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European Coastal Management: An Introduction
(Samara Publishing Ltd, 1995)Future European coastal management will require the breadth of perspective and the range of skills necessary to evaluate, integrate and incorporate existing and developing knowledge of coastal systems for the benefit of ... -
An evaluation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s critique of Karl Rahner’s theology of the cross
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This work offers examines the theology of the cross found in Karl Rahner’s writings, with particular regard to Hans Urs von Balthasar’s critique of this area of Rahner’s work . This work maintains that Karl Rahner does ... -
Evaluation of pre-university programme
(2005)Introduction. In the period of November 2004 – February 2005, the pilot Pre-University Programme, run in partnership with the Adult and Community Education Programme of County Limerick Vocational Education Committee ... -
An evaluation of the compatibility of mindfulness and ethos in the Irish Catholic primary school
(2023-09-25)Mindfulness has exploded in popularity across several elements of society, including healthcare, education and commerce. This growth in the practice is supported by an increasing body of research on the benefits of mindfulness ... -
An evaluation of the Targeted initiative on access of mature Students in Ireland
(2001)This Report contains the results of two separate, but interlocking, studies on the access and provision for mature students in Irish higher Education • An evaluation of the Higher Education Authorities targeted initiative ... -
Evidence for the reliability and validity, and some support for the practical utility of the two-factor consideration of future consequences scale-14 (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2016)Researchers have proposed 1-factor, 2-factor, and bifactor solutions to the 12-item Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS-12). In order to overcome some measurement problems and to create a robust and conceptually ... -
The evolution of Irish veterinary practice, 1700-1950
(2020-12-10)This thesis explores the evolution of Irish veterinary practice, especially with regards to cattle practice, over the course of some 250 years. It begins in the eighteenth-century, with a discussion on prominent farriers ... -
An evolution of learner grammar: Insights from the English Grammar Profile
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The evolution of Limerick City’s fife and drum band tradition 1840 to 1935
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the evolution and activity of fife and drum bands in Limerick city between 1840 and 1935. The topic was chosen because of the author’s involvement in St Mary’s Fife and Drum Band since 1976 and because ... -
An examination of adolescent mental and physical well-being in Scottish school children: A cross-sectional study
(Open Access Text (OAT), 2017)Recent research has suggested that Scottish girls are more at risk of higher levels of psychosomatic symptomatology and lower levels of mental well-being that their male peers. We report the results of a cross-sectional ... -
An examination of female characterisation in a selection of the novels and short stories of William Trevor through the lens of Simone de Beauvoir
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis aims to examine female characterisation in a selection of William Trevor’s novels and short stories. The core argument in this thesis will be to demonstrate that Trevor, in his portrayal of women, presents a ... -
Examining Irish Nationalism in the context of Literature, Culture and Religion. A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism
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The exchange in family discourse (Pre-print version)
(Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL), 2002)The intimate genre of family discourse has traditionally posed problems for linguists because of the difficulty in collecting the data and the intimate nature of the genre. For obvious reasons, people view family life as ... -
Existence of twistor spaces of algebraic dimension two over the connected sum of four complex projective planes
(American Mathematical Society, 1999)We prove the existence of twistor spaces of algebraic dimension two over the connected sum of four complex projective planes 4CP2. These are the rst examples of twistor spaces of algebraic dimension two over a ... -
An Exodus vision
(The Furrow, 2004)In an age of informality, proposing a formal toast is not something that one has to do very often. It is a matter of etiquette that needs to be checked out in advance. So, when I checked it out, I discov ered that 'the ... -
Exploratory Analysis of Photographic Imagery as used In Irish Printed Daily Newspapers
(2009)The purpose of this study is to examine visual representation of our society in the news sections of Irish printed daily national newspapers and to analyse the power distribution that traverses these images for evidence ... -
Exploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio (Pre-published version)
(University of Valencia Press, 2002)Radio phone-in has a reflexive function in bringing the voices of a community to a community. For those who telephone the programme, it provides interpersonal communication even if they do not ‘go on air’. For those who ... -
Exploring Synchronous Online Communication and its Effect on Non-Native Speakers of English
(2018-02-07)It is estimated that there are 1.5 billion people worldwide who speak English, of whom only 375 million are native speakers (Statista 2016). Jenks (2012) notes that the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is growing ... -
Exploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning (Pre-published version)
(CILT Publications, 2000)It is increasingly recognised that being both fluent and accurate in a foreign language will not always guarantee successful communication between speakers. According to Hyde (1998: 10), in his discussion on intercultural ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ...