• A wideband 6th order programmable bandpass DEM implementation for a Nyquist DAC 

  Mehta, Shantanu; Mullane, Brendan; O'Brien, Vincent; Pelliconi, Roberto; Erdmann, Christophe; Farley, Brendan (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  This paper presents a 6th order programmable bandpass dynamic-element-matching (DEM) that shapes the static mismatch error of a Nyquist DAC for any choice of center-frequency. The mismatch error can be shaped over a ...
• Smart parking systems: reviewing the literature, architecture and ways forward 

  Biyik, Can; Allam, Zaheer; Pieri, Gabriele; Moroni, Davide; O' Fraifer, Muftah; O'Connell, Eoin; Olariu, Stephan; Khalid, Muhammad (MDPI, 2021)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age, and complex solutions can now be implemented seamlessly within urban governance and management frameworks and processes. For cities, growing rates of car ownership are rendering ...
• Legume-modified rotations deliver nutrition with lower environmental impact 

  Costa, Marcela P.; Reckling, Moritz; Chadwick, Dave; Rees, Robert M.; Saget, Sophie; Williams, Michael; Styles, David (Frontiers Media, 2021)

  Introducing legumes to crop rotations could contribute toward healthy and sustainable diet transitions, but the current evidence base is fragmented across studies that evaluate specific aspects of sustainability and ...
• Stretching the equilibrium limit of Sn in Ge1−xSnx nanowires: implications for field effect transistors 

  Biswas, Subhajit; Doherty, Jessica; Galluccio, Emmanuele; Manning, Hugh G.; Conroy, Michele A.; Duffy, Ray; Bangert, Ursel; Boland, John J.; Holme, Justin D. (ACS, 2021)

  Ge1−xSnx nanowires incorporating a large amount of Sn would be useful for mobility enhancement in nanoelectronic devices, a definitive transition to a direct bandgap for application in optoelectronic devices and to increase ...
• Pharmaceutical design of a delivery system for the bacteriocin lacticin 3147 

  Ryan, Aoibhín; Patel, Pratikkumar; O'Connor, Paula M.; Ross, R. Paul; Hill, Colin; Hudson, Sarah P. (Springer, 2021)

  Lacticin 3147 is a dual-acting two-peptide bacteriocin which is generally active against Gram-positive bacteria, including Listeria monocytogenes and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria such as Closteroides diffcile in the ...
• Effective separation of prime olefins from gas stream using anion pillared metal organic frameworks: ideal adsorbed solution theory studies, cyclic application and stability 

  Khraisheh, Majeda; Almomani, Fares; Walker, Gavin M. (MDPI, 2021)

  The separation of C3H4/C3H6 is one of the most energy intensive and challenging operations, requiring up to 100 theoretical stages, in traditional cryogenic distillation. In this investigation, the potential application ...
• Investigation of type I interferon responses in ANCA‑associated vasculitis 

  Batten, Isabella; Robinson, Mark W.; White, Arthur; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Fazekas, Barbara; Wyse, Jason; Buettner, Antonia; D’Arcy, Suzanne; Greenan, Emily; Murphy, Conor C.; Wigston, Zoe; Ní Gabhann‑Dromgoole, Joan; Vital, Edward M.; Little, Mark A.; Bourke, Nollaig M. (Nature, 2021)

  Type I interferon (IFN) dysregulation is a major contributory factor in the development of several autoimmune diseases, termed type I interferonopathies, and is thought to be the pathogenic link with chronic infammation ...
• A planetary health blind spot: the untapped potential of women to safeguard nature and human resilience in LMICs 

  de Paula, Nicole; Jung, Laura; Mar, Kathleen; Bowen, Kathryn; Maglakelidze, Mariam; Fünderich, Meike; Otieno, Melvine; El Omrani, Omnia; Baunach, Sabine; Gepp, Sophie (Elsevier, 2021)

  Against the backdrop of civic engagement, such as the Fridays For Future movement, expectations were high for 2020 to be a year of accelerating commitment to climate, biodiversity, and women’s rights; marked by plans ...
• A methodology for assessing and monitoring risk in the industrial wastewater sector 

  Trubetskaya, Anna; Horan, William; Conheady, Paul; Stockil, Ken; Merritt, Shane; Moore, Sean (Elsevier, 2021)

  he concept of sustainable risk assessment in industrial wastewater treatment is vital to deter mine the causes and consequences of plant failure. The potential wastewater-related risks that could hamper the operation of ...
• An accurate calorimeter-based method for the thermal characterization of heat pipes 

  Mooney, Joseph P.; Punch, Jeff; Jeffers, Nick; Egan, Vanessa (Elsevier, 2021)

