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Pain-related Disability, Physical Function and Behavioural Aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis-related Inflammatory Low Back Pain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Physiotherapy, 2019)Inflammatory low back pain (ILBP) is a key clinical symptom and a significant problem in ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and its high socioeconomic costs are mainly attributed to disability. Ankylosing spondylitis-related ... -
Women's descriptive representation in national parliaments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation studies the descriptive (i.e. numeric) representation of women in national parliaments in three related but independent papers. The empirical analysis presented in the papers is based on two original data ... -
The role of granzyme B and other granule proteases as modulators of cytokine activity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Genetics, 2012)Excerpt from introduction: In all vertebrate organisms a properly functioning immune system is absolutely required for protection against infectious agents and also acts as a safeguard against tumour development. Over time ... -
Mechanical properties of one-dimensional nano-systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2010)The measurement of mechanical properties of nano-scale materials is paramount for their safe and efficient incorporation into devices. Techniques to perform these measurements are reviewed here with a particular interest ... -
Assessing soil respiration in the soil profile. A study case of gradient-based CO2 efflux and subsurface production rates using soil diffusion chambers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2010)The impact of global warming on soil respiration is strongly related to the characteristics of deep-soil carbon and may differ with soil depth. Environmental parameters can affect the rates of soil CO2 respiration not only ...
