Examines differences in medical care expenditures by non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanic elderly who were Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S.
Biofilm-related research using 96-well microtiter plates involves static incubation of plates indiscriminate of environmental conditions, making oxygen availability an important variable which has not been considered to ...
A ban on pricing below cost was implemented under the 1987 Groceries Order based on the premise that loss leading used in multi-product retail pricing distorts competition and exploits consumers in the short run, while ...
This paper presents an approach to the Mario AI Benchmark problem, using the A* algorithm for navigation, and an evolutionary process combining routines for the reactiveness of the resulting bot. The Grammatical Evolution ...
Consumers frequently rely on user-generated product reviews to guide purchasing decisions. Given the ever increasing volume of such reviews and variations in review
quality, consumers require assistance to effectively ...
This study examines factors that influence staff members’ readiness for
change in early childhood settings in Ireland. The introduction of a new
national framework, designed to improve the quality of Early Childhood
Care ...
Classic computing systems are characterised by heterogeneity, with its inherent advantages and disadvantages. This
raises a number of difficulties for software engineers. The vision offered by a mix-and-match approach is ...
Kennedy, Michael(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
From 1942 to 1957 North and South co-operated to enable the Irish Electricity Supply Board to build the most effective power plant possible on the River Erne in southern territory by ensuring that, through dredging and ...
Sensing, monitoring and actuating systems are expected to play a key role in reducing buildings overall energy consumption. Leveraging sensor systems to support energy efficiency in buildings poses novel research challenges ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, ...
Genetic Programming is a form of Natural Computing which adopts principles from neo-Darwinian evolution to automatically solve problems. It is a model induction method in that both the structure and parameters of the ...
In this paper we focus on an approach to social search, HeyStaks that is designed to integrate with mainstream search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. HeyStaks is motivated by the idea that Web search is an inherently ...
While search engines are the primary means by which information is located online, significant issues remain when trying to satisfy the needs of searchers, especially in the face of the type of vague queries
that dominate ...
For the main part, when it comes to questions of retrieval, the focus of CBR research has been on the retrieval of cases from a repository of experience knowledge or case base. In this paper we consider a complementary ...
In this paper we focus on a multi-case case-based reasoning system to support users during collaborative search tasks. In particular we describe how repositories of search experiences/knowledge can be recommended to users ...
Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services
and we believe these types of service provide ...
This paper reports on research into the history and library of the Royal College of Science for Ireland which was conducted as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) series of demonstrator ...
The human prostacyclin receptor (hIP) undergoes agonist-induced internalization but the mechanisms regulating its intracellular trafficking and/or recycling to the plasma membrane are poorly understood. Herein, we conducted ...
A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Although loyalism in its modern sense has been around since the 1920s, it acquired its present shape only at the beginning of the 1970s. Then it was reborn in paramilitary form, and was used by ...
A political perspective:
The idea of “northern” nationalism is a questionable one, since the nationalist tradition within Northern Ireland sees itself in an island-wide context. From its origins in the civil rights ...