Hydrogen and fuel cells as an emerging socio-technical system have been suggested as a very promising future energy carrier and technology to address the urgent problem of climate change and other symptoms of a global energy crisis. The flexible ener... Read More about Pathways to hydrogen economies : a quantitative cross-national investigation of hydrogen discourses and strategy formulation in Britain and Germany.
A study of 3D CAD and implications for training and skills in the fashion industry (2008)
Thesis
This study was motivated by the need to understand how 3D CAD systems might
impact on the designer and the fashion design process. Current descriptions of the
industry indicated that new strategies were necessary to survive globalisation,
technolo... Read More about A study of 3D CAD and implications for training and skills in the fashion industry.
'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990 (2008)
Thesis
The following thesis interrogates representations of the enemy in three
American war novels: James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962), Larry
Heinemann's Paco's Story (1986), and Tim O'Brien's The Things They
Carried (1990). While American literary r... Read More about 'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990.
Critical social theory and the end of work (2007)
Thesis
This PhD research examines the development and sociological significance of the
idea that work is being eliminated through the use of automated production
technology. After examining historically, culturally and theoretically contested
definitions... Read More about Critical social theory and the end of work.
Chinese government policy and international exchange in performing arts 1949-2005 (2007)
Thesis
More than fifty years have past since the found of the People's Republic of China in
1949; after which Chinese society experienced many changes owing to the
adjustments of government policies. The aim of this thesis is to determine how
Chinese gov... Read More about Chinese government policy and international exchange in performing arts 1949-2005.
The art of collaboration (four contrasting compositions) : critical commentary (2007)
Thesis
This Doctor of Musical Arts submission comprises of two volumes.
Volume 1 is a Critical Commentary entitled The Art of Collaboration (Four
Contrasting Compositions). Volume 2 contains four contrasting original
compositions.
Volume 1 is an analysi... Read More about The art of collaboration (four contrasting compositions) : critical commentary.
Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883 (2007)
Thesis
Murray, F. Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883. (Thesis). University of SalfordThis thesis focuses on the British Workman and its proprietor Thomas Bywater Smithies. The British Workman was the most popular and widely distributed of all the illustrated temperance journals issued during the second half of the nineteenth century... Read More about Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883.
The present study enquires into the fundamental issue of the translator's habitus
(Bourdieu 1990). We take up John B. Thompson's synthetic translation of the concept of
habitus (1991) while exploring descriptive explanatory interpretive hypotheses... Read More about The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'.
There's more to health than HIV : social capital & health in the gay community (2007)
Thesis
The legal climate for gay men in the UK has undergone enormous change since the
decriminalisation of 'homosexuality1 in 1967 with changes in the social climate following.
Bringing together concepts of 'social capital 1 and 'reflexive individualisat... Read More about There's more to health than HIV : social capital & health in the gay community.
Strategic objectives, parent control and performance : a study of Sino-European international joint ventures (2005)
Thesis
Yang, H. Strategic objectives, parent control and performance : a study of Sino-European international joint ventures. (Thesis). University of SalfordThe study explores the relationship between the strategic objectives of foreign
firms entering international joint ventures, foreign parent control, and joint venture
performance in the context of Sino-European IJVs. Using an integrative approach... Read More about Strategic objectives, parent control and performance : a study of Sino-European international joint ventures.
Intertextuality and translation : a relevance-theoretic approach (2002)
Thesis
This study investigates the relationship between intertextuality and translation
with the aim of aiding the translator make more theoretically enlightened
decisions in this area of special difficulty.
The critical review of the literature on trans... Read More about Intertextuality and translation : a relevance-theoretic approach.
This thesis traces the development of the training of fashion designers in Singapore
from early days to the present.
While the training of fashion designers in the modern sense of the word did not begin
in Singapore until the late nineteen-eightie... Read More about The training of fashion designers in Singapore : with special reference to the School of Fashion Studies, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
A comparative study of fashion design processes in the U.K. women's wear industry (Volume I) (2000)
Thesis
This chapter presents the analysis of the validated case study findings. The analysis was
a comparison between company and design process variables followed by inductive
reasoning to arrive at a series of hypotheses about links and relationships... Read More about A comparative study of fashion design processes in the U.K. women's wear industry (Volume I).
A comparative study of fashion design processes in the U.K. women's wear industry (Volume II) (2000)
Thesis
This chapter presents the analysis of the validated case study findings. The analysis was
a comparison between company and design process variables followed by inductive
reasoning to arrive at a series of hypotheses about links and relationships... Read More about A comparative study of fashion design processes in the U.K. women's wear industry (Volume II).
The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium (1999)
Thesis
Newsome, R. The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium. (Thesis). University of Salford, UKThis thesis examines the development of the amateur wind band in Britain during the
nineteenth century, with special reference to the increasing domination of the brass band,
particularly in northern England. After a preliminary review of British a... Read More about The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium.
A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH / 1294 AD) (1997)
Thesis
El-Doghim, M. A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH / 1294 AD). (Thesis). University of SalfordA critical edition and study of Badi' al-Niiim al-Jimi' bayna kitibay al-Bazdawi wa al-Iikim by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (d.694 AH/1294 AD) (BL)
El-Doghim, M.M.E-S., 1997, A2f
Ph.D., Salford, 47-10501 (BL)... Read More about A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH / 1294 AD).
A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH/1294 AD) (1997)
Thesis
El-Doghim, M. A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH/1294 AD). (Thesis). University of SalfordJurisprudence is one of the most important subjects of Islamic Studies because it is the means of deducing religious categorisation of human acts and of deducing the rules which regulate human affairs in a just manner. This study attempts to define t... Read More about A critical edition and study of Badi' al-Nizam al-Jami' bayna kitabay al-Bazdawi wa al-Ihkam by Ibn al-Sa'ati and its place in the history of Islamic jurisprudence (D.694 AH/1294 AD).
Morphology, analogy and machine translation (1993)
Thesis
following straightforward questions: "What domain of linguistic knowledge is dealt with
in this work?", "How are these phenomena approached from a formal standpoint?" and
"What for?". They thus define the three main axes around which the present
i... Read More about Morphology, analogy and machine translation.
The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice (1993)
Thesis
This thesis contends that it is only by studying the many issues
around which the doctrine of strategic bombing developed during the
inter-war period that an attempt can be made to achieve a clear
understanding of the controversial character of th... Read More about The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice.
Gender, group identity and variation in usage of the Berlin Urban Vernacular (1991)
Thesis
The relationship between gender, group identity and variation in usage of the Berlin
Urban Vernacular (BUY) is explored empirically, with particular attention paid to
methodologies applied for the analysis of gender differences in sociolinguistic r... Read More about Gender, group identity and variation in usage of the Berlin Urban Vernacular.
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