bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Health GIS in Ireland- Lessons from New Zealand
Authors: Houghton Frank
Published: January 2024

The potential added value of geographical information systems (GIS) to population health surveillance and investigation is well known. However the adoption of this tool by Health Boards in Ireland is patchy and uncoordinated. Most progress on the use of GIS that has taken place in the Health Boards, is largely the result of individual commitment (most notably by the late Dr Zachary Johnson of the EHB), and has been unevenly spread throughout the country. Different GIS systems have been purchased by health boards and there is little or no liaison between them on any aspect of this issue. It is clear from the poor progress to date that there is a clear need for leadership and support in this field.
Ireland's water budget— model validation and a greenhouse experiment
Authors: Mills Gerald
Published: January 2024

In a previous paper (Mills, 2000) the author described a simple water budget model that was applied to Ireland for the period 1961-90. The budget stated the relationship between precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff and change in water storage for a regular set of grid cells (each 25km2 in area) that cover Ireland. The results of the model appeared to conform to the known climate of the period but no formal attempt at model validation was attempted. In this paper the author examines the relationship between the estimated 'surplus' water calculated for the catchment of the Shannon River with the measured discharge for that river. The close correspondence between these values suggests that the model is capable of estimating water budget components at this scale. A simple climate change experiment is presented that evaluates the impact of Greenhouse warming on the water budget of this catchment. The results indicate that although increased winter precipitation is predicted, increased rates of evapotranspiration results in drier summers.
Seabed mapping and seafloor processes in the Kish, Burford, Bray and Fraser Banks area, South‐Western Irish Sea
Authors: Wheeler Andrew J. , Walshe Jim , Sutton Gerry D.
Published: January 2024

Mapping of the seabed and sub-seabed strata in an area comprising offshore banks and intervening sediments in outer Dublin Bay is presented. Bathymetric comparisons suggest that the offshore banks are quasi-stable over time probably maintaining their position due to the interaction between wave and current regimes. Seven acoustic seabed facies are defined on the basis of side-scan sonar characteristics reflecting differences in bedforms and bottom types. Sediment waves indicative of a mobile substrate are common both on and between banks. Maximum sediment wave development occurs on bank flanks and outer limits. The effects of wave action on seabed morphology are clearly discernible in the structure and appearance of the bank crests. Grain-size data and bedform interpretations suggest a northerly sediment transport system with gravel dominant in the south of the area (Bray Bank) grading to sands in the north (Kish and Burford Banks). Sub-bottom profiling reveals a consistent upper unit overlying a hard reflector allowing unit thickness (isopachs) to be defined. No internal structures or 'hard' cores were revealed within banks. Two shipwrecks were also imaged. Relationships are drawn with models of offshore bank evolution suggesting that the Irish examples are quasi-stable dependent on a relatively consistent input of sediment and metocean variables. Banks genesis, however, may relate more to former conditions of post-glacial rapid sea-level rise and high sediment input.
A review of mortality maps included in the Annual Reports on Vital Statistics for Ireland 1864-1998
Authors: Houghton Frank
Published: January 2024

Since 1864, some 135 reports have been produced examining marriages, birth and deaths for Ireland. The reports produced during the period prior to World War I are notable for the maps and charts that are included and the level of detail provided. Recent reports have failed to include mortality maps, while those produced since 1950 generally show a declining level of detail.Key index words: report on vital statistics, mortality, maps
Geomorphic and sedimentary evidence for patterns of late Midlandian ice retreat in the Tempo Valley, north-central Ireland
Authors: Knight Jasper
Published: January 2024

Patterns of late Midlandian ice retreat in the Tempo Valley, north-central Ireland, are reconstructed from field morphological and sedimentary evidence. Ice retreat stages reflect the splitting up of the regional Omagh Basin ice mass into separate Omagh Basin and Clogher Valley components, and the formation and later drainage of glacial lakes which are controlled by the mutual interactions of these ice masses. The Tempo Valley area illustrates some generic problems in reconstructing ice retreat stages in Ireland, including the historical overemphasis of the presence of end-moraines, the possibility of ice lobe interactions following ice sheet division, and the likelihood of ice stagnation as a major mode of deglaciation.
Exploitation and celebration of the heritage of the Irish islands
Authors: Royle Stephen A.
Published: January 2024

The Irish offshore islands have been losing population for many decades. Their remaining inhabitants face difficulties in competing in most economic sectors against larger scale mainland producers with smaller transport and other costs. Thus islanders have often turned to the service sector to aid their economy. One asset is the islands' heritage, often relicts of an Ireland no longer extant in more accessible areas. Some islands have heritages that are cherished but they relate to landmasses now no longer occupied. Should the heritage of the still-populated islands be exploited as a valuable economic resource or should it instead be protected, celebrated but not exposed to the dangers and falseness of overexposure to the tourist gaze? However, the latter strategy might have a damaging economic cost. The article explores this issue in relation to a number of the islands off Ireland's west coast.
Infiltration rate assessment of some major soils
Authors: Diamond John , Shanley Thomas
Published: January 2024

