on the religious tourism segment in Nigeria. Existing tourism studies focus on ecological, cultural, heritage and historical sites. The paper was born out of my desire for exploratory research on religious tourism in developing countries. Data for this research …

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Temporal And Vertical Distributions Of Ip25 And Other Lipid Biomarkers In Sea Ice From Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, Ashleigh Elizabeth Ringrose Jan 2013

Temporal And Vertical Distributions Of Ip25 And Other Lipid Biomarkers In Sea Ice From Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, Ashleigh Elizabeth Ringrose

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

IP25 (Ice Proxy with 25 carbon atoms) is a highly branched isoprenoid biomarker, specifically produced by marine diatoms in Arctic sea ice. Temporal and vertical IP25 concentrations were measured in sea ice from a second location in the Canadian Arctic, Resolute Bay, Nunavut. Sea ice samples were collected as part of the Arctic ICE project in collaboration with scientists of the University of Manitoba from April to June 2011. Comparisons were made between other established lipid biomarkers of diatom origin and general organic production, along with previously established temporal and vertical distributions in sea ice collected from the Amundsen Gulf, …

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Sayre: Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2013

Sayre: Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Undergraduate Catalogs

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Weatherford: Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2013

Weatherford: Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Undergraduate Catalogs

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Diffusion Of Csr In Global Business Networks: An Embeddedness Perspective, Valentina Marano Jan 2013

Diffusion Of Csr In Global Business Networks: An Embeddedness Perspective, Valentina Marano

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the role of firm embeddedness in its global business network, relative to the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. Global business networks refer to the nexus of inter-firm and intra-firm relationships, in which focal actors are engaged. These networks are focal firm specific, span multiple countries and involve different types of economic relationships between the focal actor and its business partners. This study argues that global business networks affect a focal organization's CSR adoption decisions, since they provide access to resources and information and also channel CSR-related institutional influences from the various countries where the focal …

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Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, And New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829, Michael Hines Jan 2013

Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, And New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829, Michael Hines

Master's Theses

The education of free African American children in the antebellum period is a subject that has interested historians and scholars of education for decades. This thesis uses a new set of primary source material gathered from the pages of Freedom's Journal, the first African American owned and operated news organ in American history, to trace the development of attitudes regarding education in the free black community of New York in the late 1820s. By examining the editorials, articles, advice columns, and illustrations focused on education and child rearing that appear in the 104 issues of Freedom's Journal, this thesis shows …

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Those Unfortunates': Victorian Prostitution, Local Communities And The Law 1850-1890, Leah Bleakley Jan 2013

Those Unfortunates': Victorian Prostitution, Local Communities And The Law 1850-1890, Leah Bleakley

SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

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Placing Livestock In Landscape Studies: Pastures New Or Out To Graze?, Jessica Sellick, Richard Yarwood Jan 2013

Placing Livestock In Landscape Studies: Pastures New Or Out To Graze?, Jessica Sellick, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Revisiting The Oregon Trail In Young Adult Fiction: Researching, Drafting, And Revising Grandpa Jesse's Peculiar Request: An Oregon Trail Adventure, Laurel Beedle Jan 2013

Revisiting The Oregon Trail In Young Adult Fiction: Researching, Drafting, And Revising Grandpa Jesse's Peculiar Request: An Oregon Trail Adventure, Laurel Beedle

Honors Theses

Grandpa Jesse's peculiar request : an Oregon Trail adventure is a young adult road travel novel. The main character of this creative writing thesis is Erin Weston, a recent high school graduate who travels from Missouri to Portland, Oregon to visit her grandfather of his 80th birthday. Her grandfather encourages Erin to travel by car with her two best friends, Hailey and Midas, and to create a photo album as a present to him. Midas, a history and Oregon trail computer game enthusiast, convinces Erin to take the Oregon Trail route to Portland to see various landmarks such as Alcove …

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The Strange Case Of Lieutenant Waddell: How Overly Restrictive Rules Of Engagement Adversely Impact The American War Fighter And Undermine Military Victory., Jeffrey F. Addicott Jan 2013

The Strange Case Of Lieutenant Waddell: How Overly Restrictive Rules Of Engagement Adversely Impact The American War Fighter And Undermine Military Victory., Jeffrey F. Addicott

St. Mary's Law Journal

A rules of engagement (“ROE”) Review Board should be created in order to provide an impartial review process for service members facing adverse administrative action for violations of ROE. Politicians defining the ROE, rather than military experts, create rules that are so restrictive and confusing that they ultimately run counter to the military objective of victory. A violation of a ROE can be a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but violations are issued arbitrarily, and often the military does not charge the service member with a crime, instead using adverse administrative measures to impose punishment. While …

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An Examination Of The Criteria For The Iowa Children's Choice Award List, Jessica Zimmerman Jan 2013

An Examination Of The Criteria For The Iowa Children's Choice Award List, Jessica Zimmerman

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to examine the Iowa Children's Choice Award lists for variety of reading levels, topics, and protagonists and compare this to the criteria set by the Iowa Association of School Librarians. A quantitative content analysis was conducted to allow comparison between the last four years of Iowa Children's Choice Award lists. Results showed that all of the texts chosen for the award lists in the last four years fell in the third through sixth grade level according to Fountas and Pinnell. The majority of the texts include a female protagonist making the award lists more …

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Capitalizing On Human Capital: An Examination Of Employee Motivation In A Changing Nonprofit Landscape, Katherine A. Betts Jan 2013

Capitalizing On Human Capital: An Examination Of Employee Motivation In A Changing Nonprofit Landscape, Katherine A. Betts

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of the study is to conduct a comprehensive literature review related to examining the relationship between employee satisfaction and productivity in order to identify and capitalize on how to motivate workers. It is this author's belief that only through the evolution of the nonprofit sector to a more hybrid structure can it hope to handle the loss of government funding. As such, it is imperative to understand how employee motivation works in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Only with a clear understanding of all potential influencers on a cross-sector hybrid organization can we hope to maximize the …

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Ay 2012/2013 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-17, Faculty Senate Jan 2013

Ay 2012/2013 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-17, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Ay 2012/2013 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-03, Faculty Senate Jan 2013

Ay 2012/2013 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-04-03, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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