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Empathy rules, maps and paths: A qualitative exploration of the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth
(Wiley, 2023-08-25)The aim of this study is to explore young people's perspectives on the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth. Qualitative focus groups (n = 29) were undertaken with Irish young ... -
Induced pluripotent stem cells in companion animals: how can we move the field forward?
(Frontiers Media, 2023-04-25)Following a one medicine approach, the development of regenerative therapies for human patients leads to innovative treatments for animals, while pre-clinical studies on animals provide knowledge to advance human medicine. ... -
Diagnosis of sheep fasciolosis caused by Fasciola hepatica using cathepsin L enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA)
(Elsevier, 2021-07-13)Fasciolosis, a global parasitic disease of agricultural livestock, is caused by the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica. Management and strategic control of fasciolosis on farms depends on early assessment of the extent of disease ... -
Communication to promote and support physical distancing for COVID‐19 prevention and control
(Cochrane Collaboration, 2023-10-09)This review is an update of a rapid review undertaken in 2020 to identify relevant, feasible and effective communication approaches to promote acceptance, uptake and adherence to physical distancing measures for COVID‐19 ... -
Activating social empathy: An evaluation of a school-based social and emotional learning programme
(Elsevier, 2024-01-06)Previous evidence suggests that empathy is important for promoting positive youth development, and there is growing advocacy for the inclusion of empathy education within the school system. However, knowledge about the ... -
Briefing note for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: `Historical' forced separation of unmarried mothers and children through adoption, `boarding out' Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, Magdalene Laundries and related practices and institutions
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An SRAM optimized approach for constant memory consumption and ultra-fast execution of ML classifiers on TinyML hardware
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-11-15)With the introduction of ultra-low-power machine learning (TinyML), IoT devices are becoming smarter as they are driven by Machine Learning (ML) models. However, any increase in the training data results in a linear ... -
Joint civil society submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission seeking a human rights-based public inquiry into the experiences of people in residential care during the Covid-19 pandemic and their relatives and staff carers - policy contribution
(Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway and Care Champions, 2023-02-22)[No abstract] -
CURED4NLG: A dataset for table-to-text generation
(University of Galway, 2023)We introduce CURED4NLG, a dataset for the task of table-to-text generation focusing on the public health domain. The dataset consists of 280 pairs of tables and documents extracted from weekly epidemiological reports ... -
Keeping the people's voice in power: Coalition statement on the Electoral Act
(Coalition for Civil Society Freedom, 2018)We are a coalition of civil society organisations working to influence public policy for the benefit of people living in Ireland. The Wheel is Ireland’s national association of community and voluntary organisations, ... -
Clann Project submission to the Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration on the General Scheme of a Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill
(Clann Project, 2022-05-05)[No abstract available] -
Future directions in managing aniridia-associated keratopathy
(Elsevier, 2023-05-04)Congenital aniridia is a panocular disorder that is typically characterized by iris hypoplasia and aniridia-associated keratopathy (AAK). AAK results in the progressive loss of corneal transparency and thereby loss of ... -
Co-selection of bacterial metal and antibiotic resistance in soil laboratory microcosms
(MDPI, 2023-04-18)Accumulation of heavy metals (HMs) in agricultural soil following the application of superphosphate fertilisers seems to induce resistance of soil bacteria to HMs and appears to co-select for resistance to antibiotics (Ab). ... -
EPIC in action, measuring entrepreneurial competencies in higher education
(Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23), 2023-06)Increasingly university programmes are introducing a range of experiential learning based programmes to support students to develop their entrepreneurial competencies during their time at university. This paper describes ... -
Assessing life design and evaluating its impact on the learning experience: A conceptual overview and emergent framework based on the Designing Futures Programme at University of Galway, Ireland
(University of Galway, 2023-06-14)In complex and challenging times, with the increasing imperative to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, comes the call for new pedagogical approaches, which move education from a transactional to a reciprocal ... -
Designing futures through student engagement: A policy futures perspective
(SAGE Publications, 2023-06-12)Futures research is gaining increased prominence in educational research and development (Tesar, 2021), and particularly now as we emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has provided a lever for change and an ... -
Children’s perceptions of the skills needed to ‘fit in’ when starting school
(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 2019)Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at an increased risk of experiencing lower levels of school readiness. Ready children are children who can navigate both the social and academic tasks and challenges of ... -
Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-05-26)While it is now widely acknowledged that child-rearing practices vary culturally, there has been little research or consideration on how cultural difference is experienced by Polish immigrant parents in Ireland. This paper ... -
Towards bootstrapping a chatbot on industrial heritage through term and relation extraction
(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022-11-20)We describe initial work in developing a methodology for the automatic generation of a conversational agent or ‘chatbot’ through term and relation extraction from a relevant corpus of language data. We develop our ... -
Intent classification by the use of automatically generated knowledge graphs
(MDPI, 2023-05-12)Intent classification is an essential task for goal-oriented dialogue systems for automatically identifying customers¿ goals. Although intent classification performs well in general settings, domain-specific user goals can ...