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Modelling river dune splitting

River dunes are submerged bed forms on the bottom of alluvial channels. They develop due to the complex interaction of water flow and sediment. River dunes influence the water level, ...

Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in Mobile Phones Environment

Participatory sensing is a rising and promising field, which utilizes traditional and no contract cell phone as mobile wireless sensors to gather data. However, because ...

Proteomic Characterization of Induced Developmental Neurotoxicity

The developing brain undergoes several developmental cycles during which it exhibits a higher sensitivity to exogenous disturbances. On such period is the so named “Brain growth spurt” (BGS) which in ...

An investigation into the determinants of user acceptance of personalization in online banking

Personalization is an innovative strategy which enables the bank to further differentiate from its competitors by drawing the client into increasingly deeper levels of mutually beneficial relationships. However, for any ...

Trace Diagrams, Representations, and Low-Dimensional Topology

This dissertation concerns a particular basis for the coordinate ring of the character variety of a surface. Let G be a connected reductive linear algebraic group, and let S be ...

Predictive Modeling of Lake Eutrophication

Heavy metals are well-known environmental pollutants. In this dissertation predictive models for heavy metals in urban lakes are talked about and new models offered. The base of predictive modelling is ...

Ecofeminism and Environmental Ethics

This study focuses on ecofeminist ethical theory. A first aim is to clarify ecofeminist views on five central issues in the field of environmental ethics. These issues are: (1) Views ...

The Chinese pharmaceutical market

China is the most rapidly growing and developing economy in the world today. Many companies have already entered the Chinese market, each of whom have different expectations and results. Other ...

Impacts of an Incentive Based Land Use Policy: An Evaluation of Preservation Easements

This dissertation examines the conversion decision of a landowner from an undeveloped or agricultural use to a subdivision in the presence of an active housing market and an active land ...

Cannabinoids as neuroprotective agents: a mechanistic study

Glucose and oxygen supply to the brain is crucial for its proper function and when it's restricted as during a stroke, neurons and glial cells rapidly become necrotic resulting in ...

Telesur: A case study

This thesis examines how the Latin American television channel Telesur was established, and the character of Telesurs programme listings and news broadcasts. The thesis also examines how Telesurs agenda to ...

Measurement of alignment between standards and assessment

Many educational systems nowadays are standards-based and focus on for alignment, i.e. consistency, among the aspects of the educational system: standards, teaching and assessment. To summarize whether the alignment is ...

Extending the Levy Processes to Multiasset Products Pricing

Levy processes have attained good results in pricing single asset options. Within this dissertation, we present a technique allowing us to extend the single asset pricing approach based upon Levy ...