Items where Year is 2008

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Abdel-Fattah, Tarek Mohamed Hassan (2008) VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES IN EMERGING CAPITAL MARKETS: THE CASE OF EGYPT. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Abu Ghunmi, Diana Nawwash Abed El-Hafeth (2008) Stock return, risk and asset pricing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ahmed, Ishtiaq M. (2008) Studies on the role of inflammation and stem cells in cardiac ischaemic injury. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ahn, Seung Hee (2008) A study of leadership development programme for gifted primary school students in South Korea. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Akyilmaz Yabaci, Meltem (2008) Advection in photodissociation regions and its effects on the intensities of rotational lines of H(_2)O. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al -Jahrwari, Nasser Said Ali (2008) Settlement patterns, development and cultural change in Northern Oman Peninsula: a multi-tiered approach to the analysis of long-term settlement trends. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Alwan, Ali A. (2008) Bayesian methods for analysing pesticide contamination with uncertain covariates. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Hagi, Fatma Salem (2008) The concept of time in five Libyan novels. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Ofl, Abdalaziz Saleem (2008) Analysis of complex nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Thani,, Tamader Jassim (2008) Early Years Education in Qatar: a comparative study of its nature, provision and quality in national and international pre-school settings. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Zarah, Layla N. (2008) An investigative study of the female initial teacher preparation programme in Saudi Arabia in an Islamic context : perceptions of the key participants. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Al-Zu’b, Zu’bi Mohammad (2008) Suppliers versus lead users: examining collaboration in mass customisation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Alanazi, Nashmi (2008) The use of physical punishment on children in Saudi Arabia. Perceptions and experiences of parents and young people. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Alaraj, Abdullah M. S. (2008) Enforcing Honesty in E-Commerce Fair Exchange Protocols. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Alazzam, Amin Ali (2008) Political participation in Jordan: the impact of party and tribal loyalties since 1989. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

ALDRICH, PAUL (2008) The role and influence of human resource management in the capital markets and investment banking sector. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Aldrich, Paul (2008) The role and influence of human resource management in the capital markets and investment banking sector'. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ali Rahman, Zulfahmi (2008) THE ENGINEERING BEHAVIOUR OF A WEAKLY BONDED SOIL INCLUDING THE UNSATURATED STATE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Allen, Naomi (2008) MEMS sensors for wall shear stress and flow vector measurement. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Almeida, Cesário Manuel de Deus Lavaredas de (2008) The nature of early-type galaxies in hierarchical models. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Angulo de la Fuente, Raúl Esteban (2008) The clustering of dark matter, haloes & galaxies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Arnold, Kenny (2008) Design and application of bifunctional organic catalysts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Avakian, Stephanos (2008) A study of the consultant-client relationship: examining aspects of legitimation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Banguera Hinestroza, Eualia (2008) Phylogeography of lagenorhynchus acutus and lagenorhynchus albirostris and phylogeny of the genus lagenorhynchus. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bartzis, Evaggelos (2008) Divine abandonment of Christ and the soul in Byzantine exegesis and ascetic literature. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Begos, George (2008) Transnational mobility and European belonging : a demos without an ethnos? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bennett, Alice (2008) Narrative and the afterlife in modern fiction the meanings of life after death. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

