Theses

A Critical Evaluation of the Legal and Sharia Aspects of the Iraqi Islamic Banking System, Using the Case Studies of Malaysia and Bahrain

Supervisor: Hyland, M. (Supervisor) & Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Novel Approach to Printed Arabic Optical Character Recognition

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Numerical Study of the Internal Tide in Upper Loch Linnhe

Supervisor: Simpson, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Pentecostal Hearing of Ezekiel: Ezekiel’s Visions by the hwhy-dy and the xwr

Supervisor: Thomas, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Philosophical Investigation of Religious Language: A Study of the Identity, Meaning and Semantics of Religious Utterances

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Realist Evaluation of Geographically Distinct Community (Health) Development Projects: What works in Wales, for Whom, How, Why, and in What circumstances?

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor) & Brocklehurst, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Realist Evaluation of In-Practice Prevention Care Pathway

Supervisor: Williams, S. (Supervisor) & Brocklehurst, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Schenkerian analysis of the seven symphonies of Jean Sibelius

Supervisor: Pascall, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Study in the Experimental Taxonomy of some British Sphagha (section Cuspidata),with observations of their ecology.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Study of the Geomicrobiology of Acid Mine Drainage-impacted Environments, with particular regard to the former Mynydd Parys Copper Mines, North Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Theology of the Spirits in the former Prophets: A Pentecostal Perspective

Supervisor: Thomas, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Universal Magnetic Carrier for use in Cancer Prodrug Therapy

Supervisor: Gwenin, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Woman on the Border: A Feminist-Structuralist-Deconstructive Reading of the Character of Miriam in Exodus 2:1-10; 15:20-21 and Numbers 12:1-16.

Supervisor: Davies, E. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A behavioural analysis of pre-school children's food preferences

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A behavioural analysis of rapid word learning in infants

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A behaviourist approach to pyscho-analysis

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A bluetooth-based communications architecture for lightweight mobile robots

Supervisor: Mansoor, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative analysis of regulatory strategies in accounting and their impact on corporate compliance.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative study of efficiency in European banking.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative study of morphology, behaviour and ecology of Chaetogaster Limnaei ( von Baer) from several host species

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative study of the High Church party in the dioceses of Chester and Bangor between 1688 and 1715.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparative study of the doctrines of atonement and justification in the writings of John Owen (1616-1683) and John Wesley (1703-1791) : With considerations of the middle-way contributions of Richard Baxter (1615-1691) and John Tillotson (1630-1694) and the theology of the Protestant Reformers.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparison between optical properties measured in the field and the laboratory, and the development of an optical model.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparison of Al Qassim viewed through British eyes and local sources: 1862-1918

Supervisor: Wiliam, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparison of functional assessment methods

Supervisor: Jones, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comparison of methods for selecting untagged animals for breeding purposes

Supervisor: Ap Dewi, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A comprehensive profile of awareness in mild cognitive impairment

Supervisor: Clare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A conceptual e-learning system for teaching mathematics

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A consumer investigation: monetising, marketing and distributing digital music in a niche and minority language market - the situation in Wales

Supervisor: Muse, E. (Supervisor), Griffiths, G. (Supervisor) & Jones, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A critical analysis of the function played by the UAE's Financial Intelligence Unit in counteracting money laundering with particular reference to the UK's Financial Intelligence Unit

Supervisor: Hyland, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A critical examination of the Teacher Training in Wales, 1846-1898

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A framework of services to provide a persistent data access service for the CORBA environment

Supervisor: Hope, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A history of the English-speaking Baptist churches of North Wales

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A knowledge-based systems approach to agroforestry research and extension.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A longitudinal study of the outcomes and impact of Citizens Advice Bureau advice on the lives of individuals

Supervisor: Hirst, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A modelling approach to assessing the environmental impacts of harvesting marine bivalves from natural populations

Supervisor: Hiddink, J. (Supervisor) & Cordes, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A molecular modelling study of electron trapping in polythylene

Supervisor: Quirke, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A molecular study on the adaption and response of plants to windy habitats

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A moment approach to mixed quantum-classical dynamics

Supervisor: Hughes, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A multi-variant investigation of CdTe/CdS photovoltaic material

Supervisor: Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A multidisciplinary approach to examine mental toughness

Supervisor: Beattie, S. (Supervisor) & Cooke, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A multiple method approach to economic evaluation in public health: yoga for managing musculoskeletal conditions in the workplace

Supervisor: Edwards, R. T. (Supervisor) & Phillips, C. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A neurophysiological investigation of mindfulness training in secondary schools: Modifications in cognitive control and emotion processing in adolescents

Supervisor: Dorjee, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A new proxy for constraining Palaeotidal simulations for the Northwest European Shelf Seas

Supervisor: Neill, S. (Supervisor) & Scourse, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A novel miRNA cluster within the circadian clock gene NPAS2 and the implications of rs1811399, an autism enriched single nucleotide polymorphism

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A novel microwave transmission Line with Impedance matching structures for Haemostasis of upper Gastrointestinal bleeding.

