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A careful approach to digital scholarship
(Hybrid Pedagogy, 2015-07-14)For a lot of reasons, the types of learning and knowledge valued in our world are diversifying. Networked participatory scholarship, which is increasingly carried out on social media platforms such as Twitter, provides ... -
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ... -
Caring about care planning: A survey of assessment and care planning tools, processes and perspectives from residential care settings for older people in the Republic of Ireland
(Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, 2012)Introduction: Throughout the developed world the ageing of populations has become a matter of increasing attention both for policy-makers and practitioners. Indeed, as far back as the late 1990s, the Organisation for ... -
Caring and disability in long-stay institutions
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)The paper investigates the empirical relationship between the dependency characteristics of elderly residents and the amount of care provided by health care professionals in a selected number of long-stay institutions in ... -
Caring and Theories of Welfare Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-11)This paper explores the relationship between theories of welfare economics and our understanding of the care of old people within families. It is difficult to make sense of family care relationships within the framework ... -
A Carnivalesque Mirage: the Orient in Isabelle Eberhardt's Writings
(2012-12-10)As a woman who traversed the North African Orient in male costume, who spoke Arabic as well as French, who professed Islam while transgressing many of its instructions, Isabelle Eberhardt seems to fit within Mikhail Bakhtin¿s ... -
Cartilage repair in a rabbit model: Development of a novel subchondral defect and assessment of early cartilage repair using a rabbit mesenchymal stem cell seeded scaffold
(2018-02-14)Purpose: To develop a subchondral defect in a rabbit model and assess cartilage repair using a mesenchymal stem cell-seeded scaffold. Materials and Methods: To achieve this goal, a bovine explant model and two pilot ... -
A case study investigation of the efforts of a subsidiary of a US-based multinational corporation to promote pension savings
(2010-09-01)The pension situation faced by all Irish workers is complex and uncertain. Further, it is possible that the state will be unable to maintain the current level of pension provision in real terms. This is based on demographic ... -
A case study of collecting dynamic social data: The pro-ana twitter community
(Australian National University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, 2015)The study of social processes in on-line social media content is a relatively new and rapidly growing endeavour. Many social media platforms provide a public API (Application Programming Interface) which can be used for ... -
A case study of risk management in agile systems development
(2009-06-08)A principal objective of agile development methods is to reduce risk thereby resulting in more successful and effective information systems. However, while there is an extensive body of academic literature on risk ... -
Cataloguing and Linking Life Sciences LOD
(2012)The Life Sciences Linked Open Data (LSLOD) Cloud is currently comprised of multiple datasets that add high value to biomedical research. The ability to navigate through these datasets in order to derive and discover new ... -
Cataloguing and linking publicly available biomedical SPARQL endpoints for federation - addressing aPosteriori data integration
(2017-05-12)During recent years the increasing adoption of Open Data Initiatives and Lined Data principles have lead to the creation of a globally distributed space of Linked Data that covers various domains such as Government, ... -
Catalytic potential of selected metal ions for bioleaching, and potential techno-economic and environmental issues: a critical review
(Elsevier, 2017-01-06)Bioleaching is considered to be a low-cost, eco-friendly technique for leaching valuable metals from a variety of matrixes. However, the inherent slow dissolution kinetics and low metal leaching yields have restricted its ... -
Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers
(American Physical Society, 2017-02-15)We provide an energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of thinning instability in soft electroactive elastomers. This phenomenon is a major obstacle to the development of giant actuators, yet it is neither completely ... -
Categorising the online communities of stack exchange using quantitative user behaviour features
(Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, 2016-03-02)Maintaining online communities is vital in order to increase and retain their economic and social value. Before applying any performance altering strategies, it is important to determine the different types of communities, ... -
Catholic missionaries in a territory of Reunion: The French Crown and the Congregation of the Mission in Sedan, 1642-57
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A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
The Catholic reformation in seventeenth-century Ireland: Vincent de Paul's Missionaries in Munster
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Caught in the Cultural Lag: The Stigma of Singlehood
(Psychology Press, 2005)