Research Matters Issue 12

ISSUE 12 Spring 2011

RESEARCH|MATTERS ECO-INNOVATION:

DEVELOPING BIOACTIVE FEED ADDITIVES FROM SUSTAINABLE SEAWEED SOURCES

Technologies to deliver drugs across the skin

Launch of DBA programme

WIT researchers win INSPIRE Fellowships ISSUE 12 | Spring 2011

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CONTENTS

inside this issue WELCOME 3

Welcome from the Head of Research & Innovation

SCIENCE 4 6 7

Greener Products and Cleaner Processes WIT Researchers Work on Drug Delivery Across the Skin Making Numbers Count

HEALTH SCIENCES 8 9 10

Keeping Women Active after Mass Events Plantfood for Thought: A Qualitative Study of Mephedrone Use in Ireland Launch of the ROSE Online Stress Management Programme

BUSINESS 11 11

School of Business Induct Inaugural DBA Students Research Activity at the AIB Centre For Finance and Business Research

ENGINEERING 12 13 14

SEAM Partners With Company Involved in Chilean Mine Rescue An Historical-Ecological Investigation of the Goldthornwedge, Wolverhampton Outdoor GPS Guided Robot

HUMANITIES 16 16

Film and Film Culture, Volume 5: Frontiers and Futures in Film and Digital Media WIT Libraries - Where Research Really Matters

ICT 17 17

Pervasive Computing in Societies Trustworthy On-Line Services?

EDUCATION 18 19

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Literacy for the Twenty First Century Workplace Grounding Higher Education in the Community: The Case of Waterford Women’s Centre & WIT’s School of Education Enhancing Pedagogy at WIT: Creativity in the Classroom

AWARDS 21 21 22

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Postgraduates Awards at WIT Research Day 2010 Patent Awards at WIT Research Day Dr Susan Whelan Featured as Outstanding Awardee of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences WIT Researcher Named Among Most Outstanding in Ireland Twin Brothers from TSSG Win Prestigious Fellowships Dr Patrick Duggan Wins 2010 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision WIT Win Innovation Voucher Award

CONFERENCES & PUBLICATIONS 25 25 26 26 27 28 28 29 2

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WIT Research Funding Awards 2009 / 2010 Informal ‘‘Bizcamp’’ Attracts Entrepreneurs to the South East Political Anthropology Symposium Held at WIT PMBRC Host Industry Analytical Forum WIT Hosts Ireland’s First International Canadian-Irish Family Law Conference Introduction to Equity Investment Fund Accounting by John Casey Personal Development for Researchers Recent WIT Publications

WELCOME

Welcome from the Head of Research & Innovation

Dr Willie Donnelly

Much has been written about the need to innovate the results of our research to generate new products and services. Many of the more traditional manufacturing industries are moving out of Ireland and we need to find new sustainable industries. Ireland is fortunate in that we have an abundance of natural resources in our land. In our lead article we discuss important research in Eco-innovation at the Institute which will form the basis for new sustainable industries based on renewable resources. WIT is providing a strong leadership role both in its scientific leadership and in developing the innovation platform which will support the development of Eco-Innovation industries in the South-East and beyond. Advanced manufacturing is still one of Ireland’s most important employers and the South-Eastern Applied Materials Centre (SEAM) is applying its knowledge of niche technologies and materials research across a wide range of industries.

In the article on SEAM we see that our work can have far reaching and unexpected impact. The articles on Innovation Vouchers awards and ‘’Bizcamps’’ for Enterpreneurs reflect the Institute’s commitment to provide support to all sectors of Irish industry.

Head of Research & Innovation

Our strategic plan recognizes the important role of the Institute in the cultural and social development of the region. In this edition we highlight some of the important work of the Institute within the South-East community.

We highlight our community based research work in School of Health Sciences in areas such as women’s fitness and drug use in Ireland. Stress in the workplace and its potential for longer term impact on staff and the services they provide is an area of concern and particularly in the provision of community services such as mental health and intellectual disability support.

We describe an important initiative called ROSE which provides an on-line stress management programme for people working in these sectors. The WIT School of Education has a long track record of delivering quality education services to the community. In this issue we highlight some of the important work of the School including its workplace literacy programme and its work with the Waterford Women’s Centre.

Finally the Institute is committed to the continued professional development of its staff in order to meet the needs of a rapidly changing educational environment.

Research plays an important role in ensuring that our staff are at the forefront of their discipline areas. We highlight some of the awards for excellence in research received by our staff over the last year. In particular we congratulate Dr Susan Whelan (School of Business), Dr Sasi Balusabramaniam, Dr Stephen Davy and Dr Alan Davy (TSSG) recipients of prestigious National and European awards.

Dr Willie Donnelly Head of Research & Innovation

Ms Philomena Carton

Mr David Kane

Dr Orla O’Donovan

(Research Support Unit)

(WIT Luke Wadding Library)

(School of Science)

Dr Sinead Conneely

Ms Kathryn Kiely

Mr Kieran Sullivan

(School of Humanities)

(Industry Services Manager)

(TSSG)

Ms Rita Dalton

Mr Mohamed Medjaou

Dr John Wells

(Research Support Unit)

(School of Engineering)

(School of Health Sciences)

Dr Willie Donnelly

Ms Geraldine Mernagh

Dr Susan Whelan

(Head of Research)

(School of Education)

(School of Business)

Edited by Dr Jenny O’Connor (School of Humanities)

Editorial Board

Welcome to the latest edition of Research Matters from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).

In these difficult economic times higher education and research in particular have an important role to play in the economic regeneration of our society.

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GREENER PRODUCTS AND CLEANER PROCESSES

Dried seaweed used for analysis in the SEAFEED project

The focus is on the development of highvalue-added products and processes from natural resources

The Eco-Innovation Research Centre (EIRC) at WIT brings together a team of interdisciplinary scientists to drive innovative research and help partners develop ‘greener’ products and processes.

Sustainability is one of the most pressing problems of our times. But fortunately solutions lie within our reach. ‘’Clearly, Eco-Innovation offers not just the key to overcome the world’s sustainability challenges, but also a sizeable business opportunity,’’ says Dr Peter McLoughlin, EIRC at WIT. ‘’Research activities here focus on the development of high-value-added products and processes from natural resources and low-environmental-impact processing and growth methods. Our work is aligned with areas identified in national policy as being strategically important to Ireland; namely food, agriculture, forestry, the marine sector and ‘green’ chemistry for pharmaceutical synthesis.’’

The Centre is resourced with 18 full-time faculty members, supported by 20 postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers. The EIRC is involved in significant research with external partners.

These include collaborations as far afield as Sir Wilfred Grenfell College & Bonne Bay Marine Station at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada on metal bio-monitoring studies, and work with the University of Aarhus, Denmark, on the development of a real-time assays to distinguish the scats of pine martins from those of stone martins. Recently in conjuction with the University of Bangor, Wales, the Centre has secured funding to investigate Green Innovation & Future Technologies.

In the public sector, the EIRC works with Teagasc, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Coillte and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as well as various other semi-state and non-profit centres in Ireland and the UK. Significantly, the Centre also helps companies develop novel eco-innovation products and processes. Examples of current industry-related collaborations include the development of commercial DNA testing for species identification with Swift Ecology Ltd in the UK and the development of a wood fuel quality assurance scheme with the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) and the SEAI.

As happy as a pig in seaweed SEAFEED, a project focused on evaluating seaweed as a source of bioactive compounds, illustrates the interdisciplinary nature of such research. The feed element of this project relates to developing novel additives for pig feed, with the driver being an EU ban on growth-promoting antibiotics in animal feed, which came into force in 2006.

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SCIENCE ‘‘In Denmark, when a similar ban was implemented several years previously, there had been a deterioration in the growth performance of pigs’’, explains Principal Investigator Dr Gillian Gardiner. ‘‘So one goal of the SEAFEED project is to develop an alternative to antibiotics to maintain growth performance and health. A second objective is to target Salmonella. In Europe, pigs and poultry are the main carriers of this pathogen.’’

As Dr Gardiner explains, ‘‘We are familiar with the concept of a battle between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria in the human gut. Studies have indicated that a similar mechanism may be at play in the marine environment, whereby the surface of seaweed is colonised by bacteria, which effectively act as gatekeepers, preventing other antimicrobial-producing bacteria coming onboard.‘‘ ‘’At the moment, we are isolating antimicrobial-producing bacteria from the surface of the seaweed,’’ Dr Gardiner explains. ‘’It looks very promising, we definitely have identified some bacteria that look like they are inhibiting pathogens.’’

The next step will use modelling studies to assess whether these bacteria can survive within the gut. The most promising feed additive candidates will then move on to animal studies conducted by Dr Peadar Lawlor at the Pig Development Department at Teagasc, Moorepark.

A second strand of the project is looking for chemicals with antibacterial properties within the seaweed plant itself. ‘’We have now identified a number of extracts that are showing promising results,’’ explains Dr Laurie O’Sullivan, SEAFEED’s Post-Doctoral Researcher. ‘’One extract in particular is showing extremely potent activity against MRSA’’.

This activity, even when the extract is present in very minute quantities, is what makes EIRC’s findings somewhat unique. ‘’The fractions we have are generated from a very dilute extract, whereas, in literature, people tend to extract kilograms of biomass with litres of solvent. What we are doing now is working at isolating the compound responsible from that extract. We think that it may have potential biomedical applications, for example, in wound dressings.’’

Other projects Other projects currently underway at EIRC include the development of novel, environmentally benign bio-herbicide agents for the control of indigenous and exotic invasive weeds. Moreover, EIRC’s sustainable forestry team are working on the development of a wood fuel supply chain, as well as issues related to the management and disposal of the waste ash generated.

The group is also involved in the development of new solid biomass fuels and the establishment of related CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) standards. Meanwhile, the agri-food team is carrying out research to investigate the reduction of harmful bacteria during composting of manure and Salmonella removal from agricultural wastewater treated in constructed wetlands. Moreover, research is underway to address the soaring cost of synthetic agricultural fertilisers, with a biological alternative combining the Rhizobia bacteria in a symbiotic association with white-clover to fix nitrogen.

The result could be a solution that’s not just lower in cost, but, as with all of the projects underway at EIRC, also more benign in its environmental impact.

SEAFEED Research Group L to R - Dr Peter McLoughlin; Ms Mari Luz Prieto; Dr Laurie O’Sullivan; Dr Gillian Gardiner, Principal Investigator of the SEAFEED project; Ms Graece Shiau Pin Tan; Dr Helen Hughes; Dr Patrick Duggan; Dr Peadar Lawlor ‘Pig Development Department, Teagasc, Moorepark (absent)

Research Capabilities at EIRC Eco-innovation at WIT is built on a collaborative approach, supported across a variety of science disciplines, including: • Molecular ecology - in areas such as the development of DNA identification techniques for mammals • Marine science - including bioremediation of toxic heavy metal species using seaweed biomass; environmental bio-monitoring and the isolation of bioactive compounds from sustainable marine sources • Agri-food research - in areas such as exploitation of novel bioactives for human and animal health applications, development of clover-based grassland systems, postmarket monitoring of Genetically Modified (GM) food and feed, biosafety of agricultural waste disposal and food pathogens.

• Sustainable forestry research - including the development of novel bio-fuels and the exploration of related supply cycle and waste management issues, vegetation and invasive species management.

• Printable energy harvesting technologies - such as the exploitation of polymers and small organic molecules for the photovoltaic harvesting of energy and the application of this technology to power relocatable wireless environmental sensor technologies.

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WIT RESEARCHERS WORK ON DRUG DELIVERY ACROSS THE SKIN Dr June Frisby, HIPODERM Project Coordinator, loads a sample onto the lyophiliser in the PMBRC

A consortium led by the Pharmaceutical and Molecular Biotechnology Research Centre (PMBRC) has been awarded substantial funding to help develop technologies for delivering drugs across the skin.

The project, called HIPODERM (HIgh POtency DERMatologicals), will focus on highly potent drugs and will include Waterford-based EirGen Pharma Ltd., Cardiff University and An-eX Analytical Services Ltd., also based in Cardiff. The PMBRC at WIT is one of 13 centres nationwide funded by the Enterprise Ireland Applied Research Enhancement scheme. It aims to support research and development activities in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry in the South East of Ireland and has established significant collaborations with indigenous and multinational companies, such as Genzyme, Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Pinewood Healthcare, since its inception in 2008.

The HIPODERM project is based around the smart delivery of drugs directly to the target across the skin

The HIPODERM project is based around the smart delivery of drugs. Currently, many drugs are taken orally or injected directly into the bloodstream where they travel around the body. This is very inefficient as most of the drug taken does not reach the target organ that you wish to treat. In addition, many of the drugs used today are highly toxic and their delivery around the body can result in debilitating side effects. Administering the drugs directly to the target across the skin, for example in skin cancer treatment, can help maximise the therapeutic effect and minimise the unpleasant side effects. Delivering drugs across the skin is not easy however, as the skin has evolved to keep things out, not let things in. Only a handful of drugs, such as nicotine, have the combination of chemical properties that allow them to pass through unaided. This project is aimed at overcoming some of the challenges associated with getting therapeutic agents to pass through the skin layers.

The drugs to be evaluated in the project will be highly potent. High potency drugs are those which require only a tiny amount, often less than the weight of a grain of

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sugar, to have a therapeutic effect. However, exposure to large quantities of these drugs can be highly toxic or even fatal and thus require specialist facilities to handle them.

Approximately 25% of drugs in development worldwide are classified as high potency and this percentage is expected to grow. EirGen Pharma Ltd. is ideally placed to capitalise on that growth, having invested heavily in its high-potency plant in Waterford. EirGen has also been very successful in the past year with the approval of a number of high-potency formulations with international regulatory agencies. The HIPODERM project builds upon the existing relationship between the PMBRC and EirGen which has proven very successful in the past.

The project will require WIT and EirGen researchers to exchange with those from Cardiff University and AneX Analytical Services in a European Union funded scheme known as the Marie Curie Industry Academia Partnership and Pathways programme. Between them, the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University and An-eX have over 40 years research experience in the dermal delivery of drugs, making them ideal partners for the Waterford teams. The funding will enable the recruitment of five research scientists in Waterford and Cardiff over a four year period. The long-term benefits are more significant however, with plans to commercialise the results of the research in the form of patents and licensing. The HIPODERM project is a major milestone in the development of the PMBRC and builds upon existing research in drug delivery in the Centre.

Ultimately though, the focus is on the potential benefit to the patient. Mr Gordon Watson, a retired consultant surgeon and former South East Regional Director of Cancer Services who is advising the consortium, is particularly enthusiastic: ‘’There are conditions which are very persistent and we struggle to treat them effectively with existing therapies.

While the results are some way off, I am very excited by this project. I think it can make a real difference’’.

For more information contact: Dr Niall O’Reilly Email: noreilly@wit.ie Web: www.pmbrc.org

SCIENCE

Making Numbers Count At WIT, integer sequences are being actively researched, with applications to a diverse range of areas including wireless communications, elliptic curve cryptography, and special dynamical systems in physics. Numbers, and in particular integer (or whole) numbers, are amongst the most basic objects that we use to describe the world we live in. Very often they are used to count things, such as the number of objects of a certain type, or the number of ways that we can carry out a task. These humble mathematical objects sometimes appear in the form of lists of numbers, when they are given the technical term of ‘’integer sequence’’.

A famous example is that of the Fibonacci numbers, known to readers of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, for example. This sequence has been used in many areas, from the analysis of financial market trends to the aesthetics of photography. The main researchers are Dr Paul Barry, Head of School of Science, and PhD student, Aoife Hennessy. Dr Paul O’Leary and Dr P.J. Cregg of the School of Engineering also play a supportive role. Aoife commenced her studies on a Strand I funded project, ‘’A study of algebraic structures in matrices related to the theory and applications of random matrix theory’’, before transferring to the PhD register. The main international partners are mathematicians in Niš, Serbia. Output to date has consisted of over 16 journal articles and two book chapters, as well as numerous contributions to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

A significant role in these studies is played by the so-called Riordan array, which is a triangular arrangement of integers obeying certain algebraic relations. The set of such integer arrays has the structure of a mathematical group, which makes them easy to work with. Riordan arrays can be used to transform an integer sequence into another, possibly more basic sequence, about which more is known. In this manner, they can often shed light on the nature of sequences that have been newly discovered. This group is named after John Riordan, an Irish American mathematician who helped to lay the foundations for the modern theory of combinatorics, which is the area of mathematics that concerns itself with such things as the enumeration, combination and permutation of mathematical entitities (much used in the television series NUMB3RS, for instance). Interestingly, John Riordan was amongst the early staff members of the famous Bell Labs, where today is maintained the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (http:// research.att.com/njas/sequences/), one of the foremost tools used by researchers in this area. An example of a Riordan array which will be familiar, for instance to Leaving Certificate students, is Pascal’s triangle (Figure 1).

One area of application that has emerged from work at WIT is to ‘‘MIMO’’, that is, Multiple-Input and MultipleOutput wireless communication, where multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver are used to improve communication performance (essentially by providing multiple paths of transmission). The

mathematical analysis of such systems provides a fruitful ground for the application of techniques coming from Riordan arrays, particularly in the analysis of the capacity of the communication channels.

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Another area of application is to certain dynamical systems in physics, where it is important to describe how a system changes over time. Work at WIT has applied Riordan array techniques to the study of the so-called Toda chain equations. The Toda lattice is a simple model for a nonlinear one-dimensional crystal that describes the motion of a chain of particles with nearest neighbour interactions. It is important because it is an example of what physicists call an integrable system, and thus this work provides further insight into such systems.

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Figure 1: Pascal’s Triangle

Elliptic curve cryptography, or the use of mathematical techniques from algebraic geometry to make data communications more secure, is another area of interest in the study of integer sequences at WIT. Most cryptographic systems are based on operations that are easy to carry out in one direction, but then are hard to undo without the right ‘’key’’. Elliptic curve cryptography, which was first mooted in the 1980’s, provides an economical method of securing data transmission. A basic operation on an integer sequence is to calculate its Hankel transform. This is easy to describe, but since many sequences may have the same Hankel transform, to undo one meaningfully becomes problematic (which is desirable in this context). It so happens that a key operation in elliptic curves theory is such a Hankel transform. This identification is opening up new avenues of research into methods of securing data communcations. It also clarifies links between elliptic curves, the Hankel transform, and special sequences, called Somos sequences, that obey a particular nonlinear recurrence.

In addition, WIT has also been able to apply Riordan array theory to the related field of error correcting codes. These codes are used for the reliable transmission of information, notably in mobile and satellite communication. Further applications to areas of combinatorics such as permutations and graphs have been reported on, as well as to such diverse areas as secondary RNA structures in molecular biology, and their generalizations.

For more information contact: Dr Paul Barry Email: pbarry@wit.ie

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Keeping Women Active After Mass Events In Ireland, approximately 16% of adult females (in comparison to 32% of their male counterparts) participate in sufficient physical activity for health benefits. This is particularly worrying considering physical activity has recently been identified as one of the top six risk factors for ill health by the World Health Organisation.

However, given its wide appeal and ability to motivate women to be active in a low intensity, non competitive and fun environment, the Women’s Mini Marathon and other such mass community participation events may present one viable opportunity to stimulate increased activity levels. What is not known, however, is whether people who take part in such an event do so as a ‘onceoff’, or whether the event can be a trigger to longer term, sustained physical activity habits.

In order to understand the profile of those taking part in the 2007 Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin, research was undertaken by Dr Aoife Lane and Dr Niamh Murphy of the Centre for Health Behaviour Research at WIT, in conjunction with Professor Adrian Bauman of the University of Sydney. This research was supported by the Irish Sports Council and its aim was to track participants’ post-event activity. An additional objective was to assess the effect of an initiative which was undertaken specifically to boost activity amongst women who became inactive after the event.

Subsequent results revealed that participants in the Mini Marathon reported higher levels of third level education than the general Irish adult female population. Almost two thirds indicated that they participated in the event on an annual basis, with approximately 70% taking part in order to raise money for charity. Furthermore, 90% of women trained prior to the event, but over half intended to primarily walk the 10km route.

