Administrative Staff Authors (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Guidelines for Nursing Homes delivering End-of-Life Care to Residents with Dementia across the island of Ireland
(2012)Purpose ? This study aims to contribute to improving quality of life for people with end stage dementia living in residential care settings by investigating the experiences of elderly spouses whose relatives died with ... -
Using support vector machines with multiple indices of diffusion for automated classification of mild cognitive impairment.
(2012)Few studies have looked at the potential of using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in conjunction with machine learning algorithms in order to automate the classification of healthy older subjects and subjects with mild ... -
Recent developments of functional magnetic resonance imaging research for drug development in Alzheimer's disease
(2011)The objective of this review is to evaluate recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research in Alzheimer's disease for the development of therapeutic agents. The basic building block underpinning ... -
Further reading [ a selective bibliography of Irish Crime Writing 1829-2010 ]
(Liberties Press, 2011)The following list does not pretend to determine the `best of?? Irish crime writing. Instead, it offers a conspectus of Irish authors of crime fiction, writing in English and Irish, from the mid-nineteenth century to the ... -
Mechanical characterisation of a customised decellularized scaffold for vascular tissue engineering
(Elsevier, 2012)Several challenges persist when attempting to utilise decellularized tissue as a scaffold for vascular tissue engineering. Namely: poor cell infiltration/migration, excessive culture times associated with repopulating the ... -
Creating Excellence in Dementia Care
(2012)The estimated cost of formal and informal care for dementia worldwide is currently in excess of 600 billion dollars accounting for 1% of the world?s gross domestic product. This cost, which will grow substantially in the ... -
'He really leant on me a lot': Parents' Perspectives on the Provision of Support to Divorced and Separated Adult Children in Ireland
(Sage, 2011)The literature on intergenerational transfers and divorce has paid little attention to the experiences of older adults whose son or daughter has divorced or separated. We conducted 31 qualitative interviews to explore ... -
Workplace Equality in the Recession? The Incidence and Impact of Equality Policies and Flexible Working
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 2011)In the context of the current labour market crisis in Ireland, this report investigates the incidence and impact of equality policies and flexible working arrangements for those who are in employment. An equality policy ... -
Migrants, Minorities, Mismatch? Skill Mismatch among Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe
(Publications Office of the European Union, 2011-10-18)With Europe slowly but steadily exiting from the economic crisis, long-term trends such as skill upgrading and population ageing, and their implications for the availability and demand for skills, are returning to the ... -
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 ...
