Bailey, Maria E.; Doody, Owen; Lyons, Rosemary; Walsh, Jackie; Cooney, Mary(University of LimerickIrish Hospice Foundation, 2011)
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On behalf of the research team, I am pleased to introduce this report which presents the
findings of a regional evaluation entitled: The provision of community nursing support for persons with an intellectual ...
This research aimed to investigate the effect of ankle taping on dynamic balance
performance. Eighteen recreational athletes without any previous ankle sprain history
performed six star excursion balance tests on each ...
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 ...
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Objective: To explore the attitudes of first time mothers towards antenatal education from the perspective of attenders and non-attenders.
Design: A qualitative approach was utilised using focus group interviews ...
Lynch, Raymond; Walsh, Michael(Dublin Institute of Technology * Tempus Publications, 2011)
This paper examines the obligatory but often contentious relationship that
exists between contemporary second level education and undergraduate student
course choice within an Irish context. A survey of 1,723 students ...
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 ...