Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste (FW) and pig manure (PM) management by producing methane-rich biogas. However, mono digestion of FW or PM is easily inhibited by high volatile ...

Microblogging social media focuses on fast open real-time communication using short messages between users and their followers. Twitter is currently one of the largest and widely known microblogging OSN in the world, with ...

This thesis deals with anomerisation, which is, in other words, epimerisation at the anomeric centre, usually interpreted as being from the equatorial to the axial anomer. An objective was to enhance the knowledge of this ...

Reproducing the systems biology efforts established across areas of cell biology such as integrating biological networks with omic datasets and subjecting it to modelling analysis for studying the functional involvement ...

This dissertation explores the performance of Shakespeare by Irish theatre practitioners in Ireland and England at a time of significant biopolitical, social, and legislative change (2014-2018), and as such, approaches ...

Rapidly dividing tumour cells require higher amounts of nutrients and energy for their fast proliferation, and glucose is no exception (the so-called “Warburg effect”). Consequently, such increased demand of glucose by ...

The nucleolus is a large, sub-nuclear domain and the site of ribosome biogenesis. Nucleoli form around chromosomal loci called ‘nucleolar organiser regions (NORs) located on the short arms of the human acrocentric ...

In this thesis the development of a computer system capable of generating art through the process of analogy is presented. A visual display is generated analogous to a given piece of music. This analogy is based upon the ...

This thesis is concerned with Galway Grammar School, from its opening about 1673 to its closure in 1958. It provides a broader understanding of Protestant grammar school education, particularly as it operated on the periphery ...

Fear/anxiety and pain modulate one another reciprocally, but the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie this interaction are not completely understood. Fear-conditioned analgesia (FCA) is pain suppression upon exposure ...