All Outputs (30)

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa. (Thesis). University of British Columbia. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601775

"Voices in the Silence" is a critical exploration of the construction of disadvantage in school mathematics in social context. It provides a reflexive, narrative account of a pedagogic journey towards understanding the pedagogizing of difference in m... Read More about Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa.

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (PhD thesis) (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (PhD thesis). (Dissertation). https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16506441

Caring and resources in older age (2003)
Thesis
Argyle, E. Caring and resources in older age. (Thesis). University of Sheffield. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1163340

Due to the high incidence of ill health and disability amongst their contemporaries, older people are likely to be involved in informal caring relationships. Due to the limited nature of post-retirement incomes, such carers are also likely to be rela... Read More about Caring and resources in older age.

A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference (2003)
Thesis
Mohr, A. A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference. (Thesis). Griffuth University. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1163473

Consensus conferences evolved as a response to the public's increasing dissatisfaction with technocratic decision-making processes that are judged to have repeatedly failed to serve its interests. The staging of the first Australian consensus confere... Read More about A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference.

Genetic algorithms for multiple-choice problems (1999)
Thesis
Aickelin, U. Genetic algorithms for multiple-choice problems. (Thesis). University of Wales Swansea. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1163583

This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems. It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of information... Read More about Genetic algorithms for multiple-choice problems.

Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (1998)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape. (Dissertation). University of Cape Town. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601779

A small-scale study was conducted within a historic and traditional, independent, all-boys secondary school in the Western Cape, the focus of which is the exploration of subject positions potentially available to the black male students of the "Black... Read More about Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape.

Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (South Africa) (Masters Thesis) (1998)
Thesis
Swanson, D. Bridging the Boundaries?: A study of mainstream mathematics, academic support and "disadvantaged learners" in an independent, secondary school in the Western Cape (South Africa) (Masters Thesis). (Dissertation). https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16506442

Analysis of HIV-1 and foraminiferal molecular evolution (1997)
Thesis
Wade, C. Analysis of HIV-1 and foraminiferal molecular evolution. (Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/34111093

This thesis presents work examining aspects of both HIV- 1 and foraminiferal evolution. The thesis is set out accordingly into two sections, each of which contains an introduction with individual chapters presented as a series of papers.
In section... Read More about Analysis of HIV-1 and foraminiferal molecular evolution.

Dienstplanerstellung in Krankenhäusern mittels genetischer Algorithmen (1996)
Thesis
Aickelin, U. Dienstplanerstellung in Krankenhäusern mittels genetischer Algorithmen. (Dissertation). Universität Mannheim. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1164769

Between functions and relations in calculating programs (1992)
Thesis
Hutton, G. M. Between functions and relations in calculating programs. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1164861

This thesis is about the calculational approach to programming, in which one derives programs from specifications. One such calculational paradigm is Ruby, the relational calculus developed by Jones and Sheeran for describing and designing circuits.... Read More about Between functions and relations in calculating programs.