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A transportable distributional semantics architecture
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-13)
Distributional semantics is built upon the assumption that the context surrounding a given word in text provides important information about its meaning (Distributional hypothesis). A rephrasing of the distributional ...
Signal and image processing technology for smart agriculture applications
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-25)
This thesis is concerned with development of signal and image processing technology for
smart agriculture applications, with a particular focus on applications in automatic weeding
systems. Developing an automatic weeding ...
Biophysical and biochemical microenvironmental cues for tenogenic phenotype maintenance, differentiation and trans-differentiation in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-19)
Tendon injuries affect tens of millions of people worldwide each year and as the average lifespan increases their occurrence also increases, Achilles rupture rates alone have increased by ≈ 1000% in the last 40 years. ...
Optimised energy management for energy harvesting powered wireless sensors
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-30)
Energy harvesting provides a promising opportunity as the power source for wireless sensors for the Internet of Things (IoT) related applications (e.g. smart buildings, autonomous cars). However there are issues encountered ...
Energy recovery and pathogen inactivation with dry co-digestion of food waste and pig manure
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-14)
Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste (FW) and pig manure (PM) management by producing methane-rich biogas. However, mono digestion of FW or PM is easily inhibited by high volatile ...
Methods for defining dynamic online communities and community detection in fast-paced social media streams
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)
Microblogging social media focuses on fast open real-time communication using short messages between users and their followers.
Twitter is currently one of the largest and widely known microblogging OSN in the world, with ...
Art and analogy through evolutionary computation
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-05)
In this thesis the development of a computer system capable of generating art through the process of analogy is presented. A visual display is generated analogous to a given piece of music. This analogy is based upon the ...
Tidal stream energy assessment with and without a shock capture scheme - Incorporating a non-constant thrust force coefficient
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-23)
Tidal currents provide a significant energy source in many locations worldwide,
particularly at coastal areas where bathymetric conditions intensify their magnitudes.
Potential sites for tidal-stream energy resource ...
Elastin-like recombinamers-based hydrogel modulates the post-ischemic remodelling in a clinically-relevant model of myocardial infarction
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-17)
Myocardial infarction (MI) belongs to the family of cardiovascular diseases and represents the primary cause of worldwide mortality. Despite the promising results achieved in both small and large animal studies, recent ...
Computational modelling of emissions from gas turbines: Ensuring experimental reliability and quantifying emissions uncertainty
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-18)
Global environmental concerns and the increasing amount of power generated using gas turbines have led to the development of dry low emission (DLE) combustion systems to minimize the NOx and CO pollutants. Improvements in ...