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The race against waste : attitudes and behaviours of Irish consumers towards recycling and segregation
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The Race against Waste is a current battle facing all nations of the world in the current climate of environmental concern and attempted conservation of materials. Household waste in particular has been cited as a main ... -
Racial tolerance: examining the attitudes of people with adopted children
(Dublin Business School, 2004)In recent years the number of Irish children available for adoption has fallen dramatically with many more international adoptions occurring. Ireland has also become much more multi-racial with an influx of people from ... -
Racial-ethnic identity in modern Ireland : variation and influence on psychological wellbeing
(Dublin Business School, 2012)There is lack of empirical psychological research on racial-ethnic identity and its relationship with psychological wellbeing in Ireland. The current study explores the relationship between racial-ethnic ... -
The Radical Habitus and the Knowledge Practices of the Irish Organic Food Movement
(SAHKartell, 2017)The aims of the organic food movement include the transformation of food production, distribution and consumption. They necessitate a range of different skills and understandings which must be accessed, created, put to use ... -
Rare books in Irish libraries : an investigation of current challenges in providing access to historical collections
(An Leabharlann: The Irish Library, 2013)Article based on MSc thesis analysing the current state of rare book libraries in Ireland. Challenges to access to rare book collections are discussed and some suggestions made for improvements. Author keywords: Cataloguing, ... -
Rattling the 'Iron Lady'
(Dublin Business School, 2014)“The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison”. Margaret Thatcher. This thesis will discuss how the neoliberal discourse and policies of the first and only British female ... -
Raving mad : an investigation of the normalisation of recreational drug use in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The increase in drug using behaviour has attracted much attention in recent years, thus making the area of drug use a matter of significant reflection. The objective of this research paper is to investigate the normalization ... -
(Re)visioning the urban imagination : the art and policies of redevelopment
(Dublin Business School, 2014)The Richmond conference examined representations of urban redevelopment within the transforming city. Based in London, the papers given at the conference addressed cities worldwide, from Dublin to Doha and Berlin to Belgrade, ... -
The reading list challenge : implementing Loughborough Online Reading List Software (LORLS)
(Dublin Business School, 2014)This presentation explores the importance of reading lists in the higher education sector asserting that they are integral in transitioning students from ‘dependent to autonomous learners.’ The presentation opens by exploring ... -
Reading Plato's Symposium
(Dublin Business School, 1996)Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 - 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to investigate the transference relation in psychoanalysis. His intention was to raise the ... -
Reading Plato's Symposium
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1997)Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 - 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to investigate the transference relation in psychoanalysis. This investigation centred on the ... -
Reading recovery : an intervention to accelerate literacy levels and attitudes towards reading and writing
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of “Reading Recovery” as an early intervention for literacy, and to measure the correlation between attitudes and literacy levels. A quasi-experimental analysis using a ... -
Real-time face detection using histogram of oriented gradients, convolutional neural networks and feature extraction to enhance the online shopping experience
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Recent trends in technology shows that computer vision has become an integral part of all artificial intelligence projects. Ranging from a normal barcode scanner to real-time CCTV surveillance and to self-driving cars, the ... -
The reality of the illusions in Wonderland
(Dublin Business School, 1999)History is culturally ordered, differently so in different societies, according to meaningful schemes of things. The converse is also true: cultural schemes are historically ordered, since to a greater or lesser extent the ... -
The realtionship of personality traits, self-efficacy, trait anxiety and optimism to test anxiety
(Dublin Business School, 2013)This study's aim was to investigate the effect of a number of variables on the level of students' test anxiety. One hundred part-time students, male and female, from the 2nd and 4th year classes, completed self-report ... -
Rebalancing the power
(TASC, 2012)An analysis of the political options open at European level to leverage power with their financial markets. Author keywords: Markets, politics, Europe, power -
Recall of meaningful information visually or aurally presented based on the primacy and recency effect
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of the current study was to discover if presentation modality had an effect on recall and also if meaningful information had a superior recall when compared with miscellaneous information. Word and image lists were ... -
Reclaiming the Left
(SAHKartell, 2018)The Left has been charged with a lack of self-reflection and self-criticism. This article aims to address this concern through a demarcation of liberal-left values from illiberal pursuits in an attempt to reclaim (or reform) ... -
Reclaiming the monster: abjection and subversion in the marital Gothic novel
(SAHKartell, 2018)This article explores literary representations of women over the centuries, from the witch of children’s fairy tales to the madwoman of the nineteenth century and the sexually voracious vamp of the twentieth century. Within ... -
Recognising potential: The story of the information literacy prize for feedback in DkIT
(Dundalk Institute of Technology, 2018)