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Showing 1 to 20 of 261 for “"idealised"”.
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On steady and variable buoyancy forcing in the Atlantic, an idealised modelling study.
This study examines the response of the thermohaline circulation in the north Atlantic to steady and variable buoyancy forcing. The model used is a version of the MOMA model (Webb, 1996), updated to include a free surface and Gent & McWilliams mixing. The model’s resolution is coarse, 4 x4 degrees …
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A numerical assessment of architectural parameters for anisotropic behavior in idealised trabecular structures
… on anisotropy. The mechanical anisotropy of idealised trabecular structures is quantified using well known microstructural indices, which are compared to the numerically determined mechanical response. The modelling methodology initially investigated 2D lattices that have very well known …
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The role of idealised image features in determining post-exposure body image and social comparisons
This research examined the role that idealised image characteristics have in determining post-exposure body image and amount of self-reported social comparisons. This was tested by exposing female undergraduate students to media-portrayed idealised images that varied in their level of relevance, …
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Political Discourses of Idealised Masculinity: The Risk Management of Male Prisoners through Work, Education and Family Transitions
… of male prisoners within the context of idealised masculinity. Through the discourse analysis of written policy documents, this work addresses two fundamental questions: How is idealised masculinity constituted within political discourse and how does idealised masculinity influence the …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
This thesis examines the representation of nuns from the Fin-de-Siècle into the 1930s, in the popular medium of postcards, in art during the Modernist period, and throughout the early development of film. The thesis demonstrates how secularisation, rapid technological development, and political …
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Comparison of the 1D idealised flux theory and a 2D hydrodynamic model with full scale secondary settling tank performance data
In this research, the two dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic model SettlerCAD (Zhou et al., 1998) was applied to full-scale circular secondary settling tanks (SSTs) with the principal aim to 1) establish whether or not it "automatically" reproduces a flux rating <1.0 with respect to the steady state 1D …
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A laboratory investigation of the effect of flow rate and bedding characteristics on the interaction of a vertical water jet with an idealised soil medium
… varied. In this study a vertical water jet in an idealised granular bed (glass beads) was used. The leakage conditions that were examined for each soil-leak factor comprised of measuring the height of the fluidised region and distributions of pore pressure, fluid velocity and energy within the …
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A clinical engineering decision support system
… its environment in the RSA. To enable such an idealised department to function as defined, it must be supported by appropriate and timeous information. The information needs of the idealised clinical engineering model were analysed and a corresponding decision support system (DSS) defined. …
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A thematic analysis of female University students' perception of idealised body image in Sudan and their experiences of performing common beauty practices: (Skin lightening, applying black henna dye and purposively induced weight)
There is a variation in what considered as social ideal body image by different people and ethnic groups throughout the world; these variations reflect the diversity in cultural values (Sahay and Piran 1997). This study investigated the nature and development of beliefs related to three beauty …
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Hydraulic characteristics of siphonic roof drainage outlets
… investigates the hydraulic characteristics of an idealised roof outlet toimprove outlet design.A literature survey was carried out and found that only a limited number of studies havebeen undertaken on single outlets on flat roofs. Therefore, the search was widened toinclude related subjects and …
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Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments
In this project the idealised body of Venus represents an uncomfortable whole. She symbolises the richly divergent, contrasting, and often thematic concerns of female beauty that my, work has attempted to represent. She signifies arid originates the centuries of fluctuating meaning and contesting …
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A numerical investigation of the linear hydrodynamic stability of Newtonian and weakly non-Newtonian channel flows as described by the Orr-Sommerfeld equation
… In this dissertation we consides in part idealised flows between two parallel planes of infinite extent and a finite distance apart. They are referred to as closed channel flows.
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The question of gendered voice in some contemporary Irish novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern
… The remaining chapters concentrate on the use of idealised images such as those of the 'woman-as-nation' and the iconised mother in novels by Moore and McGahem. Moore's The Mangan Inheritance provides the basis for a discussion of whether or not voices attributed to women in texts by Irish men can …
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Influence of high latitude anomalies on tropical climate phenomena and global climate
… which are responsible for driving the dipole. An idealised basin model is used to examine high latitude anomalies which create equatorward propagating coastal Kelvin waves as a possible driving mechanism for the TAD. The results show that coastal Kelvin wave propagation can quickly transmit a …
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Unveiling the layers of educational reform: A critical realist analysis of the ideation, development and enactment of the Philippine professional standards for teachers policy
… findings of the study indicate the emergence of idealised professionalism, a term used to describe how the context and policymaking process of the professional standards policy was heavily influenced by broader economic, political, and cultural globalisation. However, this idealised …
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Computer simulation studies of dense suspension rheology. Computational studies of model sheared fluids; elucidation, interpretation and description of the observed rheological behaviour of simple colloidal suspensions in the granulo-viscous domain by Non-Equilibrium Particulate Dynamics.
Rheological properties of idealised models which exhibit all the non-Newtonian flow phenomenology commonly seen in dense suspensions are investigated by particulate-dynamics computer-simulations. The objectives of these investigations are: (i) to establish the origins of various aspects of dense …
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Promoting the "classroom and playground of Europe": Swiss private school prospectuses and education-focused tourism guides, 1890-1945
… tourism industries have steadily communicated idealised images of educational tourism in Switzerland via advertising. Concentrating on the period 1890 -1945 – when promotional ties between tourism organisations and private schools solidified – this thesis investigates the social construction of …
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The application of the homogenisation method to the numerical modelling of cancellous bone
… investigation into the viability of developing idealised numerical models of cancellous bone in order to make reasonable predictions about its macro- and microstructural mechanical behaviour using the homogenisation method. In total joint replacement, cancellous bone (the soft porous bone which …
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