All Outputs (1386)

Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, W. L., Street, S. E., & Capellini, I. (2017). Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles. Ecology letters, 20(2), 222-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12728

Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies facilitate growth of small populations. While ‘fast’ strategies allow for rapid increase in population size and limit vulnerability to stochastic events, ‘slow’... Read More about Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles.

Deep Chandra observations of NGC 1404 : cluster plasma physics revealed by an infalling early-type galaxy (2017)
Journal Article
Kraft, R. P., Forman, W. R., Randall, S. W., Machacek, M. E., Roediger, E., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Jones, C., Kraft, R., Machacek, M., Nulsen, P., Randall, S., & Su, Y. (2017). Deep Chandra observations of NGC 1404 : cluster plasma physics revealed by an infalling early-type galaxy. The Astrophysical journal, 834(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/74

The intracluster medium (ICM), as a magnetized and highly ionized fluid, provides an ideal laboratory to study plasma physics under extreme conditions that cannot yet be achieved on Earth. NGC 1404 is a bright elliptical galaxy that is being gas stri... Read More about Deep Chandra observations of NGC 1404 : cluster plasma physics revealed by an infalling early-type galaxy.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Rao-Nicholson, R., Akhtar, P., & He, S. (2017). Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration. Human Resource Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2016.12.003

There has been recent surge of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by emerging economies’ multinational enterprises (EMNEs), however no conceptual model exists that can be utilized in global context to understand the success of these cross-b... Read More about Cross-border mergers and acquisitions of emerging economies' multinational enterprises - the mediating role of socialization integration mechanisms for successful integration.

‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2017). ‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23(1), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1273691

This article argues that Greek Cypriot nationalism has been in large part motivated by the misconceived idea of Cyprus becoming a modern, European society. Although Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, the perception of it by the European north... Read More about ‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis.

Age-related delay in visual and auditory evoked responses is mediated by white-and grey-matter differences (2017)
Journal Article
Price, D., Tyler, L. K., Neto Henriques, R., Campbell, K. L., Williams, N., Treder, M. S., …Villis, L. (2017). Age-related delay in visual and auditory evoked responses is mediated by white-and grey-matter differences. Nature communications, 8, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15671

Slowing is a common feature of ageing, yet a direct relationship between neural slowing and brain atrophy is yet to be established in healthy humans. We combine magnetoencephalo-graphic (MEG) measures of neural processing speed with magnetic resonanc... Read More about Age-related delay in visual and auditory evoked responses is mediated by white-and grey-matter differences.

Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2017). Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism. In D. Tricoire (Ed.), Enlightened Colonialism : Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (227-246). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5_11

How did abolitionism move from the margins of British society to a more central position by 1772? During the 1760s, some Britons came to see West Indian planters as especially vicious and West Indian slavery as particularly immoral. Tacky’s Rebellion... Read More about Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism.

Near miss and interventions : a study of the improvement in health and safety performance following increased near miss and observation reporting (2017)
Thesis
Cooling, S. (2017). Near miss and interventions : a study of the improvement in health and safety performance following increased near miss and observation reporting. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224311

We are often told as humans that we must learn from our mistakes, and the health and safety world is no different to this. After every major disaster, there are repeated call for us to ‘not repeat the same mistake again’. Since the early 1930’s we ha... Read More about Near miss and interventions : a study of the improvement in health and safety performance following increased near miss and observation reporting.

Understanding the representation of cultural heritage within video game contexts (2017)
Thesis
Balela, M. S. (2017). Understanding the representation of cultural heritage within video game contexts. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224192

The research detailed in this Thesis examines how cultural artefacts are represented within modern video game contexts. It takes as a starting point the perspective that whilst there is evidence of substantial investigative work that takes place in t... Read More about Understanding the representation of cultural heritage within video game contexts.

Challenges faced in the Identification of gifted and talented boys in primary schools in a selected region of Saudi Arabia (2017)
Thesis
Alnwaimis, N. S. (2017). Challenges faced in the Identification of gifted and talented boys in primary schools in a selected region of Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224100

Saudi Arabia is one of a number of countries worldwide seeking to identify and develop gifted and talented children, as a resource for the country. Scholars in Saudi Arabia have been critical of the government project seeking to identify gifted and t... Read More about Challenges faced in the Identification of gifted and talented boys in primary schools in a selected region of Saudi Arabia.

Writing reform in fourteenth-century English romance, from the agrarian crisis to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2017)
Thesis
Reed, K. A. (2017). Writing reform in fourteenth-century English romance, from the agrarian crisis to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220877

This thesis investigates five fourteenth-century Middle English romances—Sir Isumbras, The King of Tars, The Earl of Toulouse, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—for their resonances with fourteenth-century re... Read More about Writing reform in fourteenth-century English romance, from the agrarian crisis to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

The relationship between knowledge sharing socialisation mechanisms structural capital and organisational performance (2017)
Thesis
Akamavi, N. (2017). The relationship between knowledge sharing socialisation mechanisms structural capital and organisational performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220720

Globalisation, increasing competition, turbulent economic environments, and technological changes have shifted the significance of traditional assets as primary resources in sustaining competitive advantage for organisations. Whilst traditional asset... Read More about The relationship between knowledge sharing socialisation mechanisms structural capital and organisational performance.

