• A double-blind, randomised trial of a polyphenolic-rich nail bed balm for chemotherapy-induced onycholysis: the UK polybalm study 

  Thomas, Robert; Williams, Madeleine; Cauchi, Michael; Berkovitz, Saul; Smith, Sarah A. (Springer, 2018)

  Purpose Nail damage is common amongst patients receiving chemotherapy causing disfigurement and pain. This investigation evaluated whether a topical balm containing steam-extracted, bioactive polyphenolic-rich herbal oils ...
• A practical formula of solutions for a family of linear non-autonomous fractional nabla difference equations 

  Dassios, Ioannis K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  In this article, we focus on a generalized problem of linear non-autonomous fractional nabla difference equations. Firstly, we define the equations and describe how this family of problems covers other linear fractional ...
• Multifocal equine influenza outbreak with vaccination breakdown in thoroughbred racehorses 

  Gildea, Sarah; Garvey, Marie; Lyons, Pamela; Lyons, Rachel; Gahan, Jacinta; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Cullinane, Ann (MDPI, 2018)

  Equine influenza (EI) outbreaks occurred on 19 premises in Ireland during 2014. Disease affected thoroughbred (TB) and non-TB horses/ponies on a variety of premises including four racing yards. Initial clinical signs ...
• Sparse power-law network model for reliable statistical predictions based on sampled data 

  Kartun-Giles, Alexander P.; Krioukov, Dmitri; Gleeson, James P.; Moreno, Yamir; Bianconi, Ginestra (MDPI, 2018)

  A projective network model is a model that enables predictions to be made based on a subsample of the network data, with the predictions remaining unchanged if a larger sample is taken into consideration. An exchangeable ...
• Can large oceanic vortices be stable? 

  Benilov, Eugene (American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2018)

  Observations show that radii of oceanic eddies often exceed the Rossby radius of deformation, whereas theoretical studies suggest that such vortices should be unstable. The present paper resolves this paradox by presenting ...
• Detecting heart rate while jogging: blind source separation of gait and heartbeat 

  Vo, Tuo T.N.; McGuinness, Mark; Hegarty, Alan F.; O'Brien, Stephen B.G.; O'Sullivan, Kevin; Healy, Sandra (Springer, 2016)

  A blind source signal separation problem that was brought to a Study Group in Limerick in 2013 required a way to prevent the gait of a jogger from masking the heartbeat, when detected by a simple photodiode that measures ...
• Heat and mass transfer in dispersed two-phase flows 

  Moroney, Kevin M. (Univeristy of Limerick, 2016)

  Industrial and manufacturing processes are an abundant source of rich and complex problems amenable to investigation with mathematical logic and techniques. Once a problem is identi ed and the right questions are ...
• Production of nitrate spikes in a model of ammonium biodegradation 

  Moyles, Iain R.; Fowler, Andrew C. (Springer, 2018)

  Nitrification at the site of a contaminant ammonium plume from a former coal carbonisation plant can be modelled with three competing bacterial populations of Nitrosomonas, Nitrobacter, and Brocadia anammoxidans. Oscillations ...
• Mathematical modeling of complex contagion on clustered networks 

  O'Sullivan, David J.P.; O'Keeffe, Gary J.; Fennell, Peter G.; Gleeson, James P. (Frontiers Media, 2015)

  The spreading of behavior, such as the adoption of a new innovation, is influenced by the structure of social networks that interconnect the population. In the experiments of Centola [15], adoption of new behavior was shown ...
• Dynamics of behaviour and information diffusion on complex networks: analytical and empirical perspectives 

  O'Sullivan, David J.P. (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Networks are ubiquitous in the world around us. Any system of interacting objects can be conveniently represented as a network, allowing for mathematical interrogation of its properties. These systems range from news ...
• The complex system of problem solving - providing the conditions to develop proficiency 

  Guerin, Aoife (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Problem solving in mathematics has been a central topic of research in mathematics education, stemming mainly from Pólya’s (1945) work on problem solving heuristics (Lesh and Zawojewski, 2007). Despite the attention this ...
• Explicitly solvable nonlocal eigenvalue problems and the stability of localized stripes in reaction-diffusion systems 

  Moyles, Iain R.; Tse, W.H.; Ward, M.J. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016)

  The transverse stability of localized stripe patterns for certain singularly perturbed two-component reaction-diffusion (RD) systems in the asymptotic limit of a large diffusivity ratio is analyzed. In this semi-strong ...
• A numerical framework for singular limits of a class of reaction diffusion problems 

  Moyles, Iain R.; Wetton, Brian (Elsevier, 2015)

  We present a numerical framework for solving localized pattern structures of reaction-diffusion type far from the Turing regime. We exploit asymptotic structure in a set of well established pattern formation problems to ...
• From exam to education: the math exam/educational resources 

  Bruni, Carmen; Koch, Christina; Konrad, Bernhard; Lindstrom, Michael; Moyles, Iain R.; Thompson, Will (Taylor and Francis, 2016)

  The Math Exam/Education Resources (MER) is an open online learning resource hosted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed at providing mathematics education resources for students and instructors at UBC. In ...
• Existence, stability, and dynamics of ring and near-ring solutions to the saturated Gierer--Meinhardt model in the semistrong regime 

  Ward, Michael J.; Moyles, Iain R. (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2017)

  We analyze a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion system in the semi-strong diffusion regime in two spatial dimensions where an activator species is localized to a closed curve, while the inhibitor species exhibits long ...
• Application of the heat-balance and refined integral methods to the korteweg-de vries equation 

  Myers, Tim G.; Mitchell, Sarah L. (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, 2009)

  In this paper we consider approximate travelling wave solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The heat-balance integral method is first applied to the problem, using two different quartic approximating functions, ...
• Application of heat balance integral methods to one-dimensional phase change problems 

  Mitchell, Sarah L.; Myers, Tim G. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)

  We employ the Heat Balance Integral Method HBIM to solve a number of thermal and phase change problems which occur in a multitude of industrial contexts. As part of our analysis, we propose a new error measure for the ...
• The incidence of injury in amateur male rugby union: a systematic review and meta-analysis 

  Yeomans, Caithriona; Kenny, Ian C.; Cahalan, Róisin Máire; Warrington, Giles D.; Harrison, Andrew J.; Hayes, Kevin; Lyons, Mark; Campbell, Mark J.; Comyns, Thomas M. (Springer, 2018)

  Background Rugby union is a physically demanding, fullcontact team sport that has gained worldwide popularity. The incidence of injury in rugby union has been widely reported in the literature. While comprehensive injury ...
• Increased supraspinatus tendon thickness following fatigue loading in rotator cuff tendinopathy: potential implications for exercise therapy 

  McCreesh, Karen; Purtill, Helen; Donnelly, Alan Edward; Lewis, Jeremy S. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)

  Background/aim Exercise imparts a load on tendon tissue that leads to changes in tendon properties. Studies suggest that loading immediately reduces tendon thickness, with a loss of this response in symptomatic tendinopathy. ...
• Electric ion dispersion as a new type of mass spectrometer 

  Lindstrom, Michael; Moyles, Iain R.; Ryczko, Kevin (SpringerOpen, 2017)

  At the 2014 Fields-MPrime Industrial Problem Solving Workshop, PerkinElmer presented a design problem for mass spectrometry. Traditionally mass spectrometry is done via three methods: using magnetic fields to deflect charged ...

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