Much debate and a growing body of research have been generated over the concern for potential incompatibility of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) with labour market flexibility. The central question is whether or ...

Messenger RNA plays a central role in gene expression. Regulation of gene expression is critical to determining phenotype. Disruption of this regulation is a causal or contributory factor in many diseases. Gene expression ...

3D interfaces enable a user to create and manipulate 3D objects in a computer-simulated 3-dimensional world. There are many existing interfaces, but few of them exhibit the naturalness which characterizes our interaction ...

John McDowell's work presents stimulating arguments on a broad variety of issues. In this thesis I shall look at three: his response to Dummett's manifestation argument (the argument that our understanding of truth must ...

Food is an essential part of human existence and directly linked to the cultural behaviour of individuals, groups, and institutions. In their commentary on food studies, Mintz and Du Bois (2002, p. 8) noted that war has ...

This is an ethnomusicological study of piobaireachd in New Zealand, undertaken from 2010 to 2013. Piobaireachd is accepted as the classical music for the Highland bagpipe, arising out of ancient Scottish history. Current ...

Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are a newly appreciated group of mobile elements that contribute immensely to bacterial evolution. The symbiosis island ICEMlSym[R7A] of Mesorhizobium loti strain R7A is the ...

Food allergies are a growing health concern, yet scientific understanding of how individuals’ lives are affected by food allergies is limited. The aims of this project were to explore the factors that affect the lives of ...

The Colony of Otago, as conceived by Thomas Burns and William Cargill, its chief protagonists, was to be a 'Class' settlement where the settlers would be united by membership of the Free Church of Scotland. Land was to be ...