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Dairy fats and cardiovascular disease: do we really need to be concerned?

Lordan, Ronan; Tsoupras, Alexandros; Mitra, Bhaskar; Zabetakis, Ioannis (MDPI, 2018)

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain a major cause of death and morbidity globally and diet plays a crucial role in the disease prevention and pathology. The negative perception of dairy fats stems from the effort to ...

Dairy processing heat and energy recovery: an analysis of energy usage within the dairy processing sector in Ireland

O'Reilly, Alan J. (University of Limerick, 2017)

The Irish dairy processing sector is one of the largest in Europe with annual production figures in excess of five billion litres. In 2013, the revenue from the dairy sector surpassed €3 Billion for the first time with an ...

Damage modelling of fibre reinforced polymer matrix composite open hole tension specimens using the Ladevèze damage model in Pam-CRASH

O'Higgins, Ronan M.; McCarthy, Michael A. (2005)

The goal of this project was to accurately predict the ultimate failure strengths of fibre reinforced polymer matrix composite open hole tension specimens using the Ladevèze continuum mechanics damage model, currently ...

Dance and health research project report

Moss, Hilary; McLoughlin, Lisa; O'Donoghue, Jessica (2018)

The aim of this research was to create a best practice model of dance and health continuing professional development (CPD); to create a dynamic, interdisciplinary course of study for dancers who are engaged in facilitating ...

Dance for people with Parkinson disease: what is the evidence telling us?

Shanahan, Joanne; Morris, Meg E.; Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Saunders, Jean; Clifford, Amanda M. (Elsevier, 2015)

Objectives: (1) To appraise and synthesize the literature on dance interventions for individuals with Parkinson disease (PD); (2) to provide information regarding the frequency, intensity, duration, and type of dance used ...

Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2012

Dunin, Elsie Ivancich; Foley, Catherine E. (2014)

The 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology took place at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland, from 22nd – 29th July, ...

Dancing and Parkinson’s disease: updates on this creative approach to therapy

Shanahan, Joanne; Morris, Meg E.; Ní Bhriain, Orfhlaith M.; Volpe, Daniele; Clifford, Amanda M. (Dove Medical Press, 2017)

Introduction: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with slowness of movement and balance disturbance. Anxiety and social isolation are common and quality of life (QoL) can be compromised. Dancing enables people with ...

Dancing for Parkinson’s: a randomized trial of Irish set dancing compared to usual care

Shanahan, Joanne; Morris, Meg E.; Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Volpe, Daniele; Lynch, Tim; Clifford, Amanda M. (Elsevier, 2017)

Objective: To examine the feasibility of a randomized controlled study design and to explore the benefits of a set dancing intervention compared with usual care. Design: Randomized controlled design, with participants ...

The dangers of cosmopolitanism: Okinawa, China and the United States in Ōshiro Tatsuhiro’s The Cocktail Party

Geraghty, Barbara (Peter Lang, 2010)

In the second half of Ōshiro Tatsuhiro’s novella, Kakuteru Pātī (The Cocktail Party), first published in 1967, one of the American characters, Mister Miller, responds to the Okinawan protagonist’s request for help: ‘We ...

Darwinism in the gym

Pope, Clive C; O'Sullivan, Mary (Human Kinetics, 2003)

This study examined the ecology of ''free gym" as it occcured in both school lunch hour and after-school community settings. In an effort to understand how urban youth experience sport, an ethnography using multiple ...

Data decomposition for code parallelization in practice: what do the experts need?

Meade, Anne; Deeptimahanti, Deva Kumar; Johnston, Michael; Buckley, Jim; Collins, J.J. (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)

Parallelizing serial software systems in order to run in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment presents many challenges to developers. In particular, the extant literature suggests the task of decomposing ...

Data incest in cooperative localisation with the common past-invariant ensemble Kalman filter

Čurn, Jan; Marinescu, Dan; O'Hara, Niall; Cahill, Vinny (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)

In this paper we consider the problem of cooperative vehicle localisation, in which a group of vehicles are driving in an outdoor environment, each estimating their position using a global positioning system (GPS) and ...

