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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Gwent"”.
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Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250
This thesis is concerned with the earthwork and timber castles built in the southern March of Wales between the periods AD 1050-1250. The research addresses the presence of the castles and discusses their roles as weapons of conquest and structures of administrative control. It is argued that the …
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The Youth Service in Gwent: a case study with special reference to present usage and future marketing
… of consumers and potential consumers in Gwent with actual Service provision; classify Service users by social groupings;determine the implications provided by the empirical data for a Training/Marketing strategy for the Youth Service in Gwent.<br/><br/>The empirical data was collected in …
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Rationalising Crime Calls - a Study of Police and Customer Interaction
… Demand Management and Tasking Unit (DMTU) within Gwent police. It analyses the work carried out by the DMTU in its attempt to rationalise the delivery of policing services to the public. With increasing pressure being placed on already finite policing resources, it has become increasingly …
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Mapping the Composition and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in South East Wales
… from five different locations throughout Gwent and Glamorgan. The samples were ground into a powder and pressed into solid disk form. These were analysed using a Philips PW1400 X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)<br/><br/>The results were analysed via computerised statistical packages. …
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Application of trace analysis and chemometrics to environmental problems
… into polyaromatic hydrocarbons in a South Gwent Valley. A procedure was determined which involved extraction, clean-up and HPLC analysis. The analytical system was validated and applied to a series of soil samples. The resulting data were subjected to a series of chemometric …
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Biomarkers of Progression from Barrett's Oesophagus to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma
… markers in a pilot for patients from the Gwent Barrett’s registry, in order to examine their possible clinical utility.<br/><br/>Many biomarkers that could act as potential markers of progression were identified, either individually or in a panel form. The biomarker p53 was found to be the …
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An investigation as to the suitability and effectiveness of geophysical survey techniques as a tool to aid archaeological interpretation of upland sites within the area of south east Wales
… to the west of Llanmelin and overlooks the Gwent Levels to the south and also the lower reaches of the Usk river valley to the west. It consists of a series of three overlapping earthworks, two circular and one square and was chosen to assess how successful geophysics survey would be in …
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The Welsh soldier: 1283-1422
… to Gerald of Wales whose accounts of the men of Gwent as archers in the twelfth century has become the province of folklore rather than a reflection of historical reality. There is a striking difference between the Welsh account of their experience at war and the perspective of outsiders. …
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Early limestone railways of south-east Wales
… but mostly in the National Library of Wales, Gwent Record Office and similar repositories. The result throws a completely new light on the artefacts of early railways, and especially on their permanent way. This has allowed for the first time a provisional typology to be made, and improved our …
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The application of communication principles to pulse-width modulated inverters
The object of this dissertation is to show that communication principles may be usefully applied to pulse-width modulated inverters to increase their useable frequency range, without increasing the switching frequency of the power devices.<br/><br/>The prior-art techniques of reducing harmonic …
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The effect of materials handling methods on unit costs in synthetic resin manufacturing
The objective of the research is to examine the use of bulk materials handling methods, and the effects that the new methods have on the manufacturing cost of manufacturing synthetic resins used for surface coatings.<br/><br/>Section 1 explores the background to the research and quantifies and …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… of Machen's childhood in his native county of Gwent, in South Wales, and his adult residency in everywhere from low-rent to more-desirable areas of London feature prominently in two volumes of his fiction, which appeared in the influential Keynotes Series published by John Lane's Bodley Head …
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The influence of religion on the survival of the Welsh language 1801-2011 : a tale of two centuries.
… of South Wales in particular, including southern Gwent, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Gower Peninsula and South Pembroke. Whilst these areas of Anglicizing influences were significant, at no time in the period between Anglo-Norman invasion in the eleventh-century, and the Act of Union in the …