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It’s good to talk!
(2017)
Talking is an essential human skill in order to communicate our wants, needs, hopes, dreams and to make social connections with others. While infants can make their needs known it takes some time for children to achieve ...
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)
Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ...
Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Galway Bay, a shallow coastal embayment along Ireland’s North-East Atlantic margin
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)
Coastal environments are highly dynamic and complicated systems that vary spatially and temporally over a range of timescales. This study explores the paleoenvironmental changes recorded in sediment cores taken from Galway ...
Relationships between mental toughness, barriers to exercise, and exercise behaviour in undergraduate students
(University of Wollongong, Australia, 2017)
The present study explored relationships between mental toughness (MT), barriers to exercise, and self reported exercise behaviour in university students. Perceived barriers to exercise are important since previous work ...
'Turns wick low': Samuel Beckett's darkening vision and an Irish county (Pre-published Version)
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2017)
Academic self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between Scottish index of multiple deprivation and composite attainment score
(Frontiers, 2017)
A developing literature continues to testify to the relationship between higher socio-economic status (SES) and better academic attainment. However, the literature is complex in terms of the variety of SES and attainment ...
,,dass gestern besser werden würde als morgen je gewesen war": Zur Kodierung von Trauma in Jan Costin Wagner's Kimmo-Joentaa-Romanen
(2017)
This thesis investigates a series of crime novels by German author Jan Costin Wagner. The series revolves around Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa who in the course of the series tries to deal with the loss of his wife. The ...
Luathscríbhneoirí na hAthbheochana agus Saothrú an Phróis 1900-1916
(, 2017)
Is éard atá sa saothar seo ná staidéar ar cheathrar de luathscríbhneoirí na hAthbeochana. Is iad na scríbhneoirí a bheidh faoi chaibidil ná: an tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire; an tAthair Pádraig Ó Duinnín; Pádraig Ó Séaghdha ...
John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017)
In John McGahern’s 1985 short story ‘Oldfashioned’, he ably demonstrates why a sensitive, bookish, Catholic young man raised in the repressive, anti-intellectual Irish Free State might be attracted to the way of life being ...
Functional connectivity anomalies in adolescents with psychotic symptoms
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Background
Previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research suggests that, prior to the onset of psychosis, high risk youths already exhibit brain abnormalities similar to those present in patients with schizophrenia. ...