TEM sounding curves are distorted by geological noise in complex environments and often cannot be interpreted using practical 1D interpretation schemes which assume homogeneous, horizontal strata. Systematic experiments with a Geonics EM42 and MarkI and MarkII SIROTEM systems in…
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The thesis is an endeavour to study the translation of the Bible into three Nigerian languages. It is a study of the dynamics of the translation process, with particular reference to the roles played by the actual speakers of the Yoruba, Igbo and Isekiri languages, as the Bible …
Ostracoda from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary iron five wells in Saudi Arabia have been examined. The Superfamily CYTHERACEA is studied in detail. It is represented by seventy-five species. Of these, seventy-one are new, one has been established by Siddiqui (1971),one b…
A review is given of the general features of fluvial landscapes and sediments, and of the soil forming factors and processes occurring in this environment. The effect of wet paddy cultivation on soil formation is also outlined. The fluvial soils of the paddy growing areas of the…
The thesis is based on fieldwork in one main and seven other villages in one area of Bangladesh. It examines patterns of resource accumulation by different household categories and changes in the form and meaning of agrarian relations which occur with the introduction of STW irr…
Investigations were made into the trapping biology of the pitchers of Nepenthes rafflesiana (Jack), Family Nepenthaceae, in Brunei, Borneo. The plant produces two distinct pitcher forms, upper and lower, which were found to differ in their prey spectra. Although ants were the mo…
This thesis investigated the role of accountants, accounting and other control systems in the management of Sudanese Cotton Textile Industry. The study is an attempt to study an organizational perspective of management accounting in developing countries. The first part of the th…
Regeneration of colonising species following disturbance of primary tropical rain forest in Malaysia was studied in artificial gaps ranging in size up to 30% canopy openness. Effects of gap size on soil temperature and water status were investigated. Spatial variation in density…
This study proposes a framework for analysis in which the correlation between the principal variables, events and procedures, which in their combined interaction serve to determine a state's international role, is illustrated in causal sequence. This model then provides the theo…
Government, in Saudi Arabia, has been the dominant sector in the economy. Funded by high revenues from oil and pressed by the need for economic development at a time when a vigorous indigenous private sector was virtually nonexistent, the government found itself, willingly or un…
The aim of this research is to investigate the possible effects of text experiences on story retelling with young children. The subjects are 210 Lebanese children, whose native language is Arabic, learning to read in English through using foreign culture books, mainly American. …
The NE-SW trending Burdur-Acig?l-Baklan basin system of southwest Turkey represents the present-day configuration of a system initiated in late Miocene / early Pliocene times. During the Pliocene a half-graben, controlled by a NW-dipping planar fault system, developed in the are…
The gravity anomalies in the vicinity of the Widmerpool Gulf display a strong negative trend, which is best fitted by a third degree surface. This trend is attributed to the development of thick conglomeratic and quartzitic materials, probably of O.R.S and/or Lower Palaeozoic ag…
The thesis explores the effects of a particular past on a number of mountain villages in Evritania, Central Greece. Most fieldwork data are drawn from one of these villages, Agios Vissarios. In the thesis, the particular past refers both to a local history coincident with a nati…
This research is an investigation of some social and psychological factors in the learning of English as a foreign language in two universities in Lebanon. Some of the factors studied are: students' educational and social background, parental influence, attitudes towards foreign…
Fuelled by expanding oil and gas revenues, the Indonesian state has engaged in a massive and nationwide restructuring process. This "development" programme affects all facets of Indonesian society as a growing state apparatus exerts its authoritarian influence. In this context t…
Part A looks at a number of countries' experience in the field of immigrants' children's education. An attempt is made to gain an understanding of these countries' experiences and to present the phenomenon in a world-wide perspective. Some factors which are considered by researc…
Samples from the Neogene and Recent of Sabah, Malaysia, have yielded 43 cladocopine, platycopine and podocopine ostracod genera which are recorded and variously described. The genera Polycope. Cytherelloidea and Atjehella are described in detail and contain a total of 27 new spe…
This thesis covers essentially two problems in the kinetic theory of plasmas. The first concerns the investigation of plasma oscillations in a constant electric field - a topic investigated by Akheizer and Sitenko as early as 1956 [1] More recently Stenflo [2] has considered the…