Disappear Here:Adventures in Subconscious Narrative Filmmaking

This contribution consists of an explanatory introduction and extracts from recent fiction works, ‘White Tales’ (novel) and ‘Peep Show’ (novel in progress). Both fiction works explore the spiralling tensions between intensity and excess, desire and jouissance, via the structure and methodology pioneered in the author’s previous work with ‘subconscious narrative’ film. The result of this prior work was the 18-minute subconscious narrative film ‘The Dangers’, which explores an experimental narrative structure and is fascinated by the creation and sustenance of suspense, particularly when created with the notion of the uncanny in mind

Predicting Intake of Applications for First Registration in the Property Registration Authority

The motivation for this dissertation is rooted in a real business need. The Property Registration Authority is the state organisation tasked with maintaining a register of land ownership on the island of Ireland. The PRA currently faces a series of challenges; a high level of staff retiring and the inherent loss of knowledge associated with this trend, a lack of recruitment in recent years and a large increase in lodgement of applications for first registration as a result of legislation. The organisation therefore requires a reliable system for predicting future intake. Prior to this project, there has also been a lack of understanding of the factors that influence intake, and that go much of the way to explaining the peaks and troughs in intake levels that have been seen over recent years. Therefore, this dissertation seeks to identify the factors that influence intake of applications for first registration, and to ascertain if these features may be used to build models to predict future intake. To answer these questions, an exercise in data analytics has been designed and implemented, following the industry standard CRISP-DM methodology. As part of this process, a review of contemporary literature has been carried out, on the subjects of the Irish property market, the factors that influence the level of demand for registration, and modelling approaches applied to variable selection and predictive modelling. Using the insights gleaned from this research, a varied dataset has been sourced, assembled, explored and prepared which includes property registration data, house sale data and economic indicator data. The final dataset has been used to build a series of predictive models, and after evaluation the results show the Random Forest model to be the most effective. A further finding is that the combined outcome of all of the models indicates that the number of houses sold is the single most important factor in predicating volume of applications for registration. The series of experiments conducted and the body of research analysed have presented several valuable insights into the housing market and the factors that influence it, the modelling techniques that can be applied to intake prediction and the key prediction factors that influence intake. The overall conclusion of the study is that the null hypothesis has been rejected and that intake of ‘first registration’ applications in the Property Registration Authority can be predicted through analysis of historical intake data and external factors. However, it is acknowledged that further work will be required to develop a data gathering and analysis process that can be operationalised in the PRA context

The Irish Sudden Infant Death Association: what type of interest group is it, and how did it contribute to the establishment of the National Sudden Infant Death Register?

On November 27th 1975, Eimear Berry discovered her fourteen-week old son Brendan dead in his cot, the death was silent, sudden unpredictable and of unknown cause – classic Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In search of answers, Berry saw a TV documentary about SIDS which referenced the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) in England, whom Berry contacted in the hope of establishing a similar group in Ireland. On February 3rd 1977 the Irish Sudden Infant Death Association (ISIDA) was formally established, cited its’ general aims were to increase public awareness of the problem of SIDS and bring pressure to bear on the appropriate authorities to supply the necessary funds and facilities for further research into SIDS in Ireland. On July 16th 1987, the then Minister for Health, Dr Rory O’Hanlon TD, Fianna Fáil (FF), announced the formal establishment of the National Sudden Infant Death Register (NSIDR)

A comparison of match demands using ball-in-play versus whole match data in professional soccer players of the English Championship

This is the first study to report the Whole Match, ball-in-play (BiP), ball-out-of-play (BoP), and Max BiP (worst case scenario phases of play) demands of professional soccer players competing in the English Championship. Effective playing time per soccer game is typically 90 s) providing precise peak match demands. Whole-match demands recorded were compared to BiP and Max BiP, and BiP data excluded data from all match stoppages, providing a more precise analysis of match demands. Whole-match metrics were significantly lower than BiP metrics (p 90 s. No significant differences were found between positions. Ball-in-play analysis allows an accurate representation of the game and physical demands imposed on professional soccer players. Through having a clearer understanding of maximum game demands in professional soccer, will enable practitioners to design highly specific training methods

Geophysical anomalies and quartz deformation of the Warburton West structure, central Australia

