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Anti-donor antibody induction following intramuscular injections of allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells
Alagesan, Senthilkumar; Sanz‐Nogués, Clara; Chen, Xizhe; Creane, Michael; Ritter, Thomas; Ceredig, Rhodri; O'Brien, Timothy; Griffin, Matthew D. (Wiley, 2018-02-15)Allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells (allo-MSC) are a promising "off-the-shelf" therapy with anti-inflammatory and pro-repair properties. This study investigated humoral immune responses to intramuscular (IM) injections ... -
Automatic morphological analysis and interlinking of historical Irish cognate verb forms
Fransen, Theodorus (De Gruyter Mouton, 2020)The main aim of the author’s research project is to use computational approaches to gain more insight into the historical development of Irish verbs. One of the objectives is to investigate how a link between the electronic ... -
Born with bristles: New insights on the Kölliker’s organs of Octopus skin
Villanueva, Roger; Coll-Lladó, Montserrat; Bonnaud-Ponticelli, Laure; Carrasco, Sergio A.; Escolar, Oscar; Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Gleadall, Ian G.; Nabhitabhata, Jaruwat; Ortiz, Nicolás; Rosas, Carlos; Sánchez, Pilar; Voight, Janet R.; Swoger, Jim (Frontiers Media, 2021-05-10)The entire skin surface of octopus embryos, hatchlings and juveniles bears scattered tufts of tiny chitinous setae within small pockets, from which they can be everted and retracted. Known as Kölliker’s organs (KO), they ... -
Brain haemorrhage detection through SVM classification of electrical impedance tomography measurements
McDermott, Barry; Dunne, Eoghan; O’Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily; Santorelli, Adam (Springer, Cham, 2019-08-28)A brain haemorrhage constitutes a serious medical scenario with a need for rapid, accurate detection to facilitate treatment initiation. Machine learning (ML) techniques applied to such medical diagnostic problems can ... -
A comparative study of different state-of-the-art hate speech detection methods in Hindi-English code-mixed data
Rani, Priya; Suryawanshi, Shardul; Goswami, Koustava; Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Fransen, Theodorus; McCrae, John P. (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)Hate speech detection in social media communication has become one of the primary concerns to avoid conflicts and curb undesired activities. In an environment where multilingual speakers switch among multiple languages, ... -
Corpus creation for sentiment analysis in code-mixed Tamil-English text
Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja; Muralidaran, Vigneshwaran; Priyadharshini, Ruba; McCrae, John P. (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020-05-11)Understanding the sentiment of a comment from a video or an image is an essential task in many applications. Sentiment analysis of a text can be useful for various decision-making processes. One such application is to ... -
Cross-lingual sentence embedding using multi-task learning
Goswami, Koustava; Dutta, Sourav; Assem, Haytham; Fransen, Theodorus; McCrae, John P. (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021-11-07)Multilingual sentence embeddings capture rich semantic information not only for measuring similarity between texts but also for catering to a broad range of downstream cross-lingual NLP tasks. State-of-the-art multilingual ... -
Diversity and bioactivity of fungi associated with the marine sea cucumber Holothuria poli: disclosing the strains potential for biomedical applications
Marchese, Pietro; Garzolib, Laura; Gnavib, Giorgio; O’Connell, Enda; Bouraouid, Abderrahman; Mehirie, Mohamed; Murphy, Mary; Varese, Giovanna Cristina (Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM), 2020-04-10)Aims: Identification of the mycobiota associated to the marine echinoderm Holothuria poli and investigation of cytotoxic and pro-osteogenic potential of isolated strains. Methods and results: Fungal strains were isolated ... -
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: composite report
Silke, Charlotte; Boylan, Ciara; Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)This study aims to generate empirical evidence regarding the values and experiences of youth in Ireland towards a range of issues which reflect a sense of social responsibility towards others, including an analysis of ... -
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: policy and curriculum review and key informant perspectives
Boylan, Ciara; Brady, Bernadine; Silke, Charlotte; Dolan, Pat (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)This study aims to generate empirical evidence regarding the values and experiences of youth in Ireland towards a range of issues which reflect a sense of social responsibility towards others, including an analysis ... -
