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Growing Old in Oxford 1930-1960
This thesis explores how old people in Oxford were cared for between 1930 and 1960, before and after the inception of the welfare state. Its purpose is to analyse how some families and professionals responded to the transition from the poor law to the welfare state, and examine any changes in this …
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The Origin of the University of Oxford
… study on the origin and early history of the Oxford University is to trace the development of this English university during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and to outline the steps by which it gradually approached an independent position. Any attempt to describe the religious life, the …
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Mark Pattison's Course Through the Oxford Movement
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Congregationalism in Oxford : The growth and development of Congregational Churches in and around the city of Oxford since 1653
… growth and development of Congregationalism in Oxford was different from elsewhere because of the presence of both the University of Oxford and Mansfield College. It explores fully the progress of Congregationalism in Oxford during the three hundred and fifty years from the Puritans in the …
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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF REPEATED HOMELESSNESS IN OXFORD
… and temporal routines of rough sleepers in Oxford, whose homelessness persisted and was repeated, and how these routines intersected with their social worlds. Participant observation undertaken over three years provides new insights into the practices rough sleepers were engaged in whilst …
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Latin Oxford: dominance, power, and gender roles in dancing salsa
As a form of popular entertainment, salsa dancing is an active social and commercial recreation in many places around the world. It has become, in Anglo- European parts of the world, a highly-structured partner dance, involving several months of training to become skilled. It is a gendered partner …
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Oxford City PCG and PCT : a case study of collaboration
In 1997 the New Labour government instigated a period of radical reform for the National Health Service, a key element of which was the establishment across England of Primary Care Groups (PCGs), which subsequently became Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). These were local statutory governance bodies with …
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Development, Testing and Calibration of Oxford Brookes V-Twin Engine
… package for the Formula Student entry of the Oxford Brookes team, as a flagship for the capabilities and commitment of the students involved. This research built on the thousands of hours already invested into the programme by students until 2013, to complete the mechanical and electronic …
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The oxford house model: A pathway to empowerment of women
… of women in recovery and women ex-offenders, the Oxford House model, a self-run, democratic, sober living environment, may provide a unique set of factors that empower women through their recovery and reentry into the community. Previous research demonstrated that variables such as abstinence from …
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Approaches to mitochondrial genome sequencing using the oxford nanopore minion device
… genome sequencing sans PCR using the Oxford Nanopore MinION. Our hypothesis was that results generated from native DNA sequencing would be concordant to sequencing results generated from PCR-enriched libraries. Error-rates of 1.47% (enriched) and 1.26% (native) were observed when …
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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Dumper Dew Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine
… on the eastfacing slope of Uncle Tom Mountain in Oxford County, Maine. It is a geochemically evolved LCT-type pegmatite petrogenetically linked to the middle Paleozoic Sebago batholith. Shallow emplacement of the Dumper Dew is evidenced by abundant miarolitic cavities found in the pegmatite. The …
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Microevolutionary patterns in some Jurassic bivalves of the Oxford Clay, England
… patterns in the Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation. Two main bivalve lineages were studied <i>Meleagrinella braamburiensis</i> and <i>Mesosaccella morrisi</i>. <i>M. braamburiensis</i> was a thin-shelled suspension-feeder and <i>M. morrisi</i> was an infaunal deposit-feeder. …
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Life, achievements and influence of Thomas Combe of Oxford (1796-1872)
… and a few other paintings, to the University of Oxford. Most of these had been bought from the artists themselves at a formative time in their careers and it is not surprising that books on Pre-Raphaelite art, from that time to this, make many references to Combe, and to his wife. He is usually …
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Perceptions of University Students toward Bilingualism in Fribourg, Barcelona, and Oxford
… of Mississippi in monolingual-dominant Oxford, Mississippi. This research was conducted over a period of about nine months and includes both qualitative and quantitative data: twenty-four interviews as well as three online questionnaires which were made available in the following five …
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Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
… of God’s work were there for all to see. Oxford remained wedded to scholastic texts although the trivium was reformed along humanistic lines. Cromwell’s visitors in 1535 outlawed scholasticism by decree but gave little indication of the alternative (their white list stipulating only …
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The northern Oxford County coalition : an analysis of representation and communication
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The Workers' Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949
This study examines the practical application of Oxford Idealism to education reform and the adult education movement. According to Idealist philosophy, enlightened and active citizenship was the cornerstone of a participatory democracy. This thesis thus explores how Oxford Idealists used the …
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The Oxford Shoulder Score: Cross-cultural adaption and translation validation into Afrikaans
Purpose: The Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) is a robust and universally utilised shoulder score that has been translated for use in Western and Asian countries. This study aimed to translate, cross-culturally adapt and psychometrically validate the Afrikaans version of the OSS for use in Africa. …
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