Exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) can result in the development of a range of adverse health effects including silicosis and lung cancer. Although exposure to RCS has been characterised in many occupational ...

A pleural effusion is excess fluid that collects in the pleural cavity, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Surplus amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during ...

This thesis outlines the findings of a multi-wavelength and polarimetric study of a number of rotation-powered pulsars. Polarisation studies of pulsars are just one example of obtaining insight into the geometry of their ...

Airborne Particulate Matter (PM) is a major environmental concern because of its known impacts on human health, and since the developed world population spends approximately 89% of its time indoors, PM in the indoor ...

The genesis of this thesis came out of the difficulties encountered when trying to apply adaptive optics correction to optical fields that contain scintillation (specklelike amplitude fluctuations). These scintillated ...

The demand for efficient laser processing of materials is as strong as ever and this requires a deep understanding of the fundamental laser-material interactions. There has been a recent upsurge in the number of studies ...

Turbulence and mixing processes are investigated in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) using microstructure measurements from the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP) a vertically rising, autonomous instrument equipped ...

The understanding of the processes of star formation informs the understanding and investigation of questions of galactic dynamics and the formation of stellar systems of exoplanets and so sits between the galactic and ...

This thesis reports on the design and development of DYMPHNA3D, a 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation code. It also focuses on the field of radio emission and the discovery of rotation powered neutron stars, ...