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Nano-textured self-assembled aligned collagen hydrogels promote directional neurite guidance and overcome inhibition by myelin associated glycoprotein
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011-01-11)The development of nerve guidance conduits is constantly evolving as the need arises for therapies for spinal cord injury. In addition to providing a path for regrowing axons to reconnect with their appropriate targets, ... -
National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurship
(2008-09-26)Porter (1990) argues that the future battles for competitiveness will not be fought just between organisations but also between nations. Looking at the nation as the unit of analysis, one way to become more competitive ... -
A national review of children first and keeping safe training in HSE children and families services
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Necessities of life: older people s experiences of poverty.
(Help The Aged, 2006)This report presents findings from a study which seeks to inform the development of alternative approaches to the measurement of older people¿s poverty.The research, developed using qualitative techniques, explicitly focuses ... -
Negotiating User Preferences, Discrimination, and Demand for Migrant Labour in Long-term Care
(Oxford Journals, 2012-01)The restructuring of long-term care for older people has been marked both by the role of the market and by the role of migrant labor. This article develops the analysis of these processes at the microlevel of the provision ... -
Neighbourhood youth projects in the Health Services Executive Western Area counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon: review report 1992-2004 strengthening existing practice building future capacity
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, NUI Galway, 2005) -
Neologism: Easy Vocabulary Publishing
(2008)Creating, documenting, publishing and maintaining an RDF Schema vocabulary is a complex, timeconsuming task. This makes vocabulary maintainers reluctant to evolve their creations quickly in response to user feedback; it ... -
The NEPOMUK Project - On the way to the Social Semantic Desktop
(2007)This paper introduces the NEPOMUK project which aims to create a standard and reference implementation for the Social Semantic Desktop. We outline the requirements and functionalities that were identified for a useful ... -
NetTopo: Beyond Simulator and Visualizer for Wireless Sensor Networks
(IEEE and LNCS, 2008)Deploying real WSN testbed provides a realistic testing environment, and allows users to get more accurate test results. However, deploying real testbed is highly constrained by the available budget when the test needs ... -
Network Enabled Capabilities and Competitive Technology Clusters in Ireland
(CISC, 2010-06)The Network approach is a useful heuristic tool that enables us to focus on the network structure, inter-linkages between actors and help determining how the networks change over time. The present study used the network ... -
Neural machine translation of literary texts from English to Slovene
(Machine Translation Summit 2019, 2019-08-19)Neural Machine Translation has shown promising performance in literary texts. Since literary machine translation has not yet been researched for the English-toSlovene translation direction, this paper aims to fulfill ... -
Neuronal glycosylation differentials in normal, injured and chondroitinase-treated environments
(2012)Glycosylation is found ubiquitously throughout the central nervous system (CNS). Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans (CSPGs) are a group of molecules heavily substituted with glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and are found in the ... -
Neurotrophic Factor-Expressing Mesenchymal Stem Cells Survive Transplantation into the Contused Spinal Cord Without Differentiating into Neural Cells
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2009-10)The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of transplanting mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), genetically modified to express glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), to the contused rat spinal cord, and to subsequently ... -
Newspaper content analysis: print media coverage of Ireland’s Child & Family Agency (Tusla) 2014-2017
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2018-12)This report presents the findings of a content analysis carried out on a broad range of national and regional Irish newspapers in order to describe communication about Tusla and its Prevention, Partnership, and Family ... -
Non Violent Resistance Handbook for Practitioners- Responding to Child to Parent Violence in Practice
(RCPV Project, 2014)Our experience in practice with parents and families and conversations with other practitioners in contact with young people and parents suggests that the aggressive behaviour of children and adolescents towards their ... -
Non-partitioning merge-sort: Performance enhancement by elimination of division in divide-and-conquer algorithm
(ACM, 2016-03-04)The importance of a high performance sorting algorithm with low time complexity cannot be over stated. Several benchmark algorithms viz. Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Quick Sort, and Merge Sort, etc. have tried to achieve ... -
A Non-traditional Inference Paradigm for Learned Ontologies
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Non-viral gene therapy for myocardial engineering
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-05)Despite significant advances in surgical and pharmacological techniques, myocardial infarction (MI) remains the main cause of morbidity in the developed world because no remedy has been found for the regeneration of infarcted ... -
"Nonsense?" - ICT perceived by the elderly
(EMCIS, 2011)This paper describes a feasibility study of ICT and social media as perceived by elderly people. Until lately, very little research has been done on social media from the perspective of older people. This is surprising as ... -
The nontechnical causes of diving accidents: Can U.S. Navy divers learn from other industries?
(Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Society, 2007)Although U.S. Navy diving is remarkably safe, because of the high-risk environment in which military divers work, accidents and mishaps do occur. Failures in leadership and situation awareness (particularly in risk and ...