  This study presents a method that can be used to accurately determine the thermal performance of a cylindrical heat pipe. In the method, the heat pipe is placed between two stainless steel 304 cylindrical blocks, configured ...
• Branching process descriptions of information cascades on twitter 

  Gleeson, James P.; Onaga, Tomokatsu; Fennell, Peter; Cotter, James; Burke, Raymond; O'Sullivan, David J.P. (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  A detailed analysis of Twitter-based information cascades is performed, and it is demonstrated that branching process hypotheses are approximately satisfied. Using a branching process framework, models of agent-to-agent ...
• Understanding the low temperature electrochemistry of magnesium-lithium hybrid ion battery in all-phenyl-complex solutions 

  Rashad, Muhammad; Asif, Muhammad (Elsevier, 2021)

  Magnesium–lithium hybrid ion batteries have emerged as a new class of energy storage systems owing to dendrite free cycling of magnesium anode and possibility of practice of numerous conventional lithium cathodes. In present ...
• Dark field and coherent anti-stokes raman (DF-CARS) imaging of cell uptake of core-shell, magnetic-plasmonic nanoparticles 

  Brennan, Grace; Ryan, Sally; Soulimane, Tewfik; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Silien, Christophe (MDPI, 2021)

  Magnetic-plasmonic, Fe3O4 -Au, core-shell nanoparticles are popular in many applications, most notably in therapeutics and diagnostics, and thus, the imaging of these nanostructures in biological samples is of high importance. ...
• Properties of a thermoplastic composite skin-stiffener interface in a stiffened structure manufactured by laser-assisted tape placement with in situ consolidation 

  Bandaru, Aswani Kumar; Clancy, Gearóid J.; Peeters, Daniël; O'Higgins, Ronan M.; Weaver, Paul M. (Elsevier, 2019)

  A critically important consideration of stiffened structural panels is the interfacial properties between skin and stiffener. In the present study a novel implementation of laser-assisted tape placement (LATP) was used to ...
• Titanium carbide MXene nucleation layer for epitaxial growth of high-quality GaN nanowires on amorphous substrates 

  Prabaswara, Aditya; Kim, Hyunho; Min, Jung-Wook; Subedi, Ram Chandra; Anjum, Dalaver H.; Davaasuren, Bambar; Moore, Kalani; Conroy, Michele A.; Mitra, Somak; Roqan, Iman S.; Ng, Tien Khee; Alshareef, Husam N.; Ooi, Boon S. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Growing III-nitride nanowires on 2D materials is advantageous, as it effectively decouples the underlying growth substrate from the properties of the nanowires. As a relatively new family of 2D materials, MXenes are promising ...
• How task conflict can support creative problem solving in teams by stimulating knowledge sharing, critical and creative thinking and meta-cognition 

  Kiernan, Louise; Ledwith, Ann; Lynch, Raymond (IntechOpen, 2021)

  This study explores how task conflict can support creative problem solving in teams and the cognitive processes applied. As multidisciplinary teams can be diverse in nature, they may not always partake competently in the ...
• In vitro and In vivo effects of palmaria palmata derived peptides on glucose metabolism 

  Harnedy-Rothwell, Pádraigín A.; McLaughlin, Chris M.; Le Gouic, Aurélien V.; Mullen, Ciaran; Parthsarathy, Vadivel; Allsopp, Philip J.; McSorley, Emeir M.; FitzGerald, Richard J.; O’Harte, Finbarr P. M. (Springer, 2021)

  Three synthetic peptides, ILAP, LLAP and MAGVDHI, derived from a Palmaria palmata protein hydrolysate were assessed for their antidiabetic potential in vitro and in vivo. In addition to inhibiting dipeptidyl peptidase-IV ...
• An empirical assessment of baseline feature location techniques 

  Razzaq, Abdul; Le Gear, Andrew; Exton, Chris; Buckley, Jim (Springer, 2020)

  Feature Location (FL) aims to locate observable functionalities in source code. Considering its key role in software maintenance, a vast array of automated and semi-automated Feature Location Techniques (FLTs) have been ...
• Supercritical extraction of biomass-A green and sustainable method to control the pyrolysis product distribution 

  Trubetskaya, Anna; Attard, Thomas M.; Budarin, Vitaliy L.; Hunt, Andrew J.; Arshadi, Mehrdad; Grams, Jacek (American Chemical Society, 2021)

  This research demonstrates that supercritical extraction of the biomass has a remarkable and complex influence on Scots pine tree fractions changing the surface concentration of water, lipids, and metals simultaneously. ...
• Spray drying of pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals: experimental optimization of process and formulation 

  Ziaee, Ahmad (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Oral consumption is the most commonly used method of small molecule drug delivery due to its simple administration, flexible formulation design, cost-effectiveness and established production technology. The typical ...

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