Fibres used in textiles can be classified broadly into natural fibres and synthetic fibres. Natural fibres can be either animal, such as wool, mohair and camel hair, or vegetable such as cotton, flax and hemp. In the development of synthetic fibres numerous polymers have emerged which have no real natural counterpart and are unique in their mechanical and chemical behaviour. Often the synthetic counterpart of a natural fibre has properties with certain advantages from the textile point of view, but, simultaneously, may exhibit other properties which have disadvantages. Nylon 6 and nylon 6-6, for exemple, are extremely strong and generally easier to dye than animal fibres. On the other hand, they absorb relatively little water vapour and therefore do not give the buffering action characteristic of hygroscopic fibres, once they are woven or knitted into cloth. All textile fibres belong to the chemical class of polymers, i.e. they are made up of repeating molecular units which are linked together to form long chains. In wool the chains are made up of amino-acids which cluster together to form protein chains. Three of these protein chains, coil around each other to form what is termed a proto-fibril. The proto-fibrils make up the micro-fibrils, each of these consisting of eleven of the three chain proto-fibrils. The micro-fibrils, in turn, pack together in bundles which run parallel to the length of the wool fibre and are termed macro-fibrils. Sulphur rich amino-acids fill up the spaces between the micro-fibrils forming a matrix which binds the system into a continuous material. Intro., p. 1.

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by Yeung Chung Kuen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-105). / Chapter 1 --- Infinitesimal Deformation of Compact Complex Manifolds --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1 --- Differentiable Family --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Infinitesimal Deformation in Differentiable Family --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3 --- Trivial Differentiable Family --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- Complex Analytic Family --- p.13 / Chapter 1.5 --- Induced Family --- p.19 / Chapter 2 --- Theorem of Existence --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2 --- "Some Facts on the qth Cohomology Group Hq(M,´ة）" --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- Obstructions to Deformation --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4 --- An Elementary Method for Theorem of Existence --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5 --- Proof of Theorem of Existence --- p.35 / Chapter 3 --- "Comparison between the Number of Moduli m(M) and dim H1 (M,´ة）" --- p.64 / Chapter 3.1 --- Number of Moduli of Compact Complex Manifold --- p.64 / Chapter 3.2 --- Examples --- p.68 / Chapter 4 --- Theorem of Completeness --- p.84 / Chapter 4.1 --- Theorem of Completeness --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2 --- Construction of Formal Power Series of h and g --- p.86 / Chapter 4.3 --- Proof of Convergence --- p.93

Chan, Kin Wai. / "September 2010." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-106). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2 --- Background Knowledge --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Results from Riemann Surface Theory and Quasicon- formal Mappings --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Riemann Surfaces and the Uniformization The- orem --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Fuchsian Groups --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Quasiconformal Mappings and the Beltrami Equation --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Holomorphic Quadratic Differentials --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- Nodal Riemann Surfaces --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2 --- Teichmuller Theory --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Teichmiiller Spaces --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Teichmuller's Distance --- p.26 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- The Bers Embedding --- p.26 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Teichmuller Modular Groups and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Infinitesimal Theory of Teichmiiller Spaces --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2.6 --- Boundary of Moduli Spaces of Riemann Sur- faces --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3 --- Schwarz-Yau Lemma --- p.30 / Chapter 3 --- Classical Canonical Metrics on the Teichnmuller Spaces and the Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1 --- Finsler Metrics and Bergman Metric --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Definitions and Properties of the Metrics --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Equivalences of the Metrics --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2 --- Weil-Petersson Metric --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Definition and Properties of the Weil-Petersson Metric --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Results about Harmonic Lifts --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Curvature Formula for the Weil-Petersson Met- ric --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Kahler Metrics on the Teichmiiller Spaces and the Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1 --- McMullen Metric --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Definition of the McMullen Metric --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Properties of the McMullen Metric --- p.43 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Equivalence of the McMullen Metric and the Teichmuller Metric --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2 --- Kahler-Einstein Metric --- p.50 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Existence of the Kahler-Einstein Metric --- p.50 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- A Conjecture of Yau --- p.50 / Chapter 4.3 --- Ricci Metric --- p.51 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Definition of the Ricci Metric --- p.51 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Curvature Formula of the Ricci Metric --- p.53 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Asymptotic Behavior of the Ricci Metric --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Estimates on the Asymptotics of the Ricci Metric --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Estimates on the Curvature of the Ricci Metric --- p.83 / Chapter 4.5 --- Perturbed Ricci Metric --- p.92 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Definition and the Curvature Formula of the Perturbed Ricci Metric --- p.92 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Estimates on the Curvature of the Perturbed Ricci Metric --- p.93 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Equivalence of the Perturbed Ricci Metric and the Ricci Metric --- p.96 / Chapter 5 --- Equivalence of the Kahler Metrics on the Teichmuller Spaces and the Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces --- p.98 / Chapter 5.1 --- Equivalence of the Ricci Metric and the Kahler-Einstein Metric --- p.98 / Chapter 5.2 --- Equivalence of the Ricci Metric and the McMullen Metric --- p.99 / Bibliography --- p.103

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