• Difficulties arising in reimbursement recommendations on new medicines due to inadequate reporting of population adjustment indirect comparison methods 

  Holmes, Eileen M.; Leahy, Joe; White, Arthur; Donnan, Peter T.; Lamrock, Felicity (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Indirect treatment comparisons are useful to estimate relative treatment effects when head‐to‐head studies are not conducted. Statisticians at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Ireland (NCPE) and Scottish Medicines ...
• Life cycle thinking case study for catalytic wet air oxidation of lignin in bamboo biomass for vanillin production 

  McCallum, Christopher S; Wang, Wanling; Doran, W. John; Forsythe, W. Graham; Garrett, Mark D; Hardacre, Christopher; Leahy, James J.; Morgan, Kevin; Shine, Dong-Soo; Sheldrake, Gary N (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021)

  Life cycle thinking analysis (LCT) was conducted on the production of vanillin via bamboo wet air oxidation compared to vanillin production from crude oil or Kraft lignin. Synthetic vanillin has been produced from crude ...
• Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE’s Covid‑19 contact tracing app 

  Rekanar, Kaavya; O'Keeffe, Ian R.; Buckley, Sarah; Abbas, Raja Manzar; Beecham, Sarah; Chochlov, Muslim; Fitzgerald, Brian; Glynn, Liam G.; Johnson, Kevin; Laffey, John; McNicholas, Bairbre; Nuseibeh, Bashar; O'Connell, James; O'Keeffe, Derek; O'Callaghan, Mike; Razzaq, Abdul; Richardson, Ita; Simpkin, Andrew; Storni, Cristiano; Tsvyatkova, Damyanka; Walsh, Jane; Welsh, Thomas; Buckley, Jim (Springer, 2021)

  Background Digital Contact Tracing is seen as a key tool in reducing the propagation of Covid-19. But it requires high uptake and continued participation across the population to be efective. To achieve sufcient ...
• Semi-continuous production of xanthan in biofilm reactor using Xanthomonas campestris 

  Nejadmansouri, Maryam; Razmjooei, Maryam; Safdarianghomsheh, Reza; Shad, Ehsan; Delvigne, Frank; Khalesi, Mohammadreza (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Semi-continuous production of xanthan gum using self-immobilized Xanthomonas campestris cells in biofilm reactors was studied. Fermentation was carried out using two different designs of biofilm reactor equipped with ...
• A review of on-farm roadway runoff characterisation and potential management options for Ireland 

  Fenton, O.; Tuohy, P.; Daly, K.; Moloney, T.; Rice, P.; Murnane, John G. (Springer, 2021)

  Runoff from farm roadways within farm boundaries are acknowledged as a year-round source of pollutants discharging to surface water, particularly during the main grazing season (Feb-Nov) when their usage is high. These ...
• Primary cilium-mediated MSC mechanotransduction is dependent on Gpr161 regulation of hedgehog signalling 

  Johnson, Gillian P.; Faair, Sean; Hoey, David A. (Elsevier, 2021)

  The benefits of physical loading to skeletal mass are well known. The primary cilium has emerged as an important organelle in bone mechanobiology/mechanotransduction, particularly in mesenchymal stem/stromal cells, yet ...
• Beneficial anti‐platelet and anti‐inflammatory properties of irish apple juice and cider bioactives 

  Tsoupras, Alexandros; Moran, Donal; Pleskach, Hayley; Durkin, Maria; Traas, Con; Zabetakis, Ioannis (MDPI, 2021)

  Several bioactives from fruit juices and beverages like phenolics, nucleotides and polar lipids (PL) have exhibited anti‐platelet cardio‐protective properties. However, apple juice and cider lipid bioactives have not been ...
• Molecular characterization of a marine turtle tumor epizootic, profiling external, internal and postsurgical regrowth tumors 

  Yetsko, Kelsey; Farrell, Jessica A.; Blackburn, Nicholas B.; Whitmore, Liam; Stammnitz, Maximilian R.; Whilde, Jenny; Eastman, Catherine B.; Rollinson Ramia, Devon; Thomas, Rachel; Krstic, Aleksandar; Linser, Paul; Creer, Simon; Carvalho, Gary; Devlin, Mariana A.; Nahvi, Nina; Leandro, Ana Cristina; deMaar, Thomas W.; Burkhalter, Brooke; Murchison, Elizabeth P.; Schnitzler, Christine; Duffy, David J. (Nature, 2021)

  Sea turtle populations are under threat from an epizootic tumor disease (animal epidemic) known as fibropapillomatosis. Fibropapillomatosis continues to spread geographically, with prevalence of the disease also growing ...
• The sustainability of rice‐crayfish coculture systems: a mini review of evidence from Jianghan plain in China 