BETT, PHILIP, EDWARD (2008) The Structure of Dark Matter Haloes in Cosmological Simulations. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bielby, Richard (2008) Galaxy clustering and feedback. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Binzomah, Mohammed Saad (2008) The feasibility of using profit and loss sharing for financing small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bourlogianni, Xanthippi (2008) Unity and complexity in Plato's conception of the soul. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bowers, Laura Yvonne (2008) Orf protein modulates phage and bacterial pathways of genetic recombination. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Boyiopoulos, Konstantinos (2008) Unsatisfied appeal of sense : the decadent image in the poetry and poetics of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bridges, James Ian (2008) City-to-city co-operation and the realisation of urban sustainability. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Brooker, Daniel Morgan (2008) Intelligent cities? Disentangling the symbolic and material effects of technopole planning practices in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Brown, Alistair (2008) Demonic fictions: cybernetics and postmodernism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Brown, Donna Marie (2008) FASHIONING HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE: THE URBAN RENAISSANCE IN NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND GATESHEAD. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Bruhn, James David (2008) Pluralistic landscapes of Northern Roman Britain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Buttle, Geoffrey William (2008) A signal failure? The organisation and management of British railways 1948-1964. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Buyers Christie, Victoria (2008) Evaluation and comparison of natural and synthetic retinoids on model of neural development. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cameron, Anne Louise (2008) The English translation of seventeenth-century French lyric poetry and epigrams during the Caroline period. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cardoso, Francisca Alves (2008) A portrait of gender in two 19th and 20th century Portuguese populations : a palaeopathological perspective. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Castro Salazar, Ricardo (2008) Educational achievement of Mexican immigrants in the face of adversity : counter-history and counter-narratives of community college graduates in Arizona. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Chaffey, Heather Emily (2008) Molecular pharmacological characterisation of recombinant and native NR2B- and NR3B- containing NMDA receptors. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Challands, Thomas J. (2008) Geosphere and biosphere dynamics during late Ordovician climate change. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Chan, Mun Kitt (2008) TOWARDS BEING A LEARNING ORGANISATION - A BUSINESS EXCELLENCE APPROACH. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Chan, Mei Lee (2008) Motivation and achievement in science : a study of junior secondary school Chinese students in Hong Kong. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Chan, Wai-fat (2008) The Hong Kong appraisal system: problems and issues in its implementation and perceived impacts in Government-funded secondary schools. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cho, Jaeil (2008) Globular cluster systems and their implications of galaxy formation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Choudhury, Musfiq Mannan (2008) A study of the significant factors affecting trust in electronic commerce. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Chung, Man Cheung (2008) A Philosophical Critique of Existential Psychotherapy. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Clapham, Kate Mary (2008) Synthesis and reactions of new N-heteroaryl boronic acids. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Clarke, Martin Vaughan (2008) John Wesley and Methodist music in the eighteenth century : principles and practice. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Collins, John Philip (2008) Deconstructing adsorption variability: the prediction of spatial uncertainty in pollutant movement. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Conduct, Matthew (2008) In defence of naïve realism. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cookson, Helen (2008) AT THE EDGE OF FAITH: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF BRITISH PENTECOSTALISM. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cooper, Alan Thomas (2008) Mechanistic studies on the role of cationic palladium hydride initiators in addition polymerization of exo-and endo-functionalized norbornenes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cormack, Suzanne Marie (2008) "Studies on the cardiomyocytic potential of dermal stem cells”. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Corrigan, Laura (2008) Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in the Lake District, UK. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Crain, Robert Andrew (2008) Simulating the interaction of galaxies and the intergalactic medium. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Cunningham, Oliver David (2008) Biotransormations with plant coenzyme A-dependent acyltransferases. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Darling, Jonathan Mark (2008) Cities of refuge Asylum and the politics of hospitality. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Davies, Bethan Joan (2008) British and Fennoscandian Ice-Sheet interactions during the quaternary. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Davies, Gregory Tudor (2008) Probing star formation and radio activity using faint galaxy redshift surveys. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Dickson, Sara-Jane (2008) Flexible podand and metal-based hosts for anion binding and sensing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Doiron, Joseph Auguste Gilles (2008) Discussion forums in a blended learning approach for social studies: the influence of cognitive learning styles on attitudes towards asynchronous collaboration in a South East Asian university. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Dowding, Catherine E. (2008) The oxidative degradation of organic contaminants using a manganese oxide-containing mine waste. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Dunford, Robert (2008) Forest impacts on freshwater acidification: an investigation of policy and practice in Galloway, S.W. Scotland. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Earl, Douglas Scotohu (2008) Reading Joshua as Christian scripture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

