Administrative Staff Authors (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Activation of stress-related signalling pathway in human cells upon SiO2 nanoparticles exposure as an early indicator of cytotoxicity
(2011)Background: Nanomaterials such as SiO2 nanoparticles (SiO2NP) are finding increasing applications in the biomedical and biotechnological fields such as disease diagnostics, imaging, drug delivery, food, cosmetics and ... -
IL-1alpha and HMGB1 mediate hippocampal dysfunction in SIGIRR-deficient mice
(2011)Single-Ig-interleukin-1 related receptor (SIGIRR) is a member of the interleukin (IL)-1/Toll-like receptor (TLR) family. It negatively regulates inflammation, rendering SIGIRR-/- mice more susceptible to inflammatory ... -
Transitions to Long-Term Unemployment Risk Among Young People: Evidence from Ireland
(ESRI, 2011-07-13)Many young people have short spells of unemployment during their transition from school to work; however, some often get trapped in unemployment and risk becoming long-term unemployed (OECD, 2009). Much research has been ... -
Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Foreign Presence and Competition in Irish Services Sectors?
(ESRI, 2011-07-14)This paper examines whether local firms benefit from the presence of foreign-owned firms in three Irish market-services sectors between 2001 and 2007. I investigate whether domestic firms differ in their ability to benefit ... -
The Cost of Natural Gas Shortages in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011-08-04)This paper investigates the economic implications of disruptions of one to ninety days to the supply of natural gas in Ireland. We assess the impact of a hypothetical gas supply disruption in both winter and summer in 2008 ... -
Prevalence and clinical course of depression: A review
(2011)Depression is one of the leading causes of disease worldwide. Historically conceived as either a disease of the mind or of the brain, treatment options followed this aetiology. Current diagnostic assessment of depression ... -
Support from Grandparents to Families with Infants
(ESRI, 2011)Parent-child interactions are influenced by factors outside the immediate family. A recent paper based on data from the Growing Up in Ireland study (GUI) focuses in particular on the support provided by grandparents in ... -
Resource Allocation, Financing and Sustainability in the Health Sector
(ESRI, 2010)The focus on acute, episodic care in the conventional health-care model fails to provide adequately for changing health-care needs arising from increased longevity and increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Integrated ... -
Job Satisfaction and Occupational Stress among Primary School Teachers and School Principals in Ireland
(ESRI / The Teaching Council, 2011)Internationally, a considerable amount of literature has emerged on the factors influencing job satisfaction and occupational stress among school teachers. However, there is a paucity of recent, comprehensive empirical ... -
Site specific increase in heterogeneity of trabecular bone tissue mineral during oestrogen deficiency.
(2011)Although osteoporosis reduces overall bone mass causing bone fragility, recent studies report that the remaining bone tissue is significantly stiffer. Preliminary studies indicate that alterations in bone tissue mineral ... -
Analysis of dynamic tyrosine phosphoproteome in LFA-1 triggered migrating T-cells.
(2011)The ordered, directional migration of T-lymphocytes is a key process during immune surveillance and response. This requires cell adhesion to the high endothelial venules or to the extracellular matrix by a series of surface ...
