The Burren region (inclusive of the Aran Islands) in western Ireland is an example of a prime landscapes that hosts nternationally rare bumblebee species, such as Bombus muscorum. For the conservation and survival of ...

Summary. Low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheeses were made, at pilot scale (450 kg), on five occasions at weekly intervals from milks containing j-casein AA, AB or BB genetic variants. Compared with j-casein A variant ...

Caseinophosphopeptides (CPP) were detected for the first time in ileostomy fluid, collected at 2 h intervals for 10 h post milk and CPP ingestion, from human volunteers with an ileostomy. The level of CPP present in ileostomy ...

Sampling of the macrofungal sporocarps, ectomycorrhizal morphotypes and vascular plants was carried out in 28 plots from four forest types (ash, oak, Scot’s pine, Sitka spruce) between the years 2007 and 2009. A total ...

Good health of the racing horse is essential to optimal training and, thus, high levels of performance. However, epidemiological research has shown that respiratory disease, especially in young horses, is an important ...

The effect of thawing at 4ºC or ambient temperature (~20ºC) on the indigenous microflora of commercial regular salt (0.6-1.3% w/w) frozen ready meals was investigated. In a separate trial, the microbial quality of regular ...

The epidemiology, characterisation and vaccination responses to equine influenza (EI) in Ireland were studied between 2007 and 2010. Epidemiological evidence indicated a seasonal pattern to outbreaks with 50% and 39% ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of unhydrolysed/intact casein and eight different sodium casein hydrolysates (a–h) on the viability and growth of human cancer cell lines. Both human Jurkat T cells ...

Smear-ripened cheese varieties are characterised by the growth of a smear culture, containing predominantly Brevibacterium linens, on the cheese surface during ripening. In such cheese, considerable zonal differences in ...

This thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to this work within the context of the wider national soil biodiversity project CréBeo. Furthermore ants, earthworms and the use of stable ...