2003 IRISH SCIENTIST YEAR BOOK

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Editorial
Reports : State & Semi-State Bodies
Reports : Academic & Cultural Institutions
Reports : Scientific , Technical & Commercial bodies 
Reports : Hospitals
Reports : Institutes of Technology
Reports : Universities 
Youth Science

Editorial         

Editorial - Geraldine Van Esbeck

Message from Minister

Message from Ms. Mary Harney, TD, An Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment

History of Science

Ireland's greatest entrepreneur, or – how our most eminent scientist was enabled to devote his life to science

Reports from State & Semi-State Bodies

Bord Iascaigh Mhara

Protecting spawning cod in the Irish Sea through the use of inclined separator panels in Nephrops trawls

Coupled biological-physical modelling in fisheries and aquaculture

Can dredge caught razor clams (Ensis spp.) depurate successfully?

CALMAST – Centre for the Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology

COFORD

Assessing carbon stocks and fluxes during forest development – the CARBiFOR Project

Comhar – the National Sustainable Development Partnership

Are we basket cases? – the versatile willow of Ireland

The consequences of the plastic bag levy on the non-grocery retail sector

Dental Health Foundation

Diet and regular soft drinks; do they cause physical damage to our teeth?

Department of Agriculture

Searching genomes for new antimicrobials: an immunogenomics approach

Department of Agriculture & Rural Development for Northern Ireland

Animal virus research

Department of Education & Science

Revised Junior Certificate Science Syllabus introduced

Department of Education, Northern Ireland

Challenges in science teaching in Northern Ireland schools

Enterprise Ireland

Materials Ireland – turning research into reality

Commercialisation Fund

Informatics Research Initiative

Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre

New inkjet printer allows digital decoration of ceramics and glass

Environmental Protection Agency

Towards Setting Guideline Values for the Protection of Groundwater in Ireland – Interim Report

Lichens as pollution monitors

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Acrylamide – a new food safety issue

Forensic Science Laboratory

Has Crack Cocaine hit Irish Streets?

Forfás

Science, Technology and Innovation Awareness Programme

The Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI)

The European Research and Innovation Area

Ireland joins the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Further Education & Training Awards Council

FETAC's Strategic Plan – a milestone in Further Education

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

Regional Guide to the Geology of Northern Ireland

Higher Education Authority

Irish research landscape transformed

InterTradeIreland

Opening the Island for trade….

expertiseireland.com – the gateway to the island's knowledge base

Irish Blood Transfusion Service

An investigation into people's attitudes towards donating blood

Marine Institute

Marine Institute building marine RTDI infrastructure

Commercial Fisheries Research – the blue whiting fishery, biology and dynamics

Materials Ireland

Materials Ireland – turning research into reality

Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre

New inkjet printer allows digital decoration of ceramics and glass

Met Éireann

The TUCSON Automatic Weather Station

How can we balance our carbon emissions?

National Centre for Technology in Education

Government initiative continues to raise levels of ICT use in schools

National Safety Council

What's the point?

Northern Ireland Science Park

The Northern Ireland Science Park

Patents Office

Patent Specification – a full disclosure

Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland

Radioactivity monitoring for foodstuffs

Relay – the national food research dissemination project

'One-stop-shop' for food research

safefood – The Food Safety Promotion Board

An important link in the food safety chain

Science Foundation Ireland

Science Foundation Ireland – progress in 2003

State Laboratory

Detection of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

Teagasc

Development of functional foods enriched in the health promoting fatty acid Conjugated Linoleic Acid

Improved milk powder for chocolate

The use of Transglutaminase in food products

What drives food research?

An alternative to antibiotics for eliminating hospital superbugs

SFI Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre

 

Reports from Academic & Cultural Institutions

Armagh Observatory

A novel approach to the Public Understanding of Science

ASH Ireland

Smoking – information affects practice?