An evaluation of the risk of overland flow is needed in order to minimise the risk of transferring pollutants from soil to rivers and lakes. The infiltration capacity of soil influences the occurrence of overland flow. The objectives of this study were to assess the infiltration capacity of some extensive soils in Ireland and also its spatial and temporal variability. Infiltration capacity was measured using double-ring infiltrometers at one poorly drained, one imperfectly drained and eight freely drained sites. The first series of measurements was performed for one day in summer. Eight years later a second series was performed for two days in winter and two days in summer at the same sites. On average, eight replicates were required in summer and fifteen in winter to estimate the mean with 50 percent precision. Infiltration capacities were reasonably stable between the two series but there was a significant difference between seasons. There was a significant relationship between infiltration capacity and the antecedent soil water content, which contributed to the seasonal effect. Capacities in summer were 3.5 times the winter values. In summer, the infiltration capacity exceeded or equalled the five-year return rainfall rate, except on the poorly drained soil, indicating that the risk of overland flow, due to infiltration excess, is negligible on well drained soils in summer. In winter, the infiltration capacity at nine of the ten sites, predominantly freely drained, was below the five-year return hourly rainfall indicating a risk of overland flow in winter.
Waste wars- public attitudes and the politics of place in waste management strategies
Authors: Davies Anna
Published: January 2024

Arguments about waste management in Ireland are so deeply contested that they have been conceptualised as cultural wars. Key arguments between the warring factions have revolved around what kind of processes will provide a sustainable waste management strategy and at what scale the conflicts over waste should be resolved. To date much of the research into waste management has been fixated on technical issues, institutional arrangements and the top end of governance structures as significant sites for negotiation about waste. Attention to wider publics in these waste wars has been confined to a surface examination of NIMBYism and the State-based development of information-based awareness campaigns. It is proposed in this paper that in order to approach the strong demands of sustainable waste management through multilevel governance in Ireland, as stipulated by EU institutions, a more serious consideration.
Comment: Geography in Ireland in transition
Authors: Kitchin Rob
Published: January 2024

In this short commentary I want to reflect on Irish Geography in the new millennium, and what I perceive to have been a major transition in the state and development of the discipline since 2000. I will be the first to admit that it is a convenient coincidence that the start of the story I want to tell begins at the point when the new millennium dawned, and the genesis of the tale certainly has its origins in the years beforehand. That said, I do think the date has significance as a rough temporal marker of the beginnings of a remarkable set of factors that I believe has transformed, and continues to transform, Irish Geography. I am mindful that what follows is a situated narrative, and I am sure that others will view differently the development of Irish Geography over the last five years. It would therefore be interesting to compare and contrast personal views of Irish geography and I would welcome dialogue on the health of the discipline on the island of Ireland. Such dialogue, I believe, can only be productive in thinking through the recent past and our stewardship of the future.
A summer outbreak of whirlwind phenomena from Dublin Bay to the Shannon Estuary
Authors: Tyrrel John
Published: January 2024

The conditions giving rise to a series of whirlwind phenomena that occurred across Ireland on 16-17 August 2001 are examined. Surface and upper air data, together with indices derived from upper air soundings (CAPE and LIFT) are used to analyse the roles of wind shear, instability and vertical moisture boundaries. While these showed some moderate wind shear, the potential instability was quite weak and vertical moisture contrasts were not strong. Despite this, one tornado, up to three waterspouts, two funnel clouds and an eddy whirlwind were reported over little more than a twenty four hour period. It is demonstrated that the most significant condition associated with their formation was probably vertical wind shear, in a weakly unstable, moist atmosphere.
Windows on a hidden world: Urban and social evolution as seen from the mews
Authors: McManus Ruth
Published: January 2024

The world of the mews, former stable lanes, is a unique environment hidden behind the bustling thoroughfares of the city. In looking at the evolution of mews over the past centuries, it is possible to identify elements of continuity and change in the urban landscape and its social structure. This paper explores the nature and origin of mews, their physical and social characteristics and evolution over time, as well as the unique planning issues which they face. Mixed land use and varied architectural styles give rise to a wealth of interesting juxtapositions within mews, but current planning guidelines are likely to have a major impact in homogenising their character and function. While the focus is on Dublin, comparisons are made with London's mews. These hidden back streets have always been ambiguous spaces which have taken on renewed importance in the context of urban densification strategies.
Limits of Midlandian glaciation in south‐eastern Ireland
Authors: Hegarty Susan
Published: January 2024

The Southern Irish End Moraine (SEEM) was, for many years, an accepted feature of the geomorphological assemblage of Ireland. This is despite the lack of mapping of the 'End Moraine' over large areas. This paper presents evidence from county Kilkenny, an area that the SEEM cuts across from east to west. It attempts to trace this feature on the landscape through mapping using both field observations and a detailed digital elevation model. Where possible, it also looks at the sedimentology of the feature Charlesworth (1928) originally described. Following detailed mapping, no evidence for this feature on the landscape is found. Evidence for the reinterpretation of some of the features that formed part of the original 'SEEM' is also presented.
Questions on urban living
Authors: Hourihane Jim
Published: January 2024

