Browsing Athlone Institute of Technology by Title
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A qualitative analysis of social care
(2016)The research commences through a literature review of the current literature available regarding aftercare in Ireland. The overall impression from the current literature identifies a huge gap in literature for a larger ... -
Accelerated solvent based extraction and enrichment of selected plasticisers and 4-nonylphenol, and extraction of tin from organotin sources in sediments, sludges and leachate soils.
(Elsevier, 2009-02-23)Enrichment techniques have become an important feature in the trace analysis of oestrogen mimicking chemicals in the environment. Recent developments such as accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) have improved extraction ... -
Activity profiles and the associations with weight status in population studies of young children: are there gender differences?
(Human Kinetics, 2017-02)Purpose: Profiling activity behaviors in young children is important to understand changes in weight status over time. The purpose of this study is to identify activity profiles from self- and parental-reported Physical ... -
activPAL™ determined sedentary behaviour, physical activity and academic achievement in college students.
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03)The aim of this study was to examine relationships between activPALTM-determined sedentary behavior (SB) and physical activity (PA) with academic achievement. A total of 120 undergraduates (N=57 female; 20.6 ± 2.3 years) ... -
Adaptive perceptual block compressive sensing for compression.
(Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 2016-06)Because the perceptual compressive sensing framework can achieve a much better performance than the legacy compressive sensing framework, it is very promising for the compressive sensing based image compression system. In ... -
Advanced nurse practitioners’ (emergency) perceptions of their role, positionality and professional identity.
(2016)Nursing theorists have reviewed the contexts and continua into which advanced nursing practice roles in emergency care have evolved and developed, yet little empirical evidence has been gleaned directly from advanced ... -
Advanced therapies and the outer limits of DNA regulation: new horizons for patents or a scaffold too far?
(Oxford Academic, 2008-04)This Regulation seeks to regulate existing and future advanced therapy medicinal products intended for the market in Member States, being either prepared industrially or manufactured by a method involving an industrial ... -
Affective computing using speech and eye gaze: a review and bimodal system proposal for continuous affect prediction.
(2018)Speech has been a widely used modality in the field of affective computing. Recently however, there has been a growing interest in the use of multi-modal affective computing systems. These multi-modal systems incorporate ... -
Age and gender influences on perceived olfactory and visual media synchronization.
(IEEE, 2013)Lately, significant efforts have being put into proposing various solutions for increasing multimedia viewers’ perceived quality levels. One innovative avenue is to enhance users’ quality of experience (QoE) by extending ... -
Agendas, influences, and capability: perspectives on practice in design and technology education.
(Springer, 2019)A philosophical shift in policy now situates the development of technological capability as the focus of Irish technology education. Internationally, the effectiveness of curricular reform in the discipline has previously ... -
Alfa fiber/polypropylene composites: Influence of fiber extraction method and chemical treatments.
(Wiley, 2019-01)Alfa fiber/polypropylene composites were manufactured using twin-screw extrusion. Fibers were extracted following alkaline and steam explosion methods. Three chemical treatments were also applied to alkaline extracted ... -
An evaluation of supports for children with disabilities in mainstream preschool
(2016)This study set out to evaluate the supports’ for children with disabilities in mainstream preschool. It examined the knowledge and experience of childcare practitioners’ who work with children with disabilities and ... -
An exploration into Social Care Practitioners understanding of attachment theory when working with children and families.
(2016)There has been much debate in the past decade around the development and use of attachment theory in work with children and families. The utilisation of attachment theory within social care practice does not feature ... -
An exploration of epilepsy and the possible challenges and supports which young adults encounter during their academic journey
(2016)One out of three young people living with epilepsy expect their lives to be negatively impacted in the future and are specifically anxious about education, travelling, exploring and employment opportunities (Jacoby and ... -
An exploration of social workers and social care practitioner's perspectives on residential care
(2016)This study will explore Social Workers and Social Care practitioner’s experiences of working in Residential Care. The study entails three main objectives. Firstly, to explore Social Workers and Social Care Practitioners ... -
Analysis of bio-obtainable endocrine disrupting metals in river water and sediment, sewage influent/effluent, sludge, leachate, and concentrated leachate, in the Irish Midlands Shannon catchment.
(Hindawi, 2009-12)The application of an acid digestion and subsequent solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure were implemented as preliminary treatments prior to quantifying the levels of potentially endocrine disrupting metals (EDMs) in a ... -
Analytical characterization and pharmacological evaluation of the new psychoactive substance 4-fluoromethylphenidate (4F-MPH) and differentiation between the (±)-threo- and (±)-erythro- diastereomers
(Wiley, 2017-03)Misuse of (±)-threo-methylphenidate (methyl-2-phenyl-2-(piperidin-2-yl)acetate; Ritalin®; MPH) has long been acknowledged, but the appearance of MPH analogs in the form of 'research chemicals' has only emerged in more ... -
Application of Immersive technologies for education: state of the art.
(IEEE, 2015)Existing multimedia systems used in education mostly address only two senses by using two communication channels (visual and audio) of the five human senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), limiting the potential ... -
Are internal load measures associated with injuries in male adolescent Gaelic football players?
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2019-06)This study aimed to examine internal loads in male adolescent Gaelic footballers and their association with musculoskeletal injury. Written training diaries were completed by 97 male adolescent Gaelic footballers weekly ...