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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Derbyshire"”.
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Seismic studies on the Derbyshire dome
The Derbyshire Dome is thought to have been a stable uplifted area since at least Lower Carboniferous times. This project is principally concerned with four 30km seismic refraction lines which crossed the limestone outcrop of Derbyshire and N. Staffordshire in order to investigate the Dome's upper …
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Church Broughton Parish, Derbyshire: An oral history, 1900-1940
This study is an oral history of a Derbyshire dairying parish during the first forty years of the twentieth century. The aim was to discover the nature and cohesion of society in a parish with no resident lord of the manor, the effects on the parish of changes in agricultural practice and the …
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Disability, values and quality : a case study in Derbyshire
… and equality. Disabled people's organisations in Derbyshire were at the forefront of these developments in Britain. Their attempts to implement integrated living solutions within the policy framework of community care demonstrate significant conflicts over the definition of quality in service …
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MISSISSIPPIAN MUD MOUNDS OF DERBYSHIRE (ENGLAND, UK): FACIES ARCHITECTURE AND BIOTIC EVOLUTION
… upper Visean (Brigantian), Mississippian, of the Derbyshire Carbonate Platform succession (UK), were selected as object of this thesis to address some of the open ques-tions on Mississippian mud mounds. Comparative investigation of mud mound lithofacies architecture, texture, and composition and …
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The Dialect of New mills: Linguistic Change in a North-West Derbyshire Community
Abstract This research has two primary aims, both of which are intrinsically linked: firstly, to provide a description of the traditional dialect of New Mills on the levels of phonology (a systematic description), grammar and lexis; secondly, to analyse linguistic change that is currently occurring …
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The inter-relationship between tourism and opera performances at Buxton Festival, in Derbyshire
The aim of the study was to consider whether opera performances could exert an influence such that audiences travel and stay away from home overnight in order to experience those performances. In particular, it was to be considered whether such visits were undertaken as a holiday and whether opera …
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Standardisation of Serious and Fatal Fire Learning Reviews in Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service
… deaths that have occurred within the county of Derbyshire was gathered, in order to establish the scale of the issue. A detailed statistical analysis of these fire deaths over a six year period was performed, and trends discussed. Leading on from this, a procedure was designed for standardising …
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The anelastic structure and deep geology of the Derbyshire Dome from high frequency Rayleigh waves.
… investigation of the anelastic structure of the Derbyshire Dome and adjacent areas from the analysis of high frequency, 0.6 - 4.2 Hz, fundamental mode Rayleigh waves observed from quarry blasts within the study area. Seismic field experiments, designed and implemented to record Rayleigh waves …
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The motivation of middle management in the North Derbyshire area of the National Coal Board.
This research into management motivation, in the National Coal Board, indicates motivation differences between identifiable groups. The motivation factors established by Professor F. Herzberg are used as the bases of comparison of groups composed on the basis of age, salary level, organisational …
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The local origins of industrialisation : the case of the Derbyshire lead industry, c.1700-1830
… ties and the process of industrialisation in Derbyshire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using a series of closely examined archival sources linked mainly to the local lead industry, it endeavours to provide new insights into the way in which households and communities …
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A research study into furthering the understanding of management accounting in practice with specific reference to the practices utilised in the North Derbyshire area of the NCB.
The primary purpose of this study is concerned with providing improved understanding of both accounting and management systems through the use of case study based research. To provide this improved understanding, this research study is based upon several key assumptions which are also key …
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Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916
… known officially as the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, were created in 1881 in England after combining the 45<sup>th</sup> (Nottinghamshire) and 95<sup>th</sup> (Derbyshire) Regiments of Foot and had previously served as part of the guard to the royal family. Four battalions were …
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Formalism in the Victorian garden.
… The area chosen as a case study is the county of Derbyshire and its periphery, which contains such gardens of monumental and seminal importance as Chatsworth, Haddon Hall and Trentham. By looking at relevant publications and by visiting and recording surviving and almost vanished gardens, this …
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An intergenerational ethnography of school disaffection in a post-industrial coal-mining area.
… of educational 'disaffection' in four former Derbyshire coal mining communities during a period of de-industrialisation, exploring the intersection between education and aspects of class, gender, community, culture and history particular to those communities. A key focus is the investigation …
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Early prehistoric petrology: A case study from Leicestershire.
… Forest area of Leicestershire, with groups from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire utilising this resource in addition to more local groups within Leicestershire.
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… Castleford, West Yorkshire and Heath Wood, Derbyshire are combined with data from other published cemeteries to suggest a series of chronological and regional continuities in the use of animals but with a distinct change at the start of the Early Medieval period. The results from Brougham …
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The economy of the Roman south Pennines with particular reference to the lead extraction industry in its national context.
… for the national industry,not just that of Derbyshire,is examined since it provides a vital context for the specific example under study.All the extant pips are listed in a detailed catalogue (Appendix 1) and some further implications of their study are considered in Appendices 2 and …
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Control, collaboration and audience engagement in interactive sound installations
… the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Delia Derbyshire and Trevor Wishart in its form and approach. These sound worlds have been combined with staging and audience engagement techniques currently being used in event art and immersive theatre by companies such as Daily tous les jours and …
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Speciation of chromium in environmental matrices.
Published methods for single and sequential extraction, separation and determination of chromium(III) and (VI) in sewage sludge, soil and dried plant material were critically evaluated. The results obtained illustrate the difficulties of speciation analysis in such complex matrices. A method based …
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Micro-affordances in visual mental imagery and visual short-term memory
Micro-affordance effects have been reported for several different components of the reachto- grasp action during on-line visual processing (Tucker and Ellis, 1998; Ellis and Tucker, 2000; and Tucker and Ellis, 2001). One property of these effects is that they have been shown to terminate once an …
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