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Alternatywne ordynacje wyborcze. Przykład Australii i Irlandii

Michał Urbańczyk

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne > 2016 > 14 > 3 > 193-207

The essence of democracy is the rule of the sovereign, that is the nation, today understood as all of the state’s citizens. At present, the most common type of governance is representative democracy, exercised by representatives elected from the citizens themselves. Therefore, for the proper functioning of liberal democracy it is difficult to find a more important issue than the procedure for the...

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A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

Michael O'Connell, Beatrice Ghilardi, Liam Morrison, M. O'Connell, more

Quaternary Research > 2014 > 81 > 1 > 35-49

Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation...

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Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

Graeme T. Swindles, Ian T. Lawson, Ian P. Matthews, Maarten Blaauw, more

Earth-Science Reviews > 2013 > 126 > Complete > 300-320

We examine mid- to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is apparent in the proxy data and significant chronological uncertainties are present. However, tephra layers provide a robust tool for correlation and improve the chronological precision of the records. Although we can...

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Unregulated private wells in the Republic of Ireland: Consumer awareness, source susceptibility and protective actions

Paul D. Hynds, Bruce D. Misstear, Laurence W. Gill, P.D. Hynds, more

Journal of Environmental Management > 2013 > 127 > Complete > 278-288

While the safety of public drinking water supplies in the Republic of Ireland is governed and monitored at both local and national levels, there are currently no legislative tools in place relating to private supplies. It is therefore paramount that private well owners (and users) be aware of source specifications and potential contamination risks, to ensure adequate water quality. The objective of...

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Abortion Referendums: Is There a Recipe for Success?

Nanuli Silagadze

Politics & Policy > 49 > 2 > 352 - 389

The topic of abortion has been among the most salient and polarizing issues on the European continent since the 1960s. However, abortion referendums have not received much attention from political scientists—to date, there is no comparative analysis of such popular votes. This article goes beyond the usual models of single case/country analyses and examines nationwide referendums on this policy in...

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A Pleistocene deposit preserved in deep karst at Coolough, County Galway, western Ireland

Megan J. Dolan, Bryan A. McCabe, Karen Molloy, John Murray, more

Geological Journal > 56 > 4 > 1897 - 1910

Buried karst features result from a complex interplay between carbonate bedrock and structural geology. The enhancement of carbonate aquifers through this interplay creates hydrogeologically complex subsurface drainage networks and highly variable surface topographies. This article reports on the sediment fill and fossil pollen record from a large enclosed negative karst landform at Coolough, near...

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THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE, BIBLICAL CRITICISM, AND THE FUNDAMENTALS

Stuart Mathieson

Zygon® > 56 > 1 > 254 - 274

The Victoria Institute was established in London in 1865. Although billed as an anti‐evolutionary organization, and stridently anti‐Darwinian in its rhetoric, it spent relatively little time debating the theory of natural selection. Instead, it served as a haven for a specific set of intellectual commitments. Most important among these was the Baconian scientific methodology, which prized empiricism...

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Common‐pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852

Eoin Flaherty

Journal of Agrarian Change > 21 > 2 > 285 - 312

This paper deals with two principal questions, drawing closely on the experience of Ireland. First, it addresses a deficit in our knowledge of resource governance institutions and land tenure systems as moderators of the impact of famine. We have known for some time of the extent of common‐pool resource systems in districts of 19th‐century Ireland and wider Europe, but their role in determining levels...

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Spatializing immigrant integration outcomes

Mary Gilmartin, Jennifer Dagg

Population, Space and Place > 27 > 2 > n/a - n/a

Measurements of immigrant integration outcomes generally occur at the national scale and, to a lesser extent, at the urban scale. This paper argues that immigrant integration outcomes should be measured at other scales in order to better understand how the process of integration is affected by where people live. It uses existing large‐scale data sets for the Republic of Ireland to show differences...

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Establishment of sentinel surveillance of human clinical campylobacteriosis in Ireland

Carina Brehony, Donal Lanigan, Anne Carroll, Eleanor McNamara

Zoonoses and Public Health > 68 > 2 > 121 - 130

The aim of this work was the establishment of a national laboratory sentinel surveillance service for human clinical Campylobacter in Ireland. This included detailed genomic molecular epidemiology of Campylobacter for 2019. For February‐December 2019, 24 clinical microbiology laboratories in Ireland submitted all PCR/culture‐positive clinical Campylobacter spp. specimens to Public Health Laboratory...

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Challenges to Habitus: Scruffy Hedges and Weeds in the Irish Countryside

Louise Burns

Sociologia Ruralis > 61 > 1 > 2 - 25

It is established that, in many countries, farmers recognise displayed tidiness in farming practice as indicative of ‘good’ farming. This paper asks whether Irish farmers share this recognition, and considers how this may affect uptake of agri‐environmental schemes and the potential for alterations in farming practices associated with such schemes to become ‘culturally embedded’. Taking a Bourdieusian...

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We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system

Joe Whelan

Social Policy & Administration > 55 > 1 > 34 - 50

Conditionality has arguably always been part of welfare and poor relief regimes dating at least as far back as the poor laws and the condition of less eligibility. Nevertheless, there has arguably been a more pronounced turn towards welfare conditionality in the latter part of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries and this appears to be continuing across jurisdictions largely unabated and despite...

