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Clifford Odets: Writing Around Jewishness
(2011-09-30)
Playwright Clifford Odets was a second-generation Jewish American. He is commonly regarded as a sell-out to Hollywood who never fulfilled his artistic promise. This dissertation argues that societal pressure to assimilate ...
The diffusion of global human resource information technology in the subsidiaries of a US multinational corporation
(2011-08-26)
The majority of multinational corporations (MNC) utilise some form of global human resource information technology (GHRIT) to collect, store and analyse employee data. The literature suggests that the use of GHRIT has the ...
Studies on an evolutionary novelty: The forcipular segment of centipedes (Arthropoda: Chilopoda)
(2011-11-29)
The arthropod class Chilopoda comprises about 3500 described species of centipedes distributed across five living orders. A synapomorphic character of the class is the modified first trunk segment bearing a pair of sharp ...
Providing Integration: An Examination of Street-Level Youth Worker Strategy in Galway City
(2011-11-24)
Unprecedented 'Celtic Tiger' in-flows of economic migrants and asylum-seekers have created an increasingly multicultural Ireland. This transformation has spawned significant academic and policy-making attention to the ...
Hypertextualized Virtual Environments: Dual-Mode User Interface Design
(2011-06-03)
This thesis develops a novel strategy for accessing Hypertextualized Virtual Environments (HiVEs), integrated information spaces where symbolic (hypertext) and visual (3D graphics) data are simultaneously available and ...
L'e-learning nella glottodidattica: strumenti e proposte in una prospettiva connettivista
(2011-10-28)
E-learning can certainly be considered an aspect of education in its broad meaning, although it implies that the learner is situated at a physical distance from the instructor and therefore the use of a computer (or other ...
The Relationship between Refugee Exclusion Law and International Law: Convergence or Divergence?
(2011-05-30)
While asylum as a concept has been known since ancient times, persons with a criminal background have always been treated with suspicion and depending on the time and place would either be granted asylum in a limited form ...
Artefact Books: Towards a Multi-field Analytical Framework for Literary Research
(2011-09-30)
While the most fundamental object of literary studies is often the codex, in this age of digital and electronic sensory inundation, it would seem that the physical book has a limited lifespan. However, the technologies ...
The Dehumanisation Dynamic: A Criminology of Genocide
(2011-10-03)
Why do individuals perpetrate the crime of genocide? This thesis utilises an interdisciplinary, criminological approach in order to explore this question. Interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide in Rwanda, ...
Studies on the biology of juvenile European eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) in Irish rivers
(2011-09-23)
Over the past three decades recruitment of European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) to inland waters has declined by more than 95%. The causes of this decline are still unclear although a number of factors are thought to have ...