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Autonomous language teaching; Pre-requisite to autonomous language learning
(Peter Lang, 2012)This paper addresses my concern about a lack of coordinated support being offered to student-teachers in the context of the Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), and about how a more learner-centred approach to language ... -
Barriers to FLOSS in SMEs: the lack of knowledge and skills
(IOS Press, 2005)While open source is becoming a topic of mainstream business, the level of awareness and depth of understanding of the open source paradigm still varies considerably and represents a significant barrier to broader adoption. ... -
Benefits and drawbacks of open source software: An exploratory study of secondary software firms
(Springer, 2007-06-14)Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications, white papers, web articles etc. To a greater extent this research has tended to concentrate ... -
Beochan an bhéaloidis: an scannánaíocht, foirm na beochana agus an traidisiún béil
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Biafra's legacy: NGO humanitarianism and the Nigerian civil war
(Overseas Development Institute, 2016-10)[No abstract available] -
Biometric identities and e-government services.
(IGI Global, 2006)Governments are using the Internet and e-commerce technologies to provide public services to their citizens (Watson & Mundy, 2001). In so doing, governments aim to form better relationships with businesses and citizens by ... -
Blockchain adoption: Technological, organisational and environmental considerations
(Implications of the Blockchain, 2018)Information technology (IT) innovation is rapidly reshaping organisations, affecting fundamental aspects of their everyday business activities and processes. This development is accompanied by benefits as well as challenges. ... -
A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
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Brain haemorrhage detection through SVM classification of electrical impedance tomography measurements
(Springer, Cham, 2019-08-28)A brain haemorrhage constitutes a serious medical scenario with a need for rapid, accurate detection to facilitate treatment initiation. Machine learning (ML) techniques applied to such medical diagnostic problems can ... -
Breaking the SEAL: enhancing engagement with academic libraries and the Academy through educational design innovation in technology-enhanced learning
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)Breaking the SEAL developed from a partnership between the James Hardiman Library and the School of Education at the National University of Ireland Galway. This initiative provides second-level students with opportunities ... -
Bridging worlds: Building a bridge for our educational ecosystem and linking formal and non-formal learning
(Education Matters, 2021)The Bridging Worlds project, funded by Reinvent Ireland, is an exploratory programme with the ambitious aim of creating a wraparound model linking the formal and non-formal education sectors. It provides a comprehensive ... -
The brief Ovidian career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian complaint
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Calling attention to the Ovidian contours of Isabella Whitney s cursus litterarum, this essay reconsiders the literary heritage of the personae she adopts in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566) and A Sweet Nosgay (1573). Existing ... -
Building a dolmen: an ISD approach to the management of innovation
(Springer, 2008-10-24)This paper addresses a ¿challenge in practice¿ by describing the initial stage of an information systems development (ISD) project to support the management of innovation within a subsidiary of APC-MGE. To begin with, a ... -
Bumping into classroom walls: How to win the timed race of language learning in the university classroom
(Peter LangAuthor’s accepted manuscript (AAM), not the definitive, published version of record of the chapter. “All rights reserved.”, 2014)Departing from student-led evaluations of Spanish classrooms in a university in Canada a few years ago, this chapter focuses on the conditions that space and time impose on our contemporary university classrooms. In ... -
Cailís mo chuid fola/ the chalice of my blood: stigmatized female identity in Celia de Fréine’s Fiacha Fola
(Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press, 2017)Discussion of Celia de Fréine's poetry collection 'Fiacha Fola' (2005) about the Hepatitis C scandal -
Can international housing rights based on public international law really impact on contemporary housing systems?
(Ashgate, 2010-12)The concept of home advances a new basis for evaluating housing rights, emphasising their human and personal benefits. Housing rights address, at a national, regional and global level, displacement and dispossession, as ... -
Can we explain cross-modal representation with neural algorithms alone?: Commentary on Paillard
(North-Holland, 1999)Recent research in both psychophysics and electrophysiology has revealed a number of examples in which behaviour is guided by (i.e. Spence & Driver, 1996), and brain activity has been argued to correlate with, the formation ... -
Cannabinoids and pain: sites and mechanisms of action
(Elsevier, 2017-06-20)The endocannabinoid system, consisting of the cannabinoid(1) receptor (CB1R) and cannabinoid(2) receptor (CB2R), endogenous cannabinoid ligands (endocannabinoids), and metabolizing enzymes, is present throughout the pain ...