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Development of novel culture independent nucleic acid based diagnostics technologies for the detection and identification of microbial contaminants in building water distribution and premise plumbing systems
(2015-02-22)
Water is a vital component of the industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. In industrial and pharmaceutical sectors water is a commonly used raw material, solvent and ingredient. While in healthcare facilities ...
Intergenerational learning: collaborations to activate young children's civic engagement in Irish Primary School
(2015-10-14)
This study addresses a two-dimensional problem: weaknesses in the provision of citizenship education in Irish Primary School; and increasing social distance between younger and older generations in Irish society. The thesis ...
Applied learning. A design model for further education in the 21st century
(2015-11-23)
Undertaken over four years, this research was both an investigation of the adoption of an applied learning approach for further education (FE) course delivery in the 21st century, and the development of an educational model ...
Ultrashort pulse laser scribing of thin flexible glass
(2016-02-04)
Laser scribing of thin glass has proven problematic due to inefficient optical absorption and difficulty achieving economical processing speeds while maintaining edge quality. Laser processing of glass is pertinent to touch ...
Exosomal microRNAs in colorectal cancer
(2016)
Cancer cells have been shown to release a variety of extracellular membrane vesicles
including microvesicles known as exosomes. Exosomes have recently been found to
contain microRNAs (miRNAs) however the full range within ...
Abrogation of ischemia reperfusion injury in murine hind limb and skin flap models of injury
(2015-03-05)
Introduction/Aim
Ischemia Reperfusion injury is a poorly understood entity with wide-ranging clinical
implications touching on most fields of clinical medicine. Using skin flap and hind limb
models of injury in the mouse ...
The perceived experiences of primary healthcare professionals in Ireland: interprofessional teamwork in practice.
(2016-05-04)
International trends indicate that countries promote and encourage the use of interprofessional teams as the preferred approach to delivering healthcare services to address the health and social care needs of their citizens. ...
Towards inherently adaptive first person shooter agents using reinforcement learning
(2015-09-30)
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm which involves an agent interacting with an environment. The agent carries out actions in the environment and receives positive reinforcement for actions that are deemed “good” and ...
Polarisation of synchrotron radiation from isolated neutron stars
(2016-03-10)
Pulsars are enigmatic neutron stars which have defied efforts to understand them for over 40 years. POREC (Pulsar Optical Reverse Engineering Code) was first written to constrain pulsar emission theories through constraining ...
The Effect of Pain on Cognitive Function: Preclinical and Clinical Investigations
(2012-10-19)
Chronic pain is associated with high social and economic costs due to its disabling physical and psychological effects. Despite some evidence that chronic pain negatively affects cognitive function, little is known about ...