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Fleetwood, Hannah (University of Limerick, 2015)

The phrase ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’ springs to mind when I think about the summer of 2013. I had just completed my BA in Visual Communication and was eager to jump on the graphic design career ladder. ...

Typographic design, one character at a time

Murphy, Jamie (University of Limerick, 2015)

Letterpress printing, the craft once revered as the means by which a message was carried to the masses, was how the vast majority printed matter was achieved for over half a millennium. The underlying technology changed ...

A design consultancy intervention: how strategic design thinking delivers in practice a case study overview

McNulty, Sean; Mitchell, Frances (University of Limerick, 2015)

Dolmen has, over the past decade, evolved its process to include exploring and testing the thinking behind a variety of published theories in Design Leadership, Design Thinking, Strategic Thinking and Creativity. This ...

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Williams, Gemma A (University of Limerick, 2015)

For a number of years the discipline of fashion in Ireland has been marginalised by funding agencies, trade bodies and arguably the wider design sector and community, often hindering a meaningful engagement with dress ...

Design as a driver for economic growth in Northern Ireland

Douglas, Michelle; Montgomery, Ian; Fleming, Karen (University of Limerick, 2015)

Northern Ireland’s creative industries are a powerhouse of economic activity which require dynamic and sustainable collaborative networks, but are compromised by limited understanding and support at government level. ...

An open-source, low-cost & digitally fabricated geodesic dome system

Buron, Javier (University of Limerick, 2015)

Self-build as a social tool: Communities need collective spaces to gather for group activities and social support. The lack of a collective space to meet, discuss and perform group activities, especially at the early ...

Getting the right design or getting the design right: an observation of 18 industry projects progressing through a structured design thinking process

Vaugh, Trevor; Ryan, Martin (University of Limerick, 2015)

Harvard business professor Theodore Levitt once said “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want to buy a quarterinch hole” This quote, often used by design thinking promoters, re-prioritises human needs ...

How scenarios support empathy in design: a case study of undergraduate students

Kiernan, Louise; McMahon, Muireann (University of Limerick, 2015)

In user-centred design, there is recognition that designers must understand the perspectives of the users for whom the product or service is being designed. Sometimes however, designers may not have direct access to end ...

Design history: culture and contexts

Kennedy, Con (2015)

Design in it’s widest definition, does not exist within it’s own paradigm. Many things affect design and it’s outcomes. Specific design disciplines influence, and are influenced by other creative areas and also by wider ...

Early modern technical verse from NLI G 3 (II)

Ó Riain, Gordon (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2013)

Comhardadh cionnas is cóir (1) represents the second in a series of technical poems being edited for the first time from the fourteenth-century manuscript NLI G 3 (ff. 76vb1-77vb5).(2) It gives an account of the rules of ...

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, ...

Táinig an tráth nóna: old age in classical Irish religious verse

Ó Riain, Gordon (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015)

Old age and fear of Judgement are common themes in the religious poetry of late medieval and early modern Ireland. These widespread themes are, of course, well attested in other periods and in many other literatures. The ...

The textual quality of the Book of the O'Conor Don

Ó Riain, Gordon (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010)

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Antihypertensive peptides from food proteins

Norris, Roseanne; Fitzgerald, Richard J. (Intech, 2013)

Hypertension or elevated blood pressure (BP) is a global health concern, thought to affect up to 30 % of the adult population in developed and developing countries. It is defined by a BP measurement of 140/90 mmHg or ...

Idé-eolaíocht agus Daonteangeolaíocht na Gaeilge: aird ar éagsúlacht teanga na Gaeilge

Ó Murchadha, Noel (University of Limerick, 2012)

Bíodh is go bhfuil aitheantas follasach ag urlabhra thraidisiúnta na Gaeltachta mar mhúnla teanga don Ghaeilge ón uair a bunaíodh Conradh na Gaeilge i leith, is beag iniúchadh a deineadh ó shin ar inghlacthacht an mhúnla ...

The influence of surfactants on capillary driven flow in open hydrophobic microchannels towards chip-based fluorescent detection of HSV

O'Leary, Fiachra (University of Limerick, 2011)

Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) is widespread among the human population. HSV infection can have subtle symptoms and often go undiagnosed. There are two types of HSV infections. HSV type 1 (HSV-1) is associated with orofacial ...

A quantitative assessment of policies to increase environmental sustainability of medium to large sized settlements in Ireland

O'Doherty, Travis (University of Limerick, 2012)

A major challenge facing the world is the need to enhance sustainability urgently as we face the inter-related challenges of climate change, dependence on fossil fuels, food shortages and growing population. The International ...

Proteolytic release of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitory peptides from food proteins.

Norris, Roseanne (University of Limerick, 2013)

The potential of an Aspergillus niger derived prolyl endoproteinase (An-PEP) to produce potent angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides was assessed. Bovine α- and β-casein were purified from acid caseinate ...

A molecular dynamics exploration of the properties of bulk and nanosized single-crystal copper

Lenihan, Catherine (University of Limerick, 2011)

Copper has a history of use that is at least 10,000 years old and it is still one of the most useful metals in today’s world. Nanocrystals of copper are of great scientific interest as they are effectively a bridge between ...

Some identifications of citations in the grammatical tracts

Ó Riain, Gordon (National University of Ireland, 2008)

A small number of previously unidentified citations in the grammatical tracts are presented here. Citations from the seventeenth-century tract Rudimemta Grammalicae Hibernicae are also included.(1)

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