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Multiple exclusion and quality of life amongst excluded older people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
(Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (UK), 2005-03)This report highlights the experiences of older people whose lives are affected by multiple forms of social exclusion, and represents part of the Social Exclusion Unit¿s new focus on excluded older people. Despite growing ... -
An assessment of biometric identities as a standard for e-government services.
(Inderscience, 2005-03)This paper investigates the applicability and potential use of biometrics for e-government services. An in-depth case study is presented outlining the development of e-government services in Ireland, highlighting potential ... -
Gene prediction using the Self-Organizing Map: automatic generation of multiple gene models
(BioMed Central, 2005-03-05)Background: Many current gene prediction methods use only one model to represent protein-coding regions in a genome, and so are less likely to predict the location of genes that have an atypical sequence composition. It ... -
Transcription factor binding site identification using the Self-Organizing Map
(Oxford Open Journals, 2005-05-01)Motivation: The automatic identification of over-represented motifs present in a collection of sequences continues to be a challenging problem in computational biology. In this paper, we propose a self-organizing map of ... -
Assessing the role of open source software in the european secondary software sector: a voice from industry
(2005-06-09)This paper addresses the open source software (OSS) phenomenon from an industry perspective and reveals a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the secondary software sector. It presents the research results ... -
Functional coupling of beta(3)-adrenoceptors and large conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in human uterine myocytes
(Endocrine Society, 2005-07-02)Context: beta(3)-Adrenoreceptor modulation in human myometrium during pregnancy is linked functionally to myometrial inhibition. Maxi-K+ channels (BKCa) play a significant role in modulating cell membrane potential and ... -
Bananas Ethical Quality: Multi-stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
(CISC, 2005-11)This paper examines a recent and very specific development in the field of corporate governance. The regulation of "corporate social responsibility," that is corporate compliance with society's expectations in regard to ... -
Knowledge Exchange in Electronic Networks of Practice; Towards a Conceptual Framework
(CISC, 2005-11)The recently developed knowledge-based view of the firm argues that knowledge is the firm's most valuable resource. Within this field of study, informal social networks are rapidly gaining attention as mechanisms which ... -
Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict
(International Review of the Red Cross, 2005-12)The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if ... -
Trust Models for Community Aware Identity Management
(2006)The contemporary Web is heading towards its next stage of evolution. From a clump of unorganised information spaces, the Web is becoming more focused on the meaning of information (the Semantic Web) and on community awareness ... -
E-learning based on the Social Semantic Information Sources
(2006)E-Learning is no longer just about the materials burned on CD-ROMs and sent across the country. With the potential offered by the Internet, there are new on-line courses emerging every day. However successful they are, ... -
Coastline configuration disrupts the effects of large-scale climatic forcing, leading to divergent temporal trends in wave exposure
(Elsevier, 2006)Both climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may influence coastal systems by altering wave exposure. The effects of such climatic forcing are often coherent over relatively large geographic areas. Temporal ... -
Building a Heterogeneous Network of Digital Libraries on the Semantic Web
(2006)Ever since computer networks have become popular libraries tend to join into federations. Each federated digital library, apart from delivering discovery and navigation features within their own database allows users to ... -
E-learning based on the Social Semantic Information Sources
(2006)E-Learning is no longer just about the materials burned on CD-ROMs and sent across the country. With the potential offered by the Internet, there are new on-line courses emerging every day. However successful they are, ... -
D-FOAF: Distributed Identity Management with Access Rights Delegation
(2006)WWW provides a large number of services, which often require identification of it¿s users. This has lead to the fact that today users have to maintain a large number of different credentials for different websites - ... -
Youth Advocate Programme profiling study: HSE Local Health Areas Dublin South East, Dun Laoghaire and Wicklow
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, NUI Galway, 2006) -
Foróige Neighbourhood Youth Projects: summary research report
(Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2006) -
Facilitating family decision making: A study of the Family Welfare Conference Service in the HSE Western Area
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, NUI, Galway, 2006) -
Lír Youth and Family Project: evaluation report
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, NUI Galway, 2006) -
SALT: Semantically Annotated LATEX
(2006)Machine-understandable data constitutes the basis for the Semantic Desktop. We provide in this paper means to author and annotate Semantic Documents on the Desktop. In our approach, the PDF file format is the basis for ...