Effect of MnOx Loading on Structural, Surface, and Catalytic Properties of...
Nanosized CeO2-MnOx mixed oxides with different Ce/Mn ratios were prepared by a citric acid-assisted sol-gel method. The effect of the MnOx content on structural, redox, and surface properties of the...
View ArticleComparative Analysis of Coalescence and Breakage Kernels in Vertical...
The evolution of bubble size distribution is an important consideration in vertical gas-liquid flow, especially in determining the appropriate mass, momentum, and heat transfer between two phases. In...
View Article(In Press) Urban growth boundaries and betterment: rent-seeking by landowners...
Melbourne's Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) was legislated in 2002 and expanded substantially in 2010. Although based on strategic planning goals, UGBs have the capacity to influence land and housing...
View ArticlePolarization-controlled tunable directional coupling of surface plasmon...
Light can be coupled into propagating electromagnetic surface waves at a metal-dielectric interface known as surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). This process has traditionally faced challenges in the...
View ArticleMercury migration and speciation study during monoethylene glycol...
The partitioning of mercury from the distillation process used to regenerate water-laden monoethylene glycol (MEG) in the natural gas processing industry is a highly complicated process. The...
View ArticleDeveloping and validating a hierarchical model of service quality of retail...
Like other service institutes, developing and managing quality service is a challenging issue in retail banks. Recent studies established that retail banks' customer satisfaction can be managed with a...
View ArticleSingular diffraction-free surface plasmon beams generated by overlapping...
We propose and experimentally demonstrate the singular surface plasmon beam that presents a dark channel generated by a point dislocation and a long diffraction-free propagation distance up to 70.sp....
View ArticleMetabolic profiling of a transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans Alzheimer model
Despite decades of research, no early-onset biomarkers are currently available for Alzheimer's disease, a cureless neurodegenerative disease afflicting millions worldwide. In this study, transgenic...
View ArticleUnderstanding survival sex: young Women, homelessness and intimate relationships
This article seeks to explore gendered experiences of homelessness through an examination of survival sex. Survival sex is usually understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, however,...
View ArticleCritical passions building architectural movements toward a radical pedagogy...
Radical pedagogies are taken here to be experimental forms of learning that are engaged with an on-going and passionate protest against inert ideas. It is education of and for vitality - learning how...
View Article(In Press) WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified...
This paper considers Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOFing) as a form of sustainable tourism with particular focus on its social and cultural dimensions and the means by which deep engagement in...
View ArticlePassive optical network survivability: protection, detection and restoration
Passive optical network (PON) technologies have received increasing attention as demand for fibre access networks has grown. Enhancing fibre access network reliability provides lower operational costs,...
View ArticleDynamic statistical optimization of GNSS radio occultation bending angles: an...
We introduce a new dynamic statistical optimization algorithm to initialize ionosphere-corrected bending angles of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based radio occultation (RO) measurements....
View ArticleDesign of fiber metamaterials with negative refractive index in the infrared
Metamaterials possess intricate, sub-wavelength microstructures, making scalability a salient concern in regard to their practicality. Fiber-drawing offers a route to producing large quantities of...
View ArticleThe importance of quasi-4D path-integrated dose accumulation for more...
Intrafraction organ deformation may be accounted for by inclusion of temporal information in dose calculation models. In this article, we demonstrate a quasi-4-dimensional method for improved risk...
View ArticleUnderstanding convergence and divergence in the framing of climate change...
Adaptation is a highly malleable concept and people may use various framings of adaptation to support what they are already doing and limit their need to change. By analysing organizations' different,...
View ArticleFactors Associated with Awareness, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Common...
To assess the awareness, attitudes, and practices associated with common eye diseases and eye care utilization in a rural district of Bangladesh.
View ArticleFlicker light-induced retinal vasodilation is unaffected by inhibition of...
PURPOSE: To investigate the role of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) and prostaglandins (PGs) in retinal blood vessel calibers and vasodilation during flicker light stimulation in humans. METHODS:...
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