Doctor of Education

O'Farrell, Cora (2016) An exploration of children’s experiences of a process which provides opportunities for spiritual expression and development. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Morrison-Reilly, Ciara (2016) An exploration of smartphone microblogging supporting the device, learner and social aspects of mobile learning within post primary Religious Education. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Erica (2016) An exploration of stakeholders' perceptions of the 'mission to serve' in second-level fee charging Spiritan schools in Ireland. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Walsh, Orla (2016) Spiritan faith friends: an evaluation of faith development in a peer-ministry programme. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Sweetman, Bernadette (2016) Godparenthood in Ireland: an empirical study of the educational intentions influencing parental selection of godparents. Doctor of Education thesis, Dublin City University.

Doctor of Psychotherapy

Rodgers, Gerard Paul (2016) A phenomenological research study of gay men in Ireland: from disrespect to respect: the power of social critique for self-transcendence. Doctor of Psychotherapy thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Arts

Owens, Rosina (2016) Journeying to the heart of darkness: An analysis of genocide tourism. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

González Galeotti, Nicolás Pablo (2016) The politics of taxation in Central America. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Ziba, Muyanga Innocent (2016) What can a community radio contribute to health promotion in response to a health crisis/the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa? Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Engineering

Phelan, Thomas (2016) Development of an auditing methodology for Irish wastewater treatment plants. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Horrigan, Matthew (2016) The use of exergy analysis to benchmark the resource efficiency of municipal waste water treatment plants in Ireland. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Laws

Griffin, Arthur Luke Gerard (2016) Could Ireland opting in to the European Investigation Order have a detrimental effect on fair trials and fundamental rights protections in Ireland? Master of Laws thesis, Dublin City University.

Master of Science

Connolly, Rory (2016) Development and Evaluation of novel methods for the detection of trypsinogen activation peptide. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

McConnell, Nicola (2016) Microcavity supported lipid bilayers; biomimetic models of the cell membrane. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Patil, Nilesh Baliram (2016) Creating recombinant fusion protein conjugates for targeting SNARE protease into neuroendocrine cells. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Reilly, Brian (2016) Design and fabrication of biomedical platform technologies for improved diagnostic performance. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Marley, Adrian (2016) Development of chiral and achiral supercritical fluid chromatographic methods for the characterization of ophthalmic drug substances and drug products. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Chung, Danielle (2016) Highly scalable combinatorial mixing of samples with target-specific primers for rapid pathogen detection on a centrifugal platform. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Kelly, Noel (2016) Use of machine learning technology in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Solanki, Ankur (2016) microRNAs as potential tools for ‘miR’aculous CHO cell phenotypes in Bioprocessing systems. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Walsh, Denise (2016) A comparison of physical activity, physical fitness levels, BMI, and blood pressure of adults with intellectual disability, who do and do not take part in Special Olympics Ireland programmes. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

Garcia, Diego (2016) Escrow account and moral hazard. Master of Science thesis, Dublin City University.

