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    • Advancements and challenges in multidomain multicargo delivery vehicles 

      Pugliese, Eugenia; Coentro, João Q.; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Wiley, 2018-02-15)
      Reparative and regenerative processes are well‐orchestrated temporal and spatial events that are governed by multiple cells, molecules, signaling pathways, and interactions thereof. Yet again, currently available ...
    • Analysis of a poly(ε-decalactone)/silver nanowire composite as an electrically conducting neural interface biomaterial 

      Krukiewicz, Katarzyna; Fernandez, Jorge; Skorupa, Małgorzata; Więcławska, Daria; Poudel, Anup; Sarasua, Jose-Ramon; Quinlan, Leo R.; Biggs, Manus J. P. (BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-04-15)
      Advancement in polymer technologies, facilitated predominantly through chemical engineering approaches or through the identification and utilization of novel renewable resources, has been a steady focus of biomaterials ...
    • 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 ...
    • Applicability of FTIR-ATR method to measure carbonyls in blood plasma after physical and mental stress 

      Bujok, Jolanta; Gąsior-Głogowska, Marlena; Marszałek, Michał; Trochanowska-Pauk, Natalia; Zigo, František; Pavľak, Alexander; Komorowska, Małgorzata; Walsk, Tomasz (Hindawi, 2019-03-26)
      Introduction. Oxidative stress is a state of imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defenses. It results in the oxidation of all cellular elements and, to a large extent, proteins, ...
    • Assessing FAIR data principles against the 5-Star open data principles 

      Hasnain, Ali; Rebholz-Schuhmann, Dietrich (Springer Verlag, 2018-08-02)
      Access to biomedical data is increasingly important to enable data driven science in the research community. The Linked Open Data (LOD) principles (by Tim Berner-Lee) have been suggested to judge the quality of data by its ...
    • Automation, monitoring, and standardization of cell product manufacturing 

      Doulgkeroglou, Meletios-Nikolaos; Di Nubila, Alessia; Niessing, Bastian; König, Niels; Schmitt, Robert H.; Damen, Jackie; Szilvassy, Stephen J.; Chang, Wing; Csontos, Lynn; Louis, Sharon; Kugelmeier, Patrick; Ronfard, Vincent; Bayon, Yves; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Frontiers Media, 2020-07-14)
      Although regenerative medicine products are at the forefront of scientific research, technological innovation, and clinical translation, their reproducibility and large-scale production are compromised by automation, ...
    • Back-translation approach for code-switching machine translation: A case study 

      Masoud, Maraim; Torregrosa, Daniel; Buitelaar, Paul; Arčan, Mihael (AICS2019, 2019-12-05)
      Recently, machine translation has demonstrated significant progress in terms of translation quality. However, most of the research has focused on translating with pure monolingual texts in the source and the target side ...
    • BEARS: Towards an evaluation framework for bandit-based interactive recommender systems 

      Barraza-Urbina, Andrea; Koutrika, Georgia; d'Aquin, Mathieu,; Hayes, Conor (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 ...
    • Bioactive potential of natural biomaterials: identification, retention and assessment of biological properties 

      Joyce, Kieran; Fabra, Georgina Targa; Bozkurt, Yagmur; Pandit, Abhay (Springer Nature, 2021-03-19)
      Biomaterials have had an increasingly important role in recent decades, in biomedical device design and the development of tissue engineering solutions for cell delivery, drug delivery, device integration, tissue replacement, ...
    • Biophysics rules the cell culture but has yet to reach the clinic: Why is that? 