Overall, approximately 70% of participants, while undertaking some activity, did not meet the weekly minimum requirements for physical activity (150 minutes of at least moderate intensity activity per week). This suggests that the Mini Marathon encourages women who may not be habitual exercisers to be at least somewhat active prior to as well as on the day of the event. Indeed, it may be that events like the Mini Marathon, if held locally, have the potential to capture the interest of the community, motivate physical activity and, if held regularly, encourage participants to return.

A ‘placebo treatment’ was delivered to the control group who were mailed a healthy eating and nutrition booklet developed by the Irish Heart Foundation. At follow-up six weeks later, participants in both groups reported notable increases in physical activity.

Since the control group materials were nutritional, it should not have influenced physical activity directly, but may have catalysed women into thinking generally about health; physical activity was then indirectly cued.

The observed increase in physical activity, which was most apparent among the least active, is a positive outcome, irrespective of the reason why, and suggests that minimal contact may be sufficient in instigating improvements in physical activity among this previously active sub group.

This finding is particularly important for event organisers and others responsible for promoting physical activity. It suggests that it is important to build on the initial impact of once-off events and other efforts to promote sustained engagement in physical activity. It also appears from this research that short-term involvement in events, which is most often motivated by altruistic, social or personal reasons, can be translated into long-term behaviour change. Thus, these motives, rather than health or fitness related factors, may better serve to promote physical activity among the least active members of the population. There have been many positive and practical outcomes of this research including the development of a web portal to provide information about how to be active as well as interaction with the national network of Local Sports Partnerships to assist them in their efforts to promote physical activity. Dr Niamh Murphy and the Centre for Health Behaviour Research are also to the forefront of developments on a national level; specifically in the production of physical activity guidelines for Ireland and a national physical activity plan.

It is important to build on the initial impact of onceoff events and other efforts to promote sustained engagement in physical activity

Of particular interest in this research was the identification of women who, despite being sufficiently active at the time of the event, regressed to insufficient levels of activity in the months after the event. Over 400 women fulfilled this criteria and were invited to participate in a minimal contact trial to stimulate renewed engagement in physical activity. Women in the intervention group received a print booklet tailored to their individual motivation to change, which contained tips and strategies on how to become more active.

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For more information contact: Dr Aoife Lane Email: alane@wit.ie

HEALTH SCIENCES

PLANTFOOD FOR THOUGHT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MEPHEDRONE USE IN IRELAND

Mephedrone user choices centralised on availability, competitive pricing, and general lack of quality street drugs at that time

The club drug ‘mephedrone’ (a synthetic cathinone derivative) has been recognised in the European Monitoring Council for Drugs and Drug Abuse early warning system since 2008 (EMCDDA, 2010) and is currently under legislative control in Ireland. Research on this drug remains scant, and primarily UK based.

However, colloborative research between WIT and Athlone IT has recently sought to examine the prevalence of this phenomenon in Ireland.

Exploratory research was conducted by Dr Marie Claire Van Hout of WIT and Rebekah Brennan (Athlone Institute of Technology) and aimed to present a ‘drug consumptive snapshot’ of this emerging drug in the Irish drug scene, with specific focus on user experiences, social contexts for use and risk perceptions. Twenty two in-depth interviews were undertaken with young Irish people aged 18 to 35 years, who had used mephedrone in the six months prior to fieldwork.

The resulting narratives were analysed in order to discover unique mephedrone user decisionmaking processes, distinct mephedrone drug effects, social settings for use and user strategies to self-medicate based on prior illicit drug taking careers. The research supports UKbased findings which suggested the presence of drug displacement patterns (i.e switching from illegal to legal), with Irish mephedrone user choices centralised on availability, competitive pricing, and general lack of quality street drugs at that time. However, the study findings are small scale and therefore not generalisable, and recognise that mephedrone user trajectories and processes of use are likely to be varied and dynamic.

The potential for problematic mephedrone use relies on prior and problematic drug taking patterns.

Policy makers are dealing with widespread internet availability, rapid metamorphoses and the re-branding of such synthetic cathinone derivatives circumventing legislative control. The solitary focus on criminalisation of mephedrone and indeed other synthetic cathinone derivatives inherently neglects to consider user mephedrone experiences, which remain hidden within weekend socialising. Given that this drug has only recently been placed under legislative control in Ireland, and with the emergence of new substitute cathinones on the drug scene, it points to a potent need for drug educational efforts to provide timely information, build on mephedrone user movements, and create drug using strategies designed to reduce harm and negative experiences.

Follow up interviews were carried out in autumn 2010 to further explore postlegislative drug taking profiles, patterns and settings, potential street diversification of mephedrone, and the rebranding and creation of new designer M-Cat drugs in the Irish drug market. The outcomes of these interviews are currently being drafted for review in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review.

For more information contact: Dr Marie Claire van Hout Email: mcvanhout@wit.ie

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Launch of the ROSE Online Stress Management Programme The ROSE (Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment) online occupational stress management programme, an EU-wide initiative led by the Department of Nursing in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) aims to reduce stress and burnout amongst those working in the mental health and intellectual disability support sector. Employees in this sector experience significant stress, emotional exhaustion and burnout. As this can lead to experienced staff leaving their jobs, it impacts greatly on the support available to those with mental health problems and intellectual disabilities.

This is particularly significant during a time of great stress in society due to the economic downturn. The UK’s Health and Safety Executive reported recently that improvements in work related stress have come to a halt recently, partially due to increased employment insecurity.

It is anticipated that the provision of this online stress management programme will help to improve staff retention rates by helping managers, trainers and support workers to deal with factors causing stress in the workplace and their personal lives, to help improve their wellbeing and help them become more efficient in the workplace.

The official launch of the ROSE online programme took place in the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin in October 2010 at a one-day conference on occupational stress and employee well being.

Opened by the Minister for Equality, Disability and Mental Health, Mr John Maloney, the conference was addressed by a range of experts including Mr Brian Cody, Manager of Kilkenny hurling team; Professor Emeritus Dr Ivor Browne of UCD; Professor Trudie Chalder of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Dr Fergus Heffernan, RD Consult, Kilkenny.

Dr John Wells Head of the Department of Nursing at WIT’s School of Health Sciences co-ordinated the ROSE project, which is targeting 8,000 services and organisations across the EU. More than 1 in 4 workers are affected by stress in the European Union and studies suggest that between 50% and 60% of lost working days are related to this. This year, the biggest workplace health and safety survey in Europe showed that 79% of European managers are concerned by work-related stress, but less than a third of organisations have setup procedures to deal with it.

The survey suggested it is difficult for managers to deal with due to sensitivities and lack of awareness. The survey showed that work related stress is particularly acute in the health and social work sector with 91% of organisations surveyed regarding it as of some or major concern.

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Emeritus Professor Ivor Browne, UCD; Professor Trudi Chalder, King’s College London; Minister John Maloney, TD; Dr John Wells, WIT; Mr Brian Cody, Manager of Kilkenny Hurling Team

In his opening address Minister Maloney said that the theme of the conference and ROSE launch was timely in the context of the present economic climate.

Mr Brian Cody, using his experience of managing the Kilkenny hurling team, emphasised the importance of empowerment and promoting trust and respect to improve performance and deal with stress.

Professor Emeritus Dr Ivor Browne of UCD spoke about healthcare professionals empowering patients and assisting them to take control over their lives. Dr Fergus Heffernan spoke about practical ways for people to understand and manage stress.

Speaking about high rates of occupational stress in the medical profession, Professor Trudie Chalder said that a key problem for doctors was the emphasis placed on high achievement combined with high caseloads. She believes it is a significant factor in psychological and physical ill health in this group.

Dr Margaret Denny and Ms Jennifer Cunningham (Department of Nursing, WIT) spoke about the types of work related stress management interventions that can be found on ROSE online. Ms Mary Ridge (Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London) described the interventions available through the online programme to assist people to manage their individual stress.

Led by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) this project received €300,000 funding from the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci life-long learning initiative. WIT developed the programme in conjunction with the Department of Psychological Medicine of King’s College London. Other partners include European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD), RD Consult (Ireland), Scuola Viva (Italy), Pro Mente Steiermark (Austria), Fundatia Alpha Transilvana (Romania), the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies (IRL) and HF Trust (UK).

The research team at WIT includes Dr John Wells, Project Coordinator (Head of the Department of Nursing in WIT); Dr Margaret Denny and Ms Jennifer Cunningham (Department of Nursing, WIT); Mr John Sheppard and Mr Ross Edwards (Department of Computing, Mathematics & Physics, WIT) and Ms Laura Widger (eLearning Support Unit).

ROSE is available free of charge at www.leonardorose.eu For more information contact: Ms Jenny Cunningham Email: jcunningham@wit.ie

BUSINESS

School of Business induct inaugural DBA students

The Department of Graduate Business launched a Professional Doctorate in August 2010 with the induction of the first cohort onto the DBA programme. The inaugural class is made up of senior executives and business owners from the public and private sectors in Ireland and abroad, and participants will combine workplace and professional engagement with the scholarly rigour of the academic institution over the coming four years. Students will undertake independent research at an advanced level and seek to make a significant contribution to knowledge and professional practice through the evaluation of business management structures, contexts and processes.

The DBA has been designed based on an innovative three-stage model. This incorporates professional and research workshops and a cumulative paper series coupled with independent research, which maintains a balance between peer-learning and self-led learning within the programme. Through the application of research to business problems and issues, the programme focuses on the skills required to contribute to the enrichment of trans-disciplinary professional practice in management, and to lead organisations facing a complex global business environment. This approach is in keeping with the best thinking in international Business Schools and by new ideas and practices emerging in leading programmes throughout the World. WIT School of Business has also worked closely with Henley Management College in the development of the DBA programme.

The programme commenced with a 2 day workshop in August led

by Drs Felicity Kelliher and Denis Harrington who also led a two-day residential workshop in early October 2010. Forthcoming workshops will be delivered by the WIT School of Business as well as through contributions from other management scholars in Europe and the US. It has the backing of key stakeholder groups in the region and interest from a wide range of business leaders. In support of the new programme initiative, Ronan O’Loughlin, Director of Education and Training, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland commented: ‘‘[The DBA] supports the national initiatives to build a truly learning economy in Ireland. We would hope that some of our experienced members would be attracted to the initiative’’.

For more information contact: Dr Felicity Kelliher (fkelliher@wit.ie) Dr Denis Harrington (dharrington@wit.ie) or Ms Jackie Murphy ( jmmurphy@wit.ie)

Research activity at the AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research

Pictured at the ‘Business in Ireland-Building for Success’- seminar hosted by the AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research are Dr Sheila O Donohoe, Mr Hugh Mansfield of AIB, Mr Sean Gallagher of Dragons Den, Mr Gerard O Neill, Chairman of Amarach Research, Ms Mai Walsh of AIB and Dr Denis Harrington

The recently established AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research (CFBR) builds on the strong tradition of accounting and finance in the School of Business.

Providing the milieu in which to extend the boundaries of knowledge, the Centre facilitates the interaction with practitioners and academic thinkers, stimulating intellectual dialogue so as to bridge that knowledge gap. Under the auspices of the Centre, four key research themes remain at the hub of the research agenda: a) small firm finance, b) governance and corporate responsibility, c) personal finance and d) behavioural finance and capital markets.

Extending its scope, the Centre is also involved in the organisation of workshops and seminars.

Recently, the Centre welcomed a number of academic and industry practitioners namely Professor John B Holland of University of Glasgow, Oliver Mc Clure, President of the Chartered Financial Analysts of Ireland, Professor Noel O Sullivan of University of Sheffield and Sean Gallagher, Entrepreneur and of Dragons Den; all of whom through their presentations afforded the opportunity to synthesise various theories with real practice.

Facilitating knowledge transfer, the AIB Centre for Finance and Business Research is also delighted to support two PhD scholarships. One of recipients is Andrea Mc Namara, whose research will investigate the role of country-specific characteristics within the capital structure determination of Irish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. The second scholarship recipient, Padraig Mc Carthy, will conduct a study that entails an examination of the impact of Irish insolvency and bankruptcy legislation on the people it directly affects, from entrepreneurs and insolvency practitioners to creditors.

For more information contact: Dr Sheila O Donohoe Email: sodonohoe@wit.ie Web: www.cfbr.ie

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SEAM PARTNERS WITH COMPANY INVOLVED IN CHILEAN MINE RESCUE Dr Ramesh Raghaendra & Dr Owen Clarkin analysing a 3D scan

Ever since its launch in early 2009, the SEAM (South Eastern Applied Materials) Research Centre, has been proactively engaged in assisting industries in the South Eastern region of Ireland and beyond.

SEAM, funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Applied Research Enhancement Programme, is providing technical and scientific support to industries on process and product development related issues utilising its niche technologies (X-ray microtomography, Finite Element Modelling & Microwave Processing) and materials research capabilities. SEAM is currently serving wide ranging sectors including medical devices, orthopaedics, pharmaceutical, precision engineering, electronics and construction and has forged strong collaborative links with several well established multinational and indigenous companies in Ireland.

Notable among the latest SEAM clients is Mincon, an indigenous Irish company, based in Shannon, Co. Clare. Mincon made headlines recently for their proud involvement in the 2010 Chilean miners’ rescue. Founded in 1977, Mincon produces state-of-the-art engineered rock drills and associated parts.

The company has grown in strength over the years through dedication to the highest design specifications and manufacturing methods and is now the world’s third largest manufacturer of drill heads for down-thehole percussive drilling operations. One of Mincon’s hammer and drill bits (MX5053) (Figure 1) was used to establish the initial life line to the thirty three miners trapped 2,300 feet below ground in the San José gold and copper mine outside Copiapo, Chile.

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Over the last four years Mincon has undertaken a million euro design project to develop superior drill heads (Figure 2) for the drilling of geothermal heating wells in countries like Sweden. This is an extremely challenging drilling environment and sometimes, the failure of the drill head occurs through a combination of operator inexperience and flaws in the drill head generated by the manufacturing process such as residual stresses. This failure is known as ‘’chunking’’ and is characterised by having a large piece of the metallic head complete with tungsten carbide insert detached from the drill-head. This is a serious problem for drillers as it can result in the complete destruction of the drill head or possibly the drill hole and also the time penalty of having to recover the tool and replace the drill-head.

Mincon was interested in minimising these kinds of failures in service so as to provide them with a strong competitive edge in the drilling industry.

SEAM’s Finite Element Modelling (FEM) and metallurgical research capability enabled the group to establish links with Mincon.

After understanding the company’s needs, SEAM submitted an Innovation Partnership proposal to Enterprise Ireland and was successful. The project, which is of 18 months duration, aims to understand the drill head fracture mechanisms and to develop a design optimised drill head for down-the hole drilling operations. The project work officially commenced in September 2010 and is making progress in solving this problem. SEAM takes pride in working with visionary indigenous companies like Mincon and endeavours to ensure that the project outcome will enable Mincon to have a greater understanding of the science behind drill head failures and the solutions to remedy the same.

Figure 1: Mincon’s MX5053 hammer and drill bit used in Chilean Miner rescue

Figure 2: Typical Mincon 115 mm drill head

For more information contact: Dr Ramesh Raghavendra Email: rraghavendra@wit.ie

ENGINEERING

An Historical-Ecological Investigation of the Goldthornwedge, Wolverhampton The Goldthorn Wedge is the last remaining section of green belt to the West of Wolverhampton. Due to its split jurisdiction between three local authorities there have been a number of conflicts between users, owners and those wishing to conserve and protect the area. Research

by Dr Jane Russell-O’Connor of WIT was developed and and funded by Wolverhampton City Council to provide the evidence to enable a greater level of protection to the Wedge.

An interdisciplinary approach was used whereby the nature conservation of the wedge was defined and placed in an historical context and the role of history in bringing about the ecological value of the Wedge was evaluated.

The main body of the research involved extensive ecological evaluations and historical surveys. The ecological surveys involved an evaluation of the ecology of the Wedge as a whole in terms of nature conservation and a thorough a detailed field investigation of the vegetation in the habitats of designated conservation value.

The historical surveys concentrated on map evidence, and principally 1840s tithe maps which were drawn to show who farmed particular areas in order to determine the tithes or taxes that should be paid to the church or the Lord of the Manor. The detailed and written documents that were produced alongside them enabled an analysis of field names and field shapes that provided evidence of former land use, earlier than that stated in the 1840s tithe documents. This evidence was supported by hedgerow dating and the investigation of medieval historical records such as the Court Rolls, Pleas of the Forest and Anglo Saxon Charters.

Figure 1. The Medieval land use of the Wedge

The findings of the research as indicated in Figures 1 and 2 show that there is a significant amount of historical information available for the Wedge which is of value in nature conservation designation. What is also clear is that there are particular areas which, because of their current ecology, should be awarded a greater level of importance for nature conservation than they are currently.

Although some of the individual sites within the Wedge do have a designation, it has now been established that there are enough important elements throughout the whole Wedge to sanction a higher level designation

than its current ‘’Green Space’’ in the Black Country Nature Conservation Strategy . The combined approach of two disciplines has enabled a greater understanding of how the present day countryside of the Wedge has arisen. There is evidence in the landscape of the ‘ancient countryside’ as described by Rackham (1995): districts whose fields, woods and hedgerows date in the main from before the 1700s and have not arisen in large planned blocks of farmland through Parliamentary acts. Instead they have arisen from piecemeal enclosure through the local Courts held by the Lord of the Manor. The landscape of the Wedge is an evolved one and the different time periods that have been investigated demonstrate that there have been differing patterns of woodland, forest, arable fields and pasture fields, as the demands of the population living in and around the Wedge have changed. Some of this evidence remains visible in the landscape whereby hedgerows follow ancient boundaries such as those of a former deer park, woodlands retain bank and ditch systems indicative of those used in the Medieval period and open grassland has retained rights of the common. The diversity of vegetation to be found in these sites and areas indicate a much older landscape that has developed in a more natural way.

Figure 2. Composite time map of boundaries from 1840s tithe maps, Sedgley Parke (Deer Park) (Bowen, 1733), Penn Wood (Common) (Adams, 1797) and Anglo Saxon boundaries (Hooke, 1982)

This research was a new approach to landscape evaluation; had individual evaluations been carried out independently of each other then the research would not have been able to provide such detailed information and conclusive evidence about the age of various features and their past management practices within the Wedge.

Although the research methods have been used to identify features of importance for nature conservation value in the specified area of the Goldthorn Wedge, it is now possible to apply these approaches to other areas of Britain and Ireland. The research also allows some further debate on the relationship between the historical and ecological disciplines, how this affects the nature conservation status of an area of countryside, and the extent to which the ecologist should become a historian and the historian an ecologist.

The research, now completed, is in the process of being used to provide the Goldthorn Wedge with a higher level conservation designation and further research using some of the methodologies developed is currently being pursued in an Irish context.

For more information contact: Dr Jane Russell-O’Connor Email: jrussell-oconnor@wit.ie

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OUTDOOR GPS GUIDED ROBOT The Flexible Wireless research group was established at WIT in 2002 under the leadership of Dr Paul O’Leary. Research carried out has included wireless propagation analysis and applied research for innovation in modulation, coding and related embedded processing. Recent advancements in the electronic system on-chip (SoC) area, which combined Radio Frequency (RF) capability onto the SoCs, are also being exploited. This permits extensive research in wireless sensing and control.

Researchers in the group have worked on centimeteraccurate positioning over the past two years

Researchers in the group have worked on centimeter-accurate positioning over the past two years, together with a local company, Proserve Solutions, and a French company, Ashtech, an international leader in this area. The work will lead to a prototype autonomous robot for outdoor use.

Currently there are several methods used for robotic guidance, e.g. image recognition, sensors and boundary detection. These methods are based on the same underlying principle in that they allow the robot to move until it either approaches or directly and randomly contacts a boundary, resulting in energy waste. However, these techniques do Figure 1: Using satellites and the principles of trilateration, a receiver’s not provide high levels of positional accuracy. position can be determined as the intersection point of three circles The Global Positioning System (GPS) is popular in car navigation, where position accuracy of about 10 metres is sufficient. GPS can provide significantly better accuracy, for example with the selected Ashtech MB500, where accuracies of about 1 cm are possible.

