Abstract The goal of public health and health promotion practitioners is to increase the health of populations through evidence informed health policy. Comparable to evidence-based medicine, public health advocates ...

Today's digital society creates new realities and opportunities for rural communities. To fully take advantage of those digital opportunities, rural communities must build the capacity and culture to utilize digital ...

Global environmental concerns with regard to sustaining our growing population is prompting the building community worldwide to increase urban density, while using optimised and sustainable resources. The traditional ...

Background: A challenge of an increasing ageing population is the ‘feminisation of ageing’. Worldwide women live longer than men and this pattern is replicated in Ireland. It is important that health care professionals and ...

Therapeutic advances are increasing the number of patients that survive cardiac disease such as a myocardial infarction, however, current treatments do not fully stop the development of heart failure. Advanced therapeutic ...

The 1,2,3-triazines, also known as the v-triazines, are the least studied of the three classes of triazine. This is due to the ring’s lower stability and more limited synthetic routes. A new class of fluorophores, based ...

Fretting is a key concern in the fatigue design of the pressure armour layer of flexible marine risers, due to the combination of extreme global dynamic loading conditions and the local geometrical-tribological conditions ...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. At the molecular level, breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. For example, the claudin low subtype of breast cancer is characterised by epithelial-mesenchymal ...

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production activity in the world and has been for the last several decades. With over 60% of wild fish stocks at or below their maximum sustainable yield, it is expected that to ...

Decellularised xenografts are an inherent component of regenerative medicine. Their preserved structure, mechanical integrity and biofunctional composition have well established them in reparative medicine for a diverse ...