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Combined Effect of Plasma-Activated Water and Topotecan in Glioblastoma Cells
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-10-05)The increase in cancer diagnoses and cancer deaths, severe side effects of existing treatments and resistance to traditional treatments have generated a need for new anticancer treatments. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is ... -
Pulsed ultraviolet (PUV) disinfection of artifcially contaminated seawater seeded with high levels of pathogen disease indicators as an alternative for the shellfish industry depuration systems
(Springer, 2023-05-08)The increase in pathogen levels in seawater threatens the safety of entire aquatic ecosystems. Foodborne pathogens can potentially accumulate in shellfish, especially in filter feeders such as bivalves, requiring an efficient ... -
Characterising public participation as an international law norm
(Lawtext Publishing, 2022)This article considers the nature of the right to public participation in environmental decision-making in international law. In doing so it briefly examines the rationales for public participation, its features and ... -
Easter Eggs & ‘Easter Eggs’: Alcohol Branded Chocolate Eggs & Intoxigenic Environments in Ireland
(The Netherlands Press, 2021)Alcohol branded Easter Eggs were observed in a mainstream Irish supermarket. The Public Health (Alcohol) Act, 2018 fails to deal with such child-friendly marketing. An amendment to the current legislation to counter this ... -
Examining students' preferences for academic writing support in a third level institute in Ireland
(All Ireland Society for Higher Education, 2023)Academic writing support has become an integral part of the learning process at third level. At Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands (TUS: Midlands), the Academic Writing Centre (AWC) offers individual and ... -
"Blacklists” and “Whitelists”: A salutary warning concerning the prevalence of racist language in discussions of predatory publishing
(Pitt Open Library Publishing, 2018)This commentary addresses the widespread use of racist language in discussions concerning predatory publishing. Examples include terminology such as blacklists, whitelists, and black sheep. The use of such terms does not ... -
Costing pressure ulcer care in an Irish acute care setting: a feasibility study
(Wiley, 2021-11)Objective: To test the feasibility of using a standardised data collection tool to estimate the cost of stage 2–4 pressure ulcer (PU) care within an acute care setting. Method: Data on resource use and cost were ... -
"Collateral damage in the war on travel writing": recovering reader responses to contemporary travel writing
(University of Zadar, Croatia, 2020-04)Scholarship of travel writing has seldom paid proper attention to questions of how and why readers engage with the genre – an oversight which, as Robin Jarvis (2016) has noted, at times leads to negative generalizations ... -
The ‘connectaholic’ behind the curtain: medical student use of computer devices in the clinical setting and the influence of patients.
(BMC, 2019)Background: The use of mobile devices such as tablets and laptops by students to support their learning is now ubiquitous. The clinical setting is an environment, which lends itself to the use of mobile devices as students ... -
Librarians and Research Data Management–A Literature Review: Commentary from a Senior Professional and a New Professional Librarian
(Routledge, 2018-08-29)In the changing landscape of libraries and the roles of librarians, the area of Research Data Management (RDM) is emerging with new opportunities and challenges. This literature review identifies the current levels of ...
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