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    • Growing older in socially deprived areas: social exclusion in later life 

      Scharf, Tom (Help The Aged, 2002)
      This report presents research findings from a study investigating the impact of social exclusion on older people living in some of England¿s most deprived urban areas. It examines the degree to which people living in inner ...
    • Guidance for the Implementation of an Area Based Approach to Prevention, Partnership and Family Support 

      Gillen, Aisling; Landy, Fergal; Devaney, Carmel; Canavan, John (Child and Family Agency, 2013-08)
      [no abstract available]
    • A guide to selecting a measurement tool for quality of life assessment 

      McInerney, Veronica; Mannion, Eileen; Moses, Anusha; Molony, Kate; Waldron, Dympna (Medical and Clinical Research, 2019-05-07)
      Modern approaches to patient treatment and personalized medicine increasingly recognize the importance of the patient’s quality of life outcome. The art of assessing and using quality of life information in routine practice ...
    • Handling heterogeneity in RosettaNet messages 

      Haller, Armin; Kotinurmi, Paavo; Vitvar, Tomas; Oren, Eyal (2007)
      We present a semantic B2B gateway based on the WSMX se- mantic Service-Oriented Architecture to tackle heterogeneities in RosettaNet messages. We develop a rich RosettaNet ontology and use the axiomatised knowledge and ...
    • Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging 

      Möller, Knud; Decker, Stefan (2005)
      A typical computer user¿s desktop contains large amount of formal data, such as addresses, events or bibliopraphies. Especially within a corporate or organizational environment, it is often important to exchange this data ...
    • Having a Customer Focus in Agile Software Development 

      Lohan, Garry; Lang, Michael; Conboy, Kieran (2010)
      This research looks at the customer focus of agile software development teams. The study is part of a larger study examining how the twelve principles of Beyond Budgeting are operationalised in the context of an agile ...
    • 'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of social support types in a youth mentoring programme 

      Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Patrick; Canavan, John (Wiley, 2015-05-06)
      The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ...
    • Health promoting school indicators: schematic models for children. 

      Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Sixsmith, Jane; Delaney, Ellen-Nora; Moore, Miriam; O'Higgins, Siobhan (Emerald, 2007-06)
      Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to outline a three-stage process for engaging with students to develop school level indicators of health; in sequential class groups students first generated, then categorised indicators ...
    • Health Service Delivery in Hospitals: Researching Implications of Work-life Balance Practices for Nurse Employees 

      Patricia, Browne (Health Service Delivery in Hospitals: Researching Implications of Work-life Balance Practices for Nurse Employees, 2010)
      "Work-life balance (WLB) refers to a range of flexible working arrangements that go beyond employees' statutory leave entitlements. WLB assists employees to combine employment with their family life, caring responsibilities ...
    • Health Service Delivery in Hospitals: Researching Implications of Work-life Balance Practices for Nurse Employees 

      Browne, Patricia (2010)
      "Work-life balance (WLB) refers to a range of flexible working arrangements that go beyond employees' statutory leave entitlements. WLB assists employees to combine employment with their family life, caring responsibilities ...
    • Healthcare Human Resources Policy & Nurse Well-Being 

      Browne, Patricia (2009)
      Recent policy debates surrounding issues regarding health service delivery and escalating costs have come to the fore within political and policy discourses. Indeed within the current economic climate this debate has ...
    • Help seeking and help providing in Ireland 

      Devaney, Carmel; Rodriguez, Leonor; Cassidy, Anne (Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies, 2019-12)
      Recent developments in the Irish child welfare system have involved a targeted move towards the provision of accessible help at a more timely point for children, young people and their families. It is widely accepted that ...
    • Help seeking and help providing in Ireland 

      Devaney, Carmel; Rodriguez, Leonor; Cassidy, Anne (Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) and the NSW Family Services (FamS), 2019-12)
      Recent developments in the Irish child welfare system have involved a targeted move towards the provision of accessible help at a more timely point for children, young people and their families. It is widely accepted that ...
    • Here you feel more comfortable to talk : An evaluation of Foróige's REAL U: Relationships Explored and Life Uncovered programme 

      Brady, Bernadine; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Canavan, John; Gajewski, Jakub (Foróige Best Practice Unit, 2014)
      [no abstract available]
    • Heterogeneity and Context in Semantic-Web-Enabled HCLS Systems 

      Zimmermann, Antoine; Sahay, Ratnesh; Fox, Ronan; Polleres, Axel (Springer, 2009)
      The need for semantics preserving integration of complex data has been widely recognized in the healthcare domain. While standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7) have been developed in this direction, they have mostly ...
    • HFACS with an additional level of granularity: validity and utility in accident analysis. 

      O'Connor, Paul (2008)
      Introduction: This paper represents an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the Department of Defense's Human Factors Analysis and Classification (DOD-HFACS) system. DOD-HFACS delineates the human factors causes of ...
    • High-resolution gridded datasets of hydro-climate indices for Ireland 

      Werner, Christopher; Nolan, Paul; Naughton, Owen (Environmental Protection Agency, 2019-01)
      This report describes the application of numerical weather prediction (NWP) simulations to develop high-quality, long-term, gridded climate datasets of hydro-climate variables for Ireland, covering the period 1981 2016. ...
    • High-resolution scanning electron microscopy for the analysis of three-dimensional ultrastructure of clots in acute ischemic stroke 

      Mereuta, Oana Madalina; Fitzgerald, Seán; Christensen, Trace A.; Jaspersen, Adam L.; Dai, Daying; Abbasi, Mehdi; Puttappa, Tejaswini; Kadirvel, Ram; Kallmes, David F.; Doyle, Karen M.; Brinjikji, Waleed (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-12-23)
      Background: Characterization of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) clots has typically focused on two dimensional histological analysis of the thrombus. The three dimensional (3D) architecture and distribution of components ...
    • High-risk corneal transplantation: Recent developments and future possibilities 

      Armitage, W. John; Goodchild, Christine; Griffin, Matthew D.; Gunn, David J.; Hjortdal, Jesper; Lohan, Paul; Murphy, Conor C.; Pleyer, Uwe; Ritter, Thomas; Tole, Derek M.; Vabres, Bertrand (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-12)
      Human corneal transplantation (keratoplasty) is typically considered to have superior short- and long-term outcomes and lower requirement for immunosuppression compared to solid organ transplants because of the inherent ...
    • A Highly Effective Gene Delivery Vector 

      Newland, Ben; Tai, Hongyun; Zheng, Yu; Velasco, Diego; Di Luca, Andrea; Howdle, Steven M.; Alexander, Cameron; Wang, Wenxin; Pandit, Abhay (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010-06)
      A hyperbranched 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) based polymer has been synthesised by a one-pot in situ deactivation enhanced atom transfer radical polymerisation (DE-ATRP); it exhibits much higher transfection ...