GPS navigation uses a constellation of satellites and ground stations. In simple terms, by using three or more satellites and applying the principles of trilateration, a receiver’s position can be determined as the intersection point of three circles (Figure 1). Ambiguities in the distance calculations, however, mean that the circles do not coincide exactly at a single point, but actually describe a small, bound area (in red), somewhere within which lies the GPS receiver.

Increasing the number of satellites used and employing various techniques would then decrease the size of the bound area. The circles here are a simple two-dimensional representation, whereas in fact spheres would be the more correct representation, albeit more difficult to visualise.

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ENGINEERING

Providing Error Correction with an Additional Receiver Accuracy improvements are available by using Differential GPS (DGPS) or Real Time Kinematic GPS (RTK), both of which overcome errors in timing and consequently lead to increased positional accuracy. DGPS uses an additional earth-based receiver at a fixed, known, nearby location. Given that its position is known this stationary receiver is used to estimate the timing errors and then relay correction information to nearby roving GPS receivers via a wireless link.

RTK GPS yields the greatest degree of accuracy by synchronising with the high frequency carrier of the GPS signal, as opposed to the significantly lower repeat frequency of the GPS code itself.

What this means is that, by synchronising to a much higher frequency, the receiver has a much more precise time value to calculate its distance from the satellite.

Figure 2: Ultra High Frequency (UHF) wireless transceiver

In general the receivers are able to align the signals to approximately 1% of one bit-width. The Coarse Acquisition (CA) code (which is easier to acquire, but is less accurate than the Precision Code (PC), initially intended exclusively for military use) sent on the GPS system transmits a bit every 0.98 microseconds, corresponding to an accuracy of approximately 3m. RTK synchronisation with the 1575.42 MHz carrier (which carries the CA code), however, corresponds to an accuracy of approximately 19 cm. This 19cm can be further improved to 1cm by corrections, using an Ultra High Frequency (UHF) wireless transceiver (Figure 2), from the other GPS receiver at the known location, thereby using DGPS to improve the RTK figure.

The following data (Figure 3) is typical of the data streamed up to 20 times per second from the MB500, with the positional data in the red loop indicating the latitude and longitude position of a test site in Waterford. The position is expressed in DECIMAL DEGREES.

Precise motion control Armed with the accurate current position, robust motion control is then required in order to direct the robot.

Software has been developed to address this and includes the definition of the confined area, the Point in Polygon algorithm, to verify the robot is within the pre-defined boundary and algorithms to calculate both the bearing and the distance between two points.

Implementation with PSOC with ARM The research group has worked with the Cypress Semiconductor Programmable SoC (PSoC) on previous projects. The new PSoC 5 was considered for the role as the primary robot signal processor, due in part to the inclusion in this model of improved computing ability with an ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit processor (a sophisticated microprocessor analogous to the processors found in PCs). In addition to the ARM core the PSoC also includes: Pulse-width Modulation (PWM) to control robot speed; dedicated communication interfaces like I2C (a computer bus used to facilitate communication between separate components which reside on the same circuit board.); full-speed USB 2.0; CAN 2.0 (a controller used to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate within a vehicle); configurable analogue and digital blocks to enhance information from the various required safety sensors; automotive components; and an in-built accelerometer which can be used to signal that the robot has tipped over.

This PSoC device has already proven successful in many diverse areas, including the TiVo digital video recorder and the iPod, where it controls the touch screen.

Such a high degree of accuracy, however, comes at a premium. The MB500 board used for evaluating positioning capability costs approximately 50 times more than a standard car-based Sat Nav GPS and since two boards are required to achieve centimeter precision, the overall cost is far greater still.

In conclusion, this premium confines accuracy to high-end devices but in those instances where accuracy is essential, this technology makes it realisable.

For more information contact: Dr Paul O’Leary Email: poleary@wit.ie

Figure 3: Typical data streamed from the MB500 indicating a test position in Waterford

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FILM AND FILM CULTURE, VOLUME 5: FRONTIERS AND FUTURES IN FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA

The fifth volume of Film and Film Culture was recently published by the Institute. It is clear that the film industry, and indeed film studies, is currently in a phase of transformation. The boundaries of what is considered ‘‘film’’ are being broken down by new technologies, as new media-video games now exploit many of the techniques traditionally associated with film-making, and present an interactive experience that is the envy of the film community. At the same time, new technology-or rediscovered technology, like 3D- has allowed the cinema to reinvent itself in many interesting ways.

The journal considers these themes, and others, in articles that will be of particular interest to scholars of computing, technology, engineering, design and art as well as of film. Amongst the articles in the fifth volume are essays on Jim Jarmusch and Michelangelo Antonioni, on Latin-American and Italian Futurist cinema, and on film adaptations of comic books.

It has been the only journal of film studies on the island of Ireland

The journal is co-edited by Dr Richard Hayes of WIT, Dr Harvey O’Brien of UCD and Dr Niamh Thornton of the University of Ulster. It has been the only journal of film studies on the island of Ireland and represents an exciting example of interdisciplinary studies and interinstitutional co-operation. This issue of the journal was supported by the Research Support Unit and the School of Humanities.

For more information contact: Dr Richard Hayes Email: rhayes@wit.ie

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WIT Libraries - Where Research Really Matters The role of the library as a gatekeeper and facilitator in the housing, accessing and disseminating of research is long recognised. At WIT Libraries, this role has been expanded to include research by library staff, resulting in a burgeoning research profile and culture.

The library has hosted lecture series, such as the annual Luke Wadding Lunchtime Lecture Series and National Heritage Week, as well as a national conference - the IoT Innovative Systems Librarians Conference (2005). Many library staff have been involved in a wide range of cross-disciplinary, collaborative projects and initiatives including NAIRTL, Newfoundland, Creative Approaches to Intercultural Competence (CAIC), Library Association of Ireland and the NDLR. The Institutional Repository, one of the first in Ireland, launched in 2007 and maintained by the library, is now established as one of the main mechanisms for measuring the academic output of the Institute.

Since 2004, the library has established a strong record of publications in international, practitioner and peer reviewed journals in the Library & Information Sciences (LIS) and wider educational fields. These include papers published in established peer review journals from the Emerald stable such as Library Review, New Library World, Library Management, Library Hi-Tech, Reference Reviews as well as papers in the Journal of Information Literacy and SCONUL Focus, a UK-based international library journal for practitioners. Library staff have written and presented on a diverse range of subjects from marketing, special collections, surveys work-life balance to data protection, pedagogy and technology. WIT Libraries has a particularly strong reputation in the research area of library learning support and ‘’information literacy’’, with extensive publications from the development of one of Ireland’s first online information literacy tutorials OLAS (2003), to more recent work on pedagogy, problem based learning (PBL), international students, and the library nursing programme (2010).

Library staff have also presented posters and papers at national and international seminars and conferences including LILAC (2010), the international library conference on information literacy, Internet Librarian (2010), Innovative Users European and Irish Joint Conference (2009) Academic & Special Librarians annual conference (2008) and at the Academic & Special Librarians annual seminar (keynote speaker 2007). The cultivation of this research ethos has been recognised not only through presentations and publications, but also through a number of awards including a SIF/WIT co-funded award for Innovation in Teaching Practices to the Learning Support Team (2009) and an Emerald Literati Network reviewer of the year award (2009). In 2010 a library article ‘’Practical low-cost marketing measures.

The experience of Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries’’, was selected as one of the Emerald articles of the year for case study treatment in Strategic Direction.

WIT Libraries has established a profile that places us firmly within the research community of the Institute, and beyond.

For more information contact: Mr Terry O’Brien (tpobrien@wit.ie) Mr Alan Carbery (acarbery@wit.ie) Web: http://tinyurl.com/witlibrary

ICT

Pervasive Computing in SOCIETIES Research in the area of pervasive computing includes research into embedded systems, the use of context, personalisation, learning and reasoning, and the application of these ideas in a smart environment where interaction with computing devices is seamless and unobtrusive.

New devices such as smart phones and tablet PC’s are already changing people’s notion of what a computer is. These devices have released computing from the home and office environments and made it user-centric: accessible anywhere and anytime using 3G or wireless (WiFi) networks. Pervasive computing takes this a step further, allowing such devices to interact with a wider smart environment which enhances the owner’s quality of life.

SOCIETIES is a new €15.8m EU-funded research project which aims to extend pervasive systems beyond the individual to dynamic communities of users. The project is being co-ordinated by the TSSG and involves 15 partners from Ireland, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Slovenia and Israel. It also includes industrial partners IBM, Intel and NEC.

Most people are familiar with social networking sites such as such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and many of us interact with them on a daily basis via web or smart-phone applications. These sites allow users to keep in touch with friends and business acquaintances; sharing information with anybody they connect to. The aim of SOCIETIES is to bring social networking to a new level through the integration of pervasive technologies.

of the community as a whole. Community smart spaces enable groups of users, sharing one or more common goals or interests for a period of time, to share information on their common interests, locations, knowledge and experience, etc.

SOCIETIES is the first large scale ICT project under the FP7 scheme to be coordinated by an Irish partner. It is also the largest ICT Software and Services project to be funded under the Fifth Call of the EU’s 7th Framework Programme. This success for the TSSG is the culmination of previous co-ordination and participation in EU research projects, including the recently completed PERSIST project, which was also co-ordinated by the Group.

The applications are diverse and numerous; for example, consider a relief effort responding to some natural disaster. It could automatically coordinate logistics and share services provided by the community smart space to share up-todate information about conditions on the ground while also keeping an eye on the big picture.

Over the next three-and-a-half years researchers in the TSSG and their international partners will work on SOCIETIES and attempt to create bona fide community smart spaces. These community smart spaces provide users with a range of services which allow them to create pervasive communities.

They also facilitate intelligent cross-community functions, through which individual community members can access information and services

For more information contact: Mr Kevin Doolin Email: kdoolin@tssg.org Web: www.ict-societies.eu

Trustworthy on-line services?

People are often justifiably confused as to who is responsible or accountable for the Internet services they use. Where does responsibility lie when you’re using a service that combines a number of sub-services? Take a travel agency website, for example, which lets users read about various destinations, check the weather forecast and book their entire holiday trip on a single webpage: flights, hotel, car hire and tickets to different theme parks. This travel agency website is really a composite service, made up of a range of services from independent providers. ANIKETOS is a European Commission project funded under the 7th Framework Programme whose aims are to establish and maintain trustworthiness and secure behaviour in the constantly changing service environment that is the Internet. ICT security researchers from the TSSG will play a large role in achieving this ambitious target.

There are many composite services available today, but these are largely static affairs which react slowly to the threats and vulnerabilities that now plague this environment. New and emerging technologies, however, allow a faster-reacting, ad-hoc approach. The ANIKETOS project is examining these technologies in an attempt to make sure that service providers can be trusted.

ANIKETOS’s certification work will allow users to trust one party (the travel agency website) instead of having to relate to all of the sub-service providers involved.

ANIKETOS will also provide methods for analysing, solving, and sharing information on how new threats and vulnerabilities can be tackled. It will construct a dedicated platform to create and test trusted composite services. The project’s user-centric approach will make certain that users are confident when they use a composite service, ensuring that their security and identity is not compromised.

The ANIKETOS consortium comprises several large industrial and research partners, such as SAP, ATOSORIGIN and Liverpool’s John Moores University.

Significantly, representatives of end-users will also take part in the three case-studies planned for the project.

ANIKETOS will run for three-and-a-half years and has an overall budget of €13.9M.

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For more information contact: Ms Zeta Dooly Email: zdooly@tssg.org Web: www.aniketos.eu

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LITERACY FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY WORKPLACE

Following a series of workplace literacy projects conducted in the Local Authorities and Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), the Literacy Development Centre at WIT and The National Adult Literacy Agency funded a three year workplace literacy research project. It aimed to examine how workers with low or no formal qualifications in Ireland could be supported by a workplace literacy intervention.

The research set out to help these workers to (a) understand the changing nature of literacy in the workplace (b) improve their participation in these literacy based practices and (c) encourage confidence and enthusiasm in themselves as learners, which would motivate them to continue to participate in further training and education.

The changing workplace requires employees to engage with new ways of working that rely increasingly on a variety of literacy skills.

This study used action research to explore if and how a workplace literacy initiative could act as a catalyst to enabling employees to manage these new literacy practices in the workplace with confidence. A multi-national company in Ireland which identified itself as being in a process of continuous change was selected as the research site.

A 45-hour workplace literacy course was designed by Ester Mackey under the supervision of Geraldine Mernagh of the School of Education, in consultation with the stakeholders involved: employer, employees, training provider and FÁS. The researcher acted as a mediator between them. This collaboratively designed literacy programme was delivered to one group of eight employees on-site. It became evident that employees felt that the label ‘’literacy’’ carried a stigma; therefore this was exchanged for the term ‘’communications’’ in order to avoid negative connotations.

Literacy was considered as a ‘’social practice’’ during the curriculum design and facilitation of the training. This means that all literacy tasks are relevant to the learner and directly related to tasks undertaken in the workplace. In addition, literacy activities are embedded in social practices, as different power relations shape and influence them. The workplace related content of the programme included managing change, problem solving, teamwork and effective communication.

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acknowledged the benefits of approaching these two spheres of literacy as mutually supportive. Therefore, learning acquired for personal literacy events was transferred into literacy activities in the workplace for the enhancement of both spheres and vice versa.

The relationship of the tutor with the learners was paramount to the success of the programme. The approach adopted by the tutor was underpinned by best practice in promoting adult learning where equality, inclusivity and respect framed the programme. Much of the work was facilitated through dialogue and often assisted by computers. This resulted in each participant presenting three portfolios for accreditation by the Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC).

Outcomes for the participants were an increase in confidence in reading, writing and speaking, as well as increased computer skills. Participants also expressed a better understanding of, and capacity to deal with, changing workplace literacy practices.

Stakeholders stated that their understanding of workplace literacy had been broadened and deepened. The research also identified that expectations from the different stakeholders for the workplace literacy programme were not mutually exclusive.

Collaboration at the early stage of the design of the programme had established a significant shared understanding. The workplace literacy initiative resulted in benefits for all stakeholders with outcomes matching most of their desired expectations.

The success of these findings are particularly important, given that on average only one in twelve companies accept the invitation to provide workplace literacy programmes. This indicates that literacy workplace programmes are not yet a high priority for employers. The fact that both the participating employees and the company subsequently continued their engagement with workplace literacy through further training emphasises the importance of this research. These findings go some way to proving the contribution made by workplace literacy programmes in upskilling our workforce and consequently, increasing our national and international competitiveness.

For more information contact: Ms Geraldine Mernagh Email: gmernagh@wit.ie

EDUCATION

GROUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY: The Case of Waterford Women’s Centre & WIT’s School of Education

Waterford Women’s Centre Graduates of Higher Certificate in Arts in Community Education and Development

In 1995, WIT and Waterford Women’s Centre (WWC) collaborated on the development of a National Certificate in Community Education and Development, which aimed to provide a recognised qualification for women engaged in community development work in disadvantaged areas.

Over the following decade, the WIT-WWC partnership flourished and resulted in the development of two further courses, namely the BA (Ord) and BA (Hons) in Community Education and Development. In 2004, WWC requested and received permission from WIT to deliver the Higher Certificate in Community Education and Development course within WWC. The course was aimed at a group of women who had already participated in a developmental educational programme delivered by WWC and were seeking progression to higher education. Some 30% of the participants left school with primary education only and 55% were without upper second level education. Essentially, these women were educationally disadvantaged. The course was funded by the Department of Social and Family Affairs and FÁS, which facilitated WWC to appoint a dedicated co-ordinator and WIT-approved lecturers to the course.

Moreover, it offered greater flexibility to the participants as the course was delivered in WWC, time-tabled at suitable times and WWC was able to offer essential childcare services.

Through this partnership, WWC has gained considerable expertise and understanding of the needs of women’s groups and the rigours of academic coursework, assessment and course management. WWC adopted innovative approaches to the course delivery and assessment methods, which have been consistently lauded by the external examiner.

By placing a strong emphasis on the process of shared learning and collective learning, participants believed that they had benefitted considerably from group-based learning and gained knowledge from each other’s experiences. The delivery methods created an environment in which there was a reduction in the distinctions between the ‘teacher’ and the ‘taught’.

Given the participatory nature of the learning, the emphasis was on drawing on participants’ own knowledge and experience and creating a shared learning space which is a facilitated style of education rather than a traditional teacher/student relationship. This underlined the importance of engendering a supportive learning environment and culture that values collective and interdependent learning rather than a traditional independent, and sometimes competitive, learning model.

The course delivery was very learner-centred with a focus on building the capacity of participants to take ownership for their own learning and it was evident that the approach is both consultative and democratic from the learners’ perspective. The innovative assessment methods were varied and integrated, helping to develop a broad range of skills.

In 2008, WIT commissioned an independent evaluation of the delivery of the Higher Certificate in Community Education and Development by WWC. This evaluation highlighted good practice in the innovative, sensitive and women-friendly delivery and concluded that WWC succeeded in removing obstacles and providing a pathway to a third level qualification for the women. WWC achieved this by (i) adapting the course delivery to meet the needs of the women; (ii) creating a safe learning environment for women to engage with new knowledge; (iii) acknowledging the lived experience of the women; (iv) facilitating the women to find their voice and allowing them to be heard; (v) adopting an integrated approach to the course delivery; (vi) developing creative assessment strategies which are real to the women and (vii) integrating learning into the everyday community work of the women.

The partnership between WIT and WWC was a partnership of equals, which was based on trust, mutual respect and shared experience of working together. Notwithstanding the many positive features of the WIT and WWC partnership, the evaluation strongly recommended that the partnership needed to be formalised. Consequently, both WWC and WIT developed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen and formalise the relationship, which succeeded in articulating the roles and responsibilities of both partners. WWC’s delivery of the programme reflects the characteristics of women’s community education i.e., woman-centred, education that promotes inclusion grounded in community development.

The WWC/WIT partnership has supported participants to become effective community development practitioners with many women securing employment in the community and voluntary sectors. The success of the initiative is based on a true partnership between WWC and WIT, a model that has multiple applications, particularly in challenging inequality in, and access to, third level education. It recognises the positive impact of locating learning experiences in a non-institutional environment and within a culture and ethos that critically identifies impediments to participation and works to remove those barriers.

For more information contact: Ms Mary Fenton Email: mfenton@wit.ie

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ENHANCING PEDAGOGY AT WIT: CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM

WIT is committed to enhancing the quality of teaching in the Institute and seeks to promote excellence through a range of strategies. These include the development of a Teaching, Learning and Assessment policy, and a wide offering of opportunities for further learning and development for lecturers, steered by the Staff Training and Development Committee.

One such learning opportunity is participation in the Practical Pedagogy module which is part of the MA in Learning and Teaching, offered through the School of Education and Professional Development. This module has now been run successfully for three cohorts of WIT staff.

In the spirit of this commitment to enhancing pedagogy, Dr Catherine Lowry-O’Neill, Lecturer in Education, and facilitator of the module, recently carried out an exploratory piece of research into creativity in the classroom. The aim of the inquiry was to enable lecturers to broaden and deepen their understanding of creativity through critical reflection, and thereby to enhance their practice as lecturers in higher education. The study involved three discrete processes within an action research framework. It began with an analysis of personal knowledge of the subject, making explicit intuitive understandings of the term ‘creativity’ and identifying underpinning assumptions. The insights were then expanded in two ways: by engaging with the literature on the subject and investigating the interplay between theory and practice; and by interviewing students in order to explore the learning/teaching dynamic.

The findings of the study suggest that one’s understanding of what is meant by creativity, and what its limitations might be, impact on how various approaches and activities in the

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classroom are perceived and evaluated. For instance, in relation to teaching and learning, an individual who thinks that only the ‘lone genius’ can be truly creative (an idea that was prevalent until after the second World War) will contrast greatly with someone who considers that we can all be creative in our way (a claim that has held increasing sway since the 1950s). Suggestions for encouraging creativity in the classroom were also identified. These include: allowing for connectivity between ideas, learners and the world beyond the classroom; fostering diversity in teaching approaches and including a broad range of viewpoints and perspectives; and creating a learning environment in which students feel free to put forward ideas.

