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The response of the Irish State to subversion, 1969-1981
(2015-01-30)
The violence associated with the modern Northern Irish imbroglio prompted a significant escalation in paramilitary activity within the Irish State. This project assesses the various political, legislative and security ...
Generational understanding of social support, youth civic engagement and coping as aspects of resilience in socialist and post-socialist Slovenia (1980-2011)
(2015-09-30)
This thesis explores the link between protective factors and youth coping as aspects of resilience within the context of social change. The most recent evidence from resilience research shows there is a significant link ...
Functional characterization of orphan genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2015-01-28)
All organisms are known to contain a unique set of genes called 'orphan genes', which do not share any similarity with genes or protein domains in other evolutionary lineages. Such orphan genes can impart unique traits to ...
Street-level bureaucratic behaviour when supporting parents
(2015-12-18)
Although popular in the 1970s and 1980s, policy implementation as a focus of analysis fell out of fashion in the 1990s. However, the concept of the street-level bureaucrat has remained resilient. In furthering the analysis ...
From phantasmagoria to mundanity: the fetishization of the automobile in 20th-century French representations
(2015-01-30)
The automobile is an object that has been systematically consumed to become part of the fabric of society, hence its impact and its perception make the car a particularly precise means of studying cultural values. As it ...
Analysis and interpretation of epigenomic patterns in colonic epithelia
(2015-12-18)
The methylation of cytosine nucleotides at the 5' position of DNA is a crucial epigenetic mechanism for the control of gene expression. Epigenome-wide associated studies have demonstrated that specific methylome patterns ...
Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a new bridge to bring human rights law to the domestic level and create a dynamic of change
(2015-09-30)
This thesis looks at Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 33 requires states to set up a framework, located both within and outside of government, to guide and monitor the ...
Physical and bio cellular response of laser induced periodic surface structures formed using a femtosecond laser on a platinum alloy
(2015-09-30)
Minimally invasive implantable medical devices represent a major advance in the treatment of obstructive coronary artery disease with stent implantation becoming the standard coronary angioplasty procedure. Such devices ...
Lords of land and labour: a comparison of Antebellum Mississippi's John A. Quitman and Nineteenth-Century Ireland's Lord Clonbrock
(2015-12-17)
This study investigates similarities, differences, and connections between antebellum U.S. Southern slaveholders and nineteenth-century Irish landowners. In particular, it focuses on the comparison of Mississippi’s John ...
The role of the endocannabinoid system in the affective modulation of pain
(2015-09-30)
Pain represents a major unmet clinical need and affects a large number of individuals worldwide. Numerous studies indicate a very high prevalence of chronic pain comorbid with psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and ...