PhD

Jaramillo, Artemisa (2016) Hypervideo meets product placement: a study of product placement and its recall and recognition effects in interactive digital music video. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Dietlmeier, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-9980-0910 (2016) A machine learning approach to the unsupervised segmentation of mitochondria in subcellular electron microscopy data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sharma, Shailesh (2016) Electrical plasma diagnostics for the measurement of ion related parameters at the substrate surface. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Zapatero-Rodríguez, Julia (2016) Generation and application of antibodies for detection of prostate cancer biomarkers. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Harman, Brian (2016) Influencing consumer resistance through priming: the role of mindsets and motivational orientation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Driscoll, Aileen (2016) Learning to sell sex(ism)? An analysis of gender in the educational cultures of advertising students in Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McNally, Brenda (2016) Media and low carbon transition: a multi-modal analysis of Print media themes and their implications for broader public engagement. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Babyk, Iurii (2016) Observational and theoretical study of the point sources of very high energy gamma-ray emission. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Longhao, Zou (2016) Innovative content delivery solutions in the future network heterogeneous environment. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Naimi, Sepideh T. (2016) All-optical wavelength conversion of higher-order modulation format data signals. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Alblowi, Ahmad (2016) An Evaluation of the effectiveness and validity of the preparatory year programme in preparing students for studying in Taibah university in Saudi Arabia. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Fallon, Finian (2016) An exploration of the issues related to the future of private sector psychotherapy in Ireland. An e-Delphi study. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Power, Kevin (2016) An investigation into engagement processes for user requirements development for a personal healthcare record aimed at health self-management. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Jordan, Sean (2016) An organic geochemical approach to archaeological and environmental questions. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gallagher, Mark (2016) Analysis of protein expression in Chinese hamster ovary cells and breast cancer. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Petkov, Plamen (2016) Assessing and analysing data quality in service oriented architectures; developing a data quality process. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Benson, Ailbhe (2016) Breaking the cycle of invisibility: a mixed methods inquiry into the disclosure behaviours and experiences of children living with epilepsy and their parents. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hardie Murphy, Michelle (2016) CSPPA Plus: a 5-year longitudinal study of children's sport and physical activity participation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheridan, Sinead (2016) Cardiorespiratory fitness, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and vascular health in male adolescents. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kirby, Daniel (2016) Centrifugal magnetophoresis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Li, Liangyou ORCID: 0000-0002-0279-003X (2016) Dependency graph-based statistical machine translation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Oladoye, Atinuke Modesola (2016) Design and characterisation of metallic bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Prydderch, Hannah (2016) Design and synthesis of low toxicity biodegradable ionic liquids and their applications in materials science. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Mulligan, Donal (2016) Developing qualitative and quantitative methodologies for the analysis of political discourse on Twitter: an Irish case study. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Connell, Tríona M. (2016) Development of new methods to study cell surface glycosylation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gaughran, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-3659-036X (2016) Development of novel advanced flow control systems on centrifugal microfluidic platforms for nucleic acid testing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Maddi, Muhammed Saad (2016) E-procurement Adoption and the impact of culture mediator towards the assessment of accepting a new technology in organisations. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Javeed, Khalid (2016) Efficient hardware architecture for scalar multiplications on elliptic curves over prime field. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Novitzky, Peter (2016) Ethics of ambient assisted living technologies for persons with dementia. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Carey, J.V. (2016) Exploring the impact of equine facilitated learning on the social and emotional well- being of young people affected by educational inequality. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Asmaa, Eltayeb (2016) Fabrication, characterisation and analysis of ceria thin films and patterned nanostructered deposits for enhanced solar-driven thermochemical conversion. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kumar Kaza, Seshu (2016) Functional characterization of recombinant Kv1 channel subtypes in HEK-293 cells for screening of selective inhibitors. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Boyle, Kevin (2016) Genre and code in the work of John Banville. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Jordan, Andrew (2016) Green synthesis, biodegradation and antimicrobial studies of ionic liquids and their applications in surfactant technology. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Boland, Sean (2016) Guardedness in communications between people experiencing acute psychosis and mental health nurses. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McArdle, Hazel (2016) High Sensitivity Nucleic Acid Detection using Electrocatalytic Metal Nanoparticles. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gutierrez, Fernando (2016) High-capacity multicarrier electro-optical transceivers based on analogue signal processing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Kelly, Jane (2016) How can a community of practice process and concept support undergraduates learning experiences? PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McCann, Andrew (2016) Identification of membrane associated proteins as potential markers for the DLKP clonal subpopulations. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ní Chuaig, Neasa (2016) Iniúchadh ar chleachtais litearthachta i gcóras bunscolaíochta Chatagóir A na Gaeltachta: cur chuige praiticiúil d ’fhorbairt na scríbhneoireachta. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Saljoghei, Arsalan (2016) Integrated distribution of wireless and wired services using a passive optical fibre network. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gaul, Vincent (2016) Integrin αIIbβ3: from platelet membrane to biomimetic models. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Chen, Shu (2016) Investigating multi-modal features in the design of a multi-media hyperlinking framework. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Powell, Danielle (2016) Investigation of physical activity and its correlates in adolescent youth: evaluation of the Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Walsh, Nichola (2016) Laser produced plasmas in liquid environments. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

