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The synergistic effect of low oxygen tension and macromolecular crowding in the development of extracellular matrix-rich tendon equivalents
(IOP Publishing, 2020-02-26)Cellular therapies play an important role in tendon tissue engineering, with tenocytes being the most prominent and potent cell population available. However, for the development of a rich extracellular matrix tenocyte-assembled ... -
The synergistic effects of gold particles and dexamethasone on the electrochemical and biological performance of PEDOT neural interfaces
(MDPI, 2019-01-05)Although neural devices have shown efficacy in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, their functionality is limited by the inflammatory state and glial scar formation associated with chronic implantation. The aim ... -
Synergy between embedding and protein functional association networks for drug label prediction using harmonic function
(ACM and IEEE, 2020-10-16)Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is an approach to machine learning that makes use of unlabeled data for training with a small amount of labeled data. In the context of molecular biology and pharmacology, one can take advantage ... -
Synthesis of polymer-silica hybrid microparticles with defined geometry using surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015)Nanostructured polymer/silica hybrid materials have gained attention as they combine the advantageous properties of organic and inorganic materials in one entity. Herein, we report incorporation of chloromethyl moieties ... -
Synthetic/ECM-inspired hybrid platform for hollow microcarriers with ROS-triggered nanoporation hallmarks
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-10-13)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key pathological signals expressed in inflammatory diseases such as cancer, ischemic conditions and atherosclerosis. An ideal drug delivery system should not only be responsive to these ... -
Systems change: final evaluation report on Tusla's prevention, partnership and family support programme
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2018-09)In 2015 the Atlantic Philanthropies, Ireland, funded a major programme of investment in parenting, prevention, and family support services which formed part of the overall early development of Tusla, the newly established ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 1: the origins and development of CDI and its strategy 'A place for children: Tallaght West'
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)Children are now firmly at the centre of a variety of legislative initiatives and statutory and voluntary services working for families. Legislation in recent years has spoken about the paramountcy of the child, emphasising ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 2: interagency working and service integration in Tallaght West
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)Children are now firmly at the centre of a variety of legislative initiatives, and statutory and voluntary services working for families. Legislation in recent years has spoken about the ‘paramountcy’ of the child, ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 3: CDI experience impacting on training and support of managers and practitioners
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)BACKGROUND The Tallaght West Child Development Initiative (CDI) aims to improve outcomes for children and young people through the implementation of a ten year strategy A Place for Children: Tallaght West. In Winter 2008 ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 4: CDI as organisation: examining the processes and relationships to support implementation
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)BACKGROUND In 2008 the Child and Family Research Centre (CFRC) was contracted for a three year period by the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) to undertake a process evaluation of its work. The evaluation ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 5: CDI and the community
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)BACKGROUND In 2008, the Child and Family Research Centre (CFRC) was contracted for a three year period by the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) to undertake a process evaluation of its work. This report ... -
The Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) process evaluation Thematic Report No. 6: mainstreaming, dissemination and sustainability
(Childhood Development Initiative, 2014)BACKGROUND In 2008 the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre (CFRC) was contracted by the Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) to undertake a process evaluation of its work. The evaluation consists of a series of six ... -
Targeting online communities to maximise information diffusion
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-04)In recent years, many companies have started to utilise online social communities as a means of communicating with and targeting their employees and customers. Such online communities include discussion fora which are ... -
Taxonomy extraction for customer service knowledge base construction
(Springer, 2019-11-04)Customer service agents play an important role in bridging the gap between customers vocabulary and business terms. In a scenario where organisations are moving into semi-automatic customer service, se- mantic technologies ... -
Team members and knowledge sharing.
(2009)This study explores issues that help team members to share knowledge in their work environment. In this study knowledge is understood as human action and therefore people as actors are emphasised in the approach. Literature ... -
Teanga: a linked data based platform for natural language processing
(Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), 2018-05-07)In this paper, we describe Teanga, a linked data based platform for natural language processing (NLP). Teanga enables the use of many NLP services from a single interface, whether the need was to use a single service or ... -
Technophobia amongst older adults in Ireland
(Irish Journal of Management, 2006-06)The article discusses the findings of research on the prevalence of technophobia amongst older adults in Ireland. The study was conducted using questionnaires which consisted of computer anxiety rating scale form C (CARS-C), ... -
TED-MWE: a bilingual parallel corpus with MWE annotation: Towards a methodology for annotating MWEs in parallel multilingual corpora
(Accademia University Press, 2015-12-03)The translation of Multiword expressions (MWE) by Machine Translation (MT) represents a big challenge, and although MT has considerably improved in recent years, MWE mistranslations still occur very frequently. There is ... -
Tell me who are your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are
(AICS 2016, 2016-09-20)Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the ... -
A term extraction approach to survey analysis in health care
(European Language Resources Association, 2020-05)The voice of the customer has for a long time been a key focus of businesses in all domains. It has received a lot of attention from the research community in Natural Language Processing (NLP) resulting in many approaches ...