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    • A review of performance measurement: towards performance management 

      Folan, Paul; Browne, Jim (Elsevier BV, 2005-09-01)

    • A review of phosphorus and sediment release from irish tillage soils, the methods used to quantify losses and the current state of mitigation practice 

      Regan, J.T.; Fenton, O.; Healy, M.G. (Royal Irish Academy, 2012-01-01)
      Throughout the European Union (EU), agricultural soils with high phosphorus (P) status due to surplus fertiliser input have been identified as a landscape pressure impacting on water quality. In RI:public of Ireland, ...

    • A review of phytoplankton ecology in estuarine and coastal waters around ireland 

      O'Boyle, S.; Silke, J. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009-11-03)
      A review of the distribution of phytoplankton in coastal, shelf and estuarine waters around Ireland was undertaken to consolidate our understanding of the ecology of these organisms in the region. In broad terms, the review ...

    • A review of qualitative case methods trends and themes used in technology transfer research 

      Cunningham, James A.; Menter, Matthias; Young, Chris (Springer Nature, 2016-08-25)
      The focus of this paper is to review the qualitative case methods that have been used in technology transfer research over the last 20 years from 1996 to 2015. Case methods allow for more in-depth analyses and provide the ...

    • A review of recent advances in optical fibre sensors forin vivodosimetry during radiotherapy 

      O'Keeffe, S; McCarthy, D; Woulfe, P; Grattan, M W D; Hounsell, A R; Sporea, D; Mihai, L; Vata, I; Leen, G; Lewis, E (British Institute of Radiology, 2015-06-01)
      This article presents an overview of the recent developments and requirements in radiotherapy dosimetry, with particular emphasis on the development of optical fibre dosemeters for radiotherapy applications, focusing ...

    • A review of remediation and control systems for the treatment of agricultural waste water in ireland to satisfy the requirements of the water framework directive 

      Fenton, O.; Healy, M. G.; Schulte, R. P.O. (Royal Irish Academy, 2008-01-01)
      In Ireland agricultural activities have been identified as major sources of nutrient input to receiving waters, and it has been estimated that these activities contribute 75.3% of the N and 33.4% of the P found in these ...

    • A review of safe-staffing models and their applicability to care homes 

      Mitchell, Gary; Cousins, Carol; Burrows, Ruth; Cousins, Gary (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-12-26)
      Presently, there are a range of evidence-based staffing tools that have been used to inform nursing, midwifery and health care capacity. These tools are designed to be used with professional judgement and include frameworks ...

    • A review of the past, the present, and the future of fishers' knowledge research: a challenge to established fisheries science 

      Hind, E. J. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-10-03)
      Fishers' knowledge research is an approach to fisheries research that has a relatively long history, yet has generally failed to become integrated into the fisheries science mainstream alongside approaches that rely primarily ...

    • A review of water quality policies in relation to public good benefits and community engagement in rural ireland 

      Daly, Karen; Breuil, Marion; Buckley, Cathal; O’ Donoghue, Cathal; Ryan, Mary; Seale, Catherine (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017-01-01)
      This paper examines current recreational water use in the rural landscape in Ireland and reviews current EU policies and national regulations aimed at protecting water quality and the wider environment under agri-environmental ...

    • A review on adsorption of fluoride from aqueous solution 

      Habuda-Stanić, Mirna; Ravančić, Maja; Flanagan, Andrew (MDPI AG, 2014-09-05)
      Fluoride is one of the anionic contaminants which is found in excess in surface or groundwater because of geochemical reactions or anthropogenic activities such as the disposal of industrial wastewaters. Among various ...

    • A robust anisotropic hyperelastic formulation for the modelling of soft tissue 

      Nolan, D.R.; Gower, A.L.; Destrade, M.; Ogden, R.W.; McGarry, J.P. (Elsevier BV, 2014-11-01)

    • A role for pparα in the medial prefrontal cortex in formalin-evoked nociceptive responding in rats 

      Okine, B N; Rea, K; Olango, W M; Price, J; Herdman, S; Madasu, M K; Roche, M; Finn, David P. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-03-01)
      Background and PurposeThe nuclear hormone receptor, PPAR, and its endogenous ligands, are involved in pain modulation. PPAR is expressed in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a key brain region involved in both the ...

    • A role for serotonin in the antidepressant activity of ng-nitro-l-arginine, in the rat forced swimming test 

      Gigliucci, Valentina; Buckley, Kathleen Niamh; Nunan, John; O'Shea, Karen; Harkin, Andrew (Elsevier BV, 2010-02-01)

    • A role for the p53 tumour suppressor in regulating the balance between homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining 

      Moureau, Sylvie; Luessing, Janna; Harte, Emma Christina; Voisin, Muriel; Lowndes, Noel Francis (The Royal Society, 2016-09-01)
      Loss of p53, a transcription factor activated by cellular stress, is a frequent event in cancer. The role of p53 in tumour suppression is largely attributed to cell fate decisions. Here, we provide evidence supporting a ...

    • A rude awakening after our fourth ‘nap’: lessons for airway management 

      O’Sullivan, E.; Laffey, J.; Pandit, J. J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03-30)

    • A schauder fixed point theorem in semilinear spaces and applications 

      Agarwal, Ravi P; Arshad, Sadia; O’Regan, Donal; Lupulescu, Vasile (Springer Nature, 2013-01-01)
      In this paper we present existence and uniqueness results for a class of fuzzy fractional integral equations. To prove the existence result, we give a variant of the Schauder fixed point theorem in semilinear Banach spaces.

