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Fios na mban. The role of women in death and burial customs in Erris in post-famine Ireland: evidence from the archive of the Irish Folklore Commission
(2016-11-16)
This thesis examines the role and contributions of women to mortuary ritual in Erris in the post-Famine era. The written evidence for the project is based on the oral testaments of both women and men mainly but not exclusively ...
Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland
(2016-01-31)
This thesis is the first comprehensive study of ritual drinking vessels of horn and wood from later medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland. The research provides an analysis of the drinking vessels and offers an ...
Low-power strategies for signal compression in ambulatory healthcare
(2016-11-23)
Advances in signal processing are enabling promising solutions for ambulatory monitoring in healthcare applications. A critical objective of such systems is low-power operation to enable long-term battery life in wearable/mobile ...
Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD
(2016-06-07)
This thesis creates a new understanding of the phenomenon of transhumance in post-medieval Ireland, c.1550-1900 AD. Transhumance is an agro-pastoral system in which people and their livestock spend several months of each ...
An examination of diathesis and its didactic practices in Latin grammars from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages
(2016-12-21)
This thesis traces the origin and development of the category of diathesis (or voice) in Antiquity. According to modern linguistic theory, diathesis is a verbal category which describes the relationship between the action ...
Mapping protein architecture in centromeres of Equus asinus
(2016-11-28)
The centromere is a genetic locus present once per chromosome that specifies the site
of kinetochore formation and is vital for chromosomal segregation. With the
exception of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whose ‘point’ ...
Adaptive responses of campylobacter jejuni to antibiotic and biocide selection pressures in chemostat culture
(2016-04-18)
Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is a zoonotic pathogen of major public health importance and is the leading cause of gastroenteritis woldwide. Poultry is regarded as one of the most important reservoirs for Campylobacter ...
Emanuel Carnevali's cultural translation: an Italian in Modernist America
(2016-02-09)
The thesis investigates translingual writing – that is, writing in a language which is not the native one – at the intersection between culture, identity, and translation. The focus is here on Italian American writer Emanuel ...
Design and synthesis of macrocycles, peptides and coiled coils with sugar connections
(2016-06-09)
Migrastatin is a secondary metabolite that is formed from the bacterium Streptomyces platensis. This compound has shown promising anti-metastatic activity by inhibiting tumour cell migration. Published derivatives of this ...
Contributions to practical iris biometrics on smartphones
(2016-05-12)
This thesis investigates the practical adaption of iris biometrics on smartphones. Iris recognition is a mature and widely deployed technology which will be able to provide the high security demanded by next generation ...