This thesis investigates the role of the protein cochlin and its isoforms in DFNA9 autosomal dominant late onset senorineural loss and vestibular disorder by quantifying the concentration of cochlin in the inner fluid ...

Organic semiconductors and nanomaterials promise to potentially form the basis for future efficient and cost-effective large area optoelectronic devices, such as lightemitting diodes and solar cells. Although these materials' ...

The MHD and kinetic stability of an axially symmetric plasma, confined by a poloidal magnetic field with closed lines, is considered. In such a system the stabilizing effects of plasma compression and magnetic field ...

Since 1975 a growing body of astronomical evidence has given increasing credibility to the existence of dark matter. Once a simple proposition by Fritz Zwicky to explain discrepancies in the virial motion of galaxy clusters, ...

A novel covariant formalism for the treatment of the transfer and Compton scattering of partially polarized light is presented. In this approach, the polarization state of a light beam is described by a tensor constructed ...