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Exploiting information and communication technologies for rural development
(Elsevier, 1992-07)
This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ...
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
(Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)
From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ...
The ideology of population control in the UN draft plan for Cairo
(Springer, 1994-09)
This paper examines the influence of population control ideology on the draft plan for the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. It is argued that this draft plan can only be fully understood in the context ...
Synchronous information presented in 40-Hz flicker enhances visual feature binding
(Blackwell, 1998-01)
Recent neurophysiological studies have encouraged speculation that the synchronization of spatially distributed neural assemblies (at around 40 Hz in the neocortex) is responsible for the binding of discrete stimulus ...
The Irish Sea in Prehistory
(Journal of Irish Archaeology, 1992)
The role of the Irish Sea in the study of past contacts between Ireland and Britain is reviewed. Analysis of a selection of distribution maps relating to the period c. 4000 B.C. to c. 500 B.C. suggests the possibility of ...
The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age
(Galway University Press, 1993)
This illustrated corpus of pottery from burial contexts in Bronze Age Ireland c. 2500-1500 BC was prepared by John Waddell with the assistance of Breandán Ó Ríordáin and the National Museum of Ireland. It includes a study ...
Population change in the Republic of Ireland 1981-1991: trends and spatial patterns
(Universite de Lille I (Sciences et Technologies), 1992)
Demographic trends in the Republic of Ireland have gradually moved closer to Western European norms during the past two
decades. Birth rates have continued to fall and internal migration flows have become diversified. ...
Regional imagery and Irish tourism promotion
(BELGEO, 1999)
Regional images may be defined as representations of places which consist of one or more of
a variety of elements which may include people, landscapes, flora or animals (Gold and
Ward, 1994; Kneafsey, 1997). Sound, when ...
Geography under threat in Irish second-level education
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)
Recent Department of Education recommendations for a revised second-level junior cycle programme in the Republic of Ireland omitted geography from its established position in the core curriculum. This paper describes the ...
'Oweynagat', Rathcroghan, Co, Roscommon, and associated karst features
(Speleological Union of Ireland, 1997-11)
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