In this work, we propose and investigate a user-centric framework for the delivery of omnidirectional video (ODV) on VR systems by taking advantage of visual attention (saliency) models for bitrate allocation module. For ...

CORU are tasked with regulating social work in Ireland. This commentary responds to a debate that is currently unfolding in Irish social work circles concerning an absence of the term ‘human rights’ from the CORU Code ...

In Turkey, physical frailty instruments have not been studied in the nursing home setting. We determined the reliability and validity of a Turkish version of the SHARE-Frailty Instrument for primary care (SHARE-FI) in ...

Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic syndrome associated with immune defects. The extent of immune dysregulation in DS is substantial, spanning the innate and adaptive systems and including anomalies in: T and ...

Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ...

This paper investigates the mortars used to build Coliemore harbour in 1869: their materials, sources, technology and current condition. It compares their composition with other Dublin harbours and fortifications in ...

In this study, the relationship between non-invasively measured cardiovascular signal entropy and global cognitive performance was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study ...

Recently social constructionist and poststructuralist theories, and the methodologies they have informed, have been criticised for focusing excessively on human discourse and human action whilst overlooking the importance ...

Conservation-motivated eradications may cause unexpected perverse effects, and these undesirable consequences can be difficult to predict due to the paucity of information on species interactions. A probabilistic qualitative ...

Machine-learning generative methods for material design are constructed by representing a given chemical structure, either a solid or a molecule, over appropriate atomic features, generally called structural descriptors. ...