Wave breaking at the ocean surface is an important process for air-sea exchange. Whitecaps are visual sea surface signatures of breaking waves. By measuring the fractional coverage of whitecaps on the sea surface, it ...

The evolution of data environments towards the growth in the size, complexity, dynamicity and decentralisation (SCoDD) of schemas drastically impacts contemporary data management. The SCoDD trend emerges as a central data ...

Personalization efforts aim to alleviate the ``information overload" problem in an attempt to help users address their information needs in the best way possible. An increasing number of systems that employ personalization ...

Abstract Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders which encompass a wide range of symptoms, including intellectual disability and delayed development, while the phenotype can range from mild to ...

Many children with autism fail to develop generative language despite intensive teaching; their language can be described as “rote”. Research in the area of derived stimulus relations, in particular Relational Frame Theory ...

Background: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a complex, multigenic disease in which both the innate and adaptive immune systems play a strong role. Although over 40 microbes including bacteria, viruses and yeasts and ...

Water is a vital component of the industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. In industrial and pharmaceutical sectors water is a commonly used raw material, solvent and ingredient. While in healthcare facilities ...

This study addresses a two-dimensional problem: weaknesses in the provision of citizenship education in Irish Primary School; and increasing social distance between younger and older generations in Irish society. The thesis ...

Undertaken over four years, this research was both an investigation of the adoption of an applied learning approach for further education (FE) course delivery in the 21st century, and the development of an educational model ...

Introduction/Aim Ischemia Reperfusion injury is a poorly understood entity with wide-ranging clinical implications touching on most fields of clinical medicine. Using skin flap and hind limb models of injury in the mouse ...