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A Social Context Enabled Framework for Semantic Enrichment and Integration of Web Videos
(2012-09-03)The automatic inference of video semantics is an important but highly challenging problem whose solution can greatly contribute towards the annotation, retrieval, personalisation and reusability of video on the web. From ... -
Social costs of untreated opioid dependence
(Springer Nature, 2000-12-01)Using cost-of-illness methodology applied to a comprehensive survey of 114 daily opiate users not currently in or seeking treatment for their addiction, we estimated the 1996 social costs of untreated opioid dependence in ... -
Social Diversity of Irish adults nutritional intake
(Nature, 2003-08)The first health and lifestyle survey of Irish adults was carried out in 1998 and aimed to describe the health-related lifestyle behaviours of a cross-section of various population trata residing in the Republic of Ireland. ... -
Social exclusion and ageing in diverse rural communities: Findings from a cross-border study in Ireland and Northern Ireland
(Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, 2012-02)Currently, our understanding of social exclusion and how it affects the lives of older people in diverse rural settings in Ireland and Northern Ireland is poorly developed and based primarily on anecdotal and fragmented ... -
Social exclusion of older persons: a scoping review and conceptual framework
(Springer Nature, 2016-10-11)As a concept, social exclusion has considerable potential to explain and respond to disadvantage in later life. However, in the context of ageing populations, the construct remains ambiguous. A disjointed evidence-base, ... -
Social gradients in years of potential life lost in ireland
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2003-12-01)Background: The study of mortality differentials by class or socio-economic group is underdeveloped in Ireland in comparison to other countries. The work that has been done has used a standardized mortality ratio (SMR) ... -
Social health and dementia: a european consensus on the operationalization of the concept and directions for research and practice
(Informa UK Limited, 2016-11-21)Background: Because the pattern of illnesses changes in an aging population and many people manage to live well with chronic diseases, a group of health care professionals recently proposed reformulating the static WHO ... -
Social impact assessment of scientist from mainstream news and weblogs
(Springer Verlag, 2017-10-14)Research policy makers, funding agencies, universities and government organizations evaluate research output or impact based on the traditional citation count, peer review, h-index and journal impact factors. These impact ... -
A social justice perspective on the delivery of family support
(Elsevier, 2024-03-01)Family support as an approach to working with children, youth, parents, and families is widely practiced across Europe albeit with a range of diverse meanings and interpretations. This paper responds to this ambiguity ... -
A Social Marketing Partnership Framework: An Extension of Morgan and Hunt’s (1994) Commitment - Trust Key Mediating Variable Model
(2012-09-19)The type of transformational change needed to address the complex and wicked issues that permeate today's society cannot be facilitated without the adoption of multi-sectoral social marketing partnerships. This research, ... -
Social marketing: The role of Facebook as a digital technology for social mechanisms and behaviour change in the context of obesity and healthy lifestyles
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-15)Tomorrow’s world is radically different to the one that social marketing was born into over 50 years ago (Taubenheim et al., 2008; Galiano-Coronil and MierTeran-Franco, 2019). Social marketing is propelling forward ... -
Social media poetics: The technological forms of alt lit poetry
(John Hopkins University Press, 2022-09)Poets on Twitter often use the medium for the purposes of publication and promotion. However, writers from the Alt Lit movement have used Twitter and other social media platforms for more creative purposes. Here, I examine ... -
Social network multiplexity in software development: Investigating the implications for knowledge sharing, problem-solving and performance
(NUI Galway, 2022-01-18)Social structures matter to software development. This is because software developers need to collaborate to share knowledge and solve problems together to drive software development success. Nonetheless, studies investigating ... -
Social networking and online privacy: Facebook users' perceptions
(Irish Academy of Management, 2012)This study investigates Facebook users' perceptions of online privacy, exploring their awareness of privacy issues and how their behaviour is influenced by this awareness, as well as the role of trust in an online social ... -
Social Networking and Personal Data Security: A Study of Attitudes and Public Awareness in Ireland
(IEEE, 2009)This paper reports the findings of a study of attitudes towards data security issues and awareness of the potential risks of social networking sites, most notably the possibility of identity fraud. The population for this ... -
Social Networking Portals: An Overview and Evaluation
(2004)Next generation communication on the Internet changes the way we interact with the complexity of the information load on the World Wide Web. Web portals act as gateways to resources and a multitude of services on the ... -
Social Networks and Data Portability using Semantic Web technologies
(2008)Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and ... -
Social regulation, medicalisation and the nurse's role: insights from an analysis of nursing documentation
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Social sentiment indices powered by X-scores
(INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, 2016-05)Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores (SSIX) seeks to address the challenge of extracting relevant and valuable economic signals in a cross-lingual fashion from the vast variety of and increasingly influential social ... -
Social spatiality: some rudimentary thoughts on the epistemology of Benno Werlen
(Copernicus Publications, 2014)Benno Werlen requires no introduction to readers of Geographica Helvetica: arguably the most internationally resonating of names amongst Swiss human geographers writing today, the Jena-based social geographer has not ...