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(University of Limerick, 2020)Hospital overcrowding is defined as the condition where the num ber of patients exceeds the healthcare system capacity and resources (Hoot and Aronsky, 2008). Long durations of stay are the main cause of overcrowding, ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020)Background: Mood disorder is common in cervical dystonia and can impact on quality of life. It often precedes the onset of cervical dystonia and does not improve with botulinum toxin therapy. Objective: To assess health-related ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Maraging steel is an engineering alloy which has been widely employed in metal additive manufacturing. This paper examines manufacturing and post-processing factors affecting the properties of maraging steel fabricated ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)A specially designed fractal metasurface-based structure was investigated as a dual-polarization converter operating in the terahertz(THz) band. The proposed converter has the ability to perform both the linear-to-cross ...
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(Springer, 2020)Gaussian processes (GPs) are distributions over functions, which provide a Bayesian nonparametric approach to regression and classification. In spite of their success, GPs have limited use in some applications, for ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020)In humans and model species, alterations of sperm DNA methylation patterns have been reported in cases of spermatogenesis defects, male infertility and exposure to toxins or nutritional challenges, suggesting that a ...
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(American Chemical Society, 2020)Molecular stacking modes, generally classified as H-, J-, and X-aggregation, play a key role in determining the optoelectronic properties of organic crystals. However, the control of stacking transformation of a specific ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2020)Pollution from anthropogenic marine debris, particularly buoyant plastics, is ubiquitous across marine ecosystems. Due to the persistent nature of plastics in the environment, their buoyancy characteristics, degradation ...
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(Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)The behaviour of palladium & nickel deposited on mechanically exfoliated samples of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, WS2, and WSe2) via e-beam evaporation was investigated.Sputtering of metals on the flakes allowed ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Water companies consume up to 8% of global energy demand, at billions of dollars’ cost. Benchmarking of performance between utilities can facilitate improvements in efficiency; however, inconsistencies in benchmarking ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Dairy production has a substantial environmental impact. Currently, most studies analysing the environmental burdens of milk production employ attributional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), for cradle to farm-gate analysis of ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Although the food service sector is a major user of water, the potential for heat recovery from commercial kitchens’ drain water remains largely unexplored. For the first time, we compare the life cycle environmental burdens ...
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(Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)Straw is an important livestock bedding material facing increasing demand for alternative uses in Europe and is often transported long distances from arable to livestock regions. Alternative bedding materials cultivated ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Polyethylene (PE) is one of the most common types of plastic. Whilst an increasing share of post-consumer plastic waste from Europe is collected for recycling, 46% of separated PE waste is exported outside of the source ...
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(Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland, 2020)Tensegrity is a structural principle based on the use of isolated or contiguous pin jointed components in compression inside a net of continuous tension. Although the concept has been studied for many decades, relatively ...
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(Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland, 2020)The critical traffic loading condition for long-span bridges is congestion when vehicles may be closely spaced together. Data on very high traffic flows is limited however, as induction loops which are typically used to ...
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(Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland, 2020)Existing long span load models have typically been developed using a number of conservative assumptions, and as such are more applicable to the design of new bridges rather than the assessment of existing structures. ...
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(American Chemical Society, 2020)The dynamics of ion intercalation into solid matrices influences the performance of key components in most energy storage devices (Li-ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, etc.). Electrochemical methods provide key ...
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(Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)Seaweed (macroalgae) is considered as a sustainable bioresource rich in high-quality nutrients such as protein. Seaweed protein can be used as an alternative to other protein sources. Furthermore, these proteins are natural ...
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(Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)Peatlands occupy 20% of the land area of Ireland and store over half of soil carbon stocks. Over 80% of these peatlands have been disturbed by human activity such as drainage for peat extraction, afforestation and agriculture. ...