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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Northern England"”.
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The experience of mesothelioma in Northern England
… treatments. ‘The Experience of Mesothelioma in Northern England’ is a community-based, mixed methods, case study in four parts, conducted in Barrow-in-Furness, Leeds and Doncaster. The study investigates the experience of pleural mesothelioma for patients and their families, and for healthcare …
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The Bronze Age Funerary Cups of Northern England
… to appear in burial contexts across the North of England where they were found to be associated with Early Bronze Age funerary practices. Known by the name of incense cups, accessory vessels or miniature cups, their true purpose has been elusive. This study comprises an investigation of cups from …
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"We're all individuals": postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England
… example of a healing centre in the North of England. The methodological stance I took was that of ethnography; data was largely gathered using participant observation.A central theme is that healing practice and ideas which emerge at the Centre reflect individual concerns and therefore …
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Sedimentology, diagenesis and geochemistry of the Great Limestone, Carboniferous, northern England.
… of the Mid-Carboniferous of north east England were deposited as a result of glacio-eustatic fluctuations arising from waxing and waning of the Gondwana ice sheets present in the southern hemisphere. Rhythmic alternations of areas of maximum cyclothem thickness have been recognised in …
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Hydrological Connectivity - a study into representative metrics for a humid temperate catchment in northern England.
… approaches for a humid temperate catchment in northern England. It was found that simple saturated area based metrics performed better than complex cluster analyses. In addition to this the Topographic Wetness Index was found to struggle to ascertain active areas within the catchment. …
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Identity as process: an archaeological and osteological study of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England.
… and chronology of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England. Processes of life, death and burial are identified as a way of evaluating the lifecourse and burial processes of Early Bronze Age individuals. Different burial practices have similar themes of the wrapping and enclosing of the dead …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… genealogies in the historical writing of northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241. Historical writing was produced in abundance over this period in both areas and the frequent contact between England and Scandinavia, as well as shared use of early medieval insular sources make them …
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Earning or learning? : class, culture and identity in contemporary schooling : an ethnography from northern England and southern Ireland
The study is divided into three parts. Part One consists of two chapters in which I situate the study theoretically and reflect on the personal consequences of the subsequent methodological undertaking. Chapter 1 introduces the conceptual and contextual frameworks utilised throughout this research. …
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Late quaternary valley fill sediments in the River Tyne valley: Understanding late Devensian deglaciation and early postglacial response in northern England
This thesis reconstructs part of the deglacial and early post-glacial history of the River Tyne Valley, Northumberland. Data has been gathered through description and interpretation of sedimentary sequences and stratigraphies from quarry and cut-bank exposure, the development of a geochronology was …
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The Northern Powerhouse. A multidisciplinary study of the mortality and morbidity of Northern English communities in the 19th century
The northern powerhouse is a multidisciplinary study of health in industrial era northern English communities. It aimed to investigate the experience of health and disease in northern England in the 19th century through the use of both osteological and General Registrar’s Office (GRO) mortality …
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The Northern Powerhouse. A multidisciplinary study of the mortality and morbidity of Northern English communities in the 19th century
The northern powerhouse is a multidisciplinary study of health in industrial era northern English communities. It aimed to investigate the experience of health and disease in northern England in the 19th century through the use of both osteological and General Registrar’s Office (GRO) mortality …
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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.
… third and fourth century pottery supply in northern England together with other aspects of pottery assemblages 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 …
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Cultural issues in pre-registered mental health student nurses’ clinical placements: an anthropologically informed critical incident study
… across four nursing education centres in northern England. Member checking at descriptive and analytical levels was carried out, and these checks allowed for further exploration with the research participants to take place. Thematic analysis revealed that the primary issue to emerge from …
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Hybrid climbing bodies: the climbing assemblage and the technologically mediated engagements and ascensions of rock climbers
… and interviews with 40 rock climbers based in northern England. Although some of these voices debate the roles of these technologies and their experiential impacts upon climbing, these developments are not necessarily damaging to the experience. Indeed, climbers are careful to retain the …
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Extractives from Sitka spruce
… of trees from 64 sites all around Scotland and northern England. The extraction was carried out on Soxhlet extractors using acetone as solvent. Two analytical techniques were used: gas chromatography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results of the research showed that the …
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GPs, stigma and the timely diagnosis of dementia : a qualitative exploration. The implications of general practitioners' perceptions of dementia as a stigma for timely diagnosis.
… diagnosis. Methods Data from twenty-three GPs in northern England were collected by semistructured telephone interviews. Within the context of a qualitative design, a combined process of grounded theory and framework analysis was adopted to collect and analyse data. Results The findings reveal …
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Metal contamination and methane oxidising bacteria around a formerly industrialised suburban river.
… enriched from an urban river in Sheffield in Northern England that has previously suffered serious heavy metal pollution due to previous activity of the steel industry (17th to 19th century).The site selected for the present study was the River Sheaf located on south west of Sheffield in …
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Metal contamination and methane oxidising bacteria around a formerly industrialised suburban rive
… enriched from an urban river in Sheffield in Northern England that has previously suffered serious heavy metal pollution due to previous activity of the steel industry (17th to 19th century). The site selected for the present study was the River Sheaf located on south west of Sheffield in …
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