This thesis explores a practical approach to the design and development of interactive technologies in public spaces derived from the concept of “Assembly”. Current research is lacking frameworks that can not only evaluate, ...

The increasing complexity of distributed applications, soft- ware services that can be dynamically deployed, adjusted and composed, paves the way for new challenges in software and service engineering. This paper describes ...

This article looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact of spatial design on different work-modes. It examines the history of the open-plan office, looking at how the open-plan workplace ...

A selective sweep occurs when a positive mutation spreads through a population. It causes a reduction in variation among the nucleotides in the neighbourhood of the mutation. Whether or not a selective sweep has occurred can ...

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 ...

There is evidence that insertion of viral DNA into a mammalian genome can lead to alterations of methylation patterns. The aim of the present study was to examine the presence of DNA sequences of five human DNA viruses ...

Using a survey of multinational companies (MNCs), we investigate the factors that determine the use and scope of financial participation in MNCs operating in Ireland. We explore the impact of six factors - country of origin, ...

In a recent communication, Van Damme et al (1) presented a statistical analysis of the performance of world-ranked decathletes, and made inferences about the ability of these athletes to respond uniformly to the demands ...

ASTM F75 femoral knee implant casting components distort during manufacture due to residual stress re-distribution or inducement. These castings pose a number of challenges for residual stress determination methods; they ...

The problem in Optical Tomography of determining the spacially dependent absorption coefficient in an anisotropic medium with a-priori known strong scattering is considered. The problem is modelled by the diffusion ...