• High order mismatch shaping for low oversampling rates 

  O'Brien, Vincent; Mullane, Brendan (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Delta Sigma data converters employing high order dynamic element matching (DEM) allow for accurate signal conversion in the presence of DAC mismatch. However, at low oversampling rates, current high order DEM decoders ...
• Using personas to exploit environmental attitudes and behaviour in sustainable product design 

  Carey, Margaret; White, Eoin J.; McMahon, Muireann; O'Sullivan, Leonard (Elsevier, 2019)

  The aim of this research was to study the relationship between user sustainable design attitudes versus behaviour, and to develop and test environmental personas as design tools. Current approaches towards environmentally ...
• Particle engineering of excipients: a mechanistic investigation into the compaction properties of lignin and [co]-spray dried lignin 

  Solomon, Samuel; Ziaee, Ahmad; Giraudeau, Laura; O'Reilly, Emmet J.; Walker, Gavin M.; Albadarin, Ahmad B. (Elsevier, 2019)

  In this work, lignin was spray dried with sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) in order to improve the compaction properties of lignin. Bulk level and physicochemical properties of spray dried formulations were measured and compared ...
• Characterization of adsorption site energies and heterogeneous of porous materials 

  Kumar, Vasanth K.; Srinivas, Gadipelli; Wood, Barbara; Ramisetty, Kiran A.; Stewart, Andrew A.; Howard, Christopher A.; Brett, Dan; Rodriquez-Reinoso, F. (American Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  Characterization of the guest-host interactions and the heterogeneity of porous materials is essential across the physical and biological sciences, for example for gas sorption and separation, pollutant removal from ...
• Largest enhancement of broadband near-infrared emission of Ni2+ in transparent nano-glass ceramics: using Nd3+ as sensitizer and Yb3+ as energy transfer bridge 

  Zhang, Yindong; Li, Xiaobo; Lai, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Runan; Lewis, Elfed; Izam Azmi, Asrul; Gao, Zhigang; Lu, Xiaosong; Chu, Yushi; Liu, Yanlei; Chai, Quan; Sun, Shiyu; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Jianzhong (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  An ultrabroadband near-infrared (NIR) emission of Ni2+ is demonstrated in a highly transparent nano-glass ceramic (nano-GC) containing Ga2O3 nanocrystals with 808 nm excitation of Nd3+. It is also shown that by adding ...
• Prebiotic supplementation in frail older people affects specific gut microbiota taxa but not global diversity 

  Tran, Tam T.T.; Cousin, Fabien J.; Lynch, Denise B.; Menon, Ravi; Brulc, Jennifer; Brown, Jillian R.M.; O'Herlihy, Eileen A.; Butto, Ludovica F.; Power, Katie; Jeffery, Ian B.; O'Connor, Eibhlís; O'Toole, Paul W. (BMC, 2019)

  Background: There are complex interactions between aging, frailty, diet, and the gut microbiota; modulation of the gut microbiota by diet could lead to healthier aging. The purpose of this study was to test the effect of ...
• Symmetric learning data augmentation model for underwater target noise data expansion 

  He, Ming; Wang, Hongbin; Zhou, Lianke; Wang, Pengming; Ju, Andrew (Tech Science Press, 2018)

  An important issue for deep learning models is the acquisition of training of data. Without abundant data from a real production environment for training, deep learning models would not be as widely used as they are today. ...
• Psychosocial factors in sustained attention work and contribution to work related musculoskeletal disorders 

  Wixted, Fiona (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The world has entered what has become known as the fourth industrial revolution. Technological advancements in ICT and automation including IoT, cloud computing and smart robotics have changed industrial manufacturing ...
• Guidelines for developing efficient thermal conduction and storage models within building energy simulations 

  Hillary, Jason; Walsh, Ed J.; Shah, Amip; Zhou, Rongliang; Walsh, Pat A. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Improving building energy efficiency is of paramount importance due to the large proportion of energy consumed by thermal operations. Consequently, simulating a building's environment has gained popularity for assessing ...
• Understanding the immobilisation of proteins on surfaces using molecular dynamics computer simulations 

  O'Mahony, Shane (University of Limerick, 2016)