Concepts of space and urban theory are considered in the context of the dramatic growth in urban Ireland over the past fifteen years with a focus on the interrelated ideas of space, time and place. These are developed and explored in an interdisciplinary way with the view to illuminating the empirical research that follows. It is argued that the articulation of these concepts have very practical impacts on the lives of those living in towns and cities. This leads to a consideration of a case study of recent developments in Tower, a settlement approximately 8km from Cork. A detailed study of the perceptions and attitudes of the residents provides insights into the process of urbanisation and its impact on urban communities.
Dublin's spatial narrative ‐ the transition from essentially monocultural places to polycultural spaces
Authors: Kelly Darren
Published: January 2024

Vital data accessed from the ERHA (HSE) pertaining to asylum seekers living in Dublin in 2002 was analysed, resulting in the production of a series of maps showing the distribution of asylum seekers by variables such as nationality, age and gender by electoral division [ed]. The theoretical lens for this research examined the cultural geography and sociology of space in Dublin. Using an interdisciplinary approach it paid particular attention to the politics of scale, identity and power associated with space and place. Locating each asylum seeker within EDs for use with GIS allowed observation, reading and photography of Dublin's evolving textual landscapes and facilitated the interviewing of individuals and groups. Based on this quantitative analysis and field observation, two central hypotheses were posited and examined: firstly, that ethnic and racial clustering is occurring within clearly identifiable EDs which are experiencing both high levels of economic deprivation and gentrification. Secondly, that three subcultural groups or populations, namely asylum seekers, indigenous and gentrified, whilst inhabiting the same geographical places, arguably live in different mental spaces. This social and cultural morphology has resulted in the transition of what were once essentially monocultural places into polycultural spaces.
Health, Place and Hanly: modelling accessibility to hospitals in Ireland
Authors: Kalogirou Stamatis , Foley Ronan
Published: January 2024

The Irish Government is currently engaged in considerations about a proposed reorganisation of acute hospital services. The proposals in the 'Hanly' Report recommend the creation of new classifications of Major, General and Local Hospitals. This paper looked at how these proposals might affect geographical accessibility to Irish acute hospitals and modelled it within a GIS framework. Spatial data in the form of hospital location and size, road network and demographic distribution of over 65 's were drawn together within the GIS. A weighted accessibility formula was applied to produce a measure of accessibility called a Spatial Accessibility Measure based on travel time, hospital size and population-weighting. This measures was then applied to produce three scenarios modelled on; a) the existing configuration of services, b) a partial roll-out and c) a full roll-out of the proposed changes in the 'Hanly' Report. The scenarios identified those parts of the country, which were potentially likely to have increased/decreased accessibility to acute hospital services based on the different scenarios. Residents in the central and western parts of the country were shown to be most vulnerable, while the impacts of a full roll-out of Hanly suggests additional potential impacts on some suburban hospitals in the Greater Dublin area. The work provides a valuable and previously underdeveloped set of policy-informed spatial outcomes which can be adjusted if or when more beds are introduced into the Irish health care system in the next five to ten years.
'Beacons of modernity': department stores, modernity and the urban experience in mid-twentieth century Ireland
Authors: Spiller Keith , Linehan Denis
Published: January 2024

This paper explores the spatiality of several Irish department stores with a view to presenting new insights into questions of modernity and identity in the midtwentieth century Irish city. We propose that shops like Cashes, Munster Arcade, Amotts, Brown Thomas, McBirneys, Clerys and Switzers were sites that enrolled consumers into certain kinds of cultural identity, offering opportunities to develop modern tastes and perform modern senses of fashion as sites where notions of 'the modern' were represented and articulated, as arenas where Irish people 'met' modernity in ordinary and tangible forms. The paper considers the cultural geographies and histories of this widely neglected part of the urban experience in twentieth century Ireland.
Paradoxical spaces of Traveller citizenship in contemporary Ireland
Authors: Crowley Una , Kitchin Rob
Published: January 2024

In this paper we examine the role of law in shaping the socio-spatial lives of citizens through an examination of the changing nature of govemmentality with respect to Travellers in Ireland between 1998 and 2003. Undertaking an analysis of the policy process, new legislation, the Citizen Traveller campaign, media reports, and interviews with politicians, police and Travellers, we document how the Irish government attempted during this period to shift its strategy of dealing with the 'Traveller problem' from a regulationist form of citizenship designed to force Travellers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, to active citizenship that offered Travellers recognition, rewards and rights in return for managed nomadism or sedentary conformism. However, rather than leading to the emancipation and empowerment the Irish government envisaged, we detail how failings by both the government and Travellers in implementing reform has perpetuated the original situation and paradoxically led to new legislation that further criminalizes Traveller lifestyle and strengthened the government's mandate to forcibly manage Travellers' lives.
Periglacial ventifacts in Ireland
Authors: Feehan John
Published: January 2024

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‘Germs’ in the heart of the other: emigrant scripts, the Celtic Tiger and lived realities of return
Authors: Conlon Deirdre
Published: January 2024

