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Special Care Baby Unit Little Library: promoting parental bonding, early literacy and family-centred care. [Presentation]
(Portiuncula Hospital, 2023)This innovation lies in curating age appropriate, durable, wipeable books and audio books, that are now available to parents on SCBU, creating an intimate and personalized reading environment. -
Special Care Baby Unit Little Library: promoting parental bonding, early literacy and family-centred care. [Poster]
(Saolta/HSE, 2023)The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) Little Library is an initiative to enhance the care provided to premature and sick newborns during their stay in the Special Care Baby Unit. This quality innovation is centered around ... -
Designing a multiplex PCR-xMAP assay for the detection and differentiation of African Horse Sickness virus, Serotypes 1–9
(MDPI, 2024-05-03)African horse sickness is a severe and often fatal disease affecting all species of equids. The aetiological agent, African horse sickness virus (AHSV), can be differentiated into nine serotypes. The identification of ... -
Quo vadis - development of a novel peatland-based recirculating aquaculture mutli-trophic pond system (RAMPS) in the Irish midlands with a global orientation.
(Elsevier, 2024-05-03)Development of peatland-based, recirculating freshwater aquaculture that is efficient and economically viable presents considerable benefits for society including supporting communities transitioning to low-carbon ... -
Women in Sports Science: A Profile of Leading Irish Researchers
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The effect of temperature on the stability of African swine fever virus BA71V isolate in environmental water samples
(MDPI, 2023-08-08)African swine fever virus (ASFV) is known to be very stable and can remain infectious over long periods of time especially at low temperatures and within different matrices, particularly those containing animal-derived ... -
"Post or perish"? An early career researcher's guide to using social media
(Human Kinetics, 2024-01)Social media usage has soared in the last decade, with the majority of adults having an account on at least one platform. Sites such as LinkedIn, X, and TikTok allow users to share content using different forms, for ... -
Results from Ireland North and South's 2022 report card on physical activity for children and adolescents
(Elsevier, 2023-12-09)Background: The Ireland North and South Report Card on Physical Activity (PA) for Children and Adolescents aims to monitor progress in PA participation across a range of internationally established indicators. Methods: ... -
The effect of hormonal contraceptive use on skeletal muscle hypertrophy, power and strength adaptations to resistance exercise training: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis.
(Springer, 2023-09-27)Background Resistance exercise training is widely used by general and athletic populations to increase skeletal muscle hypertrophy, power and strength. Endogenous sex hormones influence various bodily functions, including ... -
Health promoting sports federations: theoretical foundations and guidelines
(Frontiers, 2023-07-11)Background: Researchers and policy-makers have highlighted that the potential for organized sports to promote health has been underexploited. Sports clubs have limited capacity to promote health due to their voluntary ... -
Peak speed in Gaelic games: a systematic review of GPS methods
(Australian International Academic Centre (AIAC), 2023-10-31)Background: Peak speed is an essential physical quality in Gaelic games due to the offensive, defensive, and transitional nature of the sports. Objectives: The aims of the study were to systematically search the literature ... -
Effect of restricted feeding on hen performance, egg quality and organ characteristics of individual laying hens
(Elsevier, 2023-05-11)This study was to assess the impact of permanent or temporary restricted feeding on laying hen production traits, physiology, and egg quality. Two hundred and forty individually housed ISA Brown hens were monitored across ... -
Do contextual variables influence the spatial organisations of elite-level Brazilian professional soccer players
(Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Science, 2023)Purpose. This study investigated the influence of contextual variables on individual and collective team spatial organisation in professional Brazilian players. Methods. Seventeen matches were analysed during the 1st ... -
Implementation of the GAA 'healthy clubs project' in Ireland: a qualitative study using the consolidated framework for implementation research.
(Oxford University Press, 2024)The sports clubs’ role in promoting health has been acknowledged by policy makers and researchers, but there is little evidence on how sports clubs implement health-related interventions. The present article investigates ... -
The UBP5 histone H2A deubiquitinase counteracts PRCs-mediated repression to regulate Arabidopsis development
(Nature Research, 2024-01-22)Polycomb Repressive Complexes (PRCs) control gene expression through the incorporation of H2Aub and H3K27me3. In recent years, there is increasing evidence of the complexity of PRCs’ interaction networks and the interplay ... -
Menstrual cycle characteristics, perceived impact on performance, and barriers to communication: perspectives of high-performance adolescent athletes in Singapore
(Wiley, 2023-09-08)The purpose of this study was to examine the menstrual cycle (MC) characteristics, explore the impact on performance, and identify barriers to and facilitators of MC-related communication among high-performance female ... -
Older adult's and service providers' experiences of a settings-based health promotion initiative in English football
(Oxford University Press, 2023-06-01)The study was undertaken to explore the experiences of older adults and service providers in a settings-based health promotion initiative in a football club. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 older adults ... -
The psychology of Gaelic games: a co-produced scoping review to inform research, policy, and practice
(Routledge, 2023-03-31)Gaelic games are a family of indigenous Irish sports played in Ireland and across the world. With recent growth in research on the psychology of Gaelic games and developments in sport science policy in this context, ... -
"I realized it was a different kind of culture to other sports": an exploration of sport psychology service provision and delivery in Gaelic games.
(Human Kinetica, 2023-10-06)In this article, we present two studies that provide the first evidence on sport psychology services in Gaelic games. In Study 1, 36 participants providing support for mental aspects of performance in Gaelic games completed ... -
Do players with superior physiological attributes outwork their less-conditioned counterparts? A study in Gaelic football
(Institute of Sport - National Research Institute, 2023-07-24)This study investigated the association of physiological attributes with in-game workload measures during competitive Gaelic football match-play. Fifty-two male developmental level Gaelic football players (mean ± SD; ...
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