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The impact of the Bealtaine arts programme on the quality of life, wellbeing and social interaction of older people in Ireland
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-07)
There is increasing evidence in the international literature that engagement in the arts can enhance the physical and psychological wellbeing of older people. Such engagement can increase the self-confidence and morale of ...
Dietary vegetable oils do not alter the intestine transcriptome of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), but modulate the transcriptomic response to infection with Enteromyxum leei
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Studies conducted with gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L.) have determined the maximum dietary replacement of fish meal and oil without compromising growth or product quality. The present study aimed to analyze ...
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 ...
Allele-specific transcriptional elongation regulates monoallelic expression of the IGF2BP1 gene
(2011)
Background
Random monoallelic expression contributes to phenotypic variation of cells and organisms. However, the epigenetic mechanisms by which individual alleles are randomly selected for expression are not known. ...
Dublin City University and Partners' participation in the INS and VTT Tracks at TRECVid 2016
(2016-11-14)
Dublin City University participated with a consortium of colleagues from NUI Galway and Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya in two tasks in TRECVid 2016, Instance Search (INS) and Video to Text (VTT). For the INS task ...
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 ...
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 ...
Youth mentoring as a form of support for children and young people at risk: Insights from research and practice
(Routledge, 2017-02-16)
[No abstract available]
Requirement for PLK1 kinase activity in the maintenance of a robust spindle assembly checkpoint
(Company of Biologists, 2016)
During mitotic arrest induced by microtubule targeting drugs, the weakening of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) allows cells to progress through the cell cycle without chromosome segregation occurring. PLK1 kinase ...