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• Development of technological capabilities in Chinese Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)

  Author: Qiu, P., 12 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Nunes, B. (Supervisor) & Vaidya, K. G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• MNCs and local microbusinesses at the bottom/base of pyramid (BoP) in Ghana: a fair deal or business as usual?

  Author: Obeng Dankwah, G., 25 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Decker, S. D. (Supervisor) & Vaidya, K. G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Towards understanding the process of tournament crowdsourcing: the value co-creation perspective

  Author: He, R., 26 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Kotlarsky, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Sustainable biofuels for electricity generation in Sudan

  Author: Omran, A., 2018

  Supervisor: Davies, P. A. (Supervisor) & Hossain, A. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Broadband fibre parametric amplifiers

  Author: Gordienko, V., 3 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Doran, N. J. (Supervisor) & Stephens, M. F. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Open search strategy, appropriability strategy and cognitive proximity: evidence from the United Kingdom science and technology parks

  Author: Khavandkar, E., 17 May 2018

  Supervisor: Mickiewicz, T. M. (Supervisor), Theodorakopoulos, N. (Supervisor) & Corradini, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Instabilities, pattern formation, localized solutions, mode-locking and stochastic effects in nonlinear optical systems and beyond

  Author: Perego, A., 2018

  Supervisor: Turitsyn, S. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Impact of life style factors on atherosclerosis: a modelling based study

  Author: He, X., 6 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Chattopadhyay, A. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A novel pyroformer system for biomass intermediate pyrolysis with in-situ char-promoted reforming (by char re-circulation) of pyrolysis vapours and potential integration of pyroformer with commercial scale fluidised bed gasifier to enable pyrogasification

  Author: Saghir, M., 2018

  Supervisor: Hornung, A. (Supervisor), Davies, P. A. (Supervisor) & Bridgwater, A. V. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Factors affecting the quality of joint patents in China

  Author: Zhou, R., 5 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Vaidya, K. G. (Supervisor) & Karoglou, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The One with all the Translation: A context-oriented study into the translation of wordplay humour in subtitles: A case study of the American TV sitcom Friends in Spanish

  Author: Clark, L., Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Castro, O. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Arts (by Research)

• Exploring the use of video-based materials in the Japanese university English language classroom

  Author: Grandon, M., 11 Aug 2018

  Supervisor: Gremler, C. (Supervisor) & Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Evaluating the biological effects of electronic cigarettes using a novel in-house designed aerosol delivery system and an in-vitro co-culture model of the human airways

  Author: Vasanthi Bathrinarayanan, P., 13 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Leslie, L. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Having a firm-er grip: The impact of leader gender, leadership styles, and follower gender on leadership effectiveness

  Author: Daher, P., 21 Dec 2018

  Supervisor: Crawshaw, J. R. (Supervisor) & Guillaume, Y. R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The timing of explicit form-focused instruction and its impact on task outcomes

  Author: Hawkes, M., 13 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor) & Morris-Adams, M. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• New synchronous machine rotor design for easy insertion of excitation coils based on surrogate optimisation

  Author: Yang, N., 5 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Cao, W. (Supervisor) & Lin, Z. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Hybrid mobile computing for connected autonomous vehicles

  Author: Wei, J., 1 May 2018

  Supervisor: He, J. (Supervisor) & Tang, Z. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Characterising the anti-convulsant effects of CBD and CBDV on layer II of the medial entorhinal cortex of rat and human brain tissue in vitro 

  Author: Henley, B., 22 Oct 2018

  Supervisor: Woodhall, G. L. (Supervisor) & Stanford, I. M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Pharmaceuticals supply chain management : buffering & bridging response strategies in shortage management

  Author: Morris, P., 5 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Sweeney, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The development of novel photonics based techniques for biomedicine

  Author: Rafailov, I., 22 Jan 2018

  Supervisor: Zhang, L. (Supervisor) & Turitsyn, S. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The prevalence and progression of astimatism and myopia in children

  Author: Knowles, L., 1 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Logan, N. S. (Supervisor) & Dunne, M. C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Ophthalmic Doctorate

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• Vector optical rogue waves in mode-locked fibre lasers

  Author: Kbashi, H., 2018

  Supervisor: Sergeyev, S. (Supervisor) & Kolpakov, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The state-business relations and the foreign investment decisions of Russian firms

  Author: Pivavarava, A., 1 Feb 2018

  Supervisor: Driffield, N. L. (Supervisor), Temouri, Y. (Supervisor) & Mickiewicz, T. M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The equity analyst rating decision: a strong structuration analysis

  Author: Lee, K., 12 Dec 2018

  Supervisor: Manochin, M. M. (Supervisor) & Wynter, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Business Administration

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• Engineering yeast for G protein-coupled receptor functional studies: pharmacological characterisation of adrenergic receptors

