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Identifying equivalent relation paths in knowledge graphs
(Springer Verlag, 2017-06-19)Relation paths are sequences of relations with inverse that allow for complete exploration of knowledge graphs in a two-way unconstrained manner. They are powerful enough to encode complex relationships between entities ... -
Enabling case-based reasoning on the web of data
(2010-07-20)While Case-based reasoning (CBR) has successfully been deployed on the Web, its data models are typically inconsistent with existing information infrastructure and standards. In this paper, we examine how CBR can operate ... -
The role of negative results for choosing an evaluation approach - a recommender systems case study
(CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015-06-01)We describe a case study, which shows how important negative results are in uncovering biased evaluation methodologies. Our re- search question is how to compare a recommender algorithm that uses an RDF graph to a ... -
XPLODIV: An exploitation-exploration aware diversification approach for Recommender Systems
(AAAI Press, 2015-07)Recommender Systems (RS) have emerged to guide users in the task of efficiently browsing/exploring a large product space, helping users to quickly identify interesting products. However, suggestions generated with traditional ... -
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Evaluating success determinants for online Q&A communities
(NUI Galway, 2017-05-15)Researchers and community managers try to measure the success of online communities using a variety of success determinants, such as member activity, turnover and interaction. Although many success determinants have been ... -
Soft cardinality constraints on XML data: How exceptions prove the business rule
(Springer Verlag, 2013)We introduce soft cardinality constraints which need to be satisfied on average only, and thus permit violations in a controlled manner. Starting from a highly expressive but intractable class, we establish a fragment that ... -
SPORTAL: Profiling the Content of Public SPARQL Endpoints
(IGI Global, 2016)Access to hundreds of knowledge bases has been made available on the Web through public SPARQL endpoints. Unfortunately, few endpoints publish descriptions of their content (e.g., using VoID). It is thus unclear how agents ... -
Defining the heathen Irish and the pagan African: two similar discourses a century apart
(2008)This article looks at two different missionary projects separated by space and time: British Protestant missions to Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century; and Irish Roman Catholic missions to Africa in the 1920 and 1930s. ... -
SPORTAL: Searching for Public SPARQL Endpoints
(NUI Galway, 2016-10)There are hundreds of SPARQL endpoints on the Web, but finding an endpoint relevant to a client s needs is difficult: each endpoint acts like a black box, often without a description of its content. Herein we briefly ... -
Lessons learnt from the Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) challenge series
(2017-03-13)The large number of tweets generated daily is providing policy makers with means to obtain insights into recent events around the globe in near real-time. The main barrier for extracting such insights is the impossibility ... -
Fibrin as a scaffold for delivery of GDNF overexpressing stem cells to the adult rat brain
(2017-04-05)Treatment of neurodegenerative disease is entering a new era where direct intracerebral delivery of therapeutic factors aims to restore normality to dysfunctional circuits. Cell-based therapeutic approaches, where virally ... -
Understanding the ethical requirement for parental consent when engaging youth in research
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Youth as Researchers Training Manual
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2015)The manual provides a step-by-step guide for young people carrying out a research project and the accompanying workbook is designed to complement the training by suggesting practical tasks to support the research process. -
Exploring the effectiveness of structures and procedures intended to support children's participation in child welfare, child protection and alternative care services: a systematic literature review
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Cnámh na seisce: crapadh na fearúlachta i ndánta Mháirtín Uí Dhireáin
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Sterile post-traumatic immunosuppression
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-04-29)After major trauma, the human immune system initiates a series of inflammatory events at the injury site that is later followed by suppression of local inflammation favoring the repair and remodeling of the damaged tissues. ... -
Development of a flow cytometry-based potency assay for measuring the in vitro immunomodulatory properties of mesenchymal stromal cells
(Elsevier, 2016-07-20)Human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSC) have well-documented modulatory effects on multiple immune cell types. Although these effects are linked to their therapeutic benefit in diverse diseases, a ... -
Pro-B cells propagated in stromal cell-free cultures reconstitute functional B-cell compartments in immunodeficient mice
(Wiley, 2016-12-28)Up to now long-term in vitro growth of pro-B cells was thought to require stromal cells. However, here we show that fetal liver (FL) and bone marrow (BM) derived pro-B cells can be propagated long-term in stromal cell-free ... -
Permissive roles of cytokines Interleukin-7 and Flt3-ligand in mouse B cell lineage commitment
(National Academy of Sciences, 2016-11-04)Hematopoietic cells are continuously generated throughout life from hematopoietic stem cells, thus making hematopoiesis a favorable system to study developmental cell lineage commitment. The main factors incorporating ...