• Spherical glass based fiber optic Fabry-Perot interferometric probe for refractive index sensing 

  Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Memon, Sanober Farheen; McGuinness, Fintan; Lewis, Elfed; Leen, Gabriel (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  A novel Fabry-Perot sensor, comprised a glass sphere bonded to a capillary and singlemode fiber, is proposed for refractive index sensing. It is characterized in air, water, ethanol, isopropanol, and glycerol. © 2020 The ...
• Cortisone and cortisol break hydrogen-bonding rules to make a drug–prodrug solid solution 

  Verma, Vivek; Bordignon, Simone; Chierotti, Michele R.; Lestari, Monica; Lyons, Kieran; Padrela, Luis; Ryan, Kevin M.; Lusi, Matteo (International Union of Crystallography, 2020)

  Multidrug products enable more effective therapies and simpler administration regimens, provided that a stable formulation is prepared, with the desired composition. In this view, solid solutions have the advantage of ...
• Safety contributions, events and operating context as criteria in safety awards: A case study from a large organisation 

  Karanikas, Nektarios; Obadimu, Solomon; Plioutsias, Anastasios (MDPI, 2020)

  Although the value and impact of safety award programmes (SAPs) have been criticised in literature, various programmes still operate within and across industries to recognise safety achievements, motivate employees and ...
• Photo-recycling the sacrificial electron donor: towards sustainable hydrogen evolution in a biphasic system 

  Ge, Peiyu; Hojeij, Mohamad; Scanlon, Micheál D.; Girault, Hubert H. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  H2 may be evolved biphasically using a polarised liquid|liquid interface, acting as a “proton pump”, in combination with organic soluble metallocenes as electron donors. Sustainable H2 production requires methodologies ...
• A square lattice topology coordination network that exhibits highly selective C2H2/CO2 separation performance 

  Kumar, Naveen; Mukherjee, Soumya; Bezrukov, Andrey A.; Vandichel, Matthias; Shivanna, Mohana; Sensharma, Debobroto; Bajpai, Alankriti; Gascón, Victoria; Otake, Ken‐ichi; Kitagawa, Susumu; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Wiley, 2020)

  C2H2/CO2 separation is an industrially important process that remains challenging because of the similar physicochemical properties of C2H2 and CO2. We herein report that the new square lattice (sql) coordination network ...
• Using static method to measure tolmetin solubility at different pressures and temperatures in supercritical carbon dioxide 

  Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Zabihi, Samyar; Sarafzadeh, Pegah; Borousan, Fatemeh; Marjani, Azam; Pelalak, Rasool; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature Research, 2020)

  Tolmetin is a non-steroidal anti-infammatory drug being used to decrease the level of hormones which are the reasons for pain, swelling, tiredness, and stifness for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis cases. We evaluated ...
• Using finite element analysis to develop a digital twin of a manufacturing bending operation 

  Hinchy, Eoin; Carcagno, C.; O'Dowd, Noel P.; McCarthy, Conor T. (Elsevier, 2020)

  In today’s business environment, the trend towards more product variety and customization is unbroken. Due to this development, the need of agile and reconfigurable production systems emerged to cope with various products ...
• Charcoal as an alternative reductant in ferroalloy production: A review 

  Surup, Gerrit Ralf; Trubetskaya, Anna; Tangstad, Merete (MDPI, 2020)

  This paper provides a fundamental and critical review of biomass application as renewable reductant in integrated ferroalloy reduction process. The basis for the review is based on the current process and product quality ...
• A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol 

  Scazufca, Marcia; Nakamura, Carina Akemi; Peters, Tim J.; Henrique, Maiara Garcia; Seabra, Antônio; La Rotta, Ehidee Gomez; Franzin, Renato M.; Martins, Daniele Ferreira; van de Ven, Pepijn; Hollingworth, William; Araya, Ricardo (BMC, 2020)

  Background: The elderly population has been growing in most low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and depression is a common condition among these populations. The lack of integration between mental health and primary ...
• Prediction of turbulence eddy dissipation of water flow in a heated metal foam tube 

  Babanezhad, Meisam; Behroyan, Iman; Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie; Rezakazemi, Mashallah; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature, 2020)