  Author: Mikaliunaite, L., 1 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Bill, R. M. (Supervisor) & Dowell, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Uncovering the drivers of customer engagement behaviours: Investigating key mediating mechanisms underlying the link between customer satisfaction and customer engagement behaviours in a higher education context

  Author: Frech, B., 6 Mar 2018

  Supervisor: Higson, H. E. (Supervisor) & Malhotra, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• High step up DC-DC converter topology for PV systems and electric vehicles

  Author: He, Z., 30 May 2018

  Supervisor: Cao, W. (Supervisor) & Lin, Z. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Strategic governance and risk-management of the outsourcing ecosystem: developing dynamic capabilities and addressing implementation challenges

  Author: Sen, S., 8 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Kotlarsky, J. (Supervisor) & Budhwar, P. S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Business Administration

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• Attentional refocusing between time and space in older adults: investigation of neural mechanisms and relation to driving

  Author: Callaghan, E., 15 May 2018

  Supervisor: Kessler, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Investigating polymer optical fibre Bragg grating technology for freeze drying applications

  Author: Donohoe, S., 15 Jan 2018

  Supervisor: Webb, D. (Supervisor) & Hewitt, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Objective and subjective evaluation of dysphotopsia in normal and post-operative eyes

  Author: Aujla, M., 14 Dec 2018

  Supervisor: Sheppard, A. L. (Supervisor) & Wolffsohn, J. S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• An experimental feasibility study on fast pyrolysis of MSW-derived trommel fines for energy recovery and waste management

  Author: Eke, J., 25 Jul 2018

  Supervisor: Onwudili, J. (Supervisor) & Bridgwater, T. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Implicit emotion detection in text

  Author: Orizu, U., 28 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: He, Y. (Supervisor) & Lowe, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A combinatory approach to affective and cognitive dimensions of the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of salespeople

  Author: Khusainova, R., 30 Oct 2018

  Supervisor: De Jong, A. (Supervisor), Rudd, J. M. (Supervisor), Marshall, G. W. (Supervisor) & Lee, N. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The role of over and under activation in the emergence of spoken language deficits

  Author: Nappo, R., 17 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Romani, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Beyond the forest and the trees : a cross-sectional investigation into local and global information processing in visual perception and language in typical development and autism spectrum disorder

  Author: Smith, D., 15 May 2018

  Supervisor: Talcott, J. (Supervisor) & Vulchanova, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Efficacy of multifocal soft contact lens on asthenopic orthophoric and esophoric myopes with lag of accommodation

  Author: Ong, C. H., 29 May 2018

  Supervisor: Davies, L. N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Ophthalmic Doctorate

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• On nonlinear Fourier transform-based fibre-optic communication systems for periodic signals

  Author: Kamalian Kopae, M., 4 Dec 2018

  Supervisor: Turitsyn, S. K. (Supervisor) & Prilepsky, J. E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Interventions to improve autobiographical memory specificity in older adults: a strategy to prevent decline in wellbeing

  Author: Leahy, F., 26 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Holland, C. A. (Supervisor) & Ridout, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A multi-level study of perceived multiple team membership variety and its effects on the outcomes of productivity and innovation

  Author: Soyemi, O., 23 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Lyubovnikova, J. (Supervisor) & Sacramento, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Emotional capability and its impact on strategic transformation : a case study of an Indian telecom firm

  Author: Shankar, K., 5 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Budhwar, P. S. (Supervisor) & Butler, M. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Business Administration

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• The dynamic nature of strategic consensus: a longitudinal study of multi-level cognitive shifts during a crisis

  Author: Carrington, D., 12 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Combe, I. A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Enhancing the interactivity of a clinical decision support system by using knowledge engineering and natural language processing

  Author: Islam, M. A., 18 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Buckingham, C. D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Textual organisation and construal of interpersonal meanings in different genres of medical texts

  Author: Gao, Y., 30 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Marley, C. N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Influence of parents on first year undergraduate student adjustment and academic achievement at university

  Author: Foster, C., 12 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Davis, A. J. (Supervisor) & Higson, H. E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Pharmacist ‘intelligent’ referrals to a liaison psychiatry team

  Author: Brooks, J., 14 Feb 2018

  Supervisor: Wilson, K. A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Structural characterisation of bioactive glasses

  Author: Forto Chungong, L., 2018

  Supervisor: Martin, R. A. (Supervisor) & Lee, A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• Identification and analysis of marketing manager competences that determine marketing department capabilities and the underlying importance of courage traits.

  Author: Richardson, M., 12 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Evanschitzky, H. (Supervisor) & Rudd, J. M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Advanced raman amplification techniques for high capacity and broadband coherent optical transmission systems

  Author: Iqbal, M. A., 5 Jun 2018

  Supervisor: Harper, P. (Supervisor) & Forysiak, W. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Application of liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques for the study of porous materials

  Author: Rottreau, T., 26 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Evans, R. D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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