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Hers Is A Body In Trouble With Language: Seventeenth-Century Female Prophecy As Text And Experience
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998)
This thesis is an analysis of female prophecy as it is constituted,
represented or performed in seventeenth-century texts. I consider
both the way in which prophecy is socially constructed and the role of
prophetic ...
Boundary Element Analysis of Cracks in Shear Deformable Plates and Shells
(Queen Mary University of London, 2000)
This thesis presents new boundary element formulations for solution of bending problems
in plates and shells. Also presented are the dual boundary element formulations for analysis
of crack problems in plates and ...
THE EFFECTS AND CONTROL OF DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS IN A NAVAL DOCKYARD
(Queen Mary University of London, 1970)
A review of the literature relating to the diseases associated with
exposure to asbestos is followed by a description of processes involving
materials containing asbestos, and the men employed, in HJ Dockyard, Devonport.
The ...
Commodity Futures Manipulation: Theory, Evidence, and Regulatory Implications
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998)
This thesis is a collection of four separate papers with a core theme: commodity futures
manipulation. It aims to answer three important questions. How vulnerable are futures
markets to manipulation? What are the effects ...
The Commemoration of the Great War in the City and East London, 1916-1989
(Queen Mary University of London, 1995)
The aim of the thesis is to understand how the communities of the City and
East London area reacted to the human losses of the Great War. It is an
investigation of how the intangible and abstract emotions of grief, pride ...
Analysis and design of Piezoelectric sonar transducers.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1970)
In this study techniques are developed for the
analysis and design of piezoelectric sonar transducers based
on equivalent circuit representations.
For the purposes of analysis, equivalent circuits
capable of accurately ...
Belonging and not belonging : understanding India in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and V.S. Naipaul.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1993)
This thesis is essentially about the "how" and "why" of the Indian
experience as documented in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
and V S Naipaul. The study points to the difficulty of arriving at any
conclusive ...
Heart transplantation: its risks, the expectations, and cultural negotiations in Japan
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012)
The aim of this thesis is to facilitate an understanding of the experiences of Japanese heart transplant recipients in terms of how their identities are transformed. The thesis contributes to the discipline by providing ...
The behaviour and reproductive physiology of the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) in captivity
(Queen Mary University of London, 2005)
The fossa (Cryptoproctaferox) is a solitary carnivore and the largest endemic
mammal extant on Madagascar. It is estimated that less than 2500 individuals
survive on the island and they are currently listed by the IUCN ...
Accelerated wear testing methodologies for total hip replacements.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2001)
Over the last three decades tribological studies of polyethylene total hip replacements have
been undertaken using a simplified model of normal walking. As hip prostheses are being
implanted in younger and more active ...