• A simple model to estimate yield stress and hardness variation in railheads 

  Kourousis, Kyriakos I; Athukoralalage, Asitha; De Pellegrin, Dennis (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  This technical note presents a macroscopic model capable to estimate the variation of hardness and yield stress at different railhead distances (depths) from the running surface. Published data, including results reported ...
• Pregnancy-specific glycoprotein expression in normal gastrointestinal tract and in tumors detected with novel monoclonal antibodies 

  Houston, Aileen; Williams, John M; Rovis, Tihana Lenac; Shanley, Daniel K; O'Riordan, Ronan T; Kiely, Patrick A; Ball, Melanie; Barry, Orla P; Kelly, Jacquie; Fanning, Aine; MacSharry, John; Mandelboim, Ofer; Singer, Bernhard B; Jonjic, Stipan; Moore, Tom (Taylor and Francis, 2016)

  Pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) are immunoglobulin superfamily members related to the carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule (CEACAM) family and are encoded by 10 genes in the human. They are ...
• Comparative effectiveness of conservative interventions for nonspecific chronic spinal pain: physical, behavioral/psychologically informed, or combined? A systematic review and meta-analysis 

  O'Keeffe, Mary; Purtill, Helen; Kennedy, Norelee; Conneely, Mairead; Hurley, John; O'Sullivan, Peter; Dankaerts, Wim; O'Sullivan, Kieran (Elsevier, 2016)

  Nonspecific chronic spinal pain (NSCSP) is highly disabling. Current conservative rehabilitation commonly includes physical and behavioral interventions, or a combination of these approaches. Physical interventions aim to ...
• Metal particle compaction during drop-substrate impact for inkjet printing and drop-casting processes 

  Clancy, Ian; Amarandei, G; Nash, Cian; Glowacki, Bartek A (AIP Publishing, 2016)

  Direct coating methods using metal particles from aqueous solutions or solvent-based inks become central in the roll-to-roll fabrication processes as these methods can lead to continuous or pre-defined conductive layers ...
• An empirically-derived personalised theory for technical support 

  Gizaw,Tulu Solomon (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This thesis focuses on Technical Support (TS) as a post sales service provided to users of Information Technology (IT). One of the goals of TS is to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction by providing high quality ...
• Electrospun API-loaded mixed matrix membranes for controlled release 

  Castro-Dominguez, B.; Moroney, K.; Schaller, B.; O'Connor, S.; Cloonan, A.; Vo, T. T. N.; Walker, G.; O'Reilly, E. J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)

  The development of biocompatible membrane materials capable of delivering active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) over a fixed time period offers significant advantages to the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries ...
• Underwater depth and temperature sensing based on fiber optic technology for marine and fresh water applications 

  Duraibabu, Dinesh Babu; Leen, Gabriel; Toal, Daniel; Newe, Thomas; Lewis, Elfed; Dooly, Gerard (MDPI, 2017)

  Oceanic conditions play an important role in determining the effects of climate change and these effects can be monitored through the changes in the physical properties of sea water. In fact, Oceanographers use various ...
• Infiltration of commercially available, anode supported SOFC’s via inkjet printing 

  Mitchell-Williams, T. B.; Tomov, R. I.; Saadabadi, S. A.; Krauz, M.; Aravind, P. V.; Glowacki, Bartek A; Kumar, R. V. (Springer Open, 2017)

  Commercially available anode supported solid oxide fuel cells (NiO-8YSZ/8YSZ/LSCF- 20 mm in diameter) were anode infiltrated with gadolinium doped ceria (CGO) using a scalable drop-on-demand inkjet printing process. Cells ...
• On the formation of fold-type oscillation marks in the continuous casting of steel 

  Vynnycky, Michael; Saleem, S; Devine, K M; Florio, B J; Mitchell, Sarah L; O’Brien, S B G (The Royal Society, 2017)

  Asymptotic methods are employed to revisit an earlier model for oscillation-mark formation in the continuous casting of steel. A systematic non-dimensionalization of the governing equations, which was not carried out ...
• An optical fibre-based sensor for real-time monitoring of clinical linear accelerator radiotherapy delivery 

  O'Keeffe, Sinéad; Zhao, W; Sun, W; Zhang, D; Qin, Z; Chen, Z; Ma, Y; Lewis, Elfed (IEEE Computer Society, 2016)

  A novel real-time optical fibre X-Ray dosimeter for monitoring the radiation pulses delivered from a clinical linear accelerator (Linac) is presented. The primary focus of the sensor is to measure low doses of ionising ...
• Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: the Irish marriage referendum 

  O’Sullivan, David J. P.; Garduño-Hernández, Guillermo; Gleeson, James P.; Beguerisse-Díaz, Mariano (The Royal Society, 2017)

