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The effects of a combined aerobic and resistance exercise programme on physiological parameters and metabolic control in type 1 and 2 diabetes
(De Montfort University, 2015)
Diabetes is a common chronic disease that affects almost all countries in the world and has continued to increase at an alarming rate in the last decades. It kills a person every seven seconds. Recent thinking treats both ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance: State of the Art and Perspectives in Social, Environmental and Sustainability Performance Management
(De Montfort University, 2015)
Over more than forty years many proposals have been drawn up to complement, integrate and overcome the traditional methodologies measuring the financial dimension of corporate performance. In parallel, thousands of companies, ...
Crosstalk and Signal Integrity in Ring Resonator Based Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers for Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Networks
(De Montfort University, 2015-07)
With 400 Gbps Ethernet being developed at the time of writing this thesis, all-optical networks are a solution to the increased bandwidth requirements of data communication allowing architectures to become increasingly ...
Improving Sustainability of the Domestically Laundered Healthcare Uniform
(De Montfort University, 2015-07)
Sustainability is an important consideration in today’s society and all areas of textiles contribute to a negative environmental impact; in production, during the ‘in use’ phase and importantly, at the end of life. The use ...
Lubanga, child soldiering and the philosophy of international law
(De Montfort University, 2015)
International criminal law lacks a coherent theory suitable for its own context. This lacuna has left the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the most prominent global penal institution - without clear theoretical premise(s) ...
Stable Marriage Problem Based Adaptation for Clone Detection and Service Selection
(De Montfort University, 2015-03)
Current software engineering topics such as clone detection and service selection need to
improve the capability of detection process and selection process. The clone detection is the
process of finding duplicated code ...
Advertising America: The Printing, Publication, and Promotion of English New World Books, 1553-1600
(De Montfort University, 2015-10)
This thesis explores how the paratexts to and physical features of English Tudor books about the New World presented the books’ content to their original readers. The contribution this thesis makes to knowledge is threefold. ...
Coping Strategies of Newly Diagnosed Patients with Type Two Diabetes Mellitus at a Hospital in Ghana
(De Montfort University, 2015-04)
Abstract
Published research on diabetes in Ghana is quite limited and relates mainly to incidence and prevalence of the disease with little research on the patients experiences of coping with the diabetes. It is estimated ...
A History of English Women’s Cricket, 1880-1939
(De Montfort University, 2015-10)
This thesis is a study of the history of women’s cricket from the 1880s until 1939. Although the primary focus of this thesis is the interwar years, it explores the earliest forms of women’s cricket to provide context for ...
Fairytale Theory and Explorations of Gender Stereotypes in Post-1970s Rapunzel Adaptations
(De Montfort University, 2015-06)
Although Rapunzel criticism habitually concerns literary fairytales, this thesis contributes to the field a sustained examination of the feminist and patriarchal uses to which Rapunzel has been put, with close attention ...
