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Youth Mentoring as a Tool for Community and Civic Engagement: Reflections on Findings of an Irish Research Study
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-12-07)
Youth mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) are traditionally considered to be a vehicle for youth development rather than community development. In fact, the notion that the one-to-one engagement that ...
Evaluation of a novel real-time PCR test based on the ssrA gene for the identification of group B streptococci in vaginal swabs.
(2009)
Despite the implementation of prevention guidelines, early-onset group B streptococci (GBS) disease remains a cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Strategies to identify women who are at risk of transmitting ...
Neurotrophic Factor-Expressing Mesenchymal Stem Cells Survive Transplantation into the Contused Spinal Cord Without Differentiating into Neural Cells
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2009-10)
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of transplanting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), genetically modified to express glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), to the contused rat spinal cord, and to subsequently ...
Self-Surveillance
(2009-07)
Torso heating of divers in cold water.
(2009-07)
Cold water immersion could compromise both the effectiveness and safety of a diver. This paper reports an evaluation of the utility of providing external heating to divers in cold water. Methods: Seven U.S. Navy divers ...
Agility from first principles: reconstructing the concept of agility in information systems development
(Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009-09)
Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the development and promotion of these methods have been almost ...
Where agile research goes: starting from a 7-year retrospective (report on agile research workshop at XP2009)
(2009)
This report summarizes the key findings from a workshop at the 10th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP2009) called "Agile Research" A 7-Year Retrospective", ...
A Coevolving Systems Approach to the Organization of Agile Software Development
(2009)
Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack of understanding of ...
Human rights and smart economics: Mainstreaming gender in international trade policy
(UCD Law Review, 2009)
At the time, the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing was applauded as a massive turning point for the status of
women's human rights worldwide. Gender mainstreaming, established in
the Beijing Platform for ...