• Medication and healthcare utilization variation among older adults with pain 

  O'Neill, Aoife; Purtill, Helen; Kelly, Dervla; McCreesh, Karen; Robinson, Katie; O'Sullivan, Kieran (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Background While pain is very common in older adults, the associated impact on daily life, including usage of medication and healthcare, varies considerably and often pain remains inadequately treated. It is not clear ...
• Approximate solution techniques for the sorption of a finite amount of swelling solvent in a glassy polymer 

  Mitchell, Sarah L.; McInerney, N.P.; O'Brien, Stephen B.G. (Elsevier, 2021)

  This study examines a one-dimensional Stefan problem describing the sorption of a finite amount of swelling solvent in a glassy polymer. The polymer is initially in a dry non-swollen state, where the polymer network is ...
• Error analysis of an L2-type method on graded meshes for a fractional-order parabolic problem 

  Kopteva, Natalia (American Mathematical Society, 2021)

  An initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order α ∈ (0, 1) is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. An L2-type discrete fractional ...
• On the CFD modelling of slamming of the metal melt in high-pressure die casting involving lost cores 

  Kohlstädt, Sebastian; Vynnycky, Michael; Goeke, Stephan (MDPI, 2021)

  This paper uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in the form of the OpenFOAM software package, to investigate the forces on the salt core in high-pressure die casting (HPDC) when being exposed to the impact of the ...
• Synchronization dynamics in non-normal networks: the trade-off for optimality 

  Muolo, Riccardo; Carletti, Timoteo; Gleeson, James P.; Asllan, Malbor (MDPI, 2021)

  Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems that are composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience ...
• The effect of ‘paying for performance’ on the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional observational study 

  O'Connor, Ray; O'Driscoll, Rory; O'Doherty, Jane; Hannigan, Ailish; O' Neill, Aoife; Teljeur, Conor; O'Regan, Andrew (Royal College of General Practitioners, 2020)

  Background: The ‘cycle of care’ (COC) pay for performance (PFP) programme, introduced in 2015, has resourced Irish GPs to provide structured care to PCRS eligible patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Aim: To ...
• Building teacher knowledge for quality mathematics education in Ireland 

  Goos, Merrilyn; Hannigan, Ailish; O'Donoghue, John; Ní Ríordáin, Máire (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Improving mathematics proficiency among Irish school children has long been a topic of national debate.123The research team at EPI*STEM, the national centre for STEM Education based at the University of Limerick (UL), ...
• Full reciprocity-gap waveform inversion, enabling space-source acquisition 

  Faucher, Florian; Alessandrini, Giovanni; Barucq, Hélène; de Hoop, Martin V.; Gaburro, Romina; Sincich, Eva (Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2020)

  The quantitative reconstruction of sub-surface Earth properties from the propagation of waves follows an iterative minimization of a misfit functional. In marine seismic exploration, the observed data usually consist of ...
• Unprecedented reduction in births of very low birthweight (VLBW) and extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a ‘natural experiment’ allowing analysis of data from the prior two decades 

  Philip, Roy K.; Purtill, Helen; Reidy, Elizabeth; Daly, Mandy; Imcha, Mendinaro; McGrath, Deirdre; O'Connell, Nuala H; Dunne, Colum P. (BMJ, 2020)

  Aetiology of births involving very low birthweight (VLBW) and extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants is heterogeneous and preventive strategies remain elusive. Socioenvironmental measures implemented as Ireland’s ...
• A Compact FEM implementation for parabolic integro-differential equations in 2D 

  Reddy, Gujji Murali Mohan; Seitenfuss, Alan B.; de Oliveira Medeiros, Débora; Meacci, Luca; Assunção, Milton; Vynnycky, Michael (MDPI, 2020)

  Although two-dimensional (2D) parabolic integro-differential equations (PIDEs) arise in many physical contexts, there is no generally available software that is able to solve the numerically. To remedy this situation, ...
• On the significance of sulphuric-acid dissociation in the modelling of vanadium redox flow batteries 

  Vynnycky, Michael; Assunção, M. (Springer, 2020)

  A recent asymptotic model for the operation of a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is extended to include the dissociation of sulphuric acid - a bulk chemical reaction that occurs in the battery’s porous flow-through ...
• Improved energy-norm a posteriori error estimates for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems on anisotropic meshes 

  Kopteva, Natalia (Springer, 2020)

  In the recent article (Kopteva, Numer Math 137:607–642, 2017) the author obtained residual-type a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm for singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion equations on unstructured ...
• Electric field DC conductivity dependency of polyimide films 

  Guinane, Luke; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Stenson, Bernard; O'Malley, John; Glynn, Colm; Geary, Shane; Diaham, Sombel (IEEE, 2020)

  The isolation behaviour of polyimide thin films has been studied. Properties such as DC conductivity and the threshold electrical fields were obtained through a steady state current measurement under an applied voltage ...
• Instabilities in Guinness 

  Kaar, Simon (University of Limerick, 2020)

  The settling processes observable in a freshly poured pint of stout demonstrates two unusual phenomena. Firstly, the dispersion of bubbles appears to be sinking. Previous work has shown, using computational fluid dynamics ...
• Mathematical modelling of subglacial bedform formation and dense granular flows 

  Fannon, James S. (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Subglacial bedforms,which include drumlins,ribbed moraine,and mega scale glacial lineations, are ubiquitous features in regions which were once covered by ice sheets, and their genesis is a long-standing and controversial ...
• Free-boundary problems in the mould region of the continuous steel casting process 

  Devine, Kevin M. (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Continuous casting is an industrial process where molten metal is solidified into products, such as bars, billets, blooms and slabs. The occurrence of oscillation marks and air gaps in steel casting are casting phenomena ...
• Lower a posteriori error estimates on anisotropic meshes 

  Kopteva, Natalia (Springer, 2020)

  Lower a posteriori error bounds obtained using the standard bubble function approach are reviewed in the context of anisotropic meshes. A numerical example is given that clearly demonstrates that the short-edge jump residual ...
• Coxian phase-type modelling and time series forecasting of patient length of stay and hospital overcrowding 

  Rizk, Jean (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Hospital overcrowding is defined as the condition where the num ber of patients exceeds the healthcare system capacity and resources (Hoot and Aronsky, 2008). Long durations of stay are the main cause of overcrowding, ...
• Trust the patient not the doctor: the determinants of quality of life in cervical dystonia 

  Ndukwe, Ihedinachi; O' Riordan, Sean; Walsh, Cathal Dominic (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  Background: Mood disorder is common in cervical dystonia and can impact on quality of life. It often precedes the onset of cervical dystonia and does not improve with botulinum toxin therapy. Objective: To assess health-related ...
• Call to increase statistical collaboration in sports science, sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy 

  Sainani, Kristin L; Borg, David N; Caldwell, Aaron R; Butson, Michael L; Tenan, Matthew S; Vickers, Andrew J; Vigotsky, Andrew D; Warmenhoven, John; Nguyen, Robert; Lohse, Keith R.; Knight, Emma J; Bargary, Norma (BMJ, 2020)

  Statistical errors are common in many biomedical fields.1–5 We believe the nature and impact of these errors to be great enough in sports science and medicine to warrant special attention.6–14 Poor methodological and ...

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