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• UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive Working Papers [16]

• Virtually local : social media and community amongst Polish nationals in Dublin 

  Komito, Lee ; Bates, Jessica (Emerald Group Publishing, 2009-05)

  Purpose - This paper examines the impact of social media (including social networking technologies) on migration strategies and integration, focusing on the use of new technologies for information seeking and dissemination, ...
• Migrants' information practices and use of social media in Ireland : networks and community 

  Komito, Lee ; Bates, Jessica (ACM, 2011-02-10)

  Migrants, having left their home society and community, often depend on electronic modes of communication to maintain contacts with distant friends and relations. Their practices illustrate the affordances provided by ...
• Contention, competition and crime : newspapers' portrayal of borders in the north-west of Ireland 

  Hayward, Katy (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)

  This paper analyses three local newspapers in the Derry-Donegal region for their presentation of cross-border issues in a two year period (2004-5). The border is portrayed in all three papers as a locus of political ...
• Fertility and population in Ireland, North and South 

  Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Walsh, Brendan M. (Taylor & Francis, 1995)

  This paper reviews and interprets recent demographic trends and prospects in the two Irelands, North and South. We discuss both the influence of religion on demographic behaviour, and the impact of demographic trends on ...
• Effects of Traffic Loads on Road Bridges - Preliminary Studies for the Re-Asessment of the Traffic Load Model for Eurocode 1, Part 3. 

  O'Connor, Alan ; Jacob, Bernard ; O'Brien, Eugene J. ; Prat, Michel (European Communities, 1998)

  WIM has developed greatly in the last ten years and confidence in the accuracy of recorded data has increased significantly. Traffic data recently obtained from a number of representative European sites are used to ...
• A virtual rehabilitation system for wobble board balance training with children 

  Fitzgerald, Diarmaid ; Trakarnratanakul, Nanthana ; Conroy, Luke ; Nixon, Paddy ; Caulfield, Brian (IEEE, 2008-08)

  Virtual reality-based computer games may be a useful way to develop motor skills and increase activity levels in children. We have developed an interactive computer platform where users must tilt a wobble board to ...
• Liberal equality versus equality of condition : conflicting definitions of equality and their implications for community development 

  Baker, John (A&A Farmar, 2009)
• Development and user evaluation of a virtual rehabilitation system for wobble board balance training 

  Fitzgerald, Diarmaid ; Trakarnratanakul, Nanthana ; Dunne, Lucy ; Smyth, Barry ; Caulfield, Brian (IEEE Press, 2008)

  We have developed a prototype virtual reality based balance training system using a single inertial orientation sensor attached to the upper surface of a wobble board. This input device has been interfaced with an open ...
• Audio noise mapping in virtual urban simulations : enhancing public awareness 

  Murphy, Enda ; Rice, Henry J. ; Pilla, Francesco (Turkish Acoustical Association, 2007-08)

  One of the key difficulties with urban environmental noise mapping is disseminating results from noise studies in a manner that is easily understood by the general public. Indeed, it is one of the requirements of the ...