El Baradie, Mohamed Omar (2008) Target Costing application in Egypt an institutional Perspective. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Elemento, Elisa (2008) New gadolinium contrast agents for MRI. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Elgobbi, Eltayed Mohamed Ali. (2008) TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: A CASE STUDY OF THE LIBYAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Elik, Suleyman (2008) Testing the capacities of middle power relations in international politics: the case of Turkey and Iran. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

FILIS, GEORGIOS (2008) “Russia and Turkey in the Geopolitics of Eurasia & the Theory of Median Space: Thesis-Synthesis-Antithesis”. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Firholz, Danielle (2008) Towards a re-composition of democratic participation in regions: the role of consultative forums. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Fletcher-Watson, Sue (2008) Understanding attention to social information in adults with and without autism spectrum disorders. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Flynn, Emma L. (2008) Reactive scattering of Rydberg atoms. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Folkes, Robert L. (2008) Controlling the morphological and electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed Liquid crystals. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

GAZIYEV, JAMSHID (2008) ETHNO-NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL ASIA. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Georgiou , Maria (2008) Attachment influences on understanding of self and others: a cross-cultural study of British and Cypriot college students. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ghunmi, Diana Nawwash Abed El-Hafeth Abu (2008) Stock return, risk and asset pricing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Gigg, Martyn Anthony (2008) Monte Carlo simulations of physics beyond the standard model. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Goodsell, S. J. (2008) Optimising the NAOMI adaptive optics real-time control system. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Gordon-Taylor, Benjamin Nicholas (2008) MYSTERY: A NEGLECTED ASPECT OF FIRST - MILLENNIUM WESTERN LITURGY. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Graham, Adam (2008) Electrical properties and vapour sensing characteristics of a novel metal-polymer composite. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Grigoropoulou, Evaggelia (2008) The early development of the thought of Christos Yannaras. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Gusdorf, Antoine (2008) Molecular emission in regions of star formation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Guy, Nicola C. (2008) Ethnic nationalism, the Great powers and the question of Albanian independence, 1912-1921. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hackett, Sarah Elizabeth (2008) The communities within : the integration of muslim immigrants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Bremen from the 1960s to the 1990s. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hadley, Edward (2008) The elegies of Ted Hughes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hames, Tanya Alexandra Crichton (2008) Motivation in Context: An Action Research Study in Singapore. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hammersley, John (2008) The bulk from the boundary; holography and AdS/CFT. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hanna, Samer (2008) Web services robustness testing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Harland, Derek (2008) Chains of solitons. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Harris, Margaret L. (2008) Realisation of a cold mixture of rubidium and caesium. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hayes, Victoria.H. (2008) The role of the C-terminal extension of αB-crystallin upon structure and function and the relationship with disease. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hayman, Paul Alexander (2008) Constructivism and human rights locating values in a divided approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Heavey, Katherine (2008) ‘As Meeke as Medea, as honest as Hellen’: English literary representations of two troublesome classical women, c.1160-1650. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hermosilla, Belén Solano (2008) A microgripper for single cell manipulation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Höche, Stefan (2008) Perturbative QCD in event generation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hollingworth, Miles Christian (2008) Grace, confession, and the Pilgrim City: the political significance of St.Augustine of Hippo's creation narratives. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Houghton, Stephanie (2008) Managing the evaluation of difference in foreign language education : a complex case study in a tertiary level context in Japan. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Houlding, Brett (2008) Sequential decision making with adaptive utility. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Hui, Sammy King Fai (2008) A study of curriculum leaders' selves and attitudes toward action research in the postmodern age. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Huntriss, Alicia (2008) A Bayesian analysis of luminescence dating. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Huuhtanen, Heidi Katriina. (2008) BUILDING AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE: THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL SECURITY AND FISCAL ENVIRONMENT ON SYRIAN AUTHORITARIANISM. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Huxtable, M. J. (2008) Colour, seeing, and seeing colour in medieval literature. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ibrahim, Anesee (2008) Evaluating training effectiveness in the malaysian public service. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Iskander, Amir Emil (2008) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUDITING EXPECTATIONS GAP AND VOLUNTARY CORPORATE DISCLOSURE: EGYPTIAN EVIDENCE. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Jaquin, Paul A. (2008) Analysis of historic rammed earth construction. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Jellis, Rebecca Mary (2008) Primary Children's Interpretation And Use Of Illustrations In School Mathematics Textbooks and Non Routine Problems: A School Based Investigation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Jochym, Dominik Bogdan (2008) Development of non-local density functional methods. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Johnson, Helena Claire (2008) Continuing professional development for physiotherapists: Exploring their choices in career long learning. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kakhki, Mohammad Mehdi Hedayati (2008) A critical analysis of Iranian buy-back transactions in the context of international petroleum contractual systems. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kamindo, Catherine Muchiru (2008) Instructional supervision in an era of change: policy and practice in primary education in Kenya. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kampalios, Georgios (2008) Desire and motivation in Plato’s republic and a few other dialogues. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kielar, Filip (2008) Development of lanthanide probes for cellular imaging. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kim, Hak Chin (2008) Luke's soteriology: a dynamic event in motion. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kinbrum, Amy (2008) ARTIFICIAL JOINTS: THEIR TRIBOLOGY AND WEAR PARTICLE ANALYSIS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

