Effect of early sowing on the growth, yield and quality of sugar beet.

End of Project ReportExperiments have shown that yield of sugar is closely related to the amount of solar radiation intercepted by a sugar beet crop. Early sowing increases leaf area from May onwards when radiation is at its maximum and provides a basis for increasing yields. In the past, bolting has been an undesirable consequence of early sowing but some modern cultivars have good bolting resistance and can be sown early with a limited risk of bolting. This study, conducted from 1994 to 1998, compared the performance of two cultivars, Celt and Monofeb, at three sowing dates and three harvest dates. In replicated experiments, plant establishment, crop development, and root yield and quality were assessed. The effect of sowing date on solar radiation interception was studied. Effects of in-furrow pesticide application on pest numbers and plant damage were also measured. Plant establishment was influenced by sowing date with the early sowings generally giving lower plant numbers than the later ones. The cultivar Celt produced higher populations than Monofeb at all sowing dates. Early sowing increased the leaf area index (a measure of the ratio of leaf to land area) and consequently the amount of solar radiation intercepted. This was particularly so in June when solar radiation levels are highest. Early crop establishment provides the opportunity to exploit good weather conditions which may occur in April or May. Pest numbers generally were small at all the sites. Insecticide had a greater effect on pest numbers and plant damage than it had on plant establishment; the beneficial effects of pesticide were slightly more pronounced for the early and mid-season sowings than for later-sown beet. Seedling diseases were not a problem at any time of sowing. Poor emergence, where it occurred, was not associated with pre-emergence disease. Early to mid-March sowings produced significantly higher yields of roots and sugar than the early or late April sowings over the period of the experiment. Even in years when plant populations from the first sowings were much lower than subsequent sowings, yields tended to be at least equal to those of later sowings. Monofeb produced a slightly higher root yield than Celt, but because it had lower sugar contents there was no difference in sugar yields. Harvesting extended over the period from early October to mid-November and root growth and sugar production increased over that period irrespective of sowing date. Bolting was a problem in 1996 on the early-sown plots, particularly with the cultivar Celt.Teagasc acknowledges the support of Irish Sugar plc and Sugar Beet Levy Farmer Funds in the financing of this projec

2010 Killarney Business Survey

The DIT-ACHIEV Model for the Sustainable Management of Tourism has been developed by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Technological University Dublin and is endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Fáilte Ireland. It explores six areas of investigation - Administration, Community, Heritage, Infrastructure, Enterprise and Visitor. The purpose of piloting this DIT- ACHIEV model in Killarney is to test its use with the objective to refine and adjust its methodology, so that it can be applied in any Irish tourism destination. Early indications are that The Model will provide the Irish tourism Industry with a valuable tool for making its product and management far more sustainable. In addition to data such as environmental measurements, information on water, waste, energy, transport, examination of local cultural, environmental and employment statistics, the model requires the undertaking of three dedicated surveys: A Resident Survey A Business Survey A Visitor Survey With the support of local volunteers and students, a year-long Visitor Survey has taken place throughout Killarney. A survey of residents was undertaken at the outset of the year and this Business Survey was run during the latter part of the summer months. 250 businesses in Killarney Town and Valley were invited to participate and this publication presents the views of the 157 who completed the survey on-line and face-to-face. In almost all instances the respondents were owners / managers, and most respondents answered all of the questions. Thus, this report provides a good overall representation of the Killarney business community

The Technological University Dublin Placement Experience Partnership (DIT-PEP) Framework

The School of Hospitality Management and Tourism at the Technological University Dublin (DIT) developed this best practice framework for managing work placement, using the tourism industry as a case study. However, the DIT‐PEP (Placement Experience Partnership) Framework has been devised so that it can be applied across other sectors. This report presents the DIT‐PEP Framework and provides a summary of the approach used in its development

Killarney Resident Survey 2010

The DIT-ACHIEV Model for the Sustainable Management of Tourism has been developed by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Technological University Dublin and is endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Fáilte Ireland. It explores six areas of interest - Administration, Community, Heritage, Infrastructure, Enterprise and Visitor. The purpose of piloting this DIT- ACHIEV model in Killarney is to test its use in an Irish tourism destination, with the objective to refine and adjust its methodology, so that it can be applied in any Irish tourism destination. Early indications are that the Model will provide the Irish Tourism Industry with a valuable tool for making its product and management far more sustainable. In addition to data such as environmental measurements, information on water, waste, energy, transport, examination of local cultural, landscape and employment statistics, the model requires the undertaking of three dedicated surveys: • A Resident Survey • A Business Survey • A Visitor Survey With the support of local volunteers, a Visitor Survey has been taking place throughout Killarney over the last 6 months, and results will be presented at the end of the season. A Business Survey will take place in the coming weeks, and this publication presents an overview of the findings from an on-line survey of 436 Killarney Town and Valley residents which took place in recent weeks. This report presents Killarney people’s attitudes and opinions regarding tourism and while some issues have emerged, the general response to the survey is that Killarney residents overwhelmingly support tourism

