This thesis gives a flavour of the area of rigid body impacts with friction, an area which has far reaching applications in engineering, sports science and every day life. The focus of this work will be on the two main ...

Ba í aidhm an staidéar taighde seo ná tuiscint a fháil ar dhearcadh, chumas agus riachtanais lucht labhartha na Gaeilge sa nGaeltacht maidir le litearthacht sa teanga sin i gcúinsí an tsíorbhrú atá ar an nGaeilge mar theanga ...

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have significant potential to treat bone pathologies by exploiting the capacity for bone progenitors to grow and produce tissue constituents under specific biochemical and ...

This thesis sets out to explore Irish perceptions of and connections with the Dual Monarchy and its successor states, spanning from 1914 until 1945, with the intention of demonstrating the significance of small nations in ...

In Ireland, the term ‘philanthropy’ has connotations of charitable beneficence and is often associated with nineteenth century forms of giving to alleviate poverty in areas that subsequently become the responsibility of ...

Creating machines with the ability to reason, perceive, learn and make decisions based on a human like intelligence has been an interest of artificial intelligence researchers for decades, with the long term goal of ...

In the context of delivering child care and family support service provision in the Republic of Ireland the concept of reflective practice enjoys almost unquestionable positive acclaim within the extensive literature and ...

Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. We are drawn to describe our world and subsequently seek to ...

This thesis is an examination of kinaesthetic play from the lived experience of the player. The aim of this work is to show that the value of play runs much deeper than its applications and that play should be understood ...

Interferon-α (IFN-α) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine used for the treatment of hepatitis B and C as well as various malignancies. However, therapy is often associated with neuropsychiatric side effects, including depression ...