Background Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in females in the UK. Approximately 20 percent of breast cancers diagnosed are triple negative (TNBC) intrinsic subtype, which are aggressive high-grade tumours carrying a poor prognosis. About 20% of TNBC harbour a mutation in breast cancer gene (BRCA). BRCA plays important r...
Background Since 2011, Nigeria has experienced major conflicts from the Boko Haram terrorist group in the north-east region. Over 20 million people have been affected and about two million were forced out of their homes to other countries as refugees or remained in the country as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). As of December 2015, the majorit...
Previous studies have found inconsistent results regarding the personality predictors of scholastic cheating. The aim of this study was to investigate whether personality was a predictor of scholastic cheating using the HEXACO-60 personality inventory and the Dark Triad (DT). A sample of 252 students completed the online questionnaire. Results from...
This thesis explores how different forms of nostalgia have been constructed by various forms of screen media in China since the 1990s. Textual analysis of media languages and structures and discourse analysis of the Chinese government’s economic-politics are used to examine the relationship between screen nostalgia, the influence of the Chinese Com...
This thesis investigates the translation challenges created by early Soviet era Russian source texts that employ non-standard language for literary effects. It employs a framework of Soviet linguistic theories as well as translation theory to analyse Evgenii Zamiatin’s 1918 novel Ostrovitiane and his 1922 work My, as well as Andrei Platonov’s 1930 ...
This thesis is concerned with contemporary American non-fiction nature writing and the environmental and philosophical movement deep ecology. The burgeoning field of ecocriticism has noted that contemporary nature writing challenges anthropocentric attitudes towards nature and favours biocentric relationships with nature. I contend that it is the d...
Kathryn Kalinak describes film music as being ‘directly composed’ to accompany motion pictures, with its function found in enhancing the emotional and narrative structures of the onscreen events, such as dialogue, screenplay, and acting. (Kalinak, 2010). An exception to this arises when a film makes use of pre-existing music as its soundtrack. Pre-...
The present study takes a gendered approach towards the notarial documents produced in the Greek island of Chios while it was under Genoese rule (1346-1566). For the first time these deeds are used to investigate women’s lives, focusing particularly on their contribution to the economy of the island and how their marital status influenced it. The f...
This thesis studies the Bolshevik party's approaches to trade during the Russian revolution, civil war, and the early years of the New Economic Policy (1917-1923). It adopts three perspectives. One of these is theoretical. It covers the beliefs and stereotypes party members held about capitalist trade, the economic and social roles they attributed ...
Whilst the vast majority of Christian scholarship in antiquity focusses on the historical and the theological person of Jesus, as well as Christian discipleship, it is clear that Judas scholarship is in the minority. This dissertation sets out to study and analyse literary depictions of Judas Iscariot in antiquity – here, meaning from the New Testa...
