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Stem Or Steam?: The Critical Role Of Arts In Technology Education (And The Critical Role Of Art In Technology), Etain Watson

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

This paper outlines the interdependency between arts and technology, and explains the absolute necessity of keeping them together in our education systems. While arts and humanities can be successfully taught without technology, technology greatly enhances learning, and more technology is connected to arts in some way than any other use. According to PwC Chief Executive Luke Sayers, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are the solution to our workforce and growth challenge. Deckers suggests that all the levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy exist in order to get us to the highest level where decisions are made according to aesthetics. Both STEM …

Rebuilding As Research: Noongar Song, Language And Ways Of Knowing, Clint Bracknell

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In Australia, language and song are integral to maintaining Aboriginal knowledge systems. British colonisation and ensuing Australian government policies of assimilation have adversely impacted these knowledge systems, at least partially by functioning to dramatically diminish the vitality of many Aboriginal languages and song traditions. As a Noongar researcher motivated by community-oriented goals, I employ a multidisciplinary approach to enhance the revitalisation of the endangered Noongar language and its song traditions in the south coast region of Western Australia. This work draws on established methods from ethnomusicology and linguistics, engaging with community knowledge-holders and archival records to rebuild repertoire while increasing …

Disentangling The Mechanisms Shaping The Surface Ocean Microbiota, Ramiro Logares, Ina M. Deutschmann, Pedro C. Junger, Caterina R. Giner, Anders K. Krabberød, S. B. Schmidt, Laura Rubinat-Ripoll, Mireia Mestre, Guillem Salazar, Clara Ruiz-González, Marta Sebastián, Colomban De Vargas, Silvia G. Acinas, Carlos M. Duarte, Josep M. Gasol, Ramon Massana

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

BACKGROUND: The ocean microbiota modulates global biogeochemical cycles and changes in its configuration may have large-scale consequences. Yet, the underlying ecological mechanisms structuring it are unclear. Here, we investigate how fundamental ecological mechanisms (selection, dispersal and ecological drift) shape the smallest members of the tropical and subtropical surface-ocean microbiota: prokaryotes and minute eukaryotes (picoeukaryotes). Furthermore, we investigate the agents exerting abiotic selection on this assemblage as well as the spatial patterns emerging from the action of ecological mechanisms. To explore this, we analysed the composition of surface-ocean prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic communities using DNA-sequence data (16S- and 18S-rRNA genes) collected during …

A Bitter Pill To Swallow: Registered Nurses And Medicines Regulation In Remote Australia, Katie R. Pennington, Kim D. Clark, Sabina Knight

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

INTRODUCTION: Access to essential medicines is a human right and an objective of the National Medicines Policy in Australia. Health workforce distribution characteristics in remote Australia implies registered nurses (RNs) may find themselves responsible for a broader range of activities in the medication management cycle than they would be elsewhere in the nation. The regulation of health professionals and their training requirements provides essential but complex protections for the public. These protections include the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health practitioners and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Other levels of control or regulation are also exerted over health …

Kohl Containing Lead (And Other Toxic Elements) Is Widely Available In Europe, Montserrat Filella, Agathe Martignier, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Key Opportunities To Replace, Reduce, And Refine Regulatory Fish Acute Toxicity Tests, N Burden, R Benstead, K Benyon, M Clook, C Green, J Handley, N Harper, Sk Maynard, C Mead, A Pearson, K Ryder, D Sheahan, R Egmond, Jr Wheeler, Th Hutchinson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Fish acute toxicity tests are conducted as part of regulatory hazard identification and risk-assessment packages for industrial chemicals and plant protection products. The aim of these tests is to determine the concentration which would be lethal to 50% of the animals treated. These tests are therefore associated with suffering in the test animals, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development test guideline 203 (fish, acute toxicity) studies are the most widely conducted regulatory vertebrate ecotoxicology tests for prospective chemical safety assessment. There is great scope to apply the 3Rs principles-the reduction, refinement, and replacement of animals-in this area of testing. …

In Vitro Avian Bioaccessibility Of Metals Adsorbed To Microplastic Pellets, Luke A. Holmes, Richard C. Thompson, Andrew Turner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Trusted, Decentralized And Blockchain-Based M2m Application Service Provision, B Shala, U Trick, A Lehmann, B Ghita, S Shiaeles

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Distributed Ledger Technology For Trust Management Optimisation In M2m, B Shala, U Trick, A Lehmann, B Ghita, S Shiaeles

