Introduction: Research has shown that anxiety during the perinatal period is experienced by many women and indeed may even be more common than depression (Carroll, Begley, & Clarke, 2014). However, to-date there is a ...

Introduction: Early school leaving can create a vulnerable population and is associated with difficulties in mental health, identity, social exclusion and increased risk of engaging in crime. There is a considerable lack ...

This project explores if people employ ambivalent discourses within contentious political debate. And, if so, what opposing ideological themes are drawn upon – or left unsaid – and what is potentially being accomplished ...

Drug nanoparticles are a promising solution to the challenging issues of low dissolution rates and erratic bioavailability due to their greater surface area/volume ratio resulting in improvement in dissolution rate and ...

Dry reforming of methane is a technique to produce syngas from biogas or CO2-rich natural gas at high temperatures, generally over a Ni or Co catalyst. Syngas produced by dry reforming has a H2/CO ratio around 1, which ...

This thesis is grounded in ethnochoreology and incorporates a psychoanalytical understanding of body identity and a phenomenological understanding of body motion. What is investigated is a professional Danza Española ...

This thesis offers peri-exercise nutrition (PEN) advancements to dietary assessment for trained populations. The PEN approach promotes time-specific dietary data collection, analysis and prescription, places exercise ...

Recent years have seen a re-introduction of the victim of crime into Irish criminal justice. This thesis intends to gauge the nature and extent of this reemergence. One of the ways in which the author seeks to achieve ...

Cooperative learning (CL) is an educational approach where small groups work together to achieve a common goal. The method has been observed to be successful, with 900 research studies indicating the effectiveness of ...

Epidemiological studies have suggested that maternal immune activation (MIA) during gestation is a risk factor for the development of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. These epidemiological studies have indicated ...