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The right to food and the world trade organization’s rules on agriculture: conflicting, compatible, or complementary?
(2016-06-29)
This dissertation explores the relationship between the right to food and the agriculture rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It examines whether or not States’ obligations (as well as rights, permissions and ...
Promoting 'English Civility' in Tudor Ireland: ideology and the rhetoric of difference
(2016-09-27)
This study deals with the concept of ‘English civility’ as the ideology behind Tudor endeavours in sixteenth-century Ireland. While this phenomenon found frequent mention by scholars on Tudor Ireland in the form of an ...
Freedom,power and relational equality: republican justice in diverse societies
(2016-09-30)
This thesis is my response to a view of republicanism that has become orthodox among contemporary political theorists. On that view, when we are talking about what it means to be treated as free and equal in a republic we ...
Analogous states: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the performance of ethnography
(2016-12-09)
The thesis presents J. M. Synge and Zora Neale Hurston as autoethnographic researcher-practitioners who employed important cultural forms in their theatre, such as the keen and the cakewalk, in order to challenge the ...
Molecular tools for the identification and localization of algal cell wall components
(2016-01-11)
Cell wall glycan-directed monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are sensitive tools for the detection of wall components in vitro (glycome profiling) and in situ (immunolocalization). Although extensively applied to land plant and ...
Regional development in minority language territories: state policies, structures and interventions in the Irish Gaeltacht
(2016-09-09)
The primary aim of this thesis was to critically assess the capacity of the state to conceptualise and implement policies in support of the sustainable development of the Gaeltacht, and to do so through an integrated spatial ...
Exosome-encapsulated microRNAs as circulating biomarkers for breast cancer
(2016-06-15)
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous group of diseases survival from which depends on stage at diagnosis. The development of blood-based biomarkers which may facilitate earlier detection and possibly subtype delineation remains ...
Identification of bioactive natural products after screening Irish marine bio-resources
(2016-10-21)
According to the “Real Map of Ireland” published by Marine Institute, Ireland, the Nation marine territory has ten times more area than its land mass. Despite the well-studied and reported biodiversity present in Irish ...
Exploring the potential of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) mediated therapy in castrate-resistant prostate cancer
(2016-11-30)
Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) is involved in a myriad of signalling pathways and has recently received considerable interest due to its conflicting roles tumourigenesis. Though it has classically been regarded as a ...
Influence agenda setting through Twitter for health promotion
(2016-05-12)
We are in what is known as the new media era, and it impacts all dimensions and aspects of people’s lives. Through advanced technology and the internet, new media continues evolving to change people’s lives so that they ...