Killarney Visitor Survey 2010

The DIT-ACHIEV Model for the Sustainable Management of Tourism has been developed by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Technological University Dublin and is endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Fáilte Ireland. It explores six areas of investigation - Administration, Community, Heritage, Infrastructure, Enterprise and Visitor. The purpose of piloting this DITACHIEV model in Killarney is to test its use with the objective to refine and adjust its methodology, so that it can be applied in any Irish tourism destination. Early indications are that The Model will provide the Irish tourism industry with a valuable tool for making its product and management far more sustainable. In addi t i on to data such as e n v i r o nme n t al me as u r eme n t s , information on water, waste, energy, transport, examination of local cultural, environmental and employment statistics, the model requires the undertaking of three dedicated surveys: • A Resident Survey • A Business Survey • A Visitor Survey A survey of residents was undertaken at the outset of the year and the Business Survey was run during the latter part of the summer months. With the support of local volunteers and students, this yearlong Visitor Survey has taken place throughout Killarney. This report presents the main findings of 659 Visitor Surveys that were conducted between Nov 2009 and Oct 2010. The support of the surveyors is gratefully acknowledged, and it is hoped that the findings presented in this report will lead to much discussion and self analysis by the tourism industry in Killarney

Locking plate fixation with and without inferomedial screws for proximal humeral fractures: a biomechanical study.

PURPOSE. To compare the efficacy of locking plate fixation with and without inferomedial screws in maintaining the reduction of a proximal humeral fracture. METHODS. 22 synthetic humerus models were used. A standardised 3-part proximal humeral fracture with a 4-mm wedge segment was created and fixed with a locking plate and screws with (n=11) and without (n=11) inferomedial screws. The intrafragmentary motion of the construct at 250, 500, 750, and 1000 cycles of 532 N loading, and the load to failure of the 2 groups were compared. RESULTS. Locking plate fixation with inferomedial screws reduced the mean intrafragmentary motion in all cycles (

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CASTNet: Community-Attentive Spatio-Temporal Networks for Opioid Overdose Forecasting

Opioid overdose is a growing public health crisis in the United States. This crisis, recognized as "opioid epidemic," has widespread societal consequences including the degradation of health, and the increase in crime rates and family problems. To improve the overdose surveillance and to identify the areas in need of prevention effort, in this work, we focus on forecasting opioid overdose using real-time crime dynamics. Previous work identified various types of links between opioid use and criminal activities, such as financial motives and common causes. Motivated by these observations, we propose a novel spatio-temporal predictive model for opioid overdose forecasting by leveraging the spatio-temporal patterns of crime incidents. Our proposed model incorporates multi-head attentional networks to learn different representation subspaces of features. Such deep learning architecture, called "community-attentive" networks, allows the prediction of a given location to be optimized by a mixture of groups (i.e., communities) of regions. In addition, our proposed model allows for interpreting what features, from what communities, have more contributions to predicting local incidents as well as how these communities are captured through forecasting. Our results on two real-world overdose datasets indicate that our model achieves superior forecasting performance and provides meaningful interpretations in terms of spatio-temporal relationships between the dynamics of crime and that of opioid overdose.Comment: Accepted as conference paper at ECML-PKDD 201

Life in Jacob\u27s Factory: then & now

Using the Jacob’s building as its focal point, this exhibition highlights living conditions in Dublin in the period from the 1911 Census to the 1916 Rebellion, the role the building played in the Easter Rebellion, and the working conditions and lives of the young men and women working in Jacob’s factory during the period compared to those of a typical DIT student today. Video Please see the related video here

Poly[tris{μ2-4-[4-(di­methyl­amino)­phenyl­diazenyl]benzene­sulfonato}tri­dioxane­tri­sodium(I)]

The title compound, [Na3(C14H14N3O3S)3(C4H8O2)3]n, is a polynuclear complex which includes, in the monomeric unit, three units of NaI-4′-dimethyl­amino­azobenzene-4-sulfonate [known as methyl orange (MO)] and three molecules of dioxane (C4H8O2). These constitute three kinds of NaI centres, two of which are seven-coordinate while the third is five-coordinate. One of the seven-coordinate centres is coordinated by six O atoms from the sulfonate groups of four different MOs and by one O atom from dioxane. The other is coordinated by seven O atoms from the sulfonate groups of five different MOs. The five-coordinate centre is coordinated by three O atoms from the sulfonate groups of three different MOs and two O atoms from two different dioxanes. In the crystal structure, a one-dimensional polymer chain is formed along the a axis and this ensures the thermal stability of the title compound. It is also to be noted that the N=N bond lengths of the three azo groups are appreciably different [1.259 (4), 1.196 (4), and 1.253 (4) Å]