    • A sea spray aerosol flux parameterization encapsulating wave state 

      Ovadnevaite, J.; Manders, A.; de Leeuw, G.; Ceburnis, D.; Monahan, C.; Partanen, A.-I.; Korhonen, H.; O'Dowd, C. D. (Copernicus GmbH, 2014-02-17)
      A new sea spray source function (SSSF), termed Oceanflux Sea Spray Aerosol or OSSA, was derived based on in-situ sea spray aerosol measurements along with meteorological/physical parameters. Submicron sea spray aerosol ...

    • A search for brief optical flashes associated with the seti target kic 8462852 

      Abeysekara, A. U.; Archambault, S.; Archer, A.; Benbow, W.; Bird, R.; Buchovecky, M.; Buckley, J. H.; Byrum, K.; Cardenzana, J. V; Cerruti, M.; Chen, X.; Christiansen, J. L.; Ciupik, L.; Cui, W.; Dickinson, H. J.; Eisch, J. D.; Errando, M.; Falcone, A.; Fegan, D. J.; Feng, Q.; Finley, J. P.; Fleischhack, H.; Fortin, P.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Gillanders, G. H.; Griffin, S.; Grube, J.; Gyuk, G.; Hütten, M.; Håkansson, N.; Hanna, D.; Holder, J.; Humensky, T. B.; Johnson, C. A.; Kaaret, P.; Kar, P.; Kelley-Hoskins, N.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Krause, M.; Krennrich, F.; Kumar, S.; Lang, M. J.; Lin, T. T. Y.; Maier, G.; McArthur, S.; McCann, A.; Meagher, K.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; Nieto, D.; O’Brien, S.; Bhróithe, A. O’Faoláin de; Ong, R. A.; Otte, A. N.; Park, N.; Perkins, J. S.; Petrashyk, A.; Pohl, M.; Popkow, A.; Pueschel, E.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Ratliff, G.; Reynolds, P. T.; Richards, G. T.; Roache, E.; Santander, M.; Sembroski, G. H.; Shahinyan, K.; Staszak, D.; Telezhinsky, I.; Tucci, J. V.; Tyler, J.; Vincent, S.; Wakely, S. P.; Weiner, O. M.; Weinstein, A.; Williams, D. A.; Zitzer, B. (American Astronomical Society, 2016-02-18)
      The F-type star KIC. 8462852 has recently been identified as an exceptional target for search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) observations. We describe an analysis methodology for optical SETI, which we have used ...

    • A search for dark matter annihilation with the whipple 10 m telescope 

      Wood, M.; Blaylock, G.; Bradbury, S. M.; Buckley, J. H.; Byrum, K. L.; Chow, Y. C. K.; Cui, W.; de la Calle Perez, I.; Falcone, A. D.; Fegan, S. J.; Finley, J. P.; Grube, J.; Hall, J.; Hanna, D.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Humensky, T. B.; Kieda, D. B.; Kildea, J.; Konopelko, A.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M. J.; LeBohec, S.; Nagai, T.; Ong, R. A.; Perkins, J. S.; Pohl, M.; Quinn, J.; Rose, H. J.; Sembroski, G. H.; Vassiliev, V. V.; Wagner, R. G.; Wakely, S. P.; Weekes, T. C.; Weinstein, A. (IOP Publishing, 2008-05-10)
      We present observations of the dwarf galaxies Draco and Ursa Minor, the Local Group galaxies M32 and M33, and the globular cluster M15 conducted with the Whipple 10 m gamma-ray telescope to search for the gamma-ray signature ...

    • A search for enhanced very high energy gamma-ray emission from the 2013 march crab nebula flare 

      Aliu, E.; Archambault, S.; Aune, T.; Benbow, W.; Berger, K.; Bird, R.; Bouvier, A.; Buckley, J. H.; Bugaev, V.; Byrum, K.; Cerruti, M.; Chen, X.; Ciupik, L.; Connolly, M. P.; Cui, W.; Dumm, J.; Errando, M.; Falcone, A.; Federici, S.; Feng, Q.; Finley, J. P.; Fortin, P.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Galante, N.; Gillanders, G. H.; Griffin, S.; Griffiths, S. T.; Grube, J.; Gyuk, G.; Hanna, D.; Holder, J.; Hughes, G.; Humensky, T. B.; Kaaret, P.; Kertzman, M.; Khassen, Y.; Kieda, D.; Krennrich, F.; Kumar, S.; Lang, M. J.; Lyutikov, M.; Maier, G.; McArthur, S.; McCann, A.; Meagher, K.; Millis, J.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin; Ong, R. A.; Otte, A. N.; Park, N.; Perkins, J. S.; Pohl, M.; Popkow, A.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Rajotte, J.; Reyes, L. C.; Reynolds, P. T.; Richards, G. T.; Roache, E.; Sembroski, G. H.; Sheidaei, F.; Smith, A. W.; Staszak, D.; Telezhinsky, I.; Theiling, M.; Tucci, J. V.; Tyler, J.; Varlotta, A.; Wakely, S. P.; Weekes, T. C.; Weinstein, A.; Welsing, R.; Williams, D. A.; Zajczyk, A.; Zitzer, B. (IOP Publishing, 2013-12-23)
      In 2013 March, a flaring episode from the Crab Nebula lasting similar to 2 weeks was detected by Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope). The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope ...