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A new measure of multimorbid illness and treatment representations: the example of diabetes and depression
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-03-15)
Background: Depression is two to three times more common in people with diabetes than in the general population. Although multimorbid diabetes and depression is associated with poor health outcome, existing research has ...
Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics
(JMIR Publications, 2017-01-16)
Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution ...
A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian
(WorldScientific Open Access, 2016-10-21)
In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which
he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources.
The poems, which purported to have been composed by a ...
Dialectical dividends: fostering hybridity of new pedagogical practices and partnerships in science education and outreach
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-10-02)
Science literacy has become socially and economically very important. European countries stress that science graduates are fundamental for economic growth. Nevertheless, there is a declining student participation in science. ...
Maintaining the mother child relationship within the Irish prison system: the practitioner perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-11)
There is a dearth of research on the experience of motherhood
within the Irish prison system. This paper considers the specific
issue of facilitating contact between incarcerated mothers and
their children. It is based ...
Telework isn't working: a policy review
(The Economic and Social Review, 2014)
Towards the latter end of the last decade there was growing recognition that Ireland's transport and mobility patterns were unsustainable in the context of their economic, social and environmental impacts and consequences. ...
The practices of technology: putting society and technology in their place
(Common Ground Publishing, 2013)
Technology is all pervasive in modern society transforming people s
everyday lives and work environments. Societal change is coinciding with
the ever increasing availability of small, light, and affordable tools
for ...
Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)
Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ...
Leveraging new opportunities from the use of web widgets in online Web 2.0 environments
(University of Western Australia, 2010)
Over the past two decades the world has experienced a phenomenal
rise in popularity of new Internet technologies in the shape of innovative
software, applications and services.
Online social networking websites, blogging, ...
Italian Transcultural Atmospheres. A Comparison of the Italian Forum in Sydney and Piazza Vittorio in Rome
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This article is part of a larger study of Italian commercial and urban spaces developed around the world over the past fifteen years. It focuses in particular on the Italian Forum, a residential and commercial development ...