Macroalgae are important primary producers and habitat forming organisms of the marine coastal zone. In response to different environmental parameters, the chemical composition of macroalage can change as an acclimation ...

Advances in the electrical communications between enzymes and electrodes made it possible to the fabrication of new miniaturized implantable power devices. This thesis is devoted to study and improvement of enzyme electrodes ...

Laboratory experiments were carried out to determine the effects of controlled temperatures (14oC, 17oC, 20oC, 23oC, and 26oC) and ambient outdoor and laboratory temperatures on the development and predation capacity of ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterised by the presence of inflammatory demyelinating foci throughout the brain and spinal cord, accompanied by axonal and neuronal damage. Although inflammatory processes are thought to ...

Currently, over 1.7 billion people suffer from a musculoskeletal disorder; over 200 million operations take place annually; and in excess of 1 million new clinical cases are reported per year. Further, the annual healthcare ...

This thesis focuses on early modern Barbary captivity narratives which describe Christian encounters with the Islamic world, and gives particular attention to questions of sexuality and gender. From the short fledgling ...

Transhumance, called booleying in Ireland, is a practice found in many parts of Europe that involves the movement of livestock and their keepers from lowland, permanent settlements to summer pasture, usually in the uplands, ...

With the advent of Industry 4.0, more and more companies are actively working on digitising their assets (i.e., services, processes, etc.) for better control, collaboration, modularity, analysis, etc. By 2020 more than 80% ...

The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ...

Over the past few decades, advances in technology, most notably the industrial revolution of the late 18th-century, has brought about dramatic improvements in the socioeconomic circumstances of developed nations. This has ...