Télécharger le livre :  Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions
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This thesis is based on the first data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Its theme can be described as the classical Rutherford scattering experiment adapted to the LHC: measurement of scattering angles to search for new physics and substructure. At the LHC,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Two Studies in Gas-Phase Ion Spectroscopy
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In this thesis Matthew Simpson reportstwo areas of work in gas ion spectroscopy, each investigation in itself worthy of a PhD. The first study uses tunable vacuum-ultraviolet radiation from a synchrotron to identify negative ions from twenty four photoexcited polyatomic...

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Télécharger le livre :  Design and impact of water treaties
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This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress. Literature-derived core concepts are summarized as seven treaty mechanisms categories (specificity, uncertainty management, enforcement,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering
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The production of heavy quarks in high-energy experiments offers a rich field to study, both experimentally and theoretically. Due to the additional quark mass, the description of these processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is much more demanding than it is for...

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Télécharger le livre :  Optical Properties of Nanostructured Metallic Systems
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The common belief is that light is completely reflected by metals. In reality they also exhibit an amazing property that is not so widely known: under some conditions light flows along a metallic surface as if it were glued to it. Physical phenomena related to these...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamic land use/cover change modelling
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The thesis is an original and novel contribution to land use/land cover change analysis using methods of geosimulation and agent-based modeling.The author implements several traditional methodologies of land use change by means of remote sensing and GIS techniques. An...

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Télécharger le livre :  Formation and Cooperative Behaviour of Protein Complexes on the Cell Membrane
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With the aim of providing a deeper insight into possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, this thesis presents new approaches to describe the process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial organization on the function of membrane proteins, from a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Investigating the Nucleation, Growth, and Energy Levels of Organic Semiconductors for High Performance Plastic Electronics
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This thesis details the significant progress made in improving the performance of organic transistors and the network conductivity of carbon nanotubes. The first section investigates organic semiconductor nucleation and growth on the most common dielectric surface used...

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Télécharger le livre :  Multistate GTPase Control Co-translational Protein Targeting
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Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that mediate many diverse biological processes - the molecular mechanisms of this machinery has fascinated biologists for decades. Analysis of the kinetic and thermodynamic features of these mechanisms could reveal unprecedented...

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Télécharger le livre :  Energetic Materials at Extreme Conditions
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David I.A. Millar's thesis explores the effects of extreme conditions on energetic materials. His study identifies and structurally characterises new polymorphs obtained at high pressures and/or temperatures. The performance of energetic materials (pyrotechnics,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Optimised Projections for the Ab Initio Simulation of Large and Strongly Correlated Systems
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Density functional theory (DFT) has become the standard workhorse for quantum mechanical simulations as it offers a good compromise between accuracy and computational cost. However, there are many important systems for which DFT performs very poorly, most notably...

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Télécharger le livre :  Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Thin Films for Photovoltaics
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Jonathan Scragg documents his work on a very promising material suitable for use in solar cells. Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide (CZTS) is a low cost, earth-abundant material suitable for large scale deployment in photovoltaics.Jonathan pioneered and optimized a low cost route...

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Télécharger le livre :  Theory of Phase Transitions in Polypeptides and Proteins
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There are nearly 100 000 different protein sequences encoded in the human genome, each with its own specific fold. Understanding how a newly formed polypeptide sequence finds its way to the correct fold is one of the greatest challenges in the modern structural biology....

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Télécharger le livre :  Many-Body Schrödinger Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates
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At extremely low temperatures, clouds of bosonic atoms form what is known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Recently, it has become clear that many different types of condensates  -- so called fragmented condensates -- exist. In order to tell whether fragmentation occurs...

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Télécharger le livre :  Multiscale Fabrication of Functional Materials for Regenerative Medicine
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Regenerative medicine demands new concepts and fabrication tools to improve our common knowledge about cell-cell and cell-environment interactions. In this work, Michele Bianchi  shows that different kinds of signals, such as chemical, topographical, and electrical...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Double [3+2] Photocycloaddition Reaction
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Jason Woolford's thesis describes for the first time, a double [3+2] photocycloaddition of alkenes onto aromatic rings. Modern synthetic chemistry relies on the ability of researchers to uncover new and more efficient ways of creating highly complex structures. This...

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Télécharger le livre :  Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Complex Plasmas
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The two experimental studies reported in this thesis contribute important new knowledge about phase transitions in two-dimensional complex plasmas: in one case a determination of the coupling parameter (ratio of mean potential to mean kinetic energy of the particles in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lifetime Controlling Defects in Tool Steels
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In this thesis Christian Sohar describes his investigation into the gigacycle fatigue behavior of tool steels.In an interdisciplinary approach he uses knowledge and methods from a wide variety of disciplines including materials science, metallurgy, chemistry, physics...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons
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Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of an "exomoon" is notably absent. In this thesis, David Kipping shows how...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Transient Radio Sky
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The high time-resolution radio sky represents unexplored astronomical territory. This thesis presents a study of the transient radio sky, focussing on millisecond scales. As such, the work is concerned primarily with neutron stars. In particular this research...

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