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Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland 2004-2007: Key Issues for Children, People of Working Age and Older People
(ESRI, 07/09/2010)This report monitors the evolution of poverty in Ireland from 2004 to 2007. This period marks the end of the first ten year National Anti?Poverty Strategy (NAPS) in Ireland which ran from 1997 to 2007, and marks the beginning ... -
Activation in Ireland: An Evaluation of the National Employment Action Plan
(ESRI, 13/05/2011)Since early 2008 there has been a severe deterioration in the Irish economy, which has had major knock-on implications for the labour market. Unemployment increased from around 4.5 per cent at the end of 2007 to over ... -
What Can I Get For It? A Theoretical and Empirical Re-Analysis of the Endowment Effect
(ESRI, 2011-04-28)We hypothesise and confirm a previously unnoticed pattern within pre-existing data on the endowment effect, collected via seven experiments employing the original design. Subjects with low valuations in binary choice ... -
The Role of Decision-Making Biases in Ireland's Banking Crisis
(ESRI, 2011-05-19)This paper considers Ireland's banking crisis from the perspective of behavioural economics. It assesses whether known biases in judgement and decision-making were instrumental in the development and severity of the crisis. ... -
Staphylococcus aureus Protein A Binds to Osteoblasts and Triggers Signals That Weaken Bone in Osteomyelitis.
(2011)Osteomyelitis is a debilitating infectious disease of the bone. It is predominantly caused by S. aureus and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is characterised by weakened bones associated with ... -
Crosslinking and mechanical properties significantly influence cell attachment, proliferation, and migration within collagen glycosaminoglycan scaffolds.
(2011)Crosslinking and the resultant changes in mechanical properties have been shown to influence cellular activity within collagen biomaterials. With this in mind, we sought to determine the effects of crosslinking on both the ... -
Inferring dynamic credentials for role-based trust management
(ACM, 2006)The topic of this paper is the role-based trust-management language RT_0, a formalism inspired by logic programming that handles trust in large scale, decentralised systems. We provide a purely operational semantics ... -
Remarks on Testing Probabilistic Processes
(IEEE, 2007)We develop a general testing scenario for probabilistic processes, giving rise to two theories: probabilistic may testing and probabilistic must testing. These are applied to a simple probabilistic version of the ... -
Biomaterials and scaffolds for tissue engineering
(2011)Every day thousands of surgical procedures are performed to replace or repair tissue that has been damaged through disease or trauma. The developing field of tissue engineering (TE) aims to regenerate damaged tissues by ... -
Familiarity of objects affects susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion
(Elsevier, 2011)Audition is accepted as more reliable (thus dominant) than vision when temporal discrimination is required by the task. However, it is not known whether the characteristics of the visual stimulus, for example its familiarity ... -
Twenty Years on: Reflections on the CEDISYS Project. Combining True Concurrency with Process Algebra.
(Springer, 2008)We recall some memories of the Esprit Basic Research Action CEDISYS, a small, well-focussed and fruitful project which brought together researchers at the meeting point of true concurrency and process algebra, in the ... -
Counting the cost in the picalculus.
(Elsevier Science Publishers B. V, 2009)We design a new variation on the picalculus, ?cost, in which the use of channels or resources must be paid for. Processes operate relative to a cost environment, and communications can only happen if principals have ... -
Regulation of Protein Kinase C function by phosphorylation on conserved and non-conserved sites
(Elsevier, 2011)Protein Kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine/threonine kinases whose function is influenced by phosphorylation. In particular, three conserved phosphorylation sites known as the activation-loop, the turn-motif and the ... -
Diagnostic power of default mode network resting state fMRI in the detection of Alzheimer's disease.
(2012)Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of default mode network (DMN) brain activity during resting is recently gaining attention as a potential noninvasive biomarker to diagnose incipient Alzheimer's disease. The aim ... -
A calculus for costed computations
(2011)We develop a version of the picalculus Picost where channels are interpreted as resources which have costs associated with them. Code runs under the financial responsibility of owners; they must pay to use resources, but ... -
Uniqueness Typing for Resource Management in Message-Passing Concurrency.
(2010)We view channels as the main form of resources in a message-passing programming paradigm. These channels need to be carefully managed in settings where resources are scarce. To study this problem, we extend the pi-calculus ... -
Testing Finitary Probabilistic Processes
(2009)This paper provides modal- and relational characterisations of may- and must-testing preorders for recursive CSP processes with divergence, featuring probabilistic as well as nondeterministic choice. May testing is ... -
First-Order Reasoning for Higher-Order Concurrency
(2009)By combining and simplifying two of the most prominent theories for HO! of Sangiorgi et al. and Jeffrey and Rathke [15, 4], we present an effective first-order theory for a higher-order picalculus. There are two significant ... -
Process Behaviour: Formulae vs. Tests
(2010)Process behaviour is often defined either in terms of the tests they satisfy, or in terms of the logical properties they enjoy. Here we compare these two approaches, using extensional testing in the style of DeNicola, ... -
Compositional Reasoning for Markov Decision Processes
(2011)Markov decision processes (MDPs) have long been used to model qualitative aspects of systems in the presence of uncertainty. However, much of the literature on MDPs takes a monolithic approach, by modelling a system as a ...