During the 1990s and 2000s, the period coinciding with Ireland’s economic and social transformation and ubiquitously referred to as the ‘Celtic Tiger’ years, the Irish nation transitioned from being an emigrant-sending to an immigrant receiving society. In association with this shift, considerable attention has been devoted to Ireland’s new immigrant groups, including refugees and asylum seekers and more recently to migrant workers from new EU accession states. During the same period, inward migration was consistently comprised of significant numbers of former emigrants returning to Ireland; however, the place and experiences of Ireland’s return migrants has received comparatively little attention from mainstream media sources and is a relatively recent development in scholarship on migration. Taking as its impetus Piaras MacEinri’s (2001) call for scholarship that places Ireland’s history of emigration alongside contemporary immigration, this paper critically explores scripts - media representations and discourses - on emigrants and emigration in the late 1980s and 1990s as they reflect in the lived realities of Irish migrants who returned to Ireland during the Celtic Tiger years. I argue that these scripts, which bestowed emigrants with characteristics that were subsequently gathered back into the social spaces of Irish society during the Celtic Tiger period, generated a social landscape that was complex to navigate and where lived realities - marked by a devaluation of the emigrant experience and displacement in return - illustrate the contradictions between the representations of emigration in the 1980s and experiences of return. Instead, the lived realities of return highlight the intricate linking of time and space in social exclusions from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.
Immigration, integration and risks of social exclusion: the social policy case for disaggregated data in the Republic of Ireland
Authors: O’Boyle Neil , Fanning Bryan
Published: January 2024

This article makes the case for improved small area data on socio-spatial segregation and social exclusion in Ireland that is comprehensively disaggregated by nationality and ethnicity. We argue that disaggregated data are crucial if the complex effects of immigration are to be understood and effective policy developed. This article examines two case studies of relatively deprived areas in Dublin that have disproportionately large immigrant populations. Our analysis of immigration and deprivation in the Dublin Inner City Partnership (DICP) and Blanchardstown Partnership areas highlights the shortcomings of currently available disaggregated data. In particular, our analysis identifies cohorts of immigrants at high risk of social exclusion that are largely invisible in segregation and deprivation scores. This article therefore makes the case for an improved evidence base, informed by reliable (and cross-tabulated) statistical data and argues that disaggregated data are crucial to targeted policy interventions.
Limits to FDI-driven growth in Ireland: a newspaper content analysis for investment, upgrading and divestment
Authors: Horner Rory , Aoyama Yuko
Published: January 2024

What are the consequences and the future of foreign direct investment (FDI)-driven growth for Ireland? In this paper, we conduct content analysis of newspaper reports on instances of investment, divestment and relocation before, during and after the Celtic Tiger period. We examine reasons for investment and divestment and associated job creations and losses in three different decades in order to better understand Ireland’s changing position as an FDI location. We also illustrate the countries and regions that have emerged as competitor locations for Ireland’s FDI through analysing the instances of relocations. We conclude that Ireland is faced with a challenge quite distinctive from its Asian Tiger counterparts.
Local food activity in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain
Authors: Hein Jane Ricketts , Watts David
Published: January 2024

Recent changes in local food supply systems have attracted substantial research interest, but little consideration has been paid to exactly where they occur. This article combines data from three studies to compare local food system development in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland using a single index of food relocalisation, thereby exploring the usefulness of the Index across different social and political contexts. Four diagnostic indicators suggest that local food systems in the south west of Ireland and Britain are particularly well developed. The Index itself is a useful tool for making international comparisons, being easy to replicate and allowing the integration of different data sets. Perhaps its greatest utility is that it opens up new avenues for further research.
Looking backward to see forward: Historical changes of public knowledge about climate hazards in Ireland
Authors: Mitchell James K.
Published: January 2024

This paper seeks to prompt climate change researchers and climate hazard managers in Ireland to think expansively about the human potential for adjusting to anticipated climate perturbations in the twenty-first century. It argues that, in the past, shifting and expanding combinations of anthropogenic factors propelled important changes of perception and response to disruptive climate events and it suggests that a thorough canvas of past experience with such transitions has the potential to enrich the existing menu of human choices for the future. Evidence of the expanding gaze of humans on climate hazards is presented from a representative selection of monastic chronologies, letters, diaries and newspapers and the links to policy changes that eventually followed in their wake are noted. At a time when innovations in information technology are redrawing the boundary between climate experts and laypersons, with uncertain but potentially far-reaching consequences, a systematic analysis of historical human responses to disjunctive climate events in Ireland would be a useful tool for broadening the basis of climate decision-making.
Developing a predictive modelling capacity for a climate change-vulnerable blanket bog habitat: Assessing 1961
Authors: Coll John , Bourke David , Skeffington Micheline Sheehy , Sweeney John , Gormally Michael
Published: January 2024

