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Alshammari, Dina (2014) Role of citicoline in modulation of angiogenesis and apoptosis in vascular/human brain microvessel endothelial cells. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Abuarqoub, Abdelrahman (2014) Cooperative mobility maintenance techniques for information extraction from mobile wireless sensor networks. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Aboukanda, Entisar (2014) A study of human behaviour in Libyan healthcare. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Al Hakami, Husain (2014) Evaluation of setting a legal minimum age of marriage as a method of preventing zawaj al-gaserat in Saudi Arabia. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Aldridge, Nicholas Iain (2014) The arrival of mimesis and methexis in the enquiries of Jean-Luc Nancy. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Aljohi, Ali Omar (2014) Glucose induced toxicity to cells: protective effects of momordica charantia. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Allendyke, Sylvie Philomena (2014) Edible assemblages and the Deleuzian event – rethinking ‘anorexia’. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Banyamin, Ziad (2014) Novel photovoltaic solar power generating diode. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Berritta, Georgina (2014) The use of female mental illness as a narrative device in contemporary European film and culture. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Benjama, Ahmeda Ibrahim (2014) Effect of glycated opticin on angiogenesis: mechanism & relevance to proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Brownridge, Adam Mark (2014) Real-time motion capture for analysis and presentation within virtual environments. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Brindley, Christina Michelle (2014) Images of female piety and the development of post-reformation Catholicism in the diocese of Chester, c.1558 - c.1625. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bird, Peter William (2014) Potentially disruptive IS innovation in UK higher education institutions: an actor-network theory analysis of the embedding of m-learning. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bukowski, Anthony (2014) Development of road haulage trailer design. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Chesterman, MJ (2014) Do I.T. Academy: Investigating good practices to increase discoverability and guidance for use of OER for a community of practice. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Crawford, Susanna Ruth (2014) The effect of sex, age and ethnicity on craniofacial bone mineral density. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Cureton, Paul (2014) Drawing in landscape architecture: fieldwork, poetics, methods, translation and representation. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Coulson, Jessica (2014) The influence of the female athlete triad on bone quality in endurance athletes. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Cheng, Zhi Hui (2014) Impact parameters in an entrepreneurial career determination model from cognition and social network perspectives. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Cardoso, Raquel Braga da Silva Morais (2014) The fate of contaminants in urban soils and sediments: novel assessments and implications for risks. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Colling, Samantha (2014) The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Crellin, Jason Ian Boyd (2014) Schizo-gothic subjectivity: H.P. Lovecraft and William S. Burroughs. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Carey, Neil Martin (2014) Telling sexual auto-ethnography: (fictional) stories of the (homo)sexual in social science. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Chan, Jade Yuk Mai (2014) The effect of silicone sheeting on the production of exoproteins by microorganisms. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Contreras Macbeath, Einar Topiltzin (2014) An analysis of the spatial distribution of freshwater fishes of Mexico, their conservation status, and the development of a conservation strategy for species with imminent risk of extinction based on contemporary theories and practices. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Crossley, Matthew James (2014) Fitness landscape-based analysis of nature-inspired algorithms. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Davies, Karen Elizabeth (2014) Parents’ and speech and language therapists’ roles in intervention for pre-school children with speech and language needs. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dos Anjos, Pablo Lucas (2014) Conventional social behaviour amongst microfinance clients. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Davidge, Gail (2014) For “getting it”: an ethnographic study of co-operative schools. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Diaz, Cecilia (2014) A study of complexity, innovation and variety; the photographic camera example. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dieck, Dario Silvano Garlef Tammo Tom (2014) Critical success factors in UK four and five star hotels. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

de Matas, Rea (2014) Sensuous festival: what can the experiential reveal about the role of difference in carnival? Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Evans, Dean David (2014) The radical and alternative society of the golden age pirate – myth or reality? Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

