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The development of an online intervention for post-treatment cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue
(2017-02-02)
Background
The number of post-treatment cancer survivors in Ireland is set to increase in coming years, due to advances in screening and treatment. This group will require ongoing supportive care as many will experience ...
How can Utopia inform the understanding of works of visual and plastic art?
(2017-02-15)
This project explores the production of visual art, utopian studies, and the interpretation of the works of Luce Irigaray, through a body of artwork that embodies and demonstrates perceptions of utopia as informing strategies ...
The adaptive functions of music listening: structure, correlates, and consequences
(2017-01-31)
The current thesis involves three studies employing qualitative, quantitative and experimental methods to examine the relationship between music listening and wellbeing.
Study 1 used the collective intelligence methodology, ...
Hydrogeophysics of coastal aquifers - geophysical applications to the assessment of groundwater properties in coastal gravel and karst aquifers
(2017-05-19)
Airborne, terrestrial and marine geophysics have been employed to examine coastal zone hydrogeology in two very different aquifer types in Ireland. Modelling of regional airborne electromagnetic data informed by ground-based ...
Remember me when I am gone away: An Examination of the Representation of Gender in the Material Culture of Archaic Etruria
(2012-12-22)
The study of the lives of men and women in ancient Greece and Rome has long
attracted scholarly attention and much good work has been done on these topics.
However, there has been a comparative neglect of the study of ...
The use of ensemble techniques in multiclass speech emotion recognition to improve both accuracy and confidence in classifications
(2015-09-30)
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 ...
Openness to experience and cardiovascular responsivity to acute psychological stress
(2017-02-07)
Introduction. Research has implicated the personality trait of openness to experience - an
individual’s propensity to be open to a variety of experiences, with a need to enlarge and
examine experience - in the context ...
Role of Rad9 cell cycle phosphorylation in the regulation of Chk1 activation
(2012-01-07)
DNA damage checkpoints are triggered in response to DNA insults. Once activated,
these pathways prevent replication and segregation of the damaged DNA. In addition
to cell cycle delays they regulate repair, transcription ...
Development of novel nucleic acid diagnostics technologies for the detection of predominant microorganisms associated with bacterial meningitis
(2017-01-13)
With an estimated 1.2 million cases annually worldwide, bacterial meningitis is a
medical emergency and primary prevention as well as accurate diagnosis and
treatment of this often fatal disease is paramount. The ...
An exploration of the value of reflective practice for child care and family support service provision
(2015-12-01)
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 ...