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Ex-vivo generation of regulatory T-cells expressing transcription factor foxp3 and their application in cornea transplantation
(2011-05-27)
This project investigated the therapeutic potential of allo-antigen specific regulatory
T-cells in the context of penetrating keratoplasty. Two methods of ex-vivo generation
of T regulatory cells have been explored in ...
Vision Algorithms and Systems for Vehicle and Pedestrian Detection in Night Time Conditions Using Vehicle Mounted Cameras
(2011-08-24)
Statistics show that a disproportionate amount of road fatalities occur at night-time despite the greatly reduced volume of traffic on roads. This thesis describes a system aimed at addressing this issue by automatically ...
A critical analysis of risk and volatility modeling in the financial markets
(2011-12-20)
In light of the recent financial crisis, the limitations of current risk
estimation techniques have become apparent. The purpose of this thesis is
to see if nonlinear tools and techniques can facilitate our understanding ...
On Torture
(2011-04-26)
This thesis argues that the ticking bomb scenario is a fiction and it accordingly asks, "if it is a fiction, how does it exercise the power of a black hole in modern memory? How does it bend all argument to its narrative, ...
The Public Value of eGovernment
(2011-06-05)
The ultimate question about the success of eGovernment depends on how citizens
perceive its value. Although the literature highlights the primacy of the user in
evaluating Information Systems (IS), little is known about ...
Anti-Inflammatory Gene Therapy for the Promotion of Implanted Stem Cell Survival in Infarcted Myocardium
(2011-04-13)
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world and is
responsible for approximately 36% of Irish mortality. Myocardial infarction (MI), which is
literally the death of cardiac tissue due to ...
Semantic Service Oriented Architecture - Component Model, Reference Architecture and Evaluated Prototype
(2011-08-24)
This dissertation presents a component model, reference architecture and peer-evaluated prototype for Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA). Semantic Web service technology, derived from the combination of the ...
An evaluation of Zippy's Friends, an emotional wellbeing programme for children in primary schools
(2011-11-03)
This study reports on the evaluation of Zippy's Friends, an international emotional wellbeing programme for children in primary school. The purpose of this study was to (i) assess the immediate and long term impact of the ...
The poem as event: the development of a poetic style that uses the poem as a performative site of meaning in Thomas Kinsella's poetry, 1952-1979
(2011-09-30)
This thesis focuses on Thomas Kinsella's poetry between 1952 and 1979 and discovers a stylistic development which shows a distinctive way of dealing with the poetic subject. The poems move from a more formal style of lyric ...
Exploiting RDFS and OWL for Integrating Heterogeneous, Large-Scale, Linked Data Corpora
(2011-03-11)
The Web contains a vast amount of information on an abundance of topics, much of which is encoded as structured data indexed by local databases. However, these databases are rarely interconnected and information reuse ...