This study focused on the practice of teaching, and the ways in which it can be informed by critical reflection. It was found that, through approaching creativity in the classroom with increased sensitivity to context and to social and cultural influences, an environment conducive to the emergence of new ideas and forms can be established within the classroom. The Institute strives to educate students who will go on to contribute positively to our society, culture and economy; the European Union has identified creativity as a core requirement for future developments in this regard.

Making space for creativity in the classroom is arguably a pertinent and particularly timely way in which lecturers in WIT are contributing to enhancing learning and teaching.

For more information contact: Dr Catherine Lowry-O’Neill Email: clowry-oneill@wit.ie

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The inaugural WIT Research Day was held in May 2010 showcasing the great diversity, quality and application of ongoing research at the Institute. 26 academic staff members presented during the day on topics such as novel drug delivery strategies for the treatment of patients with eye disorders; the Future Internet; the legal and ethical issues raised by human cloning; the potential use of seaweed extracts as antibiotics and the suitability of Irish wood energy as a sustainable source of biofuel.

Postgraduates Awards At WIT Research Day 2010

An important part of the research day was the presentation of poster displays from more than 60 postgraduate research students. Awards for the best PhD and Masters level posters were made to Mr Larry Fitzhenry(pictured) and Ms Denise O’Meara respectively. Larry is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Life Sciences. He is the recipient of a scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Science Engineering & Technology ‘Embark Initiative’ Postgraduate Scholarship and his research is on smart polymers for the targeted delivery and selective sensing of corticosteroids. Ms Denise O’Meara is a Masters student also from the Department of Chemical and Life Sciences and is undertaking her research in the area of non invasive squirrel survey methods with the use of real-time PCR detection. Denise is a research scholar sponsored by the Technological Sector Research Programme (Strand 1).

WIT Research Day 2011 takes place in April 2011 and full details are available on www.wit.ie/researchday

Patent Awards at WIT Research Day At the inaugural WIT Research Day held in May 2010, WIT acknowledged and celebrated the achievements of a number of staff who had recently filed patents. The awards were sponsored

by FRKelly, European Patent and Trademark Attorneys, and were presented to inventors working in the areas of optical devices and nanohole technologies.

Recipients of Patent Awards were: Inventor(s)

Patent Title

Dr Dominic Murphy & Mr Optical devices and methods Ronan O’Byrne manufacture of optical devices Pictured: (L-R) Mr Conor Boyce, FRKelly, European Patent and Trademark Attorneys (Sponsors of the Patent Award), Dr Sergey Sergeyev, Dept of Computing Maths & Physics, WIT, Dr Michael Whelan, Technology Transfer Manager, WIT, Dr Kieran O’Mahoney, Dept of Computing, Maths & Physics, WIT, Dr Joseph O’ Mahony, Dept of Engineering Technology, WIT, Ms Kathryn Kiely, Manager Industry Services, WIT. Missing from the Photograph: Dr Dominic Murphy & Mr Ronan O’Byrne, Dept of Computing, Maths & Physics, WIT.

Dr Joseph O’Mahony

A nanohole array biosensor

Dr Kieran O’Mahoney

Interrogation devices

Dr Sergey Sergeyev

Optical fiber raman amplifier

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For more information contact: Ms Kathryn Kiely Email: kkiely@wit.ie

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Dr Susan Whelan featured as Outstanding Awardee of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences

WIT Researcher Named Among Most Outstanding In Ireland

Dr Susan Whelan of the Waterford Crystal Centre for Marketing Studies in the School of Business at WIT was recently announced as an Outstanding Awardee of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).

Dr Sasi Balusabramaniam of WIT’s Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) has been named among the top 15 researchers in Ireland. This elite group of 15 received Government funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to the value of €7.9m. This fund aims to support the early stages of the researchers’ professional lives as they progress to a fully independent academic research career.

This award celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Irish Research Council, and was given to Dr Whelan in recognition of her research on brand imitation that was funded by a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship. At a recent event to mark the occasion, a commemorative book entitled ‘MOSAIC: A Celebration of Irish Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences’ was launched. This publication profiles 27 of the 2000 scholars funded by the Council since its inception, and is intended to provide a snapshot of funded research in Ireland and the impact that such research has had.

Waterford Institute of Technology was the only IOTI to feature in this publication. The event was held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art where the keynote speaker was Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy. Dr Whelan’s current research investigates how and when consumers respond to various different brand imitation tactics used by retailers for their private label grocery brands.

For more information contact: Dr Susan Whelan Email: swhelan@wit.ie

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Dr Susan Whelan

Dr Balasubramaniam’s research involves investigating new solutions for the Future Internet. As the popularity of the Internet increases, it is vital that the increase in the volume and dynamicity of Internet traffic is managed efficiently. At the same time, there is also a shift towards a ‘Greener Internet’ that seeks to minimise energy consumption, both in the infrastructure and end data centres. In order to address these challenges, Dr Balasubramaniam’s research looks to apply methodologies from inter-disciplinary science - in particular biology - to enhance the adaptability and capabilities of future communication systems.

According to Dr Balasubramaniam, ‘’biological systems have tremendous capabilities in adapting and fine tuning themselves in the face of environmental changes, whether as individuals or groups. By applying key mechanisms and principles from biological science to communication systems, the Future Internet can become more robust, resilient and efficient. More diverse and powerful applications ranging from multimedia entertainment (e.g. High Definition video streaming) to largescale remote healthcare monitoring for patients in their homes can then be developed and transported through the Internet to end users.’’

Dr Balasubramaniam completed his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1998 and 2005, respectively. In 1999 he completed his Masters in Engineering Science from Queesland University of Technology. Since the completion of his PhD, Sasitharan joined the TSSG in 2005. At the TSSG, he is currently conducting research in the Future Internet (wired and wireless networks), as well as small scale molecular/nano scale communication.

He has graduated one PhD student, and is currently supervising four others.

For more information contact: Dr Sasi Balusabramaniam Email: sasib@tssg.org

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Twin Brothers from TSSG Win Prestigious Fellowships Dr Alan Davy and Dr Steven Davy pictured at the ‘Marie Curie Actions for an Innovative Europe’ Conference in Brussels to mark the EU awarding the 50 000th beneficiary of the Marie Curie programme with the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.

Dr Steven Davy, a post-doctoral researcher at the TSSG, has recently been awarded a prestigious INSPIRE Fellowship to study at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Steven travelled to Spain in December to join his twin brother Alan, also a recipient of the INSPIRE Fellowship, to work at this research institution.

Steven was selected by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) to receive an IRCSET-Marie Curie International Mobility Fellowship in Science, Engineering and Technology. He is one of only 26 researchers in Ireland to receive this prestigious award. The fellowship provides funding for Steven to spend 12 months at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, one of Europe’s leading technical universities.

While in Barcelona, Steven will carry out research into telecommunications network management, working with Professor Joan Serrat, a worldrenowned expert in the area. He will also have the opportunity to collaborate with, and present the results of, his research to a number of leading telecommunications companies, including Telefónica, Alcatel Lucent, Nokia-Siemens Networks and Ericsson.

Steven’s research will look at ways to make it easier and cheaper for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to collaborate, in an effort to manage and improve customer services and associated internet traffic. As a consequence of this research, ISPs will see a large reduction in the operating costs of their communications infrastructure. ISPs can then make a wide variety of new services available to their users at much more competitive prices, and with an availability and quality that would previously have been quite expensive.

Speaking about the Fellowship, Steven said: ‘’I’m delighted to have been

selected by IRCSET to receive this Fellowship and follow Alan to Barcelona to carry out research in a world-class university. This Fellowship provides researchers like me in the early stages of their career with the opportunity to add a further dimension to their area of study through working with international experts. I’ll be returning to WIT for a further 12 months after the Fellowship, so I can apply my experience and learning from Spain for the benefit of industry in Ireland.’’

Dr Willie Donnelly, founder and director of TSSG and Head of Research, WIT said: ‘’The INSPIRE fellowship is an extremely competitive national programme. This is a great honour for the TSSG and WIT. The TSSG has developed an internationally recognised PhD graduate programme in Telecommunications, attracting the highest quality students from Ireland and the rest of the world. These awards are a fitting recognition for the excellence of the programme’s academic work and its supervisory staff.’’

For more information contact: Dr Steven Davy Email: sdavy@tssg.org or Dr Alan Davy Email: adavy@tssg.org

Dr Patrick Duggan wins 2010 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Dr Pat Duggan, Department of Chemical & Life Sciences, received the 2010 WIT Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision.

Dr Duggan received the award due to his dedication to student learning, and his commitment to research in WIT.

For more information contact: Dr Pat Duggan Email: pduggan@wit.ie

Prof Kieran Byrne, President of WIT, presents the 2010 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision to Dr Pat Duggan, Dept of Chemical & Life Sciences

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WIT WIN INNOVATION VOUCHER AWARD

Dr Willie Donnelly, Head of Research & Innovation, WIT, accepting award from Minister Conor Lenihan, TD

In September 2010, Dr Willie Donnelly, Head of Research & Innovation, WIT, accepted an Enterprise Ireland award in recognition of WIT’s role as the leading knowledge provider in the Innovation Voucher Scheme. This Innovation Voucher Initiative offers SMEs a €5,000 grant to pay for third-level innovation expertise and research in areas such as: • • • •

Technology/Innovation Audit New Process, Product or Service Development New Business Model Development Tailored Training in Innovation Management

The scheme, launched in 2007, has become one of Enterprise Ireland’s most successful funding programmes for supporting small and medium enterprises. In accepting the award, Dr Donnelly touched on the importance of the links between higher-level institutes and small business in rebuilding industrial competitiveness.

In a set of case studies published to coincide with the event, a project carried out by Dr Peter McLoughlin’s PMBRC group for local firm, Eirgen Pharma, was showcased. In this project researchers investigated and provided a solution to a manufacturing issue relating to impurities in an anti-cancer product.

WIT is one of the most active institutes in the programme. To date, almost 200 projects have been completed, 85 of which were finalised in 2010; approximately 70 more are currently in progress. The range of industry sectors with which WIT is working is quite extensive: these include forestry, electronics, consumer products, industrial equipment, retail, software development, horticulture, pharma, business-to-business services, environmental and online enterprises.

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The companies which have engaged with WIT are start-ups, early stage businesses or more established firms, a number of which are located outside the region. In some cases, groups of between 3 and 10 companies have collaborated on pooled voucher projects. A number of companies have also engaged with WIT on ‘’FastTrack’’ Voucher projects, in which the company invests up to €5,000 which is matched by Enterprise Ireland.

Feedback on the work carried out by WIT research groups has been very positive. Commenting on a project carried out with the RIKON research group, Ciaran Duffy of Allsop Europe said, ‘’We have benefitted greatly from the input and support of WIT researchers. Working with RIKON has helped to make our product development process more customer-centred and to anticipate future market needs.’’

In an endorsement of the scheme from a researcher’s perspective, Dr Pat Lynch of WIT’s RIKON research group spoke recently of his involvement in a number of innovation initiatives. ‘’The Innovation Voucher programme provides a very important vehicle for researchers to engage with industry and in particular with SMEs. These projects are a means by which we can transfer knowledge to small businesses and, in turn, our researchers learn directly about industry needs by working on issues that have real and immediate impact.’’

For more information contact: Mr Tom Corcoran Email: tcorcoran@wit.ie Web: www.innovationvouchers.ie

CONFERENCES

WIT Research Funding Awards 2009 / 2010 The challenging economic environment has led to an inevitable tightening of expenditure on R & D. In spite of this challenge, WIT researchers have continued to demonstrate success in winning research funding. During the last academic year from September 2009 to August 2010, WIT secured in excess of €12.8m in research income for 178 projects. Outlined below are brief details of some of these projects:

Informal ‘‘Bizcamp’’ Attracts Entrepreneurs to the South East In June 2010, the first BizCamp in the South East took place at ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre at WIT with great success.

BizCamp is a conference (or un-conference) with a difference. No headline speakers, no self-described ‘’experts’’, no sales pitches and no long-winded panel discussions.

European Commission FP7 - IST Call Arising from the European Commission FP7 5th IST call, the TSSG will lead five research projects with a total value of over €21.5m and will participate in a further three projects worth over €17m. This directly translates to a total of €3.8m research funding secured for the TSSG in this call alone - taking the total FP7 funding received by the TSSG to date to over €9m.

Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Programme The Optics Research Group was successful in its bid to Enterprise Ireland to develop a design for a new type of fibre based optical isolator for high power applications. This project has been awarded in excess of €350,000 under the Commercialisation Programme.

Its not all fun and games. The LEGO Serious Play workshop at BizCamp

Joint Fellowship Programme - Department of Nursing, WIT and the NHS A joint research based fellowship training scheme has been established, led by Dr John Wells Head of the Department of Nursing, WIT, and the NHS Institute for Service Improvement and Innovation in collaboration with the Health Service Executive. The Fellowship is worth €300,000 during which the Trainee Fellow will undertake a substantive service development research project in Ireland accompanied by executive level training and mentoring through placement in the UK and USA. IRCSET & Intel Ireland - Enterprise Partnership Scheme Under the supervision of Dr Kieran Murphy in the Department of Computing, Maths & Physics, postgraduate student Mr Niall Donnelly was awarded €72,000 from IRCSET and Intel Ireland Ltd under the Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Research Scholarship.

Forest Energy Research Programme 2009-2013 The Forest Energy Research Programme 2009-2013 aims to investigate cost-effective wood fuel supply chains to meet this growing demand. A project consortium led by Mr Tom Kent, WIT, in association with UCD and the Danish Forestry Extension was awarded €1m under this programme.

HEA PRTLI Cycle 5 - Structured PhD Programme The TSSG was awarded in excess of €800,000 as part of the TCD led consortium - the Telecommunications Graduate Initiative (TGI). The TGI is a structured PhD programme targeted at scholars studying for PhDs in topics related to telecommunications. Scholars are currently being recruited and due to begin studies in October 2011.

For more information contact: The Research Support Unit, WIT Email: research@wit.ie

Organised by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this was a usergenerated gathering, which harnessed the positivity and energy of innovators and small business owners. The event brought together people who shared their knowledge, expertise and experience in areas of business, technology and creativity.

Like other BizCamps, the Waterford event was largely mobilised through the web, heavily promoted via online social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. The day-long event featured 34 speakers across four parallel streams over the course of the day. The topics covered areas as varied as cloud computing, social networking, preparing for investment, improving sales, innovation, video podcasting, online marketing - and using LEGO to design new business models.

Peter Grogan, Director of Emagine Media and Bizcamp South East organiser said: ‘’We have to rely on the efforts and achievements of innovators and entrepreneurs for our future economic success and prosperity. BizCamp South East is a perfect example of people from the region - and well beyond - coming together to learn from each other, share ideas and look for new ways to work together.’’ ArcLabs Manager Tom Corcoran noted the support of Blacknight Solutions, Microsoft’s BizSpark programme and Waterford Institute of Technology in making the event possible.

Plans are already afoot to make BizCamp South East an annual event.

While there are many networking events for SMEs, the informal, ‘’unconference’’, format of BizCamp is ideal for encouraging entrepreneurs to contribute their knowledge and to learn from and inspire each other.

Innovators and entrepreneurs such as those based at ArcLabs are becoming increasingly important to Ireland’s future economic growth; to this end, the concept of BizCamp provides an ideal opportunity for early-stage businesses to connect with each other and to exchange knowledge and experience in order to achieve future excellence.

For more information contact: Mr Tom Corcoran Email: tcorcoran@wit.ie Web: www.bizcamp.ie/southeast

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Political Anthropology Symposium held at WIT In February 2010 the Department of Applied Arts in WIT hosted the Annual International Political Anthropology Symposium.

The aim of the symposium was to examine the challenges faced by societies in transition, with several of the papers focusing on the particular difficulties that face Irish society at present. The proceedings were opened by John O’Brien who, in his address, located the current challenges in the political culture and civic morality of Irish society.

Dr Paddy O’Carroll - Retired lecturer, Department of Sociology UCC, examined the representation of community in Ireland through the lens of the novels of John McGahern. Dr Ray Griffin - Lecturer, School of Business, WIT, then explored the transformation of the nature of employment through the concept of the ‘fun workplace’. The Eastern European experience of transition from communism to liberal democracy and the free market economy was addressed by Dr Harald Wydra - Lecturer in Politics, Cambridge University, and Dr Agnes Horvath - Independent scholar in separate papers, as a counterpoint to the Irish experience.

In closing the symposium, Professor Professor Arpad Szakolczai - Professor of Sociology, UCC began his keynote address with lines from the W. B. Yeats poem ‘The Second Coming’: ‘The best lack all convictions, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity’. This poem was written in 1919, a period of dramatic change and great turmoil, not only in Irish life, but globally. It was a focus of this, and many of the other talks, that in times of great change the morality and values of a community become disrupted and it becomes difficult to recognise what is right and proper, from what is wrong and improper. For this reason, revolutionary change is very dangerous. Instead, several of the talks focused on the importance of looking backwards, rather than forwards, in order to seek a renaissance of ideas and traditions. It was noted how endless economic progress is much less valuable than a community ethos based on mutual help, trust and respect. Indeed, the source of Ireland’s current crisis was seen by many of the speakers at the symposium to be the lack of a strong civic spirit and a public morality.

Professor Arpad Szakolczai- Professor of Sociology, UCC delivers the keynote address

For more information contact: Dr John O’Brien Email: jfobrien@wit.ie

PMBRC Host Industry Analytical Forum The first Industry Analytical Forum hosted by the Pharmaceutical and Molecular Biotechnology Research Centre (PMBRC) took place in WIT on 14th December 2010.

Speakers at the Industry Analytical Forum (left to right): Dr Peter McLoughlin (WIT), Dr Elias Ndzie (MSD Ireland), Ms Mary Phelan (Teva Pharmaceuticals), Dr Niall O’Reilly, Dr Sarah Hudson, Dr Wayne Cummins (WIT), Mr Pat Curtis (Waters Technologies Ireland).

The forum was opened by Dr John Carolan, Director of Analytical Development and Commercialisation at MSD Ireland, Clonmel and included presentations from WIT researchers as well as scientists from local companies MSD Ireland, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Waters Technologies. The forum was attended by guests from 12 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in the region.

For more information contact: Dr Niall O’Reilly Email: noreilly@wit.ie

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CONFERENCES In October 2010, a Canadian-Irish Family Law conference was hosted by Waterford Institute of Technology, and organised by PhD candidate Roisin O’ Shea. The concept was developed by Ms O’ Shea, an IRCHSS awardee, following her research trip to Toronto Canada in October 2009.

Issues discussed at the Family Law conference included child representation, the Canadian Unified Family Court model and Family Law reform, with a particular focus on mediation. The Hon Justice Liam Mc Kechnie formally opened the conference, followed by a welcoming address by Professor Kieran Byrne, President of WIT. In his closing address of the morning session, the Hon Mr Justice Liam Mc Kechnie highlighted the need for judges to support mediation: ‘’Judges can play an important role. If they keep this question of mediation to the fore, there will eventually be progress’’. The Hon Mr Justice Henry Abbott also stressed the importance of judges steering people away from litigation and towards mediation.

Eleven senior Family law judges from Canada and America made presentations on topics including the voice of the child, spousal/ child support guidelines, inter-jurisdictional cooperation in abduction cases and family law reform. The morning and afternoon sessions ended with question and answers to the panel led by moderators Alan Shatter TD and Dr Carol Coulter respectively. The conference was attended by 25 members of the Irish Judiciary, across all four courts, as well as barristers, solicitors, mediators, mental health professionals and law students, many from WIT. Ms Jane Long S.C., Ministry of the Attorney General Ontario, spoke about the Unified Family Court (UFC), a model proposed by the Law Reform Commission of Canada in 1974 that aimed to have jurisdiction to hear all family cases and to incorporate ancillary services such as mediation. The first UFC pilot project was in 1977; there are now 17 such Family Courts in Ontario, with 22 more Unified Family Courts throughout the rest of Canada. Mediation is voluntary, and is provided free on-site. All legal issues can be dealt with on or off-site, and in 2009/2010, Ms Long reported that 81.1% of cases that proceeded to mediation reached full or partial settlement.

