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Analogous states: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the performance of ethnography
(2016-12-09)The thesis presents J. M. Synge and Zora Neale Hurston as autoethnographic researcher-practitioners who employed important cultural forms in their theatre, such as the keen and the cakewalk, in order to challenge the ... -
Pure culture, co-culture and whole ecosystem investigations of single anaerobes, partnerships and microbial communities in anaerobic digestion
(2017-10-20)Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a multi-stage process whereby biodegradable material is broken down by complex microbial consortia into renewable CH4 in the absence of oxygen during waste and wastewater treatment. Anaerobic ... -
MicroRNAs as biomarkers and therapeutics in breast cancer
(2017-05-25)Micro(mi)RNAs have potential as both therapeutics and circulating biomarkers of disease. This study investigates potential breast cancer biomarkers miR-138, miR-504 and miR-379. Furthermore, it investigates the impact that ... -
The path to success: A study of user behaviour and success criteria in online communities
(ACM, 2017-08-23)Maintaining online communities is vital in order to increase and retain their economic and social value. That is why community managers look to gauge the success of their communities by measuring a variety of user behaviour, ... -
Negotiating the landscape: Prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscape of esker and bog
(2017-10-20)The aim of this thesis is to understand movement and the evolution of routeways. The role of the individual and their decision-making process is discussed as a fundamental factor in the origins of paths and routeways. This ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Working with families, a review of the literature on parental participation
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Dialogue, ethics, and the aesthetic worth of life
(The Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, 2014)The ones who dictate and act for their own survival regardless of the existence of otherness soon realize, often too late, that there cannot be such a survival. To realize this is simply to understand the nature of the ... -
Collective intelligence design and a new politics of system change
(Liguori Editore, 2017)While internet technologies may support an emergent wisdom of the crowd and new enhanced forms of political engagement, iterative design of technology is needed to better support our collective intelligence and collective ... -
Predicting the long-term performance of low-cost phosphorus-sorbing materials using small-scale adsorption column experiments
(2017-07-31)Anthropogenic phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) inputs to aquatic environments have rapidly increased in magnitude since the middle of the twentieth century, and nutrient pollution has become the primary threat to global ... -
Freedom of expression and the contours of political speech in Ethiopia: Lessons from a comparative study
(2017-08-20)The doctoral thesis studies the scope and application of the right to freedom of expression and the contours of political speech in Ethiopia. In particular, the research focuses on two fundamental areas of speech regulation-the ... -
When paradigms clash: Irish labour market institutions and the unemployment crisis
(2017-10-18)The recent Irish economic and financial crisis had significant impacts on the performance of the labour market and was also associated with major changes to labour market policies and institutions. Drawing on Douglass ... -
Ecosystem services and environmental impacts associated with commercial kelp aquaculture
(2017-07-11)Wild kelp forests represent one of the most productive habitats on Earth, suppling ecosystem services, including, but not limited to, biodiversity, habitat provision, food web subsidy, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration ... -
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ... -
Foucault and the colonial subject: Emergent forms of colonial governmentality in early modern Ireland
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The dark side of humanity: psychopathy, psychiatry and human nature
(2017-10-11)Psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder is generally conceived as a neurophysiological disorder undermining moral reasoning or sentiment, leading to behaviour which contravenes social and moral norms. This psychiatric ... -
Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
(SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ... -
Multiple myeloma: The role of glycosylation in disease development and progression.
(2017-09-09)Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal plasma cell disorder that is characterized by skeletal destruction, renal failure, anaemia and hypercalcaemia. MM cells are intimately associated with the bone marrow microenvironment, ... -
A case study of collecting dynamic social data: The pro-ana twitter community
(Australian National University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, 2015)The study of social processes in on-line social media content is a relatively new and rapidly growing endeavour. Many social media platforms provide a public API (Application Programming Interface) which can be used for ... -
Biomaterial scaffolds and genetically modified stem cells - An Investigation of their potential in bone repair
(2017-10-10)The task of repairing large sections of bone tissue lost due to major trauma or pathology poses a significant challenge in orthopedic healthcare. The medical intervention often resorted to consists of a combination of ...