Putting participation on stage: examining participatory theatre as an...
Participation, it has been said, is a central lynchpin of citizenship and democracy. Unfortunately, studies have shown for some time that political participation is on the decline in most Western...
View ArticleFouling in reverse osmosis (RO) membrane in water recovery from secondary...
Reverse osmosis (RO) is the most preferable process for water recovery from secondary effluent (SE) because of its higher rejection of impurities with lower associated cost and higher quality of...
View ArticleMoisture content limits of Iron Ore Fines to prevent liquefaction during...
Iron ore is without doubt one of the most essential commodities of our time. With this, the growing demand from countries, such as China and Japan for iron ore produced in countries, such as Australia...
View ArticleStochastic benders decomposition for the supply chain investment planning...
This paper presents the application of a stochastic Benders decomposition algorithm for the problem of supply chain investment planning under uncertainty applied to the petroleum byproducts supply...
View ArticleEffects of erythromycin on the phenotypic and genotypic biofilm expression in...
The ica operon encoding polysaccharide intercellular adhesion, which facilitates biofilm formation in staphylococci, has been extensively studied in Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus...
View ArticleINSPIRE: A framework for incremental spatial prefix query relaxation
Geo-textual data are generated in abundance. Recent studies focused on the processing of spatial keyword queries which retrieve objects that match certain keywords within a spatial region. To ensure...
View ArticleCollaboration, critique and a community of peers: the benefits of peer...
In response to both my own desire for professional development and candidates' desires for more support, in 2012 I began to coordinate a peer-to-peer learning group for creative writing research degree...
View ArticleSynthesis and biological evaluation of novel bouchardatine derivatives as...
Our recent study has shown that the natural product bouchardatine (1) can reduce the triglyceride (TG) content in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (EC50 almost equal to 25 mu-M). Here, we synthesized two series of...
View ArticleGastrointestinal abnormalities identified by fluorescence endomicroscopy
Real-time in vivo microscopic imaging has become a reality with the advent of confocal and nonlinear endomicroscopy. These devices are best utilized in conjunction with standard white light endoscopy....
View ArticleColloidal approach to Au-loaded TiO2 thin films with optimized optical...
TiO2 and Au nanoparticles are synthesized by the colloidal technique and used for nanocomposite thin film preparation. The effect of thermal treatment and organic template presence is analyzed in order...
View Article(In Press) String submodular function with curvature constraints
The problem of choosing a string of actions to optimize an objective function that is string submodular has been considered in [1]. There it is shown that the greedy strategy, consisting of a string of...
View ArticleT cell therapies - are T memory stem cells the answer?
T memory stem cells (TSCM) are the earliest developmental stage of memory T cells, displaying stem cell-like properties and exhibiting a gene profile between naive and central memory (CM) T cells....
View ArticleIn vivo characterization of colorectal and cutaneous inputs to lumbosacral...
Chronic abdominal pain is a common symptom of inflammatory bowel disease and often persists in the absence of gut inflammation. Although the mechanisms responsible for ongoing pain are unknown,...
View ArticleSize effect of Au nanoparticles on TiO2 crystalline phase of nanocomposite...
This work focuses on the size effects of Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) on the TiO2 crystalline phase of nanocomposite AuNPs-embedded TiO 2 (Au-TiO2) thin films, their adsorption ability, and photocatalytic...
View ArticleAn exploratory study of the benefits of youth mental health literacy studies...
This exploratory study compared mental health knowledge and beliefs of social work students before and after undertaking studies in youth mental health literacy. Vignettes were used to assess youth...
View ArticleThe phenomenology of the ''Other'' in computer game worlds
This article discusses the application of a phenomenological framework to inform research in computer game worlds like massively multiplayer online games. Based on the phenomenological sociology of...
View ArticleImproved thermal stability of Au nanorods by use of photosensitive layered...
Au nanorods have shown high potential applications due to strong and aspect ratio dependent surface plasmon resonances. A major limitation in the use of such nanostructures is related to their tendency...
View ArticleZnO-NiO Thin Films Containing Au Nanoparticles for CO Optical Sensing
ZnO-NiO sol- gel thin films doped with Au nanoparticles have been prepared with NiO amounts ranging from 0% to 30%. X-ray diffraction, UV-visible spectroscopy and electron microscopy confirm the...
View ArticlePhysical insight into fuel-air mixing for upstream-fuel-injected scramjets...
Fuel injection and mixing into air play a crucial role in the operation of hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems, particularly scramjet engines featuring upstream fuel injection. This study...
View ArticleThe relationship between parental fatigue, parenting self-efficacy and...
Background Emerging evidence indicates that parental fatigue is associated with low warmth and increased hostility in parent-child interactions. One possible pathway by which fatigue may impact on...
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