This article explores how Ireland, a country whose history was dominated by emigration, found a place on the global sporting map. The article traces the spread of the global Irish and argues that the tradition of the Irish abroad was to assimilate through sport rather than seek sporting exclusivity. The complexity surrounding Irish and diaspora identities is illustrated through an examination of Irish sporting involvement in international events. The article moves on to discuss how recent trends of inward migration have affected the Irish sporting stage. It shows how rugby, a game of recent professionalism, brought the first sporting imports to Ireland, and how these individuals were culturally repositioned as local rather than immigrant. The article closes by arguing that while the ‘new’ Irish are being assimilated by being included in traditional, indigenous Irish sports, the same process has not been apparent, in the years of the Northern Ireland peace process, with respect to the Unionist and Protestant community
We present the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) portal to answer the research community’s need for flexible data sharing resources and provide advanced tools for search and processing infrastructure capacity. This portal differs from previous data sharing projects as it integrates datasets originating from a number of already existing platforms or databases through DataLad, a file level data integrity and access layer. The portal is also an entry point for searching and accessing a large number of standardized and containerized software and links to a computing infrastructure. It leverages community standards to help document and facilitate reuse of both datasets and tools, and already shows a growing community adoption giving access to more than 60 neuroscience datasets and over 70 tools. The CONP portal demonstrates the feasibility and offers a model of a distributed data and tool management system across 17 institutions throughout Canada.
Motivated by studies on a type of brain injury known as diffuse axonal injury, the dynamic azimuthal shearing of a mixture of a transversely isotropic viscoelastic material which is surrounded by a softer isotropic viscoelastic material is considered. It is demonstrated how the states of maximum strain and strain rate occur near the interface between the two materials. The dependency of these states of maximum strain and strain rate on the boundary conditions on the outer surface of the isotropic material is also discussed.
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