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Numerical and analytical modelling of friction pile group settlement performance in clay
(2015-01-27)
Over the past couple of decades, the focus of foundation design has shifted from ultimate
limit state to serviceability limit state, particularly where ground conditions are challenging. Nowadays, the serviceability of a ...
State duty to inform and educate public opinion on human rights standards
(2015-02-11)
The present study seeks to challenge the State's tendency to simply blame public opinion when there are difficulties in protecting and promoting human rights. This study discovers that on racial and gender equality, ...
Sustainable change: settlement, environment and the temporality of Neolithic western Ireland
(2015-05-05)
Time is significantly under-theorised in the study of Irish prehistory, and evidence continues to be compartmentalised within the generalising classifications of the Three Age system. The process of Neolithisation is often ...
Intergenerational learning: collaborations to activate young children's civic engagement in Irish Primary School
(2015-10-14)
This study addresses a two-dimensional problem: weaknesses in the provision of citizenship education in Irish Primary School; and increasing social distance between younger and older generations in Irish society. The thesis ...
Contextualising sensors with linked data to improve relevancy, data quality and network adaptability
(2015-10-09)
A sensor taken by itself, with no indication of what it is sensing, with what unit of
measurement and where, would keep working without anybody being able to interpret
its output. The sensor needs to be "contextualised". ...
Irish immigrants in the Rural U.S. Slave South
(2015-09-16)
This dissertation investigates the Irish immigrant experience in the rural areas of the U.S. slave South before the American Civil War. Specifically, it focuses on the analysis of the Irish immigrants' involvement with ...
Utilising Wikipedia for text mining applications
(2015-10-08)
The process whereby inferences are made from textual data is broadly referred to as text mining. In order to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the derived inferences, several approaches have been proposed for different ...
Digital ensemble: exploring the design of technology-enhanced learning to mobilise and augment students' engagement with English literature
(2015-06-24)
Students are disengaging from learning and literature learning in post primary education in Ireland due to an over-emphasis on rote learning practices and the constraints of high stakes, summative assessments (Chief ...
The missing ink. Re-evaluating socialisation and nationalism in the work of Ernest Gellner
(2015-09-29)
This thesis expands on Gellner's theory of nationalism. Gellner provides an analysis of the 'why' of nationalism, i.e. why nations and nationalism develop, but, neglects to elaborate on the detail of how this takes place ...
Damage and permeability in linerless composite cryogenic tanks
(2015-09-29)
Carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP) are one of the prospective material families being investigated for use in the fuel tanks of future reusable launch vehicles (RLVs). The extreme cryogenic thermo-mechanical loading ...