Browsing Theses by Title
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Jurisdiction to tax in the digital economy - Revisiting the benefit principle
The benefit principle constitutes one of the main justifications for states to exercise their tax jurisdiction at the international level. Nevertheless, despite it being a robust part of both residence and source jurisdictional ... -
Jurisdictional limits of the Energy Charter Treaty and its interplay with related treaties and arbitration rules: the notion of investor
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)The boom of bilateral investment treaties and trade agreements came with an increasing number of disputes between investors and states related to actions and omissions of states in respect of the protection of investors ... -
Just Joking: Speech, Performance and Ethics
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-07)Why do people go into rooms to watch other people speak? What is it that is taking place when a performer walks onto a stage, or steps up to a microphone, and, in the silence that has fallen, begins to speak? This thesis ... -
Justice and Trust: The European Arrest Warrant and Human Rights.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)This thesis considers the relationship between human rights and the principle of mutual recognition as applied in criminal matters. It examines the impact of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) on human rights and highlights ... -
The Justice of Balance: Understanding Intellectual Property from Chinese Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
(2007)In today's world, intellectual property is widely viewed as a threat to the public interest in using knowledge. As many scholars have argued, a theoretical reason accounting for this phenomenon is that traditional ... -
K-theory for étale groupoid C*-algebras via groupoid correspondences and spectral sequences
(2022)We develop techniques that allow us to convert isomorphisms in the homology of ample groupoids into isomorphisms in the K-theory of their associated C*-algebras. We apply this to prove an "orbit-stabiliser" K-theory formula ... -
“Keep our markets open”: Remaking Urban Marketplaces and Everyday Financial Practices in Nairobi in the Time of COVID-19
This research engages with geographical scholarship to better understand the role of crisis and its narratives in shaping socioeconomic and financial development. Previous research on crisis narratives has focused on the ... -
Keeping Europe in Order Conservative International Political Thought in Victorian Britain, 1854-1880
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-09-24)Conservative international thought in Victorian Britain is a prominent landmark in the landscape of international thought which has up to now gone unmapped. In illuminating this body of thought, the thesis addresses ... -
Keratin Dynamics and the Role of Lipids on Keratinocyte Differentiation and mRNA Stability
(Queen Mary University of London, 04/12/2019)Keratin K2 is a 66 kDa type II intermediate filament protein expressed in differentiating keratinocytes of the epidermis with a very low-level expression in normal oral mucosa. In the epidermis it is expressed in the upper ... -
Ketchup and Blood: Documents, Institutions and Effects in the Performances of Paul McCarthy 1974-2013
(Queen Mary University of London, 18/11/2014)Since the 1970s, the work of Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has included live performance, video, sculpture, kinetic tableaux, and installation. Tracing the development of McCarthy’s work between 1974 and ... -
Kindernomics: The Developmental Origins of Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-08-27)People systematically allow others’ outcomes to affect their decisions. These tendencies, known as other-regarding preferences, are irrational according to traditional models of economics, and yet their existence is ... -
Kirigami inspired 3D shape programmable multifunctional polymer nanocomposite structures
(2022)Over the past decade, two-dimensional (2D) programmable polymeric materials have attracted a great interest due to their ability to self-transform their flat shape into a complex three-dimensional (3D) geometry, in response ... -
Kissing bonds in adhesive joints: a holistic approach for surface chemistry and joint mechanics
(2011)Kissing bonds (KBs) refer to the situation where two surfaces are only partially bonded or are debonded but touching or in very close proximity. This may be the consequence of poor adhesion, environmental degradation or ... -
Kisspeptin: a novel regulator of human foetal adrenocortical development and function
(Queen Mary University of London, 2018-08-02)Context: The human foetal adrenal (HFA) is an integral component of the foeto-placental unit and important for the maintenance of pregnancy. Low kisspeptin levels during pregnancy are associated with miscarriage, and ... -
Knights and knighthood in Tudor England
(Queen Mary University of London, 1970)The first chapters of this thesis attempt to isolate the factors responsible for the making of a Tudor 1aiigt. Birth (noble and gentle), education, wealth, conrtexiona, reli&.on, activity in royal service, war, and the ... -
Knowledge sharing: From atomic to parametrised context and shallow to deep models
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-08-14)Key to achieving more effective machine intelligence is the capability to generalise knowledge across different contexts. In this thesis, we develop a new and very general perspective on knowledge sharing that unifi es ... -
Knowledge Transfer in Object Recognition.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2020-10-30)Abstract Object recognition is a fundamental and long-standing problem in computer vision. Since the latest resurgence of deep learning, thousands of techniques have been proposed and brought to commercial products to ... -
Knowledge-Enhanced Text Classification: Descriptive Modelling and New Approaches
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-07-09)The knowledge available to be exploited by text classification and information retrieval systems has significantly changed, both in nature and quantity, in the last years. Nowadays, there are several sources of information ... -
Korean bank regulation and supervision: crisis and reform (a critical evaluation with recommendations).
(Queen Mary University of London, 1999)This thesis presents a critical analysis and evaluation of the current Korean banking regulatory and supervisory system. The objective is to identif' continuing structural weaknesses of the Korean banking system and to ... -
Kurt Weill: the 'composer as dramatist' in American musical theatre production
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)The aim of this thesis is to critically examine Weill‘s negotiation of American cultural industries and his collaborative practice in making musicals there. It addresses the influence of the earlier, now discredited, concept ...