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• Variable selection and updating in model-based discriminant analysis for high dimensional data with food authenticity applications 

  Murphy, Thomas Brendan ; Dean, Nema ; Raftery, Adrian E. (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010-03)

  Food authenticity studies are concerned with determining if food samples have been correctly labelled or not. Discriminant analysis methods are an integral part of the methodology for food authentication. Motivated by food ...
• Semi-supervised linear discriminant analysis 

  Toher, Deirdre ; Downey, Gerard ; Murphy, Thomas Brendan (Wiley, 2011-12)

  Fisher's linear discriminant analysis is one of the most commonly used and studied classification methods in chemometrics. The method finds a projection of multivariate data into a lower dimensional space so that the groups ...
• Rights-Based Approaches to Food Poverty in Ireland 

  O'Connor, Deirdre ; Cantillon, Sara ; Walsh, Judy (Combat Poverty Agency, 2008-12)

  In Ireland food poverty has emerged as an increasingly important issue on the social policy agenda. The reasons for this include the changing understanding of the nature of food poverty, its causes, dimensions and the ...
• A Methodology to Develop Judgment Skills in Sustainable Architectural Education 

  Kenny, Paul ; Brophy, Vivienne (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2011-10-18)

  Students of sustainability, in particular architectural students, are faced with a vast body of published work that forms an important part of their reference library. The idea of the precedent study is, traditionally, ...
• Public perceptions of the dioxin crisis in Irish pork 

  Kennedy, Jean ; Delaney, Liam ; McGloin, Aileen ; Wall, Patrick G. (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-06)

  In early December 2008, a global recall of Irish pork was initiated as a result of a subset of the national pork output being contaminated with dioxin. In this study, members of a panel from an internet-based longitudinal ...
• Appointing senior managers in education : homosociability, local logics and authenticity in the selection process 

  Grummell, Bernie ; Devine, Dympna ; Lynch, Kathleen (Sage, 2009-05)

  While there is extensive research on educational leadership and management, the selection of leaders has received comparatively little attention. This article examines how educational leadership is constructed through the ...
• An analysis of the Child and Adult Care Food Program in child care centers 

  Kapur, Kanika ; Kilburn, M. Rebecca ; Fair, C. Christine (Center for the Study of Food and Nutrition Policy Labor and Population Program, RAND, 1999-11)

  The Food and Nutrition Service administers the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) that provides healthy meals and snacks in child and adult day care facilities. This report analyzes the characteristics of three types ...
• Famine and market in Ancien Régime France 

  Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Chevet, Jean-Michel (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association, 2002-09)

  How—and how well—do food markets function in famine conditions? The controversy surrounding this question may benefit from historical perspective. Here we study two massive famines that struck France between 1693 and 1710, ...
• Revisiting "Subsistence Crises" : the characteristics of demographic crises in France in the first half of the 19th century 

  Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Chevet, Jean-Michel (Taylor & Francis, 2004-04)

  According to traditional accounts, France underwent a serious crisis in 1846. Although it has never really been proven, it is held that the crisis was due to an enormous deficit in agricultural production. The study of ...