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Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2011)This article examines a selection of the professional and private letters associated with the social anthropology strand of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). These research letters contribute to the historiography of ... -
Economic and social costs of violence against women in Ghana: Technical report
(NUI Galway, 2019-04)Socio-economic costs of violence against women and girls in Ghana Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread human rights violations. VAWG is a significant social, economic and public health ... -
Economic and social costs of violence against women in Pakistan: Technical report
(NUI Galway, 2019-04)Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is widely recognised as a violation of human rights and a challenge to public health. VAWG also has economic and social costs that have not been adequately recognised. These costs ... -
Economic and social costs of violence against women in South Sudan: Technical report
(NUI Galway, 2019-03)Introduction Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is widely recognised as a violation of human rights and a challenge to public health. Further, VAWG is an under-examined, but crucial component of the overall crisis ... -
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction, ... -
Editorial
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Editorial: The Spectre of Violence in Graduate Feminist Research
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2023)[No abstract available] -
Education in precarious times: a comparative study across six countries to identify design priorities for mobile learning in a pandemic
(Emerald, 2020-06-25)Similar to the current global Coronavirus crisis, the flu pandemic of 1918 forced the closure internationally of schools, and in general brought a halt to formal education. A major difference between then and now is that ... -
Education technology, artificial intelligence, and the mathematics classroom
(Irish Mathematics Teachers Association, 2023)The understanding and learning of mathematics has often been considered a big challenge for many students. More recently the level of mathematical preparedness for students entering tertiary education in Ireland has ... -
Education, intellectual development, and relational frame theory
(New Harbinger Publications, 2013-05-01)[No abstract available] -
Educational narrative inquiry through design-based research: designing digital storytelling to make alternative knowledge visible and actionable
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-03-24)This paper describes the conceptualisation and appropriation of narrative in the design of digital storytelling technology (DST), to augment reflective practice among Irish pre-service teachers. Reflective practice remains ... -
The effect of implementation intentions on testicular self-examination using a demonstration video.
(Routledge, 2011-08-05)The current study aimed to test the effectiveness of a testicular self-examination (TSE) demonstration video intervention, with and without implementation intentions, in improving TSE rates. It also tested the utility of ... -
The Effect of Stimulus Salience on Over-selectivity
(Springer, 2009)The influence of stimulus salience on over-selective responding was investigated in the context of a comparator theory of over-selectivity. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were presented with two cards, each displaying ... -
Effective design of total worker health interventions for lone workers: examples and implications for the Irish context
(Irish Ergonomics Society, 2014)Workplace safety does not exist in a vacuum. Individuals come to work with a variety of advantages and disadvantages derived from their off-work activities. Extra-workplace behaviors and attitudes are likely to have greater ... -
The effects of a goal setting intervention on productivity and persistence in an analogue work task
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-27)The authors of this study sought to quantify the beneficial effect of goal setting on work performance, and to characterize the persistence or deterioration of goal-directed behavior over time. Twenty-six participants ... -
The effects of a visual execution environment and makey makey on primary school children learning introductory programming concepts
(IEEE, 2020-12-01)The interest of children in learning to program computers has increased dramatically in recent years with the adaptation of new programming languages such as Scratch or game-based approaches. That being so, it is still ... -
The effects of daily tact instruction on the emission of pure mands, tacts and conversational units in non-instructional settings by two preschool children with autism
(2009)This study examined the effects of daily intensive tact instruction on the emission of verbal operants in non-instructional settings by two preschool aged children with autism. A delayed multiple probe design across ... -
The effects of goal-setting on feedback requests.
(Irish Ergonomics Society, 2012)Prior research suggests that performance feedback enhances the effect of a goal on performance. The current study examined the effect of goal level on feedback solicitation. Participants were exposed to five ... -
Effects of stimulus synchrony on mechanisms of perceptual organization
(Taylor & Francis, 2001-06-05)When neurons adopt a synchronized, oscillatory response to stimulus Gestalten, the phase of those oscillations almost always varies relative to stimulus activity. This has been taken to indicate that form-coding mechanisms ...