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Hypertonic saline reduces inflammation and enhances the resolution of oleic acid induced acute lung injury
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2008-07-08)Background: Hypertonic saline (HTS) reduces the severity of lung injury in ischemia-reperfusion, endotoxin-induced and ventilation-induced lung injury. However, the potential for HTS to modulate the resolution of lung ... -
Hypoxia preconditioning of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells before implantation in orthopaedics
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-12-01)[No abstract available] -
ICCL follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against torture: NGO submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture: Follow-up to the 2017 concluding observations of the committee against torture
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-11-23)This report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) forms part of the process of ‘follow-up’ to the CAT’s second set of Concluding Observations on Ireland, ... -
ICCL submission to the Department of Health on the deprivation of liberty safeguard proposals
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-03-16)The ICCL welcomes the State’s long-overdue effort to establish legal safeguards to protect the rights of individuals who are or may be deprived of their liberty in care settings. Ireland has a long history of failing to ... -
ICCL/ICHR submission to Oireachtas Justice Committee consultation on direct provision in Ireland
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2019-05-31)This is a joint submission by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Dr Maeve O’Rourke of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. -
Identification of bilingual terms from monolingual documents for statistical machine translation
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014-08-23)The automatic translation of domain-specific documents is often a hard task for generic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems, which are not able to correctly translate the large number of terms encountered in the ... -
Identifying and addressing the limitations of safety climate surveys.
(Elsevier, 2011-06)There are a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools for measuring safety climate. However, questionnaires are by far the most commonly used methodology. This paper reports the descriptive analysis of a large sample ... -
Identifying equivalent relation paths in knowledge graphs
(Springer Verlag, 2017-06-19)Relation paths are sequences of relations with inverse that allow for complete exploration of knowledge graphs in a two-way unconstrained manner. They are powerful enough to encode complex relationships between entities ... -
Identifying innovative models for supporting vulnerable learners achieve educational progression: Early findings from an evaluation of Social Innovation Fund Ireland's Education Fund
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019-06)This document is the first of three reports (2019, 2020, and 2021) from a major study being conducted by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre (UCFRC), NUI Galway, on Social Innovation Fund Ireland’s Education ... -
Identifying main obstacles for statistical machine translation of morphologically rich South Slavic languages
(European Association for Machine Translation, 2015-05-11)The best way to improve a statistical machine translation system is to identify concrete problems causing translation errors and address them. Many of these problems are related to the characteristics of the involved ... -
Identifying the team skills required by nuclear operations personnel.
(Elsevier, 2008-11)The purpose of this study was to identify the team skills required by nuclear power plant operations team members. An initial domain familiarization consisted of a review of company documentation, observations in the control ... -
The ideology of population control in the UN draft plan for Cairo
(Springer, 1994-09)This paper examines the influence of population control ideology on the draft plan for the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. It is argued that this draft plan can only be fully understood in the context ... -
If I can make their life a little easier, then I'm happy: Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population
(2010-10)The purpose of the study was to examine mechanisms through which young carers in Ireland can be identified, to investigate the impact of caring on their lives and to examine ways in which they can be assisted. -
If I can make their life a little easier, then I'm happy: Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population,. Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Dublin: The Stationary Office.
(The Stationery Office, Dublin, 2010)[no abstract available] -
IKHarvester Informal eLearning with SemanticWeb Harvesting
(IEEE, 2008)Only recently, researchers and practitioners alike have begun to fully understand the potential of eLearning and have concentrated on new tools and technologies for creating, capturing and distributing knowledge. In order ... -
Imagery and imaginary of islander identity: Older people and migration in Irish small-island communities
(2013)This article examines the imagery and imaginaries of islander identity and makes an original contribution to the fields of gerontology and nissology. Drawing on data collected through in-depth interviews with 19 older ... -
Immunogenicity of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells
(2012)Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) inhibit proliferation of allogeneic T cells and express low levels of major histocompatibility complex class I (MHCI), MHCII and vascular adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1). We investigated whether ... -
The Impact of Agile Practices on Trust in Software Project Teams
(IEEE, 2012)Agile software development involves self-managing teams that are empowered and responsible for meeting project goals in whatever way they deem suitable. Managers must place more trust in such teams than they do in teams ... -
‘The Impact of COVID19 on young people (Project Brief 1)’, Crisis Coping-Marginalised young people’s living and learning experiences during COVID-19 in Ireland
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Education, NUI Galway., 2022)[No abstract available] -
The impact of government policy on social exclusion of older people: a review of the literature (
(Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (UK), 2004-08)This report presents the findings of research that reviews the impact of Government policy on the social exclusion of older people. The research was commissioned by the Social Exclusion Unit in July 2003, and is mainly ...