• Grammatical evolution of complex digital circuits in SystemVerilog 

  Tetteh, Michael; Dias, Douglas Mota; Ryan, Conor (Springer, 2022)

  The evolution of complex circuits remains a challenge for the Evolvable Hardware feld in spite much efort. There are two major issues: the amount of testing required and the low evolvability of representation structures ...
• String stability experimentation using a low-cost mobile robotic testbed 

  Johnson, Michael; Hayes, Martin J. (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  This paper presents a practical implementation of string stability research in autonomous convoy formation that is suitable for use in a typical undergraduate project lab. The research presents a benchmark test problem ...
• Melodic similarity algorithms for scores – a comparative evaluation of contrasting approaches 

  Cahill, Margaret (University of Limerick, 2008)

  This thesis is concerned with melodic similarity algorithms for musical scores. The performance of two contrasting approaches is explored and the chosen algorithms fine tuned and evaluated using human observations of ...
• Phytochemicals as inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor alpha and neuroinflammatory responses in neurodegenerative diseases 

  Zahedipour, Fatemeh; Hosseini, Seyede Atefe; Henney, Neil C.; Barreto, George E.; Sahebkar, Amirhossein (Medknow Publications, 2022)

  Inflammatory processes and proinflammatory cytokines have a key role in the cellular processes of neurodegenerative diseases and are linked to the pathogenesis of functional and mental health disorders. Tumor necrosis ...
• SmartCrypt: secure storing and sharing of time series data streams in IIoT 

  Halder, Subir; Newe, Thomas (IEEE Computer Society, 2022)

  To provide ubiquitous access, scalability and sharing possibilities, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications utilize the cloud to store collected data streams. However, secure storing and sharing of the massive ...
• Public opinion of the Irish “COVID Tracker” digital contact tracing App: A national survey 

  O'Callaghan, Michael E; Abbas, Manzar; Buckley, Jim; Fitzgerald, Brian; Johnson, Kevin; Laffey, John; McNicholas, Bairbre; Nuseibeh, Bashar; O'Keeffe, Derek; Beecham, Sarah; Razzaq, Abdul; Rekanar, Kaavya; Richardson, Ita; Simpkin, Andrew; O'Connell, James; Storni, Cristiano; Tsvyatkova, Damyanka; Walsh, Jane; Welsh, Thomas; Glynn, Liam G. (SAGE, 2022)

  Objective: This study aims to gather public opinion on the Irish “COVID Tracker” digital contact tracing (DCT) App, with particular focus on App usage, usability, usefulness, technological issues encountered, and potential ...
• Thermal management of solar photovoltaic panels using a fibre Bragg grating sensor-based temperature monitoring 

  Dhanalakshmi, Samiappan; Chakravartula, Venkatesh; Narayanamoorthi, Rajamanickam; Kumar, Ramamoorthy; Dooly, Gerard; Duraibabu, Dinesh Babu; Senthil, Ramalingam (Elsvier, 2022)

  Solar photovoltaic (PV) performance is affected by increased panel temperature. Maintaining an optimal PV panel temperature is essential for sustaining performance and maximizing the pro ductive life of solar PV panels. ...
• In vitro angiotensin‑converting enzyme and dipeptidyl peptidase‑IV inhibitory, and antioxidant activity of blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) byssus collagen hydrolysates 

  Cunha Neves, Adriana; Harnedy-Rothwell, Pádraigín A.; Fitzgerald, Richard J. (Springer, 2022)

  Large quantities of mussel byssus are generated annually as a co-product of the mussel-processing industry. This fibrous material is a rich source of collagen, which when extracted has potential uses as an alternative ...
• Intraoral swallow pressure profiles: general features and aids to categorization 

  Casey, Vincent; Perry, Alison; Conway, Richard (Springer, 2022)

  Purpose The primary goal of this study was to establish a normative data set representing intraoral time series swallow pressure profles for healthy adults using a novel wearable intraoral pressure sensing system, OroPress, ...
• Uphill quenching to reduce residual stress in aluminium alloy 7449 hollow structures 

  Robinson, J.S.; O'Donovan, A.; Wimpory, R.C. (Springer, 2022)

  Background Uphill quenching (UHQ) of heat treatable aluminium alloy components is a long established but rarely practiced or investigated method of reducing residual stresses. The efficacy of the technique has not been ...
• Datacentre energy efficiency optimization in high-speed packet I/O frameworks 

