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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 ...
  • Dairy processing sludge and co-products: A review of present and future re-use pathways in agriculture 
    Shi, W.; Healy, Mark G.; Ashekuzzaman, S.M.; Daly, K.; Leahy, James J.; Fenton, O. (Elsevier, 2021)
    The dairy industry is one of the largest global producers of wastewater and generates huge volumes of dairy processing sludge (DPS). There are two main types of DPS, lime-treated dissolved air floatation sludge and ...
  • 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 Margaret (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 exposure, wellbeing and injury in collegiate Irish and contemporary dancers: a prospective study 
    Cahalan, Róisin Máire; Kearney, Philip Edward; Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Redding, Emma; Quin, Edel; McLaughlin, Lisa C.; O'Sullivan, Kieran (Elsevier, 2018)
    Objectives Dance exposure and determinants of wellness in Irish dance (ID) and contemporary dance (CD) are under-investigated in pre-professional, collegiate cohorts. This study prospectively investigated these variables ...
  • 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, ...
  • A dancer in the mirror: body identity and body motion in Danza Española 
    Mateos Morante, Rebeca Tania (University of Limerick, 2020)
    This thesis is grounded in ethnochoreology and incorporates a psychoanalytical understanding of body identity and a phenomenological understanding of body motion. What is investigated is a professional Danza Española ...
  • 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 ...
  • Dark field and coherent anti-stokes raman (DF-CARS) imaging of cell uptake of core-shell, magnetic-plasmonic nanoparticles 
    Brennan, Grace; Ryan, Sally; Soulimane, Tewfik; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Silien, Christophe (MDPI, 2021)
    Magnetic-plasmonic, Fe3O4 -Au, core-shell nanoparticles are popular in many applications, most notably in therapeutics and diagnostics, and thus, the imaging of these nanostructures in biological samples is of high importance. ...
  • The dark side of school culture 
    Mannix McNamara, Patricia; Hickey, Niamh; MacCurtain, Sarah; Blom, Nicolaas (MDPI, 2021)
    The extant literature evidences the link between incivility and workplace culture. Both have a symbiotic relationship whereby a change in one influences the other. When workplace cultures develop dysfunctional values and ...
  • 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 architecture for pharmaceutical product development at Alkermes 
    Couture, Peter; Warnock, Damon; O'Mahony, Marcus A. (Technological University Dublin (TUI), 2021)
    This paper describes how Alkermes built a data architecture for efficient management of non-GXP and R&D data. Using a ‘Create’, ‘Store’, Describe’ ‘Access’ stepwise model, the ingredients to making the journey a success ...
  • 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, ...