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Backcasting to identify food waste prevention and mitigation opportunities for infant feeding in the maternity services

Ryan-Fogarty, Yvonne; Becker, Genevieve; Moles, Richard; O'Regan, Bernadette (Elsevier, 2017)

Food waste in hospitals is of major concern for two reasons: first, healthcare needs to move toward preventative and demand led models for sustainability and second, food system sustainability needs to seek preventative ...

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 ...

Balancing energy and quality-awareness:a MAC-Llayer duty-cycle management solution for multimedia delivery over wireless mesh networks

Chen, Shengyang; Yuan, Zhenhui; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (IEEE Compuer Society, 2016)

Energy consumption has been a critical factor for mobile video applications. The quality of content delivery over wireless mesh networks consist of such devices is also considered important. Existing energy-aware research ...

Band-gap shrinkage calculations and analytic model for strained bulk InGaAsP

Connelly, Michael J. (IOP Publishing, 2015)

Band-gap shrinkage is an important effect in semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers. In the former it leads to an increase in the lasing wavelength and in the latter an increase in the gain peak wavelength as the bias ...

Bandwidth enhancement to continuous-time input pipeline ADCs

O'Hare, Daniel; Scanlan, Anthony G.; Thompson, Eric; Mullane, Brendan (IEEE Computer Society, 2017)

This paper presents design analysis and insights for a new continuous-time input pipeline (CTIP) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architecture that has enhanced bandwidth. An all-pass filter-based analog delay in ...

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 and solutions to online learning in medical education – an integrative review

O'Doherty, Diane; Dromey, Marie; Lougheed, Justan; Hannigan, Ailish; Last, Jason; McGrath, Deirdre (BioMed Central, 2018)

Background: The aim of this study is to review the literature on known barriers and solutions that face educators when developing and implementing online learning programs for medical students and postgraduate trainees. Methods: ...

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. ...

Base, superstructure and the Irish property crash towards a crisis theory of communications

Silke, Henry (2015)

Since the onset of the great recession there have been key debates around various aspectsof crisis theory, most notably around the areas of the rate of profit (Brenner 2009; Kliman 2012),under-consumption/overproduction ...

Bayesian approach to disease model calibration

Semochkina, Daria A. (University of Limerick, 2018)

This thesis is concerned with the calibration of disease models in order to inform decisions about public health problems. These models are used to make predictions about the likely outcomes of disease spread (e.g. ...

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 ...

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