Live animal testing is currently the standard approach for assessing the risk chemicals may pose to wildlife. The costs and ethical concerns associated with live animal testing, however, constitute a significant challenge to regulators and industry in fulfilling their testing mandates to characterize the risks of environmental contaminants. To reduce these challenges, improved exposure assessments […]

Ireland achieved trans gender protections and same-sex marriage in 2015, several years before on-demand, unrestricted access to abortion (2019). This phenomenon is unlike most countries, which achieve reproductive rights first. In Ireland, reproductive and family rights were slow to arrive, contraceptives (without a prescription) was legalised in 1992, divorce in 1995, and from 1983-2018, there […]

Hard disk technology is still the most widely used technology for data storage. Two promising technologies to improve this industry are Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and all-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization. To check the validity of theories that support HAMR and AOS, more rigorous experimental data is required. Laboratory for Ultrafast Thermomagnetics (LUTher) at York […]

Poor cognitive and academic outcomes are common consequences for children growing up in economically poor families. Poverty is associated with alterations in brain development, communication and cognitive skills. Children living in poverty are exposed to poverty-related risk factors and stressors, including less language exposure. Little is known about the early development of language and cognitive […]

The representation of moist convection and clouds in global climate models is one of the hardest problems in contemporary meteorology. The problem arises because the phenomenon of convection and cloud processes occur at much smaller spatial scales than current computers allow in terms of horizontal grid resolution. Nonetheless, theoretical and empirical knowledge led the climate […]

The proposed research aims to map and locate pollutant sources by deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) after a natural or human induced disaster in order to sense, assess and aid in search-and-rescue operations. We aim to use a heterogeneous team, armed with an array of gaseous and […]

Ring-tail lemurs (Lemur catta) are a highly social species with distinct breeding seasons. During the breeding season, ring-tail lemurs have been shown to experience elevated fecal glucocorticoid concentrations, a known marker of physiological stress. The social buffering literature suggests that some of this stress may be alleviated by increased levels of oxytocin, a hormone that […]

Portfolio management is a well-known multi-factor optimization problem, which involves historical price data, macroeconomic data and market indicators. Many researches have been conducted to find optimal portfolio allocation using machine learning. However, some limitations still exist, such as incorporating multiple factors into a single model, the robustness for encountering economic events, and potential bias by […]

Immune therapies for cancer are in their early stages and require further investigation to improve their function. Chemokines and their receptors are responsible for directing white blood cells to various parts of the body. Because they are so important in controlling the immune response, they make ideal targets for therapy. To exploit this, we aim […]

Cryopreservation of aquatic species’ gametes and embryos would enable stable and sustainable resources for genetic management in species preservation and breedstock for aquaculture. Cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos is of considerable financial interest to both Spanish and Canadian aquaculture, yet there have been no industry-scale successes in their cryopreservation. The Paredes lab at the University […]

As part of the research for my MA thesis, I will need to conduct research in archives and collections abroad. I will travel to Ireland and the United Kingdom from the end of June to mid-September, 2019. The information I will retrieve is key to properly developing my research questions, which focus on the Irish […]

In much the same way that silicon in the 1970s led to the modern information technology industry, the development of advanced materials will fuel many of the emerging industries that will address challenges in energy, national security, healthcare, and other areas. Yet the time it takes to move a newly discovered advanced material from the […]