This thesis examines how gender is constructed in the three most recent films of the James Bond series: Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and Skyfall (2012). The argument revolves around individual gender identity being structured by greater social and culture influences. The thesis argues that the three most recent Bond installments work to deconstruct the traditional masculine i...

In accordance with the general DOP architecture outlined by Bod (1995b), a particular DOP model is described by specifying settings for the following four parameters: (1) a formal definition of a well-formed representation for utteranceanalyses; (2) a definition of the fragments of the utterance-analyses that may be used as units in constructing an analysis of a new utterance; (3) a set of comp...

Two main issues regarding stormwater quality models have been investigated: i) the effect of calibration dataset size and characteristics on calibration and validation results; ii) the optimal split of available data into calibration and validation subsets. Data from 13 catchments have been used for three pollutants: BOD, COD and SS. Three multiple regression models were calibrated and validate...

The present study aims to manage and determine the most economical efficiency of five wastewater treatment plants discharging wastewater into the Tigris River in Iraq. The management system was based on ensuring the five-day biological oxygen demand concentration in the river is <30 mg/L according to the Iraqi standards. In many cases, the determined optimized efficiencies were found to be lowe...

Recently, graphene field-effect transistors (FET) with cutoff frequencies (f(T)) between 100 and 300 GHz have been reported; however, the devices showed very weak drain current saturation, leading to an undesirably high output conductance (g(ds)= dI(ds)/dV(ds)). A crucial figure-of-merit for analog/RF transistors is the intrinsic voltage gain (g(m)/g(ds)) which requires both high g(m) (primary ...

Sanganur canal is the major open drainage system which has intricate linkage with storm water supply, domestic sewage and industrial effluent disposal. Water samples from various stations were collected and analysed for physicochemical parameters to assess the water quality of the Sanganur canal system. The study revealed that physicochemical parameters like pH, EC, TDS, DO, BOD, COD exceeded t...

The discoloration of a biologically pretreated waste water stream from a molasses processing by ozonation and two advanced oxidation processes (O3/H2O2 and 03/7-irradiation, respectively) was studied. Colour removal occurred with all three processes with almost the same efficiency. The main difference of the methods applied was reflected by the BOD increase during the discoloration period. By o...

Electrostatic counter ion screening is a phenomenon that is detrimental to the sensitivity of charge detection in electrolytic environments, such as in field-effect transistor-based biosensors. Using simple analytical arguments, we show that electrostatic screening is weaker in the vicinity of concave curved surfaces, and stronger in the vicinity of convex surfaces. We use this insight to show,...

We report on the experimental demonstration and electrical characterization of N = 7 armchair graphene nanoribbon (7-AGNR) field effect transistors. The back-gated transistors are fabricated from atomically precise and highly aligned 7-AGNRs, synthesized with a bottom-up approach. The large area transfer process holds the promise of scalable device fabrication with atomically precise nanoribbon...

Proteins mediate the bulk of biological activity and are powerfully assayed in the diagnosis of diseases. Protein detection relies largely on antibodies, which have significant technical limitations especially when immobilized on two-dimensional surfaces. Here, we report the integration of peptide aptamers with extended gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to achiev...