Browsing School of Physics by Subject "Ageing"
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Can soap films be used as models for mortality studies?
(2018)We report studies of the life expectancy of sets of parallel liquid films made from surfactant solution and contained in cylindrical perspex tubes. The tubes are sealed at the bottom and vertically placed. From our analysis ... -
Mortality: a physics perspective
(2021)One of the many interests of the late Dietrich Stauffer was the modelling of mortality. Here we review the features of mortality data for various biological species. Age specific mortality (death rate) leads to a discussion ... -
Perceptions of light pollution and its impacts: Results of an Irish citizen science survey
(2020)Background: Light pollution is increasingly an area of concern for health and quality of life research. Somewhat surprisingly, there are relatively few descriptions of perceptions of light pollution in the literature. The ... -
Physical models of infant mortality: implications for defects in biological systems
(2020)Reliability engineering concerned with failure of technical inanimate systems usually uses the vocabulary and notions of human mortality, e.g., infant mortality vs. senescence mortality. Yet, few data are available to ... -
Quantitative, Label-Free Detection of the Aggregation of alpha-Synuclein Using Microcantilever Arrays Operated in a Liquid Environment
(2012)Early detection of protein aggregation is of great importance in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. The successful detection of the aggregation of the protein ?-synuclein in a quantitative, label-free manner by ...