While nanocrystalline materials offer numerous advantages in various applications due to their superior properties, the presence of grain boundaries inherent to these materials can have a detrimental impact on their ...

This thesis is about children, childhood and the parent child relationship in Ireland in the context of Autism Spectrum Disorder and these issues are explored qualitatively, primarily from the typically developing child’s ...

Title: Immunopathological features of early age cancer: microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer Background and hypothesis Deciphering the interplay between tumour biology and the immune system may aid the design ...

In the last few decades, there has been growing concern about the decline in insect communities in Europe, including pollinators. One-third of syrphids and butterflies are considered to be in decline, and nearly one out ...

Haemophilia B is a rare X-linked bleeding disorder resulting from a deficiency of clotting factor IX (FIX), with severe haemophilia B defined as FIX levels < 0.01 IU/mL. Severe haemophilia is characterised by haemarthrosis, ...

Recently, the human resource management (HRM) literature has witnessed a burgeoning interest in examining front-line managers' (FLMs) implementation behaviors of adopted HRM. While this stream of research has made significant ...

Do fossil fuel interest groups and companies engage in systematic participation in institutions of state-society relations such as public consultations in pursuit of policy influence in the area of environment and climate? ...

Aim It is increasingly understood that social frailty poses a significant challenge to aging in place for older adults. However, our understanding of this health state is limited to studies involving older adults in the ...

The Butler Library, the topic of this thesis, is a collection of books which was given to Trinity College in the late eighteenth century. Theophilus Butler, Baron Newtown-Butler, a Dublin based politician who died in 1723, ...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is well-established in application to cancer screening programmes. CEAs of screening differ from analyses of therapeutic interventions as the choice of strategies for comparison is not ...