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ULTEMAT: A mobile framework for smart ecological momentary assessments and interventions

van de Ven, Pepijn; O'Brien, Hugh; Henriques, Ricardo; Klein, Michel; Msetfi, Rachel M.; Nelson, John; Rocha, Artur; Ruwaard, Jeroen; O'Sullivan, Donal; Riper, Heleen (Elsevier, 2017)

In this paper we introduce a new Android library, called ULTEMAT, for the delivery of ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) on mobile devices and we present its use in the MoodBuster app developed in the H2020 ...
Ultra-short race-pace training (USRPT) In swimming: current perspectives

Nugent, Frank J.; Comyns, Thomas M.; Kearney, Philip Edward; Warrington, Giles D. (Dovepress Medical Press, 2019)

The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in sports science research due to the ever-increasing professionalization of sport. As a result, many alternative training methodologies that challenge traditional training ...
Ultrasound measurement of the size of the anterior tibial muscle group: the effect of exercise and leg dominance.

Egan, Sinead; McCreesh, Karen (BioMed Central, 2011)

Background: Knowledge of normal muscle characteristics is crucial in planning rehabilitation programmes for injured athletes. There is a high incidence of ankle and anterior tibial symptoms in football players, however ...
Unchallenged good intentions: a qualitative study of the experiences of medical students on international health electives to developing countries

O'Donnell, Patrick; McAuliffe, Ailish; O'Donovan, Diarmuid (BioMed Central, 2014)

Background: Irish medical students have a long and proud history of embarking on international health electives (IHEs) to broaden their experience in the developing world. Although there are many opinions in the literature ...
Uncovering the foundational heritage of Irish occupational therapy

O'Riordan, Yvonne (University of Limerick, 2013)

Background: This study arose from a wider University of Limerick, Clinical Therapies Departmental project, seeking to plot Irish occupational therapy history. Dr. Eamonn O’Sullivan’s, “ A Textbook of Occupational Therapy ...
Underrepresented students on BSc nursing programmes: an exploration of the student experience

O'Sullivan, Deirdre (University of Limerick, 2014)

Background: Pre-registration nurse education has become established within higher education in Ireland. Concurrently, the Irish government commitment to widening participation in higher education impacted on the profile ...
Understanding help-seeking amongst university students: the role of group identity, stigma, and exposure to suicide and help-seeking

Kearns, Michelle; Muldoon, Orla T.; Msetfi, Rachel M.; Surgenor, Paul W.G. (Frontiers in Media, 2015)

Background: Despite a high prevalence of suicide ideation and mental health issues amongst university students, the stigma of help-seeking remains a barrier to those who are in real need of professional support. Social ...
Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process mode

May, Carl R; Finch, Tracy; Mair, Frances; Ballini, Luciana; Dowrick, Christopher; Eccles, Martin; Gask, Linda; MacFarlane, Anne E.; Murray, Elizabeth; Rapley, Tim; Rogers, Anne; Treweek, Shaun; Wallace, Paul; Anderson, George; Burns, Jo; Heaven, Ben (BioMed Central, 2007)

Background: The Normalization Process Model is a theoretical model that assists in explaining the processes by which complex interventions become routinely embedded in health care practice. It offers a framework for ...
Unemployment as a chronic stressor: a systematic review of cortisol studies

Summer, Rachel C.; Gallagher, Stephen (Taylor and Francis, 2017)

Objective: Unemployment is a type of chronic stressor that impacts human health. The reasons for how the stress of unemployment affect health is still a matter of discussion. One of the pathways from chronic stress to ill ...
Unemployment is associated with lower cortisol awakening and blunted dehydroepiandrosterone responses

Gallagher, Stephen; Summer, Rachel C.; Muldoon, Orla T.; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Hannigan, Ailish (Elsevier, 2016)

Previous research has investigated the endocrinological consequences of unemployment as a likely pathway behind chronic stress and negative health outcomes. Despite these early attempts at delineating the neuroendocrine ...
Unemployment, employment precarity and inflammation

Summer, Rachel C.; Bennett, Rachel; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Gallagher, Stephen (Elsevier, 2019)

2 Unemployment has been associated with poorer health, but few studies have examined the biological mechanisms that confer these health decrements. Further, no studies to date have examined differences across employment ...
Unexpected consequences of everyday life during the Maoist insurgency in Nepal

Pettigrew, Judith (Bridgewater State University's Virtual Commons, 2012)

This article examines gendered aspects of women’s lives in a hill village in central Nepal during the decade-long civil war (1996-2006). The predominantly middle aged and elderly women discussed in the paper were not ...
Universal neonatal hearing screening

O'Gorman, Clodagh S.; Hamid, H.A.; Fox, G.P.P. (Irish Medical Organization, 2005)
The University of Limerick education and research network for general practice (ULEARN-GP): practice characteristics and general practitioner perspectives

O’Regan, Andrew; Hayes, Peter; O’Connor, Ray; Casey, Monica; O’Dwyer, Pat; Culhane, Aidan; O’Donnell, Patrick; Stack, Gary; Cuddihy, John; O’Connell, Billy; O’Flynn, Jerry; Cullen, Walter; O’Doherty, Jane; O’Connell, Maurice; Glynn, Liam G. (BMC, 2020)

Background: A well-functioning general practice sector that has a strong research component is recognised as a key foundation of any modern health system. General practitioners (GPs) are more likely to collaborate in ...
Unravelling 'Ethos' and section 37(1): the experiences of LGBTQ teachers

Neary, Aoife (2014)

Section 37 (1) of the Employment Equality Act allows religious institutions to differentiate in the recruitment of employees in order to maintain religious ‘ethos’. It also facilitates legal action against an employee who ...
An unusual case of recurrent chest infections

Dahab, Taqua; Saleem, Shahzaib; Gumani, Dikshaini; Casserly, Brian; Sharkey, Claire; Laghi, Frank; Newmarch, William (Elsevier, 2017)

This case presentation relates to a 53 year old male, cachectic in appearance, who presented with progressively worsening dyspnoea, cough, intermittent haemoptysis and a history of nasal dryness on going over five months. ...
The use of case-based learning in the development of student teachers’ levels of moral reasoning

O'Flaherty, Joanne; McGarr, Oliver (Taylor and Francis, 2014)

The important role of the teacher in developing morally sensitive individuals is widely acknowledged. This paper examines the integration of context specific moral development interventions within a 4-year undergraduate ...
The use of contact time and the reactive strength index to optimize fast stretch-shortening cycle training

Flanagan, Eamonn P.; Comyns, Thomas M. (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2008)

THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS RESEARCH RELATING TO THE STRETCH-SHORTENING CYCLE AND PLYOMETRICS. THE ARTICLE INSTRUCTS STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PRACTITIONERS IN THE USE OF GROUND CONTACT TIMES AND THE REACTIVE STRENGTH INDEX IN ...
The use of Independent component analysis on EMG data to explore cross-talk

Howard, Róisín Marie; Conway, Richard; Harrison, Andrew J. (International Society of Biomechanics, 2015)

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) on Electromyography (EMG) data to distinguish between individual muscle activations due to its capabilities of signal separation. ...
The use of sensory and chemesthetic stimuli in the treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia: scoping practice in Ireland and the UK

Tierney, Jessica (University of Limerick, 2014)

Taste affects thresholds of swallow elicitations implying that swallowing functions may be sensitive to sensory qualities of boli. There is some evidence to suggest that sensory and chemesthetic stimuli may provoke changes ...

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