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Kinetics of ammonia combustion on platinum surfaces
Published 2019-01-01Ammonia (NH3) is the primary feedstock for the manufacture of nitric acid and ammonium nitrate in chemical industries. The ammonia combustion is performed using a platinum catalyst at temperatures ranging from 800 to 900 ...Thesis -
The Kinetics of Electrosterically Stabilized Emulsion Polymerization Systems
Published 2008-08-01The kinetics of electrosterically stabilized emulsion systems was studied. The aim of this was to understand the impact that steric and electrosteric stabilizers have on the kinetics of particle growth and particle formation ...Thesis -
Kinetics of Hydrocarbon Oxidation on Noble Metal – Ceria Catalysts
Published 2022This work focuses on the catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons on ceria-supported noble metal catalysts: Pt/CeO2 and Pd/CeO2. The study aims to understand three key aspects: i) the synthesis methods and characteristics of ...Thesis -
The Kinetics of Industrial Ammonia Combustion
Published 2013-05-09This thesis uses experiments and modelling to determine the kinetics of industrial ammonia combustion over platinum gauzes. The study is motivated by the existing poor understanding of the kinetics under industrial conditions. ...Thesis -
Kinetics of Magnesium Extraction from Activated Serpentine by Carbonic Acid
Published 2015-08-31Ex situ mineral carbonation heavily depends on the ability of cations (e.g., Mg2+) to form stable carbonates. The abundant serpentine minerals contain sufficient magnesium to fill this role. Serpentine partially dehydroxylated ...Thesis -
Kinetics of the photooxidation of tetracyclines.
Published 1975The instability of tetracycline (TC)(I) in aqueous solution was well established as early as 1955 by Doershuk and co-workers (1), who showed that TC undergoes a reversible isomerization in water, buffer solutions and ...Thesis -
The King is a Tree: Arboreal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible
Published 2015-01-01This dissertation constitutes a cognitive semantic analysis of arboreal metaphors in the Hebrew Bible, insofar as they operate within metaphorical complexes and with a view to understanding those instances in which they ...Thesis -
Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse
Published 2013-09-24The paper reads the fundamentalist Christian Left Behind novels as examples of the figural interpretation of history developed in the patristic period; their apocalyptic vision of history recapitulates the centrality of ...Conference paper -
Kingsley Martin and Britain in the 1920s: The Crisis of Democracy
Published 2015-10-01Kingsley Martin was the editor of the New Statesman from 1930-1960 and this part of his professional life has already been heavily scrutinised by academics and more general writers alike. The purpose of this thesis however, ...Thesis -
The King’s Speech: Unveiling the Colonial Gaze in Kenya (1895-1918)
Published 2024-07-09In his recent speech to the people of Kenya, King Charles III took many by surprise when he espoused a semblance of cognizance and compassion towards the sufferings endured during the sombre epochs of imperial rule. During ...Other -
Kink characterisation and modelling in transmembrane protein structures
Published 2013-10-04Kinks are important functional and structural features of the α-helices of membrane proteins. Despite their ubiquity in membrane proteins, and their perceived importance, no protein modelling method explicitly considers ...Thesis -
KinOath Kinship Archiver Version 1.4
Published 2013-01-01This talk will introduce a new tool for Humanities research, in particular Ethnology, Linguistics, Law, History, but also Genetics and Archiving. This tool is KinOath Kinship Archiver which is an application for collecting ...Presentation -
KinOath Kinship Archiver: genealogical and social relations
Published 2015-01-01Anthropologists and other researchers often study kin and other social relationships. There have been numerous applications that have tried to meet the needs of researchers in this area. However, there remain numerous gaps ...Book chapter -
Kirra’s Aboriginal epistemic talk: Driving her bildungsroman
Published 2014-07-17This research discovered a bildungsroman as a structural device for understanding the storytelling embedded in a long duration of talk. Bildungsroman refers to a literary genre that is a particular way of constructing a ...Thesis -
Knee injury in adolescent dancers and acrobats
Published 2013-04-18Dance and acrobatic gymnastics training often commences in childhood and intensifies during adolescence, increasing the risk of injury. The majority of injuries affect the lower extremity (LE) with patellofemoral pain ...Thesis