Paul Michael Garrett is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. His book, Remaking Social Work with Children and Families (Routledge), is to be published later this year. He is also the author of a recent report for the AU-Party Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group. This is called The Hidden Ethnic Minority: Social Work, Social Services Departments and Irish Children and Families (Ac...

0 Riagain, Padraig; 0 Gliasain, Micheal All-Irish Primary Schools in the Dublin Area. Report of a Sociological and Spatial Study of All-Irish-Medium Schools in the Greater Dublin Area, with Special Reference to Their Impact on Home and Social Network Use of Irish. Linguistics Inst. of Ireland, Dublin. 79 201p. Instituid Teangeolaiochta Eireann, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, United Ki...

The Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF) is a recently adopted standard that can store a variety of sound representations including spectral, time domain, and higher-level models. SDIF consists of a specified data format and a set of standard sound descriptions and their official representation. SDIF is flexible in that new sound descriptions can be represented, and new kinds of data can...

In this paper is presented an overview and conclusions of topics and ideas discussed in the e Music Interfaces panel that took place during the MOSART Workshop – Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music Barcelona, November17 of 2001. The invited members of Panel were: Antonio Camurri (DIST-University of Genova, Italy); Sergi Jorda (IUA-Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spai...

Abstract: In this paper, we use Iterative Method (ITM) for solving linear and nonlinear fifth order boundary value problems. The analytical results of the equations have been obtained in terms of convergent series with easily computable components. The algorithm is quite efficient and is practically well suited for these problems. Several examples are given to illustrate the reliability and imp...

Application of the variability-size relationship to atmospheric aerosol studies: estimating aerosol lifetimes and ages J. Williams, M. de Reus, R. Krejci, H. Fischer, and J. Ström Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Institute of Applied Environmental Research (ITM), Stockholm University, Sweden Received: 12 October 2001 – Accepted: 14 November 2001 – Published: 18 January 2002 Co...

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...

Since 2013 researchers at University College Dublin in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have been involved in a significant research programme in digital journalism, specifically targeting tools and social media guidelines to support the work of journalists. Most of this programme was undertaken in collaboration with The Irish Times. This collaboration involved identifying key problems cur...

Introduction This paper develops a literature review of the flexicurity discourse as this has been developed in the European Union's debates and policies. The analysis of the European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity principles developed by the European Commission will be crucial factors for the development of this review. Furthermore, the chapter aims to review the literature concerning...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, the Irish diaspora experience health inequalities persisting across generations. The present study sought to establish the prevalence of psychological morbidity in the children of migrant parents from Ireland, and reasons for differences. METHODS Data from two British birth cohorts were used for analysis. Each surveyed 17 000 babies born in one week in 1958 and 1970 and ...