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Benchmarking the financial performance of local councils in Ireland
(De Gruyter Open, 2016-04)It was over a quarter of a century ago that information from the financial statements was used to benchmark the efficiency and effectiveness of local government in the US. With the global adoption of New Public Management ... -
Bending control and stability of functionally graded dielectric elastomers
(Elsevier, 2021-01-18)A rectangular plate of dielectric elastomer exhibiting gradients of material properties through its thickness will deform inhomogeneously when a potential difference is applied to compliant electrodes on its major surfaces, ... -
Bending instabilities of soft biological tissues
(Elsevier, 2009-12-15)Rubber components and soft biological tissues are often subjected to large bending deformations while 'in service'. The circumferential line elements on the inner face of a bent block can contract up to a certain critical ... -
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
(Informa UK Limited, 2012-07-01)Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in building resilience in recipients. However, ... -
Benefits and Costs of Methane Emission Reduction in the Irish National Herd
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper, we compare many of the widely available estimated global benefits of abatement with the costs to Irish agriculture, as estimated by the CAPRI model. We apply the model to Ireland only, in a simple comparative ... -
Benefits and drawbacks of open source software: An exploratory study of secondary software firms
(Springer, 2007-06-14)Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications, white papers, web articles etc. To a greater extent this research has tended to concentrate ... -
The benefits of system dynamics simulation for sustainability education
(System Dynamics Society, 2021-07-26)Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is vital to the success of the United Nation¿s Sustainable Development Goals, yet it has so far proved difficult to implement. One reason for this is the systemic understanding ... -
The benign synthesis of bioactive heterocycles using photochemistry and hydrogen peroxide with hydrohalic acids
(2016-07-08)Chapter 1 provides a pertinent review of recent photochemical homolytic aromatic substitution (HAS) literature. Photochemical methods for HAS include UV-light and visible light photoredox catalysis. Recently invented methods ... -
Benthic nitrogen loss in the arabian sea off pakistan
(Frontiers Media SA, 2012-01-01)A pronounced deficit of nitrogen (N) in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) of the Arabian Sea suggests the occurrence of heavy N-loss that is commonly attributed to pelagic processes. However, the OMZ water is in direct contact ... -
Benthos distribution modelling and its relevance for marine ecosystem management
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-06-19)Marine benthic ecosystems are difficult to monitor and assess, which is in contrast to modern ecosystem-based management requiring detailed information at all important ecological and anthropogenic impact levels. Ecosystem ... -
Beochan an bhéaloidis: an scannánaíocht, foirm na beochana agus an traidisiún béil
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Best proximity pairs for upper semicontinuous set-valued maps in hyperconvex metric spaces
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Best proximity pairs theorems for continuous set-valued maps
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Better by design: the art of theatre: Irish theatrescapes: new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics
(The Irish Times, 2016-01-23)This work, as well as being beautifully illustrated, succeeds as a memoir, an anthology and as an outstanding act of theatre criticism, writes Patrick Lonergan. -
Between authorities: Exercises and experiments in literary appreciation
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-16)Literary criticism, of the type that follows in this project, is a series of experiments with and about the matter of authority: about how much authority a critic should want to have or be willing to give up, and how much ... -
Between Boston and Berlin: American MNCs and the shifting contours of industrial relations in Ireland
(Routledge, 2008)Drawing on detailed qualitative case studies and utilizing a national business system lens, we explore a largely underrepresented debate in the literature, namely the nature of change in a specific but critical element of ... -
Between internationalism and empire: Ireland, the 'Like-Minded' group, and the search for a new international order, 1974-82
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-07-31)This article examines the response of a group of small and medium-sized states to the Global South's demands for a new international economic order in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reading that experience through the eyes of ... -
Between Logic and Rhetoric
(2012-02)In The Uses of Argument (1958), Stephen E. Toulmin produced a model, analogous to procedures in jurisprudence, for the layout of arguments. He was seeking to provide a method of accommodating arguments in a wide range of ... -
Between realities: investigating temporal relations between stillness and movement in contemporary artists' lens-based imagery
(2017-02-23)Temporal registers of stillness and movement in lens-based imagery, traditionally defined under the terms of photography and film, are in many ways two faces of the same coin, one representing time as a frozen moment and ... -
Between the queer and the normative: Unorthodox representations of gender, power and desire in W. B. Yeats’s and Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Drama
(NUI Galway, 2021-10-08)This doctoral thesis re-examines W. B. Yeats’s and Gabriele D’Annunzio’s drama through the lens of queer theory offering the novel contention that due to their involvement in queer and feminist subcultures, their plays ...