  The study of protein adsorption on surfaces is becoming an increasingly important topic for research since it plays a crucial role in a variety of biomedical and biotechnological applications, biomaterials and cell biology ...
• An investigation into the effects of power supply ripple on mixed signal devices and counter measures thereof 

  Meehan, Patrick J. (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Precision instruments using mixed signal devices such as analog to digital converters (ADCs), digital to analog converters (DACs) and frequency synthesisers are sensitive to power supply noise and ripple associated with ...
• Microscopical analysis and characterisation of bioactive porous silicon nanosponge particles 

  Chadwick, Edward G. (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Porous silicon finds numerous applications in the areas of bio-technology, drug delivery, energetic materials and catalysis. Vesta Sciences (US Research Company) have led the development of porous silicon nanosponge ...
• Studies of the organic matter components in Irish grassland soils and thier drainage waters 

  Byrne, Corinna M.P. (University of Limerick, 2011)

  The overall objective of this project was to provide fundamental information about the nature and the associations of the organic matter (OM) in two representative Irish grassland soils; Clonakilty, a well drained Brown ...
• Synthetic peptides identified from Palmaria palmata enhance glucagon-like peptide-1 stability in vitro and show acute anti-hyperglycaemic and insulinotropic actions in mice 

  McLaughlin, Chris M.; Harnedy, Pádraigín A.; Parthsarathy, Vadivel; Allsopp, Philip J.; McSorley, Emeir M.; Fitzgerald, Richard J.; O'Harte, Finbarr P.M. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  no abstract available
• The effect of boarfish protein hydrolysate on postprandial glycaemic response and satiety in healthy adults 

  Crowe, W.; McLaughlin, Chris M.; Allsopp, Philip J.; Slevin, M.M.; Harnedy, Pádraigín A.; Cassidy, Y.; Baird, J.; Devaney, M.; Fitzgerald, Richard J.; O'Harte, Finbarr P.M.; McSorley, Emeir M. (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2018)

  no abstract available
• The effect of consuming boarfish protein hydrolysate on metabolic health in overweight adults 

  Crowe, W.; Baird, J.; Allsopp, Philip J.; McLaughlin, Chris M.; Harnedy, Pádraigín A.; Fitzgerald, Richard J.; O'Harte, Finbarr P.M.; McSorley, Emeir M. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  no abstract available
• Sea turtle fibropapilloma tumors share genomic drivers and therapeutic vulnerabilities with human cancers 

  Duffy, David J.; Schnitzler, Christine; Karpinski, Lorraine; Thomas, Rachel; Whilde, Jenny; Eastman, Catherine; Yang, Calvin; Krstic, Aleksandar; Rollinson, Devon; Zirkelbach, Bette; Yetsko, Kelsey; Burkhalter, Brooke; Martindale, Mark Q. (Nature Research, 2019)

  Wildlife populations are under intense anthropogenic pressures, with the geographic range of many species shrinking, dramatic reductions in population numbers and undisturbed habitats, and biodiversity loss. It is ...
• Probing crystal nucleation of fenoxycarb from solution through the effect of solvent 

  Zeglinski, Jacek; Kuhs, Manuel; Devi, Renuka K.; Khamar, Dikshitkumar; Hegarty, Avril C.; Thompson, Damien; Rasmuson, Åke C. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Induction time experiments, spectroscopic and calorimetric analysis, and molecular modelling were used to probe the influence of solvent on the crystal nucleation of fenoxycarb (FC), a medium-sized, flexible organic ...
• Weighted Item ranking for pairwise matrix factorization 

  Zhang, Haiyang; Ganchev, Ivan; Nikolov, Nikola S.; O'Droma, Máirtín (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Recommendation systems employed on the Internet aim to serve users by recommending items which will likely be of interest to them. The recommendation problem could be cast as either a rating estimation problem which ...
• A lattice Boltzmann approach to surfactant-laden emulsions 

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha; Berghout, Pieter; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2019)

  We present a pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method to simulate liquid–liquid emulsions with a slightly soluble surfactant. The model is investigated in 2-D, over a wide parameter space for a single, stationary, immiscible ...

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