      Guillaumin, Salomé; Sallent, Ignacio; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (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 ...
    • Burden of chronic kidney disease and rapid decline in renal function among adults attending a hospital-based diabetes center in Northern Europe 

      Griffin, Tomás P.; O'Shea, Paula M.; Smyth, Andrew; Islam, Md Nahidul; Wall, Deirdre; Ferguson, John; O'Sullivan, Esther; Finucane, Francis M.; Dinneen, Sean F.; Dunne, Fidelma P.; Lappin, David W.; Reddan, Donal N.; Bell, Marcia; O'Brien, Timothy; Griffin, Damian G.; Griffin, Matthew D. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021-06-14)
      Introduction This study aimed to determine the prevalence of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and rapid renal function decline and to identify indices associated with this decline among adults attending a diabetes center in ...
    • Campylobacter jejuni strain discrimination and temperature-dependent glycome expression profiling by lectin microarray 

      Kilcoyne, Michelle; Twomey, Marcus E.; Gerlach, Jared Q.; Kane, Marian; Moran, Anthony P.; Joshi, Lokesh (Elsevier, 2014-02-12)
      Gram-negative Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans worldwide and the most frequently identified infectious trigger in patients developing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). While ...
    • Characterization of the ‘White’ appearing clots that cause acute ischemic stroke 

      Mereuta, Oana Madalina; Rossi, Rosanna; Douglas, Andrew; Molina Gil, Sara; Fitzgerald, Seán; Pandit, Abhay; McCarthy, Ray; Gilvarry, Michael; Ceder, Eric; Dunker, Dennis; Nordanstig, Annika; Redfors, Petra; Jood, Katarina; Magoufis, Georgios; Psychogios, Klearchos; Tsivgoulis, Georgios; O'Hare, Alan; Power, Sarah; Brennan, Paul; Nagy, András; Vadász, Ágnes; Brinjikji, Waleed; Kallmes, David F.; Szikora, Istvan; Rentzos, Alexandros; Tatlisumak, Turgut; Thornton, John; Doyle, Karen M. (Elsevier, 2021-09-28)
      Objectives Most clots retrieved from patients with acute ischemic stroke are ‘red’ in color. ‘White’ clots represent a less common entity and their histological composition is less known. Our aim was to investigate the ...
    • The chemistry and topography of stabilized and functionalized graphene oxide coatings 

      Awaja, Firas; Tripathi, Manoj; Wong, Tsz‐Ting; O'Brien, Timothy; Speranza, Giorgio (Wiley, 2018-08-01)
      Graphene oxide (GO) thin films and coatings are regarded as superior in quality to other materials especially for biomedical applications. However, the lack of stability and understanding of their structure and defects ...
    • Chirality-sorted carbon nanotube films as high capacity electrode materials 

      Krukiewicz, Katarzyna; Krzywiecki, Maciej; Biggs, Manus J. P.; Janas, Dawid (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-08-30)
      Carbon nanomaterials show great promise for a wide range of applications due to their excellent physicochemical and electrical properties. Since their discovery, the state-of-the-art has expanded the scope of their application ...
    • CoFiF: A corpus of financial reports in French language 

      Ahmadi, Sina; Daudert, Tobias (NUI Galway, 2019-08-12)
      In an era when machine learning and artificial intelligence have huge momentum, the data demand to train and test models is steadily growing. We introduce CoFiF, the first corpus comprising company reports in the French ...
    • The collagen suprafamily: From biosynthesis to advanced biomaterial development 

      Sorushanova, Anna; Delgado, Luis M.; Wu, Zhuning; Shologu, Naledi; Kshirsagar, Aniket; Raghunath, Rufus; Mullen, Anne M.; Bayon, Yves; Pandit, Abhay; Raghunath, Michael; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I. (Wiley, 2018-08-20)
      Collagen is the oldest and most abundant extracellular matrix protein that has found many applications in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and biomedical industries. First, an overview of the family of collagens and their ...
    • 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 ...
    • CURED4NLG: A dataset for table-to-text generation 

      Pasricha, Nivranshu; Arcan, Mihael; Buitelaar, Paul (University of Galway, 2023)
      We introduce CURED4NLG, a dataset for the task of table-to-text generation focusing on the public health domain. The dataset consists of 280 pairs of tables and documents extracted from weekly epidemiological reports ...