El-Fallah, Mohamed (2014) The development of the Libyan health system to improve the quality of the health services. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Fletcher, Simon (2014) Touch as problematic practice: PE teachers in the context of risk society. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ferguson, Craig James (2014) Diagnosing acute heart failure in the emergency department. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Fullwood, Roger William (2014) An investigation of the factors that influence knowledge sharing between academics. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Flavell, Jonathan Charles (2014) An investigation into the directional and amplitude aspects of an internal model of gravity. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Franchi, Martino V. (2014) Mechanisms of human skeletal muscle remodeling in response to concentric and eccentric loading paradigms. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Freund, David (2014) Foreign direct investment by small and medium-sized enterprises:the case of German nanotech and biotech SMEs. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Gould, Nicholas Mark (2014) Formalising cartographic generalisation knowledge in an ontology to support on-demand mapping. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Gaunt, Robert Phillip (2014) Arthur Dooley: his place in post-war British art history. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Goodsell, Matthew John (2014) Cinephilia and fandom: two fascinating fascinations. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Guery, Frederique (2014) Learning to be a public service interpreter: boundaries, ethics and emotion in a marginal profession. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ghai, Lokesh (2014) Don't cry over spilt milk: apprenticing with the last makers of the milkman's dress. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Gough, Peter George (2014) The effectiveness of a bespoke mobile learning application in a laboratory-based, practical skills undergraduate unit. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Handsaker, Joseph Charles (2014) Why are patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy more likely to fall? An examination of the underpinning biomechanical mechanisms of locomotion and the influence of intervention. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Harrison, Anne Elizabeth (2014) Dissecting the site: place, space and memory at the old Manchester Royal Infirmary. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hicks, Kirsty-Marie (2014) The influence of sex, patella tendon properties and the oral contraceptive pill on markers of exercise-induced muscle damage. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hodgson, Sarah Ann (2014) The effects of sex and flexibility on indirect markers of muscle damage following a bout of eccentric exercise. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Harrison, Michaela Jane (2014) Travelling through written spaces: a nomadic enquiry into the writing of student teachers. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hollyman, Steve John (2014) The self-begetting novel: metafiction in the twenty-first century. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hyde, Susan Margaret (2014) Understanding dimensionality in health care. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Johnson, Christine Deanne (2014) Windows of alienation on Matthew Arnold’s “Dover beach”. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jarvis, Madeleine Ruth (2014) A critical examination of start-up business growth through employment decisions. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Kalungu, Jokastah Wanzuu (2014) Gender and climate change adaptation in Kenya. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kaur, Sarbjit (2014) A poetic and sculptural negotiation of growing up as a Punjabi Sikh British woman encountering male bias. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kelly, Dominic Peter (2014) Philosophy and poetry: the meaning of history in Heidegger’s thought. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kulczyk-Malecka, Justyna (2014) Diffusion Studies in Toughenable Low-E Coatings. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kikabhai, Navin (2014) ‘Learning difficulties’ and the academy: a case study. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Kolliopoulos, Athanasios (2014) Development of novel electrochemical measurements for water quality. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Leib, Thomas (2014) The role of destination image and personality in co-branding of Baltic region tourism destinations – a case of Germany as a source market. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Lloveras, Javier (2014) Heterotopian markets for degrowth: an ethnographic inquiry. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Lawson, Helen Sarah (2014) Educators’ responses to key top-down citizenship education related initiatives. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Lucente, Valentina (2014) Development of efficient meshless methods for free surface flows. Masters thesis (MPhil), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Mokhtarzadeh, Amir A (2014) Knowing otherness: the experience of doing educational ethnography in a Chinese community. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Morris, Rohan Michael (2014) Assessing vulnerability to psychotic illness amongst cannabis users: correlates, discriminating factors and scale development. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Meckel, PingPing (2014) The role of business incubators in developing entrepreneurship. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Mashud, Ahmed Abdallah (2014) Down-regulation of PAX3 gene expression in rhabdomyosarcoma and melanoma. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

