Theses

The Empirically Corroborated Theology of the Meaning of Life in Ecclesiastes: A biblical and emirical analysis with reference to Malaysian Businesspeople

Supervisor: Davies, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The English in north-west Wales. Migration, identity and belonging 1970-2010 : an oral history

Supervisor: Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Tanner, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Examination of Selected Physiological and Psychological Parameters in the Preparation of Elite Slalom Canoeists for an Olympic Competition

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Formation and Influence of Pwyllgor Diogelu Diwylliant Cymru and Undeb Cymru Fydd: Language and Cultural Preservation in Wales, c.1939-50

Supervisor: Edwards, A. (Supervisor) & Wiliam, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Function Of SPO11 In Human Cancer Cells

Supervisor: Stuart, N. (Supervisor), Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor) & Wakeman, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Genetic Basis of Venom Variation in the Genus Echis: Causes, Correlates and Consequences

Supervisor: Wuster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Global Riverine Hydrokinetic Resource

Supervisor: Neill, S. (Supervisor), Lewis, M. (Supervisor) & Robins, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Henrician court during Cardinal Wolsey's ascendancy c.1514-1529.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Henwife & Outside In: An Introduction to the ‘New Domestic

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Human DNA damage sensor RAD9B affects CHK2-T68 Phosphorylation, p21 stability and cell survival in G1

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of Classroom and Naturalistic Exposure on the Conceptualisation and Use of Motion Verbs by L1 Arabic Undergraduate Learners of English

Supervisor: Sanoudaki, E. (Supervisor) & Shank, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of Split Credit Ratings on U.S. Corporates: Cost of Capital, Capital Structure and Debt Maturity

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of Transactional Website Adoption on Banks’ Performance

Supervisor: Carbo-Valverde, S. (Supervisor), Williams, G. (Supervisor) & Lopes, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of the Italian Occupation of Cyrenaica with Reference to Benghazi, 1911-1942

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Influence of Vitamin D, Psychosocial Factors and Sleep on Upper Respiratory Tract Infection and Mucosal Immunity

Supervisor: Roberts, R. (Supervisor) & Walsh, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Interaction of Adaptive and Maladaptive Narcissism, and its Relevance to Performance Under Pressure and Quality of Training

Supervisor: Roberts, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Jew as dangerous other in early Italian cinema, 1910-1914

Supervisor: Abrams, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Johannine connection : John's contribution to our knowledge of tradition in the Fourth Gospel, with special reference to John 11.1-44.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Kuwaiti merchants’ Networks, 1850-1946: A Tiny Sheikhdom in the First Global Age

Supervisor: Rees, L. (Supervisor) & Batiz-Lazo, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Lexico-Grammatical Argument Structure Patterns of Ditransitive Verbs in North Atlantic and South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus Based Analysis

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor) & Wallington, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Life Cycle Assessment and Moisture Sorption Characteristics of Natural Fibre Thermal Insulation Materials

Supervisor: Hill, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Market Microstructure of Stock Futures and Equity Options

Supervisor: ap Gwilym, O. (Supervisor) & Williams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Meaning We Give It: Utopic Manifestation in Interactive Media

Supervisor: Skains, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity on the Relationship between Intellectual capital and Firm Performance in high-tech SMEs, UK

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Mostyn family and estate, 1200 - 1642

Supervisor: Williams, J. G. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Nature of Cross-Language Activation in Late Chinese-English Bilinguals : A Behavioural and Event-Related Potential Investigation

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Naval King Charles II’s use of the English Navy, 1659 - 1668

Supervisor: Claydon, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Neural Mechanisms of Planning and Executing Skilled Movement Sequences

Supervisor: Kornysheva, K. (Supervisor) & Valyear, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The New Feminist Series: Cha(lle)nging the Representation of the Postfeminist Woman in Spanish Television (2015–2022)

Supervisor: Miranda-Barreiro, D. (Supervisor) & Bru-Dominguez, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Novel Synthesis of Aldehyde Insect Sex Pheromones

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Obstacles to Political Development in the Kurdistan Region 1992-2014

Supervisor: Davis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Origin, Development, and Future of Assemblies of God Eschatology

Supervisor: Kay, W. (Supervisor) & Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Other Side’ of the Nigeria-Biafra War: A Transnational History

Supervisor: Sedlmaier, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Parameters of Participatory Play: Nostalgic Situationism for the 21st Century.

Supervisor: Muse, E. (Supervisor) & Thomas, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Paramo vegetation of Ecuador : the community ecology, dynamics and productivity of tropical grasslands in the Andes.

Supervisor: Oxley, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Philosophy of History and the Philosophy of Religions in the work of Edgar Quinet

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Place of the Bible in Abraham Lincoln’s Career

Supervisor: Warrington, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Pleistocene Protagonist: Predicting Chinese, North American and global box office success through an evolutionary analysis of film protagonists

Supervisor: Sherry, J. (Supervisor) & Ward, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Process of Scaling an Early Childhood Development Parenting Programme by Integrating into Primary Health Care Services in Bangladesh

Supervisor: Henningham, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Rad9.M50 Variant of the DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Rad9 Regulates the MAP Kinase pathway in the Response to Heat Stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Reform of Insurance Warranty Law in Nigeria: Which Way Forward?