King, Simon (2008) Ultrafast processes and excited state dynamics in conjugated polymers. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Knobl, Ranja (2008) Biographical representations of Euripides. Some examples of their development from classical antiquity to Byzantium. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kok, Jin-Kuan (2008) Dilemmas or no dilemmas: The role and experience of eleven counsellors working in the Singapore secondary school system. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kolb, Daniel (2008) Organic transistors based on pentacene and dibenzothiophene derivatives. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Kumati, Amel (2008) COMMERCIAL BANKING IN LIBYA AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ISLAMIC BANKING. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Laing, Sarah Victoria (2008) A developmental approach to fear, worry and rituals among typically developing children. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Layfield, Sarah (2008) The Papacy and the Nations of Christendom: a study with particular focus on the pontificate of John XXII (1316-1334). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lee, Jiho (2008) Essays on business cycles in Korea. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lee, Sangil (2008) Interdirectionality of Transmission of Jesus and Gospel Traditions in Bilingual Contexts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lin, Hong-Ting (2008) Characterisation of the MacA/MacB/TolC tripartite pump that confers resistance to macrolides in E. coli. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lin, Jin Jin (2008) Problem-based learning and education reform in Taiwan an exploration in one medical school. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lin, Yi-Chang Elizabeth (2008) As mind narrates body : Virginia Woolfs aesthetic presentation of being in time. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lister, Sarah E. (2008) Synthesis, structures and properties of inorganic framework materials. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Loughenbury, Robert Thomas (2008) Embodying inspiration race and disaffected young white men in Burnley. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lourenço, Sérgio Duarte Nunes (2008) SUCTION MEASUREMENTS AND WATER RETENTION IN UNSATURATED SOILS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Lu, Wei Yuan (2008) Is image analysis based on Gestalt theory a valuable approach teaching photography? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Majambere, Silas (2008) Larval ecology of malaria vectors and the impact of larviciding on malaria transmission in The Gambia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Major, Jonathan (2008) CdTe solar cells: growth phenomena and device performance. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Manning, Peter V.C. (2008) Cohabitation in contemporary Britain: a theological and pastoral response. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Manuel, Mark James (2008) Hidden agendas : testing models of the social and political organisation of the Indus Valley tradition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Marsh, Nicola A (2008) The influences of crustal extension, salt tectonics and gravity-driven deformation on the structural evolution of the Halten Terrace, offshore mid-Norway: new sights from 3D seismic data and fault analysis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Martin, Andrew David (2008) Theoretical studies of bright solitons in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

McIlveen, Helen (2008) The challenges of improving access to sexual health services to improve the sexual health of the nation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

