Items where Year is 2006

Armstrong, Andrew, Beesley, Steven and Grecos, Christos (2006) Selection of Initial Quantisation Parameter for Rate Controlled 1.264 video coding. In: 2006 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. IEEE, pp. 249-252. ISBN 1424401577

Arus, Carles, Celda, Bernardo, Dasmahaptra, Srinandan, Dupplaw, David, González-Vélez, Horacio, Van Huffel, Sabine, Lluch i. Ariet, Magi , Mier, Mariola, Peet, Andrew and Robles, Montserrat (2006) On the Design of a Web-Based Decision Support System for Brain Tumour Diagnosis Using Distributed Agents. In: 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, 2006. WI-IAT 2006 Workshops. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 208-211. ISBN 0769527493

Bane, Deirdre and Rigg, Clare (2006) Policies for stimulating knowledge-based start-ups/microenterprises in rural Ireland. In: 29th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference 2006: International Entrepreneurship - from local to global enterprise creation and development, 31st October - 2nd November 2006, Cardiff-Caerdydd, UK. (Submitted)

Bane, Deirdre and Rigg, Clare (2006) Rural microbusiness transition to SMEs - challenges for Irish policymakers. In: 29th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference 2006: International Entrepreneurship - from local to global enterprise creation and development, 31st October - 2nd November 2006, Cardiff-Caerdydd, UK. (Submitted)

Barone, Gaia (2006) Target the Two. In: Research Paper, May 2006. (Submitted)

Beesley, Steven, Armstrong, Andrew and Grecos, Christos (2006) An Edge Preserving Spatial Error Concealment Technique for the H.264 Video Coding Standard. In: 2006 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. IEEE, pp. 113-116. ISBN 1424401577

Beesley, Steven T. C., Armstrong, Andrew J., Grecos, Christos and Parish, David J. (2006) Concealment driven bit rate reduction using the H.264 video coding standard. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6074. p. 607403. ISSN 0277-786X

Billings, Jennifer (2006) An exploration of the experience of ethnic minority applicants in a recruitment and selection process to An Garda Síochána. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Buckley, Mary, Nolan, Alison and Doyle, Stephanie (2006) Blended Learning and SME’s: the Challenge for NCI Library: USB Key as a Learning Tool. Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing, EC-TEL 2006 Workshops Proceedings, 213. pp. 4-9. ISSN 1613-0073

Chen, Li-hui and Grecos, Christos (2006) A fast eye detector using corners, color, and edges. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6063. 60630A. ISSN 0277-786X

Chen, Lihui, Grecos, Christos and Yang, Ming Yuan (2006) Reduced complexity Eye Detector for colour images using Harris Corners, Color heuristics and Edge maps. In: 2006 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. IEEE, pp. 245-248. ISBN 1424401577

Cocea, Mihaela and Weibelzahl, Stephan (2006) Motivation - Included or excluded from e-Learning. In: IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, 8-10 December 2006, Barcelona.

Collins-Hughes, Edward Robert (2006) E-learning with Chinese learners, west meets east. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Collins-Hughes, Edward Robert and Pathak, Pramod (2006) E-Learning with Chinese learners. In: AISHE Conference 2006 : Creating and Sustaining an Effective Learning Environment, 31 August & 1 September 2006, NUI Maynooth.

Collins-Hughes, Edward Robert and Pathak, Pramod (2006) E-Learning with Chinese learners: West meets East. In: EdTech 2006: 7th Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, 25-26 May 2006, Institute of Technology Sligo.

Collins-Hughes, Edward Robert and Pathak, Pramod (2006) E-learning with Chinese learners: A model for Western service providers in this important marketplace. In: Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA, pp. 1603-1610. ISBN 9781880094600

Conway, Mary (2006) Family Friendly Work Arrangements: An inquiry into the provision, range and benefits of family friendly work arrangements that exceed the statutory minimum and which aim to assist employees to merge employment with their personal life (within public, private, semi-state & voluntary sector companies). Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Darcy, Colette and Garavan, Thomas, N. (2006) Unfair Dismissal - Insights into the Employee's Experience of the Employment Appeals Tribunal. In: Irish Academy of Management Conference, 6th-8th September 2006, University College Cork, Ireland. (Submitted)

Darcy, Colette and McCarthy, Alma (2006) Work Family Conflict: An Examination of the Differential Effects of a Dependent Child's Age on Working Parents. In: Irish Academy of Management Conference, 6th-8th September 2006, University College Cork, Ireland. (Submitted)

Delgado, Carla and González-Vélez, Horacio (2006) Content Management and Collaboration for Biomedical Sciences : The HealthAgents Case. In: IADIS International Conference, 5th October 2006, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain. (Submitted)

Doheny, Damien (2006) Blended Learning: An Adaptive Generic Formula. Masters thesis, National College of Ireland.

