384 research outputs found
sj-R-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 – Supplemental material for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory
No full textSupplemental material, sj-R-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory by Arunangshu Ghoshal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Eamonn Ferguson, Lee Shepherd, Sally Doherty, Mary Mathew, Karen Morgan and Frank Doyle in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-pdf-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 – Supplemental material for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory by Arunangshu Ghoshal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Eamonn Ferguson, Lee Shepherd, Sally Doherty, Mary Mathew, Karen Morgan and Frank Doyle in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-xls-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 – Supplemental material for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xls-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053211064985 for Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory by Arunangshu Ghoshal, Ronan E O’Carroll, Eamonn Ferguson, Lee Shepherd, Sally Doherty, Mary Mathew, Karen Morgan and Frank Doyle in Journal of Health Psychology</p
Grandchildren of the revolution : sexuality, nation and Frank Ronan
No full textMestrado em Estudos InglesesEsta tese propõe-se a investigar expressões do discurso gay irlandês
contemporâneo na obra do autor irlandês Frank Ronan. O tratamento literário
de temas como a influência da Igreja Católica, a importância da célula familiar
irlandesa, ou a manifestação de posições políticas relacionadas com
nacionalismo e colonialismo nas suas obras será analisado, com vista a
examinar como estes e outros factores moldam a maneira como o discurso
homossexual é construído na república da Irlanda e no trabalho de Frank
Ronan em particular. Também será dada atenção a estereótipos nacionais e o
seu efeito na escrita de Frank Ronan.
ABSTRACT: This dissertation proposes an investigation of expressions of the contemporary
Irish gay discourse in the fiction of Irish author Frank Ronan. The literary
treatment of themes such as the influence of the Catholic Church, the
importance of the Irish family cell, or the manifestation of political views,
concerning nationalism and colonialism in the novels will be analysed, in order
to study how these and other factors shape the way that homosexual discourse
is constructed in the Republic of Ireland and in the work of Frank Ronan in
particular. Attention will also be given to Irish national stereotypes, and their
effect on Ronan’s writing
Generation portfolio analysis for a carbon constrained and uncertain future
No full textPaper presented at the International Conference on Future Power Systems, 16-18 November 2005, AmsterdamMany modern electricity systems are faced with the
challenge of reducing green house gas emissions and dealing with
increasing and more volatile fuel prices. Adequately dealing with
these issues requires the evolution of suitable generation
portfolios. However, doubts remain if the liberalized marketplace
will deliver such portfolios. Analysis is undertaken to try and
determine how the generation portfolio on the all-Ireland system
may evolve by 2020. Resulting portfolios are examined with
respect to the impact of carbon costs on the development of the
portfolio and in particular wind energy. An assessment is made of
the exposure of the portfolios to fuel price volatility and how
portfolios may wish to diversify to avoid this. The analysis
endeavours to gain insight into the future generation portfolios
with the aim of informing how policy instruments may be tailored
to address these issues.Science Foundation IrelandCharles Parsons Energy Research Award
Children and Disasters: A tribute to Professor Kevin Ronan
No full text(c) The Author/sIn 1997, Professor Kevin Ronan published a paper in the first ever edition of the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, titled “The Effects of a “Benign” Disaster: Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress in Children Following a Series of Volcanic Eruptions”. Over the next 23 years, Kevin and his many colleagues pursued aspects of children and disasters to both improve practice and advance scholarship in this area. In March 2020 we were saddened by the untimely passing of Kevin. As a tribute to Professor Ronan this special issue of the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies brings together accounts of current research and practice initiatives inspired by, building upon, and directly influenced by Professor Ronan’s work
N-way Digitally Driven Doherty Power Amplifier Design and Analysis for Ku band Applications
No full textWith an increasing interest in backwards
compatibility for existing satellites and the emerging satellite
markets, wireless transceivers at Ku band are increasing in
popularity. This paper presents the design of a four-way digitally
driven Doherty amplifier, aimed at applications in Ku-band.
