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Displaying Results 1576 - 1600 of 1713 on page 64 of 69
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InSPeCT: Integrated Surveillance for Port Container Traffic
(2011)
Sadlier, David; Ferguson, Paul; Zhang, Dian; O'Connor, Noel E.; Lee, Hyowon
InSPeCT: Integrated Surveillance for Port Container Traffic
(2011)
Sadlier, David; Ferguson, Paul; Zhang, Dian; O'Connor, Noel E.; Lee, Hyowon
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This paper describes a fully-operational content-indexing and management system, designed for monitoring and profiling freight-based vehicular traffic in a seaport environment. The 'InSPeCT' system captures video footage of passing vehicles and uses tailored OCR to index the footage according to vehicle license plates and freight codes. In addition to real-time functionality such as alerting, the system provides advanced search techniques for the efficient retrieval of records, where each vehicle is profiled according to multi-angled video, context information, and links to external information sources. Currently being piloted at a busy national seaport, the feedback from port officials indicates the system to be extremely useful in supplementing their existing transportation-security structures.
http://doras.dcu.ie/16585/
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Thinking about maps
(2009)
Kitchin, Rob; Perkins, Chris; Dodge, Martin
Thinking about maps
(2009)
Kitchin, Rob; Perkins, Chris; Dodge, Martin
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Given the long history of map-making and its scientific and scholarly traditions one might expect the study of cartography and mapping theory to be relatively moribund pursuits with long established and static ways of thinking about and creating maps. This, however, could not be further from the truth. As historians of cartography have amply demonstrated, cartographic theory and praxis has varied enormously across time and space, and especially in recent years. As conceptions and philosophies of space and scientific endeavour have shifted so has how people come to know and map the world. Philosophical thought concerning the nature of maps is of importance because it dictates how we think about, produce and use maps; it shapes our assumptions about how we can know and measure the world, how maps work, their techniques, aesthetics, ethics, ideology, what they tell us about the world, the work they do in the world, and our capacity as humans to engage in mapping. Mapping is epistemolog...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2875/
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The Economy of Cheating in MMPORGs: a Case Study of Innovation
(2009)
De Paoli, Stefano; Kerr, Aphra
The Economy of Cheating in MMPORGs: a Case Study of Innovation
(2009)
De Paoli, Stefano; Kerr, Aphra
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Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games are socio-technical phenomena that are both complex technological systems and complex societies. They are also highly lucrative businesses. In this paper we present initial findings from a case study of the MMORPG TIBIA which explores the business and social relationships generated by cheating practices. We characterize the economy of cheating as a learning and innovation process and the development of cheating solutions as an answer to breakdowns and market demand
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2876/
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Ireland & the Lisbon Treaty: Quo Vadis?
(2008)
O'Brennan, John
Ireland & the Lisbon Treaty: Quo Vadis?
(2008)
O'Brennan, John
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The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the electorate on 12 June 2008 has presented the Irish government with the most serious crisis in external relations since the Second World War. This was the third such referendum on Europe held in Ireland since the millennium and the second plebiscite in three to result in a rejection of an EU Treaty following the failed Nice poll in 2001. There is no obvious solution to the dilemma the government faces and no obvious pathway to achieve ratification. There is however a clear consensus amongst the political parties that ratification constitutes both a clear political priority and a fundamental national interest. At the October European Council summit in Brussels, Taoiseach Brian Cowen promised to come back to the December meeting “with a view to our defining together the elements of a solution and a common path to follow”.1 But the external context is now clear – EU leaders indicated an unwillingness to re-negotiate any part of the Treaty: it wi...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2878/
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An Exploration of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) in Companies and Organisations in Ireland Valorisation, Return on Investment, and Emerging Trends
(2011)
Collins, Katherine, (Thesis)
An Exploration of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) in Companies and Organisations in Ireland Valorisation, Return on Investment, and Emerging Trends
(2011)
Collins, Katherine, (Thesis)
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<p>This thesis explored the topic of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in companies and organisations in Ireland against a backdrop of global, European, and national policy initiatives on the recognition of all forms of formal, non-formal and informal learning. The immediate context was coloured by shifts in employment, in labour markets, and in education and training policies because of increasing economic difficulties globally, and the greater levels of attention being paid to the role of education and training in the economic and social development of a country. The primary research question for the thesis was: Is there a return on investment from the recognition of prior learning (RPL) to companies and organisations that use RPL in their learning and development strategies? Return on investment in this research was conceived as achievement of impact at a societal, organisational, and individual level. The research approach was broadly social constructionist and interpret...
http://arrow.dit.ie/appadoc/29
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Impact evaluation of an oral health intervention amongst primary school children in Ireland.
