Orientations of hamiltonian cycles in large digraphs

We prove that, with some exceptions, every digraph with n ≥ 9 vertices and at least (n - 1) (n - 2) + 2 arcs contains all orientations of a Hamiltonian cycle

Shopping Travel Behaviour in Dublin City Centre Survey.

Poster displaying details of DIT School of Spatial Planning staff and students collaborating with the Irish Environmental Network and the Dublin Cycling Campaign to conceive and design this survey. All partners benefitted from the generation of information about shopper travel behaviour as well as about the perceptions of various interest groups. This information is being utilised to raise awareness of city centre environmental issues, ultimately leading to improved urban design which will benefit all city centre users.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1035/thumbnail.jp

BSc Spatial Planning and Environmental Management Public Spaces Survey

Poster displaying Public spaces survey. As part of the module on Data Collection and Analysis, in March 2010, 2nd year BSc Spatial Planning and Environmental Management students carried out an ethnographic survey of four key public spaces within the LifeLine catchment. Using a mixture of questionnaire survey and observational data, students measured usage levels, behavioural patterns and user opinions about the spaces.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1045/thumbnail.jp

Student as Teacher: Computing Projects in Local Schools.

Poster displaying computing ininner city Dublin schools.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1050/thumbnail.jp

Smarter Travel Survey.

Poster displaying details of Smarter travel survey. Dublin City Council is seeking to have Drimnagh designated as a Smarter Travel town. Smarter Travel towns are areas where latest practices and investments in sustainable travel are piloted and reviewed. One of the initiatives being explored is a Personalised Travel Plan (PTP), whereby local people are encouraged to improve their travel behaviour via direct marketing. As part of UniverCities (part of the Creative Dublin Alliance) and Students Learning with Communities (SLWC) initiatives, DIT School of Spatial Planning agreed to carry out a survey of the local community to gauge interest in and the likely success of such an initiative.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1034/thumbnail.jp

Information support and interactive planning in the digital factory : approach and industry-driven evaluation

In the modern world we are continuously surrounded by information. The human brain has to analyse and interpret this information to transform into useable knowledge that is then used in decision making activities. The advent and implementation of Industry 4.0 will make it a requirement for systems within factories to interact and share large quantities of information with each other. This large volume of information will make it even more difficult for the human resources within the factory to sift through the large amount of information required since there is a limit to the information that our brains can cope with. Just in time information retrieval (JITIR) within the digital factory environment aims to provide support to the human stakeholders in the system by proactively yet non-intrusively providing the required information at the right time based on the users context. This paper will therefore provide an insight into the cognitive difficulties experienced by humans in the digital factory and how JITIR can tackle these challenges. By validating the JITIR concept, several industry scenarios have been evaluated: an exemplary model, concerning the machine tool industry, is presented in the paper. The results of this research are a set of guidelines for the development of a digital factory support tool.peer-reviewe

Influence of procurement process on performance of Constituency Development Fund projects in Marakwet East Constituency in Kenya

ABSTRACT Marakwet East Constituency, Rongo, Ikolomani and Hamisi were ranked as worst constituencies among the surveyed constituencies in the management for CDF funds, with Sh58.9 million of the Sh72.5 (81.2% of funds) allocated for Marakwet East Constituency having been mismanaged. This research will be carried out to assess the influence of procurement process on performance of constituency development fund projects with reference to Marakwet East Constituency. The specific objectives of the study were; to find out the effect of accountability on performance of constituency development fund projects, to analyze the effect of integrity on performance of constituency development fund projects, to assess the effect of responsiveness on performance of constituency development fund projects, and to establish the effect of transparency on performance of constituency development fund projects. The study is of benefit to the Marakwet East Constituency, Government of Kenya and other researchers. Secondary data was collected from Marakwet East Constituency reports, Magazines, and other relevant materials. Responses in the questionnaires was then tabulated, coded and processed by use of a computer programmeStatistical package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21 to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used. Tables, pie charts, and graphs were used to present responses and facilitate comparison. The study found out that majority of the respondents indicated that accountability of management influence procurement process to a very high extent .The study concludes that accountability of management influence procurement process and that management accountability influence the procurement process to a very high extent. Finally the study recommends that procurement practice should be responsive to aspirations, expectations and needs of the target society

Advocacy in the tail: Exploring the implications of ‘climategate’ for science journalism and public debate in the digital age

This paper explores the evolving practices of science journalism and public debate in the digital age. The vehicle for this study is the release of digitally stored email correspondence, data and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the weeks immediately prior to the United Nations Copenhagen Summit (COP-15) in December 2009. Described using the journalistic shorthand of ‘climategate’, and initially promoted through socio-technical networks of bloggers, this episode became a global news story and the subject of several formal reviews. ‘Climategate’ illustrates that media literate critics of anthropogenic explanations of climate change used digital tools to support their cause, making visible selected, newsworthy aspects of scientific information and the practices of scientists. In conclusion, I argue that ‘climategate’ may have profound implications for the production and distribution of science news, and how climate science is represented and debated in the digitally-mediated public sphere

49th. Annual Food Science and Technology Conference: Book of Abstracts

The Institute of Food Science and Technology of Ireland, Technological University Dublin and the Environmental Sustainability Health Institute (ESHI) will host the 49th Annual Food Science & Technology Conference virtually on Tuesday 15th December 2020. This years conference will focus on the topic of food sustainability and has six themes. • Alternative food sources and processing • Targeted nutrition • Bioeconomy • Food Security • Improving Sustainability of Food Systems • Improving the Healthiness of Food Systems 70 submissions were received and the Scientific Committee selected 16 of them for Oral presentations. Following the long lasting tradition of this conference, the committee considered providing opportunities to researchers initiating their career. You will find in this book of abstracts all the presentations of the conference, demonstrating the diversity of Irish Food Science and Technology Research