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Can biosecurity and local network properties predict pathogen species richness in the salmonid industry?
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-01-30)Salmonid farming in Ireland is mostly organic, which implies limited disease treatment options. This highlights the importance of biosecurity for preventing the introduction and spread of infectious agents. Similarly, the ... -
Can DEAP help us to predict the energy demand and indoor temperature of homes before and after renovation ? A case study from Dublin
(Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland (CERAI) and Cork Institute of Technology, 2020-08-27)Improving the energy efficiency of buildings via retrofitting is seen as one of the key mitigation measures to reducing the energy demand and carbon emissions of the built environment in Ireland. However, while energy ... -
Can gamification help in increasing motivation, engagement, and satisfaction? A gamified experience in teaching CS to students from other disciplines
(Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2022)The digital revolution is causing the new generations to demand new ways of learning. Motivating students is one crucial element of the learning-teaching process to achieve students’ learning, which is the main objective ... -
Can housing rights be applied to modern housing systems?
(Emerald, 2010-05)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline and examine the growing corpus of housing rights and assess their relevance and applicability to complex contemporary housing systems across the world. Design/methodo ... -
Can international housing rights based on public international law really impact on contemporary housing systems?
(Ashgate, 2010-12)The concept of home advances a new basis for evaluating housing rights, emphasising their human and personal benefits. Housing rights address, at a national, regional and global level, displacement and dispossession, as ... -
Can new particle formation occur in the clean marine boundary layer?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000-11-01)An analysis of new particle formation probability in the marine boundary layer (MBL) is conducted using a detailed aerosol dynamics and gas-phase chemistry model, thermodynamically correct classical binary (H2O-H2SO4) ... -
Can pcr be used to normalise a cdna library?
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Can social robots help to reduce loneliness and social isolation in people with dementia? A Delphi survey
(British Geriatrics Society and Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-09-18)Background: People with dementia (PWD) commonly report feelings of loneliness and social isolation. Social robots may be a means of supporting connections with friends and family and with the person s environment. This ... -
‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ Feminist lawyering, women refugees and gender based violence in urban Uganda
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-03)‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ This is the question that this thesis seeks to answer through an assessment of the applicability of feminist lawyering to address gender-based violence ... -
Can the observance of human rights of individuals enhance their resilience to cope with natural disasters?
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Can the onset of type 2 diabetes be delayed by a group-based lifestyle intervention in women with prediabetes following gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm)? findings from a randomized control mixed methods trial
(Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01)Objective. To evaluate a 12-week group-based lifestyle intervention programme for women with prediabetes following gestational diabetes (GDM). Design. A two-group, mixed methods randomized controlled trial in which 50 women ... -
Can voluntary workplace partnership deliver sustainable mutual gains?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009-09-01)This article draws on two Irish case studies to examine the nature and outcomes of voluntary workplace partnership (WP), and the conditions affecting its durability. We found that WP delivered mutual gains for all stakeholders ... -
Can we explain cross-modal representation with neural algorithms alone?: Commentary on Paillard
(North-Holland, 1999)Recent research in both psychophysics and electrophysiology has revealed a number of examples in which behaviour is guided by (i.e. Spence & Driver, 1996), and brain activity has been argued to correlate with, the formation ... -
Canakinumab reverses overexpression of inflammatory response genes in tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome
(BMJ, 2016-07-29)Objective To explore whether gene expression profiling can identify a molecular mechanism for the clinical benefit of canakinumab treatment in patents with tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome ... -
Canakinumab treatment for patients with active recurrent or chronic tnf receptor-associated periodic syndrome (traps): an open-label, phase ii study
(BMJ, 2016-06-07)Objective To evaluate the efficacy of canakinumab, a high-affinity human monoclonal anti-interleukin-1 beta antibody, in inducing complete or almost complete responses in patients with active tumour necrosis factor ... -
Canceling the elastic Poynting effect with geometry
(American Physical Society, 2023-05-24)The Poynting effect is a paragon of nonlinear soft matter mechanics. It is the tendency (found in all incompressible, isotropic, hyperelastic solids) exhibited by a soft block to expand vertically when sheared horizontally. ... -
Cancer diagnostics via ultrasensitive multiplexed detection of parathyroid hormone-related peptides with a microfluidic immunoarray
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2016-09-20)Parathyroid, hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) is recognized as the-Major causative agent of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM). The paraneoplastic PTHrP has also been implicated in tumor progression and metastasis ... -
Cancer-related fatigue in post-treatment cancer survivors: application of the common sense model of illness representations
(Springer Nature, 2016-11-25)Background: Cancer-related fatigue (CrF) is a common and disruptive symptom that may be experienced during and after cancer. Research into the subjective experience of fatigue in this group is required. The common sense ... -
Candidate pathways linking inducible nitric oxide synthase to a basal-like transcription pattern and tumor progression in human breast cancer
(Informa UK Limited, 2011-02-15)Inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) is an inflammation responsive enzyme (EC 1.14.13.39) that is induced during acute and chronic inflammation and tissue injury as part of the host defense and wound healing process. ...