This thesis examines the emergence of Olympic sport aid policy in the early phase of its establishment in 1961 with the founding of the Commission For International Olympic Aid (CIOA) and the Olympic Solidarity (OS) in the early 1970s. The study aims to explore the global proces…
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This work focuses on diffusion and advection through cementitious media, the work arises from two research contracts undertaken at Loughborough University: Experiments to Demonstrate Chemical Containment funded by UK NDA and the SKIN project, funded by the European Atomic Energy…
This thesis focuses on developing an alternative system for membrane electrode assembly (MEA) formation to use with a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The approach involves incorporating inorganic fillers with an industry standard Nafion polymer as part of a methanol resistant …
There is a significant problem for the paper recycling industry known as “stickies”. “Stickies” are tacky species, present in recycled paper and coated broke, derived from coating formulations, adhesives, etc. They impact negatively on paper quality and cause web runnability pro…
Skin, more specifically the outermost skin layer, the stratum corneum (SC), forms an extremely effective barrier, preventing both the loss of heat and water, and the ingress of micro-organisms and chemicals. Assessing the rate and extent of drug permeation into or through the sk…
This thesis describes the metallurgical and environmental factors that influence hydrogen embrittlement of super duplex stainless steels and presents a model to predict the rate at which embrittlement occurs. Super duplex stainless steel has an austenite and ferrite microstructu…
The goal of this study was to develop a new approach to atomistic simulation that would improve microscopic analysis of its properties for nanoporous layered double hydroxides materials. Energy minimization and molecular dynamics simulation techniques were used to develop atomis…
This study aimed at examining the demographic factors as well as attributes of the innovations that affect the adoption and use of the Internet by public relations practitioners in Saudi Arabia. It investigated the Internet and its various applications as new valuable tools to b…
Because of their numerous important applications in industrial catalytic, separation, and purification processes, miroporous materials have attracted considerable attention. Understanding the dynamic behavior of various gases in these porous materials is a critical step in desig…
Recognizing that faculty are an essential part of the success of any distance education program, this study sought to examine faculty perceptions of attributes and barriers impacting diffusion of online education at two Saudi universities: Taif University and Tabuk University. M…
In this work an attempt is made to correlate polymer miscibility with diffusion and with molecular interactions. A system with lower critical solubility temperature has been selected, namely polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl methyl ether (PVME). Most of the published work has been …
This is a comparative study of modern law and modern medicine as two emerging professions in early twentieth century China. Borrowing insights from the sociology of the professions and the study of institutional diffusion, I suggest that the rise of these two Chinese professions…
Total compensation is divided into current and deferred elements. Deferred portions are mainly composed of pensions and health benefits to which an employee is entitled upon retirement. Early pensions were designed to provide income security through a stream of payments, guarant…
Previous studies on microtaphonomy have identified multiple different organic microstructures in fossil vertebrates from a variety of time periods and environmental settings. This study seeks to investigate the potential taphonomic, paleoclimatic, and geochemical controls on sof…
Studies of radionuclide concentrations in Pond B, an 82 hectare abandoned reactor cooling pond at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina, have shown the accumulation of cesium –1 37 ( 137 Cs) in the surface layers of sediments sampled from random locations within the p…
Explosive volcanic eruptions are propelled to the surface by the exsolution of vapour bubbles from magma due to decompression. A long-held view is that the amount of H 2 O dissolved in the magma at depth controls the intensity of an explosive eruption. Growing evidence from stud…
Modern microelectronics depends upon interconnects between devices which are relatively small. Metallizations (such as W/Cu/Ni thin film layers) are added to semiconductor devices, and these metallization are joined with small volumes of Sn based alloys (solder joints), between …
Misinformation has captured the interest of academia in recent years with several studies looking at the topic broadly. However, these studies mostly focused on rumors which are social in nature and can be either classified as false or real. In this research, we attempt to bridg…
