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Chain transfer to solvent in the radical polymerization of acrylamide monomers, controlled/living radical polymerizations, including in supercritical carbon dioxide and preparation of carbon dioxide responsive micelles
(2014-12-11)
Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to radical polymerization, including chain transfer, and controlled/living radical polymerization. A review of the literature since 2009 on heterogeneous controlled/living radical ...
Development of a Chemical Kinetic Mechanism for Small Hydrocarbons
(2014-01-07)
A detailed chemical kinetic mechanism has been developed to describe the oxidation of small hydrocarbon and oxygenated hydrocarbon species. In order to understand the oxidation of large hydrocarbon and oxygenated hydrocarbon ...
Localising the Right to Drinking Water: Perspectives and Challenges
(2014-01-08)
Access to drinking water has become a critical matter for humanity in the current context of growing competing demand for resource. It is well recognised that the ongoing water crisis to a large extent is a crisis of ...
Examining a new class of dual CDC7/CDK9 inhibitors, mechanisms of proliferation, and proliferation-based stratification in myeloma
(2014-09-05)
A key feature of progressive myeloma is a relative increase in proliferation. The DBF4-dependent kinase (DDK), cell division cycle 7 (CDC7), is an essential kinase for initiation of DNA replication. This thesis assesses ...
Fun games and health: evaluating physical education related CPD provision in primary schools: the case of the Buntus programme
(2014-09-27)
Thesis Summary: Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is essential for teachers to change practices. The teaching and context methodologies for teaching and facilitating effective PE-CPD programmes is a challenging ...
A study of turbulence and infall over multiple scales of star formation
(2014-09-28)
The understanding of the processes of star formation informs the understanding and investigation of questions of galactic dynamics and the formation of stellar systems of exoplanets and so sits between the galactic and ...
An Integrated Approach to Characterising the Hydrogeology of the Tynagh Mine Catchment, County Galway, Ireland
(2014-01-08)
The first major Pb-Zn mine in Ireland, located near the village of Tynagh, in east County Galway operated from the early 1960s until the early 1980s producing almost eight million tonnes of ore from surface and underground ...
What are the factors that influence person centred care in public residential care settings for older people?
(2014-02)
The term Person centred care is used widely in health and social care discourse and is commonly employed in the articulation of policy, both at governmental and professional level. The concept, as it relates to older people ...
Habeas Corpus in international law
(2014-05-04)
This thesis seeks to determine its location, scope, application, and significance of the right to habeas corpus in international law. It examines the history of the right, looks the guarantees contained in international ...
'People think it's not the real world - but it's our world'. The significance of relationships found on the threshold between the private and the public: Exploring engagement between mothers and early years practitioners in a changing Ireland.
(2014-02-17)
Irish society has undergone significant economic and social transformation in the past two decades. The rapid development of the early years sector, supporting unprecedented levels of female employment, is indicative of ...