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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"North-East Scotland"”.
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Manganese oxide deposits in water treatment facilities, North East Scotland.
… plants throughout the Grampian region of Scotland. These oxides provided an ideal and abundant media on which this work could be based. Manganese oxide deposits were characterised by examining their chemistry, structure and integrity. Factors affecting the deposition of these oxides were …
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Approaches and attitudes of managers to collective bargaining in North East Scotland.
… of management and industrial relations in the North East of Scotland. The typology of management style that was developed in the early part of the thesis threw into relief the basic variations in approach of management to industrial relations, with specific reference being made to the …
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Home making and identity: a psychology of personality processes in North East Scotland.
This thesis investigates the roles of identity and personality in the home making process. Well-known approaches to identity typically define context in social or temporalterms, largely neglecting the physical environment. Personalisation of the dwelling has been argued to function in …
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Timber frame construction in North East Scotland: a century of precedent 1830s - 1930s.
… for a Lost Tradition of Timber buildings in North East Scotland. The fieldwork provides both substantive and extensive material with 198 records of extant buildings, and archival research having produced evidence of 156 others. However, in a field characterised by transience and lack of …
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The Pareiasaur Elginia from Elgin, north east Scotland, and the late Permian extinction event
The end-Permian mass extinction of marine invertebrates and non-marine tetrapods is examined. Fauna!, lithostratigraphical and geochemical data indicate that the mass extinction was a prolonged, gradual event, and was not initiated or accelerated by a catastrophic mechanism. The cause of the …
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Relations of production and exchange in the fishing and fish processing industries of North East Scotland.
… catching, marketing and processing industries of north east Scotland. It does so with particular reference to the relations of production and exchange within the different sectors of the industry, notably; inshore, trawling, fishselling, large and small processing sectors. Despite its relatively …
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The sedimentology and petrology of the new red sandstone of the Elgin Basin, North East Scotland
… occurred from the main Norwegian Basin to the east.To the south of the basin at Elgin, deposition began during the Upper Permian with a series of sheetflood deposits which graded laterally into seif dunes to the north. Deposition during the Triassic is dominated by aeolian barchan dunes …
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Authenticity, provenance and pride: an investigation of micro, small and medium sized food and drink producers in north-east Scotland.
… form a growing sector of economic importance to North-East Scotland (NES). The context of North-East Scotland provides insight into the impact and inspiration of the distinctive geographic and cultural assets and facets of the region. Substantive research investigating food and drink products …
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An exploration of the experiences of support for informal adult carers of individuals with substance use issues in North East Scotland.
Informal carers provide unpaid support to an individual, usually a family member. The care and support which they provide has been shown to provide positive effects to the individual they support. However, this role may impact on the informal carer, often on their psychosocial wellbeing. Although …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… living crisis' has constrained many families in Scotland from securing access to sufficient and adequate food for a healthy diet, challenging the realisation of their human right to food. Food insecurity has become an acute social, political and public health concern, particularly amongst …
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A time of change
… study took place in North East Scotland, a rural area with diverse industries. The sample of pupils selected for the study was from a small group of primary schools associated with three secondary schools. A number of quantitative and qualitative measures were …
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The nineteenth-century book trade in Aberdeen, with primary reference to Lewis Smith.
… acknowledges previous research on the 'trade' in north-east Scotland, particularly that of J. P. Edmond, W. R. McDonald and M. C. Head. Chapters 2 and 3 provide an historical context by surveying the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and offer the first of a number of quantitative analyses of …
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Assessment of road pollutants in roadside retention ponds.
… 8) collected from two retention pond systems in North-east Scotland during summer and winter conditions. This demonstrates their ubiquity in runoff and incomplete removal by retention ponds. Additionally, a passive sampling method for additive chemicals was developed as it is capable of …
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A morphological analysis of redundant farm steadings on Deeside.
… background to the development of these in N.E. Scotland were examined. The vernacular architecture of the farm and the architecture of the steading are described. The current state of farming was assessed and the consequent availability of surplus buildings established. Kincardine and Deeside …