Research@THEA (new): Recent submissions
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Conflict and chaos: a case study of Ireland's Covid-19 outbound travel market
(WSB University in Poznań, 2021)During the COVID-19 pandemic the international outbound travel market from Ireland collapsed, declining at one point by 94%. This case study paper explores the environment which framed the collapse in travel, positioning ... -
Mark Twain and the Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death
(Emerald, 2013-08-02)Purpose In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to ... -
Association of feed efficiency with organ characteristics and fatty liver haemorrhagic syndrome in laying hens
(Nature Reports, 2023-04-11)Poor feed efficiency (FE) in hens impacts body weight (BW) and may reflect suboptimal health. Fatty Liver Haemorrhagic Syndrome (FLHS) is mostly observed in laying hens and affects egg production and hen performance. The ... -
Modification of hyaluronic acid to enable click chemistry photo-crosslinking of hydrogels with tailorable degradation profiles
(Elsevier, 2023-06-15)Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a naturally occurring mucopolysaccharide that, due to its inherent bioactivity and extracellular matrix-like structure, has the potential to be utilised extensively in tissue engineering. However, ... -
Strategies for developing shape-shifting behaviours and potential applications of poly(N-vinyl Caprolactam) hydrogels
(MDPI, 2023-03-18)Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are one type of smart hydrogel, which can expand/contract in water according to changes in the surrounding environment. However, it is difficult to develop flexible shapeshifting behaviours ... -
Modelling and simulation of waste tire pyrolysis process for recovery of energy and production of valuable chemicals (BTEX)
(Springer Nature Limited, 2023-04-13)The pyrolysis oil fraction is highly attractive for pyrolysis products. A simulated flowsheet model of a waste tire pyrolysis process is presented in this paper. A kinetic rate-based reaction model and equilibrium separation ... -
Faultlines irish design research conference 2015: book of abstracts
(designCORE, 2015-06-03)Welcome to the Irish Design Research Conference 2015, an initiative of designCORE at the Dargan Centre, Institute of Technology Carlow. This all island and event has been cosponsored by ID2015 as part of Year of ... -
Interdisciplinary gerontological research by design
(British Society of Gerontology, 2021-07-09)Increasingly, gerontological research requires interdisciplinary approaches to address complex research questions. Design methods have been proven to facilitate the growth of interdisciplinary research as they are agile, ... -
Role of ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi in meeting established and emerging sustainability opportunities: a review
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-04-27)Fungal biomass is the future’s feedstock. Non-septate Ascomycetes and septate Basidiomycetes, famously known as mushrooms, are sources of fungal biomass. Fungal biomass, which on averagely comprises about 34% protein ... -
Perceptions and experiences of nursing students communicating with people living with dementia: the validation, emotion, reassure, activity (VERA) communication skills framework.
(Wiley, 2023-03-06)Background There is an increased risk with advancing age that degenerative conditions such as dementia will affect a person's capacity to communicate. Thus, there is increased possibility that nursing students will be ... -
Prehensile and non-prehensile robotic pick-and-place of objects in clutter using deep reinforcement learning
(MDPI, 2023-01-29)In this study, we develop a framework for an intelligent and self-supervised industrial pick-and-place operation for cluttered environments. Our target is to have the agent learn to perform prehensile and non-prehensile ... -
Modulation of the lower critical solution temperature of thermoresponsive poly(N-vinylcaptrolactam) utlizing hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers
(MDPI, 2023-03-23)Four-dimensional printing is primarily based on the concept of 3D printing technology. However, it requires additional stimulus and stimulus-responsive materials. Poly-N-vinylcaprolactam is a temperature-sensitive polymer. ... -
Privacy preserved video summarization of road traffic events for IoT smart cities
(MDPI, 2023-02-09)The purpose of smart surveillance systems for automatic detection of road traffic accidents is to quickly respond to minimize human and financial losses in smart cities. However, along with the self-evident benefits of ... -
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 ... -
Planning and Development Bill 2022 (Ireland): a solution in search of a problem
(Community Law & Mediation/EJNI: Environmental Justice Network, 2023-02)Framed as a response to the housing crisis, the Planning and Development Bill 2022 (P&D Bill 2022, ‘the Bill’) is designed to enact a radical overhaul of the planning system and related court processes in Ireland. Its ... -
Dark Sky Eco Tourism Guide
(Dark Sky Ecotourism, 2023)The dark sky evokes basic human emotions and connects us all to the human story, of how we watch the dark sky, tell and create stories about the stars in the sky and beings in the dark With the deterioration of the ... -
Towards an EU climate governance framework to deliver on the European Green Deal: policy options paper
(VUB: Brussels School of Governance. Centre for Environment,, 2023-02)The EU and its member states face the challenge of accelerating the transition to climate neutrality and negative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in increasingly turbulent times. But the challenge of governing the climate ... -
Linking the Irish environment: Interim report.
(EJNI: Environmental Justice Network, 2023-01)The aim of the ‘Linking the Irish Environment’ project is to examine how to enable the environment sector across the island of Ireland to cooperate and engage on an all-island and cross-border basis to deal with shared ... -
Performance of Biomass and Exopolysaccharide Production from the Medicinal Mushroom Ganoderma lucidum in a New Fabricated Air-L-Shaped Bioreactor (ALSB)
(MDPI, 2023-02-22)Conventional stirred-tank bioreactor (STR) designs are optimised for cultures of bacteria but not fungal cultures; therefore, a new Air-L-Shaped Bioreactor (ALSB) was fabricated. The ALSB was designed to eliminate the wall ... -
Synthesis of NVCL-NIPAM hydrogels using PEGMA as a chemical crosslinker for controlled swelling behaviours in potential shapeshifting applications
(MDPI, 2023-03-20)Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have recently gained interest within shapeshifting applications due to their capabilities to expand in water and their altering swelling properties when triggered by stimuli, such as pH and ...
