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THE AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE IN HEALTHY ADULTS AND ADULTS WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE SYNDROME
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2018)The Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) assesses brainstem function. This thesis explores the click and speech ABR in both healthy adults and adults with alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS). Experiment One undertook ... -
AN ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF TIMING AND COORDINATION IN THE FLUENT SPEECH OF PEOPLE WHO STAMMER
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)This thesis investigates Wingate’s Fault-Line hypothesis (1988) which suggests that disfluencies in people who stammer (PWS) result from a deficit in transition from consonant to vowel (CV) thereby implying that stammering ... -
LADY HEALTH WORKERS IN PAKISTAN: TRACING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORIES WITHIN A PATRIARCHAL CONTEXT
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)In Pakistan, the Lady Health Workers (LHWs) a cadre of Community Health Workers (CHWs) are providing health services to communities in rural areas and disadvantaged urban area since 1994. Introduced to enhance women‟s ... -
PAUSING MID-SENTENCE: YOUNG OFFENDER PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)The study investigated participants’ perceptions of their own language and communication; their interactions with peers in prison; and their experiences with professionals in the welfare and justice systems. The prevalence ... -
A POST-NORMAL SCIENCE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE REAL ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND CONTEXTS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – A CASE STUDY OF ABA-URBAN IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA.
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)Effective management of waste is a complex task requiring appropriate technical solutions, sufficient organisational capacity and the collaboration of a wide range of stakeholders. The more advanced, high-income economies ...
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