Introduction: In frail older people, polypharmacy (5 or more regular prescribed medicines) and the prescription of potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) are known to be prevalent and linked to negative clinical outcomes. ...

Electron microscopes use fast-moving electrons as illumination to generate high resolution images down to the atomic scale. They are a valuable tool in various research fields, from palaeontology to material science. Low ...

Learning from natural language is one of the great challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). Word meanings evolve over time and one of the challenges is how to model such dynamic behaviour. ...

Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) is a major cause of urinary tract infections, bacteraemia, and sepsis. This laboratory, among others, has previously shown that prototypic urosepsis strain CFT073 is ...

This doctoral thesis delves into the largely uncharted territory of overpriced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. market from 2000 to 2020, focusing on three distinctive investigations. Grounded in a thorough ...

Government-business relations were vital in shaping the initial decades of the Irish economy. While broad-based autarchy was the governing paradigm of the secondary, or manufacturing, part of the economy, less is known ...

Over the past decade, there has been an increase in decolonial/postcolonial approaches to peace, peacebuilding and peace education pedagogy, with scholars asking scholar-practitioners and practitioners to rethink `the ...

This thesis explores the link between Irish traditional/folk music and left-wing political organisation in Ireland and the United States of America in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies. The study begins in 1951 ...

This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ...

The principal aim of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate the influence of additive manufacturing on the acoustic performance of 3D printed periodic materials. First, a benchmark material design was ...