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Litearthacht aosach sa nGaeltacht: staidéar ar riachtanais agus ar chumas aosach maidir le litearthacht i nGaeilge
(2015-08-30)Ba í aidhm an staidéar taighde seo ná tuiscint a fháil ar dhearcadh, chumas agus riachtanais lucht labhartha na Gaeilge sa nGaeltacht maidir le litearthacht sa teanga sin i gcúinsí an tsíorbhrú atá ar an nGaeilge mar theanga ... -
The lived experience of adolescents with developmental coordination disorder transitioning from primary school to secondary school
(2016-09-07)Aim: The aim of the research was to explore the lived experience of transitioning into secondary school by adolescents with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Design: This study used a qualitative methodology ... -
Living the stories we create: an educational response to narrative in the digital age
(2015-11-30)Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. We are drawn to describe our world and subsequently seek to ... -
Localising the Right to Drinking Water: Perspectives and Challenges
(2014-01-08)Access to drinking water has become a critical matter for humanity in the current context of growing competing demand for resource. It is well recognised that the ongoing water crisis to a large extent is a crisis of ... -
Logainmneacha Chill Chainnigh Thiar agus Chluain Lonáin - Ainmneacha na mBailte Fearainn
(2012-09-21)Achoimre Is í aidhm an tráchtais seo foirmeacha Gaeilge údarásacha chomh maith le fianaise stairiúil chuí d'ainmneacha 276 baile fearainn sna barúntachtaí Cill Chainnigh Thiar agus Cluain Lonáin, Co. na hIarmhí a chur ar ... -
Logainmneacha Mhagh Loirg agus Uachtar Thíre, Contae Ros Comáin: Anailís ar ainmneacha bhailte fearainn na seandúichí sin
(2013-02-18)Déantar grinn-anailís sa tráchtas seo ar logainmneacha laistigh de bharúntacht Mhainistir na Búille i dtuaisceart Chontae Ros Comáin. Aithnítear na dúichí stairiúla Magh Loirg, Uachtar Thíre agus Tír Thuathail leis an ... -
Loose coupling in heterogeneous event-based systems via approximate semantic matching and dynamic enrichment
(2016-01-27)There has been a significant change in the data landscape with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Tens of billions of devices are expected to connect to the Internet in the coming years within smart buildings, ... -
Lord Bute and eighteenth-century science and patronage
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-03)John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, was born in May 1713 at Parliament Square, Edinburgh, the eldest son of James, second Earl of Bute (1689/90-1723), and his wife, Lady Anne Campbell (1692-1736). The second Earl was a supporter ... -
Lords of land and labour: a comparison of Antebellum Mississippi's John A. Quitman and Nineteenth-Century Ireland's Lord Clonbrock
(2015-12-17)This study investigates similarities, differences, and connections between antebellum U.S. Southern slaveholders and nineteenth-century Irish landowners. In particular, it focuses on the comparison of Mississippi’s John ... -
Low-power strategies for signal compression in ambulatory healthcare
(2016-11-23)Advances in signal processing are enabling promising solutions for ambulatory monitoring in healthcare applications. A critical objective of such systems is low-power operation to enable long-term battery life in wearable/mobile ... -
Low-temperature anaerobic digestion as a core technology for the sustainable treatment of municipal wastewater
(2013-11-29)The currently applied paradigm for municipal wastewater treatment in the European Union does not meet basic sustainability criteria. Indeed, it runs counter to the stated goals of recent European Council policies regarding ... -
Lower-atmosphere upper-ocean interactions: the influences of breaking waves
(2015-10-29)Wave breaking at the ocean surface is an important process for air-sea exchange. Whitecaps are visual sea surface signatures of breaking waves. By measuring the fractional coverage of whitecaps on the sea surface, it ... -
The lysine acetyltransferase MOF: its interactome, role in breast cancer, and characterisation of a novel isoform
(2017-11-24)Males absent on the first (MOF), also known as hMOF, MYST1, or KAT8, is a lysine acetyltransferase responsible for bulk acetylation of Histone H4 at lysine 16 (H4K16ac), though it has also been shown to acetylate several ... -
Machine learning and high-performance computing: Infrastructure and algorithms for the genome-scale study of genetic and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms with applications in neuroscience
(2014-06-30)The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has fundamentally changed modern genomics re-search. These sequencers generate terabytes of data and necessitate the use, not only of high-performance compute (HPC) clusters ... -
Machine learning applied to electrical impedance tomography for the improved management of nocturnal enuresis
(NUI Galway, 2021-06-04)Nocturnal Enuresis (or bedwetting) is a condition that commonly affects children but can continue into adulthood. The condition can have serious implications on the quality of a child’s life. The current first-line medical ... -
Machine learning for De Novo peptide identification
(NUI Galway, 2023-04-21)Proteomics involves the identification and analysis of proteins, therefore providing valuable insight into ecosystem functioning. In this methodology, protein sequences are typically identified using a bottom-up approach ... -
Machine translation of domain-specific expressions within ontologies and documents
(2017-08-08)Nowadays, most of the semantically structured data have labels stored only in English. Although the increasing number of ontologies offers an excellent opportunity to link this knowledge together, non-English users may ... -
Macro- and micro-scale modelling of material inhomogeneity for the premature failure of welded 9Cr steels in power plants
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-15)Chromium-molybdenum steel pipe (9Cr-1Mo steel) is an important high temperature construction material for welded steam piping networks in gas-fired power plants. A major global problem of such materials is the premature ... -
Macromolecular crowding alone or in combination with other in vitro microenvironment modulators to maintain tenogenic phenotype in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Tendon injuries are very common among the different musculoskeletal disorders affecting millions of people annually. Given that current treatments have failed to restore injured tendons to the prior to injury state, ... -
Macromolecular crowding for chondrogenic phenotype maintenance and stem cell differentiation
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-31)Chondrocyte-based tissue engineering therapies require in vitro cell expansion, which is associated with loss of phenotype, decrease in synthesis of collagen type II and increase in synthesis of collagen type I. Another ...