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An investigation of reading abilities and the impact of programmed instruction on reading outcomes in children with autism specrtum disorder
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-11)
This thesis investigates reading abilities and programmed instruction, i.e., instruction that is scripted and sequenced, with explicit learning goals, based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis, in children with ...
Fast ultra wideband microwave imaging for early stage breast cancer detection
(2018-01-03)
Microwave Imaging (MWI) is one of the most promising imaging modalities to emerge in recent years. It has been used in a range of applications, and one of the most notable application is medical imaging. Microwave medical ...
Integrated assessment of sheep production systems and the agricultural value chain
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-02)
This thesis describes the development of an integrated, farm level, bioeconomic systems model of Irish sheep production using nationally representative data from the National Farm Survey (NFS). A systems approach is applied ...
Amorphous pharmaceuticals and composites
(NUI Galway, 2018-04-27)
An attractive, yet challenging approach to overcome poor water solubility is to convert a crystalline Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) into its more soluble amorphous form.1-3 Nevertheless, the use of amorphous drug ...
Upper ocean responses to solar heating and rain
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-20)
This thesis presents observations made in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL), with the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler (ASIP), in conjunction with measurements of meteorological variables.
These are used to establish ...
Sri Lanka and the United Nations. A human rights case study
(2018-02-20)
The thesis analyses Sri Lanka’s engagement with the United Nations human rights machinery and assesses whether there has been any impact on the human rights infrastructure and situation in Sri Lanka because of this engagement. ...
Leveraging Wikipedia-based features for entity relatedness and recommendation
(2018-01-31)
Entities such as people, locations, organizations play a key role in natural language understanding. Most of the approaches that deal with natural language processing tasks, require a method to measure the relatedness ...
A role for nanor in early zebrafish development and validation of a neurotoxic zebrafish model of Parkinson’s disease
(NUI Galway, 2018-04-06)
Zebrafish are a versatile experimental model which have progressed the fields of many research areas through both genetic and pharmacological studies. In this thesis I studied a novel zygotic gene, nanor, in zebrafish and ...
Confocal microwave imaging and artifact removal algorithms for the early detection of breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-29)
Microwave imaging is an emerging imaging modality for the early detection of breast cancer. Early-time artifact removal and imaging algorithm are the two most important signal processing components of any Confocal Microwave ...
Semantic modelling of protein-protein interactions, their prediction and evaluation
(2018-02-23)
The amount of biomedical data produced by DNA-sequencing, by curated knowledge on disease mechanisms and treatments, by results from biochemical and pharmaceutical research and by many other data generation studies is ...