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    • Constraints on the secular decrease in the flux density of cas a at 13.5, 15.5 and 16.5 ghz 

      O'sullivan, C.; Green, D. A. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 1999-03-01)
      Observations of the flux density ratio of Cas A to Cyg A at 13.5, 15.5 and 16.5 GHz made in 1994 and 1995 with the Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope are presented. These observations are compared with the predictions of Baars ...

    • Constraints on the very high energy emission from bl lacertae objects 

      Horan, D.; Badran, H. M.; Bond, I. H.; Boyle, P. J.; Bradbury, S. M.; Buckley, J. H.; Carter‐Lewis, D. A.; Catanese, M.; Celik, O.; Cui, W.; Daniel, M.; D’Vali, M.; de la Calle Perez, I.; Duke, C.; Falcone, A.; Fegan, D. J.; Fegan, S. J.; Finley, J. P.; Fortson, L. F.; Gaidos, J. A.; Gammell, S.; Gibbs, K.; Gillanders, G. H.; Grube, J.; Hall, J.; Hall, T. A.; Hanna, D.; Hillas, A. M.; Holder, J.; Jarvis, A.; Jordan, M.; Kenny, G. E.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Kildea, J.; Knapp, J.; Kosack, K.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M. J.; Le Bohec, S.; Linton, E.; Lloyd‐Evans, J.; Milovanovic, A.; Moriarty, P.; Muller, D.; Nagai, T.; Nolan, S.; Ong, R. A.; Pallassini, R.; Petry, D.; Power‐Mooney, B.; Quinn, J.; Quinn, M.; Ragan, K.; Rebillot, P.; Reynolds, P. T.; Rose, H. J.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G. H.; Swordy, S. P.; Syson, A.; Vassiliev, V. V.; Wakely, S. P.; Walker, G.; Weekes, T. C.; Zweerink, J. (IOP Publishing, 2004-03-01)
      We present results from observations of 29 BL Lacertae objects, taken with the Whipple Observatory 10 m gamma-ray telescope between 1995 and 2000. The observed objects are mostly at low redshift (z<0.2), but observations ...

    • Constraints on very high energy emission from grb 130427a 

      Aliu, E.; Aune, T.; Barnacka, A.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Berger, K.; Biteau, J.; Buckley, J. H.; Bugaev, V.; Byrum, K.; Cardenzana, J. V; Cerruti, M.; Chen, X.; Ciupik, L.; Connaughton, V.; Cui, W.; Dickinson, H. J.; Eisch, J. D.; Errando, M.; Falcone, A.; Federici, S.; Feng, Q.; Finley, J. P.; Fleischhack, H.; Fortin, P.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Galante, N.; Gillanders, G. H.; Griffin, S.; Griffiths, S. T.; Grube, J.; Gyuk, G.; Håkansson, N.; Hanna, D.; Holder, J.; Hughes, G.; Humensky, T. B.; Johnson, C. A.; Kaaret, P.; Kar, P.; Kertzman, M.; Khassen, Y.; Kieda, D.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M. J.; Madhavan, A. S; Maier, G.; McArthur, S.; McCann, A.; Meagher, K.; Millis, J.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; Nieto, D.; O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A.; Ong, R. A.; Otte, A. N.; Park, N.; Pohl, M.; Popkow, A.; Prokoph, H.; Pueschel, E.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Rajotte, J.; Reyes, L. C.; Reynolds, P. T.; Richards, G. T.; Roache, E.; Sembroski, G. H.; Shahinyan, K.; Smith, A. W.; Staszak, D.; Telezhinsky, I.; Tucci, J. V.; Tyler, J.; Varlotta, A.; Vassiliev, V. V.; Vincent, S.; Wakely, S. P.; Weiner, O. M.; Weinstein, A.; Welsing, R.; Wilhelm, A.; Williams, D. A.; Zitzer, B.; McEnery, J. E.; Perkins, J. S.; Veres, P.; Zhu, S. (IOP Publishing, 2014-10-10)
      Prompt emission from the very fluent and nearby (z = 0.34) gamma-ray burst GRB130427A was detected by several orbiting telescopes and by ground-based, wide-field-of-view optical transient monitors. Apart from the intensity ...

    • Construct, concurrent and discriminant validity of type d personality in the general population: associations with anxiety, depression, stress and cardiac output 

      Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Informa UK Limited, 2012-02-01)
      The Type D personality, identified by high negative affectivity paired with high social inhibition, has been associated with a number of health-related outcomes in (mainly) cardiac populations. However, despite its prevalence ...

    • Constructed wetlands for the treatment of highway runoff. 

      Keating, E.; Healy, Mark G.; Rodgers, Michael (Nova Publishers, 2008-06-01)
      Highway surface runoff contains pollutants such as total suspended solids (TSS), hydrocarbons, de-icing salts, and heavy metals. Treatment methods for highway runoff include storage/treatment facilities, such as constructed ...

    • Constructing convex planes in the pants complex 

      Aramayona, Javier; Parlier, Hugo; Shackleton, Kenneth J. (American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2009-10-01)
      Our main theorem identifies a class of totally geodesic subgraphs of the 1-skeleton of the pants complex, referred to as the pants graph, each isomorphic to the product of two Farey graphs. We deduce the existence of many ...