McCormick, Sheree Ann (2014) Congruency of eye movement metrics across motor simulation states: implications for motor (re)learning. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Mohamed, Teba (2014) An investigation into the uptake of gold nanoparticles by isolated cells and whole vessels and their influence on function. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Musiyiwa, Kumbirai (2014) Climate change in rural Zimbabwe: an assessment of the influences of gender in smallholding and its contribution towards adaptation to climate change in rural Zimbabwe. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Nash, Maureen Anne (2014) Teachers and teaching assistants working together: the perceptions of teaching assistants within a national framework. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Oldfield, Samantha-Jayne (2014) Narratives of Manchester pedestrianism: using biographical methods to explore the development of athletics during the nineteenth century. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Osathanunkul, Khukrit (2014) Semantic similarity framework for Thai conversational agents. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Purcell, Christina (2014) Temporary agency workers in the French car industry: working under a new variant of 'despotism' in the labour process. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Penny, David John (2014) Pictures of things and things that are pictures. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Richards, Emma-Ruth (2014) Music and architecture: a composer’s perspective on form, process and product. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rossiter, Rowena Jane (2014) Research to practice and people with learning disabilities: better services (1971) to transforming care (2012) - 40 years on, are services any better? Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Randviir, Edward Peter (2014) The voltammetric applications and frequency-dependent properties of screen-printed electrodes and carbon nanomaterial electrodes. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Roni, Naheed Nawazesh (2014) Entrepreneurship as an opportunity for disabled people: an exploration of business start-up experiences and resources. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rostami, Shahin (2014) Preference focussed many-objective evolutionary computation. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rushton, Ian (2014) Acting like teachers: re-thinking educational identities in the lifelong learning sector. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Simpson, K (2014) Support for the European Union and the Role of Inequality: a Cross-National Examination and the Case of the Republic of Ireland. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Kent.

Scott, Helen (2014) Putting the “critical” into critical studies in art education. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Steele, Matthew George (2014) The making of Manchester’s technical colleges (1954‐1964). Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sihvonen, Mikko (2014) Public service priorities in transition: catering for minority interests in the public service media environments of the UK and Finland. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sharaf, Hanaa (2014) Role of advanced glycation endproducts in breast cancer. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sappleton, Natalie Anne (2014) The segregation stereotyping bind: social networks and resource acquisition among men and women business owners in gender typical and atypical sectors. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sachs Simpson, Adah (2014) The abused and the abuser(s): attachment relationship in dissociative identity disorder. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Simbanegavi, Nyevero Abigail (2014) An integrated computational and experimental approach to designing novel nanodevices. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Skarratt, Julie Patricia (2014) Wearing a cloak of invisibility: an exploration into the working experiences of female part-time teachers. Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Stevenson, Andrew (2014) How do newly arrived international students develop meaningful attachments to and emplaced knowledge of their new city? Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Strange, Emily (2014) Harnessing the Utopian Impulse in Drawing: a practice led PhD. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Thompson-Bell, Jacob (2014) Deconstructed narratives: a composer's perspective on form, process and review. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Theodoridis, Constantinos (2014) Strategic retail location decision-making under uncertainty: an application of complexity theory in the Greek retailing sector. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Taliefar, Mohammad (2014) Social stress alters gene expression in a transgenerational rodent model of postnatal depression. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Tomlinson, David Jonathan (2014) Combined Effects of Ageing and Body Composition on Skeletal Muscle Structure and Function in Untrained Individuals. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Westgarth, Laura Jayne (2014) Continuity and diversity in nineteenth century and contemporary racehorse training. Masters thesis (MA), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wilson, Sheila Marie (2014) Narrative study of how non-qualified volunteers and ex-drug users make the transition to paid employment in the substance misuse field. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wilding, Michael Raymond (2014) Development and validation of a multiplex bead assay and seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against 13 pneumococcal serotypes in United Kingdom children. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wisby, Deborah Ann (2014) ‘I always wanted to be a nurse’ how do sexual health nurses construct their identities within the context of role change? Doctoral thesis (EdD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wickens, David John (2014) Nanocomposite zirconium nitride/silver coatings to combat external bone fixation pin infections. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Willgoss, Thomas Geotge (2014) The Development and Validation of a Novel Anxiety Scale to Measure and Screen Anxiety in Patients with COPD. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wisely, Colin David (2014) Genealogy of the needle. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Wright, Lucy (2014) Making traditions, practising folk: contemporary folk performance in the Northwest of England: a practice-led enquiry. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Yarwood, Gemma Anne (2014) ‘I feel so tired I could sleep for days’: discourse, gender and working parents in the UK. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Yau, Mo Wah Adora (2014) Gastric emptying in humans; carbohydrate ingestion, gastrointestinal hormones and genetic variation. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Zorba, Ioanna (2014) The Management and Role of Library E-Presence: A Study Into British Academic Library Websites. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Zhu, Zhaohui (2014) FDI, ownership change and the firms’ business performance in China. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University.

Zodros, Naima (2014) Characterisation and degradation study of historic polyolefin gas pipes. Masters thesis (MSc), Manchester Metropolitan University.