(2002)
Friel, Sharon; Kelleher, Cecily
Impact evaluation of an oral health intervention amongst primary school children in Ireland.
(2002)
Friel, Sharon; Kelleher, Cecily
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A pilot oral health programme was developed which aimed to improve dental health knowledge and behaviour amongst Irish school children aged 7-12 years. The programme comprised two integral components: a television campaign, run over a 6-week period, was incorporated into the children's programme "Den TV" on national television, with video clips of a member of the music band Boyzone promoting key oral health messages; and a Smile of the Year contest. Concurrently, a dental nurse delivered an interactive talk with pupils, showed a video of the Den TV oral health programme and distributed posters and leaflets. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the overall intervention on school pupils' dental health knowledge and reported behaviour. Thirty-two primary schools in two health board regions in the Republic of Ireland participated in the study. At baseline and after 6 weeks, 1534 school children completed specially developed questionnaires. There was a po...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2393
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How exactly do politics play a part in determining health? New perspectives on an age old issue.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
How exactly do politics play a part in determining health? New perspectives on an age old issue.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
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This is the latest study to demonstrate an association between type of political pattern and health status, in this case suicide. Previous studies have also identified a more general relation between party political voting pattern and mortality. In this respect, the mechanism through which change in political regime might affect health is of considerable interest. Although the analysis in this paper was also undertaken at ecological rather than at individual level, it is persuasive that there is a temporal relation between the patterns of suicide and the changing governing party. What is particularly notable is the graduated effect seen, with rates highest when both Federal and National Governments were conservative. In the United Kingdom the effect was similar, in that the Liberal Democrat supporting constituencies, occupying an intermediate political position, had less strong relations with all cause standardised mortality ratio than for either Conservative or Labour voting const...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2396
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A Rights Based Approach to Monitoring Children and Young People's Well-Being
(2011)
Kennan, Danielle; Keenaghan, Celia; O'Connor, Una; Kinlen, Louise; McCord, John
A Rights Based Approach to Monitoring Children and Young People's Well-Being
(2011)
Kennan, Danielle; Keenaghan, Celia; O'Connor, Una; Kinlen, Louise; McCord, John
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This foundation Report is the First in a Special Report Series addressing the well-beingof children and youth in Ireland and Northern Ireland. This report corresponds with three key UNESCO aims: to strengthen awareness od human rights;to act as a catalyst for regional and national action in human rights;and to foster co-operation with a range of stakeholders and networks working with,or on behalf of, children and youth
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2392
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TSB technique: Increasing a User's Sense of immersion with Intelligent Virtual Agents
(2010)
Dunne, Mark T; Mac Namee, Brian; Kelleher, John
TSB technique: Increasing a User's Sense of immersion with Intelligent Virtual Agents
(2010)
Dunne, Mark T; Mac Namee, Brian; Kelleher, John
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<p>The field of Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) research depends heavily on immersive techniques when presenting virtual agents to end users. This sense of immersion relies on the user believing the agent to be real and present in their en- vironment, creating the Illusion of Life [21]. This poster describes the on-going research into using a combination of three rendering techniques, Twisting, Stretching and Boxing (TSB), to create a fully immersive 3D illusion for an end-user from any viewpoint, as they move freely in front of displays distributed across large populated environments. The novel approach outlined in this poster, uses head tracking, face de- tection and the TSB technique to increase the user's sense of immersion and subsequently their sense of the agent's pres- ence within the environment. Using only web-cameras, our approach is a hardware-light solution which does not require the end-user to wear any additional apparatus, such as the LED headset used...
