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Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction, ... -
The economics of agri-environment schemes in Ireland: Essays on design and participation
(NUI Galway, 2021-08-28)Addressing the degradation of the environment has become increasingly important on a global scale. With agriculture representing a large portion of land, pressure is on policymakers to ensure that farmers are contributing ... -
The Economics of Broadband in Ireland: Country Endowments, Telecommunications Capital Stock, and Household Adoption Decisions
(2013-03-08)Economic growth is central to improved living standards, in turn; technological change and the spread of economically useful knowledge are essential inputs for sustainable growth. Broadband matters for long-run growth ... -
The economics of childhood disabilities in Ireland with a particular focus on using mixed methods to examine the economics of child and adolescent autism spectrum disorders
(NUI Galway, 2020-05)Increased rates in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has led to escalating demands for services across a number of sectors including health, social care, education and social welfare etc. In Ireland, the ... -
The economics of dairy feed systems: Risks and opportunities for Irish farms
(NUI Galway, 2023-05-24)Pasture-based feed systems offer significant economic benefits such as reduced feed costs and environmental impacts to farmers, but also pose agroclimatic and income risks. While grassland dairy farmers avoid the need ... -
The economics of farm afforestation in Ireland
(2016-10-20)In recent years, afforestation in Ireland as in many European countries has fallen well short of policy targets. Previous studies which address the decline in farm afforestation focus on either the economic or the behavioural ... -
The economics of higher education participation in Ireland: Essays on geographic accessibility and student preferences
(2017-06-01)Higher education has a range of important benefits for individuals and societies. As a result, increased participation in higher education is a stated policy goal in many countries. Understanding the economics of higher ... -
Economics, politics and democracy in the age of credit-rating capitalism
(Sameeksha Trust, 2013-02-02)Unlike in earlier major economic crises, the current turmoil in the global economy has seen the consolidation of orthodoxy as the dominant paradigm. This essay traces the political economy of change in the current situation ... -
Ecophysiological performance of an urban strain of the aeroterrestrial green algaklebsormidiumsp. (klebsormidiales, klebsormidiophyceae)
(Informa UK Limited, 2010-11-01)Aeroterrestrial green algae are among the most ubiquitous members of the microbial flora colonizing aerial surfaces. Filamentous green algae, in particular, produce large populations in several natural and artificial ... -
Ecophysiological studies of selected macro- and microalgae: production of organic compounds and climate change interactions
(2012-03-29)This study focused on algal ecophysiological and chemical responses of marine algae to environmental impacts, in particular, light including UV radiation, temperature and nutrients. Marine algae influence climate by affecting ... -
Ecophysiology of Ascophyllum nodosum: Potential impacts of climate change and commercial harvesting
(2013-07-01)The foundation species Ascophyllum nodosum is an important intertidal producer in temperate regions of the North Atlantic. It provides habitat for many species and is an essential facilitator of biodiversity. This study ... -
Ecosystem engineering creates a direct nutritional link between 600-m deep cold-water coral mounds and surface productivity
(Springer Nature, 2016-10-11)Cold-water corals (CWCs) form large mounds on the seafloor that are hotspots of biodiversity in the deep sea, but it remains enigmatic how CWCs can thrive in this food-limited environment. Here, we infer from model simulations ... -
Ecosystem services and environmental impacts associated with commercial kelp aquaculture
(2017-07-11)Wild kelp forests represent one of the most productive habitats on Earth, suppling ecosystem services, including, but not limited to, biodiversity, habitat provision, food web subsidy, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration ... -
Eddy correlation measurements of ozone fluxes over coastal waters west of ireland
(Hindawi Limited, 2010-01-01)Measurements of ozone fluxes using the eddy-correlation (EC) technique were carried out for the first time at the Mace Head atmospheric research station, on the west coast of Ireland between August-October 2009. Vertical ... -
Edge colourings and Latin-like squares: Combinatorial structures arising from alternating sign matrices
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-09)An alternating sign matrix is a (0, 1, −1)-matrix in which the nonzero entries of each row and column alternate in sign, starting and ending with 1. An alternating signed bipartite graph (ASBG) is a bipartite graph G whose ... -
Edge wrinkling in elastically supported pre-stressed incompressible isotropic plates
(The Royal Society Publishing, 2016-09-07)The equations governing the appearance of flexural static perturbations at the edge of a semi-infinite thin elastic isotropic plate, subjected to a state of homogeneous bi-axial pre-stress, are derived and solved. The plate ... -
Edge-AI: Rise of the neural accelerators
(EMAI 2019 Emerging Memory and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, 2019-08-29)We are at the cusp of a new era in AI. Recently deep learning has revolutionised the field of Computer Vision, disrupting more traditional algorithmic approaches to object recognition, scene analysis and image understanding. ... -
Edge-minimal graphs of exponent 2
(2017-11-21)A simple undirected finite graph G has the me_2-property if every pair of distinct vertices of G is connected by a path of length 2, but this property does not survive the deletion of an edge. If u and v are adjacent ... -
Edge2Guard: Botnet attacks detecting offline models for resource-constrained IoT devices
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2021-03-22)In today's IoT smart environments, dozens of MCU-based connected device types exist such as HVAC controllers, smart meters, smoke detectors, etc. The security conditions for these essential IoT devices remain unsatisfactory ... -
Edge2Train: A framework to train machine learning models (SVMs) on resource-constrained IoT edge devices
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020-10-06)In recent years, ML (Machine Learning) models that have been trained in data centers can often be deployed for use on edge devices. When the model deployed on these devices encounters unseen data patterns, it will either ...