Doctor of Education

Farrelly, Marian (2009) Care and performativity: walking the tightrope a case study in an educationally disadvantaged setting. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Sullivan, Carol (2009) E pluribus unum? Maintaining social cohesion while recognising difference within contemporary Irish primary education. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Motherway, Colman (2009) Enabling, hearing and giving weight to students’ views of special schooling in 21st century Ireland: do ‘dilemmas of difference’ apply? Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Lysaght, Zita ORCID: 0000-0002-0897-4710 (2009) From Balkanisation to boundary crossing: using a teacher learning community to explore the Impact of assessment on teaching and learning in a disadvantaged school. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Donnell, Margaret (2009) Inclusive education policy: teachers’ efficacy beliefs for Including pupils with special educational needs in Irish mainstream primary schools. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Brien, Niamh (2009) Irish schools as communities of practice for citizenship education: the experiences of one particular primary school. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Farrell, Deirdre (2009) Is now and ever shall be? Authentic catholic primary education in postmodern Ireland. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Jordan, Mags (2009) Learning to be ‘teacher’: a case study of ten beginning primary teachers in urban schools in designated areas of socio-economic disadvantage. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

McCutcheon, Fintan (2009) One year in the rough ground of practice: phronesis as a mode of educational leadership in a multicultural primary school. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Doherty, Carmel (2009) Teachers’ lives within the contexts of policy, change and reform in Irish primary education. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

McDaid, Rory (2009) Tears, teachers, tension and transformation?: minority language children reflect on the recognition of their first languages in Irish primary schools. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Keeffe, Michael (2009) The rarely heard voice: students with moderate general learning disability speak of their experiences in mainstream schools. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Business Studies

Walsh, Aidan (2009) Hayekian insights into intra-firm coordination: exploring the rule following perspective. Master of Business Studies thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Engineering

Griffin, Colin (2009) An automated cleaning system for hospitals. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Toner, Deborah (2009) An investigation into stent expansion using numerical and experimental techniques. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Paşcu, Elena Irina (2009) Bioactive and biodegradable scaffolds for hard tissue engineering. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Hasan, Shahriar (2009) Design of experiment analysis of high velocity oxy-fuel coating of hydroxyapatite. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Ben Azouz, Aymen (2009) Development of teat sensing system for automated milking. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Slater, Conor (2009) Discrete metered fluid injection: development of a robust autonomous reagent based optical chemical sensor. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Clarke, Andrew (2009) Finite volume analysis and optimisation of a high pressure homogeniser. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Ramachandruni, Radha Krishna (2009) Speeding up Adaboost object detection with motion segmentation and Haar feature acceleration. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Begley, Seán (2009) Content based image pose manipulation. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Wall, James (2009) Improvement of the efficiency in a submersible pump motor. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Szűcs, Tamás D. (2009) Production of hard tissue scaffolds using three-dimensional printing method. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Laws

Yuko, Elizabeth Ivana (2009) Theories, practices and promises: human trafficking laws and policies in destination states of the Council of Europe. Master of Laws thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Science

Péporté, Michèle (2009) Generating realistic, animated human gestures in order to model, analyse and recognize Irish Sign Language. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Healy, Aoife (2009) Identification of the biomechanical performance determining factors of the 5 iron golf swing when hitting for maximum distance. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Sweeney, Rory (2009) STM, LEED and photoemission studies of the Sn/Cu(100) surface alloys. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Gallagher, Andrea (2009) Developing thinking with four and five year old pupils: the impact of a cognitive acceleration programme through early science skill development. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Purcell, Martha (2009) High performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in environmental and biological matrices. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

McCrudden, Edel Brid (2009) Questioning for appropriate assessment and learning. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Suresh, Patricia (2009) Stress and stressors in the clinical environment: a comparative study of fourth-year student nurses and newly qualified general nurses in Ireland. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

PhD

Ghassempur, Susanne (2009) "Tha' sounds like me arse!": a comparison of the translation of expletives in two German translations of Roddy Doyle's "The commitments". PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kelly-Coll, Clare (2009) A psycholinguistic exploration of focus of attention in second language learning based on recent research findings from the field of motor skill learning. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Lovatt, James (2009) Addressing the learning of chemistry at undergraduate level: towards the development of independent learning. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Morris, Roisin (2009) Advancing our understanding of nursing work and work role effectiveness: is the Irish nursing minimum data set for mental health psychometrically robust and can it be used to inform nursing sensitive patient outcomes? PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bondarczuk, Krzysztof (2009) All-optical processing for terabit/s wavelength division multiplexed systems using two-photon absorption in a semiconductor micro-cavity. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Conlon, Thomas (2009) Alternative risk management: correlation and complexity. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Wilkins, Peter (2009) An investigation into weighted data fusion for content-based multimedia information retrieval. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Xu, Tao (2009) Analysis, simulation and design of nonlinear RF circuits. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Heanue, Kevin (2009) Aspects of the furniture industry in Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Decraene, James (2009) Autocatalytic closure and the evolution of cellular information processing networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Zhechev, Ventsislav (2009) Automatic generation of parallel treebanks: an efficient unsupervised system. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hennessy, Alan A. (2009) BIOCLA: biotechnological approaches for the development of functional foods enriched in bioactive lipids. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dunne, Aubrey K. (2009) Calibration of non-conventional imaging systems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McCormack, Lorraine (2009) Cognitive acceleration across the primary-second level transition. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kerr, Gráinne (2009) Computational analysis of gene expression data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Senthil Kumar, Sundararaj (2009) Computations of bubble dynamics with heat transfer. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ma, Yanjun (2009) Constrained word alignment models for statistical machine translation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Melia, Mark (2009) Constraint-based validation of e-learning courseware. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Seifu, Michael (2009) Credible commitment and economic growth in Africa. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Pálmai Bánki, Katalin (2009) Crossing borders from Hungary to Ireland: the cross-cultural adaptation of Hungarian refugees from the 1940s and their compatriots from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Adeoye, Adeyinka O. Moses (2009) Customer-led conceptual design system. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Mohamad Ali, Nazlena (2009) Design, deployment and assessment of a movie archive system in a film studies context. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kent, Nigel J. (2009) Development of a microfluidic platform and detection system for platelet function analysis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Finn, David J. (2009) Discontentment and knowledge spillovers in an emerging high-tech industry: a study of the emergence of the RFID industry. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Killeen, Maria T. (2009) Endothelial cell impact on smooth muscle cell properties: role of hemodynamic forces. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Uwah, Innocent Ebere (2009) From rituals to films: a case study of the visual rhetoric of Igbo culture in Nolywood films. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Townsend, Sue (2009) Genetic engineering of antibody fragments for the detection of illicit drugs. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Tierman, Bairbre (2009) How do children with reading difficulties learn to read in first class? PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Maurya, Priyanka (2009) Identification of proteins associated with cancerous and invasive phenotypes of breast and melanoma cells using proteomic approaches. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Philbin, Mark (2009) Identity commitment in the context of psychosis: a grounded theory study. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ge, Mouzhi (2009) Information quality assessment and effects on inventory decision-making. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dardis, John (2009) Interactions of intense optical and extreme-ultraviolet lasers with atoms and solids. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kumar, Niraj (2009) Investigation of the molecular mechanisms regulating growth and recombinant protein productivity in suspension-adapted CHO-K1 cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Muniyappa, Mohan Kumar (2009) Investigation of the molecular mechanisms underlying the invasive phenotype in a panel of lung cancer cell lines. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bourke, Simon (2009) Media and heritage in Ireland: representations of heritage in Irish newspapers and the praxis of determination. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bradley, Patrick (2009) Model-order reduction techniques for the numerical solution of electromagnetic wave scattering problems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Fitzgerald, Niall J. (2009) Modelling the neutralisation process in neutral beam injectors. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Wu, Huizhong (2009) On the pathwise large deviations of stochatic differential and functional differential equations with applications to finance. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Byrne, Brian (2009) Opportunist to risk manager: reverse engineering the Taylor rule. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Krings, Torben (2009) Organised labour and migration in the global age: a comparative analysis of trade union responses to migrant labour in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the UK. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Groarke, Robert (2009) Photophysical investigation of composite systems of metal complexes and nanostructured substrates. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

