University of Chester (UOC)

Pride and prejudice key themes, context, motifs, with critics opinions on novel

Book summery with key notes on characters, symbols, context and themes within the book.

Enteral Feeding Regimen Revison

This essay explores the ways in which the British police utilise technology, both in their everyday role and as a method of responding to cyber crime.

This essay draws on historical and contemporary examples to analyse portrayals of the British police in the mass media

An exploration of the concept of dark tourism and people's motivations behind engaging in dark tourism.

This document explores how criminal punishment developed in Britain from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century, analaysing how harsh punitive measures were gradually replaced with more humane methods of punishment.

Gold-based nanoparticles including gold-silica nano-spheres and gold nano-rods have been investigated for a number of therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The ability of these nanoparticles to convert light into heat energy makes them particularly appealing for photothermal therapy in which cancer cells are destroyed via light-induced heat generation. The overall objective of the study is to compare the efficacy of goldsilica nano-spheres and gold nano-rods in an in vitro system cons...

: A series of viologens containing 4-n-alkylbenzenesulfonates were synthesized by the metathesis reaction of 4-n-alkylbenzenesulfonic acids or sodium 4-n-alkylbezenesulfonates with the respective viologen dibromide in alcohols. Their chemical structures were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared, 1H and 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra and elemental analysis. Their thermotropic liquid-crystalline (LC) properties were examined by differential scanning calorimetry and polarizing o...

Pyridinium salts, both molecular and polymeric, are an interesting class of multifunctional materials that exhibit liquid-crystalline and light-emitting properties. Moreover, their properties can be easily tuned by introducing new types of anions or by modifying their chemical structures. This dissertation describes synthesis and characterization of poly(pyridinium salt)s containing macrocounterions and fluorene moieties in their backbones, synthesis and characterization of nanocomposi...