http://arrow.dit.ie/scschcomcon/101
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Effect of social variation on the Irish diet.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily; Nolan, Geraldine
Effect of social variation on the Irish diet.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily; Nolan, Geraldine
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Both jurisdictions of Ireland have high rates of chronic degenerative diseases, particularly of the cardiovascular system, and Irish migrants have worse health profiles, often lasting at least two generations. The influence of socio-demographic variation over the life course, and what role diet plays, has not been well researched in epidemiological terms. There is a long history of an unusual Irish diet. Estimated dietary fat intake (% total energy intake) in 1863 was only 9, but had reached 30 in 1948 and 34 in 1999. Conversely, carbohydrate intake has fallen steadily over 150 years. From 1948 onwards household budget survey data illustrate patterns of increasing urbanisation and socio-economic gradients in food availability. The National Survey of Lifestyles, Attitudes and Nutrition, (n 6539, 622 % response rate) provides clear evidence of inverse social-class gradients in intake of fruit and vegetables and dairy products and in reported patterns of healthy eating. Median carbohyd...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2402
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Autonomous nutrient detection
(2011)
Maher, Damien; Cleary, John; Diamond, Dermot
Autonomous nutrient detection
(2011)
Maher, Damien; Cleary, John; Diamond, Dermot
http://doras.dcu.ie/16703/
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Irish ants (hymenoptera, formicidae) : distribution, conservation and functional relationships
(2011)
Niechoj, Robin
Irish ants (hymenoptera, formicidae) : distribution, conservation and functional relationships
(2011)
Niechoj, Robin
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This thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to this work within the context of the wider national soil biodiversity project CréBeo. Furthermore ants, earthworms and the use of stable isotopes measurements as a tool for the investigation of trophic ecology of ants and other organisms are introduced. Chapter 2 presents the baseline survey undertaken for ants. An overview of the outcomes of surveys on other soil organisms is also provided. Chapter 3 provides information on the distribution of Irish ants in the Counties Clare, Galway and Limerick. It identifies species and habitats worthy of conservation and gives recommendations for the conservation of ants and suggests situations where information on ants should feed into conservation plans for other taxa. Chapter 4 investigates the relationships between long established colonies of the soil dwelling ant Lasius flavus (F.) and the earthworm community in old limestone grasslands. Chapter 5 presents n...
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/1694
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Climate Change and Irish Agriculture
(2008)
Sweeney, John
Climate Change and Irish Agriculture
(2008)
Sweeney, John
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http://eprints.nuim.ie/2886/
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Poverty Traps and Climate Change
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
Poverty Traps and Climate Change
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
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We use a demo-economic model to examine the question of whether climate change could widen or deepen poverty traps. The model includes two crucial mechanisms. Parents are risk averse when deciding how many children to have; fertility is high when infant survival is low. High fertility spreads scarce household resources thin, resulting in children being poorly educated. At the macro level, technological progress is slow because of decreasing returns to scale in agriculture. With high population growth and slow technological progress, the economy stagnates. If, on the other hand, infant survival is high, then fertility is low, education is high, and the economy grows exponentially. Diarrhea and malaria are among the leading causes of infant mortality; both are sensitive to weather and climate. There may thus be a climate-related poverty trap where climate change increases disease burdens that reinforce poverty. We estimate finite-mixture models of per capita income, fertility, and mor...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61255
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Visa Policy as Migration Channel, Ireland
(2011)
QUINN, EMMA
Visa Policy as Migration Channel, Ireland
(2011)
QUINN, EMMA
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An Irish visa is a form of pre-entry clearance to travel to a point of entry to the State only. Whether or not the visa carries any legitimate expectation of entering the State has been debated in the courts. Ireland and the UK lie outside the Schengen zone and the issuing of both short and long-term visas is a national competence. Within the Schengen zone, the regulation of short-term visas falls within the competence of the EU, while long-term visa policy is set by the Member State. The Schengen short-stay regime concerns visas, issued by a Member State, which allow Third Country Nationals to enter that Member State, or several Member States, for stays not exceeding three months per six-month period. The Irish system is essentially discretionary, whereby the Minister for Justice and Equality1 decides whether or not to grant applications for visas; exceptions relate to beneficiaries of EU Treaty free movement rights.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61268
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The Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in the Republic of Ireland: A Social Movement Perspective
(2011)
Moran, Niall
The Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in the Republic of Ireland: A Social Movement Perspective
(2011)
Moran, Niall
