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Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Reducing the erodibility of sandy soils engineered by cyanobacteria inoculation: a laboratory investigation
(2023)Windblown and water-induced erosion cause substantial soil losses worldwide, especially for drylands. Any sustainable management program that increases soil organic matter and improves the stability of the crustal layer ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women
(2023)In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
(2023)Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it—the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency ... -
Moral distress in carers for people with an intellectual disabilitywho died during the COVID-19 pandemic, a template analysisextending the Barlem and Ramos model of moral distress.
(2023)Background This article aims to understand moral distress in carers of people with an intellectual disability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method Nine staff carers of seven people with an intellectual disability, ... -
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Caregivers of People with an Intellectual Disability, in Comparison to Carers of Those with Other Disabilities and with Mental Health Issues: A Multicountry Study.
(2023)Carers supporting people with an intellectual disability often rely on others to manage the burden of care. This research aims to compare the differences between carer groups and understand the predictors of loneliness ... -
Effect of Extraction Methods on Essential Oil Composition: A Case Study of Irish Bog Myrtle -Myrica gale L.
(2023)Myrica gale is an aromatic peatland shrub that has reported traditional use as an insect repellent. Different extraction methodologies were used in this study to isolate the essential oil of Myrica gale L., including ... -
Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology
(2023)Marketing and consumer research has drawn attention to the positive and joyful emotional features of consumer tribes. However, research has little to say on boredom, an emotional state already prevalent in consumers’ lives, ... -
Geotechnical investigation of low-plasticity organic soil treated with nano-calcium carbonate
(2023)Soil stabilization using nanomaterials is an emerging research area although, to date, its investigation has mostly been laboratory-based and therefore requires extensive study for transfer to practical field applications. ... -
Fan-noise reduction of data centre telecommunications' server racks, with an acoustic metamaterial broadband, low-frequency sound-absorbing liner
(2023)An acoustic metamaterial is evaluated successfully as a means to reduce axial fan noise in an IT server rack application. The continuing growth in demand for cloud-based memory storage is outpacing sustainable energy ... -
Dielectric Properties of Ovine Heart at Microwave Frequencies
(2021)Accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological tissues is important in dosimetry studies and for medical diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic technologies. In particular, the dielectric properties of the ... -
Developing a video intervention to improve youth question-asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes clinic encounters: the Promoting Adolescents Communication and Engagement study
(2021)Background Research on long-term health conditions indicates that adolescents are not actively involved during their medical visits. Active involvement is essential because this can help adolescents learn how to self-manage ... -
Doing Gadamerian Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: An analytical framework to facilitate data analysis.
(2021)Phenomenology is an umbrella term that refers to both a philosophical movement and a variety of research approaches. Hermeneutic phenomenology is a methodology, which is not rigidly set or prescribed. Hence, students and ... -
Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ...
