59 research outputs found
Scotland’s image of Ireland: Scott, Small, and the Edinburgh Edition
No full textCo-author, with Alasdair Thanisch, ‘Scotland’s Image of Ireland: Scott, Small, and the Edinburgh Edition’, in Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney and Thomas Herron (eds.), John Derricke’s Image of Ireland in Context, Manchester Spenser Series (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)
An Annotated Bibliography of Objective Pilot Performance Measures
No full textFINAL REPORT - February-September 1981Author William F. Moroney taught at NPS in Operations Research and Naval Aviation Safety. Author Ted R. Mixon was a student in Operations Research.Buckout's review in 1962 was the last comprehensive examination of the pilot performance measurement PPM literature. This annotated bibliography attempts to 1 gather the PPM literature written subsequent to 1962 into one source 2 describe the scenarios and measures used in collecting PPM data and 3 summarize the major premises and findings of each article. A variety of sources including computer aided literature search were used to identify candidate articles. Ultimately all referenced material was divided into three categories 1 objective pilot performance measurement 2 subjective pilot performance measures and 3 general analysis and review articles.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
Clothed with Variety: Discovering the Formal and Figurative Texture of John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande
No full textExploring Mother-Child Relationships in the Context of Early Environmental Stressors
No full textThe attached document may provide the author's accepted version of a published work. See Citation for details of the published work
Ambient air pollution and consumer spending: Evidence from Spain
No full textResearch on the economic burden of air pollution has focused primarily on its macroeconomic impact. However, as some studies have found that air pollution can lead to avoidance behavior–for example, reducing the time spent outdoors–we hypothesize that it can also influence consumer spending activity. We combine high frequency data on ozone and fine particulate pollution with daily consumer spending in brick-and-mortar retail in 129 postal codes in Spain during 2014 to estimate the association between the two. Using a linear fixed effects model, we find that a 1-standard deviation increase in ozone concentration (20.97 μg/m3) is associated with 3.9 percent decrease in consumer spending (95% CI: -0.066, -0.012; p<0.01). The association of fine particulate matter with consumer spending is, however, not statistically significant (β: 0.005; 95% CI: -0.009, 0.018; p>0.10). Further, we do not observe a sufficiently strong bounce-back in consumer spending in the day–or even the week–following higher ozone concentration. Also, we find that the relationship between ozone concentration and consumer spending is heterogeneous, with those aged below 25 and those aged 45 or above exhibiting stronger negative association. This research informs policymakers about a plausibly unaccounted cost of ambient air pollution, even at concentrations lower than the WHO air quality guideline for short-term exposure.Organisation & Governanc
Moving From Risk to Hope: Count Us In
No full textIn “Moving From Risk to Hope: Count Us In,” the author describes the report entitled From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope released in January 2019 by the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. The report and related brief, Building Partnerships in Support of Where, When, and How Learning Happens offer recommendations for how the education sector can support social and emotional learning and development. This article offers a reflection on the Nation at Hope report recommendations for the youth development field and professionals. There are significant opportunities for the youth development field to partner with other sectors, intentionally support social and emotional learning, train professional staff on strategies to support learning and development, and research our efforts in ways that are accessible and foster practice. It is a critical and hopeful time for the youth development field to honor our history, employ the recommendations in the report, and build our youth development knowledge and practice in light of what we now know about how to optimally foster learning and development
Integration without Europeanisation: Ukraine and its Policy towards the European Union
No full textThis paper examines the progress of, and conditions for, Europeanisation in one of the EU's new neighbours to the East. Since the late 1990s under Leonid Kuchma's presidency, Ukraine regularly expressed its willingness to participate in European integration via membership of the European Union. Yet these foreign policy declarations have not been accompanied by the necessary acceleration of domestic reforms. The paper argues that Ukraine has sought integration with the EU but without undergoing Europeanisation-extensive change to institutions and policies at the domestic level in line with EU's more or less explicit 'normative targets'. This is despite the fact that this is a model of proven utility as evidenced by its implementation in East-Central European states. The paper aims to explain why the progress of Ukraine's integration with the EU has been confined to foreign policy declarations by exploring: first, the role of sources of Ukraine's policy towards the EU both at the elite and mass levels; and second, the reasons for Ukraine's inability to enact the 'European choice' in domestic reforms. Finally, the conditions under which a shift from declarations to actual Europeanisation in post-Soviet non-EU countries might occur will be identified by extrapolating from insights drawn from the literature on the EU's eastern enlargement in the context of the EU's new European Neighbourhood Policy.legitimacy; East-Central Europe; political science; European identity; identity; democratization
Siobhan Moroney, Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home
No full textEconomic incentives and point source emissions : choice of modeling platform
No full textThe purpose of this study is to identify the best modeling platform for the analysis of alternative environmental policy instruments designed to reduce the emission of pollutants from point sources, most notably, central power generating stations and manufacturing facilities. The primary analysis of concern is a cost-effectiveness investigation of the policy; where for the most part, the cost of compliance is a multidimensional variable that includes the private costs incurred by the owners of the facility, measures of the change in the cost of providing the facility's product, and estimates of the change in facility capacity factors. The range of pollutants under consideration include the usual menu of air- and waterborne emissions as well as solid and liquid wastes finding their way to landfills and other such disposal options. The range of policies considered include: (a) tariffs on the emission of pollutants; (b) tariffs and subsidies applied to the inputs or the outputs of the point source activities under consideration; (c) limits on the pollutant emissions themselves; and (d) directives regarding the installation of particular equipment and/or the alteration of process activities. The paper also discusses a nonexhaustive set of issues associated with the modeling of point source emissions and policies for their control.Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Consumption,Environmental Economics&Policies
Irish writers and the British periodical press 1880-1900
No full textThis project assesses the extent and significance of Irish contributions to the British periodical press of the 1880s and 1890s. It examines the cultural and historical context of some fifteen writers, situating them in a transnational framework of periodical discourse during a period when the political and colonial entanglements of Ireland with Empire were bringing pressure to bear on exclusivist conceptions of Irish and British identity. This research specifically focuses on literary journalism in Britain as opposed to the newspaper press, positing the writers under consideration as elite opinion-formers who took a central part in, and to various degrees shaped and represented, the intellectual culture of late Victorian Britain. The thesis comprises five chapters. Three of these focus on individual journal titles \u27The New Review\u27, \u27Nineteenth Century\u27 and \u27Fortnightly Review\u27 while the remaining two present single-author case studies on W.E.H. Lecky and Emily Lawless. Drawing on the tools and methodology of periodical criticism, it situates each article within its specific material and cultural context and utilises a range of primary sources alongside textual and historical analysis to discern any underlying ideology in relation to the journals. By focusing on both periodicals and case studies the project aims to come to a deeper understanding of the significance of certain types of press discourse, not only in each writer\u27s conception of their work as an essayist but in the many negotiations of national identity in the press at the time. This is explored in relation to (among other things): the Home Rule crisis, questions of censorship and cultural authority, European literary trends and British Liberal ideology. Authors such as George Moore and J.P. Mahaffy are also examined in the context of growing professionalisation and academic disciplinisation, and the pressures that these developments exerted on both the periodicals and the Victorian \u27man of letters\u27 tradition. They are appraised alongside fiction writers such as W.B. Yeats, Sarah Grand and Standish O\u27Grady and the political interventions of Justin McCarthy and Horace Plunkett. I seek to demonstrate how, despite the growing influence of cultural nationalist rhetoric, the 1880s and 1890s provided a fertile and encouraging space for Irish writers to articulate their various diverse interests within some of the most influential British cultural organs of the day
- …
