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A Brief Characterisation of Morphological Causation in Irish
(2015)
Nolan, Brian
A Brief Characterisation of Morphological Causation in Irish
(2015)
Nolan, Brian
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In this paper we attempt to characterise some elements of morphological causation as expressed in modern Irish. Three types of causation may be identified: lexical, periphrastic and morphological. In terms of the relative weightings of each type, the morphological causative is the least productive. Its use appears to be highly constrained to two very specific domains and it is signalled by particular morphological affixes. Lexical causatives are more productive than the morphological causative. By contrast, periphrastic or analytical causatives are highly productive and wide-ranging in their deployment. We concentrate in this analysis on some data on morphological causation.
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbj/vol3/iss1/6
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A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(2000)
Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(2000)
Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
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Both overall income inequality and inequality in the distribution of earnings rose sharply during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of industrialised countries, notably the UK and the USA. This makes it particularly important to know how the distribution of income in Ireland has been changing over time, how it compares with other countries, and what factors contribute to explaining Ireland?s particular experience. This paper addresses these issues with household survey data allowing us to provide a picture of the distribution of household income in Ireland up to 1997. This allows us to assess for the first time how inequality has been changing during Ireland?s boom. Comparisons are also made with recent estimates for other countries, notably from the European Community Household Panel, so that both Ireland?s current distribution and trends over time can be placed in comparative perspective. A decomposition analysis of changes over time is implemented, and trends in the distribution of...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62087
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A comparison of GP visiting in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
(2009)
McGregor, Patrick; Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian; O'Neill, Ciaran
A comparison of GP visiting in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
(2009)
McGregor, Patrick; Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian; O'Neill, Ciaran
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1062
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A cross-sectional analysis of the utilisation of GP services in Ireland : 1987- 2001
(2009)
Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian
A cross-sectional analysis of the utilisation of GP services in Ireland : 1987- 2001
(2009)
Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian
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This paper examines the determinants of general practitioner (GP) utilisation patterns in Ireland over the period 1987-2001. Using three different micro-data sets, the influence of socio-economic factors as well as health status variables on the demand for GP visits is analysed. A particular focus of this paper is an examination of the impact of economic incentives as represented by medical card eligibility. While medical cardholders are entitled to free GP consultations, nonmedical cardholders must pay for each visit. In addition, it is important to analyse the impact of the 1989 change in the reimbursement system for GPs with medical cardholder patients from fee for service to capitation. A variety of cross-sectional econometric methodologies are considered with the two-step hurdle negative binomial model found to be the most appropriate. The empirical results confirm the results of earlier studies about the effects of socio-economic characteristics such as age, sex and income on ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1013
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A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: evidence from Ireland
(2008)
Newman, Carol; Delaney, Liam; Nolan, Brian
A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: evidence from Ireland
(2008)
Newman, Carol; Delaney, Liam; Nolan, Brian
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The link between income and subjective satisfaction with one?s financial situation is explored in this paper using a panel analysis of 1,998 individuals tracked through the course of the boom period in Ireland, 1994-2001. A dynamic ordered probit model which incorporates state dependence and controls for correlated individual effects and the initial conditions problem is applied. The impact of the level of household income, the time-path of income and deviations of individual income from reference group income and household income are all considered. To the extent that income influences financial satisfaction, there is strong evidence from this paper that the level of household income has the most important effect but this effect is lessened once persistence in the data is controlled for and is diminishing at higher income levels. Controlling for income and socio-economic characteristics, the positive deviations of household income from reference group income are found to have a pos...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58932
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A panel data analysis of the utilisation of GP services in Ireland : 1995-2001
(2009)
Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian
A panel data analysis of the utilisation of GP services in Ireland : 1995-2001
(2009)
Nolan, Anne; Nolan, Brian
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The extent to which the cost of obtaining health care influences the utilisation of GP and other health services is a frequently analysed topic. A key issue concerns the extent to which access to private health insurance and/or eligibility for free public health services results in differences in utilisation that cannot be explained by differences in need factors such as age, gender or health status. Ireland is an interesting case study in this regard as only 30 per cent of the population are eligible for free GP consultations; the remainder of the population must pay the full price. Using panel data from 1995 to 2001 on GP visits in Ireland, this paper applies a random effects approach to count data in an attempt to determine the factors influencing GP visiting patterns, with a particular focus on the role of eligibility for free public health services.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1027
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A social portrait of communities in Ireland
(2008)
Office for Social Inclusion; Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
A social portrait of communities in Ireland
(2008)
Office for Social Inclusion; Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
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This is the fourth report in the series of social portraits of the lifecycle of groups as set out in the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion, 2007 – 2016. In this report we aim to make key facts and figures about several particularly vulnerable groups in Ireland in an accessible way. These groups are: •people living in areas of urban and rural disadvantage; •migrants and ethnic minorities; • the Traveller community; and • the homeless. This information is particularly relevant to policy, including the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion (NAPinclusion). Some of the NAPinclusion’s aims are to: •build viable and sustainable communities; and • to improve the lives of those people living in areas or situations of poverty. These groups face a particularly high risk of poverty and exclusion and it is difficult to gather the information to draw accurate social portraits of them. This report will show that the features of these groups mean that getting a reliable picture of them ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143183
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A social portrait of older people in Ireland
(2007)
Office for Social Inclusion; Fahey, Tony; Maitre, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Chris...
