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The significance of cerebral toxocariasis: a model system for exploring the link between brain involvement, behaviour and the immune response
(2013)Toxocara canis is a parasitic nematode that infects canines worldwide, and as a consequence of the widespread environmental dissemination of its ova in host faeces, other abnormal hosts including mice and humans are exposed ... -
Silicon and chromium stable isotopic systematics during basalt weathering and lateritisation: A comparison of variably weathered basalt profiles in the Deccan Traps, India
(2018)Global biomass production is fundamentally affected by the hydrological cycling of elements at the Earth’s surface. Continental weathering processes are the major source for most bio-essential elements in marine environments ... -
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neo-liberalism, knowledge economy and post-socialism.
(2013)The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept ... -
Simplifying and improving the extraction of nitrate from freshwater for stable isotope analyses
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)Determining the isotopic composition of nitrate (NO3 ) in water can prove useful to identify NO3 sources and to understand its dynamics in aquatic systems. Among the procedures available, the `ion-exchange resin method? ... -
Simultaneous eruptions from multiple vents at Campi Flegrei (Italy) highlight new eruption processes at calderas
(2016)Volcanic eruptions are typically characterized by the rise and discharge of magma at the surface through a single conduit-vent system. However, in some cases, the rise of magma can be triggered by the activation of eruptive ... -
Single cell analysis of tail regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2003)This present study examined tail regeneration in the Mexican salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, on a single cell level in vivo. The primary aim of this study was to understand where the cells were coming from to replace all ... -
Small islands and large biogeographic barriers have driven contrasting speciation patterns in Indo-Pacific sunbirds (Aves: Nectariniidae)
(2022)Birds of the Indo-Pacific have provided biologists with many foundationalinsights. This study presents evidence for strong phylogeographic structure in two sunbird species from the heart of this region, the olive-backed ... -
Snake venom potency and yield are associated with prey-evolution, predator metabolism and habitat structure
(PubMed Central, 2019)Snake venom is well known for its ability to incapacitate and kill prey. Yet, potency and the amount of venom available varies greatly across species, ranging from the seemingly harmless to those capable of killing vast ... -
Social media and housing activism in post-crisis Dublin: Geographies of digital/material contention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)This thesis focuses on housing contention in Dublin since the global financial crisis. More specifically, it is an empirically grounded socio-technical investigation of the relation between contention and the digital?s ... -
The social practices of hosting P2P social dining events: Insights for sustainable tourism,
(2020)In many ways, the expansion of commercial for-profit, P2P social dining platforms has mirrored those within mobility and accommodation sectors. However its dynamics and impacts have received less consideration to date, ... -
Soil carbon sequestration during the establishment-phase of Miscanthus x giganteus : a study on three spatial scales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2013)In recent years the use of biomass for energy production has become an increasingly important measure for mitigating global change. While national and EU legislation strongly advocate the further development of the bioenergy ... -
Soil CO2 fluxes in Irish agricultural systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2007)Worldwide concern with climate change and its effects on our future environment requires a better understanding and quantification of the processes contributing to it. Studies on the role of soil processes is needed to ... -
Soil respiration in European grasslands in relation to climate and assimilate supply
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Soil respiration constitutes the second largest flux of carbon (C) between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study provides a synthesis of soil respiration (Rs) in 20 European grasslands across a climatic ... -
Soil-transmitted helminth infections in Nigerian children aged 0-25 months
(2009)The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) in children aged 0?25 months and to identify the associated risk factors for Ascaris lumbricoides ... -
Sources of nitrate leached to groundwater in grasslands of Fermoy, Co. Cork
(Trinity Centre for the Environment, 2000)Groundwater contamination with nitrate from agriculture in Ireland has mainly been attributed to specific point sources such as farmyards or to arable farming in certain areas of the country. The current study aimed to ... -
Spaces for sustainability learning? Future visioning as a geographical process for transforming production and consumption practices
(2012)Despite widely articulated concerns about unsustainable production and consumption processes, governance interventions have led to only incremental shifts in routinised production and consumption behaviour, particularly ... -
Spatial and temporal fluxes of plant-nutrients in turlough soils
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2008)Turloughs are annually flooding karstic depressions which constitute ecologically important and geographically restricted ground-water dependent ecosystems, identified as priority habitats under the EU Habitats Directive. ... -
Spatial and temporal trends in exhumation of the Eastern Himalaya and syntaxis as determined from a multitechnique detrital thermochronological study of the Bengal Fan
(2019)The Bengal Fan provides a Neogene record of Eastern and Central Himalaya exhumation. We provide the first detrital thermochronological study (apatite and rutile U-Pb, mica Ar-Ar, zircon fission track) of sediment samples ...