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: scientific report
Silke, Charlotte; Boylan, Ciara; Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)This study aims to generate empirical evidence regarding the values and experiences of youth in Ireland towards a range of issues which reflect a sense of social responsibility towards others, including an analysis ... -
An empirical dielectric mixing model for biological tissues
Salahuddin, Saqib; McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; O’Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Shahzad, Atif (IEEE, 2019-03-31)Dielectric properties of biological tissues are critically important for various electromagnetic based medical therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. This paper attempts to develop an empirical dielectric mixture model ... -
Factors influencing the development of empathy and pro-social behaviour among adolescents: A systematic review
Silke, Charlotte; Brady, Bernadine; Boylan, Ciara; Dolan, Pat (Elsevier, 2018-07-25)Research has indicated that empathy and prosocial responding are associated with numerous emotional, psychological and social benefits. However, although adolescence is recognised as a key period for prosocial development, ... -
The feasibility of conducting a longitudinal study on children in care or children leaving care within the Irish context
Devaney, Carmel; Rooney, Cliona (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019-06)This study investigated the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal study on children in care or children leaving care within the Irish context. Specific objectives of this research included analysing the benefits and ... -
Findings of the LoResMT 2021 shared task on COVID and sign language for low-resource languages
Ojha, Atul Kr.; Liu, Chao-Hong; Kann, Katharina; Ortega, John; Shatam, Sheetal; Fransen, Theodorus (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021-08)We present the findings of the LoResMT 2021 shared task which focuses on machine translation (MT) of COVID-19 data for both low-resource spoken and sign languages. The organization of this task was conducted as part of the ... -
First record of the elusive oceanic squid Thysanoteuthis rhombus Troschel, 1857 (Cephalopoda: Thysanoteuthidae) in the Catalan coast
Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Colmenero, Ana I.; Barría, Claudio (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2021)The diamondback squid Thysanoteuthis rhombus Troschel, 1857 is a large and elusive oceanic squid spe- cies. Here, we provide the first record of the species for the Catalan coast and integrate this finding in the current ... -
Historical data preservation and interpretation pipeline for Irish civil registration records
Beyan, Oya; Mealy, P. J.; Grant, Dolores; Grant, Rebecca; Harrower, Natalie; Breathnach, Ciara; Collins, Sandra; Decker, Stefan (Springer Verlag, 2015-10-28)Semantic Web technologies give us the opportunity to understand today's data-rich society and provide novel means to explore our past. Civil registration records such as birth, death, and marriage registers contain a vast ... -
‘In a hospital bed or … out doing Indiana Jones’: older Irish men's negotiations of cultural representations of ageing
O'Neill, Margaret; Ní Léime, Áine (Cambridge University Press, 2022-03-09)There is a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on the representation and construction of ageing masculinities; however, there is a lack of specific analysis of older men's responses to cultural images of ageing. ... -
The invasive land flatworm Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) reaches a natural environment in the oceanic island of São Miguel (Açores)
Lago-Barcia, Domingo; González-López, José Rafael; Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Magnolia Press, 2020)We report a new finding of the invasive land flatworm Obama nungara Carbayo et al., 2016 in a natural reserve of the oceanic island of São Miguel (Açores, Portugal) at 947 meters of altitude. This is the first record for ... -
Morphological and molecular assessments of bobtail squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) reveal a hidden history of biodiversity
Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Sánchez, Pilar; Villanueva, Roger (Frontiers Media, 2021-01-20)Molecular species delimitation assists taxonomic decisions for challenging species, like cryptic species complexes. Bobtail squids (Family Sepiolidae Leach, 1817) are a very diverse group of benthic and nektonic small to ...