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Lies, Damned Lies, Metrics & Semantics: Exploring definitions of the end of Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) & their implications
(Radical Statistics Group, 2019)Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense. Leprosy (also known as Hansen’s Disease), is an infectious disease that is both potentially ... -
Life history research: stories of social justice & change
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)The assessment strategy contains two parts: Summative - Students are asked to select an individual who has been inspirational in acting for social justice and conduct life history research on them. They must write ... -
Light inactivation of food-related pathogenic bacteria using a pulsed power source.
(Wiley, 1998-06)The effects of high intensity light emissions, produced by a novel pulsed power energization technique (PPET), on the survival of bacterial populations of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (serotype 0157:H7) and Listeria ... -
Lightweight cipher for H.264 videos in the Internet of Multimedia Things with encryption space ratio diagnostics
(MDPI, 2019-03-11)Within an Internet of Multimedia Things, the risk of disclosing streamed video content, such as that arising from video surveillance, is of heightened concern. This leads to the encryption of that content. To reduce the ... -
Linguistic Imperialism, Toponymy, Semiotics & Taxonomies: The Anglicisation of Irish place names in hegemonic library cataloguing systems
(2019)Background. Cataloguing systems are generally assumed to be logical, objective and non-political. In this sense they are often assumed to be rather like maps. However, assumptions around the neutrality of both are erroneous. ... -
Linking the Irish environment: Interim report.
(EJNI: Environmental Justice Network, 2023-01)The aim of the ‘Linking the Irish Environment’ project is to examine how to enable the environment sector across the island of Ireland to cooperate and engage on an all-island and cross-border basis to deal with shared ... -
Liquid-based 4D printing of shape memory nanocomposites: a review
(MDPI, 2023-01-31)Significant advances have been made in recent years in the materials development of liquidbased 4D printing. Nevertheless, employing additive materials such as nanoparticles for enhancing printability and shape memory ... -
Literature in an IT context: teaching literature on non-specialist language programmes.
(Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2003)The pedagogical value of literature in language learning within the Institutes of Technology has often been brought into question. Given that the IT structure has traditionally placed emphasis on an applied and practical ... -
Local authority planning provision for event management in Ireland: a socio-cultural perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-01)The increasing popularity of the event sector in Ireland has resulted in many community events being developed and marketed to international and domestic tourists alike. This growth has had an effect on host communities ... -
Local authority planning provision of policies and guidelines for event management: an Irish perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-01)The increasing popularity of the event sector in Ireland has had an effect on host communities in a positive and negative manner. This baseline comparative assessment highlights the current level of all 32 Irish local ... -
Local authority provision of environmental planning guidelines
(Varna University of Management, 2016-03-01)This paper discusses the environmental impacts generated by hosting events. More specifically it focuses on the case study of assessing the provision of environmental planning guidelines by Local Authorities to manage the ... -
Long-term release rate of a nutritional supplement from a biodegradable polymer matrix
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)For the purposes of ruminant nutrition, a 6-month timeframe is the ideal amount of time for the delivery of trace element and minerals. As a starting element, copper was chosen as it is the most commonly observed trace ... -
Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of traditional rainbow trout farming on receiving water quality in Ireland.
(PeerJ, 2018)In the context of future aquaculture intensification, a longitudinal ten-year evaluation of the current traditional rainbow trout production in Ireland was performed. Publically available and independent data obtained from ... -
Lost & Found in Limerick: exploring the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees who have made Limerick their home.
(Limerick Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)This research explores the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees who reside or have resided in the Irish system of Direct Provision through the lens of loss and grief. It is an exploration of the lived experience ... -
Low computational complexity for optimizing energy efficiency in Mm-wave hybrid precoding system for 5G
(IEEE, 2022-01-13)Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is the spectral frontier to meet the anticipated significant volume of high data traffic processing in next-generation systems. The primary challenges in mm-wave can be overcome ... -
Low-complexity high-performance deep learning model for real time low cost embedded fire detection system.
(Elsevier, 2020)Correct and timely detection of fires has been an active area of research. Both shallow learning (with manual feature engineering), as well as deep learning (with its promise of automatically extracting meaningful ... -
Low-cost gaze detection with real-time ocular movements using coordinate-convolutional neural networks
(United Kingdom Simulation Society, 2019-10)Detection of ocular-movements unfolds various possibilities in computer vision but requires large datasets, expensive hardware and computational power. Prior research substantiates the belief that Convolutional Neural ... -
A low-cost platform for environmental smart farming monitoring system based on IoT and UAVs
(MDPI, 2021-05-24)When integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) occurred, tens of applications including smart agriculture have emerged to offer innovative solutions to modernize the farming sector. This ... -
Lower critical solution temperature tuning and swelling behaviours of NVCL-based hydrogels for potential 4DF printing applications.
(MDPI, 2022-08-02)The phase transitions of poly (N-vinyl caprolactam) (PNVCL) hydrogels are currently under investigation as possible materials for biomedical applications thanks to their thermosensitive properties. This study aims to use ...