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There has been an explosion in unstructured text data in recent years with services like Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp helping drive this growth. Many of these companies are facing pressure to monitor the content on their platforms and as such Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are more important than ever. There are many applications of NLP ranging from spam filtering, sentiment analysis of social media, automatic text summarisation and document classification.

The call for tutorials at UCC'19 and BDCAT'19 attracted submissions from Australia and Europe. The tutorial chairs reviewed and accepted two revised tutorials, and decided to award a third spot on a FCFS basis to ensure that conference attendees have access to learning resources across all conference topics.

Background: Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is still occurring in the hospitality industry and the instance of non-compliant smoking areas required investigation. A designated smoking area covered by a roof where more than 50% of the perimeter of that part is surrounded by one or more walls is deemed a non-compliant smoking area. This study aimed to gather evidence of non-compliances across Dublin, determine current employee exposure whilst also measuring PM2.5 concentrations within smoking areas as well as providing insight into possible immediate health effects of ETS exposure. Methods: Seventy-five smoking areas (41 located in high, 27 in medium and 7 in lower socioeconomic areas) were visited from May 2019 – October 2020. PM2.5 was recorded using a SidePak AM510 Personal Aerosol Monitor for a period of 45 minutes – 1 hour inside the smoking area. Observational forms recorded physical and contextual variables of the smoking areas including, number of smokers present, roof, perimeter boundary, size, time of day and food service. Ten healthy non-smoking volunteers (5 males, 18 – 53 years old, 5 females, 21 – 58 years old) partook in spirometry assessments pre, during and post exposure to ETS within a smoking area. Results: Sixty per cent of smoking areas were non-compliant, with higher average PM2.5 concentrations than compliant smoking areas (41.1 μg/m3, 17.2 μg/m3, (p < .001)). The overall distribution of venues demonstrated that non-compliance was evenly distributed across the county. Average PM2.5 was significantly higher in smoking areas where a roof of any kind was present (36 μg/m3, no roof = 16.3 μg/m3, (p < .001)). Employees were noted working within 88% of the smoking areas visited and permanent auxiliary bars were present in 21.3% of smoking areas surveyed. When immediate effects of ETS exposure were assessed, peak flow results were suggestive of an effect between both pre exposure and during exposure (p = 0.051) as well as pre exposure and post exposure (p = 0.057). Conclusions: Widespread non-compliance with smoke-free legislation is occurring across Dublin hospitality venues and the presence of auxiliary bars in smoking areas is placing employees at risk.

Social media data is open, free and available in massive quantities. However, there is a significant limitation in making sense of this data because of its high volume, variety, uncertain veracity, velocity, value and variability. This work provides a comprehensive framework of text processing and analysis performed on YouTube comments having offensive and non-offensive contents. YouTube is a platform where every age group of people logs in and finds the type of content that most appeals to them. Apart from this, a massive increase in the use of offensive language has been apparent. As there are massive volume of new comments, each comment cannot be removed manually or it will be bad for business for youtubers if they make their comment section unavailable as they will not be able to get any feedback of any kind.

Short video showing the oldest building on the Grangegorman site, The Lower House, from the air. This building is about to be refurbished as part of the re-development of Grangegorman. see www.ggda.ie for more.

The hot cross bun is a traditional enriched, soft, spiced bun which is mainly eaten during lent. Good Friday being the big traditional day to buy these buns due to the religious significance of the catholic Easter celebrations. This particular recipe was used in the Coupe du Monde 2019 finals in Paris as part of the international challenge for competing candidates.

Holidays are often seen as an opportunity for couples to spend quality time together, relax and create unforgettable memories. But it is not uncommon for couples to experience conflicts and arguments during their trips.

The School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, TU Dublin, Spring Newsletter captured the many events, research, awards, significant contributions and special civic and community activities which the students and staff members of the school have successfully completed up to the Spring period of 2019. The successful completion of these activities would not be possible without the active and on-going support of the 'INSPIRED' friends of Culinary Arts (school supporters) and our school's industry association supporters.

In recent years, it has become apparent that sub-micron scale remnants of cells, called microparticles (MPs), are present in human circulation. MPs contain DNA, RNA, protein and lipids (such as cholesterol). Increased numbers of MPs are observed in autoimmune conditions such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). This work aims to address the deficiency in the literature concerning MP cholesterol (MPC) by establishing reference values for MPC in a representative healthy population group, and by investigating the potential of MP cholesterol as a biomarker in autoimmunity.

We all get excited about the unmissable deal we just got in our inbox for a pair of trainers from our favourite brand and we want it delivered to our doorstep within the next couple of hours. But we get annoyed by the premium the retailer charged us for this express delivery, often with ‘no guaranteed’ delivery time.