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Novel liquid crystals with bulky terminal groups for ferroelectric displays in nanotechnology (2015)
Thesis
Pashameah, R. A. (2015). Novel liquid crystals with bulky terminal groups for ferroelectric displays in nanotechnology. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222304

The field of liquid crystals has become the focus of extensive research over the last century in terms of the design, synthesis and evaluation of novel materials, and the development of high technology applications, particularly displays. Virtually a... Read More about Novel liquid crystals with bulky terminal groups for ferroelectric displays in nanotechnology.

Three essays on the evaluation of renewable energy investments and the effectiveness of support schemes (2015)
Thesis
Alhassan, A. M. (2015). Three essays on the evaluation of renewable energy investments and the effectiveness of support schemes. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221797

Renewable energy development is a critical aspect of the political agenda of the European Union (EU) due to its environmental friendliness as well as enhancing economic development. Electricity markets in the EU have changed due to rising capacity an... Read More about Three essays on the evaluation of renewable energy investments and the effectiveness of support schemes.

How country of origin, consumer ethnocentrism and consumer xenocentrism impact upon risk and involvement in the malaria medication decision making process in Tanzania (2015)
Thesis
Kisawike, B. (2015). How country of origin, consumer ethnocentrism and consumer xenocentrism impact upon risk and involvement in the malaria medication decision making process in Tanzania. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217863

The aim of this study was to examine how Country of Origin, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Consumer Xenocentrism impact upon risk and involvement in the malaria medication decision making processes in Tanzania. An exploratory research design was adopted... Read More about How country of origin, consumer ethnocentrism and consumer xenocentrism impact upon risk and involvement in the malaria medication decision making process in Tanzania.

A deconstruction of factors that affect performance of women entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia (2015)
Thesis
Shafii, M. E. (2015). A deconstruction of factors that affect performance of women entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218068

Female entrepreneurship in Western countries has received ample research interest over the last decade. Research about female entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) and particularly in Saudi Arabia is, however, still in its i... Read More about A deconstruction of factors that affect performance of women entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia.

Motivation and leader-member-exchange theories applied to the General Authority of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia and their effect on employees' job performance (2015)
Thesis
Alaidarous, S. A. (2015). Motivation and leader-member-exchange theories applied to the General Authority of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia and their effect on employees' job performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220653

Motivation and its effect on employees’ performance is a broad, interesting, and important issue particularly for Human Resources Management (HRM). Motivation is the power behind individuals’ actions. For organisations’ high performance and maximum p... Read More about Motivation and leader-member-exchange theories applied to the General Authority of Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia and their effect on employees' job performance.

Developing and validating a scale to study mentors' behaviour in nursing education (2015)
Thesis
Chen, Y. (2015). Developing and validating a scale to study mentors' behaviour in nursing education. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219498

Aim To study the conceptualization of mentors‘ behaviour and develop and validate a scale based on that to assess students‘ expectation and measure mentors‘ actual performance. Background In the field of clinical nursing education in China, ment... Read More about Developing and validating a scale to study mentors' behaviour in nursing education.

Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ammar, M., Riley, N., Mehdawi, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2015). Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks. In Advances in cognitive radio. International conference. 5TH 2015. (COCORA 2015) (1-7)

Cognitive Radio Networks (CR) is an advanced growing technique and a promising technology for the upcoming generation of the wireless networks. Deployment of such networks is hindered by the vulnerabilities that these networks are exposed to, in this... Read More about Security aspects in cognitive radio networks detection and mitigation of primary user emulation attacks.

Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell (2015)
Thesis
Huang, P. S. (2015). Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218026

This thesis argues that Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell employ textually important objects to explore women’s demeaning status in patriarchal societies and their construction of agency in such circumstances. In their novels, both Austen and Gaskell... Read More about Women in their worlds of objects : construction of female agency through things in the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities (2015)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2015). Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities. In Activating Diverse Musical Creativities (203-222). London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474220316.ch-011

Burnard’s seminal work, Musical Creativities in Practice, has begun to change the way creativity is viewed in music (2012) . In this work Burnard rejects the view of a single concept of creativity that encompasses all aspects of music and instead pro... Read More about Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities.