Aim: Understanding the spatial distribution of high priority habitats and developing predictive models using climate and environmental variables to replicate these distributions are desirable conservation goals. The aim of this study was to model and elucidate the contributions of climate and topography to the distribution of a priority blanket bog habitat in Ireland, and to examine how this might inform the development of a climate change predictive capacity for peat-lands in Ireland.Methods: Ten climatic and two topographic variables were recorded for grid cells with a spatial resolution of 10_10 km, covering _87% of the mainland land surface of Ireland. Presence-absence data were matched to these variables and generalised linear models (GLMs) fitted to identify the main climatic and terrain predictor variables for occurrence of the habitat. Candidate predictor variables were screened for collinearity, and the accuracy of the final fitted GLM was evaluated using fourfold cross-validation based on the area under the curve (AUC) derived from a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) plot. The GLM predicted habitat occurrence probability maps were mapped against the actual distributions using GIS techniques.Results: Despite the apparent parsimony of the initial GLM using only climatic variables, further testing indicated collinearity among temperature and precipitation variables for example. Subsequent elimination of the collinear variables and inclusion of elevation data produced an excellent performance based on the AUC scores of the final GLM. Mean annual temperature and total mean annual precipitation in combination with elevation range were the most powerful explanatory variable group among those explored for the presence of blanket bog habitat.Main conclusions: The results confirm that this habitat distribution in general can be modelled well using the non-collinear climatic and terrain variables tested at the grid resolution used. Mapping the GLM-predicted distribution to the observed distribution produced useful results in replicating the projected occurrence of the habitat distribution over an extensive area. The methods developed will usefully inform future climate change predictive modelling for Ireland.
The Little Big House at Gweedore: inscribing sociality and space in north-west Ireland, 1842
Authors: James Kevin J.
Published: January 2024

The visitors’ book is a neglected source for the study of travel and hotel history in Ireland. Inscriptions from the Gweedore Hotel Book from 1842 to 1859 illuminate how guests negotiated relationships with each other and with the landlord, Lord George Hill, and how they narrated spaces inside and outside the hotel on his estate in Co. Donegal. A close textual analysis reveals how the hotel was depicted as a liminal space, straddling the public and private worlds of the public hostelry and the stately Irish Big House. Acts of reading and inscription linked practices at the rural hotel to broader cultures of Victorian travel. At the same time, they also reveal local influences over the articulation of self and other on one of mid-Victorian Ireland’s most famous ‘model’ estates. These layered contexts are critical to understanding the politics which surrounded the hotel book particularly the voices it privileged, and those it suppressed.
Food risk in Ireland: consumer perceptions, trust and dependence
Authors: Devaney Laura
Published: January 2024

It has long been acknowledged that consumer confidence, risk consciousness and consumption behaviours alter in times of food crisis, often influenced by the significant media attention given to such issues. What is less apparent, however, is how consumers conceptualise, respond to and mitigate food risk in everyday, non-crisis scenarios. Drawing on empirical research conducted with consumers across the Republic of Ireland, this paper addresses this gap by examining how consumers assess and perceive food risk outside of the specific conditions created by major food scares such as BSE. Unpacking results from eight consumer focus groups, several themes are explored in this regard relating to everyday consumer perceptions, awareness, experiences, expectations and connectivity with food risk. Providing conceptual and empirical insights, this includes exploration of themes concerning: (1) food risk consciousness and the presence of a variegated food risk society; (2) perceptions of risk coming from the ‘outside’ into Ireland and related spatiality of trust; and (3) differences between consumer food risk beliefs and practices. Unpacking the conundrum of low consumer awareness of risk in the face of increasingly risky and complex contemporary food chains, this paper is relevant to food practitioners, policymakers and scholars alike. It demonstrates the value of including consumer opinion in food risk regulatory agendas to increase transparency, accountability and trust in food governance systems. The need for increased consumer reflection on food risk is also proffered, linking this with broader requirements to challenge prevailing risky food provisioning systems.
An Urban-Rural Exploration of Depression, CVD and their Comorbidity in Ireland
Authors: Morrissey Karyn
Published: January 2024

The significant rise in the comorbidity of physical conditions with mental disorders is increasingly recognised as a public health issue. Spatial considerations and how they interact with individual level socio-economic characteristics also play a crucial role in influencing health outcomes. To date, most hypotheses tend to assume that health outcomes will be poorer in urban rather than rural areas. The aim of this paper is to examine whether the prevalence of cardio-vascular disease (CVD), depression and their comorbidity is higher across an expanded eight category classification of urban/rural areas once the known compositional determinants for both diseases are controlled for. It was found that the comorbidity of CVD and depression may be explained by individuals being exposed to spatially-variant demographic and socio-economic factors that may predispose them to both conditions. With regard to the location variables, it was found that health outcomes do not improve as space becomes increasingly rural relative to a city environment; suburban and mixed urban/rural residences bordering suburbs are consistently associated with poorer health outcomes, relative to city locations. Furthermore, residents of small towns have poorer health outcomes relative to city residents, whilst residents of large towns have better health outcomes relative to city residents. Thus, this paper concludes that health outcomes cannot be predicted on areas being dichotomously defined as rural versus urban and that non-linearities exist in health outcomes as areas become increasingly rural.
Caution – Census Data Being Used: exploring and understanding errors and falsification in the Irish census
Authors: Houghton Frank , Houghton Sharon , Scott Lisa
Published: January 2024

