The recent Irish economic and financial crisis had significant impacts on the performance of the labour market and was also associated with major changes to labour market policies and institutions. Drawing on Douglass ...

The thesis presents J. M. Synge and Zora Neale Hurston as autoethnographic researcher-practitioners who employed important cultural forms in their theatre, such as the keen and the cakewalk, in order to challenge the ...

Micro(mi)RNAs have potential as both therapeutics and circulating biomarkers of disease. This study investigates potential breast cancer biomarkers miR-138, miR-504 and miR-379. Furthermore, it investigates the impact that ...

Natural products have been used since ancient times to treat illnesses and terrestrial organisms have been studied extensively from a chemical point of view. Marine organisms, on the other hand are definitely understudied ...

Toll-like receptors are a family of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which have evolved to recognise structurally conserved components of microorganisms. They form an important part of the innate immune system, yet ...

This dissertation aims to integrate Irish theatre history into a wider discourse of the environmental humanities. Combining material ecocritical thinking and theories of space and place, this thesis contends firstly, that ...

CDC7 plays a role in DNA replication initiation and cell cycle regulation. Inhibition of CDC7 kinase by siRNA triggers a p53-independent apoptotic cell death in cancer cells but not in human fibroblast suggesting this ...

Introduction: Disorders of consciousness are an increasing phenomena and people are living longer with these conditions. The care needs begin with acute medicine and ICU care and frequently end up with life-long nursing ...

Background Stroke is the most common cause of disability in the western World. Approximately 176,000 new individuals in the United Kingdom and Ireland are diagnosed with stroke annually with up to one third experiencing ...