In 2009, US financier Bernard (Bernie) L. Madoff was jailed for 150 years after pleading guilty to running a massive ponzi scheme. While superficial condemnation was widespread, his US$65 billion fraud cannot be understood ...

Ideological, cultural and historical factors impact on dance, or any culturally structured movement system, at specific points in its hi storicity. Dance in Ireland has hi storically traversed many conceptual crossroads ...

This main focus of the study is on women's experience of violence in intimate relationships with men i.e. husband, partner, ex husband or live-in partner, boyfriend. Domestic violence and violence in intimate relationships ...

This thesis focuses on the life and literary works of Irish author Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), specifically on her representations of the Irish diaspora in her emigrant novels in the nineteenth century. On the eve of ...

This paper presents a rationale for arts based practices in music therapy research, and provides an example of using ABR techniques in research. Arts based materials are increasingly demonstrated to have capacity to extend ...

Large numbers of men benefit materially, socially and politically from patriarchy, but the advantages described as the 'patriarchal dividend' are not spread equally among men.' In other words, not all men are ...

The MICT package provides a method for multiple imputation for categorical time-series data such as lifecourse or employment-status histories that preserves longitudinal consistency, using a monotonic series of ...

The present study brings together the disciplines of sociolinguistics and media studies. In recent years, the availability of media in minority languages has become an area subject to some research within the area of ...

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As holistic analysis of life-course sequences becomes more common, using optimal matching (OM) and other approaches the problem of missing data becomes more serious. Longitudinal data is prone to missingness in ways that ...