There are currently 23 bridges over the Liffey westwards from Lucan but only five of them were built east of O’Connell Bridge since 1850 and one is a pedestrian only bridge. This was despite a pressing need for a better system of traffic circulation that was obvious from the middle of the nineteenth century as the city and its docklands continued their eastwards expansion. That need was recognised by the civic authorities but the complex system of local governance with overlapping responsibilities ensured that satisfactory solutions were difficult to achieve. There were issues of power, of funding and of taxation as well as competing needs. Even the naming of bridges could not be easily accomplished. This paper examines the issue of bridge provision from 1880, the year that the widened Carlisle Bridge was reopened as O’Connell Bridge. The main focus of attention will be the initial building of Butt Bridge, its subsequent rebuilding and the intractable problem of building a bridge to the east of Butt Bridge. A novel solution in the form of a transporter bridge was proposed, which would have added a distinctive element to the city’s streetscape but nothing was accomplished in the thirty years to 1960.The city of Dublin during the period 1930-1950 has not been widely studied. Using a variety of sources, newspapers, civic minutes, Oireachtas debates, maps, photographs and graphics, this paper aims to shed light on one important aspect of civic governance and to show how the city might have been transformed had matters been handled in a different way.
Colangite esclerosante primária associada às doenças inflamatórias intestinais
Authors: Teodoro Nathália Fernanda Gouveia Madureira , Rodrigues Bianca Gonçalves , De Paulo Guilherme Victor Castro , De Sousa Júnior Lusmaio Batista , De Oliveira Danúbio Antônio
Published: January 2024

A colangite esclerosante primária (CEP) está entre as principais doenças inflamatórias intestinais (DII) de origem crônica, multifatorial e progressiva, caracterizada por estenose biliar intra e extra-hepática, que afeta a qualidade e a expectativa de vida dos pacientes.
Comparação entre a realização de uma segmentectomia ou lobectomia em pacientes com carcinoma pulmonar de celulas não pequenas: uma revisão de literatura
Authors: Do Amaral Neto Joel , Rangel Thalysson de Souza , Alvares Gabriel Costa de Oliveira Teixeira , Vasconcelos Alexandre Bento , Vidal Olegário Indemburgo Rocha da Silva
Published: January 2024

Uma das principais causas de morte no mundo é o câncer de pulmão. Mesmo que o tabagismo no século XXI tenha diminuído, essa neoplasia ainda é prevalente. O padrão ouro de tratamento para o Câncer de pulmão de células não pequenas (CPNPC) é a ressecção cirúrgica do tecido pulmonar acometido. Há muitos anos a preferência por uma lobectomia pulmonar com dissecção sistêmica dos linfonodos mediastinais foi a escolha para este caso, mas estudos recentes sugerem uma melhor performance pulmonar ao realizar um procedimento mais conservador.
Yoga como tratamento para o transtorno depressivo maior
Authors: Silva Enzo Gabriel Oliveira , Mouro Gustavo Henrique Santos , Rodrigues Ruan Jefferson Fontenele , Lazzarini Paulo Ricardo Casagrande , Vieira Bárbara Martins
Published: January 2024

O Transtorno Depressivo Maior (TDM) é uma condição psiquiátrica caracterizada por sentimentos persistentes de tristeza profunda, perda de interesse ou prazer, fadiga, alterações no sono e apetite, dificuldade de concentração e pensamentos suicidas, que afetam significativamente o funcionamento diário. Sendo considerada como uma condição debilitante que afeta o bem-estar emocional e mental das pessoas. O yoga é uma prática milenar que combina posturas físicas, respiração controlada e meditação. Promove o equilíbrio físico e mental, aumenta a flexibilidade, reduz o estresse e melhora a saúde geral. Desse modo, o yoga é uma prática que tem sido explorada como uma possível intervenção terapêutica para o TDM devido aos seus benefícios para a saúde mental.
Uso de membranas de celulose bacteriana no tratamento de Úlceras Venosas de membros inferiores
Authors: De Oliveira Heloisa , Cardoso Higor Chagas
Published: January 2024

Úlceras venosas (UV) são feridas crônicas que podem ser descritas como lesões resultantes de uma inflamação persistente devido a um problema no sistema circulatório. Atualmente, tem-se utilizado a celulose bacteriana (CB) como tratamento. Essa biocelulose age como uma película que se fixa à superfície da ferida, desempenhando o papel de uma pele temporária durante o processo de cicatrização.
Uso de Escitalopram e índice de desenvolvimento humano: um estudo retrospectivo entre 2014 e 2020 em Palmas - TO
Authors: Silva Vitória Regina Leão Campos , Cruz Lucas Fiorini , Marson Poliana Guerino
Published: January 2024