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This thesis is an in-depth analysis of the Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in the Republic of Ireland between 1994 and 2004. It seeks to understand and analyse this development of the Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in Ireland from a social movement perspective. The movement itself contains three key phases of mobilisation: 1) Radical Anti-Racism; 2) The Multicultural Support Group and; 3) The Anti-Deportation Group. Each of these phases is described in detail in the narrative of the movement. Using the concept historicity I argue that each phase of the movement constructs a specific relationship between itself, the asylum-seeker and the Irish state. The nature and significance of each of these relationships is analysed by focussing upon the role that formal ideology plays in the construction of these relationships. This analysis is then complemented by an examination of the process of collective identity construction. I argue that this is crucial to the process of chang...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2893/
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Gramsci in Mayo: a Marxist perspective on social movements in Ireland
(2011)
Cox, Laurence
Gramsci in Mayo: a Marxist perspective on social movements in Ireland
(2011)
Cox, Laurence
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This paper draws on Antonio Gramsci, and Marxist social movement studies more generally, to understand some of the complexities and peculiarities involved in theorising movements in the Republic of Ireland. The paper is primarily theoretical, but is grounded in the real intellectual and political problem of giving an adequate account and explanation of the specificities of Irish social movements, with which I have grappled for several years. The question is a huge one, and this draft paper is hardly more than an initial sketch - but one whose justification may be found in the relative absence of other attempts at tackling the problem. If this attempt provokes better answers from other quarters, that is in itself a useful contribution. The question “what kind of movement context is Ireland?” is rarely considered seriously but should be an absolutely basic starting point for research and theory in this area. The most common response in mainstream academic writing is simply not to thin...
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2889/
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Indicators of deprivation, voting patterns, and health status at area level in the Republic of Ireland
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
Indicators of deprivation, voting patterns, and health status at area level in the Republic of Ireland
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
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Study objective: To determine what relation, if any, exists between mortality patterns, indicators of deprivation, general lifestyle and social attitudes, as exemplified by general election voting pattern, in the Republic of Ireland. A relation has been demonstrated previously between voting and mortality patterns in the United Kingdom.Design: Cross sectional ecological study using three data sources. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) were based on mortality rates at county level and 1996 census data from the Central Statistics Office, 1997 general election first preference voting data in all 41 constituencies were aggregated to county level. Selected reported measures of health status, lifestyle and social circumstances are from the first ever National survey on lifestyles, attitudes and nutrition (SLAN). This study comprised adults over 18 years sampled by post using the electoral register from 273 representative district electoral divisions.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2421
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Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland.
(2002)
Kelleher, Cecily
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Fifty-one older people (26 of them women) in the Republic of Ireland were interviewed using a semi-structured schedule on their health and illness experiences at three different time points in their lives; as children, as young adults and presently. Of particular interest were their views about the causes of heart disease, cancer and tuberculosis and their experiences of the prevailing health care system during their lifetime. Participants were recruited by letter from a database of respondents to a previous national quantitative survey of older people. Of 247 people originally contacted 127 (51%) responded by letter and 51 of these took part in the interview study. Data were analysed according to principles of content analysis using NUD.IST software. Reported ideas about causes of illnesses were multicausal. These were categorised as behavioural, biological, psychosocial or other explanations. While respondents placed most emphasis on behavioural explanations, this was accompanied ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2425
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Money and Nationalist Politics in Nineteenth Century Ireland: From O'Connell to Parnell
(2009)
Keyes, Michael J.
Money and Nationalist Politics in Nineteenth Century Ireland: From O'Connell to Parnell
(2009)
Keyes, Michael J.
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Any analysis of politics in the modern era will give due cognisance to the functional aspects of political mobilisation, recognising that it is very much the resources available to promulgate the message, as well as the message itself that can have a bearing on success. One only has to look to contemporary America - the pioneer of democracy in the modern era - to see the critical relationship between financial backing and political success. By contrast, when historians look to the formative years of democracy in the nineteenth century, there is a tendency to see political mobilisation only in terms of the ideas and allegiances that drove it. This thesis aims to redress this imbalance and will explore the idea that political mobilisation and political progress in nineteenth century Ireland owed as much to functional, as to ideological factors.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2899/
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Using the cloud to facilitate global software development challenges
(2011)
Hashmi, Sajid Ibrahim; Clerc, Viktor; Razavian, Maryam; Manteli, Christina; Tamburri, D...