  The insertion of porous metal media inside the pipes and channels has already shown a significant heat transfer enhancement by experimental and numerical studies. Porous media could make a mixing flow and small-scale ...
• Non‑classical crystallisation pathway directly observed for a pharmaceutical crystal via liquid phase electron microscopy 

  Cookman, Jennifer; Hamilton, V.; Hall, S. R.; Bangert, Ursel (Nature Research, 2020)

  Non‑classical crystallisation (NCC) pathways are widely accepted, however there is conflicting evidence regarding the intermediate stages of crystallisation, how they manifest and further develop into crystals. Evidence ...
• Computational modeling of drug separation from aqueous solutions using octanol organic solution in membranes 

  Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie; Taleghani, Arezoo Sodagar; Ghadiri, Mahdi; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature Research, 2020)

  Continuous membrane separation of pharmaceuticals from an aqueous feed was studied theoretically by development of high-performance mechanistic model. The model was developed based on mass and momentum transfer to ...
• Improving the lives of people with musculoskeletal conditions 

  Kennedy, Norelee; O'Sullivan, Kieran (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Musculoskeletal conditions* (MSCs) are the primary cause of work absence in Ireland with an estimated direct cost to the economy of €750 million (Arthritis Ireland 2009). The management of MSCs focuses on keeping ...
• Ecologically engineered solutions to rehabilitate mining wastelands 

  Courtney, Ronan (University of Limerick, 2016)

  More than 30 million jobs in the EU and many key economic sectors are dependent on a sustainable supply of Raw Materials, such as aluminium and zinc. However, the extractive operations to process and refine such raw ...
• Dynamic mechanical analysis as a complementary technique for stickiness determination in model whey protein powders 

  O'Donoghue, Laura T.; Haque, Kamrul; Hogan, Sean A.; Laffir, Fathima R.; O'Mahony, James A.; Murphy, Eoin G. (MDPI, 2020)

  The α-relaxation temperatures (Tα), derived from the storage and loss moduli using dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), were compared to methods for stickiness and glass transition determination for a selection of model ...
• Building teacher knowledge for quality mathematics education in Ireland 

  Goos, Merrilyn; Hannigan, Ailish; O'Donoghue, John; Ní Ríordáin, Máire (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Improving mathematics proficiency among Irish school children has long been a topic of national debate.123The research team at EPI*STEM, the national centre for STEM Education based at the University of Limerick (UL), ...
• Thermodynamics of the enantiotropic pharmaceutical compound benzocaine and solubility in pure organic solvents 

  Cheuk, Dominic; Svärd, Michael; Rasmuson, Åke C. (Elsevier, 2020)

  The thermodynamic relationship between FI and FII of ethyl 4-aminobenzoate (benzocaine) has been investigated. Slurry conversion experiments show that the transition temperature below which FI is stable is located between ...
• Direct visualization of phase-matched efficient second harmonic and broadband sum frequency generation in hybrid plasmonic nanostructures 

  Li, Zhe; Corbett, Brian; Gocalinska, Agnieszka; Pelucchi, Emanuele; Chen, Wen; Ryan, Kevin. M.; Khan, Pritam; Silien, Christophe; Xu, Hongxing; Liu, Ning (Springernature, 2020)

  Second harmonic generation and sum frequency generation (SHG and SFG) provide effective means to realize coherent light at desired frequencies when lasing is not easily achievable. They have found applications from ...
• Product-service systems in Egypt: a multi case evaluation of field repair 

  Owida, Aly; Byrne, P.J.; Heavey, Cathal; El-Kilany, Khaled S. (Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2020)

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper aims to evaluate field repair within product-service system (PSS) models operated by multinational manufacturers in the Egyptian emerging market to better understand the unique ...
• Full reciprocity-gap waveform inversion, enabling space-source acquisition 

  Faucher, Florian; Alessandrini, Giovanni; Barucq, Hélène; de Hoop, Martin V.; Gaburro, Romina; Sincich, Eva (Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2020)

  The quantitative reconstruction of sub-surface Earth properties from the propagation of waves follows an iterative minimization of a misfit functional. In marine seismic exploration, the observed data usually consist of ...

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