Ever since laws were formed to protect intellectual property, disputes have raged over their impact. The rapid onslaught of “patent wars”, where companies turn to intellectual property litigation as a means to attack rivals, ...

Introduction: It has been suggested that certain features of occlusion that lay outside what is considered ‘normal’ have the potential to affect risk for temporomandibular joint disorders and incisor stability. This concept ...

This research seeks to assess Djebar’s place in the Arabic literature and to underline the aspects of Sufism relevant to her discourse on the otherness of an Algerian war. Her work conveys important aspects of Sufi aesthetics. ...

Introduction: Studies of endodontic radiographic working length (WL) determination have mostly involved mature teeth with fully developed root apices. Currently, there are no studies addressing the ability to judge/determine ...

In this Master Thesis, my goal was to analyze a few war representations in 20th Century French literature and its complex functions. Therefore I have chosen three different genres, i.e. the historical novel, poetry and the ...

Civil aviation authorities worldwide consider cardiovascular disease (CVD) an important medical condition because it can cause sudden pilot incapacitation. This group of related conditions is the most common reason for ...

This thesis investigates the role of wine awards in influencing consumer decision-making, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Firstly, four focus groups and an online questionnaire were conducted, to explore ...

New Zealand is a relatively young country when a comparison is made on early settlement patterns and trends for Australia and Canada. As a consequence, historiography focusing on the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth ...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate a number of potential causes and consequences of female extra-pair matings in a closed and wild population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus). First, I compared the morphology ...

This dissertation develops an approach to solving a job-shop scheduling problem with a limited buffer capacity. The research problem is derived from solving a container unloading and loading problem at Port Otago. By ...