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The country profile of Ireland
(European Communities, 2006)Within the Republic of Ireland, there has been increasing recognition in recent years, at both policy and practice level, of the importance of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders for overall population ... -
Coupled and Uncoupled Operational Mode of Nitric Oxide Synthase and the Regulation of the Sarcolemmal Na+- K+ ATPase: Receptor and Non-receptor Pathways
(2012-05-09)The membrane Na+-K+ pump transports 3 Na+ ions out and 2 K+ ions into cells against their electrochemical gradient, using energy derived from hydrolysis of ATP. The Na+ and K+ ion gradients generated by the pump serve in ... -
An Crann
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A crash course on patents for engineers
(IEEE, 2013-01-12)Most engineers are aware of the existence of patents. Indeed the preparation of patent disclosures is an important aspect of most research engineering job functions. Yet for many engineers the world of patents remains ... -
A crash course on patents for engineers
(2013)Most engineers are aware of the existence of patents. Indeed the preparation of patent disclosures is an important aspect of most research engineering job functions. Yet for many engineers the world of patents remains ... -
Craving the Normal
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Creating a safety culture: What are the consequences.
(2012)Getting our work done safely is an ethical and financial imperative. An effective safety culture depends on the consequences for behaviour at every level of the organisation. The safety culture of an organization is not ... -
Creating a Systematic Approach for the Reflective Practice of Service-Learning Academics through the Development of Communities of Reflective Practice
(2011-09-29)This Ph.D. thesis in education is a qualitative examination of the reflective practice of academics who use service-learning, which can be described as an experiential pedagogy whereby students learn through providing a ... -
The creation of a living laboratory for structural engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway
(2012)The recently completed New Engineering Building (NEB) at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) is a new state of the art academic facility on the university's north campus. The building unites all five ... -
The creative edge policy toolkit: from growth to dustainability: supporting the development of the creative economy in Europe’s northern periphery
(Creative Edge, 2013)The concept of the creative economy first emerged in the mid-1980s in response to a crisis brought about by the decline in manufacturing in many of the world’s most developed economies. The idea suggests a productive ... -
Creativity in Education: challenging the assumptions
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-25)The creative process is mysterious, intriguing and elusive. The above quote from celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami evokes an other-wordliness, a dream-like state, an escape from reality that many other creative ... -
Creativity toolkit for R&D managers
(2004)In this, the twenty first century, innovation has become one of the most important and effective ways of obtaining and sustaining competitive dominance in the market place over the past number of years. Many firms are ... -
Creatures of Inner and Outer Space
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Creep, recovery, and waves in a nonlinear fiber-reinforced viscoelastic solid
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007-10-10)We present a constitutive model capturing some of the experimentally observed features of soft biological tissues: nonlinear viscoelasticity, nonlinear elastic anisotropy, and nonlinear viscous anisotropy. For this model ... -
The Cretan Slinger at War: a weighty exchange. 1-39.
(2012)Lead slingshots discovered on Cretan sites carry considerable weight regarding the nature of warfare on the island in the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods. On Crete, inscribed lead sling bullets have been reported ... -
Crew resource management training effectiveness: A meta-analysis and some critical needs
(Taylor and Francis, 2008)Empirical studies of crew resource management (CRM) training effectiveness were subjected to meta-analysis. Sixteen CRM evaluation studies were found to fulfill the a priori criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis. The ... -
Criminal children in post-Famine Connacht: Poverty, crime and punishment, with a particular focus on the period 1854-1870
(2012-09-21)This study examines the extent and nature of juvenile crime in Connacht from 1854 to 1884, and looks at how poor and criminal children were treated in the west of Ireland in this period. Most studies of juvenile crime in ... -
The critic in pieces: the theory and practice of literary reviewing
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A critical analysis of plastic flow behaviour in axisymmetric isothermal and Gleeble compression testing
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2010-08-16)Coupled thermo-mechanical finite element modelling of both isothermal axisymmetric compression and compression testing using the Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulator has been carried out in order to compare the levels of ...