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The path to success: A study of user behaviour and success criteria in online communities
(ACM, 2017-08-23)Maintaining online communities is vital in order to increase and retain their economic and social value. That is why community managers look to gauge the success of their communities by measuring a variety of user behaviour, ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Working with families, a review of the literature on parental participation
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A case study of collecting dynamic social data: The pro-ana twitter community
(Australian National University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, 2015)The study of social processes in on-line social media content is a relatively new and rapidly growing endeavour. Many social media platforms provide a public API (Application Programming Interface) which can be used for ... -
Enhancing family support in practice through postgraduate education
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-12-06)Family Support as a named orientation is a relatively new concept in service provision for children and their families in the Republic of Ireland. Notwithstanding this, there are a number of practitioners across a range ... -
An evaluation of the implementation of the induction of social workers: A policy and guidelines for children and families social services
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013-10)[No abstract available] -
Outcomes for permanence and stability for children in long-term care
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-04)The aim of this study was to explore how young people who have been in care, and their carers, conceptualise permanence and stability. This study focuses on outcomes for permanence and stability for children in long-term ... -
The role of open data in driving sustainable mobility in nine smart cities
(Association for Information Systems, 2017-06-05)In today’s era of globalization, sustainable mobility is considered as a key factor in the economic growth of any country. With the emergence of open data initiatives, there is tremendous potential to improve mobility. ... -
Non-partitioning merge-sort: Performance enhancement by elimination of division in divide-and-conquer algorithm
(ACM, 2016-03-04)The importance of a high performance sorting algorithm with low time complexity cannot be over stated. Several benchmark algorithms viz. Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Quick Sort, and Merge Sort, etc. have tried to achieve ... -
Analysing and improving embedded markup of learning resources on the web
(ACM, 2017-04-03)Web-scale reuse and interoperability of learning resources have been major concerns for the technology-enhanced learning community. While work in this area traditionally focused on learning resource metadata, provided ... -
Unsupervised learning for understanding student achievement in a distance learning setting
(IEEE, 2017-04-25)Many factors could affect the achievement of students in distance learning settings. Internal factors such as age, gender, previous education level and engagement in online learning activities can play an important role ... -
Measuring accuracy of triples in knowledge graphs
(Springer, 2017-06-19)An increasing amount of large-scale knowledge graphs have been constructed in recent years. Those graphs are often created from text-based extraction, which could be very noisy. So far, cleaning knowledge graphs are ... -
Challenges with image event processing: Poster
(ACM, 2017-06-19)There has been substantial research in the area of event processing where systems are focused on event processing of structured data. However, in the context of smart cities, signi cant number of realtime applications ... -
Improved edge detection algorithm for brain tumor segmentation
(Elsevier, 2015-08-21)Image segmentation is used to separate objects from the background, and thus it has proved to be a powerful tool in bio-medical imaging. In this paper, an Improved Edge Detection algorithm for brain-tumor segmentation is ... -
A critical analysis of the implementation of service user involvement in primary care research and health service development using normalization process theory
(Wiley, 2014-07-24)Background There have been recent important advances in conceptualizing and operationalizing involvement in health research and health-care service development. However, problems persist in the field that impact on the ... -
Early implementation of a family-centered practice model in child welfare: findings from an Irish study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-16)This article reports on the outcomes of a research study on the early implementation of a strengths-based family-centred model of practice in Ireland known as the Meitheal model. The paper aims to translate the key messages ... -
Tusla – Child and Family Agency research needs analysis report
(Tusla Child and Family Agency, 2016-10)The purpose of the Research Needs Analysis conducted on behalf of Tusla Ireland s Child and Family Agency is to respond to Tusla s Research Strategy specifically in terms of identifying and prioritising the research and ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Report of the parenting support champions regional learning group
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-07)This research is part of a study to examine the process, implementation and outcomes of the Parenting Support Champions Project, which is one element of the Parenting Support and Parental Participation work stream. This ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Parenting support champions questionnaire report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-07)The purpose of the research is to ascertain the expectations for the role of Parenting Support Champions (PSC) from those who have volunteered for the position. Reasons why respondents volunteered for the role of PSC, ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Parental participation survey report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-08)This research is part of a study to examine the extent to which parental participation is currently embedded in Irish organisations providing parenting support. The study is part of a wider programme of ... -
Parenting support and parental participation: Mapping parenting support in the Irish context
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-03)This study provides a mapping of parenting support service provision in Ireland. It outlines the policy context, the existing evidence base and is informed by the best available data. It details the delivery ...