Eustace, Melanie (2006) An Examination of the Key Success Factors of Family Business in Succession in Ireland. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Fitzgerald, Helen (2006) What is the Role of the HR Function in Irish Industry today? A view from the HR Professional. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Foley, Regina (2006) Using the Employment Relationship as a Tool to Improve Organisational Effectiveness. Undergraduate thesis, National College of Ireland.

Fu, Rao (2006) AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) for Online Chinese Language Learning Assessment. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Gargan, Eric (2006) An exploration of the attitudes of staff in the clerical officer to assistant principal grades to the Performance Management and Development System in the Department of Finance. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Gilligan, Barbara (2006) Against the backdrop of globalisation, outsourcing and changing work practices what is the future for the independent management consultant? Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

González-Vélez, Horacio (2006) Self-adaptive skeletal task farm for computational grids. Parallel Computing, 32 (7-8). pp. 479-490. ISSN 0167-8191

González-Vélez, Horacio and Cole, Murray (2006) Towards Fully Adaptive Pipeline Parallelism for Heterogeneous Distributed Environments. In: Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4330). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 916-926. ISBN 9783540680703

Grecos, Christos and Yang, Mingyuan (2006) Fast Mode Prediction for the Baseline and Main Profiles in the H.264 Video Coding Standard. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 8 (6). pp. 1125-1134. ISSN 1941-0077

Hanly, Paul and Wade, Garret (2006) A country-of-origin analysis of tourist expenditure: The case of Ireland. In: Second International Conference on Tourism Economics, 18-20 May 2006, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. (Submitted)

Hayes, Paul, Janetzko, Dietmar and Hall, Timothy (2006) On the Role of Mobile Scaffolding in Learning. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: Applications, Technology and Social Issues (ICUC). CEUR-WS.org, pp. 129-133.

Hayes, Paul and Rovcanin, Lejla (2006) Mobile Technologies Supporting Undergraduate Students. In: EdTech 2006: 7th Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, 25-26 May 2006, Institute of Technology Sligo. (Submitted)

Hill, Jimmy, Antonacopoulou, Elena and Patterson, Anthony (2006) Reflecting on Entrepreneurial Teaching Practices that Make a Difference: Developing Theory from Pedagogical Scholarship. In: Chicago Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, August 2006, University of Illinois, Chicago. (Submitted)

Hill, Jimmy and Patterson, Anthony (2006) Interpreting the Entrepreneurial Interview: Using Semiotic Analysis and Structuralism to Enrich Understanding of Complex Enterpreneurial Texts. In: Chicago Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, August 2006, University of Illinois, Chicago. (Submitted)

Hill, Jimmy, Patterson, Anthony and Hodgson, Julia (2006) From McDonaldization to MacDonnellisation: Internationalism and the Entrepreneurial Irish Pub. In: McGill Entrepreneurship Conference Series, 2006, Montreal, Canada. (Submitted)

Hill, Jimmy, Wright, D and Shehabuddeen, N (2006) Practical Methodologies for Managing and Increasing Innovation in an SME Environment. In: International Conference on Small Businesses, 8th West Lake International Conference, October 2006, Hangzhou, China. (Submitted)

Hurley, Teresa (2006) Intervention Strategies to Increase Self-efficacy and Self-regulation in Adaptive On-Line Learning. In: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4018). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 440-444. ISBN 9783540346975

Joyce, David and Weibelzahl, Stephan (2006) Text messaging as a means to lowering barriers to help-seeking in students with depression. In: International Association for Development of Information Society (IADIS) International Conference e-Society 2006, 13–16 July 2006, Dublin.

Kelly, Declan and Weibelzahl, Stephan (2006) Raising Confidence Levels Using Motivational Contingency Design Techniques. In: Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4053). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 535-544. ISBN 9783540351603

Kelly, Michelle E. and Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne (2006) Faking implicit attitudes: Exploring the robustness of the implicit relational assessment procedure. In: 28th Annual Congress of Psychology Students of Ireland, 7th-8th April 2006, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. (Submitted)

Kelly, Sorcha (2006) The effect of absenteeism and its relationship with employee motivation and culture in the workplace. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Lahart, Orla, Kelly, Declan and Tangney, Brendan (2006) P.A.C.T. – Scaffolding Best Practice in Home Tutoring. In: Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4053). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 615-624. ISBN 9783540351603

Lahart, Orla, Kelly, Declan and Tangney, Brendan (2006) Talent Education Principles in Higher Education. In: AISHE Conference 2006 : Creating and Sustaining an Effective Learning Environment, 31 August & 1 September 2006, NUI Maynooth.

