This thesis is focused on the study of surfaces, interfaces and thin films. The main goal
of this project is to produce and examine thin films and interfaces that can lead to the
development of heat transfer and nano ...
EXcl 3515 is a notated missal located in Exeter Cathedral. To date, it has received
very little attention from chant scholars. This neglect is due possibly to the absence of
a liturgical Kalendar and evidence of local ...
The shift in philosophy in Irish technology education has brought with it new
challenges for practitioners, curriculum developers and awarding bodies. With the
emphasis on technological capability the technology student ...
This thesis details the results obtained from an extensive study on the development of a
workable radiopaque rare earth doped NiTi alloy through a traditional ingot melting
(IM) route and a powder metallurgy (PM) route. ...
This study proposes to use a corpus-based approach to identify and evaluate some of
the discrete features of spoken Southern Irish English. The features to be analysed
were chosen on the basis that they were identified ...
This research focuses on exploring the relationships and interactions between cheese manufacture parameters and subsequent variations in cheese chemical composition, starter and non-starter bacteria viability, enzyme ...
O'Carroll, Kevin Fintan(University of Limerick, 2017)
A 1984 performance of Sicut Cervus by Palestrina raised in this writer’s mind
questions regarding the performance of Renaissance polyphony by non-specialist
choirs. The initial questions developed into one which asked ...
Coronary artery disease is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries that results in
blockages or narrowing of the arterial wall, is caused by the accumulation of lipid-laden
atherosclerotic plaque. Drug eluting stents ...
In this thesis, Blind Source Separation is studied in the context of both instantaneous and
convolutive mixtures of musical sources. In order to appreciate how the application of
BSS techniques to music may differ from ...
It is generally agreed that there are three different types of financial information:
information in past stock prices, information that is available to all the public, and
information that is both available to the public ...
O'Connor, John Philip(Univeristy of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis shows how the synthesis between model Irish villages and picture postcards led to a reconstruction of Irish stereotypes on ephemera and commercial goods between 1888 and 1914. During this period Ireland became ...
Industrial and manufacturing processes are an abundant source of rich
and complex problems amenable to investigation with mathematical
logic and techniques. Once a problem is identi ed and the right questions
are ...
According to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) the agri-food
industry contributes €24 billion to the Irish economy. One of DAFM’s chief concerns is the
maintenance of Ireland’s reputation for high ...
The large-scale production of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is commonly carried out using NS0 cells, which are a cholesterol deficient mouse myeloma cell line. The non-ionic surfactant Pluronic F-68 is routinely ...
For optimum fertility, sperm should reside in the bovine female reproductive tract for a number of hours before the onset of ovulation in order to ensure sperm have successfully acquired the ability to fertilise the oocyte. ...
The Irish dairy processing sector is one of the largest in Europe with annual production figures in excess of five billion litres. In 2013, the revenue from the dairy sector surpassed €3 Billion for the first time with an ...
The tensile test is one of the most commonly used tests in attempting to establish the mechanical properties of a material. This test is completed by holding a speci-men of known cross sectional area rigidly between a fixed ...
Data converters are used in mixed-signal designs and are important electronic devices with applications in many areas like consumer electronics, communications, computing, control and instrumentation. Design of these data ...
Ivano Indino
Scan testing has been the preferred method used for testing large digital integrated circuits for
many decades and many electronic design automation (EDA) tools vendors provide support
for inserting scan ...
Hydrogen is increasingly used in a variety of applications and holds promise as a replacement for fossil fuels. Biomass derived formic acid represents an excellent renewable material for hydrogen storage. This thesis is ...