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Contribution of personality factors to bullying in the workplace (2002)
Thesis
Seigne, E. Contribution of personality factors to bullying in the workplace. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215659

Although many studies have investigated the contributing factors of workplace bullying, most have focussed on organisational factors, and few have explored the notion of personality as a contributory factor. This thesis represents an attempt to remed... Read More about Contribution of personality factors to bullying in the workplace.

Interrogating the subject-world of economic epistemology: re-imagining theory and difference (2002)
Thesis
Kaul, N. Interrogating the subject-world of economic epistemology: re-imagining theory and difference. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213330

The epistemological inheritance of economics is 'rooted' in the enlightenment tensions over knowledge, thus demonstrating how the endeavour of economics is not a universal timeless objective science but a 'routed' body of knowledge whose underlying f... Read More about Interrogating the subject-world of economic epistemology: re-imagining theory and difference.

Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law (2002)
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Carline, A. Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210200

This thesis examines the criminal law's treatment of women who kill their abusive partners through a theoretical framework developed from queer theory and social justice. More specifically, in relation to queer theory, the thesis considers the work o... Read More about Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law.

Exploitation and management of the artisanal fisheries in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria (2002)
Thesis
Muhoozi, L. I. Exploitation and management of the artisanal fisheries in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210190

The fisheries resources of Lake Victoria support the livelihoods to the lakeside rural communities and are vital to the economies of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, especially through fish exports. Management decisions to enable long-term sustainable exp... Read More about Exploitation and management of the artisanal fisheries in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria.

The determination of the core structure and core surfactant interface in overbased detergents (2002)
Thesis
Rogerson, E. The determination of the core structure and core surfactant interface in overbased detergents. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216198

Overbased detergents are oil additives, which are included in oil to neutralise the acids that are generated as by-products during the combustion process within an engine. These overbased detergents have been investigated on an atomic scale by the pr... Read More about The determination of the core structure and core surfactant interface in overbased detergents.

Antiferroelectricity and related chirality induced frustrations in smectic liquid crystals : effect of molecular structure (2002)
Thesis
Petrenko, A. S. Antiferroelectricity and related chirality induced frustrations in smectic liquid crystals : effect of molecular structure. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219693

This work was devoted to synthesis of new antiferroelectric liquid crystalline materials in series of chiral I-methylheptyI4'-(4-n-alkyloxybenzoyloxy)biphenyl-4-carboxylates. 9 new types of materials were synthesised and their chemical, mesomorphic a... Read More about Antiferroelectricity and related chirality induced frustrations in smectic liquid crystals : effect of molecular structure.

A longitudinal investigation of the impact of IVF treatment on marital satisfaction (2002)
Thesis
Upstone, L. A longitudinal investigation of the impact of IVF treatment on marital satisfaction. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216193

This longitudinal study aimed to investigate into the impact of IVF treatment on marital satisfaction. The study was based upon the psychological sequelae model of infertility and encompasses the framework of the family systems theory.

The study c... Read More about A longitudinal investigation of the impact of IVF treatment on marital satisfaction.

Retiring to paradise? : reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain (2002)
Thesis
Oliver, C. J. Retiring to paradise? : reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210217

Over the last forty years, we have witnessed the birth of a new phenomenon in the Western world, that of 'the dream retirement. ' This study examines a group of (mainly) Northern European older people who move to Spain in search of the culmination of... Read More about Retiring to paradise? : reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain.

A longitudinal diary-based study of the demand-control model and effort in a sample of Greek nursing staff (2002)
Thesis
Papangeli, A. A longitudinal diary-based study of the demand-control model and effort in a sample of Greek nursing staff. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219112

The present study employed a diary-based longitudinal framework in order to examine the demand-control model in a homogeneous group of Greek nursing staff. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, it aimed at examining the demand-control m... Read More about A longitudinal diary-based study of the demand-control model and effort in a sample of Greek nursing staff.

Dissemination of culture through a translational community : German drama in English translation on the London West End stage from 1900-1914 (2002)
Thesis
Krebs, K. Dissemination of culture through a translational community : German drama in English translation on the London West End stage from 1900-1914. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217450

[From the introduction:]
This thesis seeks both to chart the dissemination of German drama 'on the London West End Stage between 1900 and 1914 and to provide an account of the ideological factors which inevitably underlie such a considerable program... Read More about Dissemination of culture through a translational community : German drama in English translation on the London West End stage from 1900-1914.

Children's drama : technical and educational approaches to the development of TV and theatre drama in Oman (2002)
Thesis
Alzadjali, K. B. A. R. Children's drama : technical and educational approaches to the development of TV and theatre drama in Oman. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215694

The purpose of this study is to explore how Omani children's drama, in schools and theatres and T.V. can be developed and enriched to become a useful educational tool for the nation's development, while also meeting children's cognitive and emotional... Read More about Children's drama : technical and educational approaches to the development of TV and theatre drama in Oman.

Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft (2002)
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Holland, N. D. Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212328

What kinds of relevance to wider beliefs and practices did the comic representation of magic, fairies and witchcraft have for an early modem audience? This study will approach this main question through the consideration of two subsidiary questions.... Read More about Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft.

Genetic structure and colonisation history of European and UK population of Gammarus pulex (2002)
Thesis
Hadfield, S. J. Genetic structure and colonisation history of European and UK population of Gammarus pulex. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212242

The structure of populations has been studied for many years and there have been three main factors that have been suggested as the cause for present-day distributions of species, those being environment, biology and history. With the use of molecula... Read More about Genetic structure and colonisation history of European and UK population of Gammarus pulex.

The exploration of a multi-dimensional safe behaviour model for construction workers in Hong Kong : a structural equation modelling approach (2002)
Thesis
Kam, C.-K. C. The exploration of a multi-dimensional safe behaviour model for construction workers in Hong Kong : a structural equation modelling approach. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210208

Safety and Health in the workplace has long been the priority work of the Hong Kong administration but the accidentstatistics in Hong Kong tell another story. No matter how sophisticated a safe system is designed, its ultimate success depends very mu... Read More about The exploration of a multi-dimensional safe behaviour model for construction workers in Hong Kong : a structural equation modelling approach.

Perceptions on the usefulness of published financial information to the Egyptian capital marker (2002)
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Desoky, A. M. Perceptions on the usefulness of published financial information to the Egyptian capital marker. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210141

The main objective of this study is to investigate empirically users' perceptions of the usefulness of financial information that could be provided in corporate annual reports presented by listed companies in Egypt. This investigation is carried out,... Read More about Perceptions on the usefulness of published financial information to the Egyptian capital marker.

What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations (2002)
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Phillips, D. M. What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations. (Thesis). University of Durham. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4055594

My thesis is that the say-show distinction is the basis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy in both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein said that the Investigations should... Read More about What can be shown, cannot be said: Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy in the Tractatus and the Investigations.

Studies of ischaemia and reperfusion in cardiac hypertrophy (2002)
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Richardson, S. .. Studies of ischaemia and reperfusion in cardiac hypertrophy. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217972

Cardiac hypertrophy may be associated with an enhanced susceptibility to ischaemic/reperfusion injury but the mechanisms remain unresolved. There is evidence for an increased dependence on glucose metabolism in cardiac hypertrophy, which may be benef... Read More about Studies of ischaemia and reperfusion in cardiac hypertrophy.

Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925 (2002)
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Craven, M. (. T. 1. Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215291

The aim of this thesis is two-fold: first to trace and quantify the persistence of an ancient tenure, namely copyhold, in the Holderness area of East Yorkshire from the mid-eighteenth century; and second to plot its subsequent rate of extinction down... Read More about Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925.