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Product-service systems in Egypt: a multi case evaluation of field repair

Owida, Aly; Byrne, P.J.; Heavey, Cathal; El-Kilany, Khaled S. (Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2020)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper aims to evaluate field repair within product-service system (PSS) models operated by multinational manufacturers in the Egyptian emerging market to better understand the unique ...

Production of nitrate spikes in a model of ammonium biodegradation

Moyles, Iain R.; Fowler, Andrew C. (Springer, 2018)

Nitrification at the site of a contaminant ammonium plume from a former coal carbonisation plant can be modelled with three competing bacterial populations of Nitrosomonas, Nitrobacter, and Brocadia anammoxidans. Oscillations ...

Prof. Eamonn McQuade: University Of Limerick oral history

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Prof. Noel Mulcahy: University of Limerick oral history

O'Connor, Catherine (2008-12-09)

The professional development of higher education-based teacher educators: needs and realities

MacPhail, Ann; Ulvik, Marit; Guberman, Ainat; Czerniawski, Gerry; Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma; Bain, Yvonne (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

Current literature suggests that while teacher educators perform a multitude of complex roles, they receive minimal preparation or possibilities for professional development to fulfil these roles. As a result, they need ...

The professional developmental needs of higher education-based teacher educators: an international comparative needs analysis

Czerniawski, Gerry; Guberman, Ainat; MacPhail, Ann (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

A universal lack of attention to the professional learning needs of teacher educators is the driver for this study, which considers the most effective ways to support the professional learning of higher education-based ...

The professional learning needs and priorities of higher-education-based teacher educators in England, Ireland and Scotland

Czerniawski, Gerry; Gray, Donal; MacPhail, Ann; Bain, Yvonne; Conway, Paul F.; Guberman, Ainat (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

Against a rapidly changing policy landscape for teacher education, exacerbated by Brexit' in the UK, findings are presented from an electronic survey of 272 higher-education based teacher educators in England, the Republic ...

Professional learning of primary generalist teachers in Ireland: modelling sport education

MacPhail, Ann; Tannehill, Deborah (Taylor & Francis: Routledge, 2012)

Sport Education (SE) is a new experience for the teacher who plans and delivers physical education using this approach and for the learner who takes on new and extended learning roles. Teachers face numerous challenges ...

A profile of Irish physiotherapy services for ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)

Larkin, Louise (Department of Physiotherapy, University of Limerick, 2011)

Background: Physiotherapy and exercise are main components in the non-pharmacological management of AS (Zochling et al 2006). A minority of the Irish AS population participate in regular exercise (Fitzpatrick et al 2006). ...

Profile-based, load-independent anomaly detection and analysis in performance regression testing of software systems

Ghaith, Shadi; Wang, Miao; Perry, Philip; Murphy, John (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)

Performance evaluation through regression testing is an important step in the software production process. It aims to make sure that the performance of new releases do not regress under a field-like load. The main outputs ...

Profiling of the molecular weight and structural isomer abundance of macroalgae-derived phlorotannins

Heffernan, Natalie; Brunton, Nigel P.; Fitzgerald, Richard J.; Smyth, Thomas J. (MDPI, 2015)

Phlorotannins are a group of complex polymers of phloroglucinol (1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene) unique to macroalgae. These phenolic compounds are integral structural components of the cell wall in brown algae, but also play ...

Profiling postgraduate workplace-based assessment implementation in Ireland: a retrospective cohort study

Barrett, Aileen; Galvin, Rose; Steinert, Yvonne; Scherpbier, Albert; O'Shaughnessy, Ann; Walsh, Gillian; Horgan, Mary (SpringerOpen, 2016)

In 2010, workplace-based assessment (WBA) was formally integrated as a method of formative trainee assessment into 29 basic and higher specialist medical training (BST/HST) programmes in six postgraduate training bodies ...

Profiling the Diversity of Microbial Communities with Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP).

Schmalenberger, Achim; Tebbe, Christoph C. (Humana Press, 2014)

Genetic fingerprinting techniques for microbial community analysis have evolved over the last decade into standard applications for efficient and fast differentiation of microbial communities based on their diversity. These ...

Profiling the entrepreneur: an examination of entrepreneurs in the mid-west region of Ireland

Birdthistle, Naomi (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)

The aim of this paper is to present research findings which examine the profile of entrepreneurs in the Mid West Region of Ireland. A number of sub-objectives were formed to achieve the above aim, focus being placed on the ...

Profiling the health-related physical fitness of Irish adolescents: A school-level sociodemographic divide

O'Keeffe, Brendan T.; MacDonncha, Ciaran; Purtill, Helen; Donnelly, Alan Edward (Public Library of Science, 2020)

Background and aims Examining factors that may explain disparities in fitness levels mong youth is a critical step in youth fitness promotion. The purpose of this study was twofold; 1) to examine the influence of ...

Progesterone induces the release of bull spermatozoa from oviductal epithelial cells

Romero-Aguirregomezcorta, Jon; Cronin S.; Donnellan E.; Fair, Seán (CSIRO Publishing, 2019)

The mechanism that causes the detachment of spermatozoa from the oviductal reservoir around the time of ovulation remains to be elucidated. Because the cumulus cells of the bovine oocyte are known to secrete progesterone ...

Prognosis of patients with apparent treatment-resistant hypertension—a feasibility study

Hayes, Peter; Kielty, Hannah; Casey, Monica; Glynn, Liam G.; Molloy, Gerard J.; Durand, Hannah; Newell, John; Murphy, Andrew W. (BioMed Central, 2018)

Background: Most cases of hypertension can be effectively treated with lifestyle changes together with medications, but within this population lies a group with more difficult to treat hypertension—those with apparent ...

Program transformation to identify list-based parallel skeletons

Kannan, Venkatesh; Hamilton, Geoff W. (2016)

Algorithmic skeletons are used as building-blocks to ease the task of parallel programming by abstracting the details of parallel implementation from the developer. Most existing libraries provide implementations of ...

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