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Precipitation trends in the island of Ireland using a dense, homogenized, observational dataset

Peter Domonkos, John Coll, José Guijarro, Mary Curley, more

International Journal of Climatology > 40 > 15 > 6458 - 6472

A dense monthly precipitation dataset of Ireland and Northern Ireland was homogenized with several modern homogenization methods. The efficiency of these homogenizations was tested by examining the similarity of homogenization results both in the real data homogenization and in the homogenization of a simulated dataset. The analysis of homogenization results shows that the real dataset is characterized...

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Application of homogenization methods for Ireland's monthly precipitation records: Comparison of break detection results

John Coll, Peter Domonkos, José Guijarro, Mary Curley, more

International Journal of Climatology > 40 > 14 > 6169 - 6188

Time series homogenization for 299 of the available precipitation records for the island of Ireland (IENet) was performed. Four modern relative homogenization methods, that is, HOMER, ACMANT, CLIMATOL and AHOPS were applied to this network of station series where contiguous intact monthly records range from 30 to 70 years within the base period 1941–2010. Break detection results are compared between...

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The forgotten drought of 1765–1768: Reconstructing and re‐evaluating historical droughts in the British and Irish Isles

Conor Murphy, Robert L. Wilby, Tom Matthews, Csaba Horvath, more

International Journal of Climatology > 40 > 12 > 5329 - 5351

Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we analyse some of the longest available precipitation records globally, for England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. To assess the credibility of these records and extend them further...

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Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today

Ela Drążkiewicz, Thomas Strong, Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Hugh Turpin, more

Social Anthropology > 28 > 3 > 561 - 584

In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this...

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Enduring psychological impact of childhood cancer on survivors and their families in Ireland: A national qualitative study

Peter M. Barrett, Louise Mullen, Triona McCarthy

European Journal of Cancer Care > 29 > 5 > n/a - n/a

Objective To establish the major expressed psychological needs of adult survivors of childhood cancer living in Ireland. Methods Seven focus groups were conducted with adult survivors of childhood cancer and their parents in 2018. Survivors were invited to participate if they were diagnosed with cancer before age 18. Results Thirty‐three participants (15 survivors, 18 parents; 27 female, 6 male)...

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Relationship between multidimensional prognostic index and incident depressive symptoms in older people: Findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Nicola Veronese, Ai Koyanagi, Lee Smith, Marco Solmi, more

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry > 35 > 10 > 1097 - 1104

Objectives The multidimensional prognostic index (MPI) is a useful prognostic tool for evaluating adverse health outcomes in older individuals. However, the association between MPI and depressive symptoms has never been explored, despite depression being a common condition in older people. We therefore aimed to evaluate whether MPI may predict incident depressive symptoms. Methods Longitudinal,...

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Transnational mobility desires and discourses: Young people from return‐migrant families negotiate intergenerationality, mobility capital, and place embeddedness

Caitríona Ní Laoire

Population, Space and Place > 26 > 6 > n/a - n/a

A longitudinal and intergenerational perspective opens up possibilities of novel insights into the socio‐spatial practices and relations that constitute, and generate, transnational youth im/mobilities. This paper draws on research conducted over 10 years with young adults who had migrated to Ireland as children with their return‐migrant parents during the Celtic Tiger period. It explores how, as...

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Monetary regimes, the term structure and business cycles in Ireland, 1972–2018

Rebecca Stuart

The Manchester School > 88 > 5 > 731 - 748

The literature emphasizes the role of monetary policy for the term structure's ability to predict business cycles. Between 1972 and 2018, Ireland experienced three monetary regimes: first, the Irish Pound was fixed to Sterling (1972–1979); second the Pound floated in a band when Ireland was a member of EMS (1979–1998); and third, as a member of the euro area (1999–2018). Using dynamic probit models...

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Alternatywne ordynacje wyborcze. Przykład Australii i Irlandii

A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

Unregulated private wells in the Republic of Ireland: Consumer awareness, source susceptibility and protective actions

Abortion Referendums: Is There a Recipe for Success?

A Pleistocene deposit preserved in deep karst at Coolough, County Galway, western Ireland

THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE, BIBLICAL CRITICISM, AND THE FUNDAMENTALS

Common‐pool resource governance and uneven food security: Regional resilience during the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852

Spatializing immigrant integration outcomes

Establishment of sentinel surveillance of human clinical campylobacteriosis in Ireland

Challenges to Habitus: Scruffy Hedges and Weeds in the Irish Countryside

We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system

Precipitation trends in the island of Ireland using a dense, homogenized, observational dataset

Application of homogenization methods for Ireland's monthly precipitation records: Comparison of break detection results

The forgotten drought of 1765–1768: Reconstructing and re‐evaluating historical droughts in the British and Irish Isles

Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today

Enduring psychological impact of childhood cancer on survivors and their families in Ireland: A national qualitative study

Relationship between multidimensional prognostic index and incident depressive symptoms in older people: Findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Transnational mobility desires and discourses: Young people from return‐migrant families negotiate intergenerationality, mobility capital, and place embeddedness

Monetary regimes, the term structure and business cycles in Ireland, 1972–2018

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