The proposed changes in the further education sector, including the rationalisation of the
VEC’s into Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) and the closures of the Senior
Traveller Training Centres (STECs, have ...
In today’s healthcare environment nurses’ are urged to use up-to-date research evidence to ensure better patient outcomes and inform nursing decisions, actions and interactions with patients. Within the practice setting ...
Doody, Owen; McInerney, Paula; Linnane, Lynda(Mark Allen Publishing, 2012)
Nursing students, Paula and Lynda, reflect on their first academic assessment of their 4-year intellectual disability nursing course. The reflection is conducted by the second and third authors of this article and is guided ...
Movement variability, while being a topic discussed extensively throughout the movement sciences, is still not understood. The effect of movement variability on outcome has not been ascertained. In particular, there has ...
The primary aim of this research was to develop and validate a tool to measure
the correlates of physical activity among adolescent males and females.
Secondary aims were to investigate the correlate profiles and ...
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury continues to be a constant adversary to field sports athletes. Females are widely acknowledged as being at an increased risk of ACL injury, in comparison to males. Athletes who are ...
Pettigrew, Judith(Bridgewater State University's Virtual Commons, 2012)
This article examines gendered aspects of women’s lives in a hill village in central Nepal during the decade-long civil war (1996-2006). The predominantly middle aged and elderly women discussed in the paper were not ...
The pattern of residential services for people with intellectual disability in Ireland has seen many positive developments in recent years, with more places made available in residential homes within both community- and ...
Msetfi, Rachel, M.; Murphy, Robin, A.; Kornbrot, Diana, E.(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Depressed mood states affect subjective perceptions of time but it is not clear whether this is due to changes in the underlying timing mechanisms, such as the speed of the internal clock. In order to study depression ...
Assessment has long been recognised as the single most influential factor in shaping what and how students in higher education choose to learn and the quality of learning outcomes depends on the quality of assessment. ...