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 ...

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Robert L. Thomson (1989), a distinguished scholar of Manx language and literature, observes that readers and speakers of Irish and Scottish Gaelic are often surprised and even shocked by the appearance of Manx Gaelic in ...

Maypole Dancing and Other Body Movements in a Neo-Pagan Bealtaine Ritual in Ireland This thesis examines the role of dance and body movements within a specific Pagan ritual in present day Ireland, namely Bealtaine. The ...

Despite increasing interest in incorporating Medical Humanities in undergraduate medical education, the discipline often suffers from a lack of clear definition in terms of scope, purpose and clinician engagement 1, and ...

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 ...

Excellence has become a ‘hoorah’ word which is widely used in higher education institutions to legitimate practices related to the recruitment/progression of staff. It can be seen as reflecting an institutionalised belief ...

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 ...