My thesis looks at encounters between East and West in the novels of Ahdaf Soueif and how similar issues and themes can be seen in Monica Ali's Brick Lane , a novel that brings together Bangladesh and the UK. It is divided into five chapters. Chapters 1 to 4 focus on the s…
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<![CDATA[This thesis examines the socio-cultural factors which may account for different work attitudes in Nigerian public and private sectors. It argues that the divergence between the characteristic attitudes in each sector is a consequence of the difference in the extent to w…
This is a study of the relations between Christian missions and the colonial state in Kenya from the time of the Imperial British East Africa Company (1888), to the year before the Second World War (1938). The study concentrates on three protestant missions, the Church Missionar…
This thesis studies the effects of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on human capital investment and women's empowerment in Bangladesh. Chapter Two studies how the entry of NGOs in primary education has affected educational outcomes of girls and examines the mechanisms which…
This thesis is a qualitative study of how native and non-native speaking teachers treat classroom oral errors across three lesson types: reading, free activity and grammar in a military school in Saudi Arabia. The general purpose of this thesis is to understand error treatment f…
Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) α is a pleiotropic cytokine essential to the immune response within chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases. In lung parenchymal cells, TNFα induces the upregulation of cytokines, chemokines, adhesion molecules and inflammatory mediator…
This thesis is concerned with design developments of a commercially failed fault locator. Details of design modifications and simulation test procedures of the design developments of the fault locator are described in this thesis. The simulation tests are necessary to ensure suc…
Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) is a beetle belonging to the family Bruchidae. The beetle is a serious economic pest of stored legumes in the tropics and subtropics. C. maculatus has been chosen for this study because it shows contrasting larval competition and oviposition strat…
The plan of this thesis is to outline the various techniques of characterization, and to illustrate how they operate in the biblical literature. Accordingly, the study is divided into two sections. First, after an introduction tracing the rise of the literary approach and a surv…
This study is a comparative analysis of the build-up and coverage of the Barcelona Olympics in British and Israeli newspapers. It employs content analysis, supplemented by interviews conducted with journalists and the detailed analysis of front page items, to examine, comparativ…
The Koga feldspathoidal syenite complex is a part of the alkaline igneous province of Northwest Pakistan lying between Loe Shilman and Tarbela. It consists of sodalite - cancrinite rich pegmatites, foyaites, feldspathoidal syenites, pulaskitic and garnet bearing feldspathoidal s…
The Curriculum of the Intensive English Program (IEP) established in the mid-twentieth century at the Lebanese American University (LAU) has been reviewed several times. However, since the 1970s, the minor changes that have been implemented to the program structure and content n…
The aim of this study is to attempt to focus on the relationship between educational innovation and primary school supervision in Turkey. The main focus is on the innovative behaviours exhibited by the primary school supervisors. Thus, the experiences of primary school teachers,…
The subject of this thesis is a Malay work entitled Manhalu'l-Safi. The work was written by Shaykh Daud al-Fatani, one of the famous Malay authors, who wrote in the most prolific manner ever seen in the history of Islamic literature of the Malay-lndonesian Archipelago. The main …
The policing systems in England & Wales and Turkey have problems in terms of legitimacy, flexibility and accountability, and solutions are currently sought through a range of organisational changes. The policing system, as an institution of social control, is under unique pressu…
This dissertation is about the political rights in the Turkish Constitutional system. It critically analyses the Turkish Constitution and the case-law of the Constitutional Court concerning the political rights. In this analysis, I will use a liberal framework which is based on …
This study analyses the effect the Hungarian government had on Austro-Hungarian policy towards Serbia in the four years after the 1867 Ausgleich. Benjamin Kallay, at the request of the Hungarian minister president, Andrassy, was appointed consul at Belgrade in 1868, and thereaft…
The new communication technology and its implications on national and international relations has been one of the key debates during the last two decades. This received a new impetus with the emergence of Direct Broadcasting Satellite (DBS) together with the convergence of elect…