This thesis addresses the following question: How should domestic networks be reinvented to support self-management by domestic users? It takes a user-centred design approach to redesign the underlying domestic network infrastructure to better fit domestic users. The overall aim of this work is to create user-centred mechanisms to support self-management of domestic networks by domestic users. ...

titania nanotubes (tnt) prepared by anodization of ti foils were used for water splitting in a standalone cell. the concentration polarization between the anode side (1m naoh) and cathode side (0.5 m h2so4) ensured that the water splitting reaction could take place with no external bias and separate h2 and o2 evolution could be achieved. the destruction of tnt structures under 365 nm uv irradia...

recently, two of the authors have introduced the collapse capacity spectrummethodology, which allows the assessment of the collapse capacity of highly inelastic p-deltasensitive regular frame structures without performing non-linear time-history analyses. the mainingredient of this method is the collapse capacity spectrum, which represents the seismic collapsecapacity of an inelastic non-deteri...

fluid invasion from water-based drilling mud (wbdm) into the shale formations causes swelling,high pressure zone near the wellbore wall, and eventually wellbore instability problems duringdrilling operations. for the stability of the wellbore, physical plugging of nanoscale pore throats couldbe considered as a logical approach toward avoiding the fluid invasion into the shale formation. thispap...

Children who live in homes characterised by violence between parents, or directed at one parent by another, have been called the ‘silent’, ‘forgotten’, ‘unintended’, ‘invisible’ and/or ‘secondary’ victims of domestic violence (Edleson 1999; Kovacs & Tomison 2003; Tomison 2000). Recently, however, children’s exposure to domestic violence, and the effects that this exposure can have, has been inc...

In recent years a coercive criminal justice response has been promoted as the appropriate response to control and deter perpetrators of domestic violence. In varying degrees, across western democracies, pro-arrest and mandatory arrest policies, no-drop prosecution, and tougher penalties have been proposed and implemented. However, recent literature and research on domestic violence has question...

Dinshaw Mistry is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is currently in residence at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He has recently published articles on the Indian space program (Pacific Affairs) and the missile nonproliferation regime (Contemporary Security Policy). DOMESTIC-INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES: INDIA AND THE COMPREHENSI...

results overall, there were 2 (2.7%) mason ii fractures, 21 (28%) mason iii fractures, and 52 (69.3%) mason iv fractures. arbeitsgemeinschaft fur osteosynthesefragen (ao) classification was also determined. of the 85 patients in our study, 75 were available for follow-up. follow-up averaged 41.5 months (range, 4 - 93 months). average scores for the cohort were as follows: morrey, 85.7 (median 9...

background: microsatellite instability (msi) is a mutational signature that is the hallmark of lynch syndrome, and msi testing is a cost-effective method to screen the disease. since there is no enough data about msi status and associated clinicopathologic features of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (hnpcc) in iran, our study is a new trial to describe them in center of iran (isfahan)...