O escitalopram é um dos principais representantes dos inibidores seletivos da recaptação de serotonina (ISRS), classe de medicamentos amplamente utilizada no tratamento de transtornos ansiosos e depressivos. Ao redor do globo, estudos de monitorização vêm constatando o aumento do consumo do escitalopram ao longo dos anos. Por outro lado, pesquisadores associam o aumento do uso de medicamentos em geral com o crescimento do Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH) das populações.
Universus: simplificando o SUS para lideranças comunitárias através da educação em saúde
Authors: Magalhães Maria Luisa , Ribeiro Camila Lima , Campos Victoria Maciel de Oliveira , De Melo Palloma Chaves Cordeiro Vaz
Published: January 2024

A política de saúde pública brasileira, Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), está entre as mais abrangentes do mundo. A participação popular é um dos pilares organizativos do sistema, sendo considerada um mecanismo de controle social e gestão pública participativa. Porém, o desconhecimento das leis orgânicas, dos serviços e fluxos de atendimentos oferecidos pelo SUS é um dos desafios que prejudicam a prática dessa competência. Para intervir nesta barreira, levanta-se o líder comunitário como grande interlocutor dentro da comunidade, em que sua união com a educação em saúde sobre o SUS pode ser capaz de transformar a vida de forma individual e coletiva, proporcionando, assim, conhecimento para melhorar a qualidade de vida e saúde do usuário.
Prevalência de exames citopatológicos de colo de útero alterados abaixo de 25 anos no Paraná
Authors: Possobon Mariana da Silva , Hoss Louise Etienne , Duarte Maycon Gabriel Teixeira , Silva Natalia Magagnin , Possobon Adriano Luiz
Published: January 2024

O câncer de colo de útero é um dos mais comuns entre as mulheres e o rastreamento é essencial para a prevenção dessa doença. Esse rastreamento é realizado através do exame citopatológico de colo de útero/Papanicolau. O Ministério da Saúde indica que esse exame seja realizado a partir dos 25 anos. Sabe-se que há realização desse exame fora do espectro indicado e, assim, discute-se a prevalência de exames alterados abaixo de 25 anos, a fim de buscar entender a falta de necessidade de rastreamento nessa idade.
Reconstrução mamária pós-mastectomia: o impacto na autoimagem e na qualidade de vida das mulheres
Authors: Dos Santos Carolaine Rocha , Silva Eduardo Davyd de Oliveira , Prado Lucas Nonato , De Carvalho Pablinny Moreira Galdino
Published: January 2024

A mastectomia é um procedimento cirúrgico comum no tratamento do câncer de mama, que pode ter implicações significativas na autoimagem e na qualidade de vida das mulheres. A reconstrução mamária é uma opção que visa restaurar a aparência da mama e potencialmente melhorar a autoimagem e a qualidade de vida das mulheres após a mastectomia.
FGF21: potencial biomarcador para diagnóstico e prognóstico na Sepse?
Authors: Duarte Gabriela Guy , De Mello Ana Luíza Pinheiro , Almeida Ana Clara Ferreira , Da Silva Natan Fiorotti , Martins Patrícia Ferraz
Published: January 2024

A sepse pode ser definida como uma resposta desregulada a uma infecção, consequenciando numa disfunção orgânica. Considerada um problema grave, possui altas taxas de mortalidade, configurando-se importante causa de morte em UTIs pelo mundo. O fator de crescimento de fibroblastos 21 (FGF21), hormônio produzido principalmente pelo fígado, possui diversas ações metabólicas como regulação do metabolismo da glicose e lipídios, tal qual ação anti-inflamatória e antioxidante. Estudos anteriores mostraram que o FGF21 sérico se encontra em níveis elevados nos pacientes com sepse, devido a um possível efeito protetor. Sendo assim, alguns estudos buscam explorar o valor clínico desses níveis como biomarcador na sepse.
Há riscos em se realizar a mamografia bienalmente como rastreamento em mulheres com risco habitual para câncer de mama?
Authors: De Araujo Junior Geovani , Magalhães Carolina Ribeiro , Kelles Silvana Márcia Bruschi
Published: January 2024

A principal causa de morte em mulheres por câncer no Brasil é o câncer de mama. Assim, o rastreamento por meio da mamografia busca detectar a doença em mulheres assintomáticas, com a possibilidade de prevenir a fase avançada. Mas, existem controvérsias, já que há riscos de falso-positivos, expondo-as a mais exames, biópsias, sofrimento biopsicossocial, e de lesões devido a procedimentos confirmatórios. Destacam-se também os resultados falso negativos, risco de sobrediagnóstico e sobretratamento, cenário onde é realizada até uma cirurgia radical e essa moléstia não evoluiria a ponto de gerar sintomas ou morte, com prejuízos para a paciente e o ônus financeiro para o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) com intervenções desnecessárias.
Hipóteses diagnósticas de dor torácica no pronto-socorro
Authors: Tundela Giovana Alcantara , Gomes Amanda Teodora , De Arruda Gabriella Andrade Viegas , E Silva Isadora Maria Pina , Vidal Olegário Indemburgo da Silva Rocha
Published: January 2024

