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Alcohol-Related Arrests in Birmingham.
Criminologists and historians generally conclude that the present is neither the best nor the worst as far as crime is concerned. Durkheim (1964) made a memorable observation on the inevitability of criminal acts when he said, "Crime is normal because a society exempt from it is utterly impossible" …
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Anglican Christianity in Birmingham 1945 – 1975
… a local case study of the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham, and upon the parish of St Mary’s Bearwood in particular. It will consider the nature of changes to Anglican Christianity during this period, examining previously untapped statistical records for Birmingham parishes during this period. …
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The Pleistocene History of the Birmingham District
The Birmingham district in the West Midlands of England contains a complex sequence of Middle to Late Pleistocene sediments attributed to at least three lowland glaciations (Anglian, Wolstonian, and Devensian) as well as a variety of non-glacial sediments. Understanding the age of the Pleistocene …
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Mark Oliphant FRS and the Birmingham Proton Synchrotron
… and commenced was initiated at the University of Birmingham by Australian-born physicist Mark Oliphant FRS. Nearly concurrently, two similar machines were commenced in the United States, the Cosmotron at Brookhaven and the Bevatron at Berkeley. While it is generally acknowledged that Oliphant was …
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Life histories of Muslim teachers in Birmingham primary schools
The life histories of Muslim teachers in Birmingham schools have been collected in this research. This interpretive research involved a systematic gathering and analysis of data using semi-structured in-depth interviews. Thirteen primary school teachers voluntarily participated for this to happen. …
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Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham: North Bromwich – City of Iron
… this thesis I investigate Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham portrait in his North Bromwich novels, showing it to be a valid interpretation, though biased to suit the anti-urban prejudices of its author. Chapter One sets Young in his biographical and literary context. Birmingham during the North …
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Residents Without Residences: A Study of Homelessness in Birmingham, Alabama.
Popular perceptions of homeless persons are undergoing significant revision in these early years of the 1980's. The traditional pejorative stereotypes are still circulated, as evidenced in the remark made by the morning show DJ reproduced above, but such stereotypes now have to compete against a …
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An analysis of entrepreneurship education (Birmingham Business School 2007-2009)
… perceptions of entrepreneurship education at the Birmingham Business School. The objectives of this study were to examine the effectiveness of the undergraduate and postgraduate entrepreneurship modules at the Business School based on students’ perceptions. At present little research is available …
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A sociological analysis of four police consultative committees in Birmingham
… study of four Police Consultative Committees in Birmingham, using qualitative methods of attendance at committee meetings and interviews with committee members. The research was carried out between 1990 and 1992 - ten years after formal consultation was established, and aimed to examine the …
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Digital technologies and photographic archives Birmingham Central Library: a case study
This thesis considers the use and potential of digital technologies for those responsible for photographic collections in public libraries. Using the Birnlingham Central Library as a case study, the research has explored how information comn1unication technologies have impacted on the way in which …
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Attitudes Toward the Dispersal of Low Income Housing in Birmingham, Alabama.
The study of public policy has attempted to clarify the realm of political activity which is responsible for the decisions made in the public arena for the good of the people. Public policy, in a very broad sense, has been defined as "whatever governments choose to do or not to do" (Anderson, 1977, …
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Police Use of Deadly Force: A Look at the Birmingham Police Department.
The public is well aware of the use of deadly force by police. Daily, news programs carry images of such violence in vivid color. Whether the force exhibited by police officers in the course of their work is excessive is a question for which an answer is sought in every phase of the political …
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'Sick, aged and infirm': adults in the new Birmingham workhouse, 1852-1912
… urban workhouse and its separate infirmary in Birmingham in the provision of indoor medical care for adult paupers between 1852 and 1912. Due to the difficulty in distinguishing between the medical and social care of older people, it has examined the provision for all older inmates. Birmingham …
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Origins of the Movement and the Development of Protest: The Birmingham Campaign, 1963
… the emergence and development of protest in Birmingham, Alabama, culminating in the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, as a case study to examine the claims of RM and PPT. An evaluation of the Birmingham Campaign suggests the emergence of protest is less dependent on the receipt of outside …
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Bilingualism and educational achievement:a study of young bilinguals in Birmingham schools and colleges
… of language use amongst young bilinguals in Birmingham and secondly to examine the relationship between this language use and educational achievement. The research then focussed on various practices, customs and attitudes which would favour the attrition or survival of minority languages in …
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Identities and perceptions: gender, generation and ethnicity in the Italian Quarter, Birmingham, c1891-1938
… and economic aspects of Italians who lived in Birmingham during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has emphasised the extent of neglect of the whole subject of the history of European immigration in Britain. The exclusion of these people from Britain! s history is not the …
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The impact of urban groundwater upon surface water quality : Birmingham - River Tame study, UK
… on the River Tame within the industrial city of Birmingham, UK, to understand better the influence of urban groundwater discharge on surface-water quality. The 8 km study reach receives ~6% of its total baseflow (60% of which is groundwater) from the underlying Triassic Sandstone aquifer and …
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