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Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism
No full textFlashes from the Dark was the 1941 debut by Jamaican poet Ferdinand Levy, published in Dublin while he was a medical student. It brought something of the Harlem
Renaissance to Lower Baggot Street. Despite favorable reviews by Irish poets such as
Austin Clarke and others, Levy has vanished from literary posterity. His many passions—literary, political, musical—situate him at a properly intersectional literary history of mid-century Dublin, and he critiques the particular structure of systemic racism
in 1930s and ’40s Ireland. Levy’s “decolonial cosmopolitanism” mounts a challenge to
nationalist tendencies within the mainstay of Irish postcolonial thinking, a factor in his
occlusion. His awkward poetics—wavering between a belated signature of the Harlem
Renaissance and parodies of English sonnets and ballads—constitutes “mimicry” in
Homi Bhabha’s sense—destabilizing white discourse with “flashes from the dark.
On the value of Fano resonance in wave energy converters
No full textThe article evaluates the potential of the Fano resonance operational principle in wave energy converters (WECs), using a 2-body loosely moored self-referenced WEC as an illustrative example. By leveraging Fano resonance, the point absorber buoy can remain relatively stationary with low loading on mooring lines, serving as an efficient wave energy transmitter while concurrently achieving resonance within the internal power take-off (PTO) system. This arrangement reduces the motion of the point absorber hull, thereby decreasing loads on the WEC structure, mooring lines, and anchors. As a result, operational and structural costs are minimised, further reducing the levelised costs of generated energy. Additionally, by ensuring minimal fluctuations in the WEC, confidence in using traditional linear mathematical models is increased, as commonly employed for WEC performance assessment and control design. The article presents a resonance study and introduces newly derived solutions in the frequency domain for the proposed operational concept. It analytically demonstrates the viability of employing the Fano resonance operational strategy for WECs, suggesting that this strategy has the potential to compete with traditional methods of wave energy transformation. Furthermore, the insights gained from the study contribute to identifying optimal parameters for a PTO system, as well as optimising the design of the heaving buoy
Biological maturity but not relative age biases exist in female international youth soccer players relative to the general population
No full textThis study investigated the extent to which biological maturity and relative age biases existed
and varied with chronological age in female international youth soccer players relative to the general population.
A total of 113 players (52 under-15 (U15), 32 under-16 (U16) and 29 under-17 (U17)) selected by the Football
Association of Ireland participated in this study. All players were assessed for height, body weight and relative
age. Biological maturity status and timing were assessed in U15 and U16 players only. Relative to population
norms, the results showed a significant but small bias in favour of more biologically mature players (P < 0.001,
d = 0.39) that increased with age from U15 (P = 0.007, d = 0.36) to U16 (P = 0.009, d = 0.44). U16 players
had achieved a significantly higher percentage of their predicted adult height than U15 players (T = 7.4,
P 0.05).
There was no significant difference in height, weight or relative age of the players between the three age
groups and no significant difference between the U15 and U16 age groups in terms of predicted adult height
or biological to chronological age offset. This study demonstrates that biological maturity but not relative age
biases exist in female international youth football relative to the general population, with notable differences
in pattern and magnitude compared to those previously observed in male international youth football
An ambivalent approach to disability in older age: evidence from reporting by states parties under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
No full textIssues of ‘disability’ and ‘ageing’ are usually approached separately in theorising, activism and policy making. Yet people with disabilities age and many people will experience disability if they live long enough. Human rights approaches to disability enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are not often applied to older people experiencing disability. This article presents findings of a systematic qualitative analysis of reports made by 28 European states to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the independent body that monitors CRPD implementation, focusing particularly on Article 19 CRPD (‘Living independently and being included in the community’). While states’ reports refer to older people or ageing in different contexts, their approach can be characterised as ambivalent. Reports tend to constitute older people experiencing disability as ‘older’ rather than ‘disabled’; they do not demonstrate a thorough engagement with disability experienced in older age, and display a limited focus on people ageing with lifelong disability. Several reports detail exclusions of ‘older people’ from disability supports to live in the community and some exclude impairments associated with ageing from definitions of what ‘disability’ is. The reports provide almost no evidence of consultation with organisations working on ageing. The article concludes that while the CRPD’s potential to contribute to realising rights for older people with disabilities is under-recognised among scholars and non-governmental organisations, the fact that states refer to older people in their reporting under the CRPD provides a starting point for more engagement
The role of organisational- and country-level factors in the volume and public visibility of business and management research
No full textUsing a multilevel modelling approach to analyse a novel dataset of academic publications
at all business schools in 11 European countries, this paper finds that the influence of organisational- and country-level contextual factors on researchers varies considerably based
on the type of institution and the development level of the country they are located in. At the
organisational-level, we find that greater spatial connectivity–operationalised through proximity to nearby business schools, rail stations, and airports–is positively related to scientific
research volume and public dissemination (news mentions). While this result is significant
only for high-income countries (above EU-average 2018 GDP per capita), this is likely
because the low-income countries (below EU-average 2018 GDP per capita) examined
here lack a ‘critical mass’ of well-connected universities to generate observable agglomeration effects. At the country-level, the results indicate that in high-income countries, less prestigious schools benefit from higher rates of recent international immigration from any foreign
