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POWER SYSTEM OPERATION AND PLANNING WITH RENEWABLE POWER GENERATIONS AND ENERGY STORAGE
Published 2016-10-11
Renewable energy, especially wind, photovoltaic technologies and battery energy storage (BES) have become emerging technologies over recent years with the increasing prevalence of the smart grid. Recently, the penetration ...
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Species Body: Xenotransplantation, Emerging Infectious Disease, and Imaginaries of the (Non-)Human
Published 2017-09-01
Animal-to-human transplantation (xenotransplantation) opens up biological circulation across what are often understood as species barriers, mobilising non-human animal tissues, and, potentially, microbes. Xenotransplantation ...
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PhD Doctorate
Algae-Centred Industrial Symbiosis
Published 2017-03-31
This thesis describes a unique industrial symbiosis employing algae at the core of a novel industrial system that integrates fossil-power generation, carbon capture, biofuel production, aquaculture, and wastewater treatment. ...
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Awake in the Woods: Empathic Imagining, Deep Time, and the Archaeology of Animal Life
Published 2017-01-04
This art practice-based thesis addresses the question: how might certain kinds of photographic and moving image artworks facilitate alternate ways of seeing other animals? This thesis explores how an artist’s material ...
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Harry Potter and the 9/11 Generation How 9/11 and the Global War on Terror Influenced Adolescent Franchise Cinema
Published 2015-10-30
A new wave of adolescent fantasy cinema arrived in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks and the Global War on Terror. Directed with themes of social fear, and dependent on digital technology, these ...
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Next Generation of Biodegradeable Polymer Ceramic Biomaterial with Tuneable Physicomechanical Characteristics for Biomedical Applications
Published 2017-04-21
The acidic nature of the degradation products of biodegradable polymers leads to unpredictable clinical complications. Poly(propylene carbonate) (PPC) and starch composites are introduced as an alternative to biodegradable ...
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Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine
Published 2015-09-30
Photography has always been a migratory system of representation. Today, it is integrated into numerous systems, in a profusion of specialties, sub-disciplines and disciplines. Within many of these domains, the exponentially ...
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Paranoid Fixations: Art and Political Discourses Since 9/11
Published 2016-08-08
Global terrorism has presaged the emergence of new security states accompanied by heightened levels of irrational fear. This thesis investigates how contemporary screen and digital cultures have fuelled a collective ...
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Improving the Functionality of Spray-Dried Powders Using a Template-Assisted Process
Published 2016-02-24
Spray drying generally leads to amorphous particles, which can lead to manufacturing problems. Hence, there is often a desire to manipulate the process conditions to favor crystallization. In this study, a combined ...
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Highly flexible carbon fibre fabric based nanostructured hybrids for high performance energy storage systems
Published 2017-06-30
Electrochemical supercapacitors (ES), or ultracapacitors, store energy using either reversible adsorption of electrolyte ions (electrochemical double layer capacitors) or fast surface redox reactions on its electrodes ...
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