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Decentralised environments with a high number of end-users and M2M devices used in several M2M services increasethe importance of a secure trust management and comprehensive trust evaluation system to avoid frauds from maliciousnodes. Blockchain, as part of the distributed ledger technology (DLT), helps to improve the overall security in a decentralised M2M community in various aspects. This research publication summarises several existing trust managementand evaluation approaches, concluding with their benefits and limitations. Besides these, it highlights the advantages ofthe distributed ledger technology with the focus on blockchain and consensus mechanisms. In this context, most relevantconsensus mechanisms are reviewed and an …

Lifestyle Gambling, Indebtedness And Anxiety: A Deviant Leisure Perspective, Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Arsenic Speciation And Its Dna Fractionation In The Rice Plant Oryza Sativa, Me Foulkes, Ba Sadee, Sj Hill

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The transport of arsenic from soil through to edible crop is important when assessing the potential health risks from a food source.

Women’S Digital Care Record ‘Accelerators’: Project Analysis Report, Arunangsu Chatterjee

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Carbonate Clumped Isotope Evidence For Latitudinal Seawater Temperature Gradients And The Oxygen Isotope Composition Of Early Cretaceous Seas, Gregory D. Price, David Bajnai, Jens Fiebig

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Unravelling Middle To Late Jurassic Palaeoceanographic And Palaeoclimatic Signals In The Hebrides Basin Using Belemnite Clumped Isotope Thermometry, Madeleine L. Vickers, Alvaro Fernandez, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Gregory D. Price, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Stefanie Lode, Clemens V. Ullmann, Nicolas Thibault, Iben Winther Hougaard, Christoph Korte

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Global Trends In Water And Sediment Fluxes Of The World’S Large Rivers, Li Li, Jinren Ni, Fang Chang, Yao Yue, Natalia Frolova, Dmitry Magritsky, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Philippe Ciais, Yichu Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Desmond E. Walling

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Corrigendum To “Using Glue To Pull Apart The Provenance Of Atmospheric Dust” [Aeolian Res. 37 (2019) 1–13], Behrooz R Dahmardeh, Hamid Gholami, Matt W. Telfer, John D. Jansen, Aboalhasan Fathabadi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Auto-Rewilding In Post-Industrial Cities: The Case Of Inland Cormorants In Urban Britain, Cara Clancy, Kim Ward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Protracted Shearing At Midcrustal Conditions During Large‐Scale Thrusting In The Scandinavian Caledonides, Francesco Giuntoli, Luca Menegon, Clare J. Warren, James Darling, Mark W. Anderson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Weathering And Persistence Of Plastic In The Marine Environment: Lessons From Lego, Andrew Turner, Rob Arnold, Tracey Williams

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Using Spatial Patterns Of Fluvial Incision To Constrain Continental-Scale Uplift In The Andes, L. A. Evenstar, A. E. Mather, A. J. Hartley

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geomorphic archives, particularly longitudinal river profiles, are increasingly used as a proxy to reconstruct uplift rates in mountainous regions. Within the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, slow, long-term erosion creates exceptional preservation of fluvial and alluvial surfaces. This enables river incision patterns to be used on a continental-scale (>250 km) along the western margin of the Andes (18°00'S to 20°15′S) and over a time frame from Miocene to Present day. The data show marked compartmentalisation of fluvial system behaviour with changes in incision rates from south to north creating 3 distinctly different regions. Within these different sectors, incision rates are …

Magnetic Anisotropy Reveals Acadian Transpressional Fabrics In An Appalachian Ophiolite (Thetford Mines, Canada), A Di Chiara, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Luca Menegon, Alain Tremblay

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

SUMMARY Magnetic anisotropy has proved effective in characterizing primary, spreading-related magmatic fabrics in Mesozoic (Tethyan) ophiolites, for example in documenting lower oceanic crustal flow. The potential for preservation of primary magnetic fabrics has not been tested, however, in older Palaeozoic ophiolites, where anisotropy may record regional strain during polyphase deformation. Here, we present anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility results from the Ordovician Thetford Mines ophiolite (Canada) that experienced two major phases of post-accretion deformation, during the Taconian and Acadian orogenic events. Magnetic fabrics consistent with modal layering in gabbros are observed at one locality, suggesting that primary fabrics may survive deformation …

Particle-Water Interactions Of Bismuth Under Simulated Estuarine Conditions, Lydia J. Knight, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Magic And Metaphysics Of Shit :The Production Of Space And Digital Technology, David Capener

