• Report No: 343: Elucidating levels and pathways of human exposure in Ireland to brominated flame retardants and perfluoroalkyl substances, ELEVATE project highlights video 

  Coggins, Marie A. (Environmental Protection Agency, 2020-09-25)

  Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been used extensively in applications such as electrical goods, soft furnishings and building insulation foam. The ELEVATE project generated ...

• Report No: 343: Elucidating levels and pathways of human exposure in Ireland to brominated flame retardants and perfluoroalkyl substances 

  Harrad, Stuart; Drage, Daniel; Abdallah, Mohamed; Wemken, Nina; Coggins, Marie (Environmental Protection Agency, 2020-09-25)

  Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have found extensive use in consumer applications such as electrical and electronic goods, soft furnishings, and building insulation foam to impart ...

• Sensitive and selective quantification of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in urine of the general population by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry 

  Connolly, Alison; Koslitz, Stephan; Bury, Daniel; Brüning, Thomas; Conrad, André; Kolossa-Gehring, Marike; Coggins, Marie A.; Koch, Holger M. (Elsevier, 2020-08-26)

  Glyphosate is the highest volume herbicide used worldwide, and its main biodegradation product is aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), both are listed as priority substances in the Human Biomonitoring for Europe initiative ...

• Human biomonitoring of glyphosate exposures: State-of-the-art and future research challenges 

  Connolly, Alison; Coggins, Marie A.; Koch, Holger M. (MDPI, 2020-08-18)

  Abstract: Glyphosate continues to attract controversial debate following the International Agency for Research on Cancer carcinogenicity classification in 2015. Despite its ubiquitous presence in our environment, there ...

• The EMEP Intensive Measurement Period campaign, 2008-2009: characterizing carbonaceous aerosol at nine rural sites in Europe 

  Yttri, Karl Espen; Simpson, David; Bergström, Robert; Kiss, Gyula; Szidat, Sonke; Ceburnis, Darius; Eckhardt, Sabine; Hueglin, Christoph; Nojgaard, Jacob Kleno; Perrino, Cinzia; Pisso, Ignazio; Prevot, Andre Stephan Henry; Putaud, Jean-Philippe; Spindler, Gerald; Vana, Milan; Zhang, Yan-Lin; Aas, Wenche (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2019-04-03)

  Carbonaceous aerosol (total carbon, TCp) was source apportioned at nine European rural background sites, as part of the European Measurement and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) Intensive Measurement Periods in fall 2008 and ...

• Summertime primary and secondary contributions to Southern Ocean cloud condensation nuclei 

  Fossum, Kirsten N.; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita; Ceburnis, Darius; Dall'Osto, Manuel; Marullo, Salvatore; Bellacicco, Marco; Simó, Rafel; Liu, Dantong; Flynn, Michael; Zuend, Andreas; O'Dowd, Colin (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019-07-18)

  Atmospheric aerosols in clean remote oceanic regions contribute significantly to the global albedo through the formation of haze and cloud layers; however, the relative importance of ‘primary’ wind-produced sea-spray over ...

• Sea-spray regulates sulfate cloud droplet activation over oceans 

  Fossum, Kirsten N.; Ovadnevaite, Jurgita; Ceburnis, Darius; Preißler, Jana; Snider, Jefferson R.; Huang, Ru-Jin; Zuend, Andreas; O’Dowd, Colin (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2020-04-08)

  Sulfate aerosols are typically the dominant source of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) over remote oceans and their abundance is thought to be the dominating factor in determining oceanic cloud brightness. Their activation ...

• Concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances in human milk from Ireland: Implications for adult and nursing infant exposure 

  Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, Mohamed; Wemken, Nina; Drage, Daniel Simon; Tlustos, Christina; Cellarius, Claire; Cleere, Kathy; Morrison, John J.; Daly, Sean; Coggins, Marie Ann; Harrad, Stuart (Elsevier, 2019-12-20)

  Concentrations of 10 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) were measured in 16 pools of human milk from Ireland. Only four PFASs were detected (PFOA, PFNA, PFHxS and PFOS), with concentrations dominated by PFOA which was ...

• VERITAS detection of LS 5039 and HESS J1825-137 

  Lang, Mark J.; Moriarty, Patrick (Elsevier, 2019-11-07)

  With 8 h of observations, VERITAS confirms the detection of two very high energy gamma-ray sources. The gamma-ray binary LS 5039 is detected with a statistical significance of 8.8σ. The measured flux above 1 TeV is near ...

