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Abair Trad Report on the Creative Ireland Symposium on Irish traditional music
(2017)Abair Trad was a community based response to the Irish Government’s Creative Ireland programme that was held in The Red Store, Youghal, Co. Cork on Saturday 24th June 2017. Organised by Craobh Eochaille CCÉ with the support ... -
An abundance estimate for humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae breeding around Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands
(2014)The abundance of humpback whales occurring around Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands, was estimated by mark-recapture modelling. Photographs of markings on tail flukes of individual whales were collected during the breeding ... -
Acceptance Test-Driven Development by annotation of existing documentation
Testing is frequently reported as a crucial stage in the software development process. With traditional approaches acceptance testing is the last stage of the process before release. Acceptance Test Driven Development ... -
Access/Preparatory Studies Programmes at LYIT – Students’ Perspectives
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2016-08)There is little available research about the opinions and experiences of students who undertake Access/Preparatory Studies programmes in Ireland. This is an exploratory project which attempts to address this lack of ... -
Accessibility and data mining maximises survey research potential
(Institute of Technology, Sligo, 2005)Executive Summary Project Title Accessibility and Data Mining maximises Survey Research potential Motivating Problem This research project comprised an investigation of the process of designing and developing a generic ... -
Accounting for the effects of lipids in stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N values) analysis of skin and blubber of balaenopterid whales.
(John Wiley & Sons, 2012)RATIONALE: Stable isotope values (d13C and d15N) of darted skin and blubber biopsies can shed light on habitat use and diet of cetaceans, which are otherwise difficult to study. Non-dietary factors affect isotopic variability, ... -
Accounting practice in the new millennium: a practitioner’s view
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2006)The business environment is constantly changing and evolving, resulting in significant change on the nature of the accountants work in practise. Accountants are of vital importance to the efficient operation of the economy. ... -
Acoustic emission analysis of the effect of a 2D wedge shaped blade on the compact bone cutting process
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Activation of Ca2+-activated Cl- current by depolarizing steps in rabbit urethral interstitial cells.
Interstitial cells were isolated from strips of rabbit urethra for study using the amphotericin B perforated-patch technique. Depolarizing steps to -30 mV or greater activated a Ca2+ current (ICa), followed by a Ca2+-activated ... -
Activation of the cGMP/PKG pathway inhibits electrical activity in rabbit urethral interstitial cells of Cajal by reducing the spatial spread of Ca 2+ waves
In the present study we used a combination of patch clamping and fast confocal Ca 2+ imaging to examine the effects of activators of the nitric oxide (NO)/cGMP pathway on pacemaker activity in freshly dispersed ICC from ... -
Active and collaborative learning items on the Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE); Interpretations of, and responses to by students and staff of the Department of Science at LYIT
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2016-08-31)This study focusses specifically on questions on collaborative learning within the area of ‘Active learning’ in the Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) which was piloted in Ireland in 2013 and was rolled out in full ... -
Addressing engineering teaching issues in online distance learning
(2011)Efforts by IT Sligo to transfer courses into an online distance learning format since 2002 ran into three significant obstacles, namely the expense of developing learning materials for niche areas, an inability to teach ... -
Adept – A Software Process Appraisal Method for Small to Medium-sized Software Development Organisations
In this paper we describe the appraisal method that was developed by Lero (the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) to assess software processes within small to medium-sized ... -
AffecTech- an affect-aware interactive AV Artwork
New developments in real-time computing and body-worn sensor technology allow us to explore not just visible gestures using inertial sensors, but also invisible changes in an individual’s physiological state using bio-sensors ... -
Age, growth and population dynamics of lemon sole Microstomus kitt (Walbaum 1792) sampled off the West Coast of Ireland
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2002)The age, growth, maturity and population dynamics of lemon sole (Microstomus kitt), captured off the west coast of Ireland (ICES division Vllb), were determined for the period November 2000 to February 2002. The maximum ... -
Age, growth and reproductive biology of Plaice, (Pleuronectes platessa L.) in Irish waters, 2003-2005
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2011)The current study presents data on age and growth for plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.) sampled between November 2003 and February 2005 in ICES areas Via (northwest coast of Ireland), Vila (Irish Sea), Vllg (Celtic Sea), ... -
Age, growth and reproductive biology of whiting Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus 1758) in the Celtic Sea
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2003)Age, growth and reproductive biology were investigated for whiting (Merlangius merlangus) captured from the Celtic Sea (ICES division Vllg), for the period January 2001 to January 2002. Females dominated the sex ratio of ... -
Age, growth, reproductive biology and population dynamics of the common megrim Lepidorhombus whiffiagottis (Walbaum, 1792) from off the west coast of Ireland
(Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2004)A total of 4,964 common megrim Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis, were examined from commercial catches in Divisions VII b^, off the west coast of Ireland, between April 1997 and February 2001. A sex ratio of 31.8:1 females to ... -
Agile Medical Device Software Development: Introducing Agile Practices into MDevSPICE®
(IARIA, 2016)Medical device software is usually embedded within the overall system as one of the sub-systems. It needs to be integrated with other sub-systems such as the electrical and mechanical for a functional medical device to be ...