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Lower-atmosphere upper-ocean interactions: the influences of breaking waves
(2015-10-29)
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 ...
Schema-agnostic queries for large-schema databases: A distributional semantics approach
(2015-05-01)
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 ...
Utilization of social breadcrumbs for user profiling in personalization
(2015-10-12)
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 ...
Human induced pluripotent stem cells as a model for neurodevelopmental disease
(2015-10-01)
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 ...
Assessing and training early emergent derived relational responding in children with autism
(2015-09-30)
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 ...
Genetic determinants of disease characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease and diverticulitis
(2015-05-05)
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 ...
Development of novel culture independent nucleic acid based diagnostics technologies for the detection and identification of microbial contaminants in building water distribution and premise plumbing systems
(2015-02-22)
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 ...
Intergenerational learning: collaborations to activate young children's civic engagement in Irish Primary School
(2015-10-14)
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 ...
Applied learning. A design model for further education in the 21st century
(2015-11-23)
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 ...
Abrogation of ischemia reperfusion injury in murine hind limb and skin flap models of injury
(2015-03-05)
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 ...