Human hair, like other Alpha-keratinous fibres, is a highly complex biomaterial. The application of analytical methods to human hair is used in the assessment of chemical damage, constituting the first step to prevent hair deterioration and to develop new products; making hair analysis a very important method for the cosmetic industry and hair rese...
The suitability of the numerical weather prediction model, weather research and forecasting (WRF), is assessed for evaluation of large-scale offshore wind farm sites with a particular focus on conditions in North West India. Prediction accuracy of the wind resource is established for typical operating conditions, intervals of peak wind speed, and o...
In modern siliciclastic environments, terrestrial vegetation binds substrate, controls weathering and erosion rates, influences run-off, sediment supply, composition and has an important influence on depositional architecture. This study assesses pre-vegetation paralic systems by integrating traditional outcrop sedimentology with Unmanned Aerial Ve...
Peru has been the centre of origin and diversity of more than 3,000 varieties of native potato, although only a few varieties were typically consumed beyond the Andean region. Of little value outside the Andes, these tubers were long considered the food of the poor and the indigenous and thus intimately bounded to the Andean towns. However, since t...
5% of plutonium dioxide (PuO2) in storage at the Sellafield nuclear site is contaminated with high levels of adsorbed chloride, derived from degraded PVC bags, and water species, derived from the air atmosphere, and requires repackaging for long term storage. The PuO2 powder must be dried and the chloride treated before repacking into welded cans. ...
Protein Transduction of Hoxa3 Transcription Factor to Regulate Diabetic Macrophage Differentiation Diabetes is a metabolic condition that has a significant economic and social burden for people across the world. Among the complications associated with the increasing rate of diabetes is delayed wound healing that often leads to non-traumatic limb am...
Human hair is an α-keratinous protein, with a complex hierarchical structure, with a two-phase system describing the intermediate filaments (IFs) and matrix. Disulphide bonds between cysteine residues are of particular importance to the cosmetics industry. These bonds are partially responsible for human hairs high tensile strength and ability to w...
In this thesis, we study how the power sharing mechanism in political system affect income redistribution and corruption. We find that more disproportional system has narrower representation but better accountability than proportional system. In other words, parties in a more disproportional system would target the interest of swing voter group at ...
The Power substation primary plant has an average lifetime of around 40 to 50 years, which renewed only when they are physically or mechanically life-expired. Secondary equipment that has integrated the information & communication technology (ICT) has typically an average lifespan of approximately 10 to 15 years. This requires at least once or twic...
Introduction: One of the main aims of ongoing wound healing research is to identify improved methods for accelerating epidermal repair and/or wound closure. Previously, the impact of nerve growth factor (NGF) on human skin wound healing has been tested in various assays, however the results were inconclusive. Therefore, instead of using in vitro ce...