  We examine the relationship between social structure and sentiment through the analysis of a large collection of tweets about the Irish Marriage Referendum of 2015. We obtain the sentiment of every tweet with the hashtags ...
• Effect of ring rotation upon gas adsorption in SIFSIX-3-M (M = Fe, Ni) pillared square grid networks† 

  Elsaidi, Sameh K.; Mohamed, Mona H.; Simon, Cory M.; Braun, Efrem; Pham, Tony; Forrest, Katherine A.; Xu, Wenqian; Banerjee, Debasis; Space, Brian; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Thallapally, Praveen K. (Royal Society Of Chemistry, 2017)

  Dynamic and flexible metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that respond to external stimuli, such as stress, light, heat, and the presence of guest molecules, hold promise for applications in chemical sensing, drug delivery, gas ...
• Low AC loss inkjet-printed multifilamentary YBCO coated conductors 

  Hopkins, Simon C; Mitchell Williams, Tom B; Vanden Bussche, Dries R; Calleja, Albert; Vlad, Valentina Roxana; Vilardell, Marta; Granados, Xavier; Puig, Teresa; Obradors, Xavier; Usoskin, Alexander; Soloviov, Mykola; Vojenciak, Michal; Gomory, Fedor; Van Driessche, Isabel; Backer, Michael; Glowacki, Bartek A (IEEE Computer Society, 2016)

  Impressive performance has been achieved in (RE)Ba2Cu3O7-delta (REBCO) coated conductors, but for many applications, the high cost and ac losses remain prohibitive. Inkjet printing methods combine scalability and low ...
• Enriching mental health Mobile assessment and intervention with situation awareness 

  Soares Teles, Ariel; Rocha, Artur; José da Silva e Silva, Francisco; Correia Lopes, João; O’Sullivan, Donal; van de Ven, Pepijn; Endler, Markus (MDPI, 2017)

  Current mobile devices allow the execution of sophisticated applications with the capacity for identifying the user situation, which can be helpful in treatments of mental disorders. In this paper, we present SituMan, a ...
• The influence of composition and location on the toughness of human atherosclerotic femoral plaque tissue 

  Cunnane, Eoghan M; Barrett, Hilary E; Kavanagh, E.G; Mongrain, R; Walsh, Michael T. (Elsevier, 2016)

  The toughness of femoral atherosclerotic tissue is of pivotal importance to understanding the mechanism of luminal expansion during cutting balloon angioplasty (CBA) in the peripheral vessels. Furthermore, the ability ...
• Single atoms of Pt-group metals stabilized by N-doped carbon nanofibers for efficient hydrogen production from formic acid 

  Bulushev, Dmitri A; Zacharska, Monika; Lisitsyn, Alexander S; Podyacheva, Olga Yu; Hage, Fredrik S; Ramasse, Quentin M; Bangert, Ursel; Bulusheva, Lyubov G (American Chemical Society, 2016)

  Formic acid is a valuable chemical derived from biomass, as it has a high hydrogen-storage capacity and appears to be an attractive source of hydrogen for various applications. Hydrogen production via formic acid decomposition ...
• Single isolated Pd2+ cations supported on N-Doped carbon as active sites for hydrogen production from formic acid decomposition 

  Bulushev, Dmitri A; Zacharska, Monika; Shlyakhova, Elena V; Chuvilin, Andrey L; Guo, Yina; Beloshapkin, Sergey; Okotrub, Alexander V; Bulusheva, Lyubov G (American Chemical Society, 2015)

  Single-site heterogeneous catalysis with isolated Pd atoms was reported earlier, mainly for oxidation reactions and for Pd catalysts supported on oxide surfaces. In the present work, we show that single Pd atoms on ...
• A survey of sensor devices: use in sports biomechanics 

  Howard, Róisín Marie; Conway, Richard; Harrison, Andrew J. (Taylor and Francies, 2016)

  This paper examines the use of sensor devices in sports biomechanics, focusing on current frequency of use of Electromyography (EMG) device preferences. Researchers in the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ...
• Cellular zinc homeostasis contributes to neuronal differentiation in human induced pluripotent stem cells 

  Pfaender, Stefanie; Föhr, Karl; Lutz, Anne-Kathrin; Putz, Stefan; Achberger, Kevin; Linta, Leonhard; Lieban, Stefan; Boeckers, Tobias M; Grabrucker, Andreas M (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)

  Disturbances in neuronal differentiation and function are an underlying factor of many brain disorders. Zinc homeostasis and signaling are important mediators for a normal brain development and function, given that zinc ...
• Actin-dependent alterations of dendritic spine morphology in shankopathies 

  Sarowar, Tasnuva; Grabrucker, Andreas M (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)

  Shank proteins (Shank1, Shank2, and Shank3) act as scaffolding molecules in the postsynaptic density of many excitatory neurons. Mutations in SHANK genes, in particular SHANK2 and SHANK3, lead to autism spectrum disorders ...

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