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A biomaterials approach to peripheral nerve repair
(2014-04-09)Peripheral nerve injuries are a major clinical problem which currently affect over one million people worldwide. Transection injuries caused by workplace and home injuries, road traffic accidents and by intentional harm ... -
Biomedical semantic resources for drug discovery platforms
(Springer Verlag, 2017-11-08)The biomedical research community is providing large-scale data sources to enable knowledge discovery from the data alone, or from novel scientific experiments in combination with the existing knowledge. Increasingly ... -
Biometric access control for digital media streams in home networks
(IEEE, 2007)Methods for controlling access to digital media content in the home environment using biometric sensing techniques are described. A wireless rebroadcast system for IP-TV content was retrofitted with a combination of ... -
Biometric identities and e-government services.
(IGI Global, 2006)Governments are using the Internet and e-commerce technologies to provide public services to their citizens (Watson & Mundy, 2001). In so doing, governments aim to form better relationships with businesses and citizens by ... -
Biometric technology and smartphones: a consideration of the practicalities of a broad adoption of biometrics and the likely impacts
(IEEE, 2016-04)The Widespread Global Adoption of Smartphones across all demographics and the rapid commoditization of the technology to the point at which an entry-level device can be sold profitably for less than US$100 suggest that we ... -
Biometrically auditable public key infrastructure technology for secure multimedia content
(IEEE, 2005-05-16)A system for signing and tracing the use of digital content based on biometrically generated key-pairs is described. The system is designed to protect the fair use rights of end-users and can be readily incorporated into ... -
Biometrics and Consumer Electronics: A Brave New World or the Road to Dystopia?[Soapbox]
(IEEE, 2013-04)Biometric systems confirm a person's identity by extracting and comparing patterns in their physical characteristics against computer records of those patterns. Examples include scans of the face, iris, or retina; measurements ... -
Biomimetic nano-biomaterials for bone repair and regeneration
(2017-02-24)Currently, over 1.7 billion people suffer from a musculoskeletal disorder; over 200 million operations take place annually; and in excess of 1 million new clinical cases are reported per year. Further, the annual healthcare ... -
Biomodels of bone: a review
(Springer, 2005)In this paper, a definition of a biomodel is presented, based on which different specific types of biomodels are identified, viz., virtual biomodels, computational biomodels, and physical biomodels. The paper then focuses ... -
Biophysical and biochemical microenvironmental cues for tenogenic phenotype maintenance, differentiation and trans-differentiation in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-19)Tendon injuries affect tens of millions of people worldwide each year and as the average lifespan increases their occurrence also increases, Achilles rupture rates alone have increased by ≈ 1000% in the last 40 years. ... -
Biophysical and biochemical tools for cell phenotype maintenance, differentiation and trans-differentiation
(NUI Galway, 2018-02-22)Tendon injuries constitute an unmet clinical need, with 3 to 5 million new incidents occurring annually worldwide. Tissue grafting and biomaterial-based approaches fail to provide environments that are conducive to ... -
Biophysics rules the cell culture but has yet to reach the clinic: Why is that?
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017-07)Musculoskeletal injuries are the leading cause of physical disability worldwide, with associated annual direct and indirect healthcare expenditure in excess of $874 billion in the United States alone.1 Current treatments ... -
Biopolymer-based nanoparticles for cystic fibrosis lung gene therapy studies
(MDPI AG, 2018-01-13)Lung gene therapy for cystic fibrosis disease has not been successful due to several challenges such as the absence of an appropriate vector. Therefore, optimal delivery of emerging therapeutics to airway epithelial cells ... -
Bioprocess monitoring using Polarised Multidimensional Fluorescence (pMDF) spectroscopy
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-15)Bioprocess monitoring is essential for biopharmaceutical manufacturing as it helps to ensure the required quality of the therapeutic proteins and maximise the productivity of the bioprocess as per Quality-by-Design (QbD) ... -
Bioreactor scalability: laboratory-scale bioreactor design influences performance, ecology, and community physiology in expanded granular sludge bed bioreactors
(Frontiers Media, 2017)Studies investigating the feasibility of new, or improved, biotechnologies, such as wastewater treatment digesters, inevitably start with laboratory-scale trials. However, it is rarely determined whether laboratory-scale ... -
Bioreactor scalability: laboratory-scale bioreactor design influences performance, ecology, and community physiology in expanded granular sludge bed bioreactors
(Frontiers Media SA, 2017-05-01)Studies investigating the feasibility of new, or improved, biotechnologies, such as wastewater treatment digesters, inevitably start with laboratory-scale trials. However, it is rarely determined whether laboratory-scale ... -
A bioresorbable biomaterial carrier and passive stabilization device to improve heart function post-myocardial infarction
(Elsevier, 2019-05-15)The limited regenerative capacity of the heart after a myocardial infarct results in remodeling processes that can progress to congestive heart failure (CHF). Several strategies including mechanical stabilization of the ... -
Biosafety assessment during anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and pig manure
(NUI Galway, 2022-10-11)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spreading has been a public concern as it increases the mortality of infection, and some biowastes (such as pig manure, food waste and municipal waste sludges) have been reported as hotspots ... -
Biosupramolecular protein tectonics
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-31)Taking a structural biology approach, this thesis describes in-depth investigations into protein bioconjugation (PEGylation), surface recognition (synthetic receptors), and ligand-mediated assembly (crystalline frameworks). ... -
Biotechnical measures for improvement of fertility in cattle
(Elsevier BV, 1981-06-01)