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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Boyne"”.
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Sustainability of intensified agricultural production in the Boyne catchment.
… targets. The study was carried out on the River Boyne catchment area. A wide-ranging environmental systems analysis was carried out to assess the environmental impacts associated with the intensification of agricultural production envisaged in Food Harvest 2020. The following environmental …
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Territorial Justice and the Provision of Nursery Education in England and Wales, 1981-1994
… on the distribution of public services. Boyne and Powell (1991) have questioned whether a positive correlation between need and provision is always required for territorial justice. The key issue, it has been argued, is the requirement to consider the dimensions of need and service …
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ORANGEWOMEN SHOW THEIR COLORS: GENDER, FAMILY, AND ORANGEISM IN ULSTER, 1795-PRESENT
… victory of King William III at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. My dissertation explores the role of gender within Orangeism. Notions of `brotherhood', `sisterhood', and `family' in the lodges are explored, as are the roles of women within Orangeism. In particular, the `family' nature of Orangeism …
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Exploring strategic turnaround in English Local Authorities
… "7Rs"� framework adapting the work of Boyne (2004) and others. This has been developed to include Realisation and Reinforcement at either end of the turnaround period. Realisation is required to kick-start the turnaround process and Reinforcement to embed the organisational changes …
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Re-Defining Public Service In An Era of Networked Governance: An Examination of the Influence of Public Service Motivation On Contractors In Homeland Security
… that public servants have a special calling (Boyne 2002; Houston 2000; Perry 1996; Perry and Wise 1990; Staat 1988). However, the shift to a system of "governance" -- the expansion of government functions into many third party providers--is changing the way the public sector "looks" and how …
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Leadership and motivation in hospitality
Customer contact service employees in hospitality organisations have a critical role to play in satisfying customers’ expectations. However, it is recognised that hospitality service jobs are often associated with low pay, long and anti-social hours, unstable and seasonal employment, low job …
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Exploring the Hydroclimatology of Floods: From Detection to Attribution
… multiple working hypotheses is posited using the Boyne catchment as an exemplar. Results show the complexity of attributing hydroclimatic change at the catchment scale where the system is influenced by internal and external change. This work advances understanding of hydroclimatic flood processes …
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Early Childhood Studies as a site for Education for Sustainability, Eco Literacy and Critical Pedagogy
… of autobiographical hauntings’ (Derrida cited in Boyne 1990, 1). Whilst proof is absolute and incontestable, the evidence presented in the portfolio allows for personal and professional subjectivities, what Bray et al, (2000) refer to as ‘meaning making’ through ‘cycles of action and reflection’ …
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A study of the erosive action of the Red River, the materials carried in solution and in suspension, with a chapter on the state of silica in natural waters
… Goose, Turtle, Forest, Park, Pembina, Marsiis, Boyne, La Salle and Assiniboine Rivers... Referring to the geological character of the areas drained by the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, Dr. G.M. Dawson says: "The Red River, flowing from south to north, runs probably for its whole length over …
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Context Effects in Sentence Comprehension With Schizophrenics.
The process by which the meaning of individual words is determined in the context of a sentence is an important part of sentence comprehension and more generally communication. There are numerous words in the English language with two or more different meanings (i.e., polysemous words) and in fact, …
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Litho- and Biostratigraphic analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile and Niobrara formations in southern Saskatchewan, Canada
… of the west, whereas the slightly calcareous Boyne Member in the same area is a stratigraphic equivalent of the upper Carlile subunit. The Niobrara Formation in south-central and southeastern Saskatchewan is subdivided into the lower Calcareous Shale Member and the upper First White Specks …
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Development and Application of Next Generation Mass Spectrometry for Protein Analysis at High-Resolution
And finally, a high-resolution MS/MS platform was developed to analyze large peptides at >>50,000 resolving power along with a software suite for interpreting resolved isotopic distributions and handling all known protein modifications on a high throughput basis. Called Middle Down Proteomics, this …
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… Wiesel’s Night, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the way in which each of these texts contributes to collective Holocaust memory and traumatic literature: as a memoir, graphic novel, and work of fiction, respectively. The paper draws on Anne Whitehead’s …
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Measurement of snowpack properties using active FM-CW microwave systems
This paper reports on the use of an FM-CW active microwave system, in a research mode, to remotely sense water equivalence and liquid water content of snowpacks. A three-component "electrical path length" dielectric mixture model is described which accounts for the microwave system response as a …