Lambert, Jonathan (2006) Ehrhart Polynomials in Symbolic Execution. In: Postgraduate Seminar Series, 22nd November 2006, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. (Submitted)

Lambert, Jonathan (2006) Queueing Theory, A Primer. In: Postgraduate Seminar Series, 12th April 2006, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. (Submitted)

Lynch, Jeremiah (2006) An exploratory study of the likely cultural impact of the Information and Consultation Directive 2002, on Irish-based, US multinationals. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Maguire, Phil, Cater, Arthur W. S. and Maguire, Rebecca (2006) The role of experience in the interpretation of noun–noun combinations. Artificial Intelligence Review, 25 (1-2). pp. 139-160. ISSN 1573-7462

Maguire, Rebecca, Costello, Fintan and Keane, Mark (2006) A cognitive model of surprise judgements. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 531-536.

Maguire, Rebecca and Keane, Mark (2006) Surprise: Disconfirmed expectations or representation-fit? In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 1765-1770.

Maher, Elaine (2006) Towards a Pedagogically Sound Research Framework for eLearning in Higher Education. In: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2006.

Maher, Elaine and Pathak, Pramod (2006) A model for empowering web-based communities through the digital educational repository paradigm. International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), 2 (3). pp. 273-284. ISSN 1477-8394

Maher, Elaine, Pathak, Pramod and Cooke, Mary (2006) Investigation of the awareness, Role and Future of Digital Libraries in an educational context. In: Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA, pp. 1674-1679. ISBN 9781880094600

Maycock, Keith (2006) Prototype of a learning component to maximise learning experiences. In: Departmental Seminar, 13th December 2006, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Maycock, Keith, Jyothi, Sujana and Keating, John (2006) Dynamic Profiling to Enhance Learning and Reduce Cognitive Load on each Learner. In: WEBIST 2006, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies: Society, e-Business and e-Government / e-Learning. INSTICC Press, pp. 287-292. ISBN 978-972-8865-47-4

Maycock, Keith and Keating, John (2006) An Analytical Model for the Approximation of a Learner’s Performance Prior to Conducting a Learning Experience. In: 13th International Conference on Learning, 22nd-25th June 2006, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Maycock, Keith and Keating, John (2006) Bringing e-learning into an on-demand framework. In: Postgraduate Day, 1 March 2006, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Maycock, Keith and Keating, John (2006) The Importance of Structure within an Adaptive Profile. WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, 3 (1). pp. 8-15. ISSN 2224-3410

McCabe, Thomas, J. (2006) Culture Clash- New Management Versus Professional Groups: The Challenge of Managing Professional Groups. People Focus, 4 (2).

McCabe, Thomas, J. (2006) Recent Changes in Irish Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. People Focus, 4 (3).

McCabe, Thomas, J. (2006) A Study of Trust Amongst Professional Nursing Staff and Management in National Health Service Organisations. In: Ninth Annual Conference of Irish Academy of Management, 6-8 September 2006, University College Cork. (Submitted)

McGann, Clement (2006) Answering Challenges Enhances Learning : Investigation of the performance improvement of software developers resulting from the deployment of the Inner Workings Developer practice-based learning system. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

McGovern, Philip (2006) Learning Networks as an Aid to Developing Strategic Capability among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Case Study from the Irish Polymer Industry. Journal Of Small Business Management, 44 (2). pp. 302-305. ISSN 1540-627X

McLaughlin, Colette (2006) The Reinsurance Industry's increased resilience to Catastrophic Events from a Financial Security Perspective. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

McNicholas, Dwayne (2006) An Examination of the Relationship Between Credit Default Swaps and Equity Prices. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Mitchell, Dorothy (2006) Work life balance for women in age group 25 - 40, is it achievable? Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Moebs, Sabine and Weibelzahl, Stephan (2006) Towards a Good Mix in Blended Learning for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises – Outline of a Delphi Study. In: Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4227). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 10-17. ISBN 9783540457770

Muntean, Cristina Hava and McManis, Jennifer (2006) End-User Quality of Experience Oriented Adaptive E-learning System. Journal of Digital Information, 7 (1). ISSN 1368-7506

Muntean, Cristina Hava and McManis, Jennifer (2006) Fine grained content-based adaptation mechanism for providing high end-user quality of experience with adaptive hypermedia systems. In: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web. ACM, New York, pp. 53-62. ISBN 1595933239

Muntean, Cristina Hava and McManis, Jennifer (2006) The Value of QoE-Based Adaptation Approach in Educational Hypermedia: Empirical Evaluation. In: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4018). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 121-130. ISBN 9783540346975

Muntean, Cristina Hava, McManis, Jennifer and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) Improving the performance of content delivery in web-based information systems. In: IEEE International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06), 18-19 October 2006, HangZhou, China.