The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management (2017)
Thesis
Bungkilo, D.-A. (2017). The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220694

This research focuses on the role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand, a non-Western context when overseeing their companies’ enterprise risk management systems. A mixed methods research approach, including quantitative an... Read More about The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management.

The cultural specificity of memory and commemoration : the Bear River Massacre (1863) and the Sand Creek Massacre (1864) (2017)
Thesis
Hopson, S. (2017). The cultural specificity of memory and commemoration : the Bear River Massacre (1863) and the Sand Creek Massacre (1864). (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220504

[From the introduction]: This work is a study of the collective remembrance of two Native American massacre sites, Bear River (1863) and Sand Creek (1864). I have chosen to consider these two particular massacres because they both occurred during th... Read More about The cultural specificity of memory and commemoration : the Bear River Massacre (1863) and the Sand Creek Massacre (1864).

Numerical simulation of noise attenuating perforated combustor liners and the combustion instability issue in gas turbine engines (2017)
Thesis
Wang, J. (2017). Numerical simulation of noise attenuating perforated combustor liners and the combustion instability issue in gas turbine engines. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219863

Combustion instability represents a significant problem in the application of low emission lean premixed combustion for gas turbines and has become one of the primary concerns in modern gas turbine industry. Effusion cooling has become common practic... Read More about Numerical simulation of noise attenuating perforated combustor liners and the combustion instability issue in gas turbine engines.

Juggling multiple identities In elite level rugby league : a neophyte performance analyst’s perspective (2017)
Thesis
Fairbairn, C. (2017). Juggling multiple identities In elite level rugby league : a neophyte performance analyst’s perspective. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219687

‘While performance analysts have been increasingly employed in many elite level sporting organisations, this development has arguably not been matched with a comparable level of critical scholarship addressing how performance analysts experience, und... Read More about Juggling multiple identities In elite level rugby league : a neophyte performance analyst’s perspective.

Deconstructing the information and technology adoption process for the NGO sector in Saudi Arabia (2017)
Thesis
Al-Thomaly, A. A. (2017). Deconstructing the information and technology adoption process for the NGO sector in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219593

Despite the lack of scholarly attention given to the voluntary sector in Saudi Arabia, the need for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the NGO landscape in KSA has never been greater. Given Saudi Arabia’s global leadership in humanitarian and... Read More about Deconstructing the information and technology adoption process for the NGO sector in Saudi Arabia.

The wicked problem of prison education : what are the perceptions of two key stakeholder groups on the impact of tame and wicked approaches to prison education? (2017)
Thesis
Wilkinson, S. F. (2017). The wicked problem of prison education : what are the perceptions of two key stakeholder groups on the impact of tame and wicked approaches to prison education?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219584

Today’s prison system in England and Wales has been developed as one solution to the issue of how society should deal with offenders, and part of this approach is to provide an education service that contributes towards the rehabilitation of offender... Read More about The wicked problem of prison education : what are the perceptions of two key stakeholder groups on the impact of tame and wicked approaches to prison education?.

Discussing risk during pregnancy : the experiences of midwives and women with pre-existing diabetes (2017)
Thesis
Strachan, K. A. (2017). Discussing risk during pregnancy : the experiences of midwives and women with pre-existing diabetes. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219538

This portfolio thesis contains three separate parts: a systematic literature review, an empirical study and corresponding appendices. Part one is a systematic literature review, which uses meta-ethnography to synthesise qualitative empirical studi... Read More about Discussing risk during pregnancy : the experiences of midwives and women with pre-existing diabetes.

The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management (2017)
Thesis
Dej-anan Bungkilo. (2017). The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219461

This research focuses on the role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand, a non-Western context when overseeing their companies’ enterprise risk management systems. A mixed methods research approach, including quantitative an... Read More about The role of audit committees among publicly listed companies in Thailand : cases of audit committee oversight of enterprise risk management.

Asymmetric fluorinated dimers for dual frequency liquid crystal mixtures : synthesis, mesomorphism & electro-optic properties (2017)
Thesis
Allan, D. D. (2017). Asymmetric fluorinated dimers for dual frequency liquid crystal mixtures : synthesis, mesomorphism & electro-optic properties. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219122

Dual frequency liquid crystal mixtures are a technology used to achieve faster response times in electro-optical devices. At low driving frequencies the material acts as a positive dielectric, while at high frequencies the materials switches to a neg... Read More about Asymmetric fluorinated dimers for dual frequency liquid crystal mixtures : synthesis, mesomorphism & electro-optic properties.