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Lighting up the Lithosphere

Irish Script on Screen

String Theory at the School of Theoretical Physics

Irish Council for Bioethics 

Irish Council for Bioethics   

Media Lab Europe

Media Lab Europe – The European Research Partner of the MIT Media Lab

Royal Dublin Society

Lectures at the Royal Dublin Society

Royal Irish Academy

New Members of the Academy

Tipperary Institute

Tipperary Institute establishes a Centre for Sustainable Energy Development

 

Reports from Scientific, Technical and Commercial Bodies

 

Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland

Institute of Chemistry of Ireland

Institute of Physics in Ireland

The physics of dancing pendulums

Irish Business & Employers' Confederation

Boolean Logic – the brains behind electronics

Irish Research Scientists' Association

10th anniversary of the Irish Research Scientists' Association – Historical perspective

Oldbury Publishing Limited

The graphical, technological and user-friendly advancement of the internet browser: XWEBS

An investigation into the effects of music tempo on reaction times

Chaotic fluids – an examination of phase transitions in Taylor-Couette flow

A study of Radon and its isotopes in drinking water

Shaw Scientific Limited

The physics of music

TG4

Cé chomh eifeachtach a bhfuil fograíocht fothairseachúla agus socrú tairgí

 

Reports from Hospitals

Beaumont Hospital

From molecule to man

Cork University Hospital

SFI Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre

St James's Hospital

Activity levels in children and their impact on cardiovascular risk factors

St Vincent's University Hospital

Searching genomes for new antimicrobials: an immunogenomics approach

Biomedical Research at St. Vincent's University Hospital – a path to better patient care

 

Reports from Institutes of Technology

Athlone

Endocrine Disrupters research Group at AIT

EDC trace analysis: what to look for, what not to miss!

Determining the difference – CBBR

Carlow

Democracy is not always the best method or rule!

Innovations in new Irish Sign Language Identification System (ISLIS)

Bioinformatics at Institute of Technology Carlow

Chinese-Irish collaborative project in biotechnology at IT Carlow

Cork

Are you interested in starting up your own business? The Genesis Enterprise Programme may be just what you are looking for

Adaptive Wireless Systems Research at Cork Institute of Technology

A really soft touch

An alternative to antibiotics for eliminating hospital superbugs

Dublin

Mathematical Sciences at DIT

Cervical Cancer Research

Clinical Measurement Science postgraduate research

Ocular Science Research

Dundalk

Supporting Creative/Digital Media in the North East

Supporting New Innovation in the Creative Industry Sector

Music Technology at Dundalk IT

Software Technology Research Centre (SToRC)

Galway-Mayo

Beach seining in the greater Galway Bay area

Otoliths in fish stock identification

Commercial Fisheries Research – the blue whiting fishery, biology and dynamics

The potential of baby milk as a food for copepods

Monitoring intertidal community change in a warming world

Population genetics of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha, Pallas)

A novel molecular approach to the study of a mussel hybrid zone on the West Coast of Ireland

Allozyme markers in genetic stock identification of Blue Whiting and Haddock

New cost effective corrosion protection for metal finishing industries

Letterkenny

Teaching activities in a programmed world

Steganography

XML – The Rejuvenator!

Limerick

Intelligent automotive networks for distributed real-time control

Extending UML for real-time industrial automation applications

Novel Electro-codeposition of engineering metals and electropolymers for high Wear applications (NEW)

Representational systems and software development

Tallaght

IT Tallaght Electrochemical Technology Research Centre (ETRC) – employing modern electro- chemistry in material science

Synthetic organic chemistry research at IT Tallaght

Research within the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT Tallaght

Finite Element Analysis and Modal Analysis of engineering products during dynamic impact loading

Managing mobile components

EnCoMpaSS, e-learning Content Management Services for SMEs

Antimicrobial peptides – alternative to antibiotics?

Waterford

CALMAST – Centre for the Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology

Department of Nursing and Health Sciences

Department of Chemical and Life Sciences

Department of Physical and Quantitative Sciences

 

Reports from Universities

Dublin City University

Government initiative continues to raise levels of ICT use in schools

IBM/DCU Irish Science Olympiad 2002-03

European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO)

Irish International Science Olympiads Medal Winners

Children making sense of science!

The Irish Nursing Minimum Data Set – investigating the nursing contribution to health care

Insulin signalling and glucose transport in Type 2 diabetes

The pharmaceutical industry – dead in the water

Building new bridges for more effective communication: from Dublin to Belfast (via Italy and Osaka)