A social portrait of older people in Ireland
(2007)
Office for Social Inclusion; Fahey, Tony; Maitre, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T.
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This report aims to bring together some facts and figures about older people in Ireland today, drawing on a range of statistical sources and studies. It provides both a snapshot of the current situation and some discussion of recent trends and prospects for the future. The information will be particularly useful when developing policies that affect older people, such as the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion (NAPinclusion) and policy on pensions. We start the report by describing the main trends in numbers of older people and their importance in the overall population. We then go on to look at the following topics: the households in which older people live; their socio-economic circumstances including income and material wellbeing; their housing and neighbourhood environment; their health and social contact; and prospects for the future and data gaps.
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143184
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A study of valency in Modern Irish
(2002)
Nolan, Brian
A study of valency in Modern Irish
(2002)
Nolan, Brian
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THESIS 7070
The main aim of this thesis is to characterise the factors that underpin the syntactic and semantic valency of the Irish verb in terms of a functional approach that is sensitive to aspectuality in the Aktionsarten sense of Vendler (1967). Our concern is with the relationship between the semantic representation of a verbal predicate in the context of a clause and its syntactic expression through the argument structure of the verb. One of our intentions is to demonstrate that there are semantic motivations to syntax. We will defend the hypothesis that an account of semantic and syntactic valency requires the consideration of event structure as a vital mediating component. In particular, we claim that incorporating event structure into the semantic representation provides for a unified account of causation, reflexivity, and each of the passives of Irish. In articulating our hypothesis we will expand on the role of event structure at the syntax/semantic interface over a ...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/78128
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Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(2009)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(2009)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
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Conventional methods of analysis of poverty assume resources are shared so that each individual in a household/family has the same standard of living. This paper measures differences between spouses in a large sample in indicators of deprivation of the type used in recent studies of poverty at household level. The quite limited overall imbalance in measured deprivation in favour of husbands suggests that applying such indicators to individuals will not reveal a substantial reservoir of hidden poverty among wives in non-poor households, nor much greater deprivation among women than men in poor households. This points to the need to develop more sensitive indicators of deprivation designed to measure individual living standards and poverty status, which can fit within the framework of traditional poverty research using large samples. It also highlights the need for clarification of the underlying poverty concept.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1053
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Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(2009)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(2009)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
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Conventional methods of analysis of poverty assume resources are shared so that each individual in a household/family has the same standard of living. This article measures differences between spouses in a large sample in indicators of deprivation of the type used in recent studies of poverty at household level. The quite limited overall imbalance in measured deprivation in favour of husbands suggests that applying such indicators to individuals will not reveal a substantial reservoir of hidden poverty among wives in non-poor households, nor much greater deprivation among women than men in poor households. This points to the need to develop more sensitive indicators of deprivation designed to measure individual living standards and poverty status, which can fit within the framework of traditional poverty research using large samples. It also highlights the need for clarification of the underlying poverty concept.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1049
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Collecting and using survey information on household assets : some lessons from Irish experience
(2009)
Nolan, Brian
Collecting and using survey information on household assets : some lessons from Irish experience
(2009)
Nolan, Brian
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Paper for the Conference on Wealth, Inheritance and Intergenerational Transfers, University of Essex, 22-23 June, 1997
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1056
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Competitive and segmented labour markets and exclusion from retirement income
(2009)
Hughes, Gerard; Nolan, Brian
Competitive and segmented labour markets and exclusion from retirement income
(2009)
Hughes, Gerard; Nolan, Brian
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1060
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Complex Predicates and Light Verb Constructions in Modern Irish
(2014)
Nolan, Brian
Complex Predicates and Light Verb Constructions in Modern Irish
(2014)
Nolan, Brian
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This paper characterises complex predicates and light verb constructions in Modern Irish. Light verbs are attested in many of the world’s languages (Alsina, Bresnan & Sells, 2001; Butt, 1995, 2003). Cross linguistically, there appears to be a common class of verbs involved in these constructions and generally there is agreement that light verbs contribute to the formation of complex predicates. Light verbs seem have a non-light or ‘heavy’ verb counterpart. In this paper we discuss the light verb constructions (LVC) as found in modern Irish and how they form complex predicates. We claim that the light verb (LV) encodes the event process initiation (or cause) and the matrix verb indicates the bounded component or result. In light verb constructions, the matrix verb appears in Modern Irish syntax as a verbal-noun form. The function of light verbs in these constructions is to modulate the event and sub-event semantics. We distinguish between auxiliary verbs constructions (AVC) and t...
