This country survey examines: the core Irish criminal justice institutions; basic trends in crime and punishment over last 50 years; critical junctures debate law order recent decades. Using an earlier by O’Donnell (2005a ) as a baseline, it charts significant growth of discipline criminology within Ireland. The article argues that retains distinctively local flavour highlights promise many key...

was delivered by me on the 29th May. The labour was tedious, and forceps had to be applied with the head in transverse position, the blades being on the occiput and sinciput. When the child's head was born it was noticed that the cord was tight round the child's neck. My patient had severe post-partum haemorrhage, which prevented me from paying any attention to the child beyond seeing that it r...

follow this method of treatment in similar cases, with results so encouraging that any enthusiasm then shown in its favour is if possible more pronounced. It is not my intention to dilate further on the general haemostatic and curative properties of the treatment, beyond mentioning that in these respects it has since amply fulfilled the sanguine expectations I then formed of its value, but it i...

This is or, indeed, has been – changing. Our present and future use of IT (or ICT or what have you) will clearly not be restricted along the same dimensions as those listed above. IT has moved beyond the work-place and into leisure, entertainment, games and our homes. It has in short moved into our everyday life. My retired father and oldest daughter use it. Use is no longer delineated but seep...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a recognized risk factor in many disease states (Bravi et al., 2011; Sacha et al., 2013a). However, HRV is significantly correlated with an average heart rate (HR), and this association is both physiologically and mathematically determined. The physiological determination comes from the autonomic nervous system activity (Task Force of the European Society of Card...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my special appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Ming Dong, for his guide of my professional development and an inexhaustible source of ideas through my Ph.D.program at Wayne State University. During these years, he has spent tremendous time and effort with me discussing research, teaching me to write papers, and answering my questions. Without hi...

The aim of my—admittedly rather programmatic—talk is to show some shortcomings in neurophenomenology, often related to its strong focus on vision. By the same token, I will illustrate the particular fruitfulness of considering auditory phenomena in improving our understanding of time consciousness and of intuition and intentionality. Because of this, the topic of my talk also has more general i...