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Properties of electrode-attached biofilms for application to microbial fuel cells
(2015-03-26)
Energy, in any form, plays the most important role in the modern world. We have been dependent on conventional energy sources such as coal and petroleum product for quite a long time. Therefore, there is an alarming need ...
Investigation of faecal pollution sources and bacterial transfer hydrodynamics in rural catchments
(2015-03-13)
Faecal bacteria from point and diffuse source pollution can impact water which poses a serious public health and environmental threat. Faecal pollution contains nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and when in excess ...
Regulators of TRAIL resistance in normal and transformed cells
(2015-05-26)
TRAIL is a member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor superfamily which was shown to be able to induce apoptotic cell death in a wide variety of transformed cells, leaving normal, healthy cells unharmed. However, approximately ...
Restoring voice to people: realizing the right to equal recognition before the law of people with Cognitive Disabilities
(2015-07-25)
This thesis examines the right to equal recognition before the law guaranteed in Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It begins by providing definitions and ...
Characterization of post-traumatic immunosuppression and its partial reversal by autologous salvaged blood transfusion
(2015-01-28)
Documentary evidence of post-traumatic immunosuppression (PTI) is traceable back to 1856. Although improved hygiene has ameliorated many risks, vulnerability to systemic infection following major surgery or closed injury ...
Synthetic investigations into discrete polynuclear cage formation and their subsequent incorporation into extended network materials
(2015-01-20)
This thesis details the synthesis and structural characterisation of thirty novel complexes via the utilisation of a variety of ligands (seven in total) including hydroxamic acids, Schiff base ligands and their hybrid ...
Basic aesthetic features and their influence on attention and performance
(2015-01-23)
Within experimental aesthetics it is often claimed that artists can exploit the normal activity of the perceptual system in order to achieve aesthetic effect. This thesis extends such a proposal by providing evidence to ...
Topology preserving and robust variational image segmentation models with applications in medical imaging
(2015-07-14)
Computer vision refers to the process of enabling computers to mimic the human visual system. The central concern of this thesis is a sub-task of computer vision known as image segmentation, which refers to the decomposition ...
A community ready for the future? A social marketing study of Meals on Wheels Services in Ireland
(2015-02-05)
This research, undertaken in the Irish Meals on Wheels (MOW) community, seeks to address the challenges associated with MOW stakeholders' behaviours through the application of a community social marketing model: the Community ...
Genetic diversity, evolutionary history and epigenetic analysis of East African highland bananas
(2015-05-13)
Genetic variation describes naturally occurring genetic differences among individuals of the same species and permits flexibility and survival of a population in the face of changing environmental circumstances, diseases ...