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Keening the dead: ancient history or a ritual for today?

McLaughlin, Mary (MDPI, 2019)

In his 1909 work ‘Rites De Passage’, Arnold van Gennep acknowledges that a ritual often contains ‘rites within rites’. So, it was with the ancient ritual of the Irish wake, at the center of which was another ritual, that ...

Ketamine augmentation for major depressive disorder and suicidal ideation: preliminary experience in an inpatient psychiatry setting

Sinyor, Mark; Williams, Marissa; Belo, Sue; Orser, Beverley; Vincent, Margaret; Mah, Linda; Zarate, Carlos; Castel, Saulo; Levitt, Anthony J.; Schaffer, Ayal (Elsevier, 2018)

Background Ketamine is known to rapidly reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation (SI) in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), but evidence is limited for its acceptability and effectiveness in “real-world” ...

Kevin Neville - Data Display

Birdthistle, Naomi; Carroll, Conor (Blackhall Publishers. www.blackhallpublishing.com, 2007)

Key activities for product derivation in software product lines

Rabiser, Rick; O'Leary, Pádraig; Richardson, Ita (2010)

More and more organizations adopt software product lines to leverage extensive reuse and deliver a multitude of benefits such as increased quality and productivity and a decrease in cost and time-to-market of their software ...

Key factors for adopting inner source

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Avgeriou, Paris; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Lucas, Yan; Fitzgerald, Brian (Association for Computing Machinery, 2014)

A number of organizations have adopted Open Source Software (OSS) development practices to support or augment their software development processes, a phenomenon frequently referred to as Inner Source. However the adoption ...

Key performance indicators for mental health and substance use disorders: a literature review and discussion paper

Henderson, Carla; Klimas, Jan; Dunne, Colum P.; Leddin, Des; Meagher, David; O'Toole, Thomas P.; Cullen, Walter (Taylor and Francis, 2014)

With increasing recognition of the importance of mental and substance use disorders for population health and health systems and the potential value of systems-based performance indicators in addressing this issue, we ...

Key performance indicators in Irish hospital libraries: developing outcome-based metrics to support advocacy and service delivery

Dalton, Michelle (University of Alberta Learning Services, 2012)

Objective To develop a set of generic outcome-based performance measures for Irish hospital libraries. Methods Various models and frameworks of performance measurement were used as a theoretical paradigm to link the ...

Keynotes from Millstreet, Co.Cork: George Egerton's transgressive fictions

O'Toole, Tina (Colby College, 2000)

IN TANDEM WITH the stirrings of first-wave feminism, the literary work of "New Woman"l writers came to the fore in the early 1890s. Replacing the Victorian "angel in the house", these writers depicted desires never ...

Kinematic differences between high and low handicap golfers

Byrne, Derek; Kenny, Ian C. (2008)

The widespread growth of golf is mainly due to its accessibility to people of all ages, socio-economic backgrounds and skill levels (Hume et al., 2005). To correspond with this increased participation, research in the area ...

Kinetic and kinematic analysis for assessing the differences in counter-movement jump in rugby players

Floría, Pablo; Gómez-Landero, Luis A; Suárez-Arrones, L; Harrison, Andrew J. (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016)

The aim of this study was to ascertain the differences in kinetic and kinematic profiles between better and poorer performers of the vertical jump within a homogeneous group of trained adults. Fifty rugby players were ...

Kinship network influence on SME development in Albania

Gassie, Esmeralda (University of Limerick, 2012)

Economic activities are considered as embedded in the social structure by many sociologists. Not very often though, is there a measurement of the kinship network on business performance by economists themselves. It is the ...

Knee joint mechanics after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Kenny, Ian C.; Clarke, Sarah; Harrison, Andrew J. (University Hospitals Limerick, 2014)

Introduction: There is a scarcity of information on the long term adaptations in lower limb biomechanics during game specific movements after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Particularly, variables such ...

Knitting the threads of silk through time: Behçet’s disease—past, present, and future

Adeeb, Fahd; Stack, Austin G.; Fraser, Alexander D. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2017)

Behçet’s disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing vasculitis that affects vessels of all types and sizes with a broad spectrum of phenotypic heterogeneity and complex immunopathogenesis. Efforts by the scientific community to ...

Knowledge and the actus reus of possession offences

McCutcheon, Paul J (Thomson Round Hall, 1997)

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Knowledge compilation with empowerment

Bordeaux, Lucas; Marques-Silva, Joao (Springer, 2012)

When we encode constraints as Boolean formulas, a natural question is whether the encoding ensures a ”propagation completeness” property: is the basic unit propagation mechanism able to deduce all the literals that ...

Knowledge is wealth: investigating psychosocial distress and ameliorating knowledge deficiencies in parents of children identified, through newborn screening in Ireland, as carrying an altered cystic fibrosis gene

Quigley, Stephen James (University of Limerick, 2014)

Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease affecting mainly the lungs and digestive system. In Ireland, the incidence of cystic fibrosis is 1 in 1,461 births, with 1 in 19 Irish people carrying an altered cystic fibrosis gene. ...

A knowledge management application to support knowledge sharing in a design engineering community

Donnellan, Brian; Fitzgerald, Brian (2003)

The changing competitive landscape has brought new forces to bear on the manner in which new products are developed. These forces have put the creation and dissemination of knowledge at the centre of many firms’ new ...

Knowledge management barriers a review of Limerick's local authorities

Downing, Owen M. (University of Limerick, 2013)

The aim of this study is to investigate the existence of Knowledge Management (KM) within the Limerick’ local authorities, Limerick City and Limerick County Councils. Further it explores the prevalence of KM, the types of ...

Knowledge management in a public sector project environment

Sweeney, Eoin (University of Limerick, 2013)

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a detailed review of knowledge management strategies and practices in public sector project environments, while specifically analysing the knowledge management strategy of ...

Knowledge management in distributed software development teams - does culture matter?

Boden, Alexander; Avram, Gabriela; Bannon, Liam J.; Wulf, Volker (2009)

Software development requires complex context specific knowledge regarding the particularities of different technologies, the potential of existing software and the needs and expectations of the users. Hence, efficient ...

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