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Maintaining the Meaning of Home for Older Adults: An Exploration of Occupational Therapists’ Perspectives Regarding the Meaning of Home and Professional Reasoning Throughout Home Modification Delivery.
(2018)BACKGROUND: For most people, their home is a significant and meaningful place and is the location in which they desire to spend most of their lives. Unfortunately, for some, this may not be possible due to the complications ... -
Make your memory work for it: The effect of increased speech rate and disfluencies on accuracy of story recall
(Queen Margaret University, 2017)Cluttering is an under-investigated fluency disorder characterized by excessive disfluencies and rapid speech rate. Most research examines these features from a production or low-level contextual perception viewpoint, ... -
Management and Leadership within Casual Dining Restaurants: The Impact on Employee Satisfaction
(Queen Margaret University, 2017)This dissertation acknowledges the significance of employee satisfaction within the restaurant industry in impacting upon business efficiency, productivity and perceived customer service. The aim of this investigation is ... -
Management of Visitor Attractions in Edinburgh: research of management practices for better tourism consumption.
(2018)Visitor attractions are an important part of tourism industry. They provide motivation for tourists to visit the destination, as well as they have a crucial importance in terms of generation of income, employment and ... -
Management Styles and Motivation: A Study of The Influence on Job Satisfaction
(2019)The aim of this research project is to critically assess the relationship between management styles in the business sector and the impact they have on employees’ motivation and job satisfaction within Edinburgh based ... -
Managing Musicians: A unique insight into the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) is one of Scotland's five National Companies and one of Europe's leading symphony orchestras. With around 80 full-time musicians a large amount of resource is regularly applied ... -
Managing not mending: navigating end of life dysphagia care in adults with head and neck cancer – speech & language therapists’ experiences
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2017)To date there has been minimal published investigation into the experiences of Speech and Language Therapists in providing end of life dysphagia (swallowing) care to adults with head and neck cancer. In addition, the ... -
Marketing, Subcultural Appropriation and Incorporation
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MARVELLOUS WOMEN – FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
(2019)This dissertation examines the different ways Marvel represents female characters and how Marvel has evolved its characters since the release of the comic books. Through the analysis of selected films, the conclusions drawn ... -
Materialism as Morality in the ANWR Oil Drilling Debate: A Critical Investigation into the Reification of Science, the Marginalization of Values, and the Power of Discourse within Environmental Conflict
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2014)Modern science is well established as the institution through which knowledge is legitimated, facts are produced, and credibility is assigned. Operating within the prevailing capitalist socio-political order, science is ... -
Measurement of Lower Limb Volume: Agreement Between Optoelectronic Perometer and Water Volumeter method, and Test-retest Reliability of Separate Methods In Healthy Human Participants.
(Queen Margaret University, 2017)Question - To investigate the test-retest reliability of separate methods and agreement between lower limb volume measurements for the optoelectronic perometer and water volumetry method. Design - A Quantitative, between ... -
Measures of ADHD markers, executive function and visuospatial bootstrapping: A correlational investigation
(Queen Margaret University, 2016)A correlation study was conducted to investigate how the performance on tests of executive function, pseudoneglect and visuospatial bootstrapping relate to scores on an ADHD self report scale. It was hypothesized that there ... -
Measuring children's participation from the perspectives of parents and teachers: Rasch analysis of the ACHIEVE assessment
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2017)Background - One of the most significant changes within healthcare practice and research is a shift from ‘treating’ disability at the level of body function to an ecological approach that addresses the children’s involvement ... -
MEASURING PRE-SPEECH ARTICULATION
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)Abstract: What do speakers do when they start to talk? This thesis concentrates on the articulatory aspects of this problem, and offers methodological and experimental results on tongue movement, captured using Ultrasound ... -
Media and Community Perspectives on Developed versus Developing Countries hosting Major and Mega Events
(Queen Margaret University, 2015)This study aims to give the reader an overall view of the effects of major and mega events on developing countries in comparison to developed countries. It will employ the use of an online survey and a media content analysis ... -
Media Personality and Fan Community: A Study in Modern Communication and Culture
(Queen Margaret University, 2000)This study examines the relations between the media personalities and their audiences. Its broad interest is with the implications for contemporary social experience of the fact that modern communication and culture involve ... -
Mediating Role of Alexithymia and Fear of Happiness on the Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Happiness
(Queen Margaret University, 2015)In recent years, much of psychology has been focused on positive outcomes of human functioning with emphasis on well-being. Investigations into what factors contribute to subjective experience of happiness have identified ... -
Memory enhancing effects: Does a production effect exist in short-term memory tasks and if so, how does it interfere with the bootstrapping effect?
(Queen Margaret University, 2016)Working memory performance during a serial digit recall task has been found to benefit from task-irrelevant additional visuospatial information in the stimulus layout, which is called the bootstrapping paradigm (Darling ... -
MEN AND LOSS: Exploring Malawian Men's Experience during Obstetric Emergency and Loss; an effort to improve male participation in maternity care
(Queen Margaret University, 2015)Background: Male involvement appears not to be improving in Malawi and researchers attribute this sluggish male participation to culture and patriarchy that inadvertently reproduce inequalities among men and women. Using ...