VistaMilk SFI Research Centre has launched a €1.4 million carbon sequestration project.
The project is in collaboration with Dairy Research Ireland, the group that allocates funding from the dairy levy collected from Irish dairy farmers.
Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it in plant material or in the soil. Carbon stored in soils is often called soil organic carbon. It is vital for soil health, improving their workability, water holding capacity, and productivity.
The recent addition of both national and EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets poses considerable challenges for the Irish agricultural sector.
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30 artificial intelligence equipped e-scooters are being rolled out for use by Dublin City University (DCU) staff and campus companies, as part of a research pilot project.
The project will run for six months and aims to improve e-scooter safety for both riders and pedestrians.
As the Government has yet to legalise e-scooters on our roads, the trial will take place on DCU campuses only until such a time.
Four organisations are involved in the project - Europe s largest e-scooter operator Tier, Irish micromobility tech platform Luna, the Insight SFI Research Centre For Data Analytics and Smart DCU.
Tier and Luna will provide the fleet of computer vision-enabled scooters, allowing DCU-based Insight researchers to explore the data.
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DCU researchers have found that the proficiency of children in fundamental movement skills such as running, jumping, skipping and hopping could contribute to overall healthier outcomes in later life including a reduced risk of heart disease and obesity.
In a paper published in the European Journal of Sports Science, researchers examined the relationship between fundamental movement skills (FMS) and health related fitness components (HRF) such as flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, body composition, muscular strength and endurance.
The results suggest that improving fundamental movement skills in children could predict improvements in body composition by up to 25%, in muscular strength by up to 50% and positively impact cardiovascular endurance by over 16%. Fundamental movement skills are regarded as the building blocks for more advanced movement that allow children to participate in physical activity.