This paper looks at the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources in primary school education in Ireland. It shows how two Irish NLP resources, the Irish Finite State Transducer Morphological Engine (IFSTME) (Uí Dhonnchadha, 2002) and Gramadóir (Scannell, 2005) were used as the underlying engines for two Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) resources for Irish. The IFSTME was use...

Objective: Obesity is a serious public health issue, the prevalence of which is increasing globally. The present study aimed to investigate trends in overweight and obesity in Irish adults between 1990 and 2011. Design: Anthropometric data from three Irish national food consumption surveys were used to calculate trends in BMI, waist circumference and waist:hip ratio. Setting: Three cross-sectio...

Irish elections use a voting system called proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote (PR-STV). Under this system, the voters express their votes by ranking some (or all) of the candidates in order of preference. Which candidates are elected is determined through a series of counts where candidates are eliminated and surpluses are distributed. The electorate in any elect...

BACKGROUND The differences between breast cancer risk factors in white British/Irish and Asian women attending screening in the UK are not well documented. METHODS Between 2009-15 ethnicity and traditional breast cancer risk factors were self-identified by a screening cohort from Greater Manchester, with follow up to 2016. Risk factors and incidence rates were compared using age-standardised ...

It is difficult to develop and deploy Language Technology and applications for minority languages for many reasons. These include the lack of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources for the language, a scarcity of NLP researchers who speak the language and the communication gap between teachers in the classroom and researchers working in universities and other centres of research. One appro...

Introduction Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists. Considering many female Irish artists were coming of age in the 1990s, as part of a newly enlightened media-aware generation, conscious of feminist ideas and changing attitudes towards women both in Ireland and intern...

BACKGROUND Glomuvenous malformations (GVMs) are rare bluish lesions that can affect the skin and mucosal surfaces. They represent defects in vasculogenesis. Lesions can occur sporadically or in an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Recent studies have shown that mutations in the glomulin gene (GLMN) on chromosome 1p21-22 are responsible for familial GVMs. OBJECTIVES To search for mutatio...

Spatial and temporal distribution of atmospheric aerosols in the lowermost troposphere over the Amazonian tropical rainforest R. Krejci , J. Ström, M. de Reus , J. Williams, H. Fischer, M. O. Andreae, and H.-C. Hansson Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden ITM – Air Pollution Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Max Planck Institute ...

Executive Summary With business and technology complexity increasing rapidly, information technology management departments are attempting to deal with the challenge in a variety of ways. One approach is through the deployment of a nonstandard, comprehensive, finishing course, a so-called capstone information technology management (ITM) course. This paper describes the experiences of faculty me...