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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Peterborough"”.
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Peterborough Trades Union Council 1899-1979: A Forgotten Arena for Working Class Politics
… academic field by producing an intimate study of Peterborough Trades Union Council (PTUC) established in 1899. The study will assess PTUC’s industrial, political, and civic functions and establish the extent of delegates’ relationships with civic society and the working class. The research …
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Islamic nurture in the West : approaches to parenting amongst second generation Pakistanis and Khojas in Peterborough
… parents of South Asian Muslim origin in Peterborough: one group's background is in Pakistan, and the other group, the Khoja Shi'a Ithna'asheri, are East African Asian Muslims. This qualitative study is based on interviews with parents about their approaches to the religious nurture of …
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Implementing a Grand Strategy system—by what method: a case/field study of National Grocers' Peterborough distribution warehouse's Grand Strategy System effort
… Their effort started with a pilot test in their Peterborough, Canada food distribution warehouse. This thesis is a summative evaluation of the change effort within the Peterborough warehouse. This research: Documents the Peterborough GSS implementation Documents warehouse performance results …
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Microevolutionary patterns in some Jurassic bivalves of the Oxford Clay, England
… the microevolutionary 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 …
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Collective efficacy in micro-places: Exploring the perception and enforcement of moral rules in neighbourhood settings
… thesis sets out the rationale and results of the Peterborough Neighbourhood Guardians Study (PNGS), conducted in 2019. The PNGS interviewed 92 participants from a cluster of high collective efficacy neighbourhoods in Peterborough, UK. An adapted Space-Time Budget methodology was developed and …
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Quaternary environmental changes in the fluvial and faunal history of central Northamptonshire
… deposition in the Nene established downstream at Peterborough. This revised fluvial history elaborates the course and age of the Milton River and establishes a pre-Devensian age for much of the Nene Valley sediment. The significance of this new understanding of the upper Nene Valley has been …
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
… offender subsample taken from the longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) in order to explore the role of moral emotion in specific real-life violent events. In addition, quantitative questionnaire indices enable comparison of the violent offender subsample …
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A test of situational action theory in Saudi Arabia
… used items designed by the PADS+ project (the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study in the UK) was adapted to the Saudi context and used to collect data from 588 high school students aged 16–18 years, in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ordinary Least Squares regression …
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The New Local Governance of Immigration in Canada: Local Immigration Partnerships and their role in Immigrant Settlement and Integration in Small- and Medium-sized Ontarian Cities
… stakeholders in Guelph-Wellington, Kingston, and Peterborough. Findings indicate a neoliberal reorganization of immigration management to control immigration, economic markets, and the outcomes of immigrants. Responsibility for aspects of settlement and integration are increasingly decentralized, …
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Exploring Power in the Theory and Practice of Resilience
… to the grassroots case of Transition Town Peterborough, Canada, shows that intimate knowledge of local social and political institutions can allow a grassroots organisation to introduce resilience ideas into social and political community life. Together the two case studies reveal three key …
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Crime Propensity in Collective and individualistic Societies: A cross-culture comparison between China and the UK
… The thesis is based on a replication of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Developmental Study (PADS+) in the Chinese city of Anyi, and compares the findings from the two studies concerning the relationship between morality, self-control and offending at the ages 14-16. With three …
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Political commitment by the UK's environment cities to the expectations of agenda 21
… field ie. Leicester, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Peterborough. This thesis, however, examines closely the degree of actual political commitment by the leaderships of these local authorities and the effect which the EC Programme has had on them. The assessment of EC leadership commitment is made …
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Simulation de l’équivalent en eau de la neige et du ruissellement dans la Baie de Quinte (ON), à l’aide du modèle SNOWPACK : contexte hydrologique
… à proximité de la ville de Trenton (ON) et Peterborough (ON), alors que la résolution spatiale des pixels modélisés par le modèle est d’environ 32 km. La validation des données NARR a permis d’établir que certaines variables, notamment la température de l’air et l’humidité relative sont …
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Practitioners in the youth justice system: a case study of the youth offending service
… in England and Wales. Based on a case study of Peterborough youth offending service (PYOS), the study adopts a multi-method approach. Interviews with 22 practitioners, observations of their practice and key documentary evidence are reviewed, which identify the processes involved in the core …
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Landscape-scale habitat requirements of flower-visiting insects in the Nene Valley Nature Improvement Area
… its source in west Northamptonshire through to Peterborough and covers an area of 41,350 hectares. This thesis evaluates the effects of landscape context on pollinator communities in grasslands within the Nene Valley NIA. Furthermore, the influence of local variables such as floral cover, …
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The evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English
… From here I move to the East Midlands, to The Peterborough Chronicle Continuations and Vices and Virtues. Unlike the other texts in this study, these two texts do not have a known source text; as such, they are invaluable for seeing how scribes wrote in their own native dialect. I finish with …
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Situational action theory and intimate partner violence: An exploration of morality as the underlying mechanism in the explanation of violent crime
… of the research, this thesis uses data from the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study, a study designed to test situational action theory. Participants are a representative sample of males and females between 24 and 25 years of age. Path analyses using a multiple-group method …
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Why monitoring doesn't always matter: The situational role of parental monitoring in adolescent crime
… uses specialist Space-Time Budget data (from the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study) to allow the comparison of adolescent crime rates in settings characterised by the of convergence of i) the physical presence or absence of parents and other guardians, ii) the psychological …
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