    • Constructing Englishness: War, race, and the empire in Enid Blyton's fiction 

      Morrissey, Siobhán (NUI Galway, 2022-09-16)
      This thesis studies the British children’s author Enid Blyton’s (1897-1968) writing from 1926 to twenty-first century modified editions of her books and series. I argue that Blyton’s twentieth-century fiction constructs a ...

    • Constructing the good king: Biblical exempla in Sedulous Scottus’ De Rectoribus Christianis 

      Farkas-Hussey, Noémi (NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)
      De Rectoribus Christianis (DRC) is a mid-ninth century political treatise, written by the Irish scholar Sedulius Scottus. The text is an example of the specula principum (‘mirrors for princes’) genre, and it instructs ...

    • Constructing Twitter Datasets using Signals for Event Detection Evaluation 

      Hromic, Hugo; Hayes, Conor (22nd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 2014-09-29)
      Twitter is a very attractive real-time platform for research on event detection. However, despite the great amount of interest, datasets suitable for evaluating such methods are not easily available. The two most important ...

    • Construction apprentices' attitudes to workplace drug testing in Ireland. 

      Hogan, Victoria; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (Ingenta, 2006-03)
      Ireland has become one of the first European countries to legislate for workplace drug testing. However, little is known about the attitudes of Irish workers towards various aspects of workplace drug testing programmes. ...

    • Construction of a Natural Mucin Microarray and Interrogation for Biologically Relevant Glyco-Epitopes 

      Kilcoyne, Michelle; Gerlach, Jared Q.; Kane, Marian; Joshi, Lokesh (2012)
      Mucins are the principal components of mucus, and mucin glycosylation has important roles in defense, microbial adhesion, immunomodulation, inflammation, and cancer. Mucin expression and glycosylation are dynamic, responding ...

    • The construction of legitimacy in nature conservation: knowledge, power and participation in the regulation of Irish raised bogs under the European Habitats Directive 

      O'Riordan, Margaret (NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)
      A network of 53 Irish raised bogs were designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) under the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive in the 1990s. Whilst the purpose of the designation is to protect unique habitats, ...

    • Construction of synthetic nucleoli and what it tells us about propagation of sub-nuclear domains through cell division 

      Grob, Alice; McStay, Brian (Informa UK Limited, 2014-08-18)
      The cell nucleus is functionally compartmentalized into numerous membraneless and dynamic, yet defined, bodies. The cell cycle inheritance of these nuclear bodies (NBs) is poorly understood at the molecular level. In higher ...

    • Construction of synthetic nucleoli in human cells reveals how a major functional nuclear domain is formed and propagated through cell division 

      Grob, A.; Colleran, C.; McStay, B. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2014-01-21)
      Human cell nuclei are functionally organized into structurally stable yet dynamic bodies whose cell cycle inheritance is poorly understood. Here, we investigate the biogenesis and propagation of nucleoli, sites of ribosome ...

    • Construction of upper and lower solutions for singular discrete initial and boundary value problems via inequality theory 

      Lü, Haishen; O'Regan, Donal (Springer Nature, 2005-01-01)
      We present new existence results for singular discrete initial and boundary value problems. In particular our nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable and is allowed to change sign.

    • Constructive Engagement and Human Rights: The Case of EU Policy on China 

      Egan, Annabel (2012-09-28)
      Since the European Commission released its first communication on relations with China in 1995, together, human rights diplomacy and human rights assistance, in the form of EU funding for rights-related technical cooperation ...

    • Constructivism in the third space: challenging pedagogical perceptions of science outreach and science education 

      McCauley, Veronica; Martins Gomes, Diogo; Davison, Kevin G. (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-12-03)
      Informal opportunities for young people to engage with science have increased in response to declining uptake in science and a shortage of science graduates. This paper is set in the context of the recent introduction of ...

    • A constructivist grounded theory study of the enablers and development of trust in scrum teams 

      O'Connell, Trish (NUI Galway, 2019-08-19)
      The academic discourse is replete with aphorisms advocating the need for trust in Scrum teams. However, whilst trust is believed to be necessary to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration within the Scrum team no research ...

    • Consulting with citizens in the design of wellbeing measures and policies: lessons from a systems science application 

      Hogan, Michael; Duggan, Jim; Leyden, Kevin M.; Domegan, Christine; Mc Hugh, Patricia; Hogan, Victoria; Harney, Owen; Groarke, Jenny; Noone, Chris; Groarke, Ann Marie (Springer Verlag, 2014-09-20)
      Internationally, there is increasing interest in, and analysis of, human wellbeing and the economic, social, environmental, and psychological factors that contribute to it. Current thinking suggests that to measure social ...

    • Consumers' self-congruence with a 'Liked' brand: cognitive network influence and brand outcomes 

      Wallace, Elaine; Buil, Isabel; de Chernatony, Leslie (Emerald, 2017)
      Purpose Brand “Likes” on Facebook facilitate self-expression, forming part of consumers’ virtual selves. Yet, consumers’ brand “Likes” may bear little resemblance to their material realities. This paper aims to test ...