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The Evolution or Revolution of European Insolvency Law
Get PDFThe theme of the twentieth INSOL Europe Academic forum, held on 2-3 October 2024 was “The Evolution or Revolution of European Insolvency Law”. The book includes seven contributions delivered at the conference, with topics ranging from insolvency and climate change, pre-packaged administration procedures, cross-border insolvency issues and directors' duties
Unlocking Viewer Insights in Linear Television:A Machine Learning Approach
Get PDFAmidst the digital transformation, traditional linear TV faces major challenges, including fragmented viewership, fixed schedule, and inaccurate targeting.Therefore, this paper proposes a novel Machine Learning framework to understand the audience's demographics from their viewing behaviour. By employing state-of-the-art classification models on an extensive TV first-party dataset, we achieved an average 88.6% accuracy in correctly identifying each household demographics.Our result offers promising outcomes for refining strategies within linear TV to improve viewer engagement, content programming, and market insights
The financialisation of Purpose Built Student Accommodation: Transforming landscapes of the city, housing, and student lives in Dublin
Get PDFThis thesis advances understandings of rental market financialisation through the example of Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) in Dublin. Due to a favourable environment for institutional investors, including a significant undersupply of student accommodation, Dublin has seen the construction of for-profit PBSA, and rent increases, skyrocket. This is occurring in the context of an acute housing crisis in Dublin, characterised by an undersupply of housing, unaffordability, and homelessness. This research is positioned at the intersection of, and bridges the gap between, scholarship on the financialisation of housing and student geographies. Financialisation has extended traditional conceptualisations of studentification through the emergence of a ‘luxury’ student accommodation market. This thesis presents the transformation of Dublin’s student accommodation landscape through processes of financialisation, the consequences for students’ right to housing, and how financialisation has been contested. Methodologically, data presented was collected between 2019-22 via semi-structured interviews and focus groups with students, interviews with key stakeholders, observations, and secondary sources. This thesis provides some of the first scholarship to date on the Irish student housing landscape. The first empirical chapter explores the central role of financial actors in reshaping the student accommodation landscape in Dublin, supported by the role of the state as a facilitator and enabler of financialisation. The second empirical chapter centres the student voice by exploring the consequences of financialisation on students’ access to housing, illustrating students frequently experience ‘chaotic’ housing pathways, characterised by instability and precarity. The final empirical chapter presents the active role of students in contesting financialisation and examines the transformative potential of housing movements. The research shows that students are a powerful force who possess persistent agency and political savvy.However, achieving a radical right to housing for students requires fundamental changes to existing provision. The thesis concludes by discussing alternatives and presenting recommendations for policy and practice. As the financialisation of housing continues at pace around the world, important considerations are presented for the future planning of our housing systems
The Therapeutic Relationship Between Patients Who Use Synthetic Cannabinoids and Staff in Secure Hospitals
Get PDFLevels of synthetic cannabinoid (SC) use and associated harms in forensic mental health hospitals present novel challenges to policy makers and practitioners. Research efforts to date have primarily focussed on the effects of SC use in prisons while similar investigations in forensic mental health hospitals remain scarce. Qualitative explorations from the perspectives of patients who use SC remains particularly absent in the literature. Therefore, the current study investigated how patients perceive forensic mental health staff’s responses to their SC use and the implications of this for long-term staff-patient relationships and patients’ relationship with themselves.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight inpatients who have a history of SC use and who currently receive treatment in a medium secure mental health hospital. Staff responses that fostered or hindered the development of therapeutic relationships were explored. Interviews were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA), resulting in the development of three themes and nine subthemes. Themes included ‘the struggle for helpful responses’, ‘stigma impairs psychological safety’, and ‘the layered self’.Themes revealed how initial staff responses to SC use were perceived as unhelpful and incompatible with the principles of trauma-informed and person-centred care. This had implications for the long-term trajectory of staff-patient relationships, leading to a perceived deterioration in the quality of the therapeutic relationship and reinforcing coping mechanisms among patients that were rooted in self-reliance, possibly due to the activation of insecure attachments. The overall outcomes related to the importance of a treatment approach that is centred in relational practice, based on an understanding of SC use as a marker of vulnerability and, potentially, trauma
The Impact of School Exclusion on Parents and Use of Multisystemic Therapy to Promote Inclusion in Education
Get PDFExploring the Experiences and Features of a Psychoanalytically Informed Parent, Baby and Toddler Group for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
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Invisible, Unreadable, and Inaudible Cookie Notices:An Evaluation of Cookie Notices for Users with Visual Impairments
Get PDFDeviations from the Mandatory Adoption of IFRS in Europe? Why Non-Adoption Does Not Mean Non-Compliance
Get PDFUsing Worldscope data, Pownall and Wieczynska (2018) [Deviations from the mandatory adoption of IFRS in the European Union: Implementation, enforcement, incentives, and compliance. Contemporary Accounting Research, 35(2), 1029–1066] show that there was extensive non-adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by European listed firms in 2005–2012. They also suggest that much of this non-adoption is illegal. This would constitute a serious failing by European firms, auditors and regulators. However, in this note we show that there is no non-compliance with mandatory requirements to use IFRS in Germany and the UK in various years including 2012 and 2020. We also find no non-compliance in Austria and Portugal, two countries with less highly regarded enforcement. The reasons for legitimate non-adoption vary by country and by year. Our analysis is based on hand-collected data and it documents that the Worldscope database contains many errors in various fields. Therefore, we provide researchers with a hand-collected database for German and UK firms for the period 2005–2020, which can be used to supplement Worldscope. The database includes information on country of incorporation, whether consolidated financial statements are prepared, the accounting standards applied, and whether the firm is listed on an EU-regulated market. We use the database to provide some evidence on voluntary adoption of IFRS
Does Gas-Phase Sulfur Dioxide Remove Films of Atmosphere-Extracted Organic Material from the Aqueous Aerosol Air-Water Interface?
Get PDFThe reaction of gas-phase SO2 with unsaturated carbon-carbon double bonds forms organosulfates. Previous works have focused on reaction products and not the fate of organic films in the atmosphere. Neutron reflectometry was used to study the interaction of gas-phase SO2 at the air-water interface with organic material extracted from atmospheric particulate matter and pure proxy chemicals to determine whether the reaction of organic films with SO2 removes the film and is there a product film. Films formed from atmospheric aerosol collected in urban and woodland environments typically produced a layer of approximately 0.6 nm thickness, whereas a thick (>40 nm) film was formed by the woodsmoke sample. Fitting of this thicker woodsmoke film suggested a three-layered structure at the interface that has been interpreted to be consistent with a surfactant-rich layer next to the air-water interface, a mid-layer rich in PAH and topped with a more aliphatic region. The multilayer structure of atmospheric extracted material at the air-water interface is potentially an exciting result that requires further study. Gas-Phase SO2 was confirmed to react with pure insoluble surfactant molecules at the air-water interface that contained carbon-carbon double bonds (oleic acid) and did not react with a similar saturated surfactant (stearic acid). No reaction was observed during the interaction of SO2 and atmospheric material extracted from urban and woodland environments, and no material appeared to be removed from the interface; however, films made from woodsmoke-extracted material did appear to be altered by SO2 suggesting a reaction with Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) but no material was lost from the interface. In addition, the gas-phase ozone levels in the neutron blockhouse, which have historically been of some concern for reactions with organics, were found to be of the order 15ppb, with no evidence of additional production in the neutron beam-path. Owing to a lack of substantial removal of material from real atmospheric extracted films, SO2 is not considered atmospherically significant for the removal of organic films from the air-water interfac
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