Single tone measurements indicate a maximum drain efficiency of
53.4% at a maximum of 19.2 dBm output power. The final output
power can readily be adjusted by changing the biasing in each
stage accordingly. The N-way Doherty power amplifier was tested
with an 800 MHz bandwidth, 64 QAM test signal aimed for future
communication signal standards. An analysis of this configuration
has also been performed for 2-way, 3-way and 4-way architectures
Privilege and Property. Essays on the History of Copyright
No full textCopyright law is the site of significant contemporary controversy. In recent years copyright history has transformed as a subject from being one of interest to a few books historians to the focus of sustained historical investigation attracting the attention of scholars from across the humanities. This book comprises a collection of essays on copyright history by leading experts drawn from a range of countries and disciplinary perspectives.
Covering the period from 1450 to 1900, these essays engage with a number of related themes. The first considers the general movement, from the sixteenth century onwards, from privilege to property-based conceptions of copyright protection. The second addresses the relationship between the protection provided for literary and print materials and that provided for other forms of cultural production. The third concerns the significance and relevance of these various histories in shaping and informing contemporary policy and academic practice.
Essays include:
0. The History of Copyright History, by Kretschmer, Deazley & Bently;
1. From Gunpowder to Print: The Common Origins of Copyright and Patent, by Joanna Kostylo;
2. A Mongrel of early modern copyright: Scotland in European Persepctive, by Alastair Mann;
3. The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers’ Company, and the Statute of Anne, by Mark Rose;
4. Early American Printing Privileges: the Ambivalent Origins of Authors’ Copyright in America, by Oren Bracha;
5. Author and Work in the French Print Privileges System: Some Milestones, by Laurent Pfister;
6. A Venetian Experiment on Perpetual Copyright, by Maurizio Borghi;
7. Les formalités son mortes, vive les formalities! Copyright formalities in nineteenth century Europe, by Stef van Gompel;
8. The Berlin Publisher Friedrich Nicolai and the reprinting sections of the Prussian Statute Book of 1794, by Friedemann Kawohl;
9. Nineteenth Century Controversies relating to the protection of Artistic Property in France, by Frédéric Rideau;
10. Maps, Views and Ornament. Visualising Property in Art and Law: The Case of pre-modern France, by Katie Scott;
11. Breaking the Mould? The Radical Nature of the Fine Art Copyright Bill 1862, by Ronan Deazley;
12. ‘Neither bolt nor chain, iron safe nor private watchman, can prevent the theft of words’: The birth of the performing right in Britain, by Isabella Alexander;
13. The Return of the Commons: Copyright History as a Common Source, by Karl-Nikolaus Peifer;
14. The Significance of Copyright History for the Publishing History and Historians, by John Feather;
15. Metaphors of Intellectual Property, by William St Clair.
The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.or
Progress and Distress on the Stratford Estate in Clare during the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters - called the SK correspondence in what follows - became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the SK office in Dublin, they were written mainly by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners - Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid-1880s onwards -- ceased business in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in the larger study from which the present article is drawn are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent) ; ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon peacefully quitting; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlord-assisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and local agents; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK); applications by SK, on behalf of proprietors, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, ete. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. It seems, in the 1840s, that the only estate in Clare managed by SK was that of the elderly Col. Stratford. Although the files on the relatively small Stratford estate are much less extensive than those on some of the estates investigated in detail in the draft of Landlords, Tenants, Famine, they do refer to most of the core aspects of estate management mentioned above. But in the case of the Clare estate, the material on some of those themes is extremely thin.
Behavioural Models for Distributed Arrays of High Performance Doherty Power Amplifiers
No full textBehavioral models are intended as high level
mathematical descriptions which require less computational effort
to simulate behavior compared to physical or circuit level
equivalent models. When designed and dimensioned properly they
are well suited to concise characterization of power amplifiers
under different operating conditions. In this paper we compare the
relative performance of several behavioral models for modelling
an asymmetric Doherty power amplifier for their use in
distributed arrays
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