Browsing 01 Research Theses Main Collection by Title
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U.K. AND U.S. MULTINATIONAL CAPITAL BUDGETING AND FINANCING DECISIONS
(University of Plymouth, 1994)The purpose of this study is to investigate the capital budgeting and financing decisions of UK and US multinational enterprises. Following a survey approach, this study examines the impact that the general equilibrium ... -
Ultrastructure and function of respiratory cilia in critical illness
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UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPECIES SPECIFIC ISOTOPE DILUTION ANALYSIS
(University of Plymouth, 2003)Mercury speciation in solid sample matrices has been investigated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with multicollector sector field (MCSF) and quadrupole (Q) inductively coupled plasma mass ... -
Unconventional Computing and Music: An Investigation into Harnessing Physarum polycephalum
(University of Plymouth, 2017)This thesis presents an investigation into developing musical systems with an Unconventional Computing substrate. Computer musicians have found it difficult to access the field of Unconventional Computing, which is likely ... -
Underground Britain: public perceptions of the geological subsurface
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Geoscience operates at the boundary between two worlds; the visible and the invisible. Increasingly, new geological technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and radioactive waste disposal ... -
Understand the environmental fate, behaviour, effects and risks associated with contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) with the goal of protecting environmental and human health
(Plymouth University, 2016)Each and every one of us is exposed to chemicals on a daily basis and contributes to the global issue of chemical pollution. Humankind has become heavily dependent on the use of man-made chemicals in order to sustain the ... -
Understanding formative assessment in extended classroom curricular interaction
(University of Plymouth, 2003)This thesis relates to the debates about assessment in education that marked the final years of the 20th century. It attends to the assertion, widely made in policy pronouncements within and beyond the UK, at every level ... -
Understanding Longshore Sediment Transport on a Mixed Beach
(Plymouth University, 2015)The aim of this study is to acquire a better understanding of the short to medium timescale (diurnal to monthly) morphodynamic behaviour of mixed, sand and shingle, beaches. In particular, this project intends to provide ... -
UNDERSTANDING OF THE VARIABILITY OF PHYTOPLANKTON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION PROPERTIES: A SYNERGISTIC USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU DATA
(University of Plymouth, 2006)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. ... -
Understanding rarity and latitudinal range relationships in European diving beetles (Dytiscidae) using metabolic plasticity and immunocompetence.
(University of Plymouth, 2017)Whilst the geographical range of species is a fundamental unit of macroecology and a leading predictor of extinction risk, the evolutionary dynamics of species’ ranges remain poorly understood. In some aquatic beetles, ... -
Understanding Sediment Mobilisation Under Plunging Waves Within a Gravel Beach
(University of Plymouth, 2013)Numerical modelling currently cannot accurately reproduce the onshore-offshore transport asymmetry observed on gravel beaches. The role of the impulsive pressure response generated by plunging waves has been hypothesised ... -
UNDERSTANDING STUDENT CHARTERS THROUGH PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
(University of Plymouth, 2019)The introduction of higher fees and globalisation have created a competitive environment in which UK universities operate. Higher fees and globalisation have placed emphasis on higher education institutions operating as ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT ON THE WELLBEING OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES THROUGH TEACHING INTERVENTIONS
(University of Plymouth, 2018)The study set out to explore whether teaching methods can improve the wellbeing of students with SpLDs. This study addresses a gap in the literature, identifying wellbeing differences between different types of educational ... -
Understanding waste management behaviour in care settings in South West England: a mixed methods study
(Plymouth University, 2015)Introduction - Health and social care sector activities in the United Kingdom have a considerable carbon footprint which impacts on the natural environment. Waste management is one area of focus for the reduction of this ... -
Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
(University of Plymouth, 2018)Discussions of prostitution are commonplace in the history of nineteenth-century French art, but this paper proposes that discourses specific to 1888 concerning the visual representations of prostitution have been ... -
THE UNITED STATES CONTAINER SECURITY INITIATIVE AND EUROPEAN UNION CONTAINER SEAPORT COMPETITION
(University of Plymouth, 2018)The increasing volume of container trade poses formidable security challenges. As a result of terrorist attacks, a variety of compulsory and voluntary security measures have been introduced to enhance and secure maritime ... -
‘UNIVERSITY MUST BE SAVED’ GENEALOGY AS A KNOWLEDGE APPROACH.
(University of Plymouth, 2018)The research offers an elaboration of genealogy as an approach to knowledge from Friedrich Nietzsche's original work on method (1887) processed by Michel Foucault (1971). It provides an interdisciplinary version that ... -
THE UNKNOWN That what I say is not what I mean
(University of Plymouth, 2008)This work is a confession in front of both myself and the one who reads my words and looks at my images. It is unusual to confess with images, because they uncover what we hide with words. Through a body of visual arts ... -
Unresolved complex mixtures of aromatic hydrocarbons in the marine environment : toxicity, solubility and photodegradation studies
(University of Plymouth, 2002)Unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of aromatic hydrocarbons have been found in a wide range of environmental matrices at high concentrations. However, limited consideration has been given to the potential detrimental ... -
UNSTABLE TERRITORIES OF REPRESENTATION: Architectural Experience and the Behaviour of Forms, Spaces and the Collective Dynamic Environment
(University of Plymouth, 2011-01-31)This thesis applies an interdisciplinary cybernetic and phenomenological analysis to contemporary theories of representation and interpretation of architecture, resulting in a speculative theoretical model of architectural ...