Articles

Reading Henri Lefebvre alongside Bernard Stiegler, this paper explores the changes that have taken place to the production of space in our age of digital technology. Lefebvre sensed the radical changes taking place in society through the implementation of computational technologies. He asked a prescient question: How is this space being produced? Lefebvre was unable to foresee the significant changes to the actual mechanics of the production of space brought about by the third industrial revolution. A thinker who does do this is Bernard Stiegler who is interested in how new digital technologies change memory via tertiary mnemotechnical devices – …

Structured Professional Development For Academic Developers: A Collaborative Approach, Fiona O'Riordan, Íde O'Sullivan, Mary Fitzpatrick, Margaret Keane, Claire Mcavinia, Angelica Risquez

Journal Articles

This paper shares the experience of a group of academic developers’ engagement in collaboratively working towards the completion of an online open-access professional development (PD) course designed to support higher education teachers to engage with a new professional development framework. Committee members of the Educational Developers in Ireland Network set out to complete the course as a demonstration of their commitment to their own PD and to experience the process with a view to becoming facilitators of the course. An auto-ethnographic approach was used to capture this experience, and findings demonstrate an inspiring alternative to PD that supports academic developers …

Cocktail Menus Ireland (1970s-2020) Version 1, James Murphy

Other resources

Cocktail Menus Ireland (1970s-2020) Version 1 highlights a small selection of cocktail menus from cocktail bars, public bars, hotel bars and Cocktail Clubs covering the period of 1970 up to 2020. These menus and their recipes help to identify the creativity, innovation and attention to detail in which the establishments highlighted here and their staff (cocktail bartenders, mixologists and management teams) poured into these menus. The menus also highlight the changing drinks fashions, how cocktail prices began to change, the variety of ingredients, the rise of the crafted approach towards ingredients sourcing and preparation. The impact of visual graphic illustrations, …

Optimization Of Home Mortgage Mover Predictive Model Applying Geo-Spatial Analysis And Machine Learning Techniques, Natalia Riscovaia

Dissertations

In the last decade digital innovations and online banking services have significantly changed customers banking preferences and behaviour. Banking industry is going through the changes and developments in the provision of banking services that are affecting the structure and the organization of the bank network. However, private home loan, referred as Home Mortgage hereinafter, continue to remain among the products, that customers prefer to have personal interaction about with professional advisors prior making the decision to apply for the loan with financial institution.

Research And Innovation As A Catalyst For Food System Transformation, A.C.L. Den Boer, K.P.W. Kok, M. Gill, J. Breda, Jean Cahill, C. Callenius, P. Caron, Z. Damianova, M. Gurinovic, L. Lahteenmaki, T. Lang, R. Sonnino, G. Verburg, H. Westhoek, T. Cesuroglu, B.J. Regeer, J.E.W. Broerse

Research and Innovation - Other

Background Food systems are associated with severe and persistent problems worldwide. Governance approaches aiming to foster sustainable transformation of food systems face several challenges due to the complex nature of food systems.

Scope and approach In this commentary we argue that addressing these governance challenges requires the development and adoption of novel research and innovation (R&I) approaches that will provide evidence to inform food system transformation and will serve as catalysts for change. We first elaborate on the complexity of food systems (transformation) and stress the need to move beyond traditional linear R&I approaches to be able to respond to …

Research And Innovation Supporting The Farm To Fork Strategy Of The European Commission, R. Sonnino, C. Callenius, L. Lahteenmaki, J. Breda, Jean Cahill, P. Caron, Z. Damianova, M.A. Gurinovic, T. Lang, A. Laperriere, C. Mango, J. Ryder, G. Verbrugh, T. Achterbpscj, A.C.L. Den Boer, K.P.W. Kok, B.J. Regeer, J.E. Broerse, J.E.W. Cesuroglu, T. Gill

Research and Innovation - Other

No abstract provided.

Leisure Craft Sacrificial Anodes As A Source Of Zinc And Cadmium To Saline Waters, Aldous B. Rees, Anthony Gallagher, Laurance A. Wright, Jonathan Wood, Timothy Cathery, Bradley Harrison, Chloe Down, Sean Comber

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Photo- And Autoxidation Of Unsaturated Algal Lipids In The Marine Environment: An Overview Of Processes, Their Potential Tracers, And Limitations, Jean François Rontani, Simon T. Belt

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.