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Disturbance and Refugia in the Ecology of Stream Benthic Communities
(Queen Mary University of London, 1997)
Natural habitats are spatially and temporally heterogeneous and exert
powerful influences over the distribution, interactions and adaptations of organisms.
Southwood's (1977, 1988) Habitat Templet was tested in twenty-two ...
The influence of the political party group on the representative activities of councillors
(Queen Mary University of London, 1997)
This thesis studies the influence of the political party group on the
processes of local political representation. It sets out to discover how party
groups are able to position themselves between councillor and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The crown, the peerage and high politics 1689-1760.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1990)
It is the contention of this thesis that the crown
went through some rather marked change during the course
of the period, starting with the Bill of Rights and
effectively ending with the Act of Settlement in 1701. ...
The female body in question: a study of Monique Wittig's writings with particular reference to L'Opoponax
(Queen Mary University of London, 1996)
This thesis is a comprehensive study of Monique Wittig's fiction, in
which I explore the links between womanhood, sisterhood and writing.
Particular attention is paid to L'Opoponax (1964), in which I argue that
Wittig ...
Defining Interaction within Immersive Virtual Environments
(Queen Mary University of London, 1996)
This thesis is concerned with the design of Virtual Environments (YEs) -
in particular with the tools and techniques used to describe interesting and
useful environments. This concern is not only with respect to the ...
Dental aspects of stigma in relation to mental and physical handicap in a Chinese population of Hong Kong.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1998)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the stigma of mental
and physical handicap and its affects on the provision of dental
care.
Three groups of mentally and physically handicapped children, 4
year olds (n = ...