FitzGerald, Cathal (2016) Leading to crisis: decision-making in Ireland’s celtic tiger. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

D'Arcy, Rebecca (2016) Literary intersections at the metropolitan centre: mapping new London narratives of migrant experience in contemporary fiction. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Diaz-Moriana, Vanessa (2016) Long-term orientation in multi-generational family firms: a multiple case study analysis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Castilho, Sheila ORCID: 0000-0002-8416-6555 (2016) Measuring acceptability of machine translated enterprise content. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Maher, Seán (2016) Microcavity PDMS and gold substrates for supported lipid bilayers. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Antyborzec, Inga (2016) Neurotrophin receptor p75 affords clearance of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease and provides targeting route to basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hayes, Brendan ORCID: 0000-0003-3907-1482 (2016) Nonlinear dynamics of DC-DC converters. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McKenna, Milena (2016) Novel surfaces to improve oligonucleotide immobilisation and hybridisation for breast cancer assay development. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Clerkin, Aidan (2016) Personal development in Irish education: A longitudinal study of student participation and psychosocial development in Transition Year. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Wu, Bing ORCID: 0000-0002-2739-5124 (2016) Physico-chemical characterisation of hydrogels from chemistry to function. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kelly, Shane (2016) Proteomic characterisation of clonal populations from a humanlung carcinoma cell line. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Mallon, Emmet (2016) Psychopathy – A psychoanalytic investigation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Wang, Shen (2016) Reducing non-recurrent urban traffic congestion using vehicle re-routing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kelly, Ian (2016) Regime elites and transitions from authoritarian rule: a comparative analysis of the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Fitzgerald, Stephen (2016) Self-regulation and retirement: how regulatory focus affects pre-retirement anxiety and affect. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kapetanakis, Antonios (2016) Stimuli responsive polypeptides. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gorman, Louise (2016) The Role of the broadsheet newspaper media in corporate governance: an exploration into the market for corporate control. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Mallon, Benjamin J. (2016) The challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning about conflict: A qualitative analysis of school-based peacebuilding education programmes on the island of Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Carey, Karen (2016) The design and evaluation of an interactive assessment instrument to improve the front end of mobile service innovation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Donoghue, Ashley (2016) The influence of perceived constructive and destructive leadership on employee well-being and ill-being: the mediating role of self-conscious emotions. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ní Loingsigh, Katie (2016) Tiomsú agus rangú i mbunachar sonraí ar chnuasach nathanna gaeilge as saothar Pheadair Uí Laoghaire. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Węgrzynowska, Maria (2016) Transnational healthcare practices in the enlarged Europe: the case of Polish migrant women in Ireland and their pregnancy and childbirth practices. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kenny, Grace (2016) ‘To protect my health, or to protect my health data?’ Eexamining the influence of health information privacy concerns on citizens’ health technology adoption. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Byrne, Hannah (2016) “The generation of anti-prostate cancer-specific antibodies for improved disease diagnosis”. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bergmans, Yvonne (2016) Understanding and responding to recurrent suicide attempts. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Nguyen, Nhat Tuan (2016) “Mirror, mirror, here I stand”: the representation of women in the Vietnamese translation of Irish chick lit. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Hu, Feiyan (2016) Periodicity detection and its application in lifelog data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

El Haddassi, Fadwa (2016) Preparation and characterization of novel hierarchical nanoparticle assemblies for biomedical applications. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Farrell, Amy (2016) Development and application of quantitative liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry techniques to facilitate enhanced bioprocessing of therapeutic proteins. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Ní Shúilleabháin, Míde (2016) Pity the land that needs a hero: political discursive strategies of identity (re)production in contemporary France. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Conlon, Steven (2016) The Irish student movement as an agent of social change: a case study analysis of the role students played in the liberalisation of sex and sexuality in public policy. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Byrne, Aisling (2016) The application of Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes to cellular imaging and sensing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Nazemi, Azadeh ORCID: 0000-0002-1138-309X (2016) Non-visual representation of complex documents for use in digital talking books. PhD thesis, Curtin University.

