Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University, 1939. / Bibliography: p. 200-211.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University College, London). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-277) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [314]-320).

Based on the author's Thesis (Ph. D.--University College, London). / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-277) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Ian Christopher Fletcher, committee chair; Wendy Hamand Venet, committee member. Electronic text (131 p.). Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-131).

The impulse to develop an effective method of intervention for conduct disorder arose through practice experience. As a social worker based in a special school for children with severe emotional and behavioural problems between 1986 and 1995, I had responsibility for working with the child in the famiIy context. My clinical impression was that behavioural gains in the school setting were not transferred to the home setting, where parents of conduct-problem children reported that they continued to find the child’s behaviour unmanageable. This was confirmed by Fitzgerald, Butler, and Kinsella (1990) who found that parents having a child who was placed in a special school reported with frustration that they were not taught how to manage their child in the home setting. I shared their frustration, because it was evident that these children were usually manageable in the school setting. Generic social work training and post-qualifying training in family therapy did not however, provide the means to intervene effectively with the child’s behaviour in the home setting. I hope that this research will encourage the introduction of behavioural social work practice in Ireland, and that by doing so, it will broaden the practice options which are currently available to social workers. I also hope that the introduction of behavioural methods will lead, not to further paradigm wars, but to the necessary respect for diversity which emerges when social work is considered in a European context: The diversity of social work approaches which, despite all efforts at international harmonisation has not been levelled to one standard norm, might turn out to be one of the professions greatest assets in facing up to the diversity of the newly emerging welfare scenario (Lorenz, 1994, p. 181).

Speleothems (cave calcite) provide many different proxy indicators for palaeoclimatic changes during the Quaternary era. Generally, the occurrence of growing speleothems is a strong proxy for global palaeoclimate, both geographically and through time. A database of speleothem U-Th ages shows some evidence for an early transition from the penultimate glacial to the last interglacial at -140 Ka BP. The database suggests an age of 63 Ka BP for the maximum cold period within isotope stage 4. Isotope stage 3 contains three periods of increased number of growing speleothems, at 40,50 and 56 Ka BP mainly in low latitude caves. The start of growth, growth rate, oxygen isotopes, carbon isotopes and luminescence intensity in two speleothems from southern Ireland provide high-resolution records of rapid palaeoclimate changes in that region during the Late Glacial. Several of these palaeoclimate proxies appear to be linked. The Younger Dryas (YO) cold event is dated at between 12.5 and 11.4 Ka BP in both speleothem records. The dominant agent of palaeoclimatic variation during the YD is probably changes in North Atlantic ocean circulation. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is developed as a means of rapidly converting between 14C and calendar years and vice versa.

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Supervision of sexual offenders can only work to reduce risk when it monitors and addresses factors related to both general and sexual recidivism. It is well known that many sexual offenders commit other types of offences, such as violent and general offending, but other types of offenders rarely commit sexual offences (Hanson & Bussiere, 1998). It is therefore necessary to distinguish sexual offenders from other offenders when we study the different recidivism types, and the key risk factors for the prediction of any reoffending. This study assessed the predictive utility of several commonly used psychometrics in Northern Ireland, namely the Stable and Acute 2007, Risk Matrix 2000, and the STEP battery. Risk assessments were collected from a sample of 325 participants each of whom had been convicted of a sexual offence in Northern Ireland. The data is archival, sourced from risk assessments and psychometrics conducted on offenders subject to supervision under the Public Protection Arrangements for Northern Ireland (PPANI) between 2008 and 2010. Overall levels of risk and individual risk factors as measured by these instruments were compared to rates of reoffending. A number of salient individual factors were identified from the sample, such as capacity for relationship stability, sexual deviancy, rejection of supervision and victim access, which links to distinguishing typologies of offending in sexual offenders supervised within the Public Protection Arrangements for N. Ireland (PPANI). While it was not possible to statistically link individual factors 9 to re-offending rates, results indicated that overall risk levels obtained by all three assessment tools have predictive utility in relation to non-sexual offending and breaches of probation conditions or licensing. Statistical analysis of sexual re-offending was not possible due to the small number of such offences within this sample. Findings from this study have both strategic and practical implications for the management of sexual offenders in N. Ireland. The main findings were that all three instruments predicted offending behaviour, breaches of probation, or breaches of licence. Recommendations and directions to inform future policy and practice are outlined in the Discussion Section.

The main objective of this thesis was to determine how and why peat fails with the aim of reducing the threat caused by this and also for prevention of the occurrence. Peat is a very common soil in both the UK and Ireland so knowing how it fails and how to prevent it is hugely beneficial. To do this three seperate case studies where analysised, all located in Ireland but in different areas, to see if the failure methods had any similarities or differences that could be linked together. The main finding was that therewas not one sole causal factor for all peat slides but instead a combination of different factors; although some factors are more influential than others for example rainfall. A number of solutions where put forward such as a drainage system for the peat slopes and while they are limited, due to most of the factors being of natural origin, they have the potential to reduce the likelihood and frequnecy of failures if properly implemented.