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Foreward To Bruffee, Kenneth A. A. Short Course In Writing Composition, Collaborative Learning, And Constructive Reading, Harvey Kail, John Trimbur
Foreward To Bruffee, Kenneth A. A. Short Course In Writing Composition, Collaborative Learning, And Constructive Reading, Harvey Kail, John Trimbur
The Writing Center Journal
No abstract provided.
Artefacts, Technicity And Humanisation Industrial Design And The Problem Of Anoetic Technologies, Stephen James Thompson
Artefacts, Technicity And Humanisation Industrial Design And The Problem Of Anoetic Technologies, Stephen James Thompson
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
This thesis concerns the intellectual heritage and autonomy of West European and American industrial design as a discourse community at a moment when biotechnological developments are challenging the certainty of what it means to be human. Proceeding from the assumption that industrial design is an autonomous intellectual engagement played out through the interpretation of technology as an artefact, the thesis identifies how this is a critical moment for industrial designers, who appear to be unable to respond to a problem of the apparent disconnection and the progressive displacement of the human in reference to technology. The thesis identifies the cause …
Equalisation Techniques For Multi-Level Digital Magnetic Recording, Purav Shah
Equalisation Techniques For Multi-Level Digital Magnetic Recording, Purav Shah
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
A large amount of research has been put into areas of signal processing, medium design, head and servo-mechanism design and coding for conventional longitudinal as well as perpendicular magnetic recording. This work presents some further investigation in the signal processing and coding aspects of longitudinal and perpendicular digital magnetic recording. The work presented in this thesis is based upon numerical analysis using various simulation methods. The environment used for implementation of simulation models is C/C + + programming. Important results based upon bit error rate calculations have been documented in this thesis. This work presents the new designed Asymmetric Decoder …
Enhancement Of Perceived Quality Of Service For Voice Over Internet Protocol Systems, Zizhi Qiao
Enhancement Of Perceived Quality Of Service For Voice Over Internet Protocol Systems, Zizhi Qiao
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses
Voice over Internet Protocol (WIP) applications are becoming more and more popular in the telecommunication market. Packet switched V61P systems have many technical advantages over conventional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), including its efficient and flexible use of the bandwidth, lower cost and enhanced security. However, due to the IP network's "Best Effort" nature, voice quality are not naturally guaranteed in the VoIP services. In fact, most current Vol]P services can not provide as good a voice quality as PSTN. IP Network impairments such as packet loss, delay and jitter affect perceived speech quality as do application layer impairment factors, …
The Interface Between Academic Knowledge And Working Knowledge: Implications For Curriculum Design And Pedagogic Practice., Anne Murphy
Level 3
This paper considers some aspects of the theory and practice of work-based learning (WBL) that may be of interest to academic staff in higher education who have responsibility for negotiating, designing, delivering and assessing programmes for, and with, Irish workplaces, companies, organisations and sectors of the workforce. The paper does not claim to be breaking significant new ground: rather it is trying to connect aspects of the field to inform underpinning of WBL curriculum design and related pedagogic practice as the start of a conversation rather than the last word.
Activity Systems Within Blended Problem-Based Learning In Academic Professional Development, Roisin Donnelly
Activity Systems Within Blended Problem-Based Learning In Academic Professional Development, Roisin Donnelly
Journal Articles
Blending face-to-face and online problem-based learning environments presents opportunities for both learners and lecturers to take part in collaborative knowledge construction. Activity theory is a suitable framework to investigate such environments and the learning processes that both sets of participants experience when engaging in these complementary environments. This paper attempts to map out the potential for activity systems using a blended problem-based learning approach through the exploration of an accredited academic staff development programme in Ireland. Firstly, an analysis of tool use and the discourse that participants and tutors engage in is presented. Secondly, tutor reflections about the evolution of …
Encouraging Student Creativity In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly, Terry Barrett
Encouraging Student Creativity In Higher Education, Roisin Donnelly, Terry Barrett
Journal Articles
This chapter focuses on how teachers encourage the development of creative states of flow in their students and in themselves. The chapter aims to stimulate educators in higher education to think freshly about creativity and to widen their range of strategies for encouraging student creativity.
Antibiotic Resistance In Foodborne Pathogens- A Cause For Concern?, Ciara Walsh, Seamus Fanning
Antibiotic Resistance In Foodborne Pathogens- A Cause For Concern?, Ciara Walsh, Seamus Fanning
Articles
The widespread use of antibiotics in food animal production systems has resulted in the emergence of antibiotic resistant zoonotic bacteria that can be transmitted to humans through the food chain. Infection with antibiotic resistant bacteria negatively impacts on public health, due to an increased incidence of treatment failure and severity of disease. Development of resistant bacteria in food animals can result from chromosomal mutations but is more commonly associated with the horizontal transfer of resistance determinants borne on mobile genetic elements. Food may represent a dynamic environment for the continuing transfer of antibiotic resistance determinants between bacteria. Current food preservation …
Poverty, Social Exclusion And Holidaying: Towards Developing Policy In Ireland, Bernadette Quinn, Kevin Griffin, Jane Stacey
Poverty, Social Exclusion And Holidaying: Towards Developing Policy In Ireland, Bernadette Quinn, Kevin Griffin, Jane Stacey
Reports / Surveys
This qualitative research investigates how promoting access to annual holidaying can help combat social exclusion for children and families experiencing poverty. It aims to stimulate debate on the need for developing social tourism policy. To this end, it discusses a range of policy rationales and reviews developments in policy and practice in other EU states. Specifically, its objectives include: to demonstrate how access to annual holidaying benefits people, particularly children, living in poverty; and to produce an evidence-based case to stimulate the development of government policy, and the investment of state and private sector resources, in the area. The study …
Knowledge Visualisation Of Wikipedia, Jinhui Wang
Knowledge Visualisation Of Wikipedia, Jinhui Wang
Dissertations
Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopaedia, in which articles are created together by anyone who is willing to contribute. There is debate on the quality, reliability and consistency of articles due to its openness. Besides, it is hard to see the growing path of articles because there is no centralised control in Wikipedia. The history of articles is available but in form that is difficult to process to get a picture of article evolution. Knowledge visualisation addresses the problem by providing analysis and comprehension of large amounts of data to gain insights and to facilitate knowledge creation and sharing. However, …
Building Organisationally Sensitive Technological Solutions For Knowledge Management In It Support Services, David Tonade
Building Organisationally Sensitive Technological Solutions For Knowledge Management In It Support Services, David Tonade
Dissertations
With the advent of the internet, information and communications technology has changed the way organisations operate and do business. There now exist an extremely dynamic and competitive business landscape, where information and knowledge are continuously created, used and distributed across business units. People have become more involved with the use of technology to aid them in their business tasks. In the course of generating and transmitting information comes the realization that knowledge is a vital asset of the company. Thus, most firms embark on various initiatives to enable Knowledge Management (KM). This study revolves around the IT tools involved in …
Assessing The Impact Of Organisational Culture When Introducing Web.2.0 Technologies Into A Non-Profit Organisation For Knowledge Managment, Heather Madden
Assessing The Impact Of Organisational Culture When Introducing Web.2.0 Technologies Into A Non-Profit Organisation For Knowledge Managment, Heather Madden
Dissertations
Some of the key challenges that any organisation faces today are those of knowledge sharing and collaboration. This research investigates knowledge sharing in existing communities of practice in a non-profit organisation and the challenges that are faced by attempting to facilitate online interactions for these communities. Organisation culture can either incentivise or impede this process and this research will describe how people and culture are two of the most important factors when considering a knowledge management initiative. Given that the impact of culture is such a key issue, a number of organisations are interviewed and evaluated to compare and contrast …
Reflections Of War, Rachel Hatch
Reflections Of War, Rachel Hatch
Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017
Vietnam War veteran Tobey Herzog ’68 uses the prism of literature to shed new light on life beyond the battlefield.
2008 - 2009 : Dit Staff Handbook, Dublin Institute Of Technology
2008 - 2009 : Dit Staff Handbook, Dublin Institute Of Technology
DIT Publications
Booklet or staff containing general information on support services, central services, student services and faculties and campus.
The Reflective Science Educator, Caroline Anne Scheidel
The Reflective Science Educator, Caroline Anne Scheidel
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Reflection is synonymous with quality teaching. Though teachers reflect, the domains of reflections vary from teachers in different curriculum areas. Teachers of science have their own interesting characteristics to reflection. The art of reflection contains several unique aspects such as the logistics of reflections, the influence of the reflection, the content, and the perception one has on reflection. These aspects are described through the eyes of a science teacher to better understand their relationship to reflection. Though the research within reflections of teachers is plentiful, there is little on science teacher's reflections. The focus of this study is to determine …
Evaluating Earth Science Misconceptions In One School Districts: A Case Study, Katherine Marie Schafer
Evaluating Earth Science Misconceptions In One School Districts: A Case Study, Katherine Marie Schafer
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
This research was a case study in common Earth science misconceptions revealed among students in one rural Iowa school district known as "Ruraltown." Students in grades 5, 8 and 10 participated in this study. Evaluation of misconceptions was done through the administration of the Misconceptions-Oriented Standards-Based Assessment Resources For Teachers (MOSART). MOSART is designed to test for students' understanding of content contained within the K-12 Earth science National Science Education Standards and also to reveal misunderstandings held by students. Three questions guided this research study. One, how do students in this school district compare with students who participated in the …
A Study Of The Level Of Interest Among Adolescents In Physical Education, Brooke N. Davitt
A Study Of The Level Of Interest Among Adolescents In Physical Education, Brooke N. Davitt
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
There has been an incredible amount attention given to the issue of childhood obesity in America today because the prevalence and incidence rates have grown at alarming rates. When addressing this problem, there are multiple things to consider, (a) diet, (b) exercise, (c) support systems, (d) healthy behavior modification, and ( e) interest toward physical activity. This last item mentioned is of significance for the current study. In this study, adolescent children, ages 11 to 18, were asked to evaluate their interest in physical activity, specifically badminton, volleyball, and HALS Pals, during their physical education class. These children were also …
Guidelines For Deploying Wireless Sensor Network In Manufacturing: Star Topology Study Using The Rssi To Test The Network Performance, A. Hameed Madwar
Guidelines For Deploying Wireless Sensor Network In Manufacturing: Star Topology Study Using The Rssi To Test The Network Performance, A. Hameed Madwar
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are varying in kinds and can be used for many purposes. It can be extensively used in monitoring, reporting, and decision routines. Therefore, WSNs are very important to integrate with manufacturing since they can help not only in monitoring and decision making but also they can increase productivity and decrease the wiring costs. However, WSNs are facing some challenges in manufacturing as they need to resist the interferences that could be generated by the electrical and mechanical fields created during the manufacturing processes. Some of these interferences could be due to the high temperatures, blocks of …
Energy Efficient Correlated Data Aggregation For Wireless Sensor Networks, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar
Energy Efficient Correlated Data Aggregation For Wireless Sensor Networks, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
Data aggregations from Sensors to a sink in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically characterized by correlation along the spatial, semantic, and temporal dimensions. Exploiting such correlation when performing data aggregation can result in considerable improvements in the bandwidth and energy performance of WSNs. For the sensors-to-sink data delivery, we first explore two theoretical solutions: the shortest path tree (SPT) and the minimum spanning tree (MST) approaches. To approximate the optimal solution (MST) in case of perfect correlation among data, we propose a new aggregation which combines the minimum dominating set (MDS) with the shortest path tree (SPT) in order …
Social Network Analysis Of Video Bloggers' Community, John Warmbrodt, Hong Sheng, Richard H. Hall
Social Network Analysis Of Video Bloggers' Community, John Warmbrodt, Hong Sheng, Richard H. Hall
Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works
Video blogs (or vlogs) have become increasingly popular in recent years. As the main motivation for vlogging is to interact with other vloggers, it is important to investigate the structure of the videobloggers' community and the interactions among vloggers. This research conducted a quantitative analysis using social network analysis. A list of personal vloggers was identified from VlogDIR and linking patters of vlogs were analyzed. The results suggest that video bloggers' community is highly decentralized and exhibits a core/periphery structure.
Book Review: In The Public Interest: The Report And Research Papers Of The Law Society Of Upper Canada's Task Force On The Rule Of Law And The Independence Of The Bar, By The Law Society Of Upper Canada, Janet Leiper
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Extending The Reach Of The State Into The Post-Sentence Period: Section 26 Of The Criminal Justice Act 2007, Mary Rogan
Extending The Reach Of The State Into The Post-Sentence Period: Section 26 Of The Criminal Justice Act 2007, Mary Rogan
Articles
The Criminal Justice Act 2007 heralded a plethora of changes to Irish criminal law and procedure. The law on sentencing was also affected by its provisions. The focus of this article is on section 26 of that Act which introduces a general power on a court to make an order while passing sentence which will take effect on the expiration of a sentence of imprisonment. Under section 26 a court can impose two such orders, the “monitoring” order and the “protection of persons” order. The author assesses the background to the introduction of these dispositions and the potential application and …
Digital Radio Policy In Canada: From Analog Replacement To Multimedia Convergence, Brian O'Neill
Digital Radio Policy In Canada: From Analog Replacement To Multimedia Convergence, Brian O'Neill
Articles
Digital radio policy in Canada has moved from a position of seeking to migrate all radio broadcasting onto a single digital transmission system (Eureka-147) to a multi-platform, cross-media and multimedia approach. The most recent digital radio policy of 2006 suggests a range of new possibilities for radio broadcasting, including multimedia broadcasting, but as a result has compromised the early adoption of the Eureka-147 standard. This paper contrasts the different policy contexts of 1995 and 2006 and argues that the competing technological options for digital audio delivery now pose significant dilemmas for broadcasters and policy makers.
That's Life:An Examination Of The Direct Consequences Of Life-Sentence Imprisonment For Adult Males Within The Irish Prison System, Clara Geaney
Dissertations
Although Ireland compares relatively well in terms of international crime rates, there has been an increase in the number of prisoners serving life-sentences in the Republic. The current system for managing life-sentence prisoners in this jurisdiction is that they are likely to earn their temporary release after having served about fifteen years in prison. However, there is limited research in Ireland on the effects of imprisonment, and certainly for life-sentence prisoners, criminology in the Republic has failed to examine the issues faced by this group at all. Very little is understood about the coping mechanisms specific to life-sentence prisoners; the …
Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse, Links To Subsequent Sexual Exploitation And Prevention/Treatment Programmes: A Literature Review, Kevin Lalor, Rosaleen Mcelvaney
Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse, Links To Subsequent Sexual Exploitation And Prevention/Treatment Programmes: A Literature Review, Kevin Lalor, Rosaleen Mcelvaney
Reports
Evidence that the sexual abuse of children is universally widespread, and is most frequently perpetrated by family members, neighbours and others known to the child or adolescent is indisputable. Studies have consistently found that victims are vulnerable to subsequent sexual revictimization in adolescence and adulthood. They are also more likely than non-victims to engage in potentially harmful and damaging high-risk sexual behaviours, such as early age at first intercourse, multiple partners, low contraception use and prostitution. Ecological models, which incorporate explanations at the individual, family, community and societal level help explain this link. Interventions in the area of prevention of …
El Surgimiento Del Derecho Ambiental Global, Robert V. Percival
El Surgimiento Del Derecho Ambiental Global, Robert V. Percival
Faculty Scholarship
Legal systems across the globe are responding to environmental concerns in surprising new ways. As nations upgrade their environmental standards, some are transplanting law and regulatory policy innovations derived from the experience of other countries, including nations with very different legal and cultural traditions. New national, regional, and international initiatives have been undertaken both by governments and private organizations. Greater cross-border collaboration between government officials, nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations and other entities is shaping environmental policy in ways that blur traditional private/public land domestic/international distinctions. The result has been the emergence of a kind of “global environmental law” – law …
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Acting For Peace – The Effectiveness Of Drama And Theatre As A Tool For Promoting Peace-Building And Reconciliation, Mary Moynihan
Acting For Peace – The Effectiveness Of Drama And Theatre As A Tool For Promoting Peace-Building And Reconciliation, Mary Moynihan
Books/Book Chapters
This research booklet examines the effectiveness of drama and theatre practice as a means to promoting peace building and reconciliation within the Irish context. The research considers five drama and theatre projects in Northern Ireland and border counties, which have been designed and delivered to contribute towards peace building and reconciliation.