• Autonomous vehicles and avoiding the trolley (dilemma): vehicle perception, classification, and the challenges of framing decision ethics 

  Cunneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr; Shannon, Darren; Furxhi, Irini; Ryan, Cian (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  his article aims to introduce a degree of technological and ethical realism to the framing of autonomous vehicle perception and decisionality. The objective is to move the socioethical dialog surrounding autonomous vehicle ...
• Evaluating the impact of innovation policy instrument mix on firm-level research and development intensity 

  Mulligan, Kevin (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Firm-level innovation is a well-established determinant of national competitiveness and economic growth. Many studies highlight that private firms may under invest in innovation due to market and system failures. This has ...
• Driving innovation: Public policy and human capital 

  Lenihan, Helena; McGuirk, Helen; Murphy, Kevin R. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Human capital, the set of skills, knowledge, capabilities and attributes embodied in people, is crucial to firms’ capacity to absorb and organize knowledge and to innovate. Research on human capital has traditionally focused ...
• Abstracting brands: visual literacy and the making of Orla Kiely 

  Lynch, Leonie Therese (Univesity of Limerick, 2016)

  This study examines visual literacy and its key components - visual language, visual perception, visual thinking, visual learning and visual communication within the context of consumer culture. While visual literacy is ...
• Synergistic networks between multinational subsidiaries and subnational actors: role, interaction and variation within a small, highly globalised economy 

  Monaghan, Sinéad M. (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Location-specific assets and spatial attributes of foreign direct investment (FDI) are increasingly identified as an important condition for successful economic activity. Drawing upon a nascent interdisciplinary theoretical ...
• Autonomous vehicles and avoiding the trolley (dilemma): vehicle perception, classification, and the challenges of framing decision ethics 

  Cuneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr; Shannon, Darren; Furxhi, Irini; Ryan, Cian (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  This article aims to introduce a degree of technological and ethical realism to the framing of autonomous vehicle perception and decisionality. The objective is to move the socioethical dialog surrounding autonomous ...
• Driving to a future without accidents? Connected automated vehicles impact on accident frequency and motor insurance risk 

  Pütz, Fabian; Murphy, Finbarr; Mullins, Martin (Springer, 2019)

  Road traffic accidents are largely driven by human error; therefore, the development of connected automated vehicles (CAV) is expected to signiicantly reduce accident risk. However, these changes are by no means proven and ...
• Defining and regulating zero hours work:lessons from a liberal market economy 

  Ryan, Lorraine; Lavelle, Jonathan; O’Sullivan, Michelle; McMahon, Juliet; Murphy, Caroline; Turner, Tom; Gunnigle, Patrick; O’Brien, Mike (Roskilde Universitet, 2019)

  The apparent rise in precarious work has received increased attention in a number of countries in recent decades. However, studies highlight the difficulties of both defining and capturing the extent of precarious work. ...
• Application of bayesian networks in determining nanoparticle-induced cellular outcomes using transcriptomics 

  Furxhi, Irini; Murphy, Finbarr; Poland, Craig A.; Sheehan, Barry; Mullins, Martin; Mantecca, Paride (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Inroads have been made in our understanding of the risks posed to human health and the environment by nanoparticles (NPs) but this area requires continuous research and monitoring. Machine learning techniques have been ...
• Autonomous vehicles and embedded artificial intelligence: The challenges of framing machine driving decisions 

  Cunneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  With the advent of autonomous vehicles society will need to confront a new set of risks which, for the first time, includes the ability of socially embedded forms of artificial intelligence to make complex risk mitigation ...
• More subsidies, more innovation? evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation 

  Mulligan, Kevin; Lenihan, Helena; Doran, Justin (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues ...
• Machine learning prediction of nanoparticle in vitro toxicity: a comparative study of classifiers and ensemble-classifiers using the Copeland Index 

  Furxhi, Irini; Murphy, Finbarr; Mullins, Martin; Poland, Craig A. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Nano-Particles (NPs) are well established as important components across a broad range of products from cosmetics to electronics. Their utilization is increasing with their significant economic and societal potential yet ...
• The role of social capital and culture on social decision-making constraints: a multilevel investigation 

  Wang, Zhan; McNally, Regina; Lenihan, Helena (Elsevier, 2019)

  Social capital is a powerful theory explaining how organisations and their members access resources through relationships. Yet, it is important to examine potential negative consequences, as significant investments are ...
• From semi to fully autonomous vehicles: new emerging risks and ethico-legal challenges for human-machine interactions 

  Bellet, Thierry; Cunneen, Martin; Mullins, Martin; Murphy, Finbarr; Pütz, Fabian; Spickermann, Florian; Braendle, Claudia; Baumann, Martina Felicitas (Elsevier, 2019)

  The provision of an adequate liability regime for ADAS technologies is an essential prerequisite for its roll out over the coming decade. Facing to the challenge of future highly automated vehicles, this paper proposed ...
• Treasured trash? A consumer perspective on small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) divestment in Ireland 

  Casey, Katherine; Lichrou, Maria; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Elsevier, 2019)

  Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (sWEEE) is a particularly problematic category of electronic waste. A growing body of research indicates that sWEEE tends to be either stockpiled or disposed of improperly ...
• Identifying mechanisms underlying peer effects on multiplex networks 

  Xiong, Hang; Payne, Diane; Kinsella, Stephen (SimSoc Consortium, 2018)

  We separately identify two mechanisms underlying peer effects in farm households' adoption of a new crop. A farmer can follow his peers to adopt a new crop because he learns knowledge about the new crop from them ...
• Making prepublication independent replication mainstream 

  Tierney, Warren; Schweinsberg, Martin; Uhlmann, Eric Luis (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  The widespread replication of research findings in independent laboratories prior to publication is suggested as a complement to traditional replication approaches. The pre-publication independent replication approach ...
• Lifting the lid: the private financing of motorway PPPs in Ireland 

  Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin; Stafford, Anne (Economic and Social Studies, 2018)

  This paper addresses the complete absence of detailed information on, and analysis of, the financial aspects of Irelands road publicprivate partnership (PPP) programme to date. We focus on the eight hard toll roads in ...
• State-owned enterprise sector, 2018 

  Palcic, Dónal; Reeves, Eoin (De Gruyter Open, 2019)

  Table 1 provides some basic financial indicators for the 2017 financial year for the fourteen largest non-financial state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Ireland. The results highlight the significant contribution of the ...
• Expatriates' identity salience, work stressors, and work–nonwork conflict: moderating role of gender and marital status 

  Vijayakumar, Pooja B.; Cunningham, Christopher J.L. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Drawing from identity theory, we proposed individuals with high work salience experienced high work stressors (interpersonal conflict, workhours, and workload), resulting in positive work‐nonwork conflict (WNWC), and ...

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