Jingyan, Wang (2016) Performance analysis of high-speed optical packet switching in high performance computing and datacentre networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Olaitan, Oladipupo A. (2016) A framework for creating production and inventory control strategies. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Pham-Xuan, Vinh (2016) Accelerated iterative solvers for the solution of electromagnetic scattering and wave propagation propagation problems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Aldridge, Allison (2016) Characterisation of novel Fasciola hepatica activated immune cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Marrero Barroso, Tony (2016) Colour local feature fusion for image matching and recognition. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Rovcanin, Lejla (2016) DASH-based network performance-aware solution for personalised video delivery systems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Briciu Burghina, Ciprian Constantin ORCID: 0000-0001-8682-9116 (2016) Development and deployment of a faecal matter sensor for marine and freshwater environments. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gholamvand, Zahra (2016) Development of novel integrated photocatalytic adsorbents (IPCAs) for organics removal from water & wastewater. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Molapo, Kerileng Mildred (2016) Electrochemiluminescence: from biomolecules to whole cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Barron, Ronda (2016) Empirically testing the use of computerised equivalence-based instruction for teaching categorisation to young children. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gilgunn, Sarah (2016) Enhanced antibody and glycomics-based approaches for the detection of prostate cancer. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Breslin, Eileen Elizabeth (2016) Exploring the experience of high-ability students from socio-economic disadvantaged schools participating in a summer academic programme. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Gray, Ciarán (2016) Growth and optical properties of isotopically enriched ZnO nanorods. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Elshahawy, Mohammad A. (2016) High sensitivity detection of nucleic acids using electrochemistry and spectroscopy. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Tal, Irina ORCID: 0000-0001-9656-668X (2016) Improving user experience and energy efficiency for different classes of users in vehicular networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Leggate, Huw J. (2016) Impurity transport modelling in the scrape off layer of the MAST tokamak using DIVIMP-OSM-EIRENE and carbon injection. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Flynn, Anthony (2016) Investigating compliance with SME-friendly procurement policy. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Choudhury, Sidratul (2016) Investigation of the applicability of polyHIPE materials in liquid chromatography. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Lynn, Teresa (2016) Irish dependency treebanking and parsing. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Zhou, Lijuan Marissa (2016) Lifelog access modelling using MemoryMesh. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McMahon, Suzanne (2016) Metal carbonyls as carbon monoxide delivery systems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Vujicic, Vidak (2016) Optical multicarrier sources for spectrally efficient optical networks. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kitching, Michael (2016) Optimisation of noble metal nanoparticle biosynthesis by both a prokaryotic and eukaryotic host. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Inguva, Saikumar (2016) Pulsed laser deposition and characterisation of ZnO and aluminium-doped ZnO nanostructures on silicon and flexible plastic substrates. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Talwar, Priyanka (2016) Representing conflict: A study of the Indian Government’s use of legitimisation and de-legitimisation in its internal security policy. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Epifanio, Monica (2016) Shewanella loihica PV-4 electroactive biofilms (EABs) grown in potentiostat-controlled electrochemical cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McLoughlin, Alisha (2016) Staphylococcus aureus mediated disruption of blood-brain barrier phenotype in human brain microvascular endothelial cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Quinn, John (2016) The corporate objective: reinterpreting directors’ duties. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Demont, Aurelie (2016) The development of methods for production, selection and characterisation of microcapsules containing animal cells. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Kennedy, Kathy F. (2016) The effects of surface layer proteins isolated from Clostridium difficile on TLR4 signalling. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Lehwaldt, Daniela (2016) The role of nurse education in improving patient outcomes and patient satisfaction with nursing care: A multiple case study of nursing teams in three hospitals across Ireland and Germany. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Wallace, Mark (2016) The unspeakable Victorian: Thomas Carlyle, ideology and adaptation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Baz Radwan, Omar (2016) “Ambiguous State of Being”: identity construction in contemporary Arab-American (post-9/11) poetry. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Moore, David (2016) Laser texturisation of photovoltaic module superstrates for enhanced light trapping performance. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Rice, Laura (2016) Organic chemistry through visualisation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.