Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease affecting mainly the lungs and digestive system. In Ireland, the incidence of cystic fibrosis is 1 in 1,461 births, with 1 in 19 Irish people carrying an altered cystic fibrosis gene. ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a detailed review of knowledge management strategies and practices in public sector project environments, while specifically analysing the knowledge management strategy of ...

Many typical methods of studying particles within an aqueous solution use some form of control mechanism to limit sample variability. A common application in cytometry is the use of hydrodynamic focusing to confine the ...

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 ...

The state established the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) in 2013 to respond to an arrears crisis involving almost 150,000 mortgages. The ISI’s strategy has focused upon teaching financial skills to insolvent debtors ...

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 ...

This research focuses on classroom discourse in a second level multicultural mathematics classroom in Ireland and seeks to bring together new approaches from linguistics and subject specific pedagogy and teacher education ...

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 ...