Publications by authors named "Avril C Hegarty"
The influence of the solvent in nucleation of tolbutamide, a medium-sized, flexible and polymorphic organic molecule, has been explored by measuring nucleation induction times, estimating solvent-solute interaction enthalpies using molecular modelling and calorimetric data, probing interactions and clustering with spectroscopy, and modelling solvent-dependence of molecular conformation in solution. The nucleation driving force required to reach the same induction time is strongly solvent-dependent, increasing in the order: acetonitrile
Background: While statistics is increasingly taught as part of the medical curriculum, it can be an unpopular subject and feedback from students indicates that some find it more difficult than other subjects. Understanding attitudes towards statistics on entry to graduate entry medical programmes is particularly important, given that many students may have been exposed to quantitative courses in their previous degree and hence bring preconceptions of their ability and interest to their medical education programme. The aim of this study therefore is to explore, for the first time, attitudes towards statistics of graduate entry medical students from a variety of backgrounds and focus on understanding the role of prior learning experiences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Our objective was to describe the geographical variation in cancer incidence using gastro-intestinal and non-melanoma skin cancer incidence data in Ireland using two different Bayesian spatial models and to compare the performance of these models.
Methods: Cases diagnosed between 1994 and 2003 were extracted from the National Cancer Registry of Ireland. Population data were estimated from census data.