country, providing a direct policy pathway for increasing research output for universities that
aren’t already well-known enough to attract the most talented researchers. In low-income
countries, recent immigration rates are even stronger predictors of research performance
across all levels of institutional prestige; more open immigration policies would likely benefit
research performance in these countries to an even greater extent. Finally, the paper’s
results show that, in low-income countries, a composite measure of a country’s quality of life
(including self-rated life satisfaction, health, working hours, and housing overcrowding) is
positively related to research outcomes through its interaction with school prestige. This
suggests that the lower a country’s quality of life, the more researchers are incentivised to
produce higher levels of research output. While this may in part reflect the greater disparities
inherent in these countries’ economic systems, it is noteworthy–and perhaps concerning–
that we have observed a negative correlation between country-level quality of life and
research performance in low-income countries, which is particularly felt by researchers at
less prestigious institutions
Making MACMORRIS: New Gleanings from Early Modern Ireland
No full textI am extremely grateful to Dr Lizzie Boyle and to my colleagues
in Sean- agus Nua-Ghaeilge for the invitation to give the Paul
Walsh Memorial Lecture (2022), not least because it allowed me
to pay my respects to someone whose scholarly company I kept at
different stages during my D. Phil. – and someone on whose
scholarship I still draw. Yellowed sheaves of hand-written notes
bring me back to the Bodleian Library when it not only permitted
notetaking in ink but actively fed the habit by providing bottles of
blue and black – and blue-black – Quink in a blotter-littered hatch
by the issue desk. Those notes catch me in the act of scouring
Walsh’s Gleanings from Irish Manuscripts, Irish Men of
Learning, Irish Chiefs and Leaders, and his editions of Ó
Cianáin’s Imeacht na n-Iarlaí and Ó Cléirigh’s Beatha Aodha
Ruaidh. They bring back the physicality – and frustrations – of
bibliographical searches in a time before online catalogues:
hoiking an enormous, alphabetically ordered catalogue (Va-Wap)
onto a shelf and trawling through pasted-in, ‘movable-slip’
entries, to track down the scattered essays which Nollaig Ó
Muraíle subsequently brought together in Learning through the
Ages
Rethinking digital ‘visual’ twins and building alternatives for smart city planning: a case of Smart Dublin.
No full textThe abstract is included in the presentation
Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries
No full textSustainable human resource management is gaining importance in organizations due to its role in developing a sustainable work environment and well‐being. This paper discusses the relationship between employee perceptions of sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction in 54 countries. We propose that sustainable HRM is positively associated with job satisfaction but that this relationship is moderated by employees' identification with the organization and country‐level individualism–collectivism. Thus, we suggest national culture functions as a second‐level moderator of the relationship of sustainable HRM with organizational identification on job satisfaction. Findings from the multi‐level analyses using data from 14,502 employees nested within 54 countries provided support for our hypotheses, namely that employee perceptions of sustainable HRM were positively associated with job satisfaction and that this relationship was more pronounced for employees with lower levels compared to higher levels of organizational identification in individualistic rather than collectivistic countries. These findings bear important implications for both theory and practice
Adaptive second order sliding mode control of an oscillating water column
No full textThe energy from waves has a vast untapped potential to contribute to renewable energy supply and diversification. For that reason, wave energy conversion systems have been a topical research area in recent years. In particular, harnessing wave energy with an oscillating water column converter has proved to be one suitable solution, which has also seen a number of successful deployments. Nevertheless, additional research is required for this technology in order to reach full commercial maturity and economic performance. This paper proposes an adaptive second order sliding mode controller to maximise the converted energy. In particular, the proposed adaptive control setup maintains the sliding mode robust features, while reducing high frequency oscillations and abrupt control actions produced by fixed‐gain algorithms. A comparison of energy generation performance shows better energy conversion efficiency of the proposed control strategy over standard speed regulation control strategies, even considering air compression dynamics and hydrodynamics in the tests
Academic Career Advancement: Academic Career Scripts and their Role Models
No full textThis thesis explores academic career advancement to understand institutions’ performance expectations and the clarity of their communication. I leverage signalling theory to advance the literature on academic career scripts by revealing the sources of signal noise that might influence individuals' interpretation of these scripts. The thesis aims to assist individual faculty seeking career advancement by helping them make sense of ambiguous communication for various career pathways.
The thesis is split into three interconnected empirical studies (Chapters 2-4). Chapter 2 explores an institution's needs signalled via their promotion documents. Examining these signals, I conceptually argue that they are influenced by institutions’ need for universal performance policies to address short- and long-term strategic objectives. Chapter 3 moves beyond signalled expectations to examine the career script role models signalled after career advancement decisions have been made by institutions. Chapter 4 examines the teaching dimension of the academic career script, focusing on the level of exposure of this component of the script among PhD students and ECAs.
The thesis findings show that promotion criteria signals are consistently ambiguous and that the career script role models signalled when career advancement decisions are made are inconsistent. This suggests a changing nature of institutions’ needs and individual interpretation. Overall, the performance of career-advanced individuals does not align at the rank, institution, or regional level. This questions the assumption of a system of common academic ranks as a foundation of academic career scripts. The literature also revealed that PhD graduates have limited exposure to the teaching component of academic career scripts. This is problematic because just several years post PhD graduation, institutions expect high levels of teaching excellence for career advancement