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Building envelope thermal bridging heat loss assessment using infrared thermography
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-25)
Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use is necessary to stop the progress of climate warming, which may have a serious impact on the human environment and the ecosystem. To achieve this reduction, it is essential ...
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. ...
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) ...
Semantics-aware user modeling and recommender systems in online social networks
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-08)
The popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has rapidly increased over the past few years. User modeling (including creating user interest profiles) and recommendation approaches in OSNs are important methods to deal ...
Just tweet it - The collection, processing, classification and analysis of 2 million fitness tweets
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-13)
In 2013, the World Health Organization coined the term “Globesity” to highlight the importance of the epidemic and impact as a major health problem in many parts of the world (World Health Organization, 2013). Many believe ...
Advances in evolutionary neural networks with applications in energy systems and the environment
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-29)
Evolutionary neural networks combine two of the most powerful areas of computing, evolutionary algorithms and neural networks. There are a number of benefits of using evolutionary algorithms to train a network over traditional ...
Contributions to the measurement of depth in consumer imaging
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-12)
This thesis aims to examine and investigate methods that could potentially utilize images captured by consumer cameras such as smartphones to estimate depth and generate a 3D
structure.
After more than a century of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hybrid systems modelling aided by machine learning with applications in healthcare
(NUI Galway, 2018-03)
Recent trends towards data-driven methods may require a substantial rethinking of the process of developing simulation models. For instance, Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great potentials for constructing new ...