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Psychosis
(Springer, Cham, 2019-09-04)Psychosis is a set of symptoms related to mental health issues that occurs in a range of psychotic disorders. Psychosis in individuals with intellectual disabilities is an underexplored area in research. This chapter ... -
Modeling limits to growth
(Springer, Cham, 2016-06-15)This chapter introduces system dynamics models of limits to growth. First, a one-stock model is presented, where the growth rate varies, and is influenced by the system’s carrying capacity. Second, a model of economic ... -
(De)Mystifying the information and communication technology business model concept
(Inderscience, 2019-06-28)Modern enterprises are currently experiencing volatile and rapid information and communication technology (ICT) change. A key challenge for business leaders is to ensure their organisations are ready for that change. This ... -
Applying the SOBC paradigm to explain how social media overload affects academic performance
(Elsevier, 2019-09-10)Research suggests University students are more disposed than others to develop problematic social media use. Social media overload, the phenomenon where users are exposed to a massive amount of information and communication ... -
‘Out of Proportion to the Small Loss’: Productivist agriculture in the farming novels of John McGahern and Halldór Laxness
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-05)Ireland and Iceland, both (semi-)peripheral islands in relation to Europe's core hegemonic capitalism, once shared similar farming systems based on small holdings and rotational grazing. Today, however, agriculture looks ... -
Introducing the social robot MARIO to people living with dementia in long term residential care: Reflections
(Springer Verlag, 2019-06-14)MARIO is a social robot developed with and for people living with dementia (PLWD) to promote social connectivity and reduce loneliness and isolation by providing access to a number of applications that PLWD can access, via ... -
Chemical diversity of zoantharians from the coast of Ecuador in the tropical eastern Pacific
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-18)This thesis describes the isolation and identification of marine natural products from five zoantharian species collected off the Marine Protected Area El Pelado located in Santa Elena, Ecuador. Ecuador is one of the ... -
Metastatic breast cancer: Patterns of metastasis and novel biomarkers
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-25)Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, with metastatic disease the principle cause of mortality. In recent years great advances have been made in stratifying ... -
Evaluation of a companion robot for individuals with dementia: Quantitative findings of the MARIO Project in an Irish residential care setting
(Slack, 2019-06-25)The current study focuses on the short-term effect of MARIO, a social robot, on quality of life, depression, and perceived social support in persons with dementia (PWD) and evaluates their acceptability of MARIO. Ten PWD ... -
Future phosphorus: advancing new '2D' allotropes and growing a sustainable bio economy
(Crop Science Society of America with American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America, 2019-07-11)With more than 40 countries currently proposing to boost their national bioeconomies, there is no better time for a clarion call for a new bioeconomy, which, at its core, tackles the current disparities and inequalities ... -
Diagnostic and therapeutic mesenchymal stem cells for breast cancer treatment
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Reading Seán O'Casey in the GDR
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Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9
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The air-water interface stabilizes α-helical conformations of the insulin B-chain
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-16)Dataset to accompany article: Cheung, David L. (2019). The air-water interface stabilizes α-helical conformations of the insulin B-chain. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 151(6), 064706. doi: 10.1063/1.5100253 -
Towards sharing task environments to support reproducible evaluations of interactive recommender systems
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-20)Beyond sharing datasets or simulations, we believe the Recommender Systems (RS) community should share Task Environments. In this work, we propose a high-level logical architecture that will help to reason about the core ... -
Paediatric rotavirus gastroenteritis - regional prevalent serotypes, correlation with disease severity, nosocomial acquisition, viral co-infection and the impact of rotavirus vaccine in one region of Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-13)Background: Rotavirus is the primary cause of gastroenteritis in children worldwide and a leading cause of gastroenteritis in children younger than three years, with a significant burden both globally and in Ireland. ... -
Silent noise: A textual study of John McGahern's The Dark and a novel: Copybook
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-13)The following submission represents the work of four years as a PhD Practice and Research student at NUIG in the department of English. The General Introduction describes the process from conception to application and ... -
BEARS: Towards an evaluation framework for bandit-based interactive recommender systems
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-06)Recommender Systems (RS) deployed in fast-paced dynamic scenarios must quickly learn to adapt in response to user evaluative feedback. In these settings, the RS faces an online learning problem where each decision should ... -
Developing and validating a decision support tool for media selection to mitigate drainage waters
(Elsevier, 2019-07-26)The nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) and ammonium (NH4-N) and/or dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) load in drainage water from farms can be managed by reactive or biological media filters. The nutrient content of the drainage ... -
Suicidal behaviours in adjustment disorder and depressive episode
(Elsevier, 2014-12-10)Little is known about suicidal ideation and behaviours in adjustment disorder (AD). In this paper we sought to examine the variables independently associated with suicidal ideation and behaviour in patients diagnosed with ...