Metatheoretical study of Lijphart's power sharing theory by Mafakheri, Ramin

“…The researcher also in the two last chapters on the findings focused on the internalintellectual factors; in this regard, it was demonstrated that comparative politics, comparative methods, and new institutionalism have been the main influential methodological and theoretical contexts in the construction and development of power sharing theory. …”
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Assessment of arterial stiffness via arterial pulse waveform by See, Clement Wei Xian.

“…In addition, this project attempts to establish normal ranges for various parameters. The first few chapters will discuss the background of hypertension and the analysis of arterial pulse waveform. …”
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Quantitative economics of corporate crime, punishment and solution - regbonds by Goh, Jing Rong

“…This thesis consists of three chapters, the abstract for each chapter is as follows.…”
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Emotion language in context: investigating emotion words in children’s written language and word learning by Dong, Y

“…</p> <p>To complement the corpus approach, this thesis also includes two word-learning experiments, one with adults (Chapter 4) and one with children (Chapter 5). Participants read novel adjectives in short narratives that had either neutral, negative, or positive valence. …”

The ideational approach by Busby, Ethan, Chryssogelos, Angelos, Hawkins, Eliza Tanner, Hawkins, Kirk, Littvay, Levente, Wiesehomeier, Nina

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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…Rather than examining specific buildings, the first three chapters apply three key themes (language, ritual and heritage) as cultural lenses to reveal differences and similarities between the two traditions. …”
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Synthesis of biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers based on polyurethane by Liow, Sing Shy.

“…To understand the effect of soft block and hard block on elastomeric properties, in vitro degradation and toxicity of degradation products, various BTPU were synthesized and the characterization results were organized into 4 chapters. In Chapter 4, BTPU based on PCL-co-PLLA with various CL:LLA molar ratio were examined. …”
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The art of blotting: Alexander Cozens's New Method as intermedial practice by Kaes, F

“…The final chapter returns to the theory of blotting and considers it as a technique of pictorial composition that marked a profound departure from earlier notions of invention in painting. …”

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH in BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT / by Myers, Michael D. (Michael David), 1954-, author 210024

“…Now in its third edition, Qualitative Research in Business and Management has been fully updated to include a range of recent examples of aspects of qualitative research in action, and a new look at the methods and ethics of using social media data.…”
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On the non-microbial sources and sinks of dissolved metabolites in seawater by Germolus, Noah Paul

“…In Chapter 2 I investigate the photolysis of metabolites and examine metabolomic techniques’ suitability for such experiments. …”
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Calcium fluoride for nucleophilic fluorination by Patel, C

“…<p><strong>Chapter 1</strong> (Introduction) summarises the origin and role of fluorochemicals used in our everyday lives, including the production and use of hydrogen fluoride (HF). …”

Learning automations in game engine by Ju, Peng

“…This report is organized as follows. Chapter 1 provides an introduction of this project’s background, motivations and plan and Chapter 2 summarizes the relevant literature review that has been done. …”
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How are cognitive maps formed and encoded in humans? by Glitz, L

“…</p> <p>But what factors affect how well and robustly a novel cognitive map is learned in the first place? In Chapters 3 and 4 of this thesis we manipulate the training curriculum used during novel cognitive map learning and aim to elucidate the effect of training curriculum on map learning behaviourally (Chapter 3) and in terms of neural representations (Chapter 4). …”

Empowering Energy Conservation: Low-Cost Interventions for Commercial and Residential Settings by Ha, Lan L.

“…The second chapter evaluates the effectiveness of a new behavioral initiative that aims to reduce residential electric and gas consumption. …”
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Conformational changes involved in signal transduction in avian cryptochromes by Gehrckens, AS

“…The findings on dimerisation are presented in chapter 5.</p> <p>Finally, by mapping conformational changes found in molecular dynamics simulations onto changes observed in a previous HDX-MS data set on the <em>Drosophila</em> cryptochrome, a few gaps left by the incomplete coverage of the current experimental data were filled by acquiring information on the phosphate-binding loop and the protrusion motif, two regions which have also been found to undergo light-induced structural changes for the avian cryptochromes investigated. …”

Marino's spiritual poems in music: a study of early modern sources by Kobayashi, T

“…The first chapter offers an empirical overview of sources containing Marino’s spiritual lyrics and musical settings, tracing their dissemination and reception in the early-seventeenth century. …”

Dialogism and monologism : a study of modernity and postcolonialism in Jean Marie Gustave Clézio's Oeuvre. by Kwa, Brennan Yiew Khoon.

“…This investigation shall be divided into two chapters with the first examining the issue of modernity in The Interrogation and The Flood and the second exploring the theme of colonialism in Desert and Wandering Star. …”
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Mechanistic insights on protein aggregation and phase separation by Casablancas Antràs, V

“…In chapter 2, I present the R3 model system of tau as a biologically relevant model for tau which is amenable to our method. …”

Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…The second part of the thesis (chapters 7, 8, and 9) focus on the fundamental spinexcitation processes. …”
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Structured population models for macrophage heterogeneity in early atherosclerosis by Chambers, KL

“…</p> <p>The mathematical models we study are formulated using structured differential equations that focus on the different facets of MDM heterogeneity. In Chapter 4, we develop a new lipid-structured model in which the rate of lipid uptake by MDMs depends on their available capacity We extend this model to include phenotype resolution in Chapter 5, and spatial resolution in Chapter 6. …”