Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Positive Effects of Exercise on Active Transplant Recipients and its impact on Medication Adherence, Travane Morrison
Role of sodium and potassium in the diet of school-aged children in Ireland: Findings from the National Children’s Food Survey II, Eoin James Morrissey
Sodium and Potassium Intakes and Their Ratio in Adults (18–90 y): Findings from the Irish National Adult Nutrition Survey, Eoin James Morrissey, Miriam Giltinan, Laura Kehoe, Anne P. Nugent, Breige A. McNulty, Albert Flynn, and Janette Walton
Estimates of Sodium and Potassium Intake and Their Molar Ratio in Irish Children: Preliminary Findings From NCFSII, Eoin James Morrissey, Laura Kehoe, Aoibhin Moore Heslin, Maria Buffini, Breige McNulty, Anne Nugent, John Kearney, Albert Flynn, and Janette Walton
Encountering Grief: Exploring the Value of Art Therapy for Bereaved Adults, Paul Moynihan
The Use Of Three-Dimensional Conjugate CFD To Enhance Understanding Of, And To Verify, Multi-Modal Heat Transfer In Dynamic Laboratory Test Walls, Rakshit D. M, Tim O'Leary, Ronan Hogan, Anthony James Robinson, and Aimee Byrne
Development of a Grass Measurement Optimisation Tool to Efficiently Measure Herbage Mass on Grazed Pastures, D. J. Murphy, B. O'Brien, and Michael D. Murphy
Analysis and Design of a Novel Heavy-Duty Precast Element, Daniel Naughton, Michael Naughton, Michael O'Sullivan, and Suhaib Salawdeh
Developing a Common Framework for a Bridge Management System at National Level, Thomas Neeson, Myra Lydon, Kristopher Campbell, Nicola Ann Stevens, Adelle Marshall, and Aleksander Novakovic
Modelling the Thermal Behaviour of a Precast PCM Enhanced Concrete Cladding Panel, Dervilla Niall, Roger P. West, Oliver Kinnane, and Richard Hegarty
Help-Seeking Behaviour for Fatigue in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Doireann Ní Dhálaigh
Viability Analysis of Tralee’s District Heating System, Ed O’Connor
Computational Modelling of Next Generation Materials For Steel Catenary Risers In The Offshore Industry, Padraic O'Donoghue, Ronan Devaney, and Seán B. Leen
Passive Control Strategies for Cooling a Non-Residential Nearly Zero Energy Office: Simulated Comfort Resilience Now and in the Future, Adam O'Donovan, Michael D. Murphy, and Paul D. O'Sullivan
Teaching of Structural Analysis into the Future, Dermot O'Dwyer
Predicting Mortar Compressive Strength Using HYDCEM, Ewoma Ogoro, Niall Holmes, Denis Kelliher, and Mark Tyrer
Operational And Embodied Energy Analysis Of 8 Single-Occupant Dwellings Retrofit To Nzeb Standard, Richard O'Hegarty, Shane Colclough, Oliver Kinnane, Donal Lennon, and Etienne Rieux
Increased Diversity and Novel Subtypes among Clinical Cryptosporidium Parvum and Cryptosporidium Hominis Isolates in Southern Ireland, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Liam Blake, Gerard D. Corcoran, Roy D. Sleator, and Brigid Lucey
Development of Novel Methodology For the Molecular Differentiation of Cryptosporidium Parvum Gp60 Subtypes Via High Resolution Melting Analysis, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Liam Blake, Gerard D. Corcoran, Roy D. Sleator, and Brigid Lucey
Validation of an Automated Body Condition Scoring System Using 3D Imaging, Niall O'Leary; Lorenzo Leso; Frank Buckley; Jonathon Kenneally; True North Technologies, Shannon Business Centre, Shannon, Clare, Ireland;; and Laurence Shalloo
An Exploration of the Motivations and Behaviours of Generation Z Festival-Goers in Ireland., Sinéad O'Mahony
Living with PKU: The Lived Experience of Irish Adults with Early Diagnosed Phenylketonuria on Long Term Dietary Therapy, Mary-Ellen O'Shea
The use of bacteriophages to control and detect pathogens in the dairy industry, Lisa O'Sullivan, Declan Bolton, Olivia McAuliffe, and Aidan Coffey
Close Knit: Using Consumption Communities to Overcome Loneliness, Maire O Sullivan and Brendan Richardson
Wind Power Prediction and Early Downtime Detection for Ireland, Vikram Pakrashi, Basuraj Bhowmik, Juan Manuel González-Sopeña, Paul Mucchielli, and Bidisha Ghosh
