This thesis examines the speaker's engagement in processes language variation and change. It specifically focuses on the dialect spoken in the North Tyrone area, a variety which has hithel10 received very little scholarly attention. 'Engagement' is these processes is considered as the extent to which speakers are aware of the social meaning which i...
Organisations today operate in a complex, unpredictable, globalised, and competitive business environment and challenging marketplace, emphasis on just-in-time deliveries and service quality through the integration of resources. In response to the changing business dynamics, web-based EDI (WED I) has been adopted by the global container shipping in...
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Studies in the area of shipping freight risk measurement and management are limited and the understandings of the impact of freight volatility dynamics on the freight market remain insufficient and under-researched. The few studies that explore different approaches to measuring freight risk disagree on the most suitable measures and this is down to...
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The aim of this research is to further the understanding of the relationships between household travel mobility and the processes of social exclusion. Using mixed-methods, the research looks at the travel activities and employment geographies of different socio-economics across the Tyne & Wear metropolitan area. It considers the actual and perceive...
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Transport Policy in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the early 1990s has been focused on increasing car use at the expense of investment in public transport services and infrastructure. This has culminated in a poorly integrated public transport network that has seen continued decline in use outside of London. The Competition Act (1998) has exa...
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