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Not only does the presence of excessive levels of natural organic matter (NOM) in surface waters affect the raw water quality, but it also impacts the water treatment and supply processes. Other notable challenges caused ...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) comprises of both synthetic and natural organic compounds such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, natural organic matter (NOM), found in the environment. Most of the DOM pollute drinking water ...
Natural Organic Matter (NOM) is a complex blend of organic compounds that forms naturally via the degradation of plant and animal materials into water sources. NOM in water negatively affects water quality (by causing odor, ...
Solar-to-thermal energy is considered to be the most direct way of converting solar radiation
into usable forms of energy for a wide range of applications, including seawater desalination,
heating water, photocatalysis, ...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures were synthesized by sol-gel method and co polymers polyethylene glycol (PEG), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and pluronic F127
were used as pore forming agents. The samples were then ...
The continuously rising cases of antibiotic resistance and pathogenic bacterial mutations pose a serious medical problem. Microorganisms are ubiquitous because they can adapt to conditions in any environment. They can ...
Anti-androgens (AAs) are a class of pharmaceutical drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Over the years, prostate cancer has been reported as the most frequent cancer diagnosis in men and the leading cause of mortality ...
The p53 gene is a well-known tumour suppressor gene, shown to be dysfunctional in more than 50% of human malignancies. The cellular significance of this oncogene is evident in a series of diverse cellular antiproliferation ...
This thesis investigates why there is still no ‘final’ physical theory of the universe despite the enormous resources involved. Current physical and philosophical methodologies are examined leading to a new strategy. The ...
This thesis is concerned with the study of remote sublocales which are a pointfree version of
remote subsets which we de ne using van Mill's de nition of a remote collection. Unlike in van
Mill's case though, the remote ...
The importance of robust variable selection and regularization as solutions to the collinearity influential
high leverage points’ adverse effects in a quantile regression (QR) setting cannot be overemphasized,
just as ...
In this study, mathematical models for the dynamics of cystic echinococcosis transmission in
populations of dogs, sheep, and people are developed and analyzed. The predator-prey
interaction in these populations is rst ...
The few-body integrodifferential equations are approximations to the few-body Schr¨odinger
equation in hyperspherical coordinates. The few-body integrodifferential equations for
identical particles reduce to a single ...
Modern memory devices such as static random-access memory (SRAM),
dynamic random-access (DRAM), and Flash memories demonstrated inevitable
limitations, i.e., large cell size (50 − 120 F2) of SRAM, accompanied
by current ...
NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ and NaGdF4:Yb3+/Nd3+ nanocrystals were prepared using a solution combustion (SC) method and their properties were evaluated for potential use as photon harvesters in photovoltaic solar cells (PSCs). The ...
The communicable disease tuberculosis (TB), human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) disease, and their co-infection are the most serious public health issues in the world. In this thesis, ...
Supercapacitors are promising energy storage devices which fill the gap between conventional
capacitors and batteries. They possess several advantages compared to the latter such as safe
operation, superior capacitance ...
Non-performing loans (NPLs) are detrimental to profits in the banking sector. Predicting the level of NPLs using macroeconomic variables is vital in order to build mitigating actions for such scenarios to safeguard the ...
The undoped SrSiO3/SiO2 phosphors prepared by both co-precipitation and
hydrothermal methods at different Sr/Si molar ratios are reported. Undoped and
Mn doped BaAl2O4 phosphor synthesized using combustion method are ...
In this research work, metal-doped MoS2 of Cobalt and Manganese (Co-MoS2 and Mn-MoS2) nanocomposites of different ratios of dopant concentrations were synthesized with a facile hydrothermal technique. The samples were ...