Browsing by Subject "Smart & Sustainable Planet"
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An Assessment of the Potential for Co-located Offshore Wind and Wave Farms in Ireland
(2020)Ireland’s geographic location along the Atlantic Ocean means that it has one of the highest resources of wind and wave energy on the planet. Despite this, successful integration of wave energy into the Irish energy system ... -
The attenuation of microorganisms in on-site wastewater effluent discharged into highly permeable subsoils
(2012)An extensive field study on percolation areas receiving both septic tank and secondary treated on-site effluents from single houses in Ireland was carried out to investigate the attenuation capacity of highly permeable ... -
Atterberg limits are not appropriate for peat soils
(2015)This paper reports on the challenges associated with the determination of the Atterberg limits for peat, fundamental issues regarding the appropriateness of Atterberg limit concepts applied to peat and peaty soils and ... -
Audio noise mapping for virtual urban simulations: enhancing public awareness
(2007)One of the key difficulties with urban environmental noise mapping is disseminating results from noise studies in a manner that is easily under stood by the general public. Indeed, it is one of the requirements of the ... -
Automatic Discovery and Geotagging of Objects from Street View Imagery
(2018)Many applications, such as autonomous navigation, urban planning, and asset monitoring, rely on the availability of accurate information about objects and their geolocations. In this paper, we propose the automatic detection ... -
Aviation Technologies
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Awareness of health impacts of NO2 and, potential responses to diesel vehicle bans and proposals to cease their production
(2019)Evidence of associations between ambient concentrations of NO2 and a range of effects on health has strengthened in recent years. On average, transport is responsible for 40% of NOx emissions influencing ambient NO2 ... -
Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2011)This synthesis report provides an overview of the findings from the Assessing the Barriers to SustainableTransport in Ireland project and distils the conclusions outlined in the End of Project Report. The purpose of this ... -
Base-load Cycling on a System with Significant Wind Penetration
(2010)Certain developments in the electricity sector may result in suboptimal operation of base-load generating units in countries worldwide. Despite the fact they were not designed to operate in a flexible manner, increasing ... -
Basic volcanism contemporaneous with the Sturtian glacial episode in NE Scotland
(2010)The Dalradian Supergroup contains three distinct glacigenic units, formerly termed `Boulder Beds?, which are correlated with widespread Neoproterozoic glaciations. The oldest and thickest unit, the Port Askaig Formation, ... -
Battery Charging Considerations in Small Scale Electricity Generation from a Thermoelectric Module
(2014)This project involves the development of a prototype electrical gen erator for delivering and storing small amounts of electricity. Power is generated using the thermoelectric effect. A single ... -
Bayesian factor analysis using Gaussian mixture sources, with applicatin to separation of the cosmic microwave background
(2010)In this paper a fully Bayesian factor analysis model is developed that assumes a very general model for each factor, namely the Gaussian mixture. We discuss the cases where factors are both independent and dependent. ... -
Bayesian inference for reliability of systems and networks using the survival signature
(2014)The concept of survival signature has recently been introduced as an alternative to the signature for reliability quantifcation of systems. While these two concepts are closely related for systems consisting of a single ... -
Bayesian stable isotope mixing models
(2013)In this paper, we review recent advances in stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) and place them into an overarching Bayesian statistical framework, which allows for several useful extensions. SIMMs are used to quantify the ... -
Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food web studies
(2014)Stable isotope mixing models are increasingly used to quantify consumer diets, but may be misused and misinterpreted. We address major challenges to their effective application. Mixing models have increased rapidly in ...