There is a well established correlation between initial entrepreneurship and subsequent employment growth across metropolitan areas. This relationship is true when modelling entrepreneurship through average establishment size or through the prevalence of startups; the relationship also holds at the industry level within cities. These patterns are often taken as evidence that entrepreneurship pr...

At the northern tip of Colombia, Jonathan Bloch hunts for fossils in the midst of spontaneous combustion fires, noxious gases laced with foul-smelling sulfur, rock-shattering explosions, and some of the largest machines in the world. “It is a weird place to work,” Bloch admits, an associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the FloridaMuseum of Natural History, although he says he feels saf...

This thesis consists of the exploration of a novel oxygenation procedure and its applicability in the preparation of synthetically useful compounds. Chapter 1 provides a review of methods for the preparation of TV-aryl hydroxylamines. Chapter 2 focuses on the development o f a novel a-oxygenation procedure. It describes work previously carried out within the group and continues with exploration...

The project is on an autonomous hexapod shaped robot which can move around the area prone to land mines and other explosives to explore them and send the sensed data to the cloud at the same time as a warning. Since a hexapod has many degrees of freedom its movement can be made highly precise. The robot is attached with many peripheral sensors to record the object of interest data and those dat...