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Functional characterisation of LEA proteins from bdelloid rotifers
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, 2012-11-13)
‘Anhydrobiosis’ or ‘life without water’ is a fascinating phenomenon that was first described by the eminent Dutch microscopist Antony van Leewenhoek in bdelloid rotifers in 1702. Despite being studied for over three hundred ...
Combustion characteristics of alternative liquid fuels
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Engineering, 2011-11-08)
Envisaged application of biodiesel in gas turbine engines or furnaces requires extensive tests on the deflagration properties of biodiesel. The laminar flame speeds of Palm Methyl Esters (PME) and blends of PME with ...
Detection of mycobacterial siderophores and implications for diagnostics
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Chemical Engineering and BiotechnologyQueen's College, 2012-11-13)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a pervasive human pathogen that continues to kill 1.8 million people every year. Acquisition of iron within the host is
vital to the pathogenicity of Mtb and to accomplish this it ...
Effects of solution exposure on the combined axial-shear behaviour of unidirectional CFRP rods
(ElsevierComposites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 2012-04-06)
In fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) prestressed concrete applications, an FRP tendon must sustain high axial tensile stresses and, if cracks occur, additional dowel forces. The tendon may also be exposed to solutions and so ...
Phased Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis of Precracked RC T-Beams Repaired in Shear with CFRP Sheets
(American Society of Civil EngineersJournal of Composites for Construction, 2012-10-17)
Phased nonlinear finite-element (FE) analyses were carried out to predict the behavior of precracked reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams repaired in shear with externally bonded (EB) carbon fiber–reinforced polymer (CFRP) ...
Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with CFRP Straps
(American Society of Civil EngineersJournal of Composites for Construction, 2013-07-13)
Shear deficient reinforced concrete (RC) structures can be effectively strengthened using external prestressed carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) straps. Due to the presence of the external elastic straps, a strengthened ...
Delay-independent asymptotic stability in monotone systems
(IEEEAmerican Control Conference (ACC), 2015-07-03)
Monotone systems comprise an important class of dynamical systems that are of interest both for their wide applicability and because of their interesting mathematical properties. It is known that under the property of ...
The instanton liquid and the axion
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2010-05-04)
The ultimate goal of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the cosmology of axions. Axions couple to QCD
instantons and these non-perturbative effects are modeled within the framework of the interacting instanton ...
Numerical solutions of the general relativistic equations for black hole fluid dynamics
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsSelwyn College, 2010-05-04)
The aims of this thesis are to develop and validate a robust and efficient algorithm for the numerical solution of the equations of General Relativistic Hydrodynamics, to implement the algorithm in a computationally efficient ...
Heavy quark physics on the lattice with improved nonrelativistic actions
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsSt John's College, 2010-03-16)
Hadrons containing heavy quarks, in particular b quarks, play an important role in high energy physics. Measurements of their electroweak interactions are
used to test the Standard Model and search for new physics. For ...