RSS Feeds: Recent submissions
Now showing items 161-180 of 13947
-
"He'd mind you, you mind him": Experiences of end of life care for people with an intellectual disability as perceived by staff carers.
(School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 2017)Life expectancy for people with an intellectual disability (ID) is increasing (Kelly & Kelly 2013), providing new challenges in understanding not only how people are living with illness but also how they are dying. While ... -
An evaluation of a pilot hybrid programme of Post Registration Children's Nurse Education. A partnership with SAOLTA University Health Care Group, the School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin and Children's Health Ireland, 2022- 2023
(Trinity College Dublin, 2024)An extensive examination of children’s nursing in Ireland was conducted in 2019-2021 resulting in the publication of Leading the Way: A National Strategy for the Future of Children’s Nursing 2021-2031 (HSE 2021). During ... -
A Prototype Bilingual Literacy Screening Test for Pupils in Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht Schools: Design Consideration and Teacher Attitudes
(2023)The present paper has two main aims. The first is to describe the prototype development of a bilingual literacy screening test for pupils in Gaelscoileanna and Gaeltacht schools. A description of the design process is ... -
Geabaire, the first Irish AAC system: voice as a vehicle for change
(2023)This paper introduces Geabaire, an Irish language Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system which is currently under development in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin. This high-tech ... -
AAC don Ghaeilge: the Prototype Development of Speech-Generating Assistive Technology for Irish
(2022)This paper describes the prototype development of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system for the Irish language. This system allows users to communicate using the ABAIR synthetic voices, by selecting ... -
Bilingual (Irish-English) phonemic awareness: language-specific and universal contributions
(2024)This paper examines the construct of bilingual phonemic awareness in Irish-English bilinguals. Though traditionally viewed as a skill or ability which transfers across languages, recent accounts have considered whether ... -
Inclusive Education in Bilingual and Plurilingual Programs
(2024)This chapter examines the inclusion of students with Additional Educational Needs (AEN) in language education opportunities for in English-medium, Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools in Ireland. The commitment to inclusive ... -
The European Union's Forced Labour Regulation: Putting the `Brussels Effect' to work for international labour standards
(2023)In September 2022, the Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market. This arises in a context of rising concern over many years about breaches of workers’ ... -
Ecological dependencies and the illusion of cooperation in microbial communities
(2024)Ecological dependencies - where organisms rely on other organisms for survival - are a ubiquitous feature of life on earth. Multicellular hosts rely on symbionts to provide essential vitamins and amino acids. Legume plants ... -
The prevalence and nature of communication and swallowing difficulties among adults with Long-COVID.
(2023)BACKGROUND: Long-COVID is an illness which can be experienced after contracting COVID-19, which has affected millions worldwide to date. Long-COVID is characterised by symptoms of COVID-19 which persist 12 weeks post ... -
The Lived Experiences of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Adults Living with Fibromyalgia
(2024)Background: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition which has recently been linked with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia). However, to date, sample sizes within completed research are small and study ... -
Surveying the international prevalence and nature of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties in adults presenting with Fibromyalgia
(2024)Fibromyalgia is a centralized pain syndrome characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep and sensory issues. Fibromyalgia is present in up to 8% of the global population, disproportionally affecting females. Research ... -
Exploring the lived experiences and perspectives of individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties associated with Long-COVID.
(2024)BACKGROUND: Long-COVID occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS CoV-2 infection. Long- COVID can affect individuals who experience both mild and severe acute COVID-19 and can involve and affect ... -
What are the significant determinants of helpfulness of online review? An exploration across product-types
(2024)This paper proposes a novel empirical framework based on Source Credibility Theory and Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning to identify the effect of features (such as review text, review title and reviewer attributes) ... -
A hybrid framework using explainable AI (XAI) in cyber-risk management for defence and recovery against phishing attacks
(2024)Phishing and social engineering contribute to various cyber incidents such as data breaches and ransomware attacks, financial frauds, and denial of service attacks. Often, phishers discuss these attack vectors in dark ... -
Disease Topic Modeling of Users' Inquiry Texts: A Text Mining-Based PQDR-LDA Model for Analyzing the Online Medical Records
(2023)Disease information mining is one of the critical factors affecting users’ perception of the disease and has attracted extensive attention from the information management community in recent years. If the mined disease ... -
Need a Good Book about Privacy? Evaluating Dictionary-Based Corpus Query for Detecting the Topic of Privacy in Literary Texts
(2024)This paper evaluates the usefulness of querying Vasalou et al.’s Privacy Dictionary (2011), a dictionary of 600+ words and phrases, in 131 canonical English-language novels from the long 19th century. We evaluate the ... -
Impact of Nitrogen Dioxide on Health with Particular Emphasis on Vulnerable Groups
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2023)Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a highly reactive gas and is primarily produced by the burning of fuel. It forms from emissions from cars, trucks and buses and power plants. Exposure to NO2 has been associated with adverse ... -
Post-Diagnostic Dementia Support Guidelines for People with an Intellectual Disability
(Trinity College Dublin, 2024)
