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The thesis is a hermeneutic study: it wants to interpret ugliness in fashion. In exposing the mechanics of fashion, in revealing the seams as it were of those traditional drivers of fashion – beauty and glamour – we see the destruction of the illusion of fashion and an unknotting of many of the certainties around how and why we dress the way we do. Thus dressing poor represents a willful instability in its relationship to beauty and offers an alternative way to think through the history of fashion.

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This thesis addresses important issues about how to make game characters and virtual agents more realistic or believable by using cognitive-social personality theories. We begin motivation by discussing two examples. The first is from a television series and the second is a more concrete example that will be used throughout the thesis to explain concepts and the model. These examples represent the ideal goal of our work.

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This thesis examines the implications of public sector HRM architecture and its impact on HR professionals, senior managers and employees who are integral to service delivery in the public sector. To achieve its objective, conclusions are based on findings from practitioners and employing organisations, in a context of the prominent literature in this field. A mixed methods approach was adopted with 54 semi-structured interviews conducted in case study organisations representing an in-house, shared service and outsourced model of HRM.

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This thesis represents the first comprehensive study on the performance (raw and risk-adjusted), performance persistence, and market timing ability of the equity funds in Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Funds (MPF) scheme during the period 2001 – 2004. Regardless of the measure used (Jensen single-index alpha measure, Fama-French three-factor alpha measure, and modified Jensen alpha controlled by changes in exchange rates), US equity funds and Pacific-Basin excluding Japan equity funds, are found to consistently underperform relative to the market.

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The research design adopted to address this problem utilised mixed data collection methodologies. In order to determine what was happening in the industry as a whole, a specially designed survey was conducted utilising both web-based and traditional paper-based instruments. This provided valuable quantitative data about the rate of uptake, types of companies and so on. To complement this, a focus group of selected representatives within the industry was conducted to delve more deeply into motivations behind the decision to adopt the technology and the perceived benefits derived from it.

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This research investigates the interactive effects of usability, the designer perspective and user expectations on the user experience (UX) of e-commerce websites. It incorporates the theoretical underpinnings of Norman’s (1988) seminal research specifically, Mental Models and Nielsen’s User Categories (1993) to explore the different mental models, domain and technology expertise of two distinct groups – users and designers – in the interaction with a selected system image, that of the e-commerce website.

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This research integrates two distinct theoretical perspectives, business strategy and climate change adaptation. The primary purpose of this research is to explore MNCs’ strategies in regard to climate change adaptation. By interviewing representatives of MNCs operating in both developed and developing countries, as well as analysing company documents, the research offers significant insights regarding existing and future climate change adaptation strategies by MNCs in distinct country settings.

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This thesis represents a detailed enquiry into creative arts in regional Victoria. In this research, a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand of creative arts in three regional communities is presented, in addition to an investigation of arts festivals and events in non-metropolitan communities.

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This thesis comprises eight chapters. Chapter 1 provides the standard introduction found in most theses and evident in the foregoing. Then a secondary study in Chapter 2 serves to discuss the background to licensing advisers in Australia, Chapter 3 will develop the conceptualised theoretical framework for examining the legitimacy of the current AFSL-AR licensing model. Details of the empirical survey and method of quantitative and qualitative analyses closes Chapter 4. Chapter 5 explains the scope, difficulties encountered and results of the study.

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In this Masters thesis computational modelling techniques were employed to investigate iron-free apo-Lactoferrin (apo-Lf) structural conformation changes in the presence of variant temperature and pH. These conditions represent the environment most milk protein goes through in food processing and the production of food products.

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This research project "Prioritisation in infrastructure asset maintenance" aims to develop a reliable and accurate decision-making method for improving the maintenance prioritisation of irrigation infrastructure. The method should utilise agreed evaluation criteria, based on existing organisational policies and risk frameworks, and real-time data representing the physical condition of assets to prioritise them for maintenance.

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The nasal route for drug administration has the potential for local and systemic delivery of a wide variety of therapeutics. Nasal spray drug delivery has the potential to administer drugs to the bloodstream, avoiding the use of painful needles. While there is great potential, studies in the area are limited and somewhat conflicting. This study aimed to support the improvement of nasal drug delivery through experimental work on a model nasal cavity and through experimental characterisation of nasal spray behaviour. Four different brands of nasal spray were investigated.

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This thesis contributes to the existing literature in the following ways: First, presenting a systematic study with empirical evidence on the functioning and quality of corporate governance and its impact under the contractual form of FMC. Second, this research represents a step forward from the extant studies focusing on how board characteristics and composition in fund companies by investigating a wider range of relevant governance mechanisms that affect board effectiveness which other studies have not attempted.

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The research attempts to detect the presence of gender bias as a social phenomenon through pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools in order to extract the ideology behind their constructions. To be specific, it 1/ examines how different genders are represented via pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools, and 2/ finds out whether gendered visual representations illustrate gender bias in this textbook set.

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The following objectives are set: To investigate the manner in which the conflict and main participants are approached and represented in the media; to explore the journalists underlying ideologies via analyzing the grammatical and lexical features of the news reports, from which revealing a close relationship between ideologies and media language for political purposes.discourse.

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Research objectives of the thesis: Research the theories of complex fuzzy sets, complex fuzzy logic and measures based on complex fuzzy sets; research and development of fuzzy inference system based on complex fuzzy sets; research applied techniques to reduce rules, optimize fuzzy rules in complex fuzzy inference system; research on how to represent rules based on fuzzy knowledge graphs to reduce inference computation time for the test set and deal with the cases where the new dataset is not present in the training data set.

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Objective of the study: The general objective of this study is to produce catalysts of bimetallic oxides (Cu-Co), on porous materials (activated carbon, silica gel, MCM-41) to adsorb and oxidize VOCs, which is represented by toluene, a popular VOCs with particular properties of the BTEX group in many industrial factories, at low temperature.

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Purpose of the study: Based on theoretical and practical study on the development of preschool teachers of representative provinces in the regions across the country, the thesis proposes measures to develop the preschool teachers in the competency-based approach to improve the quality of preschool teachers, thereby, to improve the quality of preschool teachers in today’s education.

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This study was conducted at some universities in Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam. The objectives aimed at finding out the similarities and differences in teachers’ and students’ beliefs about classroom interactions in large non-English majored classes and how teachers’ and students’ beliefs about classroom interactions corresponded to their actual practice. Data were collected from questionnaires for 100 teachers teaching English to non-English majors and 100 students. Besides, semi-structured interviews were conducted with representative teachers and students from both groups.

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Research purpose: to build an analytical model representing the cross Kerr nonlinear coefficient of a four-energy quantum system in the inverse Y configuration in the presence of the Doppler effect. Apply the analytical results to the case of 87Rb at room temperature. Studying the ability to control and enhance the cross Kerr nonlinearity according to the parameters of the associated laser field and the temperature of the environment.

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