Using the cloud to facilitate global software development challenges
(2011)
Hashmi, Sajid Ibrahim; Clerc, Viktor; Razavian, Maryam; Manteli, Christina; Tamburri, Damian Andrew; Lago, Patricia; Di Nitto, Elisabetta; Richardson, Ita
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With the expansion of national markets beyond geographical limits, success of any business often depends on using software for competitive advantage. Furthermore, as technological boundaries are expanding, projects distributed across different geographical locations have become a norm for the software solution providers. Nevertheless, when implementing Global Software Development (GSD), organizations continue to face challenges in adhering to the development life cycle. The advent of the internet has supported GSD by bringing new concepts and opportunities resulting in benefits such as scalability, flexibility, independence, reduced cost, resource pools, and usage tracking. It has also caused the emergence of new challenges in the way software is being delivered to stakeholders. Application software and data on the cloud is accessed through services which follow SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) principles. In this paper, we present the challenges encountered in globally dispersed...
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/1738
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Online Learning in Teacher Education: Enhanced with a Problem-Based Learning Approach
(2004)
Donnelly, Roisin
Online Learning in Teacher Education: Enhanced with a Problem-Based Learning Approach
(2004)
Donnelly, Roisin
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<p>This paper describes research undertaken by an academic tutor in a Learning and Teaching Center (LTC) on the design of a module on Online Learning on a Postgraduate Diploma in Third Level Learning and Teaching. The LTC supports academic staff (Faculty) at the Dublin Institute of Technology in learning, teaching and assessment activities, including integrating learning technologies. This work is supplemented by increasing awareness of current national and international research and strategies related to learning and teaching in higher education. The goal of the LTC is to offer resources, consultation, and a forum for discussion to help academic staff provide a valuable learning experience to all students. This qualification is for lecturers from a range of higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland. The module is delivered using a problem-based learning (PBL) approach. The lecturers are all currently teaching in a variety of subject disciplines in Higher Educat...
http://arrow.dit.ie/ltcart/18
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Air-tightness field data for dwellings in Ireland
(2012)
DYER, MARK
Air-tightness field data for dwellings in Ireland
(2012)
DYER, MARK
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Air-tightness plays a major role in both building energy performance and indoor environmental quality. Ireland's National Methodology for the calculation of energy performance of buildings, the Building Energy Rating (BER) includes air permeability characteristics. From an international perspective, many air permeability surveys have been carried out. However, there is a paucity of knowledge relating to the existing housing stock in Ireland. This paper reports the air permeability test results of 28 houses built between 1944 to 2008 and at varying stages of retrofit. The results are compared to past studies and compliance with the existing standards. The effect of construction type, age, design details and retrofitting on air permeability is examined. While statistically small the dwellings are broadly representative of the many that will be retrofitted over the coming years. This paper addresses the lack of practical research in air-tightness for new and retrofitted dwellings...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61487
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A Review of Global Climate Projections and Likely Scenarios for Ireland
(2009)
Fealy, Rowan
A Review of Global Climate Projections and Likely Scenarios for Ireland
(2009)
Fealy, Rowan
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This chapter is a review of national and regional climate scenarios for Ireland within the broader context of the likely global impacts of climate change. Projected seasonal changes in two key meteorological variables – temperature and precipitation – are outlined for three 30-year future time periods: the 2020s, 2050s and 2080s. Changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation are also discussed. This chapter provides the basis for the discussion of the physical impacts of climate change on inland waterways and the coastal environment in Chapter 4.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2909/
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Harriet Martineau and Ireland
(2009)
Conway, Brian; Hill, Michael R.
Harriet Martineau and Ireland
(2009)
Conway, Brian; Hill, Michael R.
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The Victorian sociologist-novelist Harriet Martineau visited Ireland on two different occasions, first in 1832 and again, twenty years later, in 1852, just six years after the Great Famine of 1846, when the country was still very much visibly affected by that event. Her latter journey covered some 1,200 miles and encompassed all four provinces that make up the island of Ireland, north and south. Martineau was not the first foreign visitor to nineteenth century Ireland, of course, but she provided one of the few genuinely sociological interpretations during this time period. This chapter, then, examines Martineau's Irish writings and her contribution to our sociological understanding of nineteenth-century Ireland.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2905/
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