This paper reports geophysical anomalies and intra-crystalline quartz lamellae in drill cores from the Warburton West Basin overlapping the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory. The pre-Upper Carboniferous ~450×300km-large Warburton Basin, north-eastern South Australia, is marked by distinct eastern and western magnetic, gravity and low-velocity seismic tomography anomalies. Quartz grains from arenite core samples contain intra-crystalline lamellae in carbonate-quartz veins and in clastic grains, similar to those reported earlier from arenites, volcanic rocks and granites from the Warburton East Basin. Universal Stage measurements of quartz lamellae in both sub-basins define Miller-Bravais indices of {10-12} and {10-13}. In-situ quartz lamellae occur only in pre-Late Carboniferous rocks whereas lamellae-bearing clastic quartz grains occur in both pre-Late Carboniferous and post-Late Carboniferous rocks - the latter likely redeposited from the pre-Late Carboniferous basement. Quartz lamellae in clastic quartz grains are mostly curved and bent either due to tectonic deformation or to re-deformation of impact-generated planar features during crustal rebound or/and post-impact tectonic deformation. Seismic tomography low-velocity anomalies in both Warburton West Basin and Warburton East Basin suggest fracturing of the crust to depths of more than 20km. Geophysical modelling of the Cooper Basin, which overlies the eastern Warburton East Basin, suggests existence of a body of high-density (~2.9-3.0gr/cm) and high magnetic susceptibility (SI~0.012-0.037) at a depth of ~6-10km at the centre of the anomalies. In the Warburton West Basin a large magnetic body of SI=0.030 is modelled below ~10km, with a large positive gravity anomaly offset to the north of the magnetic anomaly. In both the Warburton East and Warburton West the deep crustal fracturing suggested by the low velocity seismic tomography complicates interpretations of the gravity data. Universal Stage measurements of quartz lamellae suggest presence of both planar deformation features of shock metamorphic derivation and deformed planar lamella. The latter may be attributed either to re-deformation of impact-generated lamella, impact rebound deformation or/and post impact tectonic deformation. The magnetic anomalies in the Warburton East and West sub-basins are interpreted in terms of (1) presence of deep seated central mafic bodies; (2) deep crustal fracturing and (3) removal of Devonian and Carboniferous strata associated with rebound of a central uplift consequent on large asteroid impact. Further tests of the Warburton structures require deep crustal seismic transects

Extreme isotopologue disequilibrium in molecular SIMS species during SHRIMP geochronology

The current limitation in the accuracy and precision of inter-element analysis in secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is the ability to find measurable quantities that allow relative differences in ionization and transmission efficiency of secondary ions to be normalized. In uraniumthorium- lead geochronology, the ability to make these corrections, or "calibrate" the data, results in an accuracy limit of approximately 1 %. This study looks at the ionization of uranium and thorium oxide species, which are traditionally used in U-Pb calibration, to explore the conditions under which isotopologues, or molecular species whose composition differs only in the isotopic composition of one or more atoms in the molecule, remain in or deviate from equilibrium. Isotopologue deficits of up to 0.2 (200 %) below ideal mixing are observed in UO2+ species during SIMS gechronological analyses using the SHRIMP IIe SIMS instrument. These are identified by bombarding natural U-bearing minerals with an O-18(2)- primary beam. The large anomalies are associated with repeat analyses down a single SIMS sputtering crater (Compston et al., 1984), analysis of high-uranium, radiation-damaged zircon, and analysis of baddeleyite. Analysis of zircon under routine conditions yield UO2+ isotopologue anomalies generally within a few percent of equilibrium. The conditions under which the isotopologue anomalies are observed are also conditions in which the UOx-based corrections, or calibration, for relative U vs. Pb ionization efficiencies fail. The existence of these isotopologue anomalies suggest that failure of the various UOx species to equilibrate with each other is the reason that none of them will successfully correct the U/Pb ratio. No simple isotopologue-based correction is apparent. However, isotopologue disequilibrium appears to be a more sensitive tool for detecting high-U calibration breakdowns than Raman spectroscopy, which showed sharper peaks for similar to 37 Ma high-uranium zircons than for reference zircons OG1 and Temora. U-ThSm He ages were determined for aliquots of reference zircons OG1 (755 +/- 71 Ma) and Temora (323 +/- 43 Ma), suggesting that the broader Raman lines for the Temora reference zircons may be due to something other than accumulated radiation damage. Isotopologue abundances for UO2+ and ThO2+ and their energy spectra are consistent with most or all molecular species being the product of atomic recombination when the primary beam impact energy is greater than 5.7 keV. This, in addition to the large UO2+ instrumentally generated isotopologue disequilibria, suggests that any attempts to use SIMS to detect naturally occurring isotopologue deviations could be tricky.We thank Trevor Ireland, Michael Wingate, and Yuri Kostitsyn for the loan of samples; Simon Bodorkos for help with the SQUID data reduction software, Patrick Burke for SHRIMP technical assistance; Chris May (TSW Analytical) for help with the solution ICP-MS work; and the management of Australian Scientific Instruments for allowing the publication of this in-house research. Martin Danišík was supported by the AuScope NCRIS2 programme, Australian Scientific Instruments Pty Ltd., Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery funding scheme (DP160102427), and Curtin Research Fellowship. We thank Kenji Horie and Trevor Ireland for constructive review