Browsing Externally hosted open access publications with University of Galway authors (2) by Title
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‘you feel like your whole world is caving in’: a qualitative study of primary care patients’ conceptualisations of emotional distress
(SAGE Publications, 2016-10-01)General practitioners are tasked with determining the nature of patients' emotional distress and providing appropriate care. For patients whose symptoms appear to fall near the boundaries' of psychiatric disorder, this can ... -
Young adult type 1 diabetes care in the west of ireland: an audit of hospital practice
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-06-11)Background: It is well recognised that management of young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) poses difficult challenges for physicians and health care organisations as a whole. In Ireland and in particular the west of ... -
Young women's decisions to accept chlamydia screening: influences of stigma and doctor-patient interactions
(Springer Nature, 2010-07-19)Background: An understanding of the factors that encourage young women to accept, and discourage them from accepting, STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing is needed to underpin opportunistic screening programs for ... -
Younger age as a prognostic indicator in breast cancer: a cohort study
(Springer Nature, 2011-08-28)Background: The debate continues as to whether younger women who present with breast cancer have a more aggressive form of disease and a worse prognosis. The objectives of this study were to determine the incidence of ... -
You’ve got to hand it to them: assessing final year medical students knowledge of hand anatomy and pathology
(World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt, 2016-10-01)Background: Knowledge of hand anatomy and pathology is important for final year medical students as it frequently appears in examinations as a short case or in a written paper. Studies have shown that doctors in the Emergency ... -
Zariski density and computing in arithmetic groups
(American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2017-01-01)For n > 2, let Gamma(n) denote either SL( n, Z) or Sp( n, Z). We give a practical algorithm to compute the level of the maximal principal congruence subgroup in an arithmetic group H <= Gamma(n). This forms ... -
Zeolite combined with alum and polyaluminum chloride mixed with agricultural slurries reduces carbon losses in runoff from grassed soil boxes
(American Society of Agronomy, 2016-01-01)Carbon (C) losses from agricultural soils to surface waters can migrate through water treatment plants and result in the formation of disinfection by-products, which are potentially harmful to human health. This study aimed ... -
Zinc deprivation of methanol fed anaerobic granular sludge bioreactors
(Springer Nature, 2008-02-19)The effect of omitting zinc from the influent of mesophilic (30 degrees C) methanol fed upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactors, and latter zinc supplementation to the influent to counteract the deprivation, was ... -
Β-catenin is a useful adjunct immunohistochemical marker for the diagnosis of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011-05-01)Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare multisystem disease leading to cystic destruction of the lung parenchyma and is associated with abnormal smooth muscle proliferation affecting airways, lymphatics, and blood vessels. ...