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    • Processing and upgrading of lignin for high-value applications 

      Davidson, Daniel James (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      Lignin is a complex, heterogeneous biopolymer composed of aromatic subunits connected through a variety of interunit linkages. It is the second most abundant natural biopolymer behind cellulose. Lignin represents a renewable ...

    • Understanding crowd responses to perceived hostile threats : a multidisciplinary approach 

      Templeton, Anne; Telga, Maika; Ronchi, Enrico; Neville, Fergus Gilmour; Reicher, Stephen David; Drury, John (2024-06-05) - Journal article
      People facing threat may evacuate, help others, confront the source of threat, share information, ignore the threat and the plight of others, or enact a combination of these behaviours. Accurate conceptual models of crowd ...

    • Stock price synchronicity, liquidity creation and internal dividends : evidence from U.S. banking 

      Zheng, Yeliangzi (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the determinants of stock price synchronicity, liquidity creation and internal dividends in the context of the United States (U.S.) banking industry. As a quasi-experimental setting, we utilise the ...

    • The ethics of harming 

      Joseph, Joel (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      Commonsense morality rejects an unqualified requirement to promote the overall good. Moral constraints prohibit you from bringing about the overall good. For example, you seem morally required to save five people over one. ...

    • Hybrid war and visual performances in digital Donbas militarism 

      Gregg, James (2025-06) - Thesis
      This thesis explores online wartime commemoration by pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2020 as a part of Russian hybrid war against Ukraine. I analyze two ‘digital memory sites’: the social media account ...