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Rowena Ball

Australian National University
Verified email at anu.edu.au
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Thermal decomposition and combustion chemistry of cellulosic biomass

AL Sullivan, R Ball - Atmospheric Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Emissions from open vegetation fires contribute significantly to global atmospheric dynamics.
However, the value of improved quantification of areas burned and knowledge of the …

Bifurcation in electrostatic resistive drift wave turbulence

R Numata, R Ball, RL Dewar - Physics of Plasmas, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The Hasegawa-Wakatani equations, coupling plasma density, and electrostatic potential
through an approximation to the physics of parallel electron motions, are a simple model that …

Feedback processes in cellulose thermal decomposition: implications for fire-retarding strategies and treatments

R Ball, AC McIntosh, J Brindley - Combustion Theory and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
A simple dynamical system that models the competitive thermokinetics and chemistry of
cellulose decomposition is examined, with reference to evidence from experimental studies …

'Ngulluck Katitj Wah Koorl Koorliny/Us mob going along learning to research together': Drawing on action research to develop a literature review on Indigenous …

…, C Andersen, D Duthie, R Ball… - … Action Learning and …, 2014 - search.informit.org
This paper describes the collaborative work practices of the Health and Wellbeing Node
within the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN). The authors …

Separation of carbon dioxide from flue emissions using Endex principles

R Ball, MG Sceats - Fuel, 2010 - Elsevier
In an Endex reactor endothermic and exothermic reactions are directly thermally coupled
and kinetically matched to achieve intrinsic thermal stability, efficient conversion, autothermal …

The life story of hydrogen peroxide II: a periodic pH and thermochemical drive for the RNA world

R Ball, J Brindley - Journal of the royal society interface, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is now accepted that primordial non-cellular RNA communities must have been subject to
a periodic drive in order to replicate and prosper. We have proposed the oxidation of …

STEM the gap: Science belongs to us mob too

R Ball - AQ-Australian Quarterly, 2015 - search.informit.org
… Associate Professor Rowena Ball is an applied mathematician and physical chemist at
the Australian National University. From March 2010 to March 2014 she held an Australian …

The role of char-forming processes in the thermal decomposition of cellulose

R Ball, AC McIntosh, J Brindley - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1999 - pubs.rsc.org
A simple model for the thermal decomposition of amorphous cellulose is proposed that
rationalizes the effect of water in promoting the charring process at the expense of volatilization. …

The life story of hydrogen peroxide III: Chirality and physical effects at the dawn of life

R Ball, J Brindley - Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2016 - Springer
It is a remarkable observed fact that all life on Earth is homochiral, its biology using
exclusively the D-enantiomer of ribose, the sugar moiety of the ribonucleic acids, and the L-…

Gendered Indigenous health and wellbeing within the Australian health system: A review of the literature

…, D Bessarab, L Collard, C Andersen, D Duthie, R Ball - 2017 - eprints.qut.edu.au
This report discusses the outcomes of a review of gendered Indigenous health literature
involving a systematic search of peer-reviewed and grey literature, and government and non-…