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Annual Policy Report on Migration and Asylum 2010: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs & published by the ESRI, 2011)The annual European Migration Network policy reports examine the main trends and policy development in the area of migration and asylum at EU Member State level. This seventh annual policy analysis report focuses on the ... -
One Dummy Won t Get it: The Impact of Training Programme Type and Duration on the Employment Chances of the Unemployed in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011-09-26)In the extensive literature on the employment impact of public?sponsored training programmes for the unemployed, insufficient attention has been paid to the differential impact of different types of programmes and training ... -
Carrots without Sticks: The Impacts of Job Search Assistance in a Regime with Minimal Monitoring and Sanctions
(ESRI, 2011-09-26)This paper uses a high quality longitudinal dataset to assess the impact of an active labour market intervention consisting of referral for interview plus Job Search Assistance (JSA) with the public employment service in ... -
User Cost and Irish House Prices
(2011)A measure commonly used to assess house prices is the house price?to? rent ratio. This ratio captures the costs of alternative forms of accommodation, namely buying or renting. In the long run these two costs should move ... -
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Summer 2011
(ESRI, 2011)Research Bulletin 2011/2/1: The Macro-economic Impact of Changing the Rate of Corporation Tax, by Thomas Conefrey and John Fitz Gerald Research Bulletin 2011/2/2: The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy, by Ray ... -
The TP53 Arg72Pro and MDM2 309G>T polymorphisms are not associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
(2009)The TP53 pathway, in which TP53 and its negative regulator MDM2 are the central elements, has an important role in carcinogenesis, particularly in BRCA1- and BRCA2-mediated carcinogenesis. A single nucleotide polymorphism ... -
"I hate having nobody here, I'd like to know where they all are": Can qualitative research detect differences in Quality of Life among Nursing Home Residents with different levels of Cognitive Impairment?
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)Objective: To ascertain if similarities or differences exist in perceptions of quality of life (QoL) amongst nursing 10 home (NH) residents with different levels of cognitive impairment (CI). Method: Face-to-face interviews ... -
Communicating Transactions
(Springer, 2010)We propose a novel language construct called communicating transactions, obtained by dropping the isolation requirement from classical transactions, which can be used to model automatic error re- covery in distributed ... -
Liveness of Communicating Transactions (Extended Abstract)
(2010)We study liveness and safety in the context of CCS extended with communicating transactions, a construct we recently proposed to model automatic error recovery in distributed systems. We show that fair-testing and ... -
Intragenic Copy Number Variation within Filaggrin Contributes to the Risk of Atopic Dermatitis with a Dose-Dependent Effect
(2012)Loss-of-function variants within the filaggrin gene (FLG) increase the risk of atopic dermatitis. FLG also demonstrates intragenic copy number variation (CNV), with alleles encoding 10, 11, or 12 filaggrin monomers; hence, ... -
A double prodrug system for colon targeting of benzenesulfonamide COX-2 inhibitors
(2011)The design, synthesis and delivery potential of a new type of benzenesulfonamide cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor prodrug is investigated using celecoxib. The approach involves a double prodrug that is activated first ... -
Attentional capture by emotional stimuli is preserved in patients with amygdala lesions
(Elsevier, 2011)The importance of cues signaling reward, threat or danger would suggest that they receive processing privileges in the neural systems underlying perception and attention. Previous research has documented enhanced processing ... -
Social Housing for the Future: Can Housing Associations Meet the Challenge?
(Trinity College Dublin, 2001)Social Housing for the Future explores the implications of the National Development Plan?s ambitious target for housing provided by housing associations. The paper argues that if the target is to be met, the housing ... -
The Faddan More Psalter: A progress update
(2007)The Faddan More Psalter is an Eighth Century illuminated vellum manuscript, in its original limp, tanned leather cover that was found in a bog in Co Tipperary, Ireland in July 2006. The find has stirred up a great deal of ... -
Investing in Child Health and Development: The Impact of Breastfeeding on Children's School Performance
(ESRI, 2011)There is now strong evidence that breastfed babies are less prone to stomach upsets, ear infections and the coughs and colds of early childhood than their bottle fed peers. There is also a growing body of evidence that ... -
Should We Be Worried About Income Inequality in Ireland?
(ESRI, 2011)Despite the recession Ireland remains a country with relatively high income inequality. Ireland sits just behind the UK near the top of the inequality rankings in Europe behind the Baltic and Southern European states. Is ... -
Development of artificial neuronal networks for molecular communication
(2011)Communication at the nanoscale can enhance capabilities for nanodevices, and at the same time open new opportunities for numerous healthcare applications. One approach towards enabling communication between nanodevices is ... -
The clustering of health behaviours in Ireland and their relationship with mental health, self-rated health and quality of life
(2011)Background: Health behaviours do not occur in isolation. Rather they cluster together. It is important to examine patterns of health behaviours to inform a more holistic approach to health in both health promotion and ... -
The prevalence of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency in Ireland
(2011)Background: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) results from mutations in the SERPINA1 gene and classically presents with early-onset emphysema and liver disease. The most common mutation presenting with clinical evidence ... -
Modelling session types using contracts
(2011)Session types and contracts are two formalisms used to study client- server protocols. In this paper we study the relationship between them. The main result is the existence of a fully abstract model of session types; this ...
