2016 ABSTRAK Latar belakang: Seiring dengan terjadinya proses penuaan pada individu, maka akan terjadi berbagai perubahan khususnya di dalam rongga mulut. Perubahan ini terjadi baik secara fisiologis maupun anatomis. Salah satu perubahan yang terjadi yakni resorbsi pada...

The overall purpose of this work is to develop a subsonic, turbulent, diffuse electric discharge operating at near atmospheric pressure for use as the pumping mechanism in an Electric Discharge Convection Laser (EDCL) . The work was done in two phases. The first consist...

Professionals in system development have recognised and recommended the use of System Development Methodologies (SDMs) in South African organisations (Huisman and Iivari 2003). The first decade of South African independence has seen extensive restructuring of the Higher...

Cooperative relaying has been proposed as a promising solution to mitigate and combat the deleterious effects of fading by sending and receiving independent copies of the same signal at different nodes. It has attracted huge attention from both industry and academia. Th...

In contrast to what is known of the road system of Roman Britain our knowledge of ports is somewhat limited. Remains of harbour installations, which have been variously identified as wharves, quays, jetties, lighthouses, warehousing, and a mole have been encountered, as...

The occurrence of multiple genetically and phenotypically distinct forms in a single interbreeding population, known as polymorphism, represents a long-standing puzzle in evolutionary biology. Several mechanisms, both selective and stochastic, have been proposed to acco...

The groundwater-surface water (GW-SW) interface has received interest due to its active role in governing GW-SW exchanges, and its implications for environmental health at reach to catchment scales. This thesis advances geophysical methods for characterising the GW-SW i...

Most European countries are committed to an energy transition which consists in the substitution of conventional CO2 emitting energy sources by new renewable energy sources (RES), in particular wind and solar power. As opposed to conventional energy sources, new RES are...