Dinneen, Marian(School of Architecture, University of Limerick, 2012)
The ambition of my thesis project is to design civic
space, space for civic engagement. Taking inspiration
from the various voices who have identified a
democratic crisis and who are themselves more
civilly engaged, I ...
Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian(Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy--opensourcing, as we term it here--whereby commercial companies and open source communities ...
Holmstrom Olsson, Helena; Ó Conchúir, Eoin; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian(Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
This paper investigates two-stage offshoring as experienced by the Irish sites of two large global companies, headquartered in the United States, with significant software development operations. As part of these companies, ...
O'Connor, Pat(Surrey : Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, 2000)
This paper explores the reality of patriarchal privileging and resistance within a society which has undergone dramatic change over the past twenty-five years. Using Foucault's ideas of power and resistance (1980; 1988; ...
Doyle, Barry J.; Corbett, Timothy J.; Callanan, Anthony; Walsh, Michael T.; Vorp, David A.; McGloughlin, Timothy M.(Allen Press, 2009)
PURPOSE: To identify the rupture locations of idealized physical models of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) using an in-vitro setup and to compare the findings to those predicted numerically. METHODS: Five idealized AAAs ...
Fitzgerald, Brian(Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2006)
A frequent characterization of open source software is the somewhat outdated, mythical one of a collective of supremely talented software hackers freely volunteering their services to produce uniformly high-quality software. ...
Kenny, Ian; Ó Cairealláin, Ainle; Comyns, Thomas(Lippincott WIlliams & Wilkins, 2012)
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the concurrent validity of a commonly used Electronic Switch Mat (ESM), or jump mat, compared to force plate data. Efficiency of collection and accuracy of data is paramount ...
Brook, Ian; Freeman, Christine; Grubb, Sarah; Cummins, Niamh M; Curran, Declan; Reidy, Colin; Hampshire, Stuart; Towler, Mark R(SAGE Publications, 2012)
The biological response of strontium (Sr) doped hydroxyapatite (HA) and hydroxyapatitezirconia (HA-ZrO2) composites produced by employing sol-gel technology, minimal ZrO2 loadings and novel microwave sintering regimes ...