• Ultra-sensitive label free imaging below the resolution limit 

  Alexandrov, Sergey; McGrath, James; Sheppard, Colin J. R.; Boccafoschi, Francesca; Giannini, Cinzia; Sibillano, Teresa; Subhash, Hrebesh; Hogan, Josh; Leahy, James J. (SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library, 2019-02-02)

  Almost all known nanoscopy methods rely upon the contrast created by fluorescent labels attached to the object of interest. This causes limitations on their applicability to in vivo imaging. A new label-free spectral ...

• Experimental assessment of clinical MRI-induced global SAR distributions in head phantoms 

  Blackwell, James; Oluniran, Gideon; Tuohy, Brendan; Destrade, Michel; Kraśny, Marcin Jan; Colgan, Niall (Elsevier, 2019-10-05)

  Accurate estimation of SAR is critical to safeguarding vulnerable patients who require an MRI procedure. The increased static field strength and RF duty cycle capabilities in modern MRI scanners mean that systems can easily ...

• Label free ultra-sensitive imaging with sub-diffraction spatial resolution 

  Alexandrov, Sergey; Das, Nandan; McGrath, James; Owens, Peter; Sheppard, Colin J. R.; Boccafoschi, Francesca; Giannini, Cinzia; Sibillano, Teresa; Subhash, Hrebesh; Leahy, Martin (IEEE, 2019-07-09)

  In this paper, we show a new way to break the resolution limit and dramatically improve sensitivity to structural changes. To realize it we developed a novel label free contrast mechanism, based on the spectral encoding ...

• Spatial frequency domain correlation mapping optical coherence tomography for nanoscale structural characterization 

  Alexandrov, Sergey; McNamara, Paul M.; Das, Nandan; Zhou, Yi; Lynch, Gillian; Hogan, Josh; Leahy, Martin (AIP Publishing, 2019-09-16)

  Most of the fundamental pathological processes in living tissues exhibit changes at the nanoscale. Noninvasive, label-free detection of structural changes in biological samples pose a significant challenge to both researchers ...

• Occupational exposures in an equestrian centre to respirable dust and respirable crystalline silica 

  Bulfin, Kathleen; Cowie, Hilary; Galea, Karen S.; Connolly, Alison; Coggins, Marie Ann (MDPI, 2019-09-03)

  Abstract: Sand-based products are regularly used as footing material on indoor equestrian arenas, creating a potential occupational exposure risk for respirable crystalline silica (RCS) for equestrian workers training and ...

• Using the Agile software development lifecycle to develop a standalone application for generating colour magnitude diagrams 

  Fitzgerald, K.; Browne, Lisa-Marie; Butler, Ray F. (Elsevier, 2019-05-11)

  Virtual observatories allow the means by which an astronomer is able to discover, access, and process data seamlessly, regardless of its physical location. However, steep learning curves are often required to become ...

• 1064 nm acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy 

  Periyasamy, Vijitha; Das, Nandan; Sharma, Arunima; Pramanik, Manojit (Wiley, 2018-12-03)

  Photoacoustic imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique having the advantages of high-optical contrast and good acoustic resolution at improved imaging depths. Light transport in biological tissues is mainly characterized ...

• Experimental assessment of MRI-induced temperature change and SAR distributions in phantoms 

  Blackwell, J.; Van der Putten, Wil; Tuohy, Brendan; Colgan, Niall (NUI Galway, 2017-11-14)

  During an MR procedure, most of the transmitted RF power is transformed into heat within the patients’ tissue resulting from resistive losses, referred to as the specific energy absorption rate(SAR) (2). The EU standardisation ...

• Entertaining physics education: using an astronomy board game to enhance student learning and motivation 

  Cardinot, Adriana; Fairfield, Jessamyn A. (GIREP-MPTL 2018, 2018-07-09)

  This study examines the effects of a novel Astronomy Board Game on students science performance, their attitudes towards learning Science through games and their perception of scientists. Post-primary students in Ireland ...

• Asteroid Day: a vehicle for raising public awareness of astronomy and space exploration among primary students in Ireland 

  Cardinot, Adriana; Shearer, Andy; Fairfield, Jessamyn A. (NUI Galway, 2018-03-24)

  Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign which takes place annually to learn about asteroids, their impact and to increase awareness on how we can protect the Earth from future asteroid impacts. At the event students ...

• Game-based learning to engage students with physics and astronomy using a board game 

  Cardinot, Adriana; Fairfield, Jessamyn A. (IGI Global, 2019)

  In this research article, the authors developed a novel astronomy board game and examined how this approach could facilitate the learning and teaching of astronomy topics covered in the new Irish Science Syllabus. A total ...

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