A number of commercial neem pest control products and a laboratory prepared seed water extract were screened for antibacterial activity against bacteria with different Gram staining reactions, morphologies and pathogenicity using the agar diffusion technique. The neem component …
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In the late sixteenth century English commerce expanded under the auspices of the Levant Company into the Ottoman Empire, which resulted in the establishment of an English Embassy at Constantinople, enabling the English Crown to pursue its aspirations as a European power. Englis…
Studies concerning the activities of foreign-owned firms in developing countries generally conclude that these firms act differently from their local counterparts in the way of handling their labour relations. In order to find out if this is the case, we have compared the employ…
This thesis examines the elite of the Maldive Islands, during a period of great technoeconomic change from 1976 until 1983. This ethnographic study is concerned with the nature of the Maldivian national elite, in particular the reiterative evidence of both repetition and change …
This study deals with two main issues: the first is the structure of the legal profession in Turkey and the second is the nature of the relationship between the advocates and the state. The literature on the sociology of the professions is discussed and a theoretical vacuum is s…
This is a study of the presence and function of Scripture within the first two chapters of Paul's letter to the Galatians. The study takes a broad, comprehensive look at the intertextual relationships that exist between Paul's presuppositions, statements and arguments and the Sc…
Work in this thesis was primarily involved with the characterisation of four receptors, the turkey and bovine P2Y1, and the human P2Y2 and P2Y4 receptors, transfected into the human astrocytoma cell line, 1321N1. It also describes the preliminary characterisation of two vascular…
Between February 1992 and February 1995, observations were made of 33 heavily-policed crowd events occurring both in Turkey and England & Wales. Informal interviews were conducted with prominent Turkish and British police public order training instructors and practitioners. Thes…
This dissertation examines the development of armaments production in Israel, South Africa and Yugoslavia and the implications thereof regarding military import dependency, arms exports, and defence production cooperation among developing arms producers. The dissertation concent…
Export marketing support services offered by the government and other agencies, particularly in developing countries, seem well-suited to exporting firms for their involvement in foreign markets. The effects of governmental export marketing support on firms' exporting activity i…
The Gospel of John records a cosmic lawsuit between God and the world with Jesus at the centre. Jesus, tried and condemned by worldly opponents, is retried before readers. John presents witnesses for Jesus, challenging readers to weigh their testimony and decide in Jesus' favour…
This thesis is a comparative study of the nature of personhood according to Hans Urs von Balthasar and the nature of sanctification according to Professor Thomas F. Torrance. We argue that both von Balthasar and Torrance develop Christological and Trinitarian anthropologies whic…
This thesis addresses the question of why the kinship factor has not been able to provide a viable basis upon which Indonesia-Malaysia relations can be organised, despite the fact that the language of kinship continues to frame diplomatic discourse between the two "kin states". …
The thesis identifies current staff development issues in the United Kingdom through literature and research findings from the 1970's to the present. The focus of the research is to relate these issues to policy and practice in a global survey of British curriculum overseas scho…
This action research examines the special education teachers’ role perception as manager/leader of an interdisciplinary team. The need to examine the “problem sensation”, which was defined and verified in this study, resulted from the implementation of the special education law …
Over the past 15 years, UK retailers have made increasing use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). These systems were initially used to help with retail site selection decisions but have developed as Decision Support Systems (DSS) to help in many areas of marketing mix dec…
Palm oil has been categorised as a saturated fat and to have a deleterious effect on the risk of CHD. In the present study, the habitual Scottish diet was replaced with palm oil (RBDPO) diet (26% en) and its effects on the indices of CHD risk was compared with the hydrogenated r…
Malaysian teachers are constantly seeking ways to improve their students' reading in English and thereby enhance the learning of their students. One method of doing this is to bring critical and creative thinking to the forefront of the curriculum. This has been emphasized by th…