Urban Community Gardening the Impact on Fruit and Vegetable Intake

Urban community gardens are local projects managed for and by members of the local community. They may be run in partnership with local authorities or as part of community development or regeneration schemes (Hale et al., 2011). The gardens exist primarily in urban areas and are often established in response to a local community\u27s lack of open green space (Viljoen et al., 2005). The scale and format of the gardens may vary. Depending on the available land and support, urban community gardening projects can be relatively small and in Dublin they range from small disused residential gardens (Cabra Park, See Figure l) to larger sites such as the four acre site in Santry. In other countries these projects may occur on a much larger scale such as the mile and a half long \u27High Line Park\u27 elevated community garden in New York. The format of the gardens varies. They may be a collection of plots, worked individually or a communal garden. \u27oGrow-a-row projects in the United States and Canada actively encourage gardeners to set aside space for charitable donations (Ontario Trillium Foundation,20ll). Similarly in Dublin some of the urban community garden space is allocated to local charities such as soup kitchens (Dolphins Bam Community Garden, See Figure 1) other community groups (for example the Simon Community (Bridgefoot Street Community Garden, See Figure 1) or educational facilities for example college plots (Wpaver Court Community Garden, See Figure l) (Bellows et a1., 2004)). As community-based sites, theirpotential for fostering environmental change irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, income or education level has gained increased recognition (Bellows et al., 2004). Improved nutrition, increased physical activity, enhanced social engagement and improved mental health, are some of the benefits of urban community gardens that have been demonstrated to strengthen and sustain neighborhoods (Teig et a1.,2009). Community gardening has a long established history worldwide with estimates of over 18,000 community gardens in the United States and Canada (McCormack et a1., 2010). The concept of urban community gardening in Ireland is relatively new however as pafi of an ever expanding \u27grow your own movement\u27, the numbers involved are increasing. While there are no firm statistics regarding the number of urtan community gardens in Dublin, current estimates are well in excess of 40 gardens (Dublin City Community Forum, 2010)

The Impact of “Right to Repair” Legislation on Innovation and Intellectual Property in the Automotive Industry

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Urban Community Gardening: Motivation for Participation and the Impact on Fruit and Vegetable Intake

This was a collaborative project between two DIT students and Dublin Community Growers, investigating the relationship between involvement in community gardening and eating fruit and vegetables.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1026/thumbnail.jp

Temporary agency workers in the French car industry: working under a new variant of 'despotism' in the labour process

This thesis is an exploration of how the use of temporary agency work in French car plants modifies the experience and mechanisms of labour control in the labour process. Over the last decade, car manufacturers in France have made extensive use of this form of employment, despite regulations which restrict the use of agency labour to exceptional circumstances. Legal challenges aimed at reclassifying temporary agency contracts into permanent employment contracts have revealed that some agency workers have accumulated many years of employment as an agency worker with user-company. The presence of significant proportions of agency workers on assembly lines for long periods of time has implications for the labourcapital relation on the shopfloor. Precarious working conditions for low-skilled workers are assumed to affect the capacity of workers to negotiate relations on the shop-floor. The thesis employs a conceptual framework based upon Burawoy’s (1985) theory of production politics to examine the specific way in which the triadic relationship between the temporary agency worker, temporary employment agency and user-organisation modifies the factory regime within which temporary agency workers labour. Starting from an analysis of the macro- and meso-level development of the post-war French state and of the key economic sectors that constitute the “politics of production”, the thesis focuses on the PSA Peugeot-Citroën plant in Aulnay-sous-Bois as a case study, and combines interview data with other qualitative (textual) data. The research finds that temporary agency workers in the car sector respond to their employment situation in a more complex way than studies of coercion and consent in the labour process suggest. Employment insecurity and the “duality of control” which flows from the triadic relationship upon which the temporary agency contract rests gives rise to a factory regime more conducive to compliance/coercion than consent. However, the “traces of consent” identified by the research illustrate the complex nature of hegemony and despotism in the labour process. Drawing on the findings of the empirical data in the context of France, the thesis develops the concept of hegemonic despotism by examining how hegemonic despotism is expressed across a variety of employment contexts. The thesis identifies a tension between adverse conditions of employment and hegemonic practices, such as the formal adhesion to “soft” models of HRM, alongside the recasting of norms of employment to fit the requirements of contemporary capital accumulation

Whole-Body Vibration Alleviates Symptoms of Morphine Withdrawal

Whole-body vibration at 80 Hz has previously been shown to blunt neuropathological markers and behavioral symptoms of alcohol dependence. Here, we evaluate its ability to ameliorate symptoms of morphine use and withdrawal. Behavioral and neurophysiological symptoms of withdrawal were reduced significantly by whole-body vibration treatment

Antibacterial Activity of Phenolic Compounds Against the Phytopathogen Xylella fastidiosa

Xylella fastidiosa is a pathogenic bacterium that causes diseases in many crop species, which leads to considerable economic loss. Phenolic compounds (a group of secondary metabolites) are widely distributed in plants and have shown to possess antimicrobial properties. The anti-Xylella activity of 12 phenolic compounds, representing phenolic acid, coumarin, stilbene and flavonoid, was evaluated using an in vitro agar dilution assay. Overall, these phenolic compounds were effective in inhibiting X. fastidiosa growth, as indicated by low minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs). In addition, phenolic compounds with different structural features exhibited different anti-Xylella capacities. Particularly, catechol, caffeic acid and resveratrol showed strong anti-Xylella activities. Differential response to phenolic compounds was observed among X. fastidiosa strains isolated from grape and almond. Elucidation of secondary metabolite-based host resistance to X. fastidiosa will have broad implication in combating X. fastidiosa-caused plant diseases. It will facilitate future production of plants with improved disease resistance properties through genetic engineering or traditional breeding approaches and will significantly improve crop yield

Common variants in FOXP1 are associated with generalized vitiligo

In a recent genome-wide association study of generalized vitiligo, we identified ten confirmed susceptibility loci. By testing additional loci that showed suggestive association in the genome-wide study, using two replication cohorts of European descent, we observed replicated association of generalized vitiligo with variants at 3p13 encompassing FOXP1 (rs17008723, combined P = 1.04 × 10−8) and with variants at 6q27 encompassing CCR6 (rs6902119, combined P = 3.94 × 10−7)