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L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: Expressing motion in L2 French and English
(John Benjamins, 2012)The study examines the production of sentences describing motion in L2 learners, focusing on progress in learning verbal constructions, i.e. pairings of verbs of motion and their compatible syntactic frames in English and ... -
Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments.
(Informa Healthcare, 2016-09-15)There has been debate about labels in relation to speech and language impairments. However, children's views are missing from this debate, which is risky considering that labels with negative associations may result in ... -
Labour characteristics of women achieving successful vaginal birth after caesarean section in three European countries
(Elsevier, 2019-03-19)Objective: Knowledge about labour characteristics of women achieving successful vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC) might be used to improve labour and birth management. This study examined sociodemographic and ... -
Language performance of sequential bilinguals on an Irish and English sentence repetition task
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2017-04-05)Currently there are no standardized language assessments for English-Irish bilingual school age children that would test languages in comparable way. There are also no standardized language assessments of Irish for this ... -
Large artery atherosclerotic clots are larger than clots of other stroke etiologies and have poorer recanalization rates
(Elsevier, 2020-11-24)Objectives There is a paucity of knowledge in the literature relating to the extent of clot burden and stroke etiology. In this study, we measured the Extracted Clot Area (ECA) retrieved during endovascular treatment (EVT) ... -
Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk.
(Nature Publishing Group (Macmillan), 2013-03-27)Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ~9% of the familial risk of the disease. We ... -
Learning from complaints about hospital care
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2022)Complaints are often seen as a negative experience in healthcare, with patients or family members writing about poor experiences of care, or things that went wrong. These things that go wrong may be small issues or ... -
Legal responses to public crisis: Tribunals of inquiry and the blood crisis in the Republic of Ireland
(2010)This paper will outline the national and international cases of contaminated blood which have emerged as a part of the 'risk society' of modernity since the 1980s. In particular, the paper will examine the Tribunals of ... -
Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study
(BMJ Group, 2005-10)Objectives - To compare exposure to secondhand smoke and respiratory health in bar staff in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland before and after the introduction of legislation for smoke-free workplaces in the ... -
Length of stay and associated costs of obesity related hospital admissions in Ireland.
(BioMed Central, 2008-04)Background - Obesity is the cause of other chronic diseases, psychological problems, obesity shortens the lifespan and puts strain on health systems. The risk associated with childhood obesity in particular, which will ... -
Lentiviral vector delivery of short hairpin RNA to NG2 and neurotrophin-3 promotes locomotor recovery in injured rat spinal cord
(Elsevier, 2012-01-08)Background aims. In this study we investigated the effect of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) and knockdown of NG2, one of the main inhibitory chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPG), in the glial scar following spinal cord injury ... -
Lentiviral vector‐mediated knockdown of the neuroglycan 2 proteoglycan or expression of neurotrophin‐3 promotes neurite outgrowth in a cell culture model of the glial scar
(Wiley, 2010)Background Following spinal cord injury, a highly inhibitory environment for axonal regeneration develops. One of the main sources of this inhibition is the glial scar that is formed after injury by reactive astrocytes. ... -
LGBTI+ Youth in Ireland and across Europe: A two-phased landscape and research gap analysis
(Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and NUI Galway, 2021-05-24)Background: Since the 1990s, there has been a growing corpus of evidence on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTI+) youth. However, most of these studies were conducted in the ... -
Life expectancy and productivity loss among narcotics addicts thirty-three years after index treatment
(Routledge, 2006-09-22)This study computed the life expectancy of a cohort of male narcotics addicts followed for 33 years and assessed the productivity lost as a result of premature mortality. The future life expectancy was constructed for the ... -
Linguistic and Psychometric Validation of the Diabetes-Specific Quality-of-Life Scale in UK English for Adults With Type 1 Diabetes
(American Diabetes Association, 2012-12-18)OBJECTIVE-To develop a linguistically and psychometrically validated U.K. English (U.K.! Ireland) version of the Diabetes-Specific Quality-of-Life Scale (DSQOLS) for adults with type 1 diabetes.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-We ... -
Lipid lowering therapy, low-density lipoprotein level and risk of intracerebral hemorrhage – a meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2019-03-14)The association of lipid lowering therapy and intracerebral hemorrhage risk is controversial. We performed a cumulative meta-analysis of lipid lowering trials that reported intracerebral hemorrhage. Statin, fibrate, ... -
A literature review on effective risk communication for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in Europe.
(ECDC, 2013)This review examines the current body of literature on risk communication related to communicable diseases, focusing on: (i) definitions and theories of risk communication; (ii) methodologies, tools and guidelines for risk ... -
A Literature Review on Health Communication Campaign Evaluation with Regard to the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Europe
(ECDC, 2014)Executive summary Introduction This review collates and summarises the literature on communication campaign evaluation with relevance to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. The purpose of this review is ... -
A literature review on health information seeking behaviour on the web: a health consumer and health professional perspective.
(ECDC, 2011)The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overview of research studies published from 2006 to 2010 in the English language on online health information-seeking behaviour by adults from the perspective of both ... -
Lived experiences of fibromyalgia
(RCN Publishing, 2015-02-10)Martina Diviney and Maura Dowling explain why this chronic illness can take a long time to diagnose and how assessment tools can be used to speed up the process This phenomenological study explored the lived experience ...