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A phenomenological approach to the experience of chronic pain

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A pictographic method for teaching Greek spelling to dyslexic children

Supervisor: Miles, T. R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Ellis, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A pragmatic analysis of family mediation

Supervisor: Thomas, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A preference for delayed rewards in children: developmental effects and individual differences

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A psychophysiological acquisition device for affective video games

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A psychophysiological examination of concept conscious processing of movements

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

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A psychophysiological examination of the emotions-performance relationship

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A psychosocial approach to illness cognition, emotional coping responses and lay referral: an exploratory mixed and multi-methods design within early diagnostic cancer research

Supervisor: Morrison, V. (Supervisor) & Huws, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A revised epistemology for an understanding of spirit release therapy developed in accordance with the conceptual framework of F. W. H. Myers

Supervisor: Huskinson, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A roll-to-roll compatible vacuum-evaporation route to organic circuit production

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A scalable approach for efficient and comparable characterisation of smallholder farming systems: The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey RHoMIS

Supervisor: Pagella, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study in some aspects of foreign language learning at Kuwait University with special reference to computer assisted language learning.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study into the growth kinetics and properties of thin film zinc oxide deposited by MOCVD

Supervisor: Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of communication support for children with Down’s syndrome and English as an additional language

Supervisor: Ware, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of electro-active properties of polymer/ceramic comosites

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of excretion in the slug Agriolimax reticulatus

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of information processing in dyslexic subjects

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of microbial communities and interactions in extremely acidic environments.

Supervisor: Johnson, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of music and liturgy : choirs and organs in monastic and secular foundations in Wales and the Borderlands, 1485-1645

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of neosporosis in cattle and sheep in Ireland

Supervisor: Lehane, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of novel acidophilic Firmicutes and their potential applications in biohydrometallurgy

Supervisor: Johnson, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of paired associate learning and sequential memory in dyslexic and non-dyslexic subjects.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of some of the factors which determine the degree of bilingualism of a Welsh child between 10 and 13 years of age

Supervisor: Baker, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the archaeological remains of vernacular boat finds from North Wales in the care of University of Wales Bangor.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the behavioural profiles of elite slalom canoeists

Supervisor: Hardy, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the genre of T.H. White's Arthurian books.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the geochemical and microbial interactions in acidic environments and their potential application for the bioremediation of acid mine drainage

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the microbiological populations of mine wastes

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of the midgut (reservoir zone) and haemolymph lectins of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study on diversity in classifier ensembles

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study on protein sugar interactions: implications for bioprotection

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A stylistic analysis of administrative English through a qualitative and quantitative investigation of government information leaflets

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A synthetic approach to C₂ symmetric guanidine bases and the synthesis of model compounds of ptilomycalin A

Supervisor: Murphy, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A tangible augmented reality anatomy teaching tool

Supervisor: John, N. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical study of carrier dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theoretical study of coupling and dephasing in semiconductor quantum dots

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A theory of lay ministry praxis: Kenya Assemblies of God, Nairobi county

Supervisor: Beaumont, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A three-dimensional approach to time conceptualization in Chinese-English bilinguals

Supervisor: Thierry, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A time domain description of large amplitude mode vibrations in small molecules

Supervisor: Macdonald, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A total population study of challenging behaviour and evaluation of Positive Behavioural Support outcomes

Supervisor: Totsika, V. (Supervisor), Hastings, R. (Supervisor) & Toogood, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A transtheoretical approach to exercise : self-determination, stages of change, processes of change and personal construction of exercise.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A.C. electrokinetic bioassays development of electrorotation assay for analytes in water.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

ABA-based interventions to increase social and mathematical skills in children with developmental disabilities in school settings

Supervisor: Hastings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AC electrokinetic bioassays: development of electrorotation assay for detection of viable and non-viable bacteria and macromolecules

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor) & Pethig, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

ADHD symptons and academic performance in adolescents

Supervisor: Daley, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AFLP markers for the study of somatic recombination in Phytophthora infestans

Supervisor: Assinder, S. (Supervisor) & Shaw, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ab-initio and Experimental NEXAFS Spectroscopy Investigations of Graphene: growth and post-processing effects

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Abiotic Controls on Soil Enzyme Activity and Community Composition of Micro-eukaryotes: A Comparison of Arctic, Temperate and Tropical Peatlands

Supervisor: Freeman, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Abodes of Harmony: An investigation of traditional music session culture along the Menai Strait

Supervisor: Rees, S. (Supervisor) & Ifan, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accent and intonation in a Malagasy dialect.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Access to nature and its impact on peoples' wellbeing

Supervisor: Willcock, S. (Supervisor), Jones, J. (Supervisor) & Bullock, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accessing and assessing fibromyalgia through pain drawings

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Acclimation of cotton (Gossypium) to abiotic stress

Supervisor: Gorham, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Accounting harmonisation in Europe : country effects and sector effects

Supervisor: Mcleay, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy