Using micro data from the Quarterly National Household Survey we look at trends in Irish union membership from 2001-2006. There was a steep decline in union density. Decomposition analysis suggests that most of the decline is associated with a decline in the underlying probability of becoming a member for different groups of workers rather than a change in composition.

This paper describes the Ulster-Scots Musical Revival which started in the late 1990s, and arguesthat neither Hobsbawm & Ranger’s conception of “invented tradition” nor Rosenberg’stheorisation of folk revivals as appropriations of tradition are adequate to understand thisongoing musical and social movement. By comparing the Ulster-Scots revival with earlier “Irishtraditional mus...

Because the electrophysiological effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) on the heart are little known, we studied the regulation of the atrial ATP-sensitive K(+) (K(ATP)) current by PACAP on primary cultured neonatal rat atrial myocytes. PACAP-38 stimulates cAMP production with EC(50) = 0.28 nmol/l (r = 0.92, P < 0.02). PACAP-38 and PACAP-27 (10 nmol/l) have simil...

&lt;b&gt;Aim:&lt;/b&gt; To investigate the relationship between COVID-19 infection and subsequent long-term mental consequences among patients recovering from disease.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;Methods:&lt;/b&gt; A cross-sectional survey-based study was conducted in Jordan using Google Forms during period March to July of 2022. The requirement participate that individuals be at least 18 years old ha...

We analyse deformation mechanism in neutron-rich Cr, Fe and Ti isotopes with N=3244 by means of a Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field code employing a twodimensional mesh representation in the cylindrical coordinate system. Evaluating systematically the quadrupole deformation energy, we show that the Skyrme parameter set SkM* gives a quadrupole instability around the neutron number N∼38-4...

Poultry litter is a nutrient-dense fertilizer, but surface applications lead to nutrient losses air, soil, and water. Objectives were evaluate optimum subsurface-applied poultry bands from crop seeding distance in corn (Zea Mays L.)–soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotation. Soil amendment treatments included planting 13, 25, 38 cm subsurface-banded litter, surface-applied inorganic nitrogen (N...

In the title compound, [Fe(C(38)H(38)N(10))](ClO(4))(2)·CH(3)OH, the Fe(II) atom has a distorted octa-hedral coordination environment with four benzimidazol N atoms and two amino N atoms from an N,N,N',N'-tetra-kis-(benzimidazol-2-ylmeth-yl)cyclo-hexane-1,2-trans-diamine ligand. The uncoordinated solvent methanol mol-ecule is hydrogen bonded to an O atom of a perchlorate anion. One of the perch...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency distribution of various types of dissociative disorders, along with existing co-morbid depression and its level of severity in patients with dissociative disorder. STUDY DESIGN Observational, cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi General Hospital from October 2004 to March 2005. METHODOLOGY Fifty con...