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Quantifying the Impact of Connection Policy on Distributed Generation
(2007)Increasing connections for distributed generation (DG), and in particular wind generation, are being sought in power systems across the world. These increased applications present a significant challenge to the existing ... -
Quantifying the total net benefits of grid integrated wind
(2007)Throughout the world significant development is being encouraged in wind energy for electricity generation. A complete cost benefit analysis has been conducted in this paper on the impacts of grid connected wind generation. ... -
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2010
(ESRI, 20/01/2011)The forecasts in this Commentary see GDP growing by 1? per cent in real terms in 2011 and by 2? per cent in 2012. The corresponding figures for GNP are ? per cent in 2011 and 1? per cent in 2012. Following the pattern ... -
Quine between Russell's extreme realism and Carnap's extreme relativism : a coherent alternative?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2006)In the philosophical literature of the past century few if any philosophers present a greater wealth of ideas or pose more important problems than W. V. Quine. In spite of the diversity of his contributions to philosophy, ... -
Radical minimalism and the possibility of a context-free semantics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)This thesis explores the nature of the distinction between two types of meaningful content associated with human language: context-free linguistic content and pragmatically enriched communicated content. -
Rapport Fagel-Bibliotheek
(2010-05-12)1962 report by Ernest Braches on the Fagel Collection pamphlets in 235 volumes identified in the the 1872 TCD Printed Catalogue -
Reality bytes : cyberterrorism and terrorist use of the Internet
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2006)The analysis contained herein treats the relationship between terrorism and the internet. Instead of treating cyberterrorism as the most important conjunction of terrorism and the Internet (as has been the tendency to ... -
The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts
(2018)This article argues that standard causal and functionalist definitions of realization fail to account for the realization of entities that cannot be individuated in causal or functional terms. By modifying such definitions ... -
Reciprocal Libertarianism
(2022)Reciprocal libertarianism is a version of left-wing libertarianism that combines self-ownership with an egalitarian distribution of resources according to reciprocity. In this paper I show that reciprocal libertarianism ... -
Reconsidering Identity: The ethnic and political dimensions of hybridity among majority and Turkish youth in Germany and England
(2009)Sociological research has hitherto largely focused on majority and minority ethnic identities or citizenship identities. However, the social connections between youth are not simply ethnic dynamics but also political ... -
Reflexivity, the dilemmas of identification and an ethnographic encounter in Northern Ireland
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Reframing the Irish Activation Debate: Accommodating Care and Safeguarding Social Rights and Choices
(Trinity College Dublin, 2008)Work activation is a phrase used to describe a policy objective of moving people of working age from a social welfare payment into paid employment. It uses the social welfare system proactively to support, encourage or ... -
Regional and Sectoral Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: An Application of FUND
(ESRI, 2011)The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates ... -
The Regional Dimension of the Unemployment Crisis
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The Relation between the What-It-Is and the Why-It-Is in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, On the Parts of Animals, and Metaphysics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)In this dissertation, I wish to examine the relation between the what-it-is and the why-it-is in Aristotle’s three treatises. The main conclusions I will defend in this thesis can be formulated as follows. In the Posterior ... -
Relations and Idealism
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A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies in Ireland
(Economic and Social Studies, 2009)Against a background of the Irish government?s concerns with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the British government?s wishes for a more quantitative Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), our study conducts a relative ... -
Relativism about truth : a critique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)This thesis examines John MacFarlane's attempt to make sense of relative truth, but concludes by rejecting the coherence of such an attempt, on the grounds that it fails to adequately address a problem that was posed by ... -
A reliabilist-teleological account of Plato's theory of knowledge based on the Timaeus, the Republic and the Theaetetus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)Whether, in Plato's epistemology, the Forms can be grasped without using the inferior epistemic capacities, and whether the inferior epistemic capacities contribute to one's grasp of F-ness and the Form F - These are the ...