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Calendars, feasting, cosmology and identities: later Neolithic-early Bronze Age Ireland in European context
(2016-07-25)
The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ...
Development and applications of optical imaging techniques for microcirculation and cardiovascular imaging
(2016-08-12)
The work presented in this thesis describes the development and applications of optical imaging techniques, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic (PA) imaging, for the purpose of diagnosing and treating ...
Lord Bute and eighteenth-century science and patronage
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-03)
John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, was born in May 1713 at Parliament Square, Edinburgh, the eldest son of James, second Earl of Bute (1689/90-1723), and his wife, Lady Anne Campbell (1692-1736). The second Earl was a supporter ...
Cartilage repair in a rabbit model: Development of a novel subchondral defect and assessment of early cartilage repair using a rabbit mesenchymal stem cell seeded scaffold
(2018-02-14)
Purpose: To develop a subchondral defect in a rabbit model and assess cartilage repair using a mesenchymal stem cell-seeded scaffold.
Materials and Methods: To achieve this goal, a bovine explant model and two pilot ...
Exploiting homogeneous oxacillin resistance in methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus to Identify novel anti-virulence therapeutic targets
(2017-06-08)
The number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have continued to increase in recent
years and have drawn global concern to the potential future of living in a post-antibiotic
era. These infections are of major ...
Experimental and computational investigation of adhesion junction mechanosensation
(2017-02-28)
Bone is an adaptive tissue that remodels in response to the mechanical loads placed upon it during normal daily activity. This remodelling process is vital to maintaining the mechanical integrity, mass and structure of ...
Dynamic Analyses of Goal-Directed Behaviour
(2012-10)
Goal setting research has consistently shown that high specific goals lead to increases in performance; however, the effects of unattainable goals on performance have been inconsistent, and the roles of both time and ...
Controls on upper Viséan (Carboniferous) depositional environments in Ireland
(2010-11-02)
The lithostratigraphy and fauna of Carboniferous sedimentary sequences in northwest and southwest Ireland were investigated to reconstruct how and why palaeoenvironments were changing throughout the upper Viséan and ...
Modelling of Inhalation Exposures to Pharmaceutical Agents
(2011-09-09)
Assessment of worker's exposure is becoming increasingly critical in the pharmaceutical industry as drugs of higher potency are being manufactured. Also the batch nature of operations often makes it difficult to obtain ...
‘Ainm bréige go dtiocfad fíor’ Filíocht Bhiddy Jenkinson agus Teoiric na Feiniméaneolaíochta
(2017-08-09)
Cuirim romham sa tráchtas seo staidéar a dhéanamh ar fhilíocht agus ar fhealsúnacht fhileata an scríbhneora, Biddy Jenkinson. Is duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Nua-Ghaeilge í. Is ainm cleite é an t-ainm Biddy Jenkinson, rud ...