McKenna, Lynne (2008) Parental engagement: a study into the involvement of parents of early years' children. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Meadows, Laura Α. (2008) Elgar as post-Wagnerian: a study of Elgar's assimilation of Wagner’s music and methodology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Middleton, Guy Daniel (2008) The collapse of palatial society in LBA Greece and the postpalatial period. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Milledge, David Graham (2008) Modelling shallow landslides: the importance of hydrological controls and lateral reinforcement. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mistry, Bina (2008) Braneworld black holes and black strings. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mollan, Simon Michael (2008) Economic Imperialism and the Political Economy of Sudan: The case of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1899-1956. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Monks, Phillipa Kay (2008) Cyclic triphosphenium ions and related species. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mountrichas, Georgios (2008) QSOs and galaxies: lensing, clustering and redshift-space distortions. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mshana, Gerry (2008) Stroke discourses and remedies in urban and rural Tanzania. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Muksuris, Stylianos (2008) Economia and Eschatology: The Mystagogical Significance of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy's Prothesis Rite in the Commentaries of Saints Nicholas Cabasilas and Symeon Thessalonike. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mullaney, J.R. (2008) The location and kinematics of the emission line regions in Active Galactic Nuclei. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Mumba, Rachel (2008) Class, nation and localism in the Northumberland art world, 1820-1939'. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Murray, Ben (2008) Anion binding studies with responsive lanthanide complexes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Nagano, Ami (2008) Doing lone motherhood in Japan: the 'project of self in a precariously transforming society. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Nagano, Ami (2008) Doing Lone Motherhood in Japan: The 'Project of Self' in a Precariously Transforming Society. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Nayudu, Aarti (2008) Issues in the syntax of Marathi : a minimalist approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Nelson,, Ian Martin (2008) THE BRITISH NEW LABOUR PARTY AND POLITICAL ZIONISM: CONTINUITY OF AN ESSENTIAL DILEMMA. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Newmarch, Gail (2008) The impact of national systems of innovation on therapeutic cloning: A comparison between the UK and China in the clinical area of diabetes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Nishizumi, Kanako (2008) The pragmatics of nominalization in Japanese: the n(o) da construction and participant roles in talk. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Noble, Adam J. (2008) The role of posttraumatic stress disorder in explaining the psychosocial outcome of subarachnoid haemorrhage patients and their informal carers in both the short- and long-term. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Norris, Mark Anderson (2008) The formation of early-type galaxies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Northway, Eric W (2008) The reception of the fathers & Eucharistic theology in Johannes oecolampadius ( 1482-1531), with special reference to the adversus haereses of irenaeus of Lyons. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Obeidat, Bader Yousef (2008) A study of the Implementation Stage of Strategic Decisions in the Banking Sector in Jordan. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Orton, Andrew (2008) Faith, dialogue and difference in English Christian community work: learning “good practice”? Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Ozeren, Kemal (2008) Multiparton scattering amplitudes with heavy quarks: calculational techniques and applications to diffractive processes. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

