The accurate estimation of site-specific lifetime extreme traffic load effects is an important element
in the cost-effective assessment of bridges. In recent years, the improved quality and increasing use of
weigh-in-motion ...
Much research in Europe at present has been directed at generating and assessing modelling tools for use in catchment management, driven by the requirements and schedule of the Water Framework Directive. A logical first ...
The paper empirically models price ispersion between related brands within roduct categories of the Irish Independent Grocery market. Retail brand prices are veraged over the independent shops stocking the brand. Since ...
The paper considers two techniques to model the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) end resistance, qc in a dense sand deposit using commercial finite element programmes. In the first approach, Plaxis was used to perform spherical ...
This paper investigates the applicability of a cohesive zone model for simulating the performance of bituminous material subjected to quasistatic loading. The Dugdale traction law was implemented within a finite volume ...
This paper presents the equations of motion for a general articulated road vehicle, with variable numbers of wheels for the tractor and trailer. The equations are applicable to vehicle-bridge dynamic interaction problems ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-06)
This paper discusses the question of trade union membership. Where membership is not compulsory workers have an incentive to free-ride if the unions only provide collective goods such as wage bargaining.
Contingent Valuation is now the most widely used method for valuing non-marketed goods in cost benefit analysis. Yet, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and benefits to others, ...
This paper describes a model and resulting simulations to assess the appropriate age
structure of intervention in childhood on the theme: should we intervene early or late?
We use asset theory approaches to construct a ...
This paper develops a general repeated game model over an arbitrary time domain. The paper considers the issue of formulating strategic behaviour in a general framework which includes continuous time behaviour. There are ...
Bergin, James(Queen’s University. Department of Economics, 1989)
This paper develops a general repeated game model over arbitrary time domain (which includes continuous time behaviour). A player is committed at any point in time to history independent behaviour for a positive length of ...
Walsh, Frank(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-12)
We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will
be in the formal sector and pay a wage premium, while ...
Farrington, Christopher(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)
A number of authors have argued that civil society was important in bringing about political change in Northern Ireland in 1998. Through the Opsahl Commission in 1992 and the ‘Yes’ Campaign in 1998, civil society offered ...
To date web search has been a solitary experience for the end-user, despite the fact that recent studies highlight the potential for collaboration that is inherent in many search tasks and scenarios. As a result, researchers ...
The two largest Universities on the Island of
Ireland both have significant power system activities. As part of a major all-island initiative these two groups are working more
closely on joint research and educational ...
This article is based on a discourse analysis of the complete nursing records of 45 patients, and concerns the modes of rationality that mediated text-based accounts relating to patient care that nurses recorded. The ...
Hydrological or hydraulic flood routing methods can be used to predict the floodplain influences on a flood wave as it passes along a river reach. While hydraulic routing uses both the equation of continuity and the equation ...
DNA data embedding is a newly emerging field aspiring to encode
data in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is an inherently
digital and noisy medium, undergoing substitution, insertion and
deletion mutations. Hence, ...
We have carried out classical molecular dynamics of various surfaces of TiO2 with its interface with water. We report the geometrical features of the first and second monolayers of water using a Matsui Akaogi (MA) force ...