The research described in this dissertation concerns an investigation into the development of new/modified Ti(C,N)-based cermet materials for applications relating to the metal machining industry. Ti(C,N)-based cermets ...

This study takes a particular look at mathematics teacher education communities of practice (CoPs) in order to provide rich descriptions of the CoPs and make claims about its relation/in relation to teacher preparation ...

Background: Many factors affect the prescribing of medication to patients with schizophrenia including variables that relate to physicians and may result in marked variance in the choice of drugs, dosages, drug combinations, ...

ABSTRACT All members registered on the managed care database for the chronic condition Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), for the period 01 January 2003 to 30 June 2003, were evaluated to determine the prescribing pattern of ...

ABSTRACT: While a film-viewer watches a movie from beginning to end without the ability to manipulate aspects of the environment on screen, video games are constantly being altered through the player’s interaction. Some ...

The study aimed at determining the relative frequency of intracranial meningiomas among primary brain tumours; age, gender, ethnic distributions and their mode of presentation. This was a 12-month prospective study of 48 ...

In this thesis a number of different constructions on ordered algebraic structures are studied. In particular, two types of constructions are considered: completions and finite embeddability property constructions. A ...

Quine’s epistemology amounts to what has been called the replacement thesis, according to which epistemology becomes a part of science by being replaced by the latter. The most forceful criticism of the thesis asserts that ...

There has been increasing interest in in situ or in operando studies of heterogeneous catalysts in the past two decades. This drive has seen the invention and modification of analytical instruments that allow for the ...