• Multiple controlled antirandom testing (MCAT) for high fault coverage in a black box environment 

  Alamgir, Arbab; Bin A'ain, Abu Khari; Sheikh, Usman Ullah; Paraman, Norlina; Mokji, Musa Mohd; Grout, Ian (IEEE, 2019)

  Among the black-box approaches to digital circuit testing, Random testing is popular due to its simplicity and cost effectiveness. Unfortunately, available evidences suggest that Random testing is equipped with a number ...
• Designing an ultra-low-power RTU for use in NB-IoT water applications 

  Ganchev, Ivan; Ji, Zhanlin; Ó'Droma, Máirtín (EDP Sciences, 2019)

  Abstract. This paper presents the design and realization of a ultra-low-power and low-cost remote transfer unit (RTU), working as an outdoor gateway for collecting hydrographic data, such as rainfall, water flow rate, water ...
• Reconfigurable modular optical fibre resonance sensor system using field programmable gate array 

  Ong, Yong Sheng (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The optical fibre sensor (OFS) has been studied for the last few decades and has found extensive use in many scientific and engineering fields including major application areas such as environmental, chemical, and biomedical. ...
• A study into the electrical trim of silicon chromium thin film resistors 

  Downey, Fergus (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Silicon Chromium (SiCr) Thin Film Resistors (TFRs) have been developed and integrated into CMOS ICs for over twenty years. Current state of the art sputtering technology achieves integrated resistors with temperature ...
• Investigation of YAG:Ce-based optical fibre sensor for use in ultra-fast external beam radiotherapy dosimetry 

  Chen, Lingxia; O'Keeffe, Sinéad; Chen, Shuilin; Woulfe, Peter; Gillespie, Sean; Jiang, Benxue; Lewis, Elfed (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Radiation dosimetry plays a crucial role in the quality assurance in radiotherapy. To date, this is limited to monitoring the overall dose over the complete beam time, and so, there is limited information on the actual ...
• Dissipative soliton generation in Er Er-doped fibre laser using SnS SnS2 as saturable absorber 

  Li, Shi; Yin, Yu; Ouyang, Qiuyun; Chen, Yujin; Lewis, Elfed; Farrell, Gerald; Tokurakawa, Masaki; Wadi Harun, Sulaiman; Wang, Pengfei (IOP Publishing, 2019)

  Dissipative soliton generation is successfully demonstrated in an Erbium-doped mode-locked fibre laser using Tin Disulfide (SnS2) as a saturable absorber in the near-zero dispersion regime. A stable dissipative soliton ...
• Pilot study of a two-arm non-randomized controlled cluster trial of a psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of São Paulo, Brazil (PROACTIVE): feasibility study of a psychosocial intervention for late life depression in São Paulo 

  Scazufca, Marcia; de Paula Couto, Maria Clara P.; Henrique, Maiara Garcia; Mendes, Ana Vilela; Matijasevich, Alicia; Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Franzin, Renato M.; Seabra, Antônio Carlos; van de Ven, Pepijn; Hollingworth, William; Peters, Tim J.; Araya, Ricardo (BMC, 2019)

  Background: Depression is a common and recurrent condition among older adults and is associated with poor quality of life and increased health care utilization and costs. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the ...
• Reducing sample consumption for serial crystallography using acoustic drop ejection 

  Davy, Bradley; Axford, Danny; Beale, John H.; Butryn, Agata; Docker, Peter; Ebrahim, Ali; Leen, Gabriel; Orville, Allen M.; Owen, Robin L.; Aller, Pierre (International Union of Crystallography, 2019)

  Efficient sample delivery is an essential aspect of serial crystallography at both synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers. Rastering fixed target chips through the X-ray beam is an efficient method for serial delivery ...
• Real-Time secure/unsecure video latency measurement/analysis with FPGA-based bump-in-the-wire security 

  Kaknjo, Admir; Rao, Muzaffar; Omerdic, Edin; Newe, Thomas; Toal, Daniel (MDPI, 2019)

  With the growth of the internet of things (IoT), many challenges like information security and privacy, interoperability/standard, and regulatory and legal issues are arising. This work focused on the information security ...
• Nanosecond passively Q-switched fibre laser using a NiS2 based saturable absorber 

  Li, Shi; Yin, Yu; Ouyang, Qiuyun; Ran, Guicang; Chen, Yujin; Lewis, Elfed; Farrell, Gerald; Tokurakawa, Masaki; Harun, Sulaiman Wadi; Wang, Pengfei (Optical Society of America, 2019)

  Q-switched pulse laser generation is successfully demonstrated in both Erbiumdoped fibre laser (EDFL) and Thulium-doped fibre laser (TDFL) cavities by employing Nickel disulfide (NiS2) as a saturable absorber (SA). ...
• Temperature-insensitive refractometer based on an RI-modulated singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre structure 

  Wang, Pengfei; Zhang, Shuo; Wang, Ruoning; Farrell, Gerald; Zhang, Meng; Geng, Tao; Lewis, Elfed; Tian, Ke (2019)

  A temperature-insensitive refractometer based on a refractive index (RI)-modulated singlemode-multimode-singlemode (RMSMS) fibre structure is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In this investigation, a combination ...
• Observing the viscous relaxation process of silica optical fiber at ~1000 C using regenerated fiber bragg grating 

  Cui, Zhiru; Gong, Jianhui; Wang, Chen; Che, Nana; Zhao, Yanshuang; Chai, Quan; Qi, Haifeng; Lewis, Elfed; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Jianzhong; Yang, Jun; Yuan, Libo; Peng, Gang-Ding (2019)

  A regenerated fiber Bragg grating (RFBG) in silica fiber was used to observe the viscous relaxation process of the host silica fiber at high temperatures of around 1000 C. Two factors, preannealing time and loaded tension, ...
• Airborne wind energy- a review 

  Salari, Mahdi Ebrahimi; Coleman, Joseph; Toal, Daniel (Springer, 2017)

  Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is a new approach to harvest stronger wind streams at higher altitudes for renewable energy. This paper reviews recent developments in this field. Conventional wind energy and current constrains ...
• Multiple compound Tamm waves with Uller-Zenneck wave characteristics guided by dissipative dielectric defect in periodic multilayered isotropic dielectric material 

  Danyal, Muhammad; Maab, Husnul; Rahim, Arbab Abdur; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood (IOP Publishing, 2019)

  A canonical problem configured in three different arrangements of periodic multilayered isotropic dielectric material layers with a dissipative dielectric defect, to guide multiple compound Tamm waves with Uller–Zenneck ...
• Digital matched filtering (DMF) technique for the performance enhancement of few-mode fibre Bragg grating sensor 

  Zaini, Muhammad Khairol Annuar; Lee, Yen Sian; Lim, Kok-Sing; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Nazal, Nurul Asha Mohd; Ahmad, Harith (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  In this work, the digital matched filtering (DMF), a signal processing technique, has been proposed to identify the multiple peak wavelengths, more accurately from reflection spectra of etched few-mode fibre Bragg grating ...
• Treasured trash? A consumer perspective on small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) divestment in Ireland 

  Casey, Katherine; Lichrou, Maria; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Elsevier, 2019)

  Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (sWEEE) is a particularly problematic category of electronic waste. A growing body of research indicates that sWEEE tends to be either stockpiled or disposed of improperly ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Weighted Item ranking for pairwise matrix factorization 

  Zhang, Haiyang; Ganchev, Ivan; Nikolov, Nikola S.; Ó'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 ...

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