The aim of this study was to determine attitudes of final-year dental students in Cardiff, Cork and Malmö towards tooth whitening. Following receipt of ethical approval, pre-piloted questionnaires were distributed to final-year dental students in Cork, Cardiff, and Malmö as close as possible to graduation. The questionnaire sought information relating to various opinions and attitudes towards t...

The agro-silvopastoral system ‘montado’ is mostly dominated by Mediterranean evergreen oaks such as, cork oak (Quercus suber L.) and holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia). The ‘montado’ production system management aims the maintenance of a balanced sustainable land use to cope with the Mediterranean climate variability. One important issue in cork oak forests is the control shrub growth in order to ...

BACKGROUND This study establishes baseline prevalence of smoking and cigarette consumption among Cork bar workers prior to the Republic of Ireland's (ROI) smokefree workplace legislation and compares gender- and age-specific smoking rates and estimates the adjusted odds of being a smoker for Cork bar workers relative to the general population. METHODS Cross-sectional random sample of bar work...

amplifier Thomas Erneux, Evgeny A. Viktorov, Paul Mandel, Tomasz Piwonski, Guillaume Huyet, and John Houlihan Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Code Postal 231, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland, and Department of Applied Physics, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Department of Computing Maths and Physics, Wate...

Pimentel, J. Cortez, and Avila, Ramiro (1973). Thorax, 28, 409-423. Respiratory disease in cork workers ('suberosis'). A clinical, immunological, and histological study of 63 workers in the cork industry with bronchopulmonary manifestations is described. From this study, it was possible to recognize three types of reaction to the inhalation of cork dust: asthma-like syndromes, extrinsic allergi...

Pimentel, J. Cortez, and Avila, Ramiro (1973). Thorax, 28, 409-423. Respiratory disease in cork workers ('suberosis'). A clinical, immunological, and histological study of 63 workers in the cork industry with bronchopulmonary manifestations is described. From this study, it was possible to recognize three types of reaction to the inhalation of cork dust: asthma-like syndromes, extrinsic allergi...

A novel photocatalyst based on TiO2-PANI composite supported on small pieces of cork has been reported. It was prepared by simple impregnation method of the polyaniline (PANI)-modified TiO2 on cork. The TiO2-PANI/Cork catalyst shows the unique feature of floating on the water surface. The as-synthesized catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron micrograph (SEM), t...

Background Acyltransferases are enzymes with an important role in the synthesis of both cutin and suberin which are part of the lipophilic barriers, such as epidermis and periderm that protect terrestrial plants against water loss and other external aggressions. During secondary growth in woody plants such as cork oak (Quercus suber L.), the epidermis is replaced by a suberized periderm that in...

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE CARRIAGE IN ELDERLY SUBJECTS AND 1 ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA 2 3 Mary C. Rea, Orla O’Sullivan, Fergus Shanahan, Paul W. O’Toole, 4 Catherine Stanton, R. Paul Ross * and Colin Hill. 5 †Both authors contributed equally. 6 7 Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork Ireland, 8 Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Irela...

The aim of the research that is presented in this paper was to evaluate the physical and mechanical properties of heat-insulating mortars with expanded cork aggregates and different binders. In this work, the measurements of surface roughness and adhesion strength, supported by determination of basic mechanical and physical parameters, such as density, bulk density, open porosity, total porosit...