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Air Pollution in Cork
Get PDFEnvironmental awareness has increased in recent years within Ireland. One of the most contentious issues involved in this growing concern is that of urban air quality. This topic will be considered in relation to Dublin and Cork city, particularly the latter which has received very little publicity in relation to this problem. An assessment of the situation in Cork will be attempted within a discussion and the factors contributing to its urban air quality. The similarities and differences between the two cities will be examined to discover if Cork can avoid the air pollution levels which presently exist in Dublin. 
The Geography of Public Houses in Cork City Centre
Get PDFA pub, by definition is a public house licenced for the sale of alcoholic liquors. However, this rather bare description conveys little of the real nature of the pub or of its importance in Irish life and culture. For most Irish people, the pub is where you go to convene meetings, exchange information, deliberate on problems, make decisions. It is here that rages are soothed, broken hearts mended and humours restored. In its purest form, the Irish pub has grown out of the \u27sheebeen\u27, the drinking den of the people in earlier times, its prime function being to supply intoxicating liquors and a place in which to consume them. 
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS 1989/\u2790
No full textPOSTGRADUATE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS 1989/\u279
Geography in Education
No full textThe position of geography in schools at the beginning of the 19th Century was hardly an enviable one. In most schools it was not taught and in those where it was taught, it amounted to little more than a list of facts and figures to be committed to memory. Its growth in the 20th century was spectacular and today it is well established in the schools curriculum. Recent years have seen substantial changes in the content of our schools curriculum. There has been a tendency towards incorporating foreign languages, (particularly German) and business studies, using computers and keyboard skills, into the school curriculum.  
Global Warming: Cause and Effect
No full textThe French mathematician, Jean Fournier first compared the earth\u27s atmosphere to a greenhouse in 1822 but it was the Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhenius who first coined the term \u27greenhouse effect\u27 at the beginning of this century. What is the \u27greenhouse effect\u27? Superficially it resembles the way in which glass helps to heat a greenhouse - the sunlight warms the surface of the earth, the air and the plants and in turn earth radiates the energy back into space in the form of heat. Much of the outgoing radiation is trapped and absorbed by water vapour, carbon dioxide and other gases and so the Earth is kept warm. 
Review of the dietetic and MDT management of Cystic Fibrosis
Get PDFINTRODUCTION: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder due to mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene leading to abnormality of chloride channels in mucus and sweat producing cells. The respiratorysystem (lungs) and digestive system (GIT) are primarily impacted, leading to life threatening complications (Rafeeq and Murad, 2017). Ireland has the highest incidence of CF in the world. Approximately 1 in 19 Irish people are said to \u27carry\u27 one copy of the altered gene that causes CF (Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, 2023). More than 1900 mutations of CF have been identified (Rafeeq and Murad, 2017).
METHODS: Articles for review were sourced from the academic database PubMed. Results were screened using PICOS criteria, focusing on dietetic management of CF. Papers dating back as far as the 1980’s were included in the review due to their continuing relevance in CF treatment today.
RESULTS: Initial database searches identified 61 results, which were then screened for relevance to the objectives of this review. Treatment of CF requires a multi-disciplinary team approach, for which Nutrition and Dietetic management is integral. Lifelong management of CF includes pharmaceutical treatment to manage symptoms, case specific diet and lifestyletherapy, management of complications and co-morbidities, and novel therapies such as CFTR modulators.
CONCLUSION: The identification of the faulty CFTR gene that causes CF was an important step in managing the disorder, yet has not led to a cure for the condition. Life expectancy for patients with CF has steadily improved during the last three decades, with medicalmanagement of symptoms and advances in CF therapies. Complications associated with the condition are treated on a case-by-case basis due to complexity of symptoms and individuality of the condition. Dietetic management includes a high calorie, high salt, and high protein diet and routine monitoring for changes in symptoms and nutritional deficiencies
Controlling Electron Spin to Realise a Greener Future
Get PDFThe Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is consuming an ever-increasing amount of electricity. Most electronic devices are composed of billions of transistors, which are made of materials called semiconductors. Semiconducting devices can be engineered to hold properties that suit the device’s function. One relatively unexplored property is electron spin, which, if it can be controlled, may be manipulated to increase the efficiency of semiconducting devices, particularly regarding data transfer and storage. I want to examine whether spin polarisation (the degree to which the spin of electrons aligns with a given direction) can be controlled. This is achieved by understanding the electron-scattering processes by which electrons change their spin polarisation in time. The ultimate potential impact of this research is leaner, greener telecommunications and computing.
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” — Albert Einstei
Alternative Approaches to the Nature and Practice of Geography: A Case Study of Akin Mabogunje\u27s Geography (1962-1984)
Get PDFThis paper seeks to apply Buttimer\u27s interpretative framework to the geography of Akin Mabogunje (Buttimer, 1984). Its purpose is to demonstrate that the nature and\u27 practice of geography can be more fully assessed by a contextual approach. Theories are understood to have their academic, cultural and political environments. The interpretative framework focuses on the interplay between personal vocation (MEANING), mode of discourse (METAPHOR), societal context (MILIEU) and geographic scale (HORIZON) within an individual\u27s research. Each theme searches the extent to which a researcher is structured by his societal context and how he has actively and uniquely sought to serve that society
Ideology in Geography
Get PDFMuch of late nineteenth and twentieth century geography is nothing less than the ideology of dominant social classes in disguise. To understand why this is so, there is a need for a historical evaluation of academic geography. Questions must be asked concerning the origins and aims of the discipline. More importantly, who become geographers and what did they achieve? Geography as a discipline was institutionalised in the Victorian era. Previous to this, many scholars working in such fields as botany, natural history and zoology had interested themselves in geographic distributions of their subjects of study, but it was not until the great colonial expansion of the late 19th and 20th centuries that the value if the map and distributional information was realised. The colonial powers, realising how beneficial geographic work in their established and prospective colonies would be in enabling them to increase their exploration of these countries, readily funded the emergent discipline of geography and encouraged their geographers to do research overseas. The role that geography played in the spread of colonialism cannot be underestimated. Mabogunje, writing in 1975, stated that “the geographical profession played a not inconsiderable role in directing national efforts and consciousness towards colonial expansion”
Design and Regional Policy
No full textThat a spatially equitable distribution of income and resources does not necessarily result from a free-market system has been widely accepted from both political and economic perspectives. It has been observed that "there is a tendency inherent in the free-play of market forces to create regional inequalities" (Myrdal,19S8). The spatial concentration of such phenomena as low incomes, high unemployment and net out-migration is recognisable in the emergence of distinct geographic units