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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"East Yorkshire"”.
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Sustainability, the voluntary sector and local governance in East Yorkshire
… intensive case study of VCS groups in Hull and East Riding, East Yorkshire, focusing upon Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs), Local Biodiversity Partnerships (LBPs) and Service Delivery Mechanisms (SDMs) such as Compacts. Drawing on approaches to governmentality and scalar politics, it …
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Paediatric High Dependency Care in West, North and East Yorkshire
… collected in 14 hospitals in West, North and East Yorkshire in 2005. The PHDC measurement tool was subsequently applied to the inpatient episode data (n = 24,540) to estimate the amount and location of PHDC by hospital ward type (District General Hospitals, (DGHs), paediatric intensive care …
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Tolerance and toleration: the experience of the Quakers in East Yorkshire c.1660-1699
… surrounded the development of Quakerism in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the mid seventeenth century. It is important to offer a distinction between the terms tolerance and toleration, which are used in the title of the work. Tolerance refers to the informal and unofficial actions of the local …
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The Church of England in East Yorkshire from 1743 to c1840 : with particular reference to economic matters
… effect of this on the Church of England in the East Riding. It also considers the different types of church living, their numbers and relative values, and the extent to which the values changed over the period. The great variety in the value of livings that were a result of this process led to …
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An exploration of some factors which inhibit females from entering engineering and science vocational areas in East Yorkshire
… of Britain's largest employers with a site in East Yorkshire.As females occupy about half the places at all educational establishments, the question must be asked, why is there a great reluctance for females to enter engineering and physical science professions. If one assumes that these chosen …
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… from two distinct regions in Iron Age Britain (East Yorkshire and Hampshire). The human remains from these sites show clear markers of interpersonal violence. When the remains are placed in context with the mortuary treatment, it is evident that violence and ritual were inextricably linked. In …
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Stable isotope evidence for British Iron Age diet. Inter- and intra-site variation in carbon and nitrogen from bone collagen at Wetwang in East Yorkshire and sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall.
… bone Collagen has been analysed from Wetwang in East Yorkshire and other sites in East Lothian, Hampshire and Cornwall. Animal bone from Dorset has also been included. The aims of the study were to characterize British Iron Age diet in general isotopic terms and also to provide a contextual base …
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Aspects of later Roman pottery assemblages in Northern England. Investigation of Roman pottery assemblages and supply with emphasis on East Yorkshire industries, and of the potential of neutron activation analysis for fabric characterisation.
… in the region. The pottery kilns of the East Yorkshire industries have been characterised by neutron activation analysis which has proved reasonably successful in discriminating between them. Neutron activation analysis has also been utilised to attempt to check visually identified fabric …
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Effects of hypersalinity on the behaviour, physiology and survival of commercially important North Sea crustaceans
… (L).All three species feature prominently in the East Yorkshire fisheries, and are found typically in full salinity seawater environments that show little salinity variability. The development of extensive gas storage caverns underground in East Yorkshire, UK, has led to the commencement of the …
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Lines Across the Land: A Biography of the Linear Earthwork Landscapes of the Later Prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds
… BC, the people of the chalk landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds began carving up their world with monumental linear earthworks. This project explores the meanings of the later prehistoric boundary systems of the Yorkshire Wolds. It writes a biography of the linear earthwork landscapes of the …
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An Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project in Southern Holderness: An Evolving Wetland Landscape
… targeted aerial reconnaissance in Holderness, East Yorkshire. The aerial reconnaissance flights were conducted by the author of this project, who works in the Aerial Survey team at Historic England. The new archaeological sites were identified as cropmarks, with many previously recorded sites …
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The late quaternary vegetational history of Holderness, Yorkshire
… vegetational history of Holderness, in south-east Yorkshire. It is an area with great potential for palaeo-ecological investigations and yet it has been largely ignored during the great increase of research in this field in recent years. Being on the east coast, Holderness is well placed to …
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Optimisation of computed radiography chest imaging utilising a novel simulation technique derived from real patient computed tomography data sets
… CR chest exposure factors across the Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (HEY) were not standardised, and therefore not optimised; this thesis concludes with recommendations to the HEY Radiology Department for optimum exposure factors and technique for chest radiography. These were …
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Epigeal invertebrates of Yorkshire allotments: the influence of urban-rural gradient and management style
… value.A questionnaire of plot-holders in east Yorkshire showed that whilst older men were still the principal plot-holders, there was reasonable interest from younger people. Respondents placed a high value on allotment wildlife, regardless of age or management style of their plots. Highly …
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Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
… excavated by the writer at Wetwang Slack on the Yorkshire Wolds between 1975 and 1979. The chief features which make this site exceptional are the large number of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical evidence for the relative chronology of the cemetery, and the …
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Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925
… namely copyhold, in the Holderness area of East Yorkshire from the mid-eighteenth century; and second to plot its subsequent rate of extinction down to the legal end of the tenure in 1925.The main objective of this thesis was to identify the areas of copyhold tenure in Holderness at some …
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The privatised lifer : an observation of a cohort of life-sentenced prisoners through HMP Wolds December 2003 – July 2005
… to do this at a private prison, HMP Wolds in East Yorkshire - the first private prison to open in Europe in 1992. Due to negotiating a new contract in 2001, it became the first private prison house a group of ‘lifers’ in a dedicated Lifer Unit.The research details how progress was made and how …