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Bacteria that travel: the quality of aircraft water

Handschuh, Harald; O'Dwyer, Jean; Adley, Catherine C (MDPI, 2015)

The travelling population is increasing globally year on year. International tourist arrival figures reached 1087 million in 2013 and 1133 million in 2014; of which 53% and 54% respectively accounted for air transport. ...

Bacterial communities established in bauxite residues with different restoration histories

Schmalenberger, Achim; O'Sullivan, Orla; Gahan, Jacinta; Cotter, Paul D; Courtney, Ronan (American Chemical Society, 2013)

Bauxite residue is the alkaline byproduct generated when alumina is extracted from bauxite ores and is commonly deposited in impoundments. These sites represent hostile environments with increased salinity and alkalinity ...

Bacterial communities in grassland turfs respond to sulphonate addition while fungal communities remain largely unchanged

Schmalenberger, Achim; Noll, Matthias (Elsevier, 2014)

Sulphonates are often the major form of sulphur in soils where sulphate usually represents less than 5% of the total sulphur. The use of sulphonates as a S source is limited to a functional bacterial guild. However, fungi ...

A balancing act: a phenomenological exploration of medical students’ experiences of using mobile devices in the clinical setting

Rashid-Doubell, F; Mohamed, S; Elmusharaf, Khalifa; O'Neill, C.S (BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)

Objective: The aims of this study were to describe the experiences of senior students using mobile devices in a clinical setting while learning and interacting with clinical teachers, patients and each other, and to ...

Balancing agility and discipline in a medical device software organisation

Mc Hugh, Martin; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Fitzgerald, Brian; Stol, Klaas-Jan; Casey, Valentine; Coady, Garret (Springer, 2013)

Agile development techniques are becoming increasingly popular in the generic software development industry as they appear to offer solutions to the problems associated with following a plan-driven Software Development ...

Barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity among a Multiple Sclerosis population

Brosnan, Linda (Department of Physiotherapy, University of Limerick, 2011)

Background: Current evidence states that people with MS participate in significantly less exercise than non-diseased populations (Motl et al 2005). Recent research has identified numerous factors that may influence physical ...

Barriers to accepting and completing latent tuberculosis infection treatment.

Kane, M; Korn, B; Saukkonen, J; McDonald, C; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Waters, R; McLaughlin, A.M; Keane, J (Irish Medical Organisation, 2013)

Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) is an important component of any TB control strategy. Acceptance and completion of treatment is poor. We undertook this study to identify barriers to acceptance & completion ...

Barriers to adopting agile practices when developing medical device software

Mc Hugh, Martin; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Casey, Valentine (Springer Verlag, 2012)

Agile methodologies such as XP and Scrum are founded upon the four values and twelve principles of agile software development. A software development project is only considered to be truly agile if these values and principles ...

The barriers to traceability and their potential solutions: towards a reference framework

Regan, Gilbert; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Mc Daid, Kevin; Flood, Derek (2012)

Traceability of software artifacts, from requirements to design and through implementation and quality assurance, has long been promoted by the research and expert practitioner communities. However, evidence indicates ...

Barriers to using agile software development practices within the medical device industry

Mc Hugh, Martin; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Casey, Valentine (Euro SPI, 2012)

Non-safety critical software developers have been reaping the benefits of adopting agile practices for a number of years. However, developers of safety critical software often have concerns about adopting Agile practices. ...

Bayesian estimation of synaptic physiology from the spectral responses of neural masses

Moran, R.J; Stephan, K.E; Kiebel, S.J; Rombach, N; O'Connor, William T.; Murphy, K.J; Reilly, R.B; Friston, K.J (Elsevier, 2008)

We describe a Bayesian inference scheme for quantifying the active physiology of neuronal ensembles using local field recordings of synaptic potentials. This entails the inversion of a generative neural mass model of ...

Bayesian kernel projections for classifcation of high dimensional data

Domijan, Katarina; Wilson, Simon P (Springer-Verlag, 2011)

A Bayesian multi-category kernel classi cation method is proposed. The algorithm performs the classi cation of the projections of the data to the principal axes of the feature space. The advantage of this approach is ...

Bearing all the hallmarks of oppression: union avoidance in Europe's largest low-cost airline

O'Sullivan, Michelle; Gunnigle, Patrick (2009)

Ryanair is now Europe’s largest low-cost airline. It is also one of the most controversial, due to its outspoken boss, its cost-containment strategies, and its hostile relations with organized labor. Ryanair has consistently ...

Beartas teanga: an aimsir óg páipéar ocáideach 7

Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg (Coiscéim, 2006)

Tugtar faoi phleanáil teanga nuair a chruthaítear ionad nua don teanga sa saol. Comhartha atá i ngníomhaíocht phleanála na teanga, más ea, ar athrú suntasach polaitiúil sa phobal urlabhra. Ardú stádais agus gradaim ba ...

Beautiful nerds: growing a rigorous design research dialogue in the Irish context

de Eyto, Adam; Maher, Carmel; Hadfield, Mark; Hutchings, Maggie (Design Research Society, 2016)

Ireland is a country with a small and emergent design research community. Relative to other countries, the practice of design itself in Ireland is a recent development with the first formal design ...

Becoming a teacher: students’ experiences and perceptions

Coady, Lisa (University of Limerick, Department of Education & Professional Studies, 2010)

This research is focused on teacher education students in initial, concurrent teacher education programmes at the University of Limerick (UL). This longitudinal study tracks two cohorts of student teachers from Year Two ...

Becoming evidence based practitioners: a study of final year clinical therapy students at University of Limerick

O'Keeffe, Ursula (University of Limerick, 2014)

Background- Evidence based practice (EBP) is pivotal to health professionals ensuring their practice is gold standard (Crabtree et al 2012). EBP aims; to guide and support health professionals implement best evidence ...

Becoming evidence based practitioners: a study of final year occupational therapy students from University of Limerick.

McCafferty, Gena (University of Limerick, 2013)

Background: Evidence based practice (EBP) is an essential requirement of occupational therapists in practice today in order to support the efficacy of interventions and fulfil the ethical requirements of providing the best ...

Becoming evidence based practitioners: a study of final year occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy students at the University of Limerick

Woods, Fidelma (University of Limerick, 2013)

Background: Health professionals are urged to use evidence-based practice to make valid decisions to optimise client outcomes and clinical efficiency (Rotter et al 2010). Education and fieldwork placement allows health ...

Behavior of heavy metals during fluidized bed combustion of poultry litter

Lynch, Deirdre; Low, Fiona; Henihan, Anne Marie; Garcia, Alberto; Kwapinski, Witold; Zhang, Lian; Leahy, J.J. (American Chemical Society, 2014)

In this study, we have examined the behavior of heavy metals during fluidized bed combustion of poultry litter. Heavy metals examined include As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn. Solid and gaseous streams ...

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