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Rehabilitation approaches in dementia: an evaluation of three interventions from an occupational therapy perspective
(2017-01-25)
Dementia is a complex, progressively degenerative condition resulting in loss of cognitive and functional capabilities, along with a significant increase in degree of dependency.
In recent years a number of non-pharmacological ...
Exploiting homogeneous oxacillin resistance in methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus to Identify novel anti-virulence therapeutic targets
(2017-06-08)
The number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have continued to increase in recent
years and have drawn global concern to the potential future of living in a post-antibiotic
era. These infections are of major ...
Experimental and computational investigation of adhesion junction mechanosensation
(2017-02-28)
Bone is an adaptive tissue that remodels in response to the mechanical loads placed upon it during normal daily activity. This remodelling process is vital to maintaining the mechanical integrity, mass and structure of ...
‘Ainm bréige go dtiocfad fíor’ Filíocht Bhiddy Jenkinson agus Teoiric na Feiniméaneolaíochta
(2017-08-09)
Cuirim romham sa tráchtas seo staidéar a dhéanamh ar fhilíocht agus ar fhealsúnacht fhileata an scríbhneora, Biddy Jenkinson. Is duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Nua-Ghaeilge í. Is ainm cleite é an t-ainm Biddy Jenkinson, rud ...
Cellular interactions in the tumour microenvironment during inflammation-associated carcinogenesis
(2017-11-30)
The colon tumour microenvironment is highly stromal in composition and a greater stromal cell density correlates with a poor prognosis for patients. The majority of these stromal cells are of mesenchymal origin (MSCs) and ...
Development and evaluation of platform-based SERS substrates for detecting cancer biomarkers at ultra-low concentrations
(2017-04-27)
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has proved to be a powerful spectroscopic tool since its discovery in 1973. Advances in nanofabrication techniques increasingly allow for the manufacture of complex nanostructured ...
Pathogen genomics of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus and leishmania
(2017-02-15)
Infectious diseases caused by the single-celled eukaryotic parasite Leishmania and the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium are major public health problems in many countries. In this thesis, I use ...
Between realities: investigating temporal relations between stillness and movement in contemporary artists' lens-based imagery
(2017-02-23)
Temporal registers of stillness and movement in lens-based imagery, traditionally defined under the terms of photography and film, are in many ways two faces of the same coin, one representing time as a frozen moment and ...
Dissecting the monster: mapping discourses of medicine, ethics, and monstrosity in the Victorian Penny Blood
(2017-02-02)
This research analyses a set of specimens of penny blood literature from the point of view of medical history, with the goal of providing an examination of the genre in relation to its historical context. In so doing, it ...
When paradigms clash: Irish labour market institutions and the unemployment crisis
(2017-10-18)
The recent Irish economic and financial crisis had significant impacts on the performance of the labour market and was also associated with major changes to labour market policies and institutions. Drawing on Douglass ...