Supervisor: Owen, J. (Supervisor) & Jing, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Renewal of Hostilities in the Nigerian Delta Region in 2016 and the Failure of the Presidential Amnesty

Supervisor: Feilzer, M. (Supervisor) & Machura, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Response of Extracellular Phenol Oxidase Activity to Environmental Change, and the Implications for the Stability of Soil Carbon Stores

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor), Evans, C. (Supervisor) & Fenner, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Alloying Elements on Grain Boundary Complexions in Nuclear Materials

Supervisor: Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor) & Pierce, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Athlete Availability in the Development of Young Elite Athletes

Supervisor: Roberts, R. (Supervisor) & Oliver, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Clay Minerals in the Dynamics and Deposits of Sediment Gravity Flows

Supervisor: Baas, J. (Supervisor) & Barker, S. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Cognitive Challenges in Endurance Performance and Recovery

Supervisor: Blanchfield, A. (Supervisor), Cooke, A. (Supervisor) & Hardy, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of DNA Repair in Resisting Treatment with Gemcitabine and other Nucleoside Analogues

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 CTBP-Interacting Protein (MRN-CtIP) In Providing Resistance against Camptothecin

Supervisor: Hartsuiker, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Roman Catholic Church and society in Wales 1916-62.

Supervisor: Morgan, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Scottish, English & Nordic ballads

Supervisor: Leitmeir, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Shiite Resistance Against the British Occupation in Iraq 1914-1921

Supervisor: Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Sino-Indian Border War and the Foreign Policies of China and India (1950-1965)

Supervisor: Hong, F. (External person) (Supervisor) & Shapely, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Spirit of God in the Torah: a Pentecostal exploration

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Synthesis of Biologically Active Guanidines

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Temporality of Narcissistic Leadership

Supervisor: Roberts, R. (Supervisor), Arthur, C. (Supervisor) & Woodman, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Theology of John Tillotson (1630-1694) and Latitudinarianism in England

Supervisor: Claydon, A. (Supervisor) & Betenson, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Triune God and Theological Metaphysics: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Being

Supervisor: Green, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Unitive Self and its Importance for Mental Wellbeing, Society, and Politics.

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Uses of Patagonia. Representations of Y Wladfa in post-Devolution Wales

Supervisor: Miranda-Barreiro, D. (Supervisor) & Wiliams, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Value of Connection to Nature: Strategic Thinking in Environmental Organizations

Supervisor: Karami, A. (Supervisor) & Mitchelmore, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Value of the Human Being in the Quran : Analytical study of the conceptual elements

Supervisor: Wali, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Wheel - A Smartphone Novel: Multimodal Composition on the Move

Supervisor: Skains, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The absolute stereochemistry of various naturally occurring fatty acids

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The academic writing of Japanese students of English : contrastive rhetoric and its implications for an integrated approach to composition pedagogy.

Supervisor: James, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The acquisition and alteration of food consumption patterns in preverbal and verbal children

Supervisor: Lowe, F. (Supervisor) & Horne, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The acquisition of phonemic constraints : implications for models of phonological encoding

Supervisor: Houghton, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The acquisition of second language word form: a cognitive perspective

Supervisor: Ellis, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The acquisition of the Arabic gender and number systems

Supervisor: Gathercole, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The adaption of Herge's The Adventures of tintin in the Arab world

Supervisor: Price, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The aerobic treatment of organic wastes and their use in industry

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The analysis of genome stability maintenance mechanisms in human cancer cells and stem cells

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The analysis of the functional role of the cancer-associated, chromosomal breakpoint binding protein Translin in maintaining genome stability.

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The apocalyptic world of the Fourth Gospel

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of Biot's theory to sea-bed sediments.

Supervisor: Taylor Smith, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of acoustic doppler techniques to the measurement of turbulent flow over mussel beds : new techniques and applications.

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of neural network techniques to magnetic and optical inverse problems

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor) & Duller, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of new techniques to the study of planktonic organisms.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of recently developed techniques to Welsh Black Cattle in a group breeding scheme.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of spatial data in forest ecology and management; windthrow, carbon sequestration and climate change

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The application of the ADCP variance method to turbulence measurements in a partially stratified estuary.

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The arbitrability of international online consumer disputes

Supervisor: Telles, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The assessment and modification of verbal behaviour in people with dementia.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The assumed light source direction : evidence from different populations

Supervisor: Sapir, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The availability, quality and processing aspects of gum arabic from Kenya.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The behavioural ecology of aggression in Lake Malawi haplochromine cichlid fish

Supervisor: Turner, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biodiversity and biogeography of shallow-water flora and fauna of the Western Indian ocean: with special reference to the Polychaeta, Mollusca and Echinodermata

Supervisor: Jones, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology and control of Riccadoella limacum (Schrank), a mite pest of farmed snails.

Supervisor: Runham, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology and ecology of the rocky shore crab Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) on the coast of Kuwait

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor), Gimenez Noya, J. (Supervisor) & Behbehani, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology of reproduction in two British pulmonate slugs.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology, behaviour and ecology of pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) in the Philippines.

Supervisor: Turner, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The biology, population dynamics and fishery management of the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758), in Bahraini waters : (Crustacea: Decapoda; Brachyura; Portunidae).

Supervisor: Walker, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The broad-scale impacts of livestock grazing on saltmarsh carbon stocks

Supervisor: Skov, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The catabolism of aromatic esters by Acinetobacter sp.ADP1

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The catchment scale spatiotemporal dynamics and fate of dissolved organic and inorganic matter in the River Conwy, North Wales.

Supervisor: Williams, P. (Supervisor), Thomas, D. (Supervisor) & Bowers, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The causes and consequences of accounting fraud in China

Supervisor: Ashton, J. (Supervisor) & Jaafar, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The central executive and object recognition

Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Leek, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The characterisation and control of ochre deposits in land drainage systems.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The characterisation of dissolved organic carbon and its influence on tri-halomethane formation potential

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor) & Holliman, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The characterisation of thin insulating films on metal electrodes immersed in aqueous electrolytes using the AC Admittance Technique.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy