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  • Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment 

    Newman, Carol (2020)
    Using a representative sample of more than 5,000 Vietnamese enterprises, we explore the firm-level productivity effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The data enables us to create 12 quantitative CSR measures, ...

  • Effect of the axial gap on the energy consumption of a single-blade wastewater pump 

    Meskell, Craig (2021)
    The effect of the axial gap on the energy consumption of a single-blade wastewater pump (Sulzer XFP PE-2 150E CB1.1) is assessed using URANS simulations with ANSYS Fluent. The numerical model was compared to experimental data ...

  • Efficiency in Northern Ireland hospitals: a non-parametric analysis 

    McKillop, Donal G.; Glass, J. Colin; Kerr, Christine A.; McCallion, Gillian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1999)
    The study examines the technical, scale and size efficiency of acute hospitals in Northern Ireland over the six-year period, 1986-1992. The efficiency estimates are used to investigate whether the empirical evidence supports ...

  • The Irish health system and the crisis: a case study in the struggle for the capacity of the Social State 

    Thomas, Stephen; Barry, Sarah; Johnston, Bridget; Burke, Sara (2018)
    Ireland’s health care system is a weak Beveridgean system with no entitlement to free care and substantial acute waiting lists. Just under half the population has voluntary private health insurance and there is a two-tier ...

  • Mitochondrial physiology. 

    Porter, Richard (2020)
    As the knowledge base and importance of mitochondrial physiology to human health expands, the necessity for harmonizing the terminology concerning mitochondrial respiratory states and rates has become increasingly apparent. ...

  • Technical change and efficiency in Irish agriculture 

    O'Neill, Suzanne; Matthews, Alan (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)
    This paper calculates average technical efficiency levels and rates of technical change for Irish agriculture using an unbalanced panel of 2,603 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1998. ...