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Chaos and the city (2012)

Murphy, Edel

Chaos and the city (2012)

Murphy, Edel

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An endeavour to explore the relationship between order and chaos in the making of the city as a common place; a place to inhabit and engage, this satisfying a basic human requirement. Food, embodying both elements of order and chaos, is used as tool throughout the discourse, in which the city is dissected (in both the vertical and longitudinal section) to examine the production of space and role of processes in the city as an integral part of place making.

http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2509

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Effectiveness of a structured education reminiscence-based programme for staff on the quality of life of residents with dementia in long-stay units: a study protocol for a cluster randomised trial (2018)

O'Shea, Eamon; Devane, Declan; Murphy, Kathy; Cooney, Adeline; Casey, Dympna; Jord...

O'Shea, Eamon; Devane, Declan; Murphy, Kathy; Cooney, Adeline; Casey, Dympna; Jordan, Fionnuala; Hunter, Andrew; Murphy, Edel

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Background: Current projections indicate that there will be a significant increase in the number of people with dementia in Ireland, from approximately 40,000 at present to 100,000 by 2036. Psychosocial interventions, such as reminiscence, have the potential to improve the quality of life of people with dementia. However, while reminiscence is used widely in dementia care, its impact on the quality of life of people with dementia remains largely undocumented and there is a need for a robust and fair assessment of its overall effectiveness. The DementiA education programme incorporating REminiscence for Staff study will evaluate the effectiveness of a structured reminiscence-based education programme for care staff on the quality of life of residents with dementia in long-stay units. Methods/Design: The study is a two-group, single-blind cluster randomised trial conducted in public and private long-stay residential settings in Ireland. Randomisation to control and intervention is at ...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/13320

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Effectiveness of a structured education reminiscence-based programme for staff on the quality of life of residents with dementia in long-stay units: A study protocol for a cluster randomised trial. (2011)

O'Shea, Eamon; Devane, Declan; Murphy, Kathy; Cooney, Adeline; Casey, Dympna; Jord...

O'Shea, Eamon; Devane, Declan; Murphy, Kathy; Cooney, Adeline; Casey, Dympna; Jordan, Fionnuala; Hunter, Andrew; Murphy, Edel

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Background: Current projections indicate that there will be a significant increase in the number of people with dementia in Ireland, from approximately 40,000 at present to 100,000 by 2036. Psychosocial interventions, such as reminiscence, have the potential to improve the quality of life of people with dementia. However, while reminiscence is used widely in dementia care, its impact on the quality of life of people with dementia remains largely undocumented and there is a need for a robust and fair assessment of its overall effectiveness. The Dementia education programme incorporating Reminiscence for Staff study will evaluate the effectiveness of a structured reminiscence-based education programme for care staff on the quality of life of residents with dementia in long-stay units. Methods/Design: The study is a two-group, single-blind cluster randomised trial conducted in public and private long-stay residential settings in Ireland. Randomisation to control and intervention is at ...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1921

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Investigation of substitutes for foetal calf serum in animal cell culture media (1986)

Murphy, Edel

Investigation of substitutes for foetal calf serum in animal cell culture media (1986)

Murphy, Edel

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The purpose of this thesis was to develop a serum-free medium which would support the growth of a human tumour cell line, RPMI 2650. Serum is used almost universally as a medium supplement to support growth of cells in culture, but investigators in the field have long recognised the problems associated with the undefined, complex and variable composition of serum whereas serum-free media permit growth of cells in a precisely-defined environment. In order to gain experience in the techniques used to grow cells in culture in the absence of serum, initial work was carried out on a canine kidney cell line (MDCK), for which a serum-free medium had already been developed. Growth of RPMI 2650 was initially examined in reduced serum conditions at clonal cell densities and the effect of various growth factors, hormones and other nutritional factors was examined. Significant growth stimulation was observed due to the addition of a number of factors (transferrin, insulin, EGF and selenium). ...

http://doras.dcu.ie/19112/

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