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Quantification of biofilm build-up in filters when intermittently loaded with low-strength synthetic wastewater

Healy, Mark G.; Rodgers, Michael (2011)

Accumulation of particulate matter and microorganisms present in wastewater as biofilm on the surface of filters can lead to clogging of the media. If clogging of filters occurs, they need to be temporarily decommissioned ...

Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography

Grimes, Seamus (Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)

From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ...

Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university

Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)

Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ...

Regional imagery and Irish tourism promotion

Cawley, Mary; Gaffey, Sheila M.; Gillmor, Desmond A. (BELGEO, 1999)

Regional images may be defined as representations of places which consist of one or more of a variety of elements which may include people, landscapes, flora or animals (Gold and Ward, 1994; Kneafsey, 1997). Sound, when ...

Relationships between local governance and local government and the role of the state: evidence from the Leader programme in Ireland

Cawley, Mary (Presse Universitaires de Rennes PUR, 2016)

Central states allocated responsibility for local development actions to a range of private, community and voluntary organisations in many European countries, over the past three decades. This phenomenon has been viewed ...

Relative timing of last glacial maximum and late-glacial events in the central tropical Andes

Bromley, Gordon R. M.; Schaefer, Joerg M.; Winckler, Gisela; Hall, Brenda L.; Todd, Claire E.; Rademaker, Kurt M. (Elsevier, 2009-06-18)

Whether or not tropical climate fluctuated in synchrony with global events during the Late Pleistocene is a key problem in climate research. However, the timing of past climate changes in the tropics remains controversial, ...

Review of 'Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts (ed. D. Atkinson et al.)'

Morrissey, John (2006)

The role of headwater wetlands in altering stream flow and chemistry in a Maine, USA catchment

Morley, Terry R.; Reeve, Andrew S.; Calhoun, Aram J. K. (Wiley for American Water Resources Association, 2011-03-28)

Headwater wetlands, including hillside seeps, may contribute to downstream systems disproportionately to their relatively small size. We quantified the hydrology and chemistry of headwater wetlands in a central Maine, ...

The role of telematics in integrating Ireland into Europe's information society

Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2002)

This article is an evaluation of Ireland’s participation in the Telematics Applications Programme (TAP), which was part of the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Programme for the period 1994–1998. TAP was primarily ...

The rural as a return migration destination

Farrell, Maura; Mahon, Marie; McDonagh, John (De Gruyter Open, 2012-02-24)

This paper investigates the phenomenon of return migration to rural areas through exploring how different conceptual approaches address issues of population return, and the significance of the rural as a return migration ...

Rural out-migration and return: perspectives on the everyday reality and the idyll in Ireland

Cawley, Mary (Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020-02)

The aim of this article is to add to understandings of the rural idyll as an influence on return migration. Interviews were conducted with thirty-four first generation rural returnees in Ireland and their responses were ...

School choice and school catchment: Post‐primary education in Galway city

Grimes, Seamus (Taylor & Francis, 1984)

While research to date at the national level has adequately illustrated the nature and extent of class bias in Irish education, there has been little attempt to examine the spatial organisation of the system at the local ...

Securitizing instability: The US military and full spectrum operations

Morrissey, John (SAGE Publications, 2015-01-01)

This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military’s overseas mission into what it calls ‘full spectrum operations’ and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term ‘full spectrum law’. The paper explores the ...

Social spatiality: some rudimentary thoughts on the epistemology of Benno Werlen

Strohmayer, Ulf (Copernicus Publications, 2014)

Benno Werlen requires no introduction to readers of Geographica Helvetica: arguably the most internationally resonating of names amongst Swiss human geographers writing today, the Jena-based social geographer has not ...

Spatio-temporal evolution of urban innovation structure based on zip code geodatabase: An empirical study from Shanghai and Beijing

Duan, Dezhong; Du, Debin; Liu, Chengliang; Grimes, Seamus (Springer Verlag, 2016-11-11)

In today's world, the innovation of science and technology has become the key support for improving comprehensive national strength and changing the mode of social production and lifestyle. The country that possesses ...

Stakeholder perceptions of recreational and management impacts on protected coastal dune systems: A comparison of three European countries

Kindermann, Gesche; Gormally, Michael (2013)

Coastal dune systems are particularly susceptible to destabilisation through recreational pressure and because of this, conflicts frequently arise between those who want to use the dunes for recreational purposes and ...