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Electrophysiological correlates of flicker-induced form hallucinations
(The International Society for Psychophysics, 2010-10)Form hallucinations can be reliably induced using temporally modulated light within a specific frequency range (15-30Hz). The neural substrates of such states have yet to be established with certainty. Brain activity of 5 ... -
Electrophysiological correlates of similarity-based interference during detection of visual forms
(MIT Press, 2006-06)Illusory figure completion demonstrates the ability of the visual system to integrate information across gaps. Mechanisms that underlie figural emergence support the interpolation of contours and the filling-in of form ... -
Electrophysiological entropy in younger adults, older controls and older cognitively declined adults.
(Elsevier, 2012-03-22)The current study examined electrophysiological entropy in younger adults, older adults, and older cognitively declined adults across four experimental conditions - eyes closed, eyes open, and during both encoding and ... -
Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper¿s contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data ... -
Elucidation of the role of the glutamate decarboxylase system and the gamma-aminobutyric acid shunt pathway in the stress response of Listeria monocytogenes
(2014-07-22)The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis in humans and other animals. This disease can have a fatality rate of up to 30% in infected patients and leads to spontaneous abortion in ... -
The elusive image
(Wordwell, 2009)It is now possible to identify one symbol in Celtic La Tène art found in Continental Europe and in prehistoric Britain and Ireland that appears to be an expression of a complex religious cosmology. This is the elusive (and ... -
Emanuel Carnevali's cultural translation: an Italian in Modernist America
(2016-02-09)The thesis investigates translingual writing – that is, writing in a language which is not the native one – at the intersection between culture, identity, and translation. The focus is here on Italian American writer Emanuel ... -
Embedding non-ground logic programs into autoepistemic logic for knowledge base combination
(2011)In the context of the Semantic Web, several approaches to the combination of ontologies, given in terms of theories of classical first-order logic and rule bases, have been proposed. They either cast rules into classical ... -
An embodied carbon and embodied energy appraisal of a section of Irish motorway constructed in peatlands
(Elsevier, 2015-01-29)In addition to the customary drivers of cost and timely project delivery, embodied energy (EE) and embodied carbon (EC) have come to prominence in recent years as major design considerations in all aspects of large-scale ... -
The Emerald or Yellow Isle? Estimating the welfare impacts of agricultural landscape change in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-01)In this paper we exploit a discrete choice modeling framework to estimate the potential non-market welfare impacts of alternative hypothetical rural Irish landscapes that could become real by the year 2030 depending both ... -
An Emergent Theory of HRM: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Determinants of HRM among Irish Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
(Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 2006-11)Utilizing data drawn from 18 in-depth case studies the authors explore in detail the factors shaping employment in a diverse range of Irish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. Existing theory in HRM is deemed inadequate ... -
The emerging dynamic structure of national innovation studies: a bibliometric analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2016-10-26)The state is still the significant unit for innovative studies during the age of R&D globalization and innovation regionalization. Using the bibliometric method, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of ... -
Emerging new product development methodology for the automobile industry
(2014-07-21)New competitive pressures are unsettling traditional carmakers. These include: new consumer groups in emerging markets; zero emission requirements of existing customers; new competitors from emerging markets; and increasing ... -
Emerging Trends in Electricity Consumption for Consumer ICT
(2013)Since 2009, several emerging technologies have initiated broad and disruptive impact across the ICT sector: cloud computing promises efficiency of scale both in terms of capital and operational costs; high-speed wireless ... -
Emotion Tracking for Remote Conferencing Applications using Neural Networks.
(The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2010-08-31)In face-to-face work, discussion and negotiation relies strongly on non-verbal feedback, which provides important clues to negotiation states such as agreement/disagreement and understanding/confusion, as well as indicating ... -
Emotional eating: feeding and fearing feelings - what psychologists need to know
(The Psychological Society of Ireland, 2017-06)This article reviews the psychological theories of emotional eating and introduces to a little known model, Affect Phobia, which combines both learning and psychodynamic theory -
Emotions & social change in Ireland: Exploring habitus shift in liquid modernity
(2013-10-17)Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, history, politics, but particularly sociology and sociological theory, this thesis explores the relationship between emotions and social ... -
Empathy and teamwork: reflections on the legacy of Claudio Ciborra through the phenomenology of Edith Stein.
(European Conference on Information Systems, 2007-06)Claudio Ciborra argued that the position of information and communications technology (ICT) in organisations requires a shift from the present focus on the ¿scientific paradigm¿ to an ¿alternative centre of gravity: human ... -
Empire, emergency & the law
(2014-05-27)This thesis interrogates the nature of emergency legal doctrine -- from the institutional and constitutional planes of international relations, national security and political economy, down to more mundane planes of daily ... -
An empirical analysis of inward foreign direct investment flows in the European Union with emphasis on the market enlargement hypothesis
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)We use a cross-section, time-series approach to study the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the European union with particular emphasis on the expectations of a Single Market following the Single European ...