Single crystal L-amino acids can exhibit technologically useful piezoelectric and nonlinear optical properties. Here we predict, using density functional theory, the piezoelectric charge and strain and voltage tensors of ...

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide but targeted therapies have proven to be very successful in the treatment of this disease. The aim of this study was to develop models and parameters that will ...

The Receptor for Activated C Kinase 1 (RACK1) is a member of the tryptophan-aspartate repeat (WD-repeat) family of proteins and shares significant homology to the β subunit of G-proteins (Gβ). RACK1 adopts a seven-bladed ...

I would like to offer a brief introduction to this thesis document. The work that follows takes as its staring point the universal theme of love as it could (or should) relate to architecture, historically and presently. ...

Raman data from human fingernails has been analysed to determine if a relationship exists between spectral features and bone quality. Previous work demonstrated a relationship between the manually determined intensity of ...

The purpose of this study was to use the Taguchi Design of Experiments approach to investigate the effects of five risk factors on ratings of shoulder discomfort in a single study. The development of shoulder MusculoSkeletal ...

As part of ongoing efforts to develop electroactive polymers (EAPs) which are biodegradable/bioresorbable, we report on the microwave assisted synthesis and characterization of an electrically conducting and electroactive ...

Active exoskeletons are potentially more effective and versatile than passive ones, but designing them poses a number of additional challenges. An important open challenge in the field is associated to the assistive ...

The problem of fast viscous steady Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a rectangular enclosure is revisited using asymptotic and numerical methods. There are two generic cases: in the first, there is zero shear stress at all ...

My thesis intent is to provide new ways of seeing and understanding Limerick City. New perspectives that may encourage and promote a fresh approach to our attitude regarding the built environment around us. The main site ...