Agriculture is particularly exposed to climate change, which threatens global food security. To date, climate change impact assessments on future food availability have focussed primarily on crop production. Projections of climate change impacts on livestock are relatively rare, with productivity gains and losses yet t...
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Teaching English vocabulary explicitly is a popular method employed in language classrooms in Taiwan (Chou, 2011). Schmitt (2008) argues that both explicit and incidental learning are necessary for second language vocabulary acquisition and should be seen as complementary. It is generally considered that extensive read...
Chun-Huei Chuo· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
Accurately identifying children at risk of abuse and intervening in ways that will protect them is far from an exact science (Spratt et al. 2015; Fleming et al. 2015) and is made all the harder by the fact that social workers have no unitary knowledge base to draw on to determine their recommendations (Enosh and Bayer-...
Paul McCafferty· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
Background Research denotes that problematic child behaviour can impact negatively upon caregiver well-being. Decreased well-being increases use of harsh and punitive discipline measures with such measures exacerbating negative child behaviour, and; thus, negative cycles are created. Evidence suggests that intervention...
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Heterogeneous catalysis plays a significant role in the modern chemical industry. Computational investigation has been an indispensable approach to reveal catalyst structures and catalytic reactions in the last few decades, where first-principles calculations are widely adopted. Despite the success in understanding cat...
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Objectives:This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of different tooth replacement strategies in adult patients with shortened dental arches, including survival rates of prosthodontic interventions, risk of tooth loss and impact on oral-health related quality of life (OHRQoL); to determine the most appropriate to...
Conor McLister· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
Management of invasive alien species (IAS) is notoriously difficult, with many examples of expensive, failed attempts. While there is growing consensus that prevention is better than cure, successful prevention requires user-friendly, effective methods to quantify the ecological impacts of established, emerging and fut...
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Fish are among the world’s most important natural resources, providing humans with numerous ecosystem goods and services, including an annual harvest of over 100 million tonnes of wild biomass worldwide. Current evidence suggests that many fish species and stocks are under pressure. The Food and Agriculture Organizatio...
Conor V. Dolan· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally and account for over 30% of deaths each year. Coronary artery disease, the disease of blood vessels supplying the heart, is the most common form of cardiovascular disease, and represents an increasing burden to healthcare worldwide. Bioresorbable polymer s...
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Background Sleep plays a prominent role in a child’s development, health, and wellbeing. Approximately 23-46% of children with cerebral palsy (CP) have been found to experience sleep disturbances compared to 5-30% of children without CP. The impact(s) of unresolved sleep disturbances have been found to extend beyond th...
Mary-Elaine McCavert· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
Two studies were completed. The first was a systematic review and meta-analysis to synthesise available quantitative literature on the effectiveness of psychological interventions for targeting co-occurring PTSD and SUD in prison populations. Four databases (Medline, Scopus, Psych INFO and Web of Science) identified N=...
Donna Redmond· Research Portal (Queen's Uni...· 0 citations
In this thesis, I present the Planet Hunters NGTS citizen science project. In this project, we enlist the help of members of the public to visually vet candidates from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The aim of this project is to detect planet candidates that were missed in initial searches of these data. By...
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Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.