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Paddy le Carpenter and surname formation in the mid-west
(UCD [University College Dublin], 2015)
What is an Irish clan?
(GGI [Genetic Genealogy Ireland], 2015)
Coach perceptions of performance enhancement in adolescence: The sport drug control model for adolescent athletes (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
Aim: We qualitatively explored the Sport Drug Control Model (SDCM; Donovan, Eggar, Kapernick, & Mendoza, 2002), in order to examine coaches’ perceptions of adolescent athletes’ attitudes and susceptibility towards ...
Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
This study examined relationships between mental toughness (MT) and psychological wellbeing (PWB) in undergraduate students. Following previous research that identified significant and positive relations between MT and ...
Envy, guilt, symbolic reparation and images of whiteness in contemporary Hollywood sport themed films
(FA [Free Associations], 2015)
Taking a primarily Kleinian psychoanalytic approach, the article first examines how the Rocky series of boxing films (1976-2006) illustrates the displacement of a problematic of downward economic mobility onto race in ...
Sources of sport confidence, imagery type and performance among competitive athletes: The mediating role of sports confidence (Pre-published version)
(Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2015)
Aim. This study explored the mediating role of sport confidence upon (1) sources of sport confidence- performance relationship and (2) imagery- performance relationship. Methods. Participants were 157 competitive athletes ...
An investigation of the performance of five different estimators in the measurement error regression model
(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2015)
In a comprehensive paper by Riggs et al.(1978) the authors analyse the performances of numerous estimators for the regression slope in the measurement error model with positive measurement error variances >0 0 for X and ...
Corpus analysis (Pre-published version)
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Large and small language text corpora have become quite ubiquitous in the broad fields that make up the study of language and social interaction. This entry provides an introduction to the concept of the “corpus” where ...
John O'Donovan and Thomas le Keu - preliminary comments on processes of Anglicisation of Irish surnames
(Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015)
The intertextual presence of Samuel Beckett’s "All That Fall" in Martin McDonagh’s "Six Shooter" (Pre-published version)
(EUP [Edinburgh University Press], 2015)
As many critics have pointed out, Martin McDonagh's work for the stage and screen is deeply indebted to the drama of Samuel Beckett. While critics have spotted most of McDonagh's intertextual debts to Beckett, they have ...