Muntean, Cristina Hava and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) Cost/We-Learn : A Cost-oriented algorithm for educational content selection and delivery to devices with multiple wireless connectivity. In: IEEE 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2006), 9-12 May 2006, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal.

Muntean, Cristina Hava and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) Cost–Oriented Selection and Delivery of e-Content over Various Wireless Networks. In: IEEE International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications, 13-16 March 2006, Sydney, Australia.

Muntean, Cristina Hava and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) Framework for Interactive Personalised IPTV for Entertainment. In: 15th W3C International World Wide Web Conference, Workshop on IPTV Services over World Wide Web, 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh.

Muntean, Cristina Hava and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) User budget-centric e-learning in multiple wireless network environment. In: 7th International Conference on Technical Informatics, 8-9 June 2006, Timisoara, Romania.

Muntean, Cristina Hava, Muntean, Gabriel-Miro, McManis, Jennifer and Cristea, Alexandra I. (2006) Authoring Model for Quality of Experience-aware Adaptive Hypermedia Systems. In: 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), A3EH: the 4th International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia, 21-23 June 2006, Dublin.

Murphy, Siobhán (2006) Does Leadership Influence Organisational Culture: A Case Study. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

O'Carroll, Mary (2006) Putty in Their Hands: Case Studies on Claymation in Two Irish Classes. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

O'Loughlin, Eugene (2006) Evaluation and Assessment of Blogs and Discussion Boards in On-line Education. In: EdTech 2006: 7th Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, 25-26 May 2006, Institute of Technology Sligo.

O'Loughlin, Eugene and Kelly, Declan (2006) Using Teaching Vignettes for Staff Development. In: AISHE Conference 2006 : Creating and Sustaining an Effective Learning Environment, 31 August & 1 September 2006, NUI Maynooth.

O'Sullivan, Neil (2006) The effectiveness of Podcasts when used in a Fifth Year Higher Leaving Certificate Mathematics class and a Junior Certificate Learning Support class. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Oke, Meera (2006) Which developmental science is appropriate for developing countries? In: 19th ISSBD Biennial Meeting, July 2006, Melbourne, Australia. (Submitted)

Page, Andrew J. , Coyle, Shirley, Keane, Thomas M. , Naughton, Thomas J. , Markham, Charles and Ward, Tomás (2006) Distributed Monte Carlo simulation of light transportation in tissue. In: Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 1424400546

Quill, Caroline M. (2006) Reward management in the Irish civil service. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Rovcanin, Lejla, Muntean, Cristina Hava and Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (2006) Performance Enhancement for Open Corpus Adaptive Hypermedia Systems. In: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4018). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 462-466. ISBN 9783540346975

Ryan, Michael J. (2006) An Investigation to Assess the Implications of the 2005 Health Safety and Welfare Act on Middle Managers within Deice Crystal. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Stynes, Paul and Conlan, Owen (2006) Architectural framework for the composition and delivery of adaptive educational support services. In: Fourth International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), 20 June 2006, Dublin.

Stynes, Paul and Weibelzahl, Stephan (2006) Effects of immediate feedback on motivation in a technology-enabled studio classroom. In: EdTech 2006: 7th Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, 25-26 May 2006, Institute of Technology Sligo.

Weibelzahl, Stephan, Jedlitschka, Andreas and Ayari, Brahim (2006) Eliciting Requirements for a Adaptive Decision Support System through Structured User Interviews. In: AH’06 , 20-23 June 2006, Dublin.

Whitston, Colin (2006) James Connolly and Trade Unionism - The struggle for an independent working class politics. In: Irish Labour History Society, 2006, Dublin.

Wickstone, Ken (2006) An enquiry into the use of interactive concept maps in mathematics. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Wu, Zheng (2006) Sun Tzu, a Top Investor? : Study of Sun Tzu's Art of War as Applied to Investing. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

Yang, Ming Yuan and Grecos, Christos (2006) A framework for fast mode decision in the H264 video coding standard. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6077. 60771J. ISSN 0277-786X

Yang, Ming Yuan, Grecos, Christos and Chen, Lihui (2006) Reduced Computation Mode decision using Error Domain heuristics for the H264 standard. In: 2006 Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. IEEE, pp. 117-120. ISBN 1424401577