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Association of perceptions of artificial light-at-night, light-emitting device usage and environmental noise
(2022)Exposure to artificial light-at-night (ALAN) is increasing globally, and there are concerns around how ALAN may impact sleep, psychological and physical health. However, there is a lack of evidence in the literature on how ... -
Removing order effects from human-classified datasets: A machine learning method to improve decision making systems
(2022)Although recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) aim to enhance the fairness and transparency of decision-making systems, research has found that neural networks (or other similar AI ... -
Self-Ownership and the Duty to Assist
(2022)Libertarians are attracted to the self-ownership thesis because it seems to satisfy four important theoretical desiderata. First, the thesis treats all persons equally by assigning them the same initial set of rights. ... -
Various liquid crystalline phases structural analysis using resonant x-ray scattering
(2022)Chiral smectic liquid crystals have a paraelectric phase, a ferroelectric phase, and an antiferroelectric phase. Therefore, multiple phases called secondary phases appear, and sequential phase transitions are observed. ... -
Connemara Marble, Galway, Ireland: a Global Heritage Stone Resource proposal
(2020)Connemara Marble, a well-known distinctive decorative stone from the west of Ireland, is herein proposed as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Connemara Marble is a sillimanite-grade ophicarbonate, dominated by dolomite and ... -
Public Health Directives in a Pandemic: Paradoxical Messages for Domestic Abuse Victims in Four Countries
(2022)When the COVID-19 pandemic manifested urgent concerns were raised around the globe about the increased risk that public health restrictions could pose for victims of domestic abuse. Governments, NGOs and community services ... -
Social Workers Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has put increased pressure on health and social service providers, including social workers who continued front line practice throughout the pandemic, engaging with some of the most ... -
Opening up a national conversation on domestic abuse: Awareness raising campaigns in Ireland during Covid-19. A Case Study
(2022)At the start of the pandemic in early 2020, concerns emerged from around the globe about increased levels of domestic abuse (DA) and the impact that public health measures and restrictions to slow down the transmission ... -
Frail by four different measures and new adverse events from lower blood pressure control in hypertensive older adults: a 2-year prospective study in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(2022)Background: The 2018 European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) guidelines for management of hypertension in adults aged ≥65 years recommend a blood pressure (BP) treatment target of 130–139/70–79 ... -
Towards A Rare Disease Registry Standard: Semantic Mapping of Common Data Elements Between FAIRVASC and the European Joint Programme for Rare Disease
(2022)This paper describes the extension of the FAIRVASC rare disease ontology, with Joint Research Council Common Data Elements (CDE), and mapping to the European Joint Programme on Rare Dis- eases (EJP RD) CDE ontology. We ... -
A Lightweight FPGA-based IDS-ECU Architecture for Automotive CAN
(IEEE, 2022)Recent years have seen an exponential rise in complex software-driven functionality in vehicles, leading to a rising number of electronic control units (ECUs), network capabilities, and interfaces. These expanded ... -
Unity-in-Variety, admiratio, and Verisimilitude in the Interpolated Stories of Don Quijote, Part One
(2022)The interpolated stories included in Don Quijote, Part one have frequently been studied as oppositional to the main plot in function of thematic binaries such as literature-life, illusion-reality, truth-fiction, idealism-realism ... -
A Systematic Review of Computer-Mediated Communications in Chinese as a Foreign Language from 2008 to 2022: Research Contexts, Theoretical Foundations and Methodology, Affordances and Limitations
(2022)The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated how ubiquitous and pervasive technology to support communication and collaboration has become in people’s lives. This article seeks to provide an overview of the use of computer-mediated ... -
How to Explain the Direction of Time
(2022)Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated subsystems are oriented towards the future and not the past, and why we ... -
Design of a Tetrapolar Probe for Electrical Characterization of the Left Atrial Appendage from 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz
(2022)Recently, non-thermal pulsed-field-ablation using electroporation has generated a lot of interest as a potential treatment for Atrial Fibrillation. The electrical properties, and specially the conductivity of cardiac ... -
Oral symptom assessment tools in patients with advanced cancer: a scoping review
(2022)Purpose: Oral symptoms are common in patients with advanced cancer. The aim of this scoping review was to identify oral symptom assessment tools that have been specifically utilised in patients with "advanced cancer". Methods: ... -
MASCC/ISOO expert opinion on the management of oral problems in patients with advanced cancer
(2022)Purpose: The Palliative Care Study Group in conjunction with the Oral Care Study Group of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) formed a sub-group to develop evidence-based guidance on the ... -
Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) expert opinion/guidance on the use of clinically assisted nutrition in patients with advanced cancer
(2022)Purpose: The pro vision of clinically assisted nutrition (CAN) in patients with advanced cancer is controversial, and there is a paucity of specific guidance, and so a diversity in clinical practice. Consequently, the ... -
Palliative care in the era of novel oncological interventions: needs some �tweaking�
(2022)Cancer treatment has evolved enormously over the last 20 years, with developments in surgery, radiotherapy, chemo- therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. As a result, many cancer patients have improved outcomes ...