O’Boyle, Patricia Marie (2008) Staging imagination: transformations of Shakespeare in Wordsworth and Coleridge. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Pagé, Véronique (2008) Aspects of the cosmology of right-handed sneutrinos without lepton-number violation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Park, Chang-Won (2008) Death rites in Korea : the Confucian-Christian interplay. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Parker, Richard Andrew (2008) Explaining successful information management in small business. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Parks, Emma Louise (2008) Polyfunctionalised pyrimidines and pyrazines from perhalogenated precursors. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Patmore, Hector M. (2008) Adam, Satan, and the King of Tyre: The reception of Ezekiel 28:11-19 in Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Patterson, Anthony (2008) Down with reticence: modem fiction, censorship and the politics of sexual representation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Pattison, Graham (2008) Tetrafluoropyridazíne: a scaffold for the synthesis of highly functionalised heterocycles. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Pedram, Ali Mohammad (2008) The Institution of Parliament and Democratisation Process in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Perry, Andrew (2008) Eschatological Deliverance: The Spirit in Luke-Acts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Pym, Alexander Thomas Gafswood (2008) Grazing incidence X-Ray scattering from the interfaces of thin film magnetic device materials. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Quinn, John (2008) Patient and prisoner : mainstreaming NHS primary care and public health in the male prison estate in England and Wales. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Raúl Esteban Angulo de la Puente, (2008) The Clustering of Dark Matter, Haloes & Galaxies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Rawlinson, Kent (2008) The English household chapel, c. 1100 - c. 1500: an institutional study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Rhodes, Aidan (2008) Complementary applications of Scanning Kelvin Nanoprobe microscopy and electrochemical techniques. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Richardson, Alexia (2008) Traces of terror : photography and memory of politial violence in Argentina and Peru. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Robson, Elaine M. (2008) ‘Slobs and yobs’: representations of youth in the UK newspapers 1st January to 30th June 2005. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Rogers, Adam (2008) Roman towns as meaning-laden places: reconceptualising the growth and decline of towns in Roman Britain, Volume 1. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Rowson, James (2008) Carbon Emissions from Managed Upland Peat. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Sadeghinia, Mahboubeh (2008) Persian Gulf security arrangements, with special reference to Iran's foreign policy. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Salamanca, Albert M. (2008) Kangkong (Ipomoea, Convolvulaceae) and the geographies of interstitial urban spaces in Southeast Asia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Sbeiti, Wafaa Mohamad (2008) Stock markets dynamics, financial sector development and corporate capital structure in the GCC countries. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Scott, David John (2008) Local governance, governmental practices, and the production of policy: local strategic partnerships and area-based 'multiple deprivation' in County Durham. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Scrutton, Anastasia Philippa (2008) God, emotion and impassibility. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Sellars, Jonathan D. (2008) Silacyclohex-4-enes: novel silene-cycloadducts for organic synthesis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Shaw, Andrew Douglas (2008) The earlier Palaeolithic of Syria: settlement history, technology and landscape-use in the Orontes and Euphrates Valleys. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Simpson, Edmon Willoughby (2008) Long term behaviour of compost-like-output and its associated soils. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Smith, Helen M. M. (2008) Academic misconduct in higher education: perceptions, self-reports and perspectives. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Smith, Kenneth (2008) Desire and the drives: a new analytical approach to the harmonic language of Alexander Skryabin. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Solowski, Wojciech Tomasz (2008) Unsaturated soils: constitutive modelling and explicit stress integration. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Soutsane, Karima (2008) Syllabification and phonological rule application in Tashlhiyt Berber. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Spangler, Denise Helen (2008) Atmospheric monitoring and gamma-ray data analysis with the H.E.S.S. telescope array. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Spencer, Rosa Kelly (2008) Testing hypotheses about diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) using stable isotope and aDNA analysis of late medieval British populations. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Spiller, Keith (2008) Farmers' markets as assemblage: social relations, social practice and the producer/consumer nexus in the north east of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Spinato, Fabio (2008) The reliability of wind turbines. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Stannard, Nick (2008) Generator design for, and modelling of, small-scale wind turbines. