As many of the skills that early childhood educators focus upon are also a focus in occupational therapy1, the area of school readiness is paramount to the profession (Cronin and Mandich 2005). On-going debates surround ...

The Wireless sensor networks (WSN) is developing over time in terms of technologies, protocols and security. Each of these have different requirements, challenges, and solutions, which may or may not be similar for the ...

This thesis documents the results of a PhD research project which focuses on investigating the underlying psychological processes that can explain adults’ motivations for listening to self-identified sad music when feeling ...

Background: Objective measures of children’s speech accuracy are used to track changes in children’s speech over time. Although many existing measures are available, there is a lack of consensus regarding the reliability ...

Services comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which exchange various resources and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer resources and competencies, yet they remain an underexplored ...

The west coast of Ireland is a space with an elemental pull that attracts people to this territory. Each successive generation has reimagined its relationship with the coast, from intensely controlled and surveyed ...

Simplexity and the City proposes a study of individual elements, their combination as structures, and the networks of physical and virtual structures which define contemporary cities. It is a broad ranging discussion ...

The standard Finite Element Method (FEM) has been successfully employed for many decades in modelling. However, the method can be found, in cases, to be insufficient for accurate, efficient modelling of discontinuities, ...

This thesis describes a body of research work focused on the domain of marine robotics and underwater manipulator control systems in particular. Work-class marine ROVs equipped with hydraulic manipulators are widely used ...

Context: The loose coupling of services and Service-Based Applications (SBAs) have made them the ideal platform for context-based run-time adaptation. There has been a lot of research into implementation techniques for ...