A highlight of the conference was the live video link, co-ordinated by Shane Dempsey and Deirdre Morrissey of Waterford Institute of Technology’s TSSG research group, with Judge Peter Boshier, Principal Judge of the New Zealand Family Court. His paper was entitled ‘’Why Early Intervention Works in New Zealand’’, and outlined an exciting new pilot which has just commenced in Wellington. A ‘’a two track system’’ identifies parties who fall into the category of personality disorders and enforces a strict

WIT HOSTS IRELAND’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL CANADIAN-IRISH FAMILY LAW CONFERENCE L-R PhD Candidate Roisin O’ Shea, The Hon. Mr Justice Liam Mc Kechnie, Supreme Court, Professor Kieran Byrne President, Waterford Institute of Technology

time-table for all aspects of a Family Law application.

These disorders affect 10% of the general population, and research indicates that these parties take up 90% of court time in family proceedings. The emphasis of this pilot, unlike the traditional family court process, is conciliation, with specialist support services and specialist judges.

Court appearances are used only as a last resort.

Mediation was the conference hot topic, and great interest was shown in the presentation by Ms Darlene Murphy, Mediation Co-ordinator at the Unified Family Court in Ontario. A primary law degree is an essential minimum requirement to practice as a family mediator in the Unified Family Court, where legal agreements are being drafted regarding the division of property, whereas in Ireland, a transformative or therapeutic model prevails in family mediation without the same emphasis on legal training. Judge Thomas Trent Lewis of the Los Angeles Superior Court spoke of mandatory mediation for all family custody cases in California and the ability of the mediator to testify in court. He went on to say that 75% of cases were resolved through mediation, with the Unified Family Court under Ms Murphy having a slightly higher success rate.

Justice R. James Williams of the Family Division of the Supreme Court in Nova Scotia praised this initiative by Waterford Institute of Technology. This was the first international Canadian-Irish Family Law conference held in Ireland, and it provided an opportunity for judges and experts in different countries that use various models of Family Law to learn from each other. In the final address co-presented with Justice Williams, Roisin O’ Shea spoke of her intention to develop an international family law research hub in Waterford Institute of Technology. This group would seek to develop a best practice Family Law model that reflects the commonality of human experience.

Eleven senior Family law judges from Canada and America made presentations

For more information contact: Dr Sinead Conneely Email: sconneely@wit.ie and Ms Roisin O’Shea Email: info@roisinoshea.ie

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PUBLICATIONS

Introduction to Equity Investment Fund Accounting by John Casey Introduction to Equity Investment Fund Accounting is written by Mr John Casey, WIT Lecturer in the School of Business, and was published by Blackhall Publishing. It is a comprehensive textbook that addresses the fundamental principles of investment fund accounting. The only book in its field that is specifically written for the general student, it is designed for those who have little prior exposure to investment fund accounting.

An investment fund is a legal arrangement that allows individuals to pool their wealth (i.e. cash) to make investments in assets such as shares, bonds and commodities. In order to provide a reliable market for the investment fund it is necessary to value the assets and liabilities of the fund on a regular basis, often daily. This daily valuation process presents many difficulties from an accounting perspective. However, the Irish financial services sector has carved out a valuable niche in this area, and investment fund administration now provides employment for many thousands of highly educated graduates.

IT systems can eliminate the drudgery of many investment fund processing operations but they can also have a negative effect, as the need to understand the underlying transaction is reduced.

Over the past two decades, the investment fund

industry has utilised technology extensively but as a result, it is more difficult to appreciate the impact of the transactions being processed. This is particularly true when errors are made, as corrections are complex and time-consuming. It is hoped that this book, by taking a step back to basic accounting, will help to alleviate some of these issues. In this way, it will allow those starting out in the industry to develop a greater understanding of what they are doing and act as a springboard for their future development.

Another important feature of the book is that the solution to each example is explained in detail. This should allow the reader to understand the logic behind the recording of any transaction, instead of being presented with the answer as a fait accompli.

Gary Palmer, CEO of the Irish Funds Industry Association, stated that ‘’a textbook that addresses the fundamentals of investment fund accounting is both a welcome and an overdue development ... a book that assists in acquiring this skill set, using clear and comprehensive examples, is invaluable.’’

For more information contact: Mr John Casey Email: jcasey@wit.ie

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR RESEARCHERS Personal Development for Researchers is a manual produced for, and published by the Research Alliance, a body set up by the Irish Institutes of Technology to promote and support postgraduate research in the sector. It is one of a set of manuals on the research skills that postgraduate students need to master.

Personal development is a frequently neglected area in postgraduate skill development and the manual aims to fill this gap. It considers the personal skills that researchers require at the early, middle and late stages of research.

Early stage research skills include those in the development of thinking skills, ethical responsibilities and sustainability, middle stage research skills include those in reflection and reflexivity. Late stage research skills include those in career management and continuing professional development.

For more information contact: Dr Anne Jordan Email: ajordan@wit.ie or Dr Orison Carlile Email: ocarlile@wit.ie

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PUBLICATIONS

Books Carlile, O. & Jordan, A. (2010) ‘Personal Development for Reseachers’, Research Alliance, IOTI Ireland Casey, J. (2010) ‘Equity Investment Fund Accounting - An Introduction’, Blackhall Publishing http://www.blackhallpublishing.com/index.php/business-andmanagement.html ISBN: 978-1-84218-193-5 Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Paul Valéry Notebooks/Cahiers’, Vol.4. Translated by Norma Rinsler, Paul Ryan, Brian Stimpson, (Frankfurt a. M. Lang), 689 p.

Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Paul Valéry Notebooks/Cahiers’, Vol.5. Editorial checking and referencing. (Frankfurt a. M. Lang), 601 p.

Book Chapters Barry, P, Rajkovic, P. & Petkovic, M. (2010) ‘An application of Sobolev orthogonal polynomials to the computation of a special Hankel Determinant’, in W. Gautschi, G. Rassias, M. Themistocles (Eds), Approximation and Computation, Springer Bugge, K-E., O’Gorman, B., Hill, I. & Welter, F. (2010) ‘Regional Sustainability, Innovation and Welfare Through an Adaptive Process Model’, in Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro, and Diego Vazquez Brust, (Eds.) Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, Springer, The Netherlands, pp 77-96 Callanan, G. (2010) ‘Company & Insolvency’, Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall Denny, M. (2010) ‘Teaching for multiple intelligences in undergraduate education’, In M.D. Lytras et al. (Eds.): Tech-Education, 2010, CCIS 73, pp 690691, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Doyle, L. (2010) ‘Supply Chain Information Systems and Decision Support’ in Hunter, M.G. (Ed.) Strategic Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Drohan, S., Mauffette, Y. & Allard, J-L. (2010) ‘Employer’s perspectives on Problem-based Learning Initiatives’ in Barrett, T. & Moore, S. (eds.) New Approaches to Problem-based Learning: Revitalising Your PBL Practice in Higher Education, New York: Routledge Freeman, A. & Doyle, L. (2010) ‘The Utilization of Information Systems Security in SMEs in the South East of Ireland’, in DAtri, A., De Marco, M., Braccini, A.M. and Cabiddu, F. (Editors) Management of the Interconnected Word, Physica-Verlang Furlong, Á., Barbero, T. & Jarvinen, H. (2010) ‘Teaching reading’ in Jarvinen, H. (ed) Language in Content Instruction, available at http://lici.utu.fi pp 52-62 Jennings, B., Feeney, K.C., Brennan, R., Balasubramaniam, S., Botvich, D. & van der Meer, S. (2011) ‘Federating Autonomic Network Management Systems for Flexible Control of End-to-end Communications Services’, in Agoulmine, N. (Ed) Autonomic Network Management Principles Elsevier ISBN 13: 978-0-12382190-4 Jordan, A. & Carlile, O. (2010) ‘Learning’, in Routledge Companion to Education, Routledge Keating, A. (2010) ‘Probate and Succession Law’, in William Binchy and Paul Byrne (eds), Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Round Hill McCarthy, K. (2010) ‘The Drama Workshop: Towards a Change in Understanding’, in Denise Lyons (ed.) Creative Studies for the Caring Professions. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Moran, S. (2010) ‘Logophilic Musings: Serendipitous Lexical Luminosities’ in Dominiková, I. & Lachout, M. (2010) Lingua Terminologica (Prague: Metropolitan University) Mullan, E. & Lodge, J. (2010) ‘Active Transport to School: Ideals and Realities’, In Connor, S. (ed.) Youth Sport in Ireland, The Impact of the Celtic Tiger Years.

Dublin, Irish Sports Council

Murphy, A. & Garavan, T. (2010) ‘The Brewing of Insomnia’ in O’Riordan, C. and Lynch, P. (eds.) Managerial Challenges in Irish Organisations: A Case Study Collection, Dublin: Blackhall Publishing, pp.7-37 O’Shea, R. (2010) ‘Child Maintenance’ in Geoffrey Shannon, Child Law, (2nd ed.), Thomson: Round Hall, Dublin Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Reducing stress within the rehabilitative work setting- A Report on the ROSE Project’, M.D. Lytras et al. (Eds.): Tec-Education 2010, CCIS 73, pp 688-689, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Book Reviews O’ Raifeartaigh, C. (2010) ‘The Scramble for the Arctic’, Book review of The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson, The Irish Times (12/04/2010) O’ Raifeartaigh, C. (2010) ‘A Dark Forecast of Climate Change’, Book review of Climate Wars by Gynne Dyer, The Irish Times (11/05/2010) O’ Raifeartaigh, C. (2010) ‘A Glimpse of the Future’, Book review of How It Ends

by Chris Empey, Physics World, December 2010 Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Paul Valéry - ‘Regards’ sur l’Histoire’ Etudes réunies par Robert Pickering. (Université Blaise-Pascal. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2008): Book review for French Studies (Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, volume 64, no. 3, July, pp 360-1 Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Asperger Syndrome and Alcohol: Drinking to cope?’ (2008) Mathew Tinsley and Sarah Hendrickx, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, in Critical Public Health, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 259-261

Journal Publications Balasubramaniam, S. Botvich, D., Mineraud, J., Donnelly, W. & Agoulmine, N. (2010) ‘BiRSM: Bio-inspired Resource Self-Management for All IP Networks’, IEEE Network May/June Barry, P. & Hennessy, A. (2010) ‘Meixner-type results for Riordan arrays and associated integer sequences’, Journal of Integer Sequences, 13, Article 10.9.4 (published electronically) Barry, P. (2010) ‘Exponential Riordan arrays and permutation enumeration’, Journal of Integer Sequences, 13, Article 10.9.1 (published electronically) Barry, P. (2010) ‘The restricted Toda chain, exponential Riordan arrays, and Hankel transforms’, Journal of Integer Sequences, 13, Article 10.8.4 (published electronically) Barry, P. & Hennessy, A. (2010) ‘Notes on the Euler-Seidel matrix, Hankel matrices and moment sequences’, Journal of Integer Sequences, 13, Article 10.8.2 (published electronically) Barry, P. (2010) ‘Generalized Catalan numbers, Hankel transforms and Somos-4 sequences’, Journal of Integer Sequences, 13, Article 10.7.2 (published electronically) Bergin, M., Wells, J. & Owen, S. (2010) ‘Relating realist metatheory to issues of gender and mental health’, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 17, 442-451 Boland, T. (2010) ‘Critical Discourse in the Media: The Liminality of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger’, Irish Journal of Sociology 18(1): 66-81 Brennan, R., Feeney, K., Keeney, J., O’Sullivan, D., Fleck II, J.J., Foley, S. & van der Meer, S. (2010) ‘Multi-Domain IT Architectures for Next Generation Communications Service Providers’, IEEE Communications Magazine 48 110-117 Bulz, N., Stapleton, L., Lewoc, B., Cas, C., Karvalics, L. & Bula, M. (2010) ‘Inquiry on the Global (Post) Crisis Versus Humankind Wisdom as a Turning Point: Does the Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity Triad Matter?’, in System & Policy Design in Public Sector eJournal, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1677356 Coffey, A.B., Stanley, C. & Walsh, P.R. (2010) ‘Freeze-Thawed Hydrogels for modelling blood vessels’, Plastics Research Online, Society of Plastics Engineers, DOI 10.1002/spepro.003334, October, USA ISSUE 12 | Spring 2011

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PUBLICATIONS Coffey, L., Owens, E., Tambling, K., O’Neill, D., O’Connor, L. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Real-time PCR detection of Fe-type nitrile hydratase genes from environmental isolates suggests horizontal gene transfer between multiple genera’, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 98, 4, pp 455-463 Conneely, S. & O’Leary, W. (2010) ‘Integrative Learning on a Criminal Justice degree Programme’, in B. Higgs, S. Kilcommins and T. Ryan, Making Connections: Intentional Teaching for Integrative Learning, NAIRTL

Keating, A. (2010) ‘Rebutting the Presumption of Revocation by Destruction of Lost Wills’, Irish Law Times, 28 Kelliher, F., Harrington, D. & Galavan, R. (2010) ‘Spreading Leader Knowledge: Investigating a participatory mode of knowledge dissemination among management undergraduates’, Irish Journal of Management, 29(2): 103-121

Connolly, E., Beatty, S., Thurnham, D., Loughman, J., Howard, A., Stack, J. & Nolan, J.M. (2010) ‘Augmentation of Macular Pigment following Supplementation with all Three Macular Carotenoids: An Exploratory Study’. Current Eye Research, 35 (4) pp 335-351

Kirby, M., Beatty, S., Stack, J. & Nolan, J.M. (2010) ‘A ‘’central dip’’ in macular pigment is related to age and cigarette smoking’, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, June 30, (Epub ahead of print)

Cregg, P.J., Murphy, K., Mardinoglu, A. & Prina-Mello, A. (2010) ‘Many particle magnetic dipole-dipole and hydrodynamic interactions inmagnetizable stent assisted magnetic drug targeting’, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 322 (2010) pp 2087-2094

Kirby, M.L., Beatty, S., Stack, J., Harrison, M., Greene, I., McBrinn, S., Carroll, P. & Nolan, J.M. (2010) ‘Changes in macular pigment optical density and serum concentrations of lutein and zeaxanthin in response to weight loss’, British Journal of Nutrition Dec 9:1-11

Davies, G., Whelan, S., Foley, A. & Walsh, M. (2010) ‘Gifts and Gifting’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 12 (4), 413-434

Kulatunga, C., Kielthy, J., Botvich, D. & Donnelly, W. (2010) ‘Exploiting the InNetwork Capabilities of Multicast to Discover Proximate IPTV Channels’, MDPI Future Internet, Journal 2 (4), pp 431-445

Denieffe, S. & Gooney, M. (2010) ‘Using metasynthesis to explore the symptom experience of women with breast cancer’, European Journal of Cancer Care DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2010.01223.x Denny, M., Wells, J.S.G. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Psychosocial job strain amongst mental and intellectual disability services support workers in five European countries: implications for workforce development’, The Journal of Mental Health Training. Education and Practice Denny, M. & Wells, J.S.G. (2010) ‘Smart educators use smart intelligence’, 1st International Scientific Conference: Building Capacity and Capability in Nursing.

Slovenia: The Nurses and Midwifes Society of Maribor, pp 97-105 De Paoli, S., Gangadharan, G. R., Kerr, A., DAndrea, V., Serrano, M., Botvich, D. & McGibney J. (2010) ‘A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the ‘Future Internet’ Triple C Journal - Theorizing the Internet (Online) vol. 8, no. 2, pp 121-123 Dong, L., Popov, S. & Sergeyev, S. (2010) ‘Spatial light modulator as a reconfigurable intracavity dispersive element for tunable lasers’,Central European Journal of Physics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 228-234 Dowling, S., Regan, F. & Hughes, H. (2010) ‘The characterisation of structural and antioxidant properties of isoflavone metalchelates’, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry Volume 104: pp 1091-1098 Finn, F., Fensom, S. & Chesser-Smyth, P. (2010) ‘Promoting learning transfer in post registration education: A collaborative approach’, Nurse Education in Practice 10(1), 32-37 Foley, M., Thorley, K. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘A qualitative study of sickness certification in general practice in ireland’, Family Practice Griffin, R. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘On the Meaning of Structures in the International Business Discourse’, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp 237-255 Harrington, D., Short, J.C. & Hynes, B. (2010) ‘Changing times for Management Educators - Rethinking Engagement with Participatory forms of Knowledge Production’, Special Issue, Irish Journal of Management Hegarty, N. & Carbery, A. (2010) ‘Piloting a dedicated information literacy programme for nursing students at Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries’, Library Review, Vol. 59 Issue 8, pp 606 - 614

Lambe, B. & Collins, C. (2010) ‘A qualitative study of lifestyle counselling in general practice in Ireland’, Family Practice 27 (2): 219-223 Lane, A., Murphy, N. & Bauman, A. (2010) ‘Active for a day: predictors of relapse among previously active mass event participants’, Journal of Physical Activity and Health Lane A., Murphy N., Bauman, A. & Chey, T. (2010) ‘Randomised controlled trial to increase physical activity among insufficiently active women following their participation in a mass event’, Health Education Journal, 69(3), 287-296 Lei, J., Shi, L. & Fu, X. (2010) ‘An Experimental Analysis of Joost Peer-to-Peer VoD Service’, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 3(4), 351-362 Loane, E., McKay, G., Nolan, J.M. & Beatty, S. (2010) ‘Apolipoprotein E Genotype is Associated with Macular Pigment Optical Density’, Investigative Ophthalmology Visual Science, May Loughman, J., Akkali, M., Beatty, S., Scanlon, G., Davison, P, A., O’Dwyer, V., Cantwell, T., Major, P., Stack, J. & Nolan, J.M. (2010) ‘The relationship between macular pigment and visual performance’, Vision Research, March Lynch, P. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘A Critical Episode Analysis of the Dynamics of the Interaction Atmosphere in a New Product Development Relationship’, The IMP Journal, Vol.4, No. 2, pp 106-130 Madden, C. (2010) ‘Service Learning in Nurse Education: Teaching Basic Life Support to School Students’, Response Online Journal, University of Derby, UK, Winter/Spring Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Consistency in Sentencing’ Judicial Studies Institute Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2 Mardinoglu, A., Cregg, P.J., Murphy, K., Curtin, M. & Prina-Mello, A. (2010) ‘Theoretical modelling of physiologically stretched vessel in magnetisable stent assisted magnetic drug targeting application’, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 323 (2011) 324-329 McCarthy, N., Scott Bentsen, N., Willoughby, I. & Balandier, P. (2010) ‘The state of forest vegetation management in Europe in the 21st century’, European Journal of Forest Research, Online published, pp 10 Mc Dermott, A. (2010) ‘Charles Bianconi: Portrait of a Nineteenth Century Self Made Man’, Tipperary Historical Journal, October

Holland, N., Frisby, J., Owens, E., Hughes, H., Duggan, P. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘The influence of morphology on the performance of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers’, Polymer, 51, 1578-1584

Mc Dermott, A. (2010) ‘Bridget Redmond: The Keeper of the Redmondite Flame in Waterford, Decies, December

Keating, A. (2010) ‘The Application of s.9 (2)(b) of the Civil Liability Act 1961 to Equitable Causes of Action Against Estates of Deceased Persons’, Conveyancing & Property Law Journal, 15(2)

McDonnell, A. & Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Maze and Minefield - A Grounded Theory of Opiate Self Detoxification in Rural Ireland’, Drug and Alcohol Today, June, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 24-31

Keating, A. (2010) ‘The Concept of a Will’, Conveyancing & Property Law Journal, 15(3)

McDonnell, A. & Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Maze and Minefield - A Grounded Theory of Opiate Self Detoxification in Rural Ireland’, Drugnet Ireland, Summer, Issue 32

Keating, A. (2010) ‘The Effect of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 on Wills Precedents Referring to the Settled land Acts’, Irish Law Times, 16

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Keating, A. (2010) ‘The Accountability of an Executor Solicitor to Beneficiaries Use Your Will Power’, G.L.S.I. 104(6)

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PUBLICATIONS McDonnell, A. & Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Heroin Detoxification-Seeking, a Grounded Theory of Process and Practicalities’, The Grounded Theory ReviewAn International Journal McGrath, H. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘The Potential and Challenge of the Network Realisation Capability for SMEs in Ireland and Finland’, Journal of Business Market Management, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 27-49

Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Esthétique de la ligne - géométrie, graphie, rêverie’, Numéro sur ‘’ Zur Ästhetik bei Paul Valéry ‘’, Forschungen zu Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Paul Valéry / Recherches Valéryennes’, (Universität Kiel), vol.