Instrumented Trains as a Probe for Structural Health Monitoring of Railway Infrastructure, Vikram Pakrashi, Claire McGeown, Rohit Chawla, David Hester, Alexandra Micu, and Eugene O'Brien
Fish Farm Monitoring for Blue Growth, Vikram Pakrashi, Wenliang Qiu, Michael O'Byrne, Paul Cahill, Basuraj Bhowmik, and Bidisha Ghosh
Optimizing an interleaved p-n junction to reduce energy dissipation in silicon slow-light modulators, Marco Passoni, Dario Gerace, Liam O'Faolain, and Lucio Claudio Andreani
Effectiveness of current hygiene practices on minimization of Listeria monocytogenes in different mushroom production-related environments, Vincenzo Pennone, Kenneth Lyonel Dygico, Aidan Coffey, Cormac G.M. Gahan, Helen Grogan, Olivia McAuliffe, Catherine M. Burgess, and Kieran Jordan
Control of energy storage utilisation for a building integrated microgrid using multi-objective metaheuristic optimisation methods, Quang An Phan
Beam-to-Column Minor Axis Moment Connections, Ali Purcell, John J. Murphy, and Kieran Ruane
Development and Testing of a Deployable Double Layer Tensegrity Grid, Michael Quilligan, Valentin Gomez-Jauregui, Cristina Manchado, and Cesar Otero
Loading on Long Span Bridges in Heavily Trafficked Areas, Michael Quilligan and Eugene O'Brien
Analysis and Optimisation of TII’s PAMS Reset Values and Deterioration Models for Irish Pavement Conditions, James Quinn, Raymond McGowan, and Tomas O'Flaherty
Analysis and Optimisation of TII’s PAMS Reset Values and Deterioration Models for Irish Pavement Conditions, James Quinn, Raymond McGowan, and Tomas O'Flaherty
Finite Element Appraisal of the Strut and Tie Method for the Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Seán Quinn and Kieran Ruane
Validation Of Finite Element Light Rail Bridge Model Using Dynamic Bridge Deflection Measurement, Paraic Quirke and António Barrias
A Two-Stage Direct Integration Approach to Find The Railway Track Profile Using In-Service Trains, Yifei Ren, Jennifer Kennahan, and Eugene O'Brien
Application of Mannitol Producing Leuconostoc Citreum TR116 to Reduce Sugar Content of Barley, Oat and Wheat Malt-Based Worts, Tom Rice, Aylin W. Sahin, Mareile Heitmann, Kieran M. Lynch, Fritz Jacob, Elke K. Arendt, and Aidan Coffey
Isolation, characterisation and exploitation of lactic acid bacteria capable of efficient conversion of sugars to mannitol, Tom Rice, Aylin W. Sahin, Kieran M. Lynch, Elke K. Arendt, and Aidan Coffey
A Review of Polyols–Biotechnological Production, Food Applications, Regulation, Labeling and Health Effects, Tom Rice, Emanuele Zannini, Elke K. Arendt, and Aidan Coffey
Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2020: Conference Proceedings, Kieran Ruane, Vesna Jaksic, Bidisha Ghosh, Magdalena Hajdukiewicz, Ciaran Hanley, Niall Holmes, Jennifer Keenahan, Zili Li, Patrick McGetrick, Ted McKenna, Mary Moloney, Vikram Pakrashi, and Niamh Power
Temperature Profiles Of Private Rental Housing Occupied By Third Level Students In Ireland, Ailbhe Ryan, Eimear Walsh, Paul Moran, and Jamie Goggins
Impact Of Occupant Behaviour On Indoor Environment Of A-Rated Dwellings, Niti Saini, Patrick Shiel, Roger P. West, Ruth Kerrigan, and Ian Pyburn
Direct Displacement Based Seismic Design of Irregular CBFs, Suhaib Salawdeh
Performance Based Design Approach for Reinforced Concrete Precast Structures, Suhaib Salawdeh and Naveed Ahmad
Hydraulics of Scour in the Vicinity of a FlexiArch bridge, Prabuddha Sathurusinghe, Gerard Hamill, Su Taylor, and Desmond Robinson
Validation of a Lysis Buffer Containing 4 M Guanidinium Thiocyanate (GITC)/ Triton X-100 for Extraction of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for COVID-19 Testing: Comparison of Formulated Lysis Buffers Containing 4 to 6 M GITC, Roche External Lysis Buffer and Qiagen RTL Lysis Buffer, Martina F. Scallan, Catherine Dempsey, John McSharry, Isabelle O'Callaghan, Paula M. O'Connor, Conor P. Horgan, Edel Durack, Paul D. Cotter, Sarah Hudson, Humphrey A. Moynihan, and Brigid Lucey
Effect of Motorways on Road Safety in Ireland, Parth B. Shah, Ajinkya S. Mane, and Bidisha Ghosh
Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Mobile- Internet of Things (M-IoT): A Survey, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Karl Andersson, Francesco Palmieri, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Jaedeock Lim
St. Mary and St. Anne Cathedral, Cork: An Optimum Heating Solution for Heritage Buildings?, Christopher Shiell and Roger P. West
The Effect of Concentrate Supplementation on Milk Production and Cow Traffic in Early and Late Lactation in a Pasture-Based Automatic Milking System, John Shortall, Cathriona Foley, Roy D. Sleator, and Bernadette O'Brien
COVID-19: In the Absence of Vaccination – ‘Mask-the-Nation’, Roy D. Sleator, Steven Darby, Alan Giltinan, and Niall Smith
Conversion Of Legacy Inspection Data To Bridge Condition Index (BCI) To Establish Baseline Deterioration Condition History For Predictive Maintenance Models., Nicola Ann Stevens, Myra Lydon, Kristopher Campbell, Thomas Neeson, Adelle Marshall, and S. E. Taylor
Lobbying on the German Federal Level: The Unknown Shift Through Digital Transformation, Kathrin Stürmer, Gearóid Ó' Súilleabháin, Pio Fenton, and Lars Rademacher
Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Web Openings, Gerry Sweeney and Suhaib Salawdeh
DEAL: Differentially Private Auction for Blockchain based Microgrids Energy Trading, Muneeb Ul Hassan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Jinjun Chen
Differential Privacy Techniques for Cyber Physical Systems: A Survey, Muneeb Ul Hassan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Jinjun Chen
A V-LINC Analysis of Agrifood and Tourism Specialisations in West Cork: Analysis, Impressions and Policies for Future Growth, Brigid Mary Walsh
Acceleration Based Bridge Weigh in Motion Using Moving Force, Shou Wang, Daniel McCrum, and Eugene O'Brien
Teaching Engineering Materials Through Experiential Learning, Roger P. West, David Taylor, Martin Burke, Michael Grimes, and Shane Hunt
Examining Large Student Cohorts - A Question of Questions, Roger P. West and Michael A. Wride
Development and Localisation of Ultra High Performance Concrete using a Particle Packing Model, William Wilson and Tomas O'Flaherty
The Challenge of Research Supervision: The Experience of Lecturers in Various Academic Disciplines, Angela Wright
Simulation of Traffic Loading on Long Span Bridges, Hang Zhang and Michael Quilligan
A Numerical Study of the Effect of Wind Barriers on Traffic and the Bridge Deck, Yuxiang Zhang, Philip Cardiff, and Jennifer Keenahan
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Developing a Model of Post Incubation Support for New and Growing Ventures, Miriam Adair
Biological determinants of physical activity across the life course: A “determinants of diet and physical activity” (dedipac) umbrella systematic literature review, Katina Aleksovska, Anna Puggina, Luca Giraldi, Christoph Buck, Con Burns, Greet Cardon, Angela Carlin, Simon Chantal, Donatella Ciarapica, Marco Colotto, Giancarlo Condello, Tara Coppinger, Cristina Cortis, Sara D’haese, Marieke De Craemer, Andrea Di Blasio, Sylvia Hansen, Licia Iacoviello, Johann Issartel, Pascal Izzicupo, Lina Jaeschke, Martina Kanning, Aileen Kennedy, Fiona Ling, Agnes Luzak, Giorgio Napolitano, Julie Anne Nazare, Camille Perchoux, Tobias Pischon, Angela Polito, Alessandra Sannella, and Holger Schulz
Effective Capacity in Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey, Muhammad Amjad, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Leila Musavian
A Strategic Approach to Amplifying an Experiential Event using Social Currency to Reach a Mass Audience, Holly Barry, Rose Leahy, and Pio Fenton
Crystallographic studies on host-interacting proteins of phage K virion, Antonio Pichel Beleiro
Improvement of taste and shelf life of yeasted low-salt bread containing functional sourdoughs using Lactobacillus amylovorus DSM 19280 and Weisella cibaria MG1, Markus C.E. Belz, Claudia Axel, Elke K. Arendt, Kieran M. Lynch, Brid Brosnan, Elizabeth M. Sheehan, Aidan Coffey, and Emanuele Zannini