García-Alonso García, Diana (2009) Plasma spray deposition of hydroxyapatite based composites as a step towards bone scaffolds. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Pearce, Colman (2009) Portfolio of original compositions with analytical commentary. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Reilly, Isobel (2009) Potentiation of drug-induced cytotoxicity by conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) in in vitro models of drug-resistant cancer. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Rourke, Damien (2009) Practical packet combining for use with cooperative and non-cooperative ARQ schemes in wireless sensor networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Eltmimi, Ali (2009) Preparation, characterisation and modification of porous carbon monolithic materials for chromatographic and electrochemical applications. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Flanagan, Marian (2009) Recycling texts: human evaluation of example-based machine translation subtitles for DVD. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Caffrey, Colm (2009) Relevant abuse? Investigating the effects of an abusive subtitling procedure on the perception of TV anime using eye tracker and questionnaire. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Eosoly, Szilvia (2009) Selective laser sintering of polycaprolactone/bioceramic composite bone scaffolds. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Lanagan, James (2009) Social impact retrieval: measuring author influence on information retrieval. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Byrne, Declan J. (2009) Spirit Christology and trinity in the theology of David Coffey. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Daly, Justin (2009) Stability-based, random matrix theory filtering of financial portfolios. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Spillman, Scott D. (2009) Standardized development of microarray technology via substrate-independent surface coatings. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Swords, Catherine (2009) Stochastic delay difference and differential equations: applications to financial markets. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Connors, Paul (2009) Strategic communication through all stages of a major emergency life cycle, with particular reference to the needs of Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McMahon, Kenneth (2009) Structural and functional characterisation of lectins from the PA-IL superfamily. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Trnavsky, Michal (2009) Surface plasmon-coupled emission for applications in biomedical diagnostics. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dowling, David J. (2009) The immunomodulatory properties of helminth-derived products on dendritic cell maturation and function. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Murphy, Kenneth W. (2009) The political economy of Irish television broadcasting policy 1997 - 2007. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Guha, Shaunta (2009) The role of GSK-3β in notch signalling in vascular smooth muscle cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Colombo, Alberto (2009) The role of altered cyclic strain patterns on proliferation and apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells - implications for in-stent restenosis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Merton, Eve (2009) The science communication environment: biotechnology researchers' discourse on communication. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Guo, Yuqing (2009) Treebank-based acquisition of Chinese LFG resources for parsing and generation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Rehbein, Ines (2009) Treebank-based grammar acquisition for German. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dowling, Jennifer K. (2009) Unravelling the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of dietary fatty acids. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Vrana, Nihal Engin (2009) Use of poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) cryogelation for tissue engineering: composites, scaffold formation and cell encapsulation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Maher, Robert D. (2009) Wavelength tunable transmitters for future reconfigurable agile optical networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Deegan, Brian (2009) Working towards alkaloid macrocycles. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dunne, Cameron R. (2009) An architecture and protocol, an access control model, and a sighting blurring algorithm for improving users' security in the context of location based services operating over the internet. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Garvey, John F. (2009) An investigation into the characteristics of equity volatility and its implications for derivative strategies. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ekreem, Nasser B. (2009) An investigation of electromagnetic rig-generated strong magnetic fields. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Qiang, Zeng (2009) Assembly and charge transport in interfacial polymeric and supramolecular thin films. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Lacey, Clair A. (2009) Assessment of pharmaceutical residue levels in three Irish sewage treatment plants. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Raghunath, Arvind (2009) Attenuation of botulinum toxin mediated blockade of exocytosis at neuromuscular junctions by viral vector mediated gene transfer into spinal motor neurons. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kowalska, Ewa (2009) Chiral macrocycles based on the morphine scaffold. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McDermott, Barry (2009) Critical appraisal of product development expertise in Irish SMEs. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Fedor, Szymon (2009) Cross-layer energy optimisation of routing protocols in wireless sensor networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheerin, Peter E. (2009) Development of planar langmuir probes for supersonic plasma flows. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheridan, Eoin E. (2009) Electrodeposited nanoparticles: properties and photocatalytic applications. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Morrissey, Saibh (2009) Environmentally-benign imidazolium-based ionic liquids: synthesis, characterisation and applications in hydrogenation reactions. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Brunton, James ORCID: 0000-0001-7223-0524 (2009) Identity-portfolio-management: a data-led research study of organisational entrant engagement in processes of identity-creation and identity management. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gorman, Bernard (2009) Imitation learning through games: theory, implementation and evaluation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Butler, John M.J. (2009) Implementation of quality management in the public sector versus the private sector: a cultural analysis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gillan, Mary (2009) In the shadow of the church: Irish and Quebec cinema. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Mallon, Colm (2009) Interfacial electroactive assemblies: from molecular electronics to biological applications. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Al-Taha, Zuhair Y. (2009) Investigation into laser re-melting of inconel 625 HVOF coating blended with WC. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hayden, Chanel (2009) Investigation of ion mass diagnostics for plasma processing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Rani, Sweta (2009) Investigation of molecular and cellular events associated with beta cell function and elucidation of extracellular RNAs as potential biomarker for diabetes. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Smyth, Frank ORCID: 0000-0002-1768-1143 (2009) Investigation of performance issues affecting optical circuit and packet switched WDM networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hassan, Hany (2009) Lexical syntax for statistical machine translation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bayley, Austin (2009) Living on the borderline - an evaluation of the client impact and active ingredients of dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder in Irish adult mental health settings. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Meledandri, Carla (2009) NMR studies of membrane-bound nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Corry, Alan J. (2009) Novel ferrocenyl benzoyl peptide esters as anti-cancer agents and ferrocenoyl self assembled monolayers as anion sensors. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Banahan, Caroline (2009) One and two photon absorption of atoms and ions. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Blighe, Michael (2009) Organising and structuring a visual diary using visual interest point detectors. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine (2009) Part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing for Irish using finite-state transducers and constraint grammar. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Doyle, David (2009) Partisan politics in the southern cone: is there anything left for the left? Political institutions, privatisation and policy outcome. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Doherty, Aiden R. ORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702 (2009) Providing effective memory retrieval cues through automatic structuring and augmentation of a lifelog of images. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McDonnell, Stephen (2009) Spectroscopic characterisation of high dielectric constant materials on semiconducting surfaces. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Vergani, Susanna D. (2009) Studies on the gamma-ray burst phenomenon and on its use to probe the high redshift universe. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gillespie, Eoin (2009) The formation, modification and characterisation of monolithic ion exchangers for separation science. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Healy, Gary (2009) The importance of non-functional factors in explaining delegation to non-governmental agencies: the case study of radio spectrum. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Browne, Brigid (2009) The role of receptor tyrosine kinase signalling in HER-2-positive cells and trastuzumab (Herceptin) resistance in breast cancer. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Halloran, Neil (2009) The synthesis and structural characterisation of novel 4- and 5- membered nitrogen heterocycles derived from azoacetates. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ní Dhochartaigh, Sorcha (2009) Evaluation of SNAREs and K+ channels as targets for novel therapeutics. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.