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbinfoart/3
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Creating Access to Education with Progression Pathways via Blended Learning of Deaf Studies at Third Level in Ireland: Open Innovation with Digital Assets
(2017)
Nolan, Brian; Leeson, Lorraine
Creating Access to Education with Progression Pathways via Blended Learning of Deaf Studies at Third Level in Ireland: Open Innovation with Digital Assets
(2017)
Nolan, Brian; Leeson, Lorraine
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Irish Sign Language (ISL) is an indigenous language of Ireland and is recognized by the EU as a natural language. It is a language separate from the other languages used in Ireland, including Irish, English and, in Northern Ireland, British Sign Language. Some 6,500 Deaf people use ISL on the island of Ireland. Deaf people are the most under-represented of all disadvantaged groups at third level, posing two challenges: (1) getting Deaf people into third level and (2) presenting education in an accessible form. Two higher education institutions, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, Dublin (ITB) have partnered to create a unique elearning environment based on MOODLE as the learning management system, in the delivery of Deaf Studies programmes at TCD. We intend to create access to education plus the provision of progression pathways into and through third level in the Irish National Quality Framework within the European Bologna model. We deliver...
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbj/vol10/iss1/5
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Designing an XML Lexicon Architecture for Arabic Machine Translation Based on Role and Reference Grammar
(2009)
Nolan, Brian; Salem, Yasser
Designing an XML Lexicon Architecture for Arabic Machine Translation Based on Role and Reference Grammar
(2009)
Nolan, Brian; Salem, Yasser
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Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a functional theory of grammar. The main features of Role and Reference Grammar are the use of lexical decomposition, based upon predicate semantics, an analysis of clause structure and the use of a set of thematic roles organized into a hierarchy in which the highestranking roles are Actor (for the most active participant) and Undergoer. The theory allows a sentence in a specific language to be described in terms of its logical structure and grammatical procedures. The lexicon in RRG takes the position that lexical entries for verbs should contain unique information only, with as much information as possible derived from general lexical rules. We use the RRG theory to motivate the architecture of the lexicon. The lexicon is designed to reflect the word categories in the Arabic language with as much information as possible derived from general lexical rules. The lexicon stores the Arabic words in categories; each category is stored in an XML forma...
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbinfocon/8
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Developing a Distributed Java-based Speech Recognition Engine
(2017)
Ayers, Tony; Nolan, Brian
Developing a Distributed Java-based Speech Recognition Engine
(2017)
Ayers, Tony; Nolan, Brian
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The development of speech recognition engines has traditionally been the territory of low-level development languages such as C. Until recently Java may not have been considered a candidate language for the development of such a speech engine, due to its security restrictions which limited its sound processing features. The release of the Java Sound API as part of the Java Media Framework and the subsequent integration of the Sound API into the standard Java development kit provides the necessary sound processing tools to Java to perform speech recognition. This paper documents our development of a speech recognition engine using the Java programming language. We discuss the theory of speech recognition engines using stochastic techniques such as Hidden Markov Models that we employ in our Java based implementation of speech sigm;zl processing algorithms like Fast Fourier Transform and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients. Furthermore we describe our design goal and implementation of ...
