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I examine the way in which, in his work of the 1840s, Ruskin uses methods and assumptions derived from eighteenth-century Materialist, Mechanist and Vitalist Natural Philosophy, especially his assertion that the meanings which he reads into natural phenomena are objectively pres…

Bus-based Park and Ride (P&R) schemes have become increasingly popular over the past 40 years in the UK, as a result of them being considered a positive traffic reduction policy by many, not least local authorities. There have nevertheless been concerns over the true effects of …

This thesis explores the 'theories of Bataille and Baudrillard' in relation to the problem of extreme violence. The particular events of concern are the death of James Bulger, the Dunblane massacre and the 'serial killers' Frederick and Rosemary West. The thesis argues that domi…

This thesis investigates the process of decision-making in relation to complex tasks and considers the important role which dynamic information and real-time feedback play in shaping response behaviour and adaptation within such environments. Through empirical studies, the thesi…

In the present paper, we identify several distributions from Physics and study their applicability to phenomena such as distribution of income, wealth, and expenditure. Firstly, we apply logistic distribution to these data and we find that it fits very well the annual data for t…

Background: The ability to measure health and the value of improving or declining health is crucial to the evaluation of health care interventions. Many generic and disease specific health status measures exist for use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The Overall Stat…

The thesis examines privatization programmes worldwide, but with the particular reference to the UK, to establish different approaches to and modes of privatization to assess their relevance to socio-economic development in Pakistan. Within this focus, emphasis is given to the u…

Nearly every movement we make reflects a decision. This decision likely involves a trade-off between maximizing reward and minimizing effort. How fast we move, vigor, can reveal how we value reward and effort when making movement decisions. The goal of this dissertation is to ga…

This dissertation explores culture, particularly that of religion, arguing that religion transitioned its role as an historical authority structure to its current status as a marketplace for the production, distribution, consumption and investment of "god products", which it is …