Data on determinants are needed to curb the sedentary epidemic in Europe. Lessons learnt from the DEDIPAC European knowledge hub

De Craemer, Marieke; Chastin, Sebastien; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Bernaards, Claire; Brug, Johannes; Buck, Christoph; Cardon, Greet; Capranica, Laura; Dargent-Molina, Patricia; De Lepeleere, Sara; Hoffmann, Belinda; Kennedy, Aileen; Lakerveld, Jeroen; Lien, Nanna; Ling, Fiona; Loyen, Anne; MacDonncha, Ciaran; Nazare, Julie-Anne; O'Donoghue, Grainne; O'Gorman, Donal J.; Perchoux, Camille; Pigeot, Iris; Simon, Chantal; Mueller-Stierlin, Annabel S.; van der Ploeg, Hidde P.; Van Cauwenberg, Jelle; Oppert, Jean-Michel (MDPI, 2018)

Societal and technological changes have resulted in sitting being the dominant posture during most activities of daily living, such as learning, working, travelling and leisure time. Too much time spent in seated activities, ...

Data on in vitro and in vivo cell orientationon substrates with different topographies

English, Andrew; Azeem, Ayesha; Spanoudes, Kyriakos; Jones, Eleanor; Tripathi, Bhawana; Basu, Nandita; McNamara, Karrina; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Rooney, Niall; Riley, Graham; O'Riordan, Alan; Cross, Graham; Hutmacher, Dietmar; Biggs, Manus J.; Pandit, Abhay; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Elsevier, 2015)

This data article contains data related to the research article entitled “Substrate topography: A valuable in vitro tool, but a clinical red herring for in vivo tenogenesis” [1]. We report measurements on tenocyte viability, ...

Data set for paper titled: Psychological distress and coping amongst higher education students: A mixed method enquiry.

Deasy, Christine; Coughlan, Barry; Jourdan, Didier; Pironom, Julie; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (PLOS ONE, 2014)

This is the data set for the article titled “Psychological distress and coping amongst higher education students: A mixed method enquiry”. Published online in PLOS ONE. The data was collected in the 2010/2011 academic year. ...

Data set for paper titled: Teacher competencies in health education: results of a Delphi study

Moynihan, Sharon; Paakkari, Leena; Välimaa, Raili; Jourdan, Didier; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (Public Library of Science, 2015)

This is the data set for the article titled “Teacher competencies in Health Education: Results of a Delphi Study”. Published online in PLOS ONE. The data was collected in the 2011/2012 academic year. Three files are included, ...

Dataset construction for the detection of anti-social behaviour in online communication in arabic

Alakrot, Azalden; Murray, Liam; Nikolov, Nikola S. (Elsevier, 2018)

Warning: this paper contains a range of words which may cause offence. In recent years, many studies target anti-social behaviour such as offensive language and cyberbullying in online communication. Typically, these ...

Dán réitigh le Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe ( 1481)

Ó Riain, Gordon (National University of Ireland, 2007)

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Deactivation of the ruthenium excited state by enhanced homogeneous charge transport: Implications for electrochemiluminescent thin film sensors

O'Reilly, Emmet J.; Keyes, Tia E.; Forster, Robert J.; Dennany, Lyn (Elsevier, 2018)

The electrochemiluminescent (ECL) performance of three ruthenium-based metallopolymer platforms with different homogeneous charge transfer diffusion coefficients (DCT) is reported. Significantly, simultaneous detection of ...

Dealing with organisational nuts and bolts: the relevance of organisational practises to women's promotion

O'Connor, Pat (Cork University Press, 2001)

Over the past ten years sociologists have increasingly recognised the usefulness of highlighting the organisational practises or ‘tactics’ (1) through which horizontal and vertical segregation is perpetuated. Although an ...

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