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In this dissertation, I examine how notions of authorized and unauthorized English, or Standard and non-Standard English, were at the heart of literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence Era Africa and how they influenced the editing and reception of John Clare, a 1…

Raman optical activity (ROA) is a powerful probe of the structure and behaviour of biomolecules in aqueous solution for a number of important problems in molecular biology. Although ROA is a very sensitive technique for studying biological samples, it is a very weak effect and t…

The adsorption of biologically active molecules, such as the DNA bases, amino acids, on solid surfaces has been the subject of a number of experimental and theoretical studies in the past years. The understanding of the self-assembly mechanism of bioactive molecules on surfaces …

Spin-selective interactions between electrons and chiral molecules, described collectively by the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, have garnered increasing attention. The history of this burgeoning field, the predominant experimental techniques that have been emplo…

The hydrogenation of β-ketoesters over chirally modified Ni catalysts is a celebrated and thoroughly researched example of an enantioselective heterogeneous catalytic reaction. Enantioselective heterogeneous processes, although extremely attractive in terms of fewer complication…