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Chronic kidney disease refers to an irreversible, progressive reduction of the renal function of kidneys. When there is a significant loss of renal function a replacement therapy is sought. A kidney transplant is the optimal ...

The research was carried out in conjunction with the commercially run Teagasc Hill Sheep Farm, Leenaun, Co. Mayo and with Met Éireann. The aim was to enhance habitat status and to maximise biodiversity conservation in ...

A major challenge facing the world is the need to enhance sustainability urgently as we face the inter-related challenges of climate change, dependence on fossil fuels, food shortages and growing population. The International ...

Recent years have seen a re-introduction of the victim of crime into Irish criminal justice. This thesis intends to gauge the nature and extent of this reemergence. One of the ways in which the author seeks to achieve ...

Increasingly, people are seeking health-related information online, and patient-oriented websites offer tremendous potential to educate and empower people. However, concerns have been raised about the quality of online ...

November 2005 saw a significant flashpoint in the long-running history of tensions between minority groups and those in power in France. Two teenagers, allegedly while hiding from the police, were accidently electrocuted ...

This thesis is a realist, disciplinary history of European Union Studies (EUS). It begins by examining a number of criticisms aimed at realist IR theory. By considering these criticisms it is possible to illustrate a ...

My thesis entitled “Reclaiming | constructed Wilderness”, looks simultaneously at the notion of wilderness and of the construction and preservation of such; to create a better reality for our country through proposed ...

Named-entity recognition (NER) plays a vital role in information extraction, question answering and text mining. Classic NER research activity has focused on tagging instances of PERSON, LOCATION and ORGANISATION in the ...