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 ...

Pig production is the third most important sector in Irish agriculture and it is a highly intensive industry with over 70% of commercial sows in herds of 500 or greater in 2011. It is estimated that 3.1 million tonnes ...

This thesis examined stimulus over-selectivity, a phenomenon where only a limited subset of the total number of stimuli present during discrimination learning controls behaviour. Stimulus over-selectivity is a widely ...

Ozone is a major air quality parameter, a key player in atmospheric chemistry and instrumental in greenhouse gas forcing. Consequently, the subject of ozone pollution warrants significant consideration in the construction ...

Numerous in-vitro studies have established that cells possess the ability to sense and react to their physical environment. However, the mechanisms underlying such mechanotransduction are poorly understood. Previous cell ...

Glass fibre reinforced polymers (GFRP) are obvious candidate materials for use in the structures of ocean energy devices due to their corrosion resistance, high strength and low cost. The polymers normally used in GFRP can ...

This interdisciplinary thesis examines and critically analyses previously unexplored materials relating to Irish transient labour in Cuba from 1835-1845. Sociological theory and historical analysis are applied to archival ...

Unprecedented 'Celtic Tiger' in-flows of economic migrants and asylum-seekers have created an increasingly multicultural Ireland. This transformation has spawned significant academic and policy-making attention to the ...

This thesis develops a novel strategy for accessing Hypertextualized Virtual Environments (HiVEs), integrated information spaces where symbolic (hypertext) and visual (3D graphics) data are simultaneously available and ...

Obesity (OB) has been identified as one of the greatest health concerns of the present time, due to the universally increasing rates (WHO, 2016). It has been found that a large proportion of the rise of OB is among women ...