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Dispersal mode and assessments of recovery on the shores of Gruinard, the 'anthrax island'.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Formaldehyde run-off was an unintended impact of the anthrax decontamination procedure on the island of Gruinard. The death of intertidal organisms was observed where formaldehyde reached the shore during 1986. The extent ... -
Disruption of microRNA Biogenesis Confers Resistance to ER Stress-Induced Cell Death Upstream of the Mitochondrion
(2013)Global downregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) is a common feature of human tumors and has been shown to enhance cancer progression. Several components of the miRNA biogenesis machinery (XPO5, DICER and TRBP) have been shown ... -
A Distributed Semantic Microblogging Platform
(2008)The application showcases the ideas of a distributed, Semantic-Web enabled micro blogging architecture, providing a way to leverage this new Web 2.0 practice to the Semantic Web. -
Diversity and bioactivity of fungi associated with the marine sea cucumber Holothuria poli: disclosing the strains potential for biomedical applications
(Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM), 2020-04-10)Aims: Identification of the mycobiota associated to the marine echinoderm Holothuria poli and investigation of cytotoxic and pro-osteogenic potential of isolated strains. Methods and results: Fungal strains were isolated ... -
dlvhex-sparql: A SPARQL-compliant query engine based on dlvhex
(CEUR, 2007)This paper describes the dlvhex SPARQL plugin, a query processor for the upcoming Semantic Web query language standard by W3C. We report on the implementation of this languages using dlvhex, a flexible plugin system ... -
DNA mediated chromatin pull-down for the study of chromatin replication
(2011)Chromatin replication involves duplicating DNA while maintaining epigenetic information. These processes are critical for genome stability and for preserving cell-type identity. Here we describe a simple experimental ... -
Do city dashboards make sense? Conceptualising user experiences and challenges in using city dashboards. A case study
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-06-09)City dashboards present information about a city to a broad audience with some thought given as to how some of these audiences might understand the information. However, little research has looked at how ’citizens’ make ... -
Do primary care professionals agree about progress with implementation of primary care teams: results from a cross sectional study
(2016-11-22)Background Primary care is the cornerstone of healthcare reform with policies across jurisdictions promoting interdisciplinary team working. The effective implementation of such health policies requires understanding ... -
Domain-independent term extraction through domain modelling
(10th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence, 2013-09-11)Extracting general or intermediate level terms is a relevant problem that has not received much attention in literature. Current approaches for term extraction rely on contrastive corpora to identify domain-specific terms, ... -
Domestic Violence in Ireland: an Overview of National Strategic Policy and Relevant International Literature on Prevention and Intervention Initiatives in Service Provision
(Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway, 2008-02)Introduction In order to address the problem of domestic violence from a strategic and evidence based perspective it is necessary to have a broad understanding of the current national and international policy and practice ... -
Domestic violence in Ireland: an overview of national strategic policy and relevant international literature on prevention and intervention initiatives in service provision
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Domestic violence in Ireland: an overview of national strategic policy and relevant international literature on prevention and intervention initiatives in service provision.
(Child and Family Research Centre, 2008-02)In order to address the problem of domestic violence from a strategic and evidence-based perspective it is necessary to have a broad understanding of the current national and international policy and practice initiatives ... -
Donor bone marrow-derived dendritic cells prolong corneal allograft survival and promote an intragraft immunoregulatory milieu.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013-08)Investigations into cell therapies for application in organ transplantation have grown. Here, we describe the ex vivo generation of donor bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) and glucocorticoid-treated BMDCs with ... -
DRETa: extracting RDF from wikitables
(CEUR-WS.org, 2013)Tables are widely used in Wikipedia articles to display relational information - they are inherently concise and information rich. However, aside from info-boxe s, there are no automatic methods to exploit the integrated ... -
A DRM Solution Based on Social Networks and Enabling the Idea of Fair Use
(2007)Fair use policy allows legal owners to share products they bought with their acquaintance; it is based on the assumptions that the owners pass an original product and they cannot use it at the same time. In the digital ... -
Drug target discovery using knowledge graph embeddings
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-04-08)The field of drug discovery has entered a plateau stage lately. It is increasingly more expensive and time-demanding to introduce new drugs into the market. One of the main reasons is the slow progress in finding novel ... -
Dublin City University and Partners' participation in the INS and VTT Tracks at TRECVid 2016
(2016-11-14)Dublin City University participated with a consortium of colleagues from NUI Galway and Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya in two tasks in TRECVid 2016, Instance Search (INS) and Video to Text (VTT). For the INS task ... -
Dying well: factors that influence the provision of good end-of-life care for older people in acute and long-stay care settings in Ireland
(2011)Aim: The aim of this study was to explore key stakeholders and direct care managers' perspectives on the current provision of end-of-life care for older people in acute and long-stay care settings in Ireland and to construct ... -
Dynamic actuation enhances transport and extends therapeutic lifespan in an implantable drug delivery platform
(Nature Research, 2022-08-03)Fibrous capsule (FC) formation, secondary to the foreign body response (FBR), impedes molecular transport and is detrimental to the long-term efficacy of implantable drug delivery devices, especially when tunable, temporal ... -
Dynamic Integration of Medical Ontologies in Large Scale
(ACM Press, 2007)