Research in the School of Computing

ZnO-based material systems for ICT applications

Plasma surface interaction

PlasMAC – Plasma Formation Measurement and Control

National University of Ireland, Galway

The Environmental Change Institute

Environmental fingerprinting using seaweed

Martin Ryan Institute – Harmful algal blooms

Sulfamate esters – a renaissance in interest

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Science, NUI Maynooth

The Open University in Ireland

Health matters with The Open University

Queen's University Belfast

Fresh initiatives at Queen's University

Erasmus Intensive Programme in Belfast

Green Toolbox for industry

Medical, Dental and Nursing & Midwifery excellence at Queen's Belfast

Medical Polymers Research Initiative

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

Ireland's newest School of Pharmacy

From molecule to man

International expertise gathers at RCSI

Centre for Human Proteomics

Trinity College Dublin

Processing and characterisation of pharmaceutical solids

Materials Ireland Polymer Research Centre

Research and Innovation Services at Trinity College Dublin

Transport Studies and Research Group, Trinity College Dublin

Research in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at TCD

Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

A Celebration of the DNA Double Helix at 50

Activity levels in children and their impact on cardiovascular risk factors

Cell death – the key to life

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience

Spinal cord regeneration: lessons from fish

Immunosuppressive effects of drug abuse: focus on MDMA 'Ecstasy'

University College Cork

Monitoring intertidal community change in a warming world

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience

The BioSciences Institute

NMRC: Ireland's premier ICT research institute

Molecular Laser Spectroscopy at UCC

Photonic Systems Research at UCC

Future directions and new emphasis in photonics – NUI–UCC

Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers

SFI Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre

Bacterial-host interactions: the fight for survival!

University College Dublin

Assessing carbon stocks and fluxes during forest development – the CARBiFOR Project

Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience

How crossing the Irish sea proved a faultless move

Developing new targets for antibodies

Searching genomes for new antimicrobials: an immunogenomics approach

Biomedical Research at St. Vincent's University Hospital – a path to better patient care

Keeping abreast with tumour markers

NovaUCD – The Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin

University of Limerick

Novel Electro-codeposition of engineering metals and electropolymers for high Wear applications (NEW)

Science can be real good fun

Lucent Science Teacher Initiative

Mathematics Learning Centre at UL

Numerical analysis and computation at UL

Making light work of decontaminating water supplies

Online intelligent colour and temperature measurements used to control the process of cooking food

Development of a handheld intelligent food safety control instrument using electronic nose sensors fabricated from nano-technology materials

Development of a personal gamma-radiation sensor using thin/thick film technologies

How to choose your competition horse

Does farm grassland fertility depend on fertiliser inputs?

Structural dissection of bacterial virulence

The Bio-computing and Developmental Systems (BDS) Group at the UL

The Materials and Surface Science Institute

New inkjet printer allows digital decoration of ceramics and glass

Design and test integration for next generation microelectronic circuits

Development of wireless technologies to enhance sporting performance

Robots and the deep blue yonder

Software Quality Research Laboratory at UL

Free/Open Source Software research at UL

Mars Analog Research Station (MARS)

Standardised architecture for European Space Agency spacecraft

University of Ulster

Steganography

The Engineering Composites Research Centre (ECRE)

Linking research with teaching – E-Learning within the School of Biological & Environmental Sciences

The Health Sciences Research Unit of Assessment

Centre of Excellence in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Targeting diabetes

The Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE)

Integrating Coastal Research at the University of Ulster

Where will the next earthquake occur?

Centre for Sustainable Technologies

Research within the Faculty of Informatics

Nanotechnology Research at the University of Ulster

ISEL: Bio-Inspired Intelligent Systems Engineering

 

Youth Science

The graphical, technological and user-friendly advancement of the internet browser: XWEBS

An investigation into the effects of music tempo on reaction times

Chaotic fluids – an examination of phase transitions in Taylor-Couette flow

A study of Radon and its isotopes in drinking water

Boolean Logic – the brains behind electronics

The physics of dancing pendulums

The physics of music

Lichens as pollution monitors

An investigation into people's attitudes towards donating blood

Diet and regular soft drinks; do they cause physical damage to our teeth?

Are we basket cases? – the versatile willow of Ireland

The consequences of the plastic bag levy on the non-grocery retail sector

What's the point?

How can we balance our carbon emissions?

Smoking – information affects practice?

Cé chomh eifeachtach a bhfuil fograíocht fothairseachúla agus socrú tairgí

Schools

Christian Brothers' School, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

Clifden Community School, Co. Galway

Coláiste Choilm, Cork

Crescent College Comprehensive, Limerick

Jesus & Mary Secondary School, Enniscrone, Co. Sligo

Loreto College, Coleraine, Co. Derry

Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, Dublin

Meánscoil Feirste, Co. Antrim

Midleton College, Cork

Mount Mellick Community School, Co. Laois

Mount Mercy College, Cork

Moyne Community School, Longford

St Finian's College, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

St Patrick's College, Maghera, Co. Derry

St Peter's College Secondary School, Wexford