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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"U.K."”.
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The Architectural Design of U.K. Supermarkets 1950-2006
This thesis addresses the evolution of supermarket architecture in the UK from the period following the Second World War up to the present day. It records the history of this phenomenon and explores the relationship between the developing architectural design styles of supermarket buildings and the …
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Assessing Student Learning: A U.S./U.K. International Comparative Study
<p>This research examines the role of assessments of student learning in the United States, specifically a school system in North Dakota, comparatively to that of a school system in Surrey, England. Using a conceptual framework that is influenced by the work of Stiggins, Arter, Chappuis, and …
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An econometric analysis of U.K. regional real estate markets
This thesis presents an analysis of UK national and regional property price dynamics with the focus on changes in the time-series properties of real estate prices and their forecastability. The main research questions addressed are the following. First, have UK regional property prices experienced …
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Behavioural aspects of transfer pricing in U.K. decentralised companies
The central theme of this dissertation is the organisational and behavioural dimension of the transfer pricing problem as part of the management control process in the large decentralised company. The study examines the origin and developments of the problem through an extensive review of both the …
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The information content of interim financial reports: U.K. evidence
The aim of this study is to investigate whether the public release of interim financial reports in the United Kingdom conveys information that affects share prices. The major objective for reporting the financial affairs of business enterprises is assumed to be the provision of information to help …
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Liquefying risk in the U.K. commercial real estate market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.
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Structured management training in the U.K. and Ugandan civil services
The aim of the research was to discover strategies for increasing the responsiveness of civil service management training in Uganda in light of the U. K. experience in civil service management training between 1979 and 1991. While the literature has tended to advance theory on management …
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Marketing Strategy and Company Performance in the U.K. Construction Industry
The U.K. Construction Industry holds a major place in the British economy. The industry is a complex interaction of a number of different types of organisations. At the hub of the industry is the "Main Contractor", - the organisations that co-ordinate and execute construction …
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Marginal income tax rates and the U.K. economy: three essays
This dissertation investigates the role of fiscal policy on economic activity by analyzing the response of major macroeconomic variables to innovations to the average marginal income tax rate (AMTR) measures in the U.K. by employing vector autoregressive (VAR) models. We identify these innovations …
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The marketing of lesser known tropical hardwoods in the U.K
The present study set out to identify and analyse the relative importance of the various factors which affect the acceptance of lesser-known Tropical Hardwood species. Two different groups of factors were analysed, physical/technical factors and marketing factors, emphasis was placed on the second …
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An evaluation of U.K. contaminated land policy and the law
This paper aims to examine the progress of Government policy in the area of contaminated land from 1976. In the introduction comparisons between the Derelict Land Surveys of England and Scotland are made which highlights the more focused approach of the Scottish Survey. Chapter One provides an …
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Computer based monitoring in U.K. service organizations : a comparative study
The majority of the literature about CBM is American in origin, and (inter alia) notes that there were differing uses of similar technology, indicating that context has an important role to play in the use of CBM. The literature maps the psychological effects of CBM in considerable detail, but only …
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The brexit negotiations: The next battleground for French-U.K. relations
In March 2017, following the successful referendum in the UK to leave the European Union in June of 2016, negotiations began to discuss the policies regarding the official exit of the United Kingdom with Theresa May’s declaration of Article 50. In recent developments associated with the Brexit …
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Queering Survey Research: Measuring LGBTQ+ Political Identity in the U.K.
Despite the multitude of ways LGBTQ+ people and issues appear throughout contemporary politics, there is little research within political science that engages with LGBTQ+ topics. An even smaller amount of research engages with LGBTQ+ people as research subjects. This dissertation sheds light on …
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Exploring critical issues faced by Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K
Despite the significant contributions of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K. (Lin, 2015), their unique challenges and how they manage these challenges have not been well documented. Extant literature notes that facing challenges hinders acculturation, negatively affects an enterprise's …
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Taxonomy and pathogenicity of rusts from Allium species in the U.K
Comparison of seven isolates of rust from leek (Allium porrum), three from chives (Allium schoenoprasum), one from A. scorodoprasum and one from A. babingtonii on the basis of telial and uredinial morphology showed there to be three morphologically distinct species. Application of these criteria to …
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Organic matter fluorescence properties of some U.K. fresh and waste waters
Organic carbon is ubiquitous throughout the aquatic environment. It is an heterogeneous mixture of compounds, some of which are fluorescent, with allochthonous and autochthonous origins. The most common aquatic fluorophores are humic materials (peaks C and A) from degraded plant matter and …
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Performance comparison of U.K. low-energy cooling systems by energy simulation
Building energy simulation is an important tool for evaluating the energy consumption of a building and can provide guidance in the design of a building and its mechanical systems. EnergyPlus is a new energy simulation program meant to be a major advance over existing energy simulation programs. …
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A Checklist Assessment of Dune Vulnerability and Protection Measures in Wales U.K
There has been little success in developing a method that can quantitatively assess the vulnerability of a dune system and the effectiveness of protection measures. A checklist system has been devised that attempts to overcome this problem. The analysis consisted of assessing a series of 54 …
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The intellectual, emotional and sociocultural experience of Indian students in the U.K.
This research examines the intellectual, emotional and socio-cultural experiences of Indian students in higher education in the UK. It has three research questions. First, what are the reasons driving Indian students to study in the UK? Second, what are the economic, political and cultural factors …
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