Browsing by Author "Higher Education Authority"
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The Effect of Pain on Cognitive Function: Preclinical and Clinical Investigations
Moriarty, Orla (2012-10-19)Chronic pain is associated with high social and economic costs due to its disabling physical and psychological effects. Despite some evidence that chronic pain negatively affects cognitive function, little is known about ... -
Fidelity to founder under the Bourbon régime: the Congregation of the Mission, 1660-1736.
Smith, Sean Alexander (2012-09-18)On 27 September 1660, the famous French reformer Vincent de Paul died. With his demise the institute of missionaries he founded and led for thirty five years, the Congregation of the Mission, was without its steward and ... -
Formal calibration methodology relating to CFD models of naturally ventilated internal environments
Hajdukiewicz, Magdalena (2013-08-16)The building sector is responsible for 40% of total global energy consumption. Half of the energy consumed by buildings relates to heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Natural ventilation can provide ... -
From hybrid bodies to haunted bodies: Mobile technologies, affect and theatre
Ní Chróinín, Máiréad (2017-09-22)Mobile digital technologies - from smartphones, to wearables, to pervasive technologies - are transforming the ways in which we experience our own bodies, and the ways in which we experience the world through our bodies. ... -
Mechanisms of ER Stress-Mediated Mitochondrial Membrane Permeabilization
Gupta, Sanjeev; Cuffe, Lorraine; Szegezdi, Eva; Logue, Susan E.; Neary, Catherine; Healy, Sandra; Samali, Afshin (2010)During apoptosis, the process of mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) represents a point-of-no-return as it commits the cell to death. Here we have assessed the role of caspases, Bcl-2 family members and ... -
Modelling shear-induced platelet aggregation in general flow
de Almeida Prado Hellmuth, Rudolf (2016-11-07)Blood-contacting biomedical devices are ubiquitous in current medical practice. Blood is very sensitive to non-physiological conditions, and it can be harmed by the biomedical device in a number of different ways. A very ... -
Optimizing the QoS of VoIP applications over WiFi through use of synchronized time
O Flaithearta, Padraig (2015-01-31)With a rapidly increasing volume of Internet content and connected devices, along with the development of cloud services and server virtualization, it's becoming clear that traditional network architectures are becoming ... -
The ruling trinity transformed: negotiating power and local leadership in Ireland
Pritchard, Ruth (2015-09-21)This thesis examines power relations in the political, economic and religious spheres in local society in Ireland, so as to assess the contribution being made by a local leadership to a contemporary Irish social power ... -
Socio-demographic predictors of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the National Survey on Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition, SLAN
Kelleher, Cecily; Friel, Sharon; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Tay, Joseph (Elsevier, 2003-02-21)Though Ireland continues to have a poor health profile compared with other European Union countries, previous research on social variations has been limited. For the first time in the Republic of Ireland, the influence on ...