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Trauma and the PhD
In writing this autoethnography, I invite you to enter into my world. It is not a world that is easy, or altogether happy. In the end, though, it is a story of survival and of perseverance. Trauma touches almost every person in some way. War, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, death, and …
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PHD and Childbearing? - Work-life Balance of Female PHD Students in the Field of Engineering
… (WLB) of young female engineers during their PhD studies. Obstacles to WLB in high-status occupations can be magnified in the male-dominated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, where women are significantly underrepresented. While women and different societal …
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The PhD degree : an investigation into doctoral education in South Africa and international PhD reform initiatives
… in Germany, the 'modern' Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree has been one of the cornerstones of new knowledge production and research training. Over the past two decades, there has been a surge of debate and reform around doctoral eduction internationally as a result of significant changes in …
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PHD--a hierarchical cache coherent protocol
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Performance portfolio Jonathan William Corry PhD 2016
The music performance-based research delivered within this portfolio has been realised within my current role as Bandmaster of Enfield Citadel Band of The Salvation Army. The overall thrust of this research has been focused on, and driven by my desire for the revitalisation within the functionality …
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CASE STUDIES OF EdD AND PhD DISSERTATIONS
… differences and similarities between PhD and EdD dissertations. This study was guided by this general question: How do faculty describe is the purpose, expectations and quality of a PhD and EdD dissertation in education administration. This study is a qualitative case study of five …
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Application for a PhD by published work
The body of research presented here represents an important contribution to knowledge in the field of the future of work with particular reference to work facilitated by Information and Communications Technology (ICTs). The work encompasses a number of levels of analysis: the macro level, the …
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PhD thesis on liquidity of bond market
This thesis consists of empirical and theoretical studies on the liquidity of bond markets. In the first study, we present an extended model for the estimation of the effective bid-ask spread that improves the existing models and offers a new direction of generalisation. The quoted bid-ask spread …
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The processing and interpretation of feedback by PhD candidates
… the characteristics of the feedback received by PhD candidates and explores how they then interpret that feedback. Over 200 PhD candidates participated in the study by providing data over a six month period using a custom-built Internet-interfaced database. Each candidate completed a self-concept …
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THE PHD FINGER OF SP140: A STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDY
… signal, a SAND domain (residues 588-661), a PHD finger (residues 692-734) and a bromodomain (residues 756-859). In this thesis we investigated Sp140 PHD finger both at functional and structural level. Structural determination was performed in solution by means of NMR spectroscopy. Analysis of …
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Towards better gameplay in educational computer games: a PhD thesis
There is currently a notable amount of research suggesting that educators should use computer games as part of their teaching. Most of this research suggests why games should be used choosing very specific example games, or making broad sweeping statements about gaming as a whole. But very little …
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The Art School PhD: What is the problem of knowledge?
… in art and design as part of a research degree (PhD, Doctor of Philosophy) in the UK, and was driven by the lack of clarity in regard to how artists make contributions to knowledge. The Coldstream Report (1960) is taken as a starting point because it put the art school on a path to the university …
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Telling stories: a thematic narrative analysis of eight women's PhD experiences
… examined eight women’s stories about their PhD experiences to explore their lived experience of this journey and if gender was a consideration in their PhD journey. The aims of this thesis were firstly, to provide a more in-depth understanding of women’s decisions to participate in doctoral …
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Library research support for masters and PhD students at the University of Eswatini
… of Eswatini (UNESWA) Libraries for masters and PhD students at UNESWA. To address this objective, the following critical questions were generated: What are the current services being provided by UNESWA Libraries to support masters and PhD students at the University of Eswatini?; What are the …
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Social Determinants of International Students’ Mobility: Enhancing the Capabilities of PhD Students from Turkey
… status. This research focuses on international PhD student mobility, a topic overlooked generally in the literature. The aim is to identify structural and agency factors influencing international mobility and to elicit how these impact on students’ capabilities to become mobile. From a …
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“How Can They Say No?”: Understanding the Perspectives of Power in PhD Advisor-Advisee Relationships
… that is established between faculty and PhD students. This power dynamic is favorable for faculty but leaves students vulnerable to circumstances of power abuse. A symptom of power abuse is academic victimization— harassment that occurs within academia. However, while victimization is a …
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A User Centric Interface for the Management of Past, Present and Future Events [PhD thesis presentation]
Events have been categorized, modeled and recorded by researchers and practitioners for many centuries. Life and events are always being the philosopher's topic of debate. For us, event is any happening worth of remembering. This thesis makes an in-depth philological query of the nature of events …
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