20, pp 95-125 Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Valéry’s pocket notebooks: redefining a corpus’, Nottingham French Studies, (University of Nottingham), Vol. 48, No. 1 2009, pp 31-46

Mullins, J., Statham, M.J., Roche, T., Turner, P.D. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Remotely plucked hair genotyping: a reliable and non-invasive method for censusing pine marten (Martes martes, L. 1758) populations’, Journal of Wildlife Research 56: 443-453

Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Paul Valéry: visual perception and an aesthetics of visual space’, Australian Journal of French Studies (MonashXLV, Number 1, 2009, pp. 43-58.

University, Melbourne), vol. XLV, Number 1, 2008, pp 43-58

Murphy, D.F. & Flavin, D.A. (2010) ‘Statically scanned single and tandem lowcoherence interferometers’, Meas. Sci. Technol. 21 094031 doi: 10.1088/09570233/21/9/094031

Sergeyev, S., O’Mahoney, L., Popov, S. & Friberg, A.T. (2010) ‘Upconversion assisted self-pulsing in a high-concentration erbium doped fiber laser’, Central European J. Physics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 159-163

Nolan, J.M., Kenny, R., O’Regan, C., Cronin, H., Loughman, J., Connolly, E., Kearney, P., Loane, E. & Beatty, S. (2010) ‘Macular pigment optical density in an ageing Irish population: The Irish longitudinal study on ageing’, Ophthalmic Research Volume 44 No. 2, pp 131-139

Sergeyev, S.V. & O’Mahoney, K. (2010) ‘Coherence and Anticoherence Resonance in High Concentration Erbium Doped Fiber Laser’, Optics Letters, September

O’Brien, H., Hayes, R. & Thornton, N. (2010) ‘Film & Film Culture’, 5, Waterford, Waterford Institute of Technology O’Connor, F. (2010) ‘Institutional Racism in Irish Adult Education: Fact or Fiction?’, The Adult Learner, The Irish Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 29-52, AONTAS: Dublin O’Connor, L., O’Leary, M., Egan, J., Leonard, N., Coffey, L., Godinho, M., O’Reilly, C., Egan, J. & O’Mahony, R. (2010) ‘The characterisation of Listeria spp. isolated from food products and the food-processing environment’, Letters in Applied Microbiology, Epub 11 Sept 2010, DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2010.02928. Ó Diollúin, S. (2010) ‘Pádraig Feiritéar agus Tinte Cnámh’, Feasta, 63(8), pp 28-29 O’Sullivan, L., Murphy, B., McLoughlin, P., Duggan, P., Lawlor, P.G., Hughes, H. & Gardiner, G.E. (2010) ‘Prebiotics from marine macroalgae for human and animal health applications’, Marine Drugs 8, 2038-2064

Sergeyev, S.V., Popov, S. & Friberg, A.T. (2010) ‘Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fibre with tailored spin profile’, Central European Journal of Physics, Vol. 8, No. 2, p164-168 Serrano, J.M., Serrat, J., Strassner, J. & Ó Foghlú, M. (2010) ‘Facilitating Information Interoperability in Network and Enterprise Management Systems’, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications Journal (ITSSA) Serrano, J. M., Serrat, J., Strassner, J. & O Foghlu, M. (2010) ‘Interoperability in Autonomic Communications, An approach for Context Integration in Management Systems using Ontologies’, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications Journal (ITSSA) Vol. 6, pp 26-42 Serrano, M., van der Meer, S., Holub, V., Murphy, J. & Strassner, J. (2010) ‘Federated Reference Model Architecture: An Autonomic Approach for Service Management’, Systemics and Informatics World Network Journal (SIWN) Vol. 11, pp 137-150 Sweeney, S. (2010) ‘Environmental Literacy’, RAPAL, Summer Issue 2010, pp 12-16

Ovaska, P. & Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘Requirements Engineering during Complex ISD: Case Study of an International ICT Company’, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research (JITCAR) Volume 12, Number 2

Taylor, N., Robertson, P., Farshchian, B., Doolin, K., Roussaki, I., Marshall, L., Mullins, R., Druesedow, S. & Dolinar, K. (2010) ‘Pervasive Computing in Daidalos’, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 99 1-1

Petkovic, M., Rajkovic. P. & Barry, P. (2011) ‘The Hankel transform of generalized central trinomial coefficients and related sequences’, Journal of Integral Transforms And Special Functions, 22, 29-44

Vaidhyanathan, B., Annapoorani, K., Binner, J. & Raghavendra, R. (2010) ‘Microwave sintering of Mulitlayer Integrated Passive Devices’, Journal of American Ceramic Society, 93(8), 2274-2280

Piwonski, T., Pulka, J., Viktorov, E.A., Huyet, G., Manning, R.J., Houlihan, J., Mandel, P. & Erneux, T. (2010) ‘Induced absorption dynamics in quantum dot based waveguide electroabsorbers’, Applied Physics Letters, 97, 121103

Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Traveller drug use and the school setting: Friend or Foe?’, Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Volume 54, Number 2, August, pp 7-16

Piwonski, T., Pulka, J., Viktorov, E.A., Huyet, G. & Houlihan, J. (2010) ‘Refractive index dynamics of quantum dot based waveguide electroabsorbers’, Applied Physics Letters, 97, 051107 Ponce de Leon, M., Mao, S., Steuer, F., Schumacher, J., Magedanz, T., Beyah, Raheem A. & Midkiff, S. (2010) ‘Advances In Wireless Test beds and Research Infrastructures’, Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 15, no. 3, pp 311-314 Popov, S., Zhang, R., Sergeyev, S. & Friberg, A.T. (2010) ‘Efficiency enhancement in a microcavity solid-state dye laser with Bragg grating reflectors’, Central European Journal of Physics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 202-206 Power, G., Dillon, E. & Cleary Grant, F. (2010) ‘Seamless Mobile Communications for mHealth’, Journal of eHealth Technology and Application Reinl, L. & Kelliher, F. (2010) ‘Cooperative micro-firm strategies: Leveraging resources through learning networks’, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 11(2): 141-50 Ryan, P. (2010) ‘Valéry: from artistic practice to a conception of drawing’, French Studies, (Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press), volume 64, no. 1, 2010, pp.

38-50 Ryan, P. (2010) ‘L’esthétique poïétique dans l’art visuel chez Valéry’, Studi francesi, (Rosenberg & Sellier Editori, Torino/Turin), vol. 160

Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Travellers and Substance Use-Implications for Service Provision’, International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, Volume 48, Number 2, pp 36-41 Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Traveller Health and Primary Health Care - A Stakeholders Perspective’ Community Practitioner Journal, Volume 85, Number 5, pp 25-28 Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘The Roma Community in Ireland’, The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp 129-140 Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘The Irish Traveller Community, Social Capital and Drug Use - An Exploratory Study’, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Volume 9, Issue 3, July, pp 186-205 Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Differentiated Normalisation and Drug Transitions among Rural Youth in Ireland’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Travellers and Substance Use in IrelandRecommendations for Drug and Alcohol Policy’, Drugs Education, Prevention and Policy Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Assimilation, Habitus and Drug use among Irish Travellers’, Critical Public Health Van Hout, M.C. & Ryan, R. (2010) ‘Gateway Transitions in Rural Irish Youth: Implications for culturally appropriate and targeted drug prevention’, Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education ISSUE 12 | Spring 2011

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PUBLICATIONS Vukkalam, V. & Houlihan, J. (2010) ‘Beam properties of injection profiled quantum dot lasers’, Optic Communications, 283, 2596 Walsh, F., Balasubramaniam, S., Botivch, D. & Donnelly, W. (2010) ‘Synthetic Protocols for Nano Sensor Transmitting Platforms using Enzyme and DNA Based Computing’, Nano Communication Networks 1 50-62 Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Europe and optimising mental health in the workplace - A comparative exploration of contextual stressors in the rehabilitation sector in five European countries’, Journal of Mental Health Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Reducing stress within the rehabilitative work setting - A report on the ROSE project’, 1st International Scientific Conference: Building Capacity and Capability in Nursing. Slovenia: The Nurses and Midwifes Society of Maribor, pp 63-69 Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M. & Cunningham, J., et al. (2010) ‘The Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment Project (ROSE)’, led by Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland), a Leonardo Da Vinci funded project, The European Parliament Journal, Politics, Policies and People Magazine, pp 66-67 Wells, J.S., Denny, M . & Cunningham, J. et al. (2010) ‘ROSE an online self help programme coming into bloom’, The Parliament Journal, Politics, Policies and People Magazine, pp 36 Whelan, S. (2010) ‘Brand Meaning’, European Journal of Marketing, 45 (4) 692 - 695 Whelan, S., Davies, G., Walsh, M. & Bourke, R. (2010) ‘Public Sector Corporate Branding and Customer Orientation’, Journal of Business Research, 63 (11), November, 1164 - 1171 Wohlfeil, M. & Whelan, S. (2010) ‘An Introspective Study of a Consumer’s Fan Relationship with a Film Actress’, Journal of Business Research, forthcoming Wohlfeil, M. & Whelan, S. (2010) ‘The Book of Stars: Understanding a Consumer’s Fan Relationship with a Film Actress through a Narrative Transportation Approach’, European Advances in Consumer Research, Volume 10, 372 - 377

Conference Proceedings Barron, J., Davy, S., Jennings, B. & Strassner, J. (2010) ‘A Policy Authoring Process and DEN-ng Model Extension for Federation Governance’, in Proceedings 6th International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2010), Springer Botvich, D., McGibney, J., Ostapenko, G., De Paoli, S., Kerr, A. & Keating, M. (2010) ‘Integrating Players, Reputation and Ranking to Manage Cheating in MMOGs’, 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 19-21 June, Monterey, USA Burke, R. & Demirag, I. (2010) ‘Managing Demand Risk in Ireland’s Public Private Partnership Roads: A Network Governance Perspective’, presented at the Irish Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, May Burke, R. & Demirag, I. (2010) ‘Managing Demand Risk in Ireland’s Public Private Partnership Roads’, presented at School of Management Research Seminar, Queens University, March Butler, B., Jennings, B. & Botivch, D. (2010) ‘XACML Policy Performance Evaluation Using a Flexible Load Testing Framework’, Proceedings 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2010) New York, NY, USA ACM 648-650 978-1-4503-0245-6 Buzoianu, S. (2010) ‘Effect of short-term feeding of genetically modified (Bt MON 810) maize on weanling pig growth performance, organ weights and organ histopathology’, European Association of Animal Production 61st meeting, August 23rd, Heraklion, Greece Buzoianu, S.G., Walsh, M.C., Gardiner, G.E., Cassidy, J.P., Rea, M.C., Ross, R.P. & Lawlor, P.G. (2010) ‘The effect of feeding genetically modified Bt maize (MON810) for 30 days on weanling pig growth performance organ weights and organ histopathology’, in Proceedings British Society of Animal Science/Agricultural Research Forum Conference; Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - A Vision for 2010, April 12 -14th, Belfast, Ireland

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Butler, B., Jennings, B. & Botvich, D. (2010) ‘XACML Policy Performance Evaluation Using a Flexible Load Testing Framework’ in Proceedings 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2010) New York, NY, USA ACM pp 648-650, ISBN 978-1-4503-0245-6 Carroll, R., Balasubramaniam, S., Botivch, D. & Donnelly, W. (2010) ‘Application of Genetic Algorithm to Maximise Clean Energy usage for Data Centres’, in Proceedings 5th Int’l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (Bionetics10) Collins, D. & Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘Online Social Networking and Community: a manifesto for Human Centred Systems Engineering’, in Proceedings of the International Federation of Automation and Control Conference in International Stability and Technology (SWIIS), Pristina: Kosovo Cooley, S. (2010) ‘An investigation into the quality of Irish wood for use as a solid biofuel’, 20th Irish Environmental Researchers’ Colloquium, Limerick Institute of Technology Dalton, R., Lally, A.M & Lynch, P. (2010) ‘Cultural and heritage experiences: a case study of the Guinness Storehouse’, Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland Biennial Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, 14-16 May Denieffe, S. (2010) ‘Using metasynthesis to explore womens’ symptom experience and breast cancer’, 29th Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research Conference, Dublin, 24-25th February, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin Duane, A. & O’Reilly, P. (2010) ‘Smart Mobile Media Service (SMMS) Consumer Intention Model’, The 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2010), November 8th to 10th, Paris, France Dunphy L. & O’Dwyer J. (2010) ‘Innovative Technologies: The Educational Challenges’, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education, ISEE 2010, Educating Engineers for a Changing World, University College Cork, 30th June to 2nd July, pp 321-325 Felicia, P. (2010) ‘Assessing players’ motivation and learning strategies based on their personality’, Proceedings of the ECGBL 2010 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-22 October Gannon, C., Lynch, P. & Harrington, D. (2010) ‘Framework for Enhancing Competitiveness in Culture and Heritage Organisations in the Irish Tourism Industry’ 6th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC) proceedings, Shannon College of Hotel Management, June 15-16 Grant, F. C., Dillon, E., Power, G., Kaschwig, T., Toker, A.C. & Hammerle, C. (2010) ‘QoE Testbed Infrastructure and Services: Enriching the End User’s Experience’, in TridentCom 2010 - The 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities Griffin, R. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘Heterarchy: the Career of a Concept’, 37th Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business, 8-10th April, Dublin, pp 1-17 Hajrizi, E., Stapleton, L. & Kopacek, P. (2010) ‘The Contribution of UBT for the sustainable development of Kosova’, in Proceedings of the International Federation of Automation and Control Conference in International Stability and Technology (SWIIS), Pristina: Kosovo Harrison, M., Upton, D. & Moyna, N. (2010) ‘Influence of short-term exercise training on vascular function in active and inactive vascular beds in overweight men’, American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 42, 90-91 Hauswirth, M., Friel, O., Griffin, K., Hession, P., Jennings, B., Groza, T., Handschuh, S., Podnar Zarko, I., Polleres, A. & Zimmermann, A. (2010) ‘Towards Consolidated Presence’, in Proceedings 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010) IEEE Computer Society Holden, M.T., Foley, A., Lynch, P. & Hussey, J. (2010) ‘Building Entrepreneurship and Innovation through the Continuing Education of Micro and Small Tourism Enterprises: A Contemporary Framework for Program Delivery’, Conference on Tourism Entrepreneurship proceedings, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, April 26-28

PUBLICATIONS Hussey, J., Holden, M.T., Foley, A. & Lynch, P. (2010) ‘Defining Professionalism in the Tourism Context’, Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference proceedings, Shannon College of Hotel Management, June 15-16 Ivers, A. & Foley, A. (2010) ‘Linking Retrospective Sense-Making to Dynamic Capability Development’, Annual Academy of Marketing Conference proceedings, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, July 6-8 Kandavanam, G., Botvich, D. & Balasubramaniam, S. (2010) ‘PaCRA: A Pathaware Content Replication Approach to Support QoS Guaranteed Video on Demand Service in Metropolitan IPTV Networks’, in Proceedings 12th IEEE/ IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2010) Kandavanam, G., Botvich, D., Balasubramaniam, S. & Suganthan, P. N. (2010) ‘Achieving High Robustness and Performance in Performing QoS-aware Route Planning in IPTV Networks’, in Proceedings 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence Kealy, A. & Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘Systems Development and Key Success Factors in Large Scale Telemedicine Projects: Preliminary Findings of a Post-Conflict Country Case Study’, in Kopacek, P. & Hajdrizi, E. (eds)., (2010) Proceedings of the International Federation of Automation and Control Conference in International Stability and Technology (SWIIS), Pristina: Kosovo Kelliher, F., Holden, M.T., Lynch, P. & Aylward, E. (2010) ‘Pursuing a Sustainable Future: Proposing a Model of Facilitated Rural Network Development’, Academy of Management Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, August 5-10 Kelliher, F. & Reinl, L. (2010) ‘From facilitated to independent Tourism Learning Networks: Connecting the Dots’, International Tourism Entrepreneurship Conference proceedings, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, April 26-27 Kennedy, F. & Millar, S. (2010) ‘Assuring quality for the teaching of intercultural communication in Europe: perspectives and challenges’, [online] available at http://www.lanqua.eu/theme/interculturalcommunication Kent, T. (2010) ‘Moisture content variations in forest biomass during storage’, Conference: Harvesting Forest Biomass: aGlobal State of the Art. COST Action FP0902 & CNR IVALSA, Trento, Italy Kiely, A. & Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘Systems Development and Key Success Factors in Large Scale Telemedicine Projects: Preliminary Findings of a Post-Conflict Country Case Study’, in Kopacek, P. & Hajdrizi, E. (eds)., Proceedings of the International Federation of Automation and Control Conference in International Stability and Technology (SWIIS), Pristina: Kosovo Kirwan, C. & Brennan, N. (2010) ‘Investigating the antecedents and implications of role conflict for non-executive directors: a conceptual model’, 23rd Annual Conference of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association, University of Ulster, Belfast, 6-7 May Kirwan, C. & Brennan, N. (2010) ‘Investigating the antecedents and implications of role conflict for non-executive directors on boards of unlisted family firms’, 6th Workshop on Family Firms Management Research, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 June Latré, S., van der Meer, S., de Turck, F. & Strassner, J. (2010) ‘Ontological Generation of Filter Rules for Context Exchange in Autonomic Multimedia Networks’, In Proc. 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2010) Liu, Y., Munjampally, P. & O’Leary, P. (2010) ‘Broadband Wireless Propagation through Various Building Materials’, Proceedings of the Colloquium on Wireless as an Enabling Technology, 22nd April, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland Lynch, P. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘Structuring Interaction Dynamics in a close Collaborative Relationship: A Sense-making Perspective’, 25th International Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference, Budapest, 1st-4th September, pp. 1-27 Maloney Bates, M. & O’Donohoe, S. (2010) ‘Insights into the Merger Integration Process: A study of JP Morgan Chase & Co’, 21st Annual Conference of the Irish Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Ireland, 6th May

McCarthy, G., Lawlor, P.G., Gutierrez, M. & Gardiner, G.E. (2010) ‘Removal of Salmonella and indicator micro-organisms in integrated constructed wetlands treating agricultural wastewater’, In Proceedings 2nd Irish International Conference on Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and Environmental Pollution Control, October 1st-2nd, University College Dublin McCarthy, G., Lawlor, P.G., Nolan, T., Gutierrez, M. & Gardiner, G.E. (2010) ‘Biosafety assessment of pig manure during composting with straw, sawdust and greenwaste bulking agents’, In Proceedings British Society of Animal Science/Agricultural Research Forum Conference; Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - A Vision for 2010, April 12th-14th, Belfast McCarthy, G., Lawlor, P.G., Harrington, C. & Gardiner, G.E. (2010) ‘Efficacy of integrated constructed wetlands for the removal of pathogens from livestock wastewater’, In Proceedings Society of Wetland Scientists European Chapter Annual Meeting, May 26th - 28th, Tramore, Co Waterford McDonald, T.J. (2010) ‘The development of a Community Informatics model’, CI Conference, Prato, Italy McDonnell, A. & Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Maze and Minefield-A Grounded Theory of Opiate Self Detoxification in rural Ireland’, Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, Epidemiology section of the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA), Lausanne, Switzerland, June McDonnell, A. & Sinnott, D. (2010) ‘Barriers and enablers to energy efficient retrofitting of dwellings in Ireland’, In: Egbu, C (Ed.), 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 1437-46 McGrath, H. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘Action Learning Methodologies and the IMP Tradition: Application to Capability Building in SMEs’, 25th International Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference, Budapest, 1st-4th September, pp. 1-18 Meskill, B., Davy, A. & Jennings, B. (2010) ‘The Impact of the Complexity of Topologies used in Comparative Analyses of Congestion-based Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools’, In Proc. 10th Information Technology & Telecommunications Conference (IT’&T 2010) Moloney, C. (2010) ‘The silent witness: the fiddle manuscript of John ‘Boss’ Murphy (1875-1955)’, in Russell, I. and Kearney Guigne, A. Fiddle and Dance Studies from the North Atlantic 3, Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, pp. 81-92 Mulhall, C. (2010) ‘A Semantic and Lexical-Based Approach to the Lemmatisation of Idioms in Bilingual Italian-English Dictionaries’, in A. Dykstra and T. Schoonheim (eds.) proceedings of the XIV Euralex International Congress, pp 1355-1371 Murray, N., Foley, A. & Lynch, P. (2010) ‘Fáilte go Sláinte: Understanding the Tourist Experience Concept’, 6th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities proceedings, Shannon College of Hotel Management, June 15- 16 O’Byrne, C. (2010) ‘Academic lives through a lens: applying Archer’s theoretical tools to the professional life stories of Irish academics’, European Conference of Educational Research, University of Helsinki, August O’Byrne, C. (2010) ‘A student-led approach to personal and professional development: a case study of a level 9 module in professional development and effectiveness for graduate engineers’ NAIRTL / LIN Annual Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, October O’Byrne, C. (2010) ‘Life as a lecturer: the nature and evolution of academic professional identities in the Institute of Technology sector of the Irish higher education system’, Annual Conference of the Society for Research in Higher Education, Newport, Wales, December O’Connell, B. (2010) ‘The Role of the Fiddler in the Newfoundland Tradition’, NAFCO 2010, Elphinstone Institute, 14-18 July, University of Aberdeen O’Dowd-Smyth, C. (2010) ‘Traumatic landscapes and the problematic of identity in Atlantic Canada and France: A comparative cinematic study of ‘La Veuve de St Pierre’ and ‘The Shipping News’’, The Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland (ASCI) Biennial Conference: Ireland, Canada & The World; WIT, 16-18 May O’Neill, H., McCarthy, M. & O’Leary, P. (2010) ‘High-speed FPGA fading channel simulator’, Proceedings of the Colloquium on Wireless as an Enabling Technology, 22nd April, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland ISSUE 12 | Spring 2011

