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The influence of collagen isolation, cross-linking and sterilisation on macrophage response
(2018-03-07)
Collagen-based devices are frequently associated with foreign body response. Although several pre- (e.g. species, state of animal, tissue, isolation protocol) and post- (e.g. cross-linking, scaffold architecture, sterilisation) ...
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 ...
On the table of marks of a direct product of finite groups
(2016-02-10)
The table of marks was first introduced by William Burnside in his book "Theory of groups of finite order" in
1955. The table of marks counts the number of fixed points one subgroup has in the action of the cosets of ...
Dissecting the pan-placodal gene regulatory network reveals novel interactions driving sense organ development in vertebrates
(2016-02-17)
The genes encoding the transcription factor Six1, and its co-factor Eya1 together mark the embryonic territory - the pan-placodal ectoderm (PPE) - that gives rise to most cranial sense organs in vertebrates. Mutation of ...
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 ...
Taxonomy, parataxonomy, and metabarcoding: an investigation of invertebrate diversity in high nature value wet grasslands
(NUI Galway, 2017-11-01)
Wet grassland habitats characterised by seasonal inundation and low-intensity agricultural practices support a rich mosaic of plant and animal communities. Whilst most of the conservation strategies aimed at protecting ...
Understanding Emergency Nurses' experiences of moral distress
(2016-09-29)
This study sought to understand emergency nurses' experiences of moral distress. Classical Grounded Theory based on the works of Glaser & Strauss and Glaser informed the study design. Participants included Staff Nurses, ...
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 ...
Aerosols and the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique
(2018-02-22)
The ability to extract energetic γ-rays from the overwhelming high energy cosmic ray back- ground has opened up a new window of observation on the non-thermal universe. By utilis- ing an atmospheric technique VERITAS, an ...
The role of matrix properties and extrinsic loading in osteoblast-osteocyte differentiation in tissue engineered scaffolds
(2018-02-05)
Bone tissue engineering is a promising field with the potential to generate tissue substitutes, by taking advantage of mesenchymal stem cells ability to grow and produce tissue substitutes under specific physical conditions. ...