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Neurocognitive effects of risk factors for psychosis: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of immune-related genetic and environmental factors
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-16)
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder that afflicts approximately 1% of people worldwide. It is often characterized by hallucinations, sometimes by emotional blunting, and in a majority of cases by a ...
Acquisition of dielectric properties of tissues in the microwave range
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-12)
This thesis aims to conduct an investigation into the factors that influence the measurement and interpretation of the dielectric properties of biological tissues in the microwave frequency rage.
Firstly, a novel two-stage ...
Legal remedies, truth recovery and illegal adoptions: The limits and transformative potential of human rights law and practice
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-06)
This thesis seeks to address two related research questions. First, to consider and assess the Irish State’s approach and legal responses to historical practices of illegal adoption – how are such legal responses affected ...
Ontology learning for systems engineering body of knowledge
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-14)
Systems engineering (SE) is a multidisciplinary and integrative approach that enables the successful realization of engineered systems. It encompasses fundamentals, principles, and models of foundational systems science, ...
Knowledge extraction from simplified natural language text
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)
Knowledge base creation and population are an essential formal backbone
for a variety of intelligent applications, decision support and expert systems
and intelligent search. Although knowledge extraction from ...
Expressive RDF stream reasoning via data parallelism in answer set programming
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-26)
The Web nowadays is highly dynamic with massive amounts of data being continuously generated from a huge number of devices and services across the Internet. Various application scenarios in several domains, such as environment ...
The evolution of behaviours in swarms of robots
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-09)
Evolutionary swarm robotics uses evolutionary computational techniques to synthesise behaviours for a group of autonomous robots. In a swarm of robots, the collective behaviour of the robots results from the local interactions ...
A scalable spatio-temporal query processing engine for linked sensor data
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-25)
The ever-increasing amount of Internet of Things (IoT) data emanating from sensors and mobile devices is creating new capabilities and unprecedented economic opportunity for individuals, organizations, and states. To fully ...
Development and evaluation of an online version of the Feeling Better pain management programme for children and their care-givers
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)
Abstract
Background: Reasons for poor management of paediatric chronic pain include lack of access to psychological support for pain management. Research evidence is increasingly focused on online interventions as a ...
Identification and characterisation of germline variants in an Irish cohort with breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-10)
Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy worldwide, and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Twin studies estimate that up to one third of breast cancers are the result of hereditary ...