Collagen-based devices are frequently associated with foreign body response. Although several pre- (e.g. species, state of animal, tissue, isolation protocol) and post- (e.g. cross-linking, scaffold architecture, sterilisation) ...

The ability to extract energetic γ-rays from the overwhelming high energy cosmic ray back- ground has opened up a new window of observation on the non-thermal universe. By utilis- ing an atmospheric technique VERITAS, an ...

Bone tissue engineering is a promising field with the potential to generate tissue substitutes, by taking advantage of mesenchymal stem cells ability to grow and produce tissue substitutes under specific physical conditions. ...

Obesity (OB) has been identified as one of the greatest health concerns of the present time, due to the universally increasing rates (WHO, 2016). It has been found that a large proportion of the rise of OB is among women ...

Turbulent flame speed is an important property within turbulent flames and an invaluable parameter for gas turbine combustor design. A major issue however is the difficulty in accurately predicting turbulent flame speed ...

The solution of marine contaminant transport problems is a significant research topic in civil engineering. Typically, the problem is represented as a partial differential equation described by the non-stationary, ...

Sa tráchtas seo, déantar scéalta béaloidis a bhí á n-insint go fuinniúil, fonnmhar i bpobal ar leith san am atá caite a scrúdú go mion d’fhonn léargas a thabhairt ar thábhacht na scéalta agus na scéalaíochta ar leibhéal ...

This thesis analyses land availability and mobility in Ireland. The thesis begins with an overview of the economic theory of agricultural land markets followed by a description of Ireland’s current land use structures and ...

Liberia, the West African nation, whose name connotes freedom, was the creation of the American Colonisation Society (ACS) whose initial aim was to rid the United States of a growing population of ‘free people of colour.’ ...

A number of women living on family farms own farm property in their own right. This is an unexplored research area in Ireland. Gender inequalities in the ownership and control of farm property have consequences for women’s ...