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Top Ten Theses from the Leicester Research Archive

Top Ten most downloaded theses from the Leicester Research Archive over the last year are:

1) Anxiety in high functioning children with autism (1999) by Alinda Gillott

2) From law to faith : letting go of secret trusts (1999) by Stephen James Alan Swann

3) The process and outcome of Transactional Analysis psychotherapy for the treatment of depression : an adjudicated case series (2013) by Mark Widdowson

4)  Financial Development, Economic Growth and Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Nigeria and South Africa (2010) by Umar Bida Ndako

5)  The impact of Chinese culture on performance management practices in foreign firms operating in China (2014) by Anthony Wong Yuk Sun

6) The situation of street children in Zimbabwe: a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (2009) by Markim Wakatama

7)  Developing an ESP curriculum for students of health sciences through needs analysis and course evaluation in Saudi Arabia (2011) by Abdulaziz Fahad T. Alfehaid

8) Social and psychological factors in learning English as a foreign language in Lebanon (1991) by Rula Jamil Yazigy

9) The propagation of VHF and UHF radio waves over sea paths (2002) by Chow Yen Desmond Sim

10)  Military intervention in Nigerian politics : what has the press got to do with it? (1997) by Bernard Nnamdi Emenyeonu

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