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    • A single nucleotide polymorphism in the bovine beta-casein promoter region across different bovine breeds 

      Keating, Aileen F.; Smith, Terry J.; Cairns, Michael T. (Cambridge Journals, 2006-02-14)
      The bovine β-casein (CSN2) gene has been shown to span a region of 8·5 kb, containing nine exons and eight intervening introns (Bonsing et al. 1988; Martin et al. 2002). The exons range in size from 24 to 498 bp; the ...
    • SIOC: Content Exchange and Semantic Interoperability Between Social Networks 

      Breslin, John; Bojars, Uldis; Passant, Alexandre; Fernández, Sergio; Decker, Stefan (2009)
      This paper describes work performed during the last few years in the context of the SIOC project in order to model social data on the Web using Semantic Web technologies. We will give an overview of the SIOC model, ...
    • Smart speaker design and implementation with biometric authentication and advanced voice interaction capability 

      Sudharsan, Bharath; Corcoran, Peter; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (CEUR-WS.org, 2019-12-05)
      Advancements in semiconductor technology have reduced dimensions and cost while improving the performance and capacity of chipsets. In addition, advancement in the AI frameworks and libraries brings possibilities to ...
    • Social impact assessment of scientist from mainstream news and weblogs 

      Timilsina, Mohan; Khawaja, Waqas; Davis, Brian; Taylor, Mike; Hayes, Conor (Springer Verlag, 2017-10-14)
      Research policy makers, funding agencies, universities and government organizations evaluate research output or impact based on the traditional citation count, peer review, h-index and journal impact factors. These impact ...
    • Social Networking Portals: An Overview and Evaluation 

      O'Murchu, Ina; Breslin, John; Decker, Stefan (2004)
      Next generation communication on the Internet changes the way we interact with the complexity of the information load on the World Wide Web. Web portals act as gateways to resources and a multitude of services on the ...
    • Social Networks and Data Portability using Semantic Web technologies 

      Bojars, Uldis; Breslin, John; Decker, Stefan (2008)
      Social network and data portability has recently gained a lot of interest as one of the issues for social media sites on the Web. In this paper, we will show how Semantic Web technologies and especially the FOAF and ...
    • Social sentiment indices powered by X-scores 

      Davis, Brian; Cortis, Keith; Vasiliu, Laurentiu; Koumpis, Adamantios; McDermott, Ross; Handschuh, Siegfried (INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, 2016-05)
      Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores (SSIX) seeks to address the challenge of extracting relevant and valuable economic signals in a cross-lingual fashion from the vast variety of and increasingly influential social ...
    • Social values and civic behaviour among youth in Ireland: The influence of social contexts 

      Silke, Charlotte; Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat (SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)
      As youth civic engagement is widely considered important for social cohesion and democracy, concerns have been expressed regarding a perceived decline in civic and political engagement among young people throughout the ...
    • Soft cardinality constraints on XML data: How exceptions prove the business rule 

      Ferrarotti, Flavio; Hartmann, Sven; Link, Sebastian; Marin, Mauricio; Muñoz, Emir (Springer Verlag, 2013)
      We introduce soft cardinality constraints which need to be satisfied on average only, and thus permit violations in a controlled manner. Starting from a highly expressive but intractable class, we establish a fragment that ...
    • Solvent-selective routing for centrifugally automated solid-phase purification of RNA. 

      Clancy, Eoin; Coughlan, Helena; Helena, Thomas; Smith, Terry; Dwyer, Róisín M. (Springer, 2014-09-12)
      We present a disc-based module for rotationally controlled solid-phase purification of RNA from cell lysate. To this end, multi-stage routing of a sequence of aqueous and organic liquids into designated waste and elution ...
    • SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action? 

      Hogan, Aidan (2013)
      Hundreds of public SPARQL endpoints have been deployed on the Web, forming a novel decentralised infrastructure for querying billions of structured facts from a variety of sources on a plethora of topics. But is this ...
    • SPARQL++ for mapping between RDF vocabularies 

      Polleres, Axel (Springer, 2007)
      Lightweight ontologies in the formof RDF vocabularies such as SIOC, FOAF, vCard, etc. are increasingly being used and exported by ¿serious¿ applications recently. Such vocabularies, together with query languages like SPARQL ...
    • 'Speak Up': Participation of children and young people in decisions about their lives in Tusla Services 

      Tierney, Edel; Kennan, Danielle; Forkan, Cormac; Brady, Bernadine (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2018-11)
      The UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre at NUI Galway carried out a study to find out to what extent the voice of children and young people are being heard in decisions made about their lives by Tusla. This study ...
    • A Speech Based Approach to Surveillance Video Retrieval 

      QasemiZadeh, Behrang; O'Neill, Ian; Shen, Jiali; Miller, Paul; Hanna, Philip; Stwart, Darryl; Wang, Hongbin (2009)
      This paper describes the anatomy of a pilot surveillance system with a speech-based interface for content-based retrieval of video data. The proposed system relies on an ontology-based information sharing architecture and ...
    • Spinal cord injury in vitro: Modelling axon growth inhibition 

      Abu-Rub, Mohammad; McMahon, Siobhan; Zeugolis, Dimitrios I.; Pandit, Abhay (Elsevier, 2010-06)
      Over the past three decades, tremendous progress has been made in elucidating mechanisms underlying regenerative failure after spinal cord injury and in devising therapeutic approaches to promote functional nerve regeneration. ...
    • SPORTAL: Profiling the Content of Public SPARQL Endpoints 

      Hasnain, Ali; Mehmood, Qaiser; Sana e Zainab, Syeda; Hogan, Aidan (IGI Global, 2016)
      Access to hundreds of knowledge bases has been made available on the Web through public SPARQL endpoints. Unfortunately, few endpoints publish descriptions of their content (e.g., using VoID). It is thus unclear how agents ...
    • SPORTAL: Searching for Public SPARQL Endpoints 

      Hasnain, Ali; Mehmood, Qaiser; Zainab, Syeda Sana e; Hogan, Aidan (NUI Galway, 2016-10)
      There are hundreds of SPARQL endpoints on the Web, but finding an endpoint relevant to a client s needs is difficult: each endpoint acts like a black box, often without a description of its content. Herein we briefly ...
    • An SRAM optimized approach for constant memory consumption and ultra-fast execution of ML classifiers on TinyML hardware 

      Sudharsan, Bharath; Yadav, Piyush; Breslin, John G.; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-11-15)
      With the introduction of ultra-low-power machine learning (TinyML), IoT devices are becoming smarter as they are driven by Machine Learning (ML) models. However, any increase in the training data results in a linear ...
    • SRAM optimized porting and execution of machine learning classifiers on MCU-based IoT devices: Demo abstract 

      Sudharsan, Bharath; Patel, Pankesh; Breslin, John G.; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-05-19)
      With the introduction of edge analytics, IoT devices are becoming smarter and ready for AI applications. However, any increase in the training data results in a linear increase in the space complexity of the trained Machine ...
    • The SSIX corpora: three gold standard corpora for sentiment analysis in English, Spanish and German financial microblogs 

      Gaillat, Thomas; Zarrouk, Manel; Freitas, André; Davis, Brian (European Language Resources Association, 2018-05-07)
      This paper introduces the three SSIX corpora for sentiment analysis. These corpora address the need to provide annotated data for supervised learning methods. They focus on stock-market related messages extracted from two ...