Regenerative medicine applications in paediatric urology : barriers and solutions (2015)
Thesis
Radford, A. R. (2015). Regenerative medicine applications in paediatric urology : barriers and solutions. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217918

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine offers opportunities to introduce new techniques into paediatric urology practice. In this thesis, two experimental approaches were used. The initial approach considered improvements to the concept of c... Read More about Regenerative medicine applications in paediatric urology : barriers and solutions.

Who owns renewable energy? : an argument for independent ownership (2015)
Thesis
Fagan, P. (2015). Who owns renewable energy? : an argument for independent ownership. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221386

As the use of renewable energy becomes more commonplace in the twenty-first century, it will become increasingly more important to ask the question ‘who owns renewable energy?’ Here, it is argued that there exists a human right to own energy per se a... Read More about Who owns renewable energy? : an argument for independent ownership.

Corporate governance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries : ownership structure, executive compensation and firm performance (2015)
Thesis
Alresheedi, S. D. M. (2015). Corporate governance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries : ownership structure, executive compensation and firm performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220663

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries showed a remarkable economic growth in the past decade due to being a major oil exporter, attracting significant foreign investment, becoming a major global trading partner and integrating further to the globa... Read More about Corporate governance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries : ownership structure, executive compensation and firm performance.

The role of endothelial adhesins in leukocyte adhesion in response to pharmaceutical agents that induce pulmonary fibrosis (2015)
Thesis
Williamson, J. D. (. D. (2015). The role of endothelial adhesins in leukocyte adhesion in response to pharmaceutical agents that induce pulmonary fibrosis. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217915

Bleomycin (BLM) is an antineoplastic agent known to cause pulmonary fibrosis as a side-effect, and is often used to model fibrotic disease in rodents. Although human BLM-induced pulmonary fibrosis (BPF) results from intravenous BLM delivery, rodent m... Read More about The role of endothelial adhesins in leukocyte adhesion in response to pharmaceutical agents that induce pulmonary fibrosis.

Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice (2015)
Journal Article
Espinosa, A. (2015). Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice. Kybernetes, 44(6-7), 955-969. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-02-2015-0043

Purpose – While there is some agreement on the usefulness of systems and complexity approaches to tackle the sustainability challenges facing the organisations and governments in the twenty-first century, less is clear regarding the way such approach... Read More about Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice.

Integrated sustainability management for organizations (2015)
Journal Article
Panagiotakopoulos, P., Espinosa, A., & Walker, J. (2015). Integrated sustainability management for organizations. Kybernetes, 44(6/7), 984-1004. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-12-2014-0291

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose the Viable System Model (VSM) as an effective model to base the analysis of organizational sustainability (long-term viability). It is specifically proposed as a model to integrate the various sustai... Read More about Integrated sustainability management for organizations.

Risk in public-private partnerships and critical infrastructure (2015)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. H. (2015). Risk in public-private partnerships and critical infrastructure. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 6(2), 200-207. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1867299x00004505

The process risk allocation is essential for effective PPP contracts, depending on the scope of defined tasks and responsibilities between the parties in their quest to deliver public services. However, risk in critical infrastructure is sui generis... Read More about Risk in public-private partnerships and critical infrastructure.

Health promotion in schools: A scoping review of systematic reviews (2015)
Journal Article
Chilton, R., Pearson, M., & Anderson, R. (2015). Health promotion in schools: A scoping review of systematic reviews. Health Education, 115(3-4), 357-376. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-03-2014-0033

Purpose – Schools are an important setting for a wide variety of activities to promote health. The purpose of this paper is to map the different types of health promotion programmes and activities in schools, to estimate the amount of published evalu... Read More about Health promotion in schools: A scoping review of systematic reviews.

(S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III (2015)
Book Chapter
Kaegi, A. (2015). (S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of Emotion: understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (200-220). Manchester: Manchester University Press

The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
Book
(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.