‘A Healthy CIT’: An Investigation into Student Health Metrics, Lifestyle Behaviours and the Predictors of Positive Mental Health in an Irish Higher Education Setting, Andrea Bickerdike, Joan Dineen, and Cian O'Neill
The Digital Family Business? Family Ownership, Family Management, and Digital Adoption, Jane Bourke, Niamh Lenihan, and Stephen Roper
Modelling and simulation of renewable technologies for economic and environmental analysis and optimization of dairy farms, Michael Christopher Breen
Development of a Dairy Multi-Objective Optimization (DAIRYMOO) Method for Economic and Environmental Optimization of Dairy Farms, Michael Breen, Michael D. Murphy, and J. Upton
An Investigation of the Impact of Nursing Support and the Financial Implications Associated with CPAP Adherence, Christine Brunnick
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults, Con Burns, Tara Coppinger, Janette Walton, and Et Al
Frequency modulated hybrid photonic crystal laser by thermal tuning, Sharon M. Butler, Andrei P. Bakoz, Praveen K.J. Singaravelu, A. A. Liles, Ben O’Shaughnessy, E. A. Viktorov, Liam O'Faolain, and Stephen P. Hegarty
Experimental electric field visualisation of multi-mode dynamics in a short cavity swept laser designed for OCT applications, T. P. Butler, D. Goulding, S. Slepneva, Ben O’Shaughnessy, Stephen P. Hegarty, G. Huyet, and B. Kelleher
Machine Learning for Real-Time Data-Driven Security Practices, Shane Coleman
The Economic Value of a Place-Based Resource for Regional Development, Aisling Conway Lenihan and Helen McGuirk
The Economic Value of a Place-Based Resource for Regional Development, Aisling ConwayLenihan and Helen McGuirk
Malnutrition in the elderly, Clodagh Corcoran, Craig Murphy, Eamonn P. Culligan, Janette Walton, and Roy D. Sleator
A Rapid Viability and Drug‑Susceptibility Assay Utilizing Mycobacteriophage as an Indicator of Drug Susceptibilities of Anti‑TB Drugs against Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155, Gillian Catherine Crowley, Jim O'Mahony, Aidan Coffey, Riona G. Sayers, and Paul D. Cotter
A rapid viability and drug-susceptibility assay utilizing mycobacteriophage as an indicator of drug susceptibilities of Anti-TB drugs against Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155, Gillian Crowley, Jim O'Mahony, Aidan Coffey, Riona Sayers, and Paul Cotter
Draft Genome Sequence of Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus CITCf01, Isolated from a Patient with Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis, Eamonn P. Culligan, Caoimhe Lynch, Aidan Coffey, Roy D. Sleator, Brigid Lucey, and Et. al.
The Influence of Employer Branding in Talent Management in the Hotel Industry, Donagh Davern, Leo Jago, and Margaret Deery
The Yin and Yang of Business Strategy, Edward Dennehy
Excitable Interplay Between Lasing Quantum Dot States, Michael Dillane, I. Dubinkin, N. Fedorov, T. Erneux, David Goulding, B. Kelleher, and E.A. Viktorov
A Bridge Rehabilitation Strategy Based on the Analysis of a Dataset of Bridge Inspections in Co. Cork, Liam Dromey
An Explorative Case-Study of the use of PeerWise to Foster Student Centred, and Peer Supported, Learning in a First-Year Business Module, Anna Dynan and Barry J. Ryan
INSPEX: Optimize range sensors for environment perception as a portable system, Julie Foucault, Suzanne Lesecq, Gabriela Dudnik, Marc Correvon, Rosemary O’keeffe, Vincenza Di Palma, Marco Passoni, Fabio Quaglia, Laurent Ouvry, Steven Buckley, Jean Herveg, Andrea Di Matteo, Tiana Rakotovao, Olivier Debicki, Nicolas Mareau, John Barrett, Susan Rea, Alan McGibney, François Birot, Hugues de Chaumont, Richard Banach, Joseph Razavi, and Cian Ó’murchú
Fine Sediment Modeling During Storm-Based Events in the River Bandon, Ireland, Juan T. Garcia and Joseph R. Harrington
Building Sustainability Through Organisational Arrangements, Deirdre Goggin
Making Adult Skills Visible: Implications for Practice and Policy, Deirdre Goggin and Irene Sheridan
Towards the Identification and Assessment of Transversal Skills, Deirdre Goggin, Irene Sheridan, Fjóla Lárusdóttir, and Gigja Guðmundsdóttir
Policies Required to Encourage Biomethane as a Transport Fuel, Daniel Goulding