  Trifonov, Hristo; Heffernan, Donal (Inderscience, 2022)

  To meet the demands for faster network packet processing requirements in datacentres, packet I/O accelerator solutions have emerged which are dedicated to enabling faster packet forwarding capabilities. Often, such I/O ...
• On the local solute redistribution equation of macrosegregation, remelting and the formation of channel segregates 

  Vynnycky, Michael (Elsevier, 2022)

  In this paper, we reassess the local solute redistribution equation (LSRE) of macrosegregation which, since it first appeared in 1960s, has served as a cornerstone for understanding the composition variations that occur ...
• Editorial: Cancer therapeutics: targeting DNA repair pathways 

  Suraweera, Amila; Brown, James A.L.; Lim, Yi Chieh; Lavin, Martin F. (2022)

  A cell’s genome is constantly challenged by exogenous and endogenous DNA damaging agents and failure to repair this damage can lead to genomic instability and tumorigenesis (Lavin et al., 2005; Jackson and Bartek, 2009). ...
• Impact of variation in calcium level on the technofunctional properties of milk protein concentrate 

  Khalesi, Mohammadreza; Fitzgerald, Richard J. (Elsevier, 2022)

  The technofunctional properties of milk protein concentrate containing 80% protein (MPC80) with different calcium contents, i.e., MPCF1, MPCF2 and MPCF3 contained 1.57%, 1.00% and 0.36% calcium, respectively, were ...
• Synthesis of poly(acrylic acid)-cysteine-based hydrogels with highly customizable mechanical properties for advanced cell culture applications 

  Bolanta, Sharon; Malijauskaite, Sigita; McGourty, Kieran; Emmet J., O'Reilly (American Chemical Society, 2022)

  The fabrication of highly customizable scaffolds is a key enabling technology in the development of predictive in vitro cell models for applications in drug discovery, cancer research, and regenerative medicine. Naturally ...
• Green tea polyphenols upregulate the Nrf2 signaling pathway and suppress oxidative stress and inflammation markers in D-galactose-induced liver aging in mice 

  Wang, Dongxu; Wang, Taotao; Li, Zhanming; Guo, Yuanxin; Granato, Daniel (Frontiers Media, 2022)

  The beneficial effects of green tea polyphenols (GTPs) on D-galactose (D-Gal)-induced liver aging in male Kunming mice were investigated. For this purpose, 40 adult male Kunming mice were divided into four groups. All ...
• Digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19: development of a citizen-centered evaluation framework 

  Tsvyatkova, Damyanka; Buckley, Jim; Beecham, Sarah; Chochlov, Muslim; O'Keeffe, Ian R.; Razzaq, Abdul; Rekanar, Kaavya; Richardson, Ita; Welsh, Thomas; Storni, Cristiano; COVIGILANT Group (JMIR Publications, 2022)

  Background: The silent transmission of COVID-19 has led to an exponential growth of fatal infections. With over 4 million deaths worldwide, the need to control and stem transmission has never been more critical. New ...
• FisheyePixPro: self-supervised pretraining using fisheye images for semantic segmentation 

  Cheke, Ramchandra; Sistu, Ganesh; Eising, Ciarán; van de Ven, Pepijn; Kumar, Varun Ravi; Yogamani, Senthil (2022)

  Self-supervised learning has been an active area of research in the past few years. Contrastive learning is a type of self-supervised learning method that has achieved a significant performance improvement on image ...
• Identification of difluorinated curcumin molecular targets linked to traumatic brain injury pathophysiology 

  Sahebkar, Amirhossein; Sathyapalan, Thozhukat; Guest, Paul C.; Barreto, George E. (Elsevier, 2022)

  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects approximately 50% of the world population at some point in their lifetime. To date, there are no effective treatments as most of the damage occurs due to secondary effects through a ...
• Exploratory study on modelling agricultural carbon emissions in Ireland 

  Madden, Sinéad M.; Ryan, Alan; Walsh, Patrick (MDPI, 2022)

  In 2020 Ireland missed its EU climate emissions target and without additional measures will not be on the right trajectory towards decarbonisation in the longer 2030 and 2050 challenges. Agriculture remains the single ...

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