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Stowell Phillips, Sarah Jane Fergusson (2008) Animal visual culture in the middle ages. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Swift, George Peter (2008) Propagation of terahertz radiation in non-homogeneous materials and structures. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tadeusiak, Andrezej Jan (2008) Fluorinated liquid crystal systems. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tagini, Angela (2008) Adult attachment and phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical memory. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tahko, Tuomas E. (2008) The necessity of metaphysics. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tapp, Edward (2008) Thioesterases in fruit and the generation of high impact aroma chemicals. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Taylor, Oliver (2008) An organism of words body language in the letters, diaries, and novels of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tolefat, Abdulrahman Khalil (2008) An Analysis of the Investment Portfolio Composition of Takaful Undertakings in the GCC and Malaysia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tsai, Yau (2008) Intercultural learning in the context of study abroad a role in second foreign language acquisition. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Tsaliki, Anastasia (2008) An investigation of extraordinary human body disposals, with special reference to necrophobia. A multi-disciplinary analysis with case studies from Greece and cross-cultural comparisons. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Umpleby, James (2008) Complex sine-Gordon theory: solitons, defects and boundaries. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Vogt, Oliver (2008) Collaborative electronic purchasing within an SME consortium. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wang, Dingxi (2008) Turbomachinery aerodynamic and aeromechanic design optimization using the adjoint method. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wang, Huei Lan (2008) Teaching media literacy through critical pedagogy: an action research project in higher education. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Waterhouse, Emma Kate (2008) Interactions between coarse sediment transfer, channel change, river engineering and flood risk in an upland gravel-bed river. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Watson, Helen R. (2008) The isolation of useful bioproducts remaining from the large-scale fermentation of penicillium chrysogenum. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Watson, Pauline Elizabeth (2008) 'A local habitation and a name A Kristevan reading of human growth in religion, with a reference to John and Charles Wesley'. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Watson, Scott M. D. (2008) Scanning probe lithography of chemically functionalised surfaces. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wen, Shu-Fang (2008) The role of GFAP mutation in Alexander disease. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Whincop, Matthew R. (2008) Pots, people, and politics: a reconsideration of the role of ceramics in reconstructions of the Iron Age Northern Levant. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Whittle, Victoria Louise (2008) Synthesis and luminescence of iridium and rhodium complexes incorporating NCN-coordinating terdentate ligands. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wiles, Duncan Peter (2008) Production of Recombinant Lectins from Garlic (Allium Sativum) Bulbs and Their Insecticidal Activity Against Hemipteran Insects. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Williams, Karina E. (2008) The Higgs sector of the complex minimal supersymmetric standard model. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wongkhan, Kittiya (2008) Synthesis and applications of Palladium complexes Part I. The synthesis, single crystal structures and liquid crystalline phase behavior of Alkoxy substituted Tolans. Part II. Palladium-Complexes of Thioureas and phosphine sulfides. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Wood, Victoria Jane (2008) Subordinate kinship : families living with incarceration. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Woods, Tom MacDonald (2008) Phosphinates as new electrophilic reagents for cross-coupling reactions. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Xiang, Yonghong (2008) Interconnection networks for parallel and distributed computing. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Yamada, Etsuko (2008) Fostering criticality in a beginners’ Japanese language course: a case study in a UK higher education modern languages degree programme. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Yang, Chen (2008) Isospectral deformations of Eguchi-Hanson spaces a case study in noncompact noncommutative geometry. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Yildizian, Arax-Marie (2008) The contact hypothesis: Its application to the Cyprus problem. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Yucel, Ali Bogachan (2008) Job satisfaction and perceived leadership behaviours among the Turkish national police department: A case study on Eskisehir police department. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Zanobi, Alessandra (2008) Seneca's tragedies and the aesthetics of pantomime. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Zhang, Li (2008) Elucidation of the structure and mechanism of the MtrCDE multi drug transporter in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Zheng, Xinwei (2008) Commonality in liquidity : evidence from the Chinese stock market. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Zhou, Bilei (2008) Market Timing and Corporate Debt Issuance. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

