The National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) is internationally recognised for quality and value of our research and scholarship and our dedication and commitment to teaching and our students.
While formally established as an autonomous university in 1997, NUI Maynooth traces its origins to the foundation of the Royal College of St.Patrick in 1795, drawing inspiration from a heritage that includes over 200 years of education and scholarship. The University is a place of lively contrasts. It is a modern institution, dynamic, rapidly-growing, research-led and engaged, yet grounded in historic academic strengths and scholarly traditions.
The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences form the academic and intellectual core of the University, complemented by strong departments and programmes in teacher education, computer science and electronic engineering, business and law.
Insurance companies are paying out hefty claims due to COVID-19. Here's how catastrophe bonds come into play.
À ce jour, 648 « cat bonds » ont été émis depuis 1997. Un chiffre qui pourrait décoller avec la crise sanitaire actuelle.
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Le contexte favorise l’intérêt pour ces produits financiers, controversés, qui fournissent une protection en cas de catastrophe majeure en échange d’une rémunération souvent élevée.
Melbourne is powered by the coal-fired stations of Gippsland, which illustrates the problems with any urban strategy that neglects regional roles and interests.
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City-centric thinking arguably obscures connections between 'humans' and 'nature', and 'urban' and 'rural' or 'wild'. Growing evidence of the depths of these links is testing the concept of 'urban'.
Don’t understand? Do a bit of brain training.
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Bryan Roche, National University of Ireland Maynooth
A recent article in The Conversation by Emma Blakey addressed a widespread concern about exaggerated claims made by developers of brain training products. Blakey correctly pointed out that the evidence…
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Bryan Roche, National University of Ireland Maynooth
We’re getting more stupid. That’s one point made in a recent article in the New Scientist, reporting on a gradual decline in IQs in developed countries such as the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. Such…