• End-of-life electric vehicle battery stock estimation in Ireland through integrated energy and circular economy modelling 

  Fallah, Narjes; Fitzpatrick, Colin; Killian, Sheila; Johnson, Michael (Elsevier, 2021)

  While electric vehicles bring numerous environmental benefits during their lifetime, they could be a burden for waste management at the end of life if not managed properly. A circular waste management system, alternatively, ...
• Fabrication and qualitative analysis of an optical fibre EFPI-based temperature sensor 

  McGuinness, Fintan; Cloonan, Aidan; Oubaha, Mohamed; Duraibabu, Dinesh Babu; Ali, M. Mahmood; Kilkelly, Gerald; Tobin, Emma; Emma, Gabriel (MDPI, 2021)

  The following presents a comparison of an extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer (EFPI)- based temperature sensor, constructed using a novel diaphragm manufacturing technique, with a reference all-glass EFPI temperature ...
• Broadening out the working footprint of a cabled seabed observatory using an interconnected surface buoy, and examining the potential to achieve similar utility from a stand-alone buoyed platform 

  Hegarty, Aoife (University of Limerick, 2021)

  This thesis describes the extensive study and analysis of a cabled seabed observatory connection and examination of the potential to achieve similar utility from a buoyed observatory system. The study then broadens out ...
• A standard-based internet of things platform and data flow modeling for smart environmental monitoring 

  Filho, Tércio; Fernando, Luiz; Rabelo, Marcos; Silva, Sérgio; Santos, Carlos; Ribeiro, Maria; Grout, Ian; Moreira, Waldir; Oliveira-Jr, Antonio (MDPI, 2021)

  The environment consists of the interaction between the physical, biotic, and anthropic means. As this interaction is dynamic, environmental characteristics tend to change naturally over time, requiring continuous ...
• FeatureMF: an item feature enriched matrix factorization model for item recommendation 

  Zhang, Haiyang; Ganchev, Ivan; Nikolov, Nikola S.; Ji, Zhanlin; Ó'Droma, Máirtín (IEEE Computer Society, 2021)

  Matrix Factorization (MF) is one of the most successful Collaborative Filtering (CF) techniques used in recommender systems due to its effectiveness and ability to deal with very large user-item rating matrix. However, ...
• Industry 4.0 smart reconfigurable manufacturing machines 

  Morgan, Jeff; Halton, Mark; Qiao, Yuansong; Breslin, John G. (Elsevier, 2021)

  This paper provides a fundamental research review of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), which uniquely explores the state-of-the-art in distributed and decentralized machine control and machine intelligence. The ...
• Industrial IoT, cyber threats, and standards landscape: evaluation and roadmap 

  Dhirani, Lubna Luxmi; Armstrong, Eddie; Newe, Thomas (MDPI, 2021)

  Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a novel concept of a fully connected, transparent, automated, and intelligent factory setup improving manufacturing processes and efficiency. To achieve this, existing hierarchical models must ...
• Optical fbre based real‑time measurements during an LDR prostate brachytherapy implant simulation: using a 3D printed anthropomorphic phantom 

  Woulfe, Peter; O'Sullivan, F. J.; Byrne, L.; Doyle, A. J.; Kam, W.; Martyn, M.; O'Keeffe, S. (Nature, 2021)

  An optical fibre sensor based on radioluminescence, using the scintillation material terbium doped gadolinium oxysulphide (Gd2O2S:Tb) is evaluated, using a 3D printed anthropomorphic phantom for applications in low ...
• Gold enhanced hemoglobin interaction in a Fabry-Perot based optical fiber sensor for measurement of blood refractive index 

  Viphavakit, Charusluk; O'Keeffe, Sinéad; Yang, Minghong; Andersson-Engels, Stefan; Lewis, Elfed (IEEE Computer Society, 2018)

  A Fabry-Perot based optical fiber sensor to measure the oxygen concentration through monitoring the change of refractive index in red blood cells is reported. The optical fiber sensor with a diameter of 220 mu m is made ...
• Detection and prevention of new attacks for ID-based authentication protocols 

  Chen, Jinyong; Dojen, Reiner; Jurcut, Anca (ACM, 2020)

  The rapid development of information and network technologies motivates the emergence of various new computing paradigms, such as distributed computing, and edge computing. This also enables more and more network enterprises ...
• Modified fiber optic sensor for highly precise identification of mercuric ion (Hg2+) concentrations in aqueous solution 

  Qazi, Hummad Habib; bin Salim, Mohd Rashidi; Bin Mohd Supa'at, Abu Sahmah; Ahmed, Iftikhar; Abbasi, Misbah Sehar; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Idrus, Sevia Mahdaliza; bin Mohammad, Abu Bakar; Irshad, Muhammad Sultan; Yasmeen, Farhat (IOP Publishing, 2021)

  A fiber optic sensor for monitoring mercuric (Hg2+) ions in the aqueous sample have been developed based on modified cladding. To fabricate a D-shaped sensing zone onto the multimode optical fiber lengthwise polishing was ...
• ECG heartbeat classification based on an improved ResNet-18 model 

  Jing, Enbiao; Zhang, Haiyang; Li, ZhiGang; Liu, Yazhi; Ji, Zhanlin; Ganchev, Ivan (Hindawi, 2021)

  Based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach, this article proposes an improved ResNet-18 model for heartbeat classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals through appropriate model training and parameter ...
• A wideband 6th order programmable bandpass DEM implementation for a Nyquist DAC 

  Mehta, Shantanu; Mullane, Brendan; O'Brien, Vincent; Pelliconi, Roberto; Erdmann, Christophe; Farley, Brendan (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  This paper presents a 6th order programmable bandpass dynamic-element-matching (DEM) that shapes the static mismatch error of a Nyquist DAC for any choice of center-frequency. The mismatch error can be shaped over a ...
• Smart parking systems: reviewing the literature, architecture and ways forward 

  Biyik, Can; Allam, Zaheer; Pieri, Gabriele; Moroni, Davide; O' Fraifer, Muftah; O'Connell, Eoin; Olariu, Stephan; Khalid, Muhammad (MDPI, 2021)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age, and complex solutions can now be implemented seamlessly within urban governance and management frameworks and processes. For cities, growing rates of car ownership are rendering ...
• T-Count optimized quantum circuit designs for single-precision floating-point division 

  Gayathri, S. S.; Kumar, R.; Dhanalakshmi, Samiappan; Dooly, Gerard; Duraibabu, Dinesh Babu (MDPI, 2021)

  The implementation of quantum computing processors for scientific applications includes quantum floating points circuits for arithmetic operations. This work adopts the standard division algorithms for floating-point ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• A computationally efficient measure for word semantic relatedness using time series 

  Joorabchi, Arash; Alahmadi, Alaa; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E. (IEEE Comuter Society, 2017)

  Measurement of words semantic relatedness plays an important role in a wide range of natural language processing and information retrieval applications, such as full-text search, summarization, classification and clustering. ...
• An improved single-stage PFC AC-DC power supply 

  Conway, Thomas (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  This letter describes an enhancement to a previously reported single-stage transformer-leakage-inductance-based power-factor-corrected isolated power supply. An improved switch timing calculation algorithm is developed to ...
• Air pollution monitoring system in semi enclosed building for agricultural sector 

  Nurulain, S; Najib, M S; Lewis, Elfed; Salim, M R; Manap, Hadi (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  This article explains about the development of an optical sensor system to detect and measure ammonia emission in the agricultural field. At initial stage, an open path optical technique where a cylindrical chamber is used ...

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