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Towards improved treatment planning for head and neck microwave hyperthermia
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)
Hyperthermia is an emerging cancer treatment modality which involves applying heat to the malignant tumor. The heating can be delivered using electromagnetic energy, mostly in the radiofrequency or microwave range. Accurate ...
How research impacts on health policy in Ireland: A case study of alcohol and drug policy
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)
Abstract
The goal of public health and health promotion practitioners is to increase the health of populations through evidence informed health policy. Comparable to evidence-based medicine, public health advocates ...
Macromolecular crowding transforms regenerative medicine by enabling the accelerated development of functional and truly three-dimensional tissue moduli
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-04)
Scaffold-free in vitro organogenesis exploits the innate ability of cells to synthesise and deposit their own extracellular matrix to fabricate tissue-like assemblies. Unfortunately, traditional cell-assembled tissue ...
The influence of silvicultural practices on mechanical properties of softwood timber
(NUI Galway, 2019-06)
The increase in the use of structural timber in construction over recent years has been one of the main drivers behind the renewed interest in optimizing forest management for timber quality. Past research and forest ...
USP9X controls DNA replication fork stability and the replication stress checkpoint through Claspin
(2016-02-05)
Cells possess checkpoint pathways which are important for maintaining genome stability and preventing cancer. These signalling pathways include the ATR and CHK1 kinases which are activated in response to DNA damage or ...
Macromolecular crowding alone or in combination with other in vitro microenvironment modulators to maintain tenogenic phenotype in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)
Tendon injuries are very common among the different musculoskeletal disorders affecting millions of people annually. Given that current treatments have failed to restore injured tendons to the prior to injury state, ...
Neural transfer learning for natural language processing
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-07)
The current generation of neural network-based natural language processing models excels at learning from large amounts of labelled data. Given these capabilities, natural language processing is increasingly applied to new ...
A study of workers’ mobilization within the Irish supermarket sector
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-04)
This thesis examines why workers in the Irish large supermarket sector acquire a sense
of collective identity separate from their employer’s organization in response to
perceived injustice and why they engage in collective ...
Modelling the decision making behaviour of coarse anglers in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-20)
Coarse angling is a vibrant and important aspect of recreational angling in Ireland. Both Irish anglers and tourist anglers contribute directly and indirectly to the Irish economy through their participation in this pastime ...
Coevolutionary spatial game theory: The impact of abstention and dynamic networks on the evolution of cooperation
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-15)
Since the dawn of evolutionary game theory, the standard models in evolutionary dynamics have been developed under the assumption of a well-mixed population where agents (individuals) can interact with all the other agents ...