Lone parent families are not a homogenous group rather this family form is varied and despite the vast array of research into the lives and experiences of lone parents in Ireland, there is a dearth of information on ...

Background: Premature infants are at increased risk of developing motor, cognitive and behavioural impairments compared with infants born at term. Outcome studies have tended to focus their assessments predominately ...

The interaction of short and ultrashort laser pulses with very thin films is currently an important area of research for laser material interactions. The interaction between the laser pulse and the thin transparent conductive ...

Histones are responsible for packaging the genomes of almost all eukaryotes into fundamental repeating nucleosome units. The packaging must facilitate compaction into the cell nucleus but also enable dynamic access to the ...

This thesis describes the first application of a Tier 2 intervention programme targeting fluency in foundational reading skills with at risk Senior Infant readers (n=36). The PT intervention programme combined: (a) fluency ...

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, and ranked third in the causes of death from cancer in Irish men. Inflammation has been implicated in prostate carcinogenesis, with the overexpression of NOS2 ...

Superelastic NiTi self-expanding stents push the boundaries of our current understanding of material behaviour which ultimately influences the design of biomedical devices. In particular, the influence of microstructure ...

This thesis is a compilation of results dealing with cocyclic development of pairwise combinatorial designs. Motivated by a classification of the indexing and extension groups of the Paley Hadamard matrices due to de ...

With a rapidly increasing volume of Internet content and connected devices, along with the development of cloud services and server virtualization, it's becoming clear that traditional network architectures are becoming ...

The balloon catheters produced by Boston Scientific are manufactured using a laser bonding process. The behaviour of the materials during this laser welding process is not very well understood. In this work a computational ...