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The influence of silvicultural practices on mechanical properties of softwood timber
(NUI Galway, 2019-06)
The increase in the use of structural timber in construction over recent years has been one of the main drivers behind the renewed interest in optimizing forest management for timber quality. Past research and forest ...
Macromolecular crowding alone or in combination with other in vitro microenvironment modulators to maintain tenogenic phenotype in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)
Tendon injuries are very common among the different musculoskeletal disorders affecting millions of people annually. Given that current treatments have failed to restore injured tendons to the prior to injury state, ...
Neural transfer learning for natural language processing
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-07)
The current generation of neural network-based natural language processing models excels at learning from large amounts of labelled data. Given these capabilities, natural language processing is increasingly applied to new ...
Coevolutionary spatial game theory: The impact of abstention and dynamic networks on the evolution of cooperation
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-15)
Since the dawn of evolutionary game theory, the standard models in evolutionary dynamics have been developed under the assumption of a well-mixed population where agents (individuals) can interact with all the other agents ...
Improved jitter buffer and playout management approach
(NUI Galway, 2020-10-06)
The popularity and adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications have risen at an unprecedented level in the recent decade as an alternative to conventional telephony technologies, such as Public Switched ...
The application of machine learning to optimise live migration in cloud data centres
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-06)
Cloud computing providers utilise large-scale data centres to provide computing resource to users’ worldwide. However, an ongoing challenge facing cloud providers is to ensure that the required resource is available to ...
Diffusion-based models for semantic relatedness
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-14)
The assessment of semantic relatedness for a given pair of entities in a knowledge graph has become a critical step in a wide variety of artificial intelligence tasks, including but not restricted to fields such as machine ...
Elastin-based hydrogel as a treatment for critical limb ischemia, an insight into the glyco-host response
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-01)
Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is severe impairment of the microcirculation resulting in inflammation, ischaemic pain, non-healing ulcers and gangrene. Over 20% of patients have no option but to undergo a major limb amputation. ...
Application of electrodialysis into nutrient recovery and antibiotics removal for pig manure management
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-25)
Animal manure should be regarded as a resource rather than a waste as it contains abundant nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) available for plants. Land spreading of animal manure is a common practice while it has to be ...
An adaptive bitrate switching algorithm for speech applications in the context of WebRTC
(NUI Galway, 2020-12-01)
Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC) provides a set of novel technologies and standards that enable high-quality audio, video, conference calls, and arbitrary data exchange over web browsers. It enables peer-to-peer ...