Economic activities are considered as embedded in the social structure by many sociologists. Not very often though, is there a measurement of the kinship network on business performance by economists themselves. It is the ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the existence of Knowledge Management (KM) within the Limerick’ local authorities, Limerick City and Limerick County Councils. Further it explores the prevalence of KM, the types of ...

Large portion of the key research in the Knowledge Management field has been conducted in the large organisational setting. In contrast, this thesis focuses on Knowledge Management practices utilised by small-scaled ...

This research investigates the construction of gender identity in the discourse of pregnancy advice literature. It focuses in particular on uncovering the societal power asymmetries and hierarchies which repress and control ...

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a class of solar cells of the third generation. DSSCs are cheap and simple to fabricate, exhibit flexible properties, and are not limited by the Shockley-Queisser limit of semiconductor ...

This research is about the Committee of the Regions advisory role and the influence of its Opinion in the EU’s decision-making process, particularly in the co-decision procedure. For this purpose, this study attempts to ...

My thesis began with an interest in large forms in the landscape and how they might be designed sustainably. These artifices are gigantic pieces of infrastructure that are generally have short lives and have little if any ...

The world and the various societies within it, are constantly changing in all aspects. Some important aspects include changes in the human perception of time, the organization of space, the structures of social ...

The chief aims of this thesis are (a) to investigate EFL learner and teacher attitudes, reactions, familiarity and use of authentic materials in a third level context and, (b) to examine the potentials of repurposing and ...

In this work an application was developed which uses the Sequential Quadratic Pro- gramming (SQP) optimisation algorithm to optimise boundary absorption in order to reduce the sound pressure level in a localised sampling ...