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O'Shea, Pádraig
(University of Limerick, 2019)
Traditional algorithms for modelling functional data use derivative-based optimisation
methods to fit parameters. The process of finnding the derivatives of the fitting criterion
with respect to the parameters is complex. ...
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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 ...
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Power, Louise
(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2010-12)
This paper investigates the legitimacy of calling the contemporary community of backpackers a subculture. I will support this position by firstly establishing the criteria necessary for a group to be considered a subculture. ...
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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. ...
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Gahan, Jacinta
(University of Limerick, 2015)
Sulfur (S) is an essential macronutrient that is increasingly limiting to crop yield as a result of reduced atmospheric deposition and high yielding crop varieties rapidly depleting soil S stocks. Plants obtain S from soil ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Leahy, Susan
(Social Care Ireland, 2014)
The low conviction rate for rape is often highlighted as a cause for concern. The typical
response is to call for reform of Irish rape law. Although reform is necessary, this article
argues that the low conviction rate ...
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Risquez, Angelica; Cassidy, Dara; O Súilleabháin, Gearóid
(Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2020)
This article describes a professional development initiative facilitated through a transformational partnership model. In this context, we discuss our experience of piloting an online continuing professional development ...
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Karanikas, Nektarios; Melis, Damien Jose; Kourousis, Kyriakos I.
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background: This paper presents the findings of a pilot research survey which assessed the degree of
balance between safety and productivity, and its relationship with awareness and communication of
human factors and ...
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Dully, Michele; Bhattacharya, Shayon; Verma, Vivek; Murray, David; Thompson, Damien; Soulimane, Tewfik; Hudson, Sarah P.
(Elsevier, 2022)
Lipid cubic phase (LCP) formulations enhance the intestinal solubility and bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs by reducing precipitation and facilitating their mass transport to the intestinal surface for absorption. LCPs ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Parry, Emma; Farndale, Elaine; Brewster, Chris; Morley, Michael
(Wiley & Sons, 2020)
Collecting large-scale comparative management data from multiple countries poses challenges in demonstrating methodological rigour, including the need for representativeness. We examine the rigour of sample representativeness, ...
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Fitzgerald, Helena; Walsh, Gerard; Avram, Gabriela; Kinsella, Stephen; Burón García, Javier
(ThingsCon e.V., Berlin., 2019-12)
Smart cities appear to be synonymous with pervasive IoT. Footfall, energy consumption, passengers availing of public transport, everything needs to be monitored, predicted and adjusted to fit pre-determined models. But ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Dantas, Rafael; Exton, Chris; Le Gear, Andrew
(Technische Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, 2018)
Despite the efforts to improve current 4G technologies by developing
the new 5G mobile network, much of the world’s population still relies on older 2G
and 3G infrastructures.
Although old hardware can be replaced, the ...
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Ng, Kwok W.; Cooper, Jemima; McHale, Fiona; Clifford, Joanna; Woods, Catherine B.
(BMJOpen, 2020)
Objectives COVID-19 restrictions reduced adolescents’ opportunities for physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to examine how adolescent PA changed during school closures, to identify the key barriers and ...