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PUBLICATIONS O’Neill, S. (2010) ‘An investigation into the adoption and use of ICT by inhabitants of rural Ireland’, CI Conference, Prato Italy O’Reilly, N. (2010) ‘Drug delivery for the treatment of eye diseases’, Enterprise Ireland Techclub, Eastpoint Business Park, Dublin O’Riordan, C. & McDermott, A. (2010) ‘Understanding Family Doctor’s Experience of Work: A Role Conflict Lens’, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 6-10 August

Thomas, K., Graham, B., McCarthy, T., Troy, P. & Crowe, D. (2010) ‘Making an Impact: Improving the use of ICT in a leading construction company through and Industry-Academia partnership’, in: Thabet, W. (ed.), Proceedings of the 27th CIB W78 International Conference on Applications of IT for the AEC Industry, 16-19 November, Cairo, Egypt

O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘Long Term Orientation and Relationship Strength: How Time-Dependent are Strong Relationships?’, 25th International Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference, Budapest, 1st-4th September, pp. 1-16

Van der Meer, S., Jennings, B. & Strassner, J. (2010) ‘Managing Ubiquitous Networks -- How do they do it?’, in Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2010) pp 49-54

Phelan, P., Boudjemil Z., Ponce de Leon, M. & van der Meer, S. (2010) ‘An Introduction to Network Stack Design using Software Design Patterns’, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2010) Springer-Verlag

Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Differentiated Normalisation and Rural Youth Drug Transitions’, Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, Epidemiology section of the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA). Lausanne Switzerland, June

Raleigh, B. & Allen, P. (2010) ‘System Integration Incorporating Vision of A Robotic Hand on an Industrial Robot’, IMC, September, Galway

Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Positive outcome expectancies towards alcohol use and self efficacy expectancies towards being able to abstain from drinking alcohol as predictors for use of alcohol, inebriation, and unwanted consequences of inebriation’, Authors: Erik Iversen, Arvid Skutle and Anne Bolstad, and ‘The impact of alcohol price on alcohol-induced changes in psychomotor performance, social enhacement and affect’, Authors: Renske Spijkerman, Kathleen D. Voh, Kirsten A. Kremer, Annika K.E. de Haan and Rutger C.M.E. Engels. Discussant Presentation. Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. Epidemiology section of the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA).

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Roussaki, I., Kalatzis, N. K., Doolin, K., Taylor, N., Spadotto, G., Liampotis, N. D. & Williams, M. H. (2010) ‘Self-improving personal smart spaces for pervasive service provision’, in Towards the Future Internet, Proceedings of the Future Internet Assembly Serrano, M., De Paoli, S., Gangadharan, G. R., Kerr, A., D’Andrea, V., Serrano, M., Botvich, D. & McGibney, J. (2010) ‘Towards Trust as Result: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the ‘Future of the Internet’, in Proceedings for 3rd ICTs and Society Network Meeting Serrano, M., O Foghlu, M. & Donnelly, W. (2010) ‘Patient Monitoring and Autonomic Systems as Integral Support in Early Cardio-Vascular Diagnostics’, in proceedings of pHealth 2010 - International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Healthcare Serrano, M., van deer Meer, S., Holum, V., Murphy, J. & Strassner, J. (2010) ‘Federation, A Matter of Autonomic Management in the Future Internet’, In proceedings of 2010 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium - NOMS 2010 Shi, L. & Davy, A. (2010) ‘Intrinsic Monitoring within an IPv6 Network: Re¬lating Traffic Flows to Network Paths’, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Shi, L., Davy, A., Muldowney, D., Davy, S., Hoefig, E. & Fu, X. (2010) ‘Intrinsic Monitoring within an IPv6 Network: Mapping Node Specific information to Network Paths’, IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) Shi, L., Fu, J. & Davy, S. (2010) ‘On Minimizing the Network Nodes Update Time’, IEEE GLOBECOM Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘International Stability and Technology Adoption Theory: A Case Study of Institutional Factors in Control and Management Systems Adoption in Post-Conflict Regions’, in Kopacek, P. & Hajdrizi, E. (eds)., Proceedings of the International Federation of Automation and Control Conference in International Stability and Technology (SWIIS), Pristina: Kosovo, Forthcoming Stolhofer, D., Liu, Y. & O’Leary, P. (2010) ‘RF Propagation Through Transparent Conductors In Energy Efficient Windows’, Proceedings of the 16th European Wireless Conference, 12-15 April, Lucca, Italy Strassner, J., Kim, S., Pfeifer, T. & van der Meer, S. (2010) ‘An Architecture for Using Metadata to Manage Ubiquitous Communications and Services - A Position Paper’, In Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops) -- Proc. 7th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communicationsand Services (MUCS 2010) Multicon Lecture Notes 159-164 Sullivan, K. & Clarke, J. (2010) ‘Balancing Security and Privacy in eGovernment Services’, in: Proceedings of 5th Annual IST-Africa Conference & Exhibition Series, Durban, South Africa, May 19-21 Sullivan, K., Gresser, J.Y. & Morrow, S. (2010) ‘Risk Ontologies - Security or Trust?

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Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘The Roma Community in Ireland’, International Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations Conference, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom, July Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Irish Travellers, Selective Assimilation and Drugs: A Question of Social Capital?’, ESSD, European Society for Social Drug Research 21st Annual Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September - October Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Mephedrone and other Legal Highs in Ireland’, Occasional Seminar, Alcohol and Drug Research Unit [ADRU], South African Medical Research Council, Capetown, South Africa, October Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘The Irish Traveller Community, Selective Assimilation and Drugs: A Question of Social Capital?’, National Drugs Conference of Ireland ‘A Continuum of Care within Drug Services’, Dublin, November Walsh, M.C., Buzoianu, S.G., Gardiner, G.E., Rea, M.C., Hart, O.M., Ross, R.P. & Lawlor, P.G. (2010) ‘Effect of short-term feeding of genetically modified Bt maize (MON810) on gut microbiota, intestinal morphology and immune status of weanling pigs’, in Proceedings British Society of Animal Science/Agricultural Research Forum Conference; Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - A Vision for 2010, April 12 -14th, Belfast, Ireland Walsh, M., Lynch, P. & Harrington, D. (2010) ‘Defining and Dimensionalizing Organizational Innovativeness’, ICHRIE Annual Summer Conference and Marketplace, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 28-31 Walsh, M. Lynch, P. & Harrington, D. (2010) ‘Creating Superior Competitive Advantages for the Small Tourism Firm Through Capitalising on the FirmLevel Dynamic Capability of Firm-Level Innovativeness’, 6th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities proceedings, Shannon College of Hotel Management, June 15- 16 Walsh, P.R., O’ Mahony, N. & Escalona, O.J. (2010) ‘A low-cost microelectronic platform for wireless enablement of implantable medical devices’, 27th International Manufacturing Conference, Galway Institute of Technology, 1st 3rd September, Ireland Xu, L. & Jennings, B. (2010) ‘A Cost-minimizing Service Composition Selection Algorithm Supporting Time-sensitive Discounts’, in Proceedings 7th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010) IEEE 402-408

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Conferences and Symposia Bergin, M. (2010) ‘NVivo 8 and consistency in data analysis: A reflection on the use of a Qualitative Data (QDA) computer programme’, 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Transforming Healthcare through Research and Education, 4th -5th November Trinity College Dublin Bergin, M., Wells, J. & Owen, S. (2010) ‘Mental health care provision in Ireland: a study of service providers, users and gender’, Nordic Conference of Mental Health Nursing, September 7-9, Helsinki, Finland Bergin, M., Wells, J. & Owen, S. (2010) ‘An exploration of gender issues and mental health care provision in Ireland with particular reference to men’, Muldisciplinary Approaches to Improving Men’s Health, HPRC, NUI Galway, 1011th June Bergin, M., Wells, J. & Owen, S. (2010) ‘Gender Issues and Mental Health Care Provision in Ireland’, 18th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services ‘’Tackling Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Health: Contributions of Health Services and the HPH Network’’ April 14-16, Manchester, United Kingdom Bergin, M., Wells, J. & Owen, S. (2010) ‘Building a gendered perspective for mental health care provision in Ireland: a study of service providers and users’, European Psychiatric Nursing Congress: Building Bridges, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th - 17th April

Denieffe, S. & Gooney, M. (2010)’ Using metasynthesis to explore the symptom experience of women with cancer’, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin Denny, M. (2010) ‘Teaching for Multiple Intelligences in Undergraduate Education’, Tech-Education 2010.1st International Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Quality of Teaching and Reforming of Education May 1921, Athens, Greece Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Creating a multi-modal self-help learning environment’, IASSID Conference, Rome Denny, M., Cunningham, M. & Ridge, M. (2010) ‘ROSE the Journey’, Royal College of Physicians Denny, M. & Wells, J.S.G. (2010) ‘Reducing Stress within the Rehabilitative Work Setting’, A Report on the ROSE Project Tech-Education 2010, 1st International Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Quality of Teaching and Reforming of Education May 19-21, Athens, Greece Denny, M. & Wells, J.S.G. (2010) ‘Exploring how teaching for multiple intelligence affects student achievement in an undergraduate nursing education programme in Ireland’, Building Capacity and Capability. Slovenia: Maribor Denny, M. & Wells, J.S.G. (2010) ‘Using multiple intelligences in the classroom- a practical approach’, Switzerland: University of Fribourg

Boland, T. (2010) ‘Politics and Love: On Plato’s Symposium and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice’, 5th Plato Symposium, Florence

Dillon, E., Power, G. & Cleary Grant, F. (2010) ‘Experimental Testing in the Future Internet PERIMETER Project’, in International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services FIS 2010

Boland, T. (2010) ‘Cool: Individualising Ecstasy’, Third International Political Anthropology Workshop in Ireland on EK-STASIS: Ecstasy in Politics, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, 19-20 February

Donnelly, N. & Murphy, K. (2010) ‘Integrating OpenCL and OpenMPI to Provide Distributed Supercomputing’, Intel European Research and Innovation Conference Ireland, 12-14th October

Boudjemil, Z., Phelan, P., Ponce de Leon, M. & van der Meer, S. (2010) ‘A Case Study for defining Interoperable Network Components using MDD’, in European Modelling Symposium (EMS 2010) CPS

Dowling, S. (2010) ‘The Reception of the Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28) in Henry Purcell’s ‘In Guilty Night’’, Society of Biblical Literature International Conference, University of Tartu, Estonia, 25-29 July

Boyce, M. (2010) ‘Young Male School Students’ Perception of Psychiatric Nursing as a Career- Interpreting Silence in Focus Group Data’, New Horizons Conference, University of Derby Postgraduate Research Conference, UK

Felicia, P. (2010) ‘Learning with video games, creative and effective practices’ [keynote], Klee conference, Darmstadt, Germany, 7th September

Burke, R. & Demirag, I. (2010) ‘Managing Demand Risk in Ireland’s Public Private Partnership Roads’, Presented at the European Accounting Association Annual Conference, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, May Chesser-Smyth, P. (2010) ‘Developing self-confidence and meeting undergraduate students’ needs’, VIIITH European Conference of Nurse Education, Lisbon, Portugal

Felicia, P. (2010) ‘Teaching with video games, literature review and best practices’, NAIRTL/LIN Conference on Flexible Learning, Dublin, Ireland, 6-7 October Felicia, P. (2010) ‘Improving GBL research, issues and challenges’ [keynote], Master class organised as part of the ECGBL conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19th October

Clarke, L. (2010) ‘The European ballad and its dissemination in Ireland’, Society of Musicology in Ireland Postgraduate Conference, DIT, Dublin, 22-23 January

Finn, F. & Wall, C. (2010) ‘Continuing education and support of preceptors in the clinical setting: a collaborative action research project’, Paper presented at Federation of International Nurse Educators Conference, 6th - 9th October, Lisbon, Portugal

Clarke, L. (2010) ‘Songs of the South East: a study of the ballad tradition in County Wexford’, Society of Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Magee, Derry, 7-9 May

Foley, C., Power, G., Griffin, L., Chen, C., Donnelly, D. & de Leastar, E. (2010) ‘Service Group Management facilitated by DSL driven Policies in embedded Middleware’, IEEE ISCC (Symposium on Computer and Communication)

Cleary Grant, F., Dillon, E., Power, G., Kaschwig, T., Cihat Toker, A. & Hammerle, C. (2010) ‘QoE Testbed Infrastructure and Services: Enriching the End User’s Experience’, In TridentCom - The 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Furlong, Á. (2010) ‘Framing content-based teaching: the bigger picture’, A European-canadian project: Integrationg plurilingualism/culturalism into Content-based teaching, University of Ottawa, Canada, September 30

Cleere, G. (2010) ‘An Exploration of Prisoners’ Experiences of Prison Education in Ireland’, Waterford Institute of Technology’s Department of Applied Arts Departmental Research Seminar, 25 March

Furlong, Á. (2010) ‘Exploring in-between spaces to foster creative thinking in Higher Education: the case of plurilingualism/culturalism’, Creative Thinking: Re-imagining the university, The 8th Annual Galway Symposium National University of Ireland Galway 10th -11th June

Cleere, G. (2010) ‘Prison Education in Ireland: An Exploration of Prisoners’ Experiences’, 10th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 10 September

Furlong, Á. (2010) ‘The relation of creativity to plurilingualism: in-between spaces’, Mapping creativity in higher education in Ireland, All-Ireland Society for Higher Education conference (AISHE), Dublin 5th March

Crowley, M.T., Piwonski, T., Houlihan, J., Uskov, A.V., Huyet, G. & O’Reilly, E.P. (2010) ‘Two color phase transients of 1.3 µm InAs/GaAs quantum dot SOAs’, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), San Jose, CA, Pages 1 - 2

Furlong, Á. (2010) ‘Ábhar agus Áiseanna’, CLIL agus an Teagasc Trí Ghaeilge, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, i gcomhpháirtíocht le Gaelscoileanna Teo. 27 Feabhra

Culleton, J. (2010) ‘’Celticism’, The Gaelic Revival, Race and Constructions of Irishness’, Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Queens University, Belfast, May

Gooney, M., Bergin, M. & Wells, J. (2010) ‘Views of CMHNs on Prescribing - a follow up study’, 29TH Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research Conference, 24-25th February, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin ISSUE 12 | Spring 2011

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PUBLICATIONS Griffin, L., de Leastar, E. & Botvich, D. (2011) ‘The Management of Dynamic Shared Groups within XMPP’, IEEE IM. (International Symposium on integrated network management)

Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Theorising Judicial Cultures: Re-examining the Value of Moral Judgments in Sentencing Rationales’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Liege, 8-11September

Hayes, R. (2010) ‘Tennessee Williams and the Movies,’ British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 8-11 April

Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Sentencing Cultures and Consistency in Ireland’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Liege, 8th-11th September

Hayes, R. (2010) ‘Rage Against the Machine: Pearse, Managerialism and the Reimagined University’, 8th Galway Symposium on Higher Education, NUI Galway, 10-11 June Holden, M. T. (2010) ‘Introducing PBL in the Business Discipline and Its Impact on the Student Learning Experience’, 10th Pro-bell International Conference on Problem-Based Learning, Tampere, Finland, May 4-5 Kavanagh, J. (2010) ‘The legacy of broadcasting restrictions on the legal regulation of political speech in Ireland’, Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Limerick, 26-28 November Keating, A. (2010) ‘A Hotchpotch of Probate issues’, Continuing Professional Development Seminar, Waterford Law Society, Waterford, 21 April Kennedy, F. (co-authored) (2010) ‘Towards the Development of Awareness in Intercultural Communicative Competence: a Tandem Exchange Experience’, Intercultural competence: concepts - challenges - evaluations, NUI Maynooth, 2nd - 4th September

Maher, J. (2010) ‘A Consumer Perspective on Financial Regulation, After the Goldrush: Economic Crisis and Consequences’, Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Iceland, Reyjavik, 27-28 May Maher, J. (2010) ‘Financial Regulation in Ireland and Canada, A Comparative Perspective’, Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland, Biennial Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, May Mannix, V. (2010) ‘Motivation- The Language Learner and Teacher’, 73rd Conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, London, 29th-31st March, University of Reading Mannix, V. (2010) ‘Learning for the Future - Motivational Self-Systems’, AISHE C International Conference Series: Designing & Delivering curricula for the Future, Dublin City University, 26th & 27th August

Kennedy, F. (2010) ‘From theory to practice: Intercultural competence through language learning’, Languages in higher education conference: Raising the standard for languages, University of Southampton, July 1st - 2nd

McGrath, H. & O’Toole, T. (2010) ‘Reviewing Enterprise Policy and Supports to SMEs in Ireland with a Network Capability Building Lens’, SLNIW, Network, Learning and Entrepreneurship Conference, 16th September, School of Management and Business, University of Aberystwyth, Wales

Kennedy, F. (2010) ‘e-Portfolio for language and Intercultural learning: the LOLIPOP experience’, NAIRTL / LIN Annual Conference, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, October 6th - 7th

Moloney, C. (2010) ‘Recording and rediscovering: the contribution of the Milligan Sisters to Irish Music’, Women in Music in Ireland Conference, NUIM, Maynooth, 17 April

Kent, T. (2010) ‘Assessment of Firewood Supply Chains from Hardwood First Thinnings - a result of the COFORD Forest Energy Programme’, Presentation to the Farm Woodland Forum Seminar, Teagasc, Kinsealy Research Centre

Moloney, C. (2010) ‘‘Sugar Plumbs or Sweetys[sic]’: Edward Bunting (1773-1843) as a Collector of Irish Music and Song’, Edward Bunting Harp Festival, Newry, 30 May

Kulatunga, C., Botvich, D., Balasubramaniam, S. & Donnelly, W. (2010) ‘Analysis of Block-aware Peer Adaptations in Substream-based P2P’, In International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (ICST/ BroadNets) ICST

Moloney, C. (2010) ‘Frank Roche (1866-1961): fiddler, dancer and music collector’, North Atlantic Fiddle Conference, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 14-18 July