Masters

Andrews, Jonathan Boyce (2008) Use of carbon isotope and C/N geochemistry in reconstructing vegetation communities: a mid- to late- Holocene palaeoenvironmental investigation from Romney Marsh, Kent, UK. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Blake, Simon (2008) An aeroacoustic study of industrial gas turbine intake and exhaust systems. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Cross, Matthew E. (2008) From illegality to criminality: developing ‘rules’ under international law. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Dellow-Perry, Emma (2008) Myths of merit. Judicial diversity and the image of the superhero judge. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Dong, Ying (2008) Application of computational fluid dynamics to turbo machinery unsteady aerodynamics and aero acoustics. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Emmerson, Robert (2008) The in vitro plasticity of hair follicle dermal and mesenchymal stem cells. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Farrukh Aslam, S. M. (2008) Wideband harmonic radar detection. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Gregory, Chow Kheong K. (2008) An investigation into microbiology students’ understanding of microbes. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Hajduk, Thomas (2008) With a little help from my friends: Ernst Junger and his network in the post-war period. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Houghton, Lauren C. (2008) Ethnic variation in correlations of salivary and serum reproductive steroid hormones: a comparison of Bangladeshi and British women. Masters thesis, Durham University.

HUCKLESBY, CLARE,LOUISE (2008) An Anthropology of Conservation. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Janganan, Thamarai kannan (2008) The regulation of the cAMP signalling pathway in the human pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Jarrett, Richard (2008) Reappraising Penn and Harker: a reassessment of the finds from excavations at Roman Springhead, published between 1957 and 1984, and interpretations made about their use in past activities. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Jiménez Rodríguez, Mónica (2008) Further development of an episodic-like task in rats. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Kalasuwan, Pruet (2008) Calculation of Rydberg energy levels of rubidium in an electric field. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Kumar, Sumit (2008) Identification of the influential factors of foreign direct investment in the Indian manufacturing sector. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Lever, Christopher (2008) This property's mine; or the point missed entirely? The coevolution of copyright and technological protection measures; a framework for analysis. Masters thesis, Durham University.

MARI, FABRIZIO (2008) A TALE OF TWO CHRONICLERS: PTOLEMY OF LUCCA AND GIOVANNI SERCAMBI. Masters thesis, Durham University.

McGuigan, James F. (2008) A distributed solution to software reuse. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Moore, Tom (2008) Cyclometallated iridium-carbazole complexes for OLED applications. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Muhamat, Amirul Afif (2008) An investigation into SMEs' perceptions of credit guarantee corporation (CGC) Malaysia berhad: A case study of Islamic guarantee scheme in Malays. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Nadiruzzaman, Md. (2008) Rural local government and state politics in Bangladesh. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Nahyan, Khaled Bin Zayed Al (2008) The Arab people and the early Islamic period. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Palmer, Georgina (2008) Simulating range shifts of African mammals under predicted climate change: potential conservation and economic consequences. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Preisfreund, Anna (2008) In search for the hero: A study of the possible causes that make or break the hero in children's literature. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Ranieri, Carmela Maria (2008) From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth centaury AD. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Richardson, Siobhan (2008) Towards responsive lanthanide probes for detection of reactive oxygen species. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Shahar, Suhaileen (2008) Structural evolution of the Tenggol Arch and its implication for basement fracture patterns in the Malay Basin, Malaysia. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Shatat, Mahmoud I. M. (2008) New and renewable energy and environmental engineering. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Shewly, Hosna Jahan (2008) Border management and post - 9/11 state security concerns: implications for the Bangladesh-India border. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Shires, Kate (2008) The absence of absence: a (geographical hi)story of the landscape of Blackpool. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Smith, Peter John (2008) The choral music of Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924 and the press c.1875-1925. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Stansbury, Nick (2008) Transparency of security ownership and the accountability of capital markets participants. “Getting to know you…an exercise in frustration” A critical legal analysis of the transparency and accountability of capital markets participants in their role as owners and controlling agents of public companies. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Turton, Rachael Heather (2008) Particulate emissions from a steel works a quantitative ecological assessment. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Vincent-Gill, Sonia (2008) Filming alterity: explorations of 'Voice(s)' in Contemporary French ethnographic film. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Willoughby, Christopher (2008) Mass customisation procedures in engine assembly. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Wilson, Glen (2008) Thromboelastographic assessment of the efficacy of rFVIIa in vitro and in vivo. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Woy, Udisien (2008) Digital enterprise technology implementation A methodology to facilitate the innovation process in SMEs. Masters thesis, Durham University.

Unspecified

Aelvoet, Karel (2008) Research of bifunctional catalysts for C-C bond forming reactions. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

Beckingsale, Thomas (2008) Staphylococcus aureus: salt stress, cell wall deficiency, and Biofílm formation. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

Holmes, Lorraine (2008) The concept of political responsibility. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

Knowles, Jonathan Peter (2008) Approaches to the total synthesis of viridenomycin. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

McGravey, Michael P. (2008) An investigation into the structure and performance of a glass fibre size. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

Monahan, Rhys (2008) The sky's the limit? Establishing a legal delimitation of airspace and outer space. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.

Okada, Yoko (2008) Functional analysis of inositol phosphoryl ceramide synthase isoforms from arabidopsis thaliana. Unspecified thesis, Durham University.