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A list of all addresses to Web-sites that appear in the Irish Scientist Year Book 1999

Physics, engineering, materials


Materials Ireland; Polymer Research Centre http://www.tcd.ie/materials_ireland/ : Also http://www.mat-irl.ie

National University of Ireland Galway; Physics research at NUI Galway : http://www.physics.ucg.ie/

Queen's University Belfast; DSiP Laboratories; School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp

Trinity College Dublin; Department of Physics;  The Physics Department Internet home page is at:  http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/

Trinity College Dublin; Research projects in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering  : website: http://www.mme.tcd.ie,

Queen's University Belfast; Faculty of Engineering;     http://www.qub.ac.uk/feng/

The Queen's University Belfast;  The UK Multiphoton and Electron Collisions HPC Consortium  :  www.am.qub.ac.uk/mecpc

University College Cork;   Institute for Non-Linear Science at UCC :
http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/ physics/ins/ index.html

University College Dublin;  Centre for Water Resourses Research www.ucd.ie/~civileng/cwrr.html

University of Ulster; Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST)  School of the Built Environment,University of Ulster, Web site: www.engj.ulst.ac.uk/SCOBE/CST


Software

National Software Directorate - http://www.nsd.ie

NIKEL : Since its inception in 1992 at the University of Ulster, NIKEL has gained an international reputation for data mining research and technology deployment.To obtain further information regarding NIKEL, please visit: www.nikel.ulst.ac.uk

University of Ulster; MINEit Software Ltd,  Web: www.mineit.com

Nortel Networks Jigsaw project ( http://www.optimise.net/ jigsaw/ ) � with the University of Ulster and Queen�s University, Belfast.
For information about ARC or the Nortel Networks-UU collaborative projects,Arc web site: www.ulst.ac.uk/arc

University College Cork; Centre for Unified Computing, Computer Science Department,
URL: http://www.cuc.ucc.ie/

University College Dublin; Case-based reasoning (CBR) in advanced Internet applications. CBR is a problem solving technique that relies on a corpus of past experience in the solution of future problems. New problems are solved by retrieving and adapting the solutions to similar problems that have been solved in the past and stored as cases in a case-base.For instance, the PTV system ( http://ptv.ucd.ie ) is a personalised, web-based television listings service that learns about the viewing preferences of its users in order to deliver personalised electronic TV guides.See also Changing Worlds Ltd ( http:// www.changingworlds.com )

Education

National Centre for Technology in Education; Web: www.ncte.ie

ScoilNet; the website for Irish schools : www.scoilnet.ie

Professor Lee Harvey, Director, Centre for Research into Quality, University of Central England  (http://www. uce.ac.uk/crq) presented research findings which suggested several ways in which higher education and employers could help students be successful at work.

University of Ulster�s booklet on North/South research opportunities : web site http://www.ulst.ac.uk ).


Healthcare

Biotrin International Limited; http://www.biotrin.ie

National University of Ireland; Galway Centre for Health Promotion Studies :Web Site: http://www.nuigalway.ie/hpr

Trinity College Dublin; The School of Pharmacy, comprising four Departments and the Centre for Pharmacy Practice, offers courses leading to the B.Sc. (Pharm), as well as the Pharmaceutical Technicians Diploma and the graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology.Web: www.tcd.ie/Pharmacy/

University of Ulster;   Diabetes Research Group  available at:  http://www.ulst.ac.uk/faculty/science/diabetes/update/index.html


Biology, food, agriculture

City Analysis Limited Water quality : Trouble in the pipe-line ? : Web: http://www.ucd.ie/~analysts/

Food Safety Authority of Ireland;  website: www.fsai.ie

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology; The periwinkle, a perfect model for biodiversity studies : http://www.leeds.ac.uk/biology/europe/ambios.html

Greenmount College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Antrim; It is one of the premier agriculture websites in the British Isles with more than 225,000 hits per month on the www.greenmount.ac.uk site.

Institute of Technology Carlow; Department of Applied Biology & Chemistry, http://www.itcarlow.ie/staff/DDHome.html

LAKE Communications, Ballinode, Sligo; Broadband urban rural based open networks : website: www.lake.ie

Trinity College Dublin; Botany Department and Teagasc, Oak Park- The impact of atmospheric pollutants on growth and yield of crops. Web Page:  http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/megarich  

Trinity College Dublin; The TCD Department of Psychologyhttp://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/

Trinity College Dublin;   High Performance Computing and Bioinformatics :programmes of research as users ,or developers of Bioinformatics,  may be examined via the TCD Home Page ( http://www.tcd.ie).

University College Cork; Cell Biology Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at
www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biochemistry/cellbiology

University College Cork; Atmospheric Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, , Cork;

University College Dublin: Food Science and Technology for the 3rd Millennium : Web site: http://www.ucc.ie/acad/faculties/foodfac
See also Food Communications Information Service to liaise with food interest groups, including consumers, regulatory agencies and the food industry, and to provide information on a wide range of food topics. The service uses a specific web site www.ucc.ie/fcis

University of Ulster;  Environmental toxicology at the UU - a new initiative
http://www.ulst.ac.uk/faculty/ science/nnru/envtoxchem.html
see also URL: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/chem/


Organisations and Institutions

Association of Clinical Biochemists in Ireland; ACBI Website: www.iol.ie/~deskenny/acbi.html
(with links to websites of IFCC, EC4, and other national clinical biochemistry associations

BioResearch Ireland is the national agency for commercialising biotechnology : Website:  www.biores-irl.ie

The Institute of Physics in Ireland web site at: http://www.tcd.ie/IOP/

Irish Research Scientists Association; http://www.irsa.ie

Irish Statistical Association; http://www.maths.may.ie/staff/churley/isa/prog.html.

The Marine Institutehttp://www.marine.ie

Royal Dublin Society; http://www.rds.ie


Innovation and Enterprise Development

Belvedere College, Dublin :Joe Fitzsimmons :    Low cost 3-D scanner: virtual reality : Further details of Joe�s design can be viewed on his web site, www.intelcities.com/knowledge_way/rotoscan/
or http2://www. rotoscan.com

Dundalk Institute of Technology : Supporting knowledge-based enterprise in the North-East Region : WWW: www.dkit.ie/rdc

Industrial Research & Technology Unit : visit the IRTU website at http://www.irtu.nics.gov.uk

Irish Council for Technology and Innovation - FORF�S :The Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI) is the body established in 1997 by the Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce, under Forf�s legislation, to advise Government on the strategic direction of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy.
URL:
http://www.forfas.ie/st/sti.htm
reports are available from the internet at http://www.forfas.ie/report/tforesight.htm

University College Dublin; University Industry Programme, : http://www.ucd.ie/uip

University College Dublin : AMT Ireland : Web Site: www.ucd.ie/~amt

Historic

Ireland's Historic Science Centre, Birr, Co. Offaly : http://www.birrcastle.com.

AGB Scientific Limited : The Scientific Museum at AGB - forging success in the future with respect for the past : Website: www.agb.ie

Tyndall Publications: Publications which relate to the history of science and technology in the Irish cultural context can be identified and in some cases accessed via a new site which is currently under development

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