Lane, A. & Murphy, N.M. (2010) ‘Make the Best Use of What You Have: Using Existing Resources in the Community to Promote Physical Activity’, European HEPA Network conference, Olomouc, Czech Republic, November 23-25 Lane, A., Murphy, N.M. & Bauman, A. (2010) ‘Active for a Day: Predictors of Relapse among Previously Active Mass Event Participants’, ICPAPH World Congress, Toronto, Canada, May 5-8 Lyng, B. & Lowry-O’Neill, C. (2010) ‘Group Projects in the Information Technology Curriculum: Towards Best Practice’, NAIRTL/LIN Conference on Flexible Learning, National College of Surgeons, Dublin, 6-7 October Madden, C. (2010) ‘Service learning in nurse education - Teaching life-saving skills to post-primary school children’, New Horizons Conference, University of Derby Postgraduate Research Conference, UK Madden, C. (2010) ‘Using Peer Teaching in Nurse Education to Teach Lifesaving Skills to Post-Primary School Children’, New Horizons Conference, University of Derby Postgraduate Research Conference UK Madden, C. (2010) ‘Service Learning in Nurse Education: A Mixed Methods Approach’,The PhD Process from Concept to Completion, 2nd Doctoral Colloquium for Nursing, Midwifery, Health Sciences and the Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, 27th May Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Hooked on Punishment? Re-evaluation Our Assumptions’, Conversations on Crime and Society: Department of Applied Arts Research and Practice Seminar Series, 4 May Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Understanding Judicial Cultures: Questions for Comparative Research in Europe’, Sentencing Symposium, Leiden University, 21 May

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Maguire, N. (2010) ‘Repentance and the Law’, European Society of Catholic Theologians - Irish Section Colloquium: From Repentance to Renewal, Clontarf Castle, 10 December

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Moran, S. (2010) ‘Intercultural Virtues’, International Conference, Creative Approaches to Intercultural Competence, Waterford Morrissey, L. (2010) ‘An amalgam of sources: the manuscripts of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914)’, Society of Musicology in Ireland Postgraduate Conference, DIT, Dublin, 22-23 January Morrissey, L. (2010) ‘Worthy of presentation or not? a twenty-first-century appraisal of P.W. Joyce’s work as a collector of Irish Music’, Society of Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Magee, Derry, 7-9 May Morrissey, L. (2010) ‘The Paper fiddle: reconstructing the repertoire of a contemporary fiddle player from the music collections of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914)’, North Atlantic Fiddle Conference, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 14-18 July Mulhall, C. (2010) ‘A Semantic and Lexical-Based Approach to the Lemmatisation of Idioms in Bilingual Italian-English Dictionaries’, Euralex XIV, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, 6-10 July Murphy, L. & Finn, F. (2010) ‘Linking assessment methods with innovative teaching and learning strategies in postgraduate nursing education’, NAIRTL: Flexible Learning, 6th October, Dublin, Ireland Murphy, N.M. (2010) ‘Supporting women in coaching roles in sport’, Invited symposium, Coaching Ireland Coaching Forum ‘From Playground to Podium’, National Convention Centre, Dublin, September 11 Murphy, N.M. (2010) ‘Active at college. What’s the point(s)?’, CUSAI Annual Conference, Athlone, May Murphy, N.M. (2010) ‘A shared vision for physical education, physical activity and sport. The role of the academic sector’, PEPAYS Annual conference, University of Limerick, June 17-18

PUBLICATIONS O’Brien, J. (2010) ‘Contemporary Irish Drinking Culture’, International Political Anthropology Symposium: Ecstacy in Politics, Waterford Institute of Technology, 19-20 February O’Brien, J. (2010) ‘Drinking and Crashing: Irish Drinking Culture 2007-10’, Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Queens University Belfast, May O’Brien, J. (2010) ‘Evolution, Culture, Civilization and Intoxication’, Conference on the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, Aalborg, Denmark, October O’Connell, B. (2010) ‘The role of the fiddle player in the Newfoundland tradition’, North Atlantic Fiddle Conference, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 14-18 July O’Neill, D. (2010) ‘Using social media to recruit students from China and India’, European Association for International Education annual conference, 15th - 18th September, Nantes, France O’Shea, R. & Williams, J. R. (2010) ‘Family Law: Common Threads and Unique Opportunities’, Canadian-Irish Family Law Conference, Maynooth, 8-9 October Piwonski, T., Pulka, J., Madden, G., Houlihan, J., Huyet, G., Viktorov, E.A., Erneux, T. & Mandel, P. (2010) ‘The nonlinear absorption and phase recovery of quantum dot based reverse-biased waveguide electro-absorbers’, 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, Munich, pp 1 - 4 Ponce De Leon, M. & Adhikari, A. (2010) ‘A User Centric Always Best Connected Service Business Model for MVNOs’, In Second International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms Power, G., Dillon, E. & Cleary Grant, F. (2010) ‘Seamless Mobile Communications for mHealth’, In 12th IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services (IEEE Healthcom) Ridge, M. Chalder, T. Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Occupational stress for employees (ROSE): The design of a web-based stress management intervention for support workers in the mental healthcare sector’, 31st Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR) 4th-6th August National University of Ireland, Galway Schumacher, J., Dobler, M., Dillon, E., Power, G., Fiedler, M., Erman, D., De Vogeleer, K., Oritz Ramos, M. & Rodríguez Argente, J. (2010) ‘Providing a User Centric Always Best Connection’, In The Second International Conference on Evolving Internet, INTERNET 2010 Sergeyev, S. & O’Mahoney, K. (2010) ‘Polarisation Instabilities as a source of deterministic coherence and anticoherence resonance in Erbium doped fibre laser’, Europhoton, Hamburg, Germany Sergeyev, S. & O’Mahoney, K. (2010) ‘Coherence and Anticoherence Resonance in Erbium Doped Fiber Laser’, Laser Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia Sergeyev, S. & O’Mahoney, K. (2010) ‘Polarization Instabilities Assisted Coherence and Anticoherence Resonance in Erbium Doped Fiber Laser’, in Nonlinear Photonics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper NTuC27 Sergeyev, S. & O’Mahoney, K. (2010) ‘Polarization Instabilities Assisted Coherence and Anticoherence Resonance in Erbium Doped Fiber Laser’, Nonlinear Photonics, Karlsruhe, Germany Sharon, N., Ridel, L., Dillon, E., Salgarelli, L. & Fiedler, M. (2010) ‘Multi-Operator Virtualization Platform for User Centered Networks’, The Second International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management MONAMI

Thomas, K. (2010) ‘Creating New Ideas and Technology Business Opportunities for Irish Construction’, Co-organiser of the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) 20th Bi-annual Members Meeting, Aviva Stadium Lansdowne Road, Dublin, 21st May Thomas, K. (2010) ‘Building Information Modelling (BIM) Goes Mainstream in Irish Construction’ , Co-organiser of the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) 21st Biannual Members Meeting, Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin, 25th November Wang, R., Shi, L., Ó Foghlú, M. & Robson, E. (2010) ‘A Meta-Learning Method for Concept Drift’, In International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR) Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘The ROSE Project’, Switzerland: University of Fribourg Wells, J.S. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Transforming Global Rights into Action’, 15th World Congress of Inclusion International, Berlin, 16th -19th June Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M., Cunningham, J., Sheppard, J. & Edwards, R. (2010) ‘Reducing occupational stress in employment’, HPH Manchester 18th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Tackling Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Health: Contributions of Health Services and the HPH Network 14th-16th April, Manchester Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M., Cunningham, J. & Ridge, M. (2010) ‘Perspective of the Staff: Expectations and Change’, European Association of Service Providers for People with Disabilities What About Me? Including the Most Excluded: Improving the Quality of Life of People with Profound Disabilities June 3rd- 4th, Helsinki, Finland Wells, J.S. Denny, M., Sheppard, J., Bergin, M., Mullally, B., Sheahan, S., O’Neill, S., Murphy, T. & McDonald, T.J. (2010) ‘An Investigation into the adoption of technology by primary health practitioners in the South East of Ireland’, WHO Conference Crete Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Reducing stress within the rehabilitative work setting - report on the ROSE project’, Building Capacity and Capability, Slovenia, Maribor, June Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Reducing stress in occupational employment’, Annual IASSID International Research Conference Oct 23-25th Rome, Italy Wells, J.S.G. (2010) ‘Introducing the ROSE project’, Reducing Stress in Occupational Employment, November 14th, Dublin Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Reducing occupational stress in employment (ROSE)’, 29th Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research Conference, 24th and 25th February Wells, J.S.G., Denny, M. & Cunningham, J. (2010) ‘Reducing stress within the rehabilitative work setting - a report on the ROSE project’, 15th World Congress of Inclusion International, Berlin, Germany Wells, J.S.G., Bergin, M. & Gooney, M. (2010) ‘A follow up study on the views of community mental health nurses on prescribing’, 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Transforming Healthcare through Research, Education and Technology, Trinity College, Dublin Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment’, Mental Health Law Conference 26th February, University College Cork Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M. (2010) ‘Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment’, 28th International Conference of Nursing and Midwifery, RCN, Dublin

Stapleton, L. (2010) ‘Building Strategic Capacity for Change: Innovating Competitive Advantage’, Invited Keynote Paper, National Research and Development Conference Finland, Lappareenta University of Applied Science, Finland, February

Wells, J.S.G. & Denny, M., et al. (2010) ‘Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment’, 28th International Conference of Nursing and Midwifery International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services, Glasgow

Stapleton, L., Lewoc, J.B. & Bulz, N. (2010) ‘Generozitate-CreativitateSolidaritate versus expresii laureate ale modelului economic si social European si mondial’, ‘’Europa - Un Continent Unit De Un Interes Comun - Supravietuirea’’ (Europe: Survival - A Common Interest Unifying A Continent), July 2 and 5-11, (the 2nd edition), Bucharest, Draganescu, Cheia - Romania

Whelan, S., Davies, G., Brown, T. J. & Kirmani, A. (2010) ‘The Effects of Package Similarity and Shelf Position Persuasion Tactics on Consumer Responses to Private Label Brands’, International Corporate Identity/Associations Research Group Conference, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, October

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PUBLICATIONS

Poster Presentations Butler, H. & O’Mahony, J. (2010) ‘The development of quartz crystal tuning fork nanosensors’, Waterford Institute of Technology, October Clarke, A., Coffey, L. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Characterisation of an unusual plasmid bearing a nitrilase gene in bacterial strains’, IRCSET Symposium, Dublin Coffey, L., Clarke, A. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Isolation of a nitrilase gene from novel bacterial strains, screening environmental soils for the gene by real-time PCR and expression of the nitrilase from Rhodococcus erythropolis AJ270 in E. Coli’, SGM Meeting, Edinburgh, September Cooley, S. (2010) ‘The quality of Irish wood for use as a solid biofuel’, 20th Irish Environmental Researchers’ Colloquium, Limerick Institute of Technology Daly, E. & McCarthy, N. (2010) ‘Achieving effective control of rhododendron ponticum L . in Ireland’, 15th European Weed Research Society Symposium, July 12-15, Kaposvar, Hungary Donnelly, N. & Murphy, K. (2010) ‘Integrating OpenCL and OpenMPI to Provide Distributed Supercomputing’, Intel European Research and Innovation Conference Ireland, 12-14 October Dunphy, L. & O’Dwyer, J. (2010) ‘Innovative Technologies: The Educational Challenges’, 3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education, ISEE 2010, Educating Engineers for a Changing World, University College Cork, 30th June to 2nd July Fitzhenry, L., Manesiotis, P., McLoughlin, P. & Duggan, P. (2010) ‘Molecularly imprinting challenging templates: Corticosteroids? a case study’, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA Ghosh Dastidar, S., Coffey, L., Turner, P. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘A functional metagenomics approach to the identification of cyanide/nitrile metabolizing enzymes’, EPA Meeting, Dublin, June Hui, G. & Deevy, K. (2010) ‘Optical Pulse Oximeter’, Innovation Through Convergence Seminar: A Smart Solution To Knowledge Development, Department of Engineering Technology, WIT, September Kennealy, M. (2010) ‘Development of a novel solid biofuel of forest and sawmill residues with pig manure’, 20th Irish Environmental Researchers’ Colloquium, Limerick Institute of Technology Lenihan, L. & Lawlor, J. (2010) ‘Technological Innovation in Ireland’s ICT Sector and its Interaction with the Renewable Energy Industry’, Research Seminar, October 8, WIT Lyng, B. & Lowry-O’Neill, C. (2010) ‘Formative Feedback Using Digital Audio Technology’, NAIRTL/LIN Conference on Flexible Learning, National College of Surgeons, Dublin, 6-7 October Lyng, R. (2010) ‘Factors Affecting V.L.E. Adoption Among Staff in an Irish Third Level Institute’, NAIRTL/LIN Conference on Flexible Learning, National College of Surgeons, Dublin, 6-7 October Madden, C. (2010) ‘Service Learning in Nurse Education: A Strategy to promote Basic Life Support Education in Post-Primary Schools’, Projecting the Nightingale Legacy into the 21st Century Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, 9th December McGee, C., Walsh, P.R. & Coffey, A.B. (2010) ‘A novel low-cost left-ventricular simulation device for in-vitro biomedical device experimentation’, European Conference on Medical Polymers, Queens University Belfast, 7th - 9th September, Northern Ireland

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Murphy, S., Osmani, Q., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘Molecular imprinting of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in aqueous media.

Part II: Development of selective media for enalapril maleate and lisinopril diketopiperazine’ MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA O’Meara, D., Turner, P., Coffey, L. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Improving non invasive survey methods for squirrels with the use of real-time PCR’, BIOSEB Summer School (Mammal Research Institute), Białowieza, Poland, May O’Meara, D., Turner, P., Coffey, L. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Improving non invasive survey methods for squirrels with the use of real-time PCR’, The Mammal Society Easter Conference, Bangor, Wales, UK, March O’Meara, D., Coffey, L., Turner, P. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘The use of real-time PCR assays to identify non-invasively collected hair-tube samples of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)’, BIOSEB Summer School in Ecology and Biodiversity, Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Białowieza, Poland, May O’Meara, D., Coffey, L., Turner, P. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘A real-time PCR method for the species detection of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)’, The Mammal Society Easter Conference, University of Bangor, March O’Meara, D., Turner, P., Coffey, L. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Improving non invasive survey methods for squirrels with the use of real-time PCR’, All Ireland Mammal Symposium (AIMS) Conference, WIT, November O’Neill, D., Cusack, J., Coffey, L., O’Donovan, O. & O’Reilly, C. (2010) ‘Analysis of the microbial communities associated with a variety of seaweed species harvested from the South-East of Ireland’, Society for General Microbiology Autumn Meeting, University of Nottingham, 6-9th September Osmani, Q., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘A spectroscopic investigation into NSAID - functional monomer interactions’, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA Osmani, Q., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘Synthesis and characterisation of ibuprofen imprinted polymer beads’, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA Owens, E., O’Reilly, C. & Coffey, L. (2010) ‘Real-time PCR detection of Fe-type nitrile hydratase genes from environmental isolates suggests horizontal gene transfer between multiple general’, SGM Meeting, University of Nottingham, 6-9th September Power, A. & Walsh, D. (2010) ‘A Monitoring and Data Acquisition System for a Plasma Spray Process’, Research Seminar, October 8, WIT Stanley, C., Coffey, A.B. & Walsh, P.R. (2010) ‘An in-vitro model of blood vessels for cardiovascular applications’, European Conference on Medical Polymers, Queens University Belfast, 7th - 9th September, Northern Ireland Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘The Traveller Community and Drug Use - Implications for Harm Reduction Interventions’, Poster Presentation, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) 21st International Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, April Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Youth Alcohol and Drug use in rural Ireland - A Parents View’, Poster Presentation, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) 21st International Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, April Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Differentiated Normalisation and Drug Transitions among Rural Youth in Ireland’, Poster Presentation, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) 21st International Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, April

Mohamed, Y. & Deevy, K. ‘Touch & Proximity Sensors Using Capacitance Sensing’, (2010) ‘Innovation Through Convergence Seminar: A Smart Solution To Knowledge Development’, Department of Engineering Technology, WIT, September

Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘Drug Pathways and the Normalisation Debate: A Mixed Method Study of Substance Use among 15 year olds in Ireland’, Poster Presentation, 6th Annual International Mixed Methods Conference hosted

by School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, July

Murphy, S., Osmani, Q., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘Molecular imprinting of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in aqueous media.

Part I: Selective recognition of lisinopril over cited related substances’, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA

Wallace, A., Phelan, J., Wemyss, T. & Lawlor, J. (2010) ‘A low-cost in-house laboratory-on-a-chip fabrication method’, Lab-on-a-Chip European Congress, May 25-26, Dublin

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PUBLICATIONS Wallace, A.L., Phelan, J. & Wemyss, T. (2010) ‘The Feasibility of Implementing an In-house Production Method for Laboratory-on-a-Chip Slides’, Research Seminar, October 8, WIT Walsh, R., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘Molecularly imprinted polymer beads for chiral separation of antihistamines‘, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA Walsh, R., Hughes, H. & McLoughlin, P. (2010) ‘Controlled preparation of MIP beads by an aqueous suspension polymerisation methodology’, MIP2010: The 6th International Conference on Molecular Imprinting, August 9-12, New Orleans, USA Zamboglou, T., Walsh, P.R. & Coffey, A.B. (2010) ‘Development of a low-cost cardiovascular circulation device for in-vitro biomedical device experimentation’, European Conference on Medical Polymers, Queens University Belfast, 7th - 9th September, Northern Ireland

O’Connor, J. (2010) Art Commission awarded by Kerry County Council, under the % for art scheme. Location ; Castleisland bypass O’ Raifeartaigh, C. (2010) ‘Should literacy include science?’, Science Today, The Irish Times (29/07/2010) O’ Raifeartaigh, C. (2010) ‘Five steps to keep science straight on global warming’, Science Today, The Irish Times (30/10/2010) Van Hout, M. C., McElrath, K. & McGee, L. (2010) ‘Experiences of Young People of Substance Use & Peer Education in the North East Region’, Funded by the North Eastern Regional Drugs Task Force [NERDTF] Van Hout, M.C. (2010) ‘An Evaluation of a Primary School based Drug Educational Intervention’, Funded by the HSE South East

Other Buzoianu, S. (2010) ‘The effect of feeding genetically modified Bt maize (MON810) for 30 days on weanling pig growth performance organ weights and organ histopathology’, British Society of Animal Science/Agricultural Research Forum Conference; Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - A Vision for 2010, April 13th, Belfast, Ireland (talk) Buzoianu, S. (2010) ‘Effect of short-term feeding of genetically modified (Bt MON 810) maize on weanling pig growth performance, organ weights and organ histopathology’, European Association of Animal Production 61st meeting, August 23rd, Heraklion, Greece (talk) Dillon, E., Power, G. & Cleary Grant, F. (2010) ‘Experimental Testing in the Future Internet PERIMETER Project’, In International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services FIS Felicia, P. (2010) ‘Workshop on Digital games organised as part of the eTwinning European project’, Helsinki, Finland, 12th-14th November Hayes, R. (2010) ‘Introduction to The Fountainhead’, Waterford Festival of Architecture, 22-25 April Hayes, R. (2010) ‘Review of Brendan Kennelly, Reservoir Voices’, POST: a Review of Poetry Studies, July Howlett, M. (2010) ‘God in Mystery and Words’, ET Etudies Vol 1, no. 1 pp.

147-149 Kealy, U. (2010) Introduction to the ‘Stage and Lighting Forum’, Waterford Theatre Royal, November 23rd.

Kealy, U. (2010) ‘Brighton’, Garter Lane Arts Centre Irish Theatre Magazine Kealy, U. (2010) ‘Bondi Beach Boy Blue’, OCI Productions in association with Richard Ryan Productions Irish Theatre Magazine Kealy, U. (2010) ‘Lay Me Down Softly’, Wexford Arts Centre in association with Mosshouse Irish Theatre Magazine King, W. & Maher, J. (2010) ‘Entrepreneurship beyond the metropolis: 10 cases from Ireland and Newfoundland’, The Harris Centre of Memorial University of Newfoundland & the Ireland Newfoundland Partnership Lane, A., Murphy, N.M., Smyth, P. & Bauman, A. (2010) ‘Do Mass Participation Sporting Events Have a Role in Making Populations More Active?’, Research Report , Centre for Health Behaviour Research, Waterford Institute of Technology and Irish Sports Council, Ireland Maher, J. (2010) ‘Irish and Canadian Financial Regulation: a comparative perspective’, Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, 14th-16th May McCarthy, K. & Rockett, J. (2010) ‘TheImprov Show’’ Waterford: Granary Theatre O’Connor, J. (2010) Art Commission awarded By Department of Education, under the % for art scheme. Location; Pobalscoil na Trionoide, Youghal, Co. Cork

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