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  • O2O service composition with social collaboration 
    Qian, Wenyi; Peng, Xin; Sun, Jun; Yu, Yijun; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Zhao, Wenyun (Association for Computing Machinery, 2017)
    In Online-to-Offline (O2O) commerce, customer services may need to be composed from online and offline services. Such composition is challenging, as it requires effective selection of appropriate services that, in turn, ...
  • Object phobia and altered RhoA signaling in amygdala of mice lacking RICH2 
    Sarowar, Tasnuva; Grabrucker, Stefanie; Boeckers, Tobias M.; Grabrucker, Andreas M. (Frontiers Media, 2017)
    RICH2 knockout (RICH2 KO) mice exhibit neophobia in the novel object test. To gain further insight into their anxiety-related phenotype, we subjected these mice to additional behavioral tests to elucidate whether the ...
  • Objective assessment and modification of physical activity and health indices in adolescent females 
    Donnelly, Alan Edward; Harrington, Deirdre M. (University of Limerick, Department of Physical Education & Sports Science, 2010)
    The following literature review describes the benefits of being physically active in childhood and adulthood and also the dangers that accompany inactivity. The benefits of being physically activity as a young person can ...
  • An objective measure of noseband tightness and Its measurement using a novel digital tightness gauge 
    Doherty, Orla M.; Conway, Thomas; Conway, Richard; Murray, Gerard; Casey, Vincent (Public Library of Science, 2017)
    Noseband tightness is difficult to assess in horses participating in equestrian sports such as dressage, show jumping and three-day-eventing. There is growing concern that nosebands are commonly tightened to such an extent ...
  • Objective measurement of physical activity in a multiple sclerosis population 
    O'Dwyer, Catriona (University of Limerick, 2010)
    Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. Gait impairment is among the most common symptoms. As a result, people with MS are more at risk of developing hypokinetic ...
  • Objectively measured sedentary behaviour, physical activity and health in adolescent females 
    Dowd, Kieran P. (University of Limerick, 2012)
    The primary purpose of this thesis was to determine the associations between low intensity physical activities and indices of health in a particularly inactive population, adolescent females. To achieve this, methodologies ...
  • Objects, images and in betweens 
    Williams, David (School of Architecture, University of Limerick, 2013)
    This thesis is an exploration of the commodification of architecture, where the matter of a building has been reduced to the status of an object, and an exploration of the neglected space that lies between such objects. ...
  • Observation of open source programmers information seeking 
    Sharif, Khaironi Yatim; Buckley, Jim (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)
    Several authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software evolution, and have characterized information seeking empirically in commercial software evolution settings. However, ...
  • Observations during the State-of-Emergency: Kathmandu, December 2001 
    Pettigrew, Judith (European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2001)
    Accustomed to sharing my flights to Kathmandu with large numbers of people dressed in trekking gear, I sat in Vienna Airport and wondered when my fellow passengers would arrive. It took me a while to realize that the ...
  • Observations of communication between dancer and musician in the Cape Breton community 
    Melin, Mats H. (Dance Research Forum Ireland, 2010)
    The connection between dancers and musicians are very strong in the dancing communities of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. At many social events where music features dance is a natural companion. At musical sessions ...
  • Observations on the citations in Irish Grammatical Tracts V 
    Ó Riain, Gordon (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2016)
    The citations in the Early Modern Irish tract on faults known as IGT V form the subject of this paper, which consists of four parts.1 The first part includes a brief account of the tract and its manuscript transmission, ...
  • Observing the Elections in Central Nepal 
    Pettigrew, Judith (Himal Books, 2009)
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  • Observing the use of RLOs in the English post-primary classroom 
    Marcus-Quinn, Ann (University of Limerick, 2011)
    Despite the attempts to integrate ICT across the curriculum of all post-primary education systems in the developed world there remains low levels of use. One of the major reasons for this low level of use is the availability ...
  • Observing the viscous relaxation process of silica optical fiber at ~1000 C using regenerated fiber bragg grating 
    Cui, Zhiru; Gong, Jianhui; Wang, Chen; Che, Nana; Zhao, Yanshuang; Chai, Quan; Qi, Haifeng; Lewis, Elfed; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Jianzhong; Yang, Jun; Yuan, Libo; Peng, Gang-Ding (2019)
    A regenerated fiber Bragg grating (RFBG) in silica fiber was used to observe the viscous relaxation process of the host silica fiber at high temperatures of around 1000 C. Two factors, preannealing time and loaded tension, ...
  • The occupational consequences of chronic pain 
    O'Rourke, Edel (University of Limerick, 2014)
    Background: Chronic pain is a common disabling condition which affects millions of people every day. It has a negative impact on affected individuals’ quality of life and severely limits occupational engagement and ...
  • Occupational exposures to solvents and metals are associated with fixed airflow obstruction 
    Alif, S.M.; Dharmage, S.C.; Benke, G.; Dennekamp, M.; Burgess, J.L.; Perret; Lodge, C.J.; Morrison, S.; Johns, D.P.; Giles, G.G.; Gurrin, L.C.; Thomas, P.S.; Hopper, J.L.; Wood-Baker, R.; Thompson, B.R.; Feather, I.H.; Vermeulen, R.; Kromhout, H.; Walters, E.H.; Abramson, M.J.; Matheson, M.C. (Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2017)
    Our study is the first to investigate the associations between exposures to solvents and metals using lifetime work history calendars and fixed airflow obstruction (AO). We have shown that increasing cumulative exposure-unit ...
  • An occupational science perspective of horse-riding through the application of flow 
    Cantillon, Eva (University of Limerick, 2014)
    Background: Flow can be described as a subjective, positive psychological state that a person experiences when they are engaged in a task that is challenging, controllable, and also motivating. (Nakamura and Csikszentmihalyi ...
  • Occupational therapy and unemployment: exploration of lifestyle change 
    Farrell, Claire (University of Limerick, 2012)
    Unemployment is a significant social issue in Ireland today with 14.2% of the population unemployed (CSO 2012). Occupational Therapists have the potential to collaborate with this population to promote well-being (AOTA ...
  • Of deadlocks and peopleware-collaborative work practices in global software development 
    Avram, Gabriela (IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
    As part of a research project dedicated to the Social Organizational and Cultural Aspects of Global Software Development, the author has chosen to focus on collaborative work practices and knowledge management aspects of ...
  • Of seats, stereotypes and structures:empirical contributions on women in the workplace from a gender-organisation-systems perspective 
    Berkery, Elaine C. (University of Limerick, 2017)
    This thesis examines systematic issues relating to the progression of women in the workplace using a gender-organisations-systems perspective (GOS). Drawing from the different elements of the GOS perspective and employing ...