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbj/vol5/iss1/2
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Development of a Moodle VLE Plug-in to Support Simultaneous Visualisation of a Collection of Multi-Media Sign Language Objects
(2010)
Nolan, Brian
Development of a Moodle VLE Plug-in to Support Simultaneous Visualisation of a Collection of Multi-Media Sign Language Objects
(2010)
Nolan, Brian
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Using Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) to support blended learning is very common in educational institutes. Delivering learning material in a flexible and semi-structured manner to the learner transforms such systems into powerful eLearning tools. However, the presentation and visualisation of individual or multiple learning objects is mostly dictated by the system and cannot be altered easily. This paper reports on a project between Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB) that aims to improve the simultaneous visualisation of multiple multimedia objects for deaf learners of ISL. The project was implemented using the Open Source VLE Moodle. Moodle’s nature of being Open Source and having the ability to code plug-ins qualified it to be the most suited vehicle to address the visualisation problem. Traditionally VLEs allow the viewing of one learning object at a time, which meant that deaf learners could either view a pre-recorded, signed i...
https://arrow.dit.ie/itbinfocon/11
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Disability and labour force participation in Ireland
(2004)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
Disability and labour force participation in Ireland
(2004)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
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The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for investigation and policy concern. This paper seeks to quantify the effects of disability on labour force participation in Ireland for the first time. Using data from the Living in Ireland Survey, 2000 and the Quarterly National Household Survey Disability Module 2002, we look at the relationship between participation and self-reported disability. The results show that those individuals reporting a severely limiting condition have a much lower probability of participation in the labour force than others, and this continues to be the case having controlled for other characteristics such as age, education and marital status. The reporting of such conditions itself may not be exogenous, however, and this is a priority for further research.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59868
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Disability and labour market participation
(2009)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
Disability and labour market participation
(2009)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1030
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Disability and labour market participation
(2010)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
Disability and labour market participation
(2010)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/108228
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Disability and social inclusion in Ireland / Brenda Gallon and Brian Nolan 2004 (572 KB)
(2004)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
Disability and social inclusion in Ireland / Brenda Gallon and Brian Nolan 2004 (572 KB)
(2004)
Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian
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National Disability Authority 2004
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/46336
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Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment
(1992)
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian
Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment
(1992)
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian
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Conflicting claims about the distributional impact of Ireland's fiscal adjustment have been made. This paper clarifies the different implicit standards on which these may be based, and uses the limited available data on cash incomes and public social services to analyse the effects on poverty and inequality. For the 1986-1990 period, real incomes rose for most groups, with those reliant on the lowest social welfare rates doing well but other social welfare recipients doing less well relative to other incomes. The importance of the decline in unemployment over this period is also emphasised, making the choice of base date crucial given the very substantial rise in unemployment between 1980 and 1986. Expenditure on public social services did not bear a disproportionate share of the burden of restraining expenditure, but public expenditure on health fell significantly in real terms between 1986 and 1989. Social infrastructural investment was sharply reduced, with effects which may...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/64845
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Earnings inequality, institutions and the macroeconomy – what can we learn from Ireland’s boom years?
(2011)
Maitre, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah
Earnings inequality, institutions and the macroeconomy – what can we learn from Ireland’s boom years?
(2011)
Maitre, Bertrand; Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah
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Rapid economic growth is often expected to lead to increased returns to education and skills and thus to rising wage inequality. Ireland offers a valuable case study, with distinctive wage-setting institutions and exceptional rates of growth in output, employment and incomes in the Celtic Tiger period from 1994 to 2007. We find that dispersion in (hourly) wage inequality fell sharply to 2000, before increasing though much less sharply to 2007. Returns to both education and work experience declined considerable in the earlier period, while the increase in lower earnings relative to the median was associated with the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, anchoring the bottom of the distribution. For 2000-2007 the faster increase in higher earnings may be associated with the changing pattern of immigration and of the employment growth in the second half of the boom, Further exploration of the factors at work towards the top of the distribution during these years is an important res...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2688
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Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland
(2009)
Barrett, Alan; Fitz Gerald, John; Nolan, Brian
Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland
(2009)
Barrett, Alan; Fitz Gerald, John; Nolan, Brian
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Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We find that while both increased between 1987 and 1994, the increases slowed dramatically between 1994 and 1997. This is somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a contributing factor to this pattern because a large group of skilled workers flowed into the Irish labour market between 1994 and 1997. We develop a model of the Irish labour market and use it to simulate the impact of an increase in skilled labour. The simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from the US ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1023
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