A dor torácica está entre as queixas mais comuns na emergência e exige rápida discriminação de hipóteses diagnósticas pelo risco de ser fatal. Por isso, os instrumentos de investigação clínica devem ser otimizados para chegar ao diagnóstico e tratamento adequados.
Implicações do uso de cigarros eletrônicos no desenvolvimento de neoplasias pulmonares
Authors: De Lima Neto Olavo Pereira , Cassol Isabela Balk Brandão , Araújo Luana Hellen Bezerra de Sousa , Aguiar Brenda Freitas , Batista Luiz Eduardo de Castro
Published: January 2024

Os cigarros eletrônicos, apesar de sua venda ilegalizada no Brasil, têm-se destacado como uma alternativa à pratica do tabagismo, principalmente entre jovens. Contudo, a vaporização de nicotina e outras substancias químicas mostra-se um substancial fator de risco ao incremento das taxas de lesões pulmonares e de câncer de pulmão.
Impacto da pandemia de COVID-19 nas infecções por superbactérias em ambientes hospitalares
Authors: Suhadolnik Breno Henrique Andrade , Borges Breno Medeiros , De Souza Wesley Henrique Macedo , Carvalho Marco Túlio Menezes
Published: January 2024

Em 2019, ocorreu um surto causado pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) na cidade de Wuhan, China. O vírus demonstrou-se altamente contagioso, em diversos casos, levando a hospitalização dos pacientes e a comorbidades fatais. Associado ao aumento do número de internações, mais pessoas ficaram expostas a superbactérias presentes em ambientes hospitalares, o que sugere uma possível elevação no número de infecções desse tipo.
Impactos associados do Diabetes Mellitus pré-gestacional nas cardiopatias congênitas
Authors: Teixeira Kaila Beatriz de Jesus , Beltrão Larissa Evelyn Barbosa Floering , Schuch Karolina Lemos , De Carvalho Amanda Cavalcante , Brilhante Neto Francisco Carlos
Published: January 2024

O Diabetes Mellitus (DM) é uma doença crônica de origem multifatorial, influenciado por hábitos de vida e alterações hormonais, sendo um grande problema de saúde pública. Em mulheres, é ainda mais preocupante, pois o DM pré-gestacional pode gerar complicações para o feto se não for diagnosticado e tratado precocemente, como macrossomia fetal e cardiopatias congênitas, promovidas pelo estímulo de uma maior produção e secreção de insulina, em virtude do aporte elevado de glicose ao feto.
A dificuldade no acesso a medicamentos através do Sistema Único de Saúde no estado do Amazonas
Authors: Carlos Adriano Cézar Lins , Barbosa Julianna Laís Meneses , Pascareli-Carlos Aline Maquiné
Published: January 2024

Após a institucionalização da saúde com a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), na Constituição Federal de 1988, o atendimento gratuito e integral passou a ser objetivo principal do atendimento à saúde, abrangendo desde a consulta até a entrega de medicamentos à população atendida. O   Amazonas, por ser uma região extremamente peculiar pela sua localização e heterogeneidade, que tem como sua característica marcante, ter como principal via, a hidroviária, encontra dificuldades no cumprimento de tal objetivo, principalmente no que se refere a distribuição medicamentosa, por questões logísticas e pela quantidade de itens necessários para suprir a demanda, dificultando a integralidade do atendimento.
A abordagem psicológica da cirurgia plástica em mulheres mastectomizadas
Authors: De Moura Anna Clara Lopes , Bicalho Arlindo José Zboralski Pires , Da Rocha Santiago Falcão , Dos Santos Junior Valdir Nogueira , Piccolo Mônica Sarto
Published: January 2024

A reconstrução mamária consiste em uma intervenção da cirurgia plástica comumente realizada após mastectomias. Contudo, muitos fatores devem ser considerados a respeito dessa, tendo em vista os aspectos psicológicos que a circundam.
Da natureza (jurídica) da água: direito humano ou mercadoria?
Authors: Dos Santos Ilana Mara Borges Barreto , Soares Luciana Barboza , Yoshida Leticia Luchese , De Almeida Michelle Queiroz , Silva Thiago Henrique Costa
Published: January 2024

Com o objetivo central de compreender a natureza jurídica da água, esta pesquisa, de cunho bibliográfico e documental, pauta-se na dialética para sintetizar os argumentos que sustentam a água enquanto recurso natural, dotada de valor econômico, e a água enquanto bem comum, constituindo direito humano. Em uma abordagem qualitativa, parte-se do materialismo para estudar as bases políticas e sociais das disputas discursivas que permeiam as formas de apropriação e disposição dos bens hídricos. Na seara internacional, em que pese o avanço no debate sobre o direito água potável e o seu acesso, nota-se a ausência do direito à água, de forma ampla, nos documentos garantidores de direitos humanos. No âmbito brasileiro, é ainda mais incipiente esse debate, mesmo que os juristas entendam o direito à água enquanto intrínsecos a outros direitos, como a vida e o meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado. Conclui-se que, ao delinear os elementos essenciais que circundam a água (vidas humanas e animais, meio ambiente, dignidade e saúde), a natureza jurídica da água é a de bem comum, porém, na prática, grupos hegemônicos e relações de poder assimétricas mantêm a ideia mercadológica preponderante, mesmo nos documentos jurídicos, causando exclusões e concentrando riquezas.