  Hou, Jun; Styles, David; Cao, Yuxian; Ye, Xinxin (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  BACKGROUND Rice‐crayfish coculture (RC) uses 10% of the paddy field area for crayfish ditches, with rice cultivated in the remaining area, providing staple carbohydrates alongside fish rich in protein and essential oils. ...
• A comparison between predictive modelling approaches for spirally reinforced composite catheter tubing using classical statistical DOE and a custom DOE design 

  Lynn, Sean; Tanner, David A.; Ryan, Alan; O'Malley, Philip; Moore, Sean (Elsevier, 2020)

  The Medical Device industry lags other industries such as automotive and aerospace in terms of the use of predictive modeling as a design tool. This has started to change with growing experience being established with ...
• Rearing in female-only groups and dietary mineral supplementation improves sow welfare in the early parities and lifetime performance 

  Hartnett, Phoebe; Boyle, Laura A.; O'Driscoll, Keelin (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  The lifetime performance of commercial sows relies on longevity, which is dependent on good health and reproductive performance. However, there is a high rate of wastage of sows in the early parities, which is influenced ...
• Preparation, stabilisation, isolation and tableting of valsartan nanoparticles using a semi-continuous carrier particle mediated process 

  Kumar, Ajay; Ramisetty, Kiran A.; Bordignon, Simone; Hodnett, Benjamin K.; Davern, Peter; Hudson, Sarah (Elsevier, 2021)

  This work investigated the technical feasibility of preparing, stabilizing and isolating poorly water-soluble drug nanoparticles via a small-scale antisolvent precipitation process operating in semi-continuous mode. ...
• Enzyme-assisted release of antioxidant peptides from porphyra dioica conchocelis 

  Pimentel, Filipa B.; Machado, Marlene; Cermeño Aínsa, María M.; Kleekayai, Thanyaporn; Machado, Susana; Rego, Andreia M.; Abreu, Maria H.; Alves, Rita C.; Oliveira, Maria Beatriz P. P.; FitzGerald, Richard J. (MDPI, 2021)

  The conchocelis life cycle stage of P. dioica represents an unexplored source of bioactive compounds. The aim of this study was to generate and characterise, for the first time, hydrolysates of conchocelis using a specific ...
• Greenhouse gas mitigation and rural electricity generation by a novel two-stroke biogas engine 

  Nindhia, Tjokorda Gde Tirta; McDonald, Morag; Styles, David (Elsevier, 2021)

  Small-scale anaerobic digestion of wet organic wastes can make positive contributions to climate mitigation, energy security and nutrient cycling in agri-food systems. However, the environmental sustainability of small-scale ...
• Quantifying WEEE arising in scrap metal collections method development and application in Ireland 

  Ryan-Fogarty, Yvonne; Coughlan, Damian; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Wiley, 2021)

  Quantifying waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) not arising in documented and formal WEEE collection is a major challenge. This paper presents a method to characterize and estimate quantities of WEEE arising ...
• Crystal engineering of porous coordination networks for C3 hydrocarbon separation 

  Gao, Mei-Yan; Song, Bai-Qiao; Sensharma, Debobroto; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  C3 hydrocarbons (HCs), especially propylene and propane, are high‐volume products of the chemical industry as they are utilized for the production of fuels, polymers, and chemical commodities. Demand for C3 HCs as chemical ...
• Estimating job creation potential of compliant WEEE pre-treatment in Ireland 

  McMahon, Kathleen; Ryan-Fogarty, Yvonne; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Elsevier, 2021)

  While significant focus has been placed on the environmental and health impacts of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) treatment, a gap exists with respect to job creation in WEEE treatment. The creation of ...
• Static and dynamic investigations on leaching/retention of nutrients from raw poultry manure biochars and amended agricultural soil 

  Hadroug, Samar; Jellali, Salah; Jeguirim, Mejdi; Kwapinska, Marzena; Hamdi, Helmi; Leahy, James J.; Kwapinski, Witold (MDPI, 2021)

  In this study, nutrients release/adsorption from/by raw poultry manure-derived biochar produced at a pyrolysis temperature of 600 ?C (RPM-B) was assessed under static and dynamic conditions. Batch sequential leaching ...
• Contamination of domestic groundwater systems by verotoxigenic escherichia coli (VTEC), 2003–2019: A global scoping review 

  Chique, C.; Hynds, P.; Burke, L.P.; Morris, D.; Ryan, Michael P.; O'Dywer, J. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) are important agents of diarrhoeal disease in humans globally. As a noted waterborne disease, emphasis has been given to the study VTEC in surface waters, readily susceptible to ...
• Ewe breed differences in cervical anatomy and cervicovaginal mucus properties: an international study 

  Abril-Parreno, L.; Krogenæs, A.K.; Byrne, C.J.; Donovan, A.; Stuen, S.; Caldas, E.; Diskin, M.G.; Druart, X.; Fair, Seán (Elsevier, 2021)

   In sheep, cervical artificial insemination (AI) involves depositing semen at the cervical opening, as it is not possible to traverse the cervix due to its complex anatomy. However, internationally this method yields low ...

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