• Comparative effectiveness of conservative interventions for nonspecific chronic spinal pain: physical, behavioral/psychologically informed, or combined? A systematic review and meta-analysis 

  O'Keeffe, Mary; Purtill, Helen; Kennedy, Norelee; Conneely, Mairead; Hurley, John; O'Sullivan, Peter; Dankaerts, Wim; O'Sullivan, Kieran (Elsevier, 2016)

  Nonspecific chronic spinal pain (NSCSP) is highly disabling. Current conservative rehabilitation commonly includes physical and behavioral interventions, or a combination of these approaches. Physical interventions aim to ...
• On the formation of fold-type oscillation marks in the continuous casting of steel 

  Vynnycky, Michael; Saleem, S; Devine, K M; Florio, B J; Mitchell, Sarah L; O’Brien, S B G (The Royal Society, 2017)

  Asymptotic methods are employed to revisit an earlier model for oscillation-mark formation in the continuous casting of steel. A systematic non-dimensionalization of the governing equations, which was not carried out ...
• Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: the Irish marriage referendum 

  O’Sullivan, David J. P.; Garduño-Hernández, Guillermo; Gleeson, James P.; Beguerisse-Díaz, Mariano (The Royal Society, 2017)

  We examine the relationship between social structure and sentiment through the analysis of a large collection of tweets about the Irish Marriage Referendum of 2015. We obtain the sentiment of every tweet with the hashtags ...
• Concurrent vaccination against equine influenza and equine herpesvirus - a practical approach 

  Gildea, Sarah; Higgins, Maria Jose Sanchez; Johnson, Gillian; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Cullinane, Ann (Wiley Open Access, 2016)

  Background There is a lack of information concerning concurrent administration of vaccines against equine influenza virus (EIV) and equine herpesvirus 1 and 4 (EHV-1/4).Objectives The primary objective of this study was ...
• Statistical methods for the detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using new generation genome sequencers 

  Sheikhi, Ali (Univerisyt of Limerick, 2014)

  A single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP, is a site of the genome where variation occurs within a population. Almost all SNPs have only two alleles (variants). Variations in the DNA sequences of humans can affect how ...
• A multidimensional visualization model for zero defects in a biomechanical manufacturing environment 

  Moore, Sean (University of Limerick, 2011)

  Combinational medical devices have evolved rapidly over the last 20 years, to be minimally invasive in order to reduce patient risk and recovery times. However the Manufacturing and Quality control of these devices has ...
• Stable vortices in a continuously stratified ocean with thin active layer 

  Benilov, Eugene (MDPI, 2017)

  This paper presents a model which yields examples of stable vortices in a continuously stratified rotating fluid, thus providing a possible explanation of the observed longevity of oceanic eddies. The model is based on ...
• An asymptotic analysis of the laminar-turbulent transition of yield stress fluids in pipes 

  Myers, Tim G; Mitchell, Sarah L; Slatter, Paul (IOP Publishing, 2017)

  The work in this paper concerns the axisymmetric pipe ow of a Herschel-Bulkley uid, with the aim of determining a relation between the critical velocity (de ning the transition between laminar and turbulent ow) and ...
• Equivalence between non-Markovian and Markovian dynamics in epidemic spreading processes 

  Starnini, Michele; Gleeson, James P.; Boguna, Marián (American Physical Society, 2017)

  A general formalism is introduced to allow the steady state of non-Markovian processes on networks to be reduced to equivalent Markovian processes on the same substrates. The example of an epidemic spreading process is ...
• A soft sensor for the Bayer process 

  Cregan, Vincent; Lee, William T.; Clune, Louise (SpringerOpen, 2017)

  A soft sensor for measuring product quality in the Bayer process has been developed. The soft sensor uses a combination of historical process data recorded from online sensors and laboratory measurements to predict a key ...
• Miscanthus biochar promotes growth of spring barley and shifts bacterial community structures including phosphorus and sulfur mobilizing bacteria 

  Fox, Aaron; Gahan, Jacinta; Ikoyi, I; Kwapinski, Witold; O'Sullvan, Orla; Cotter, Paul D; Schmalenberger, Achim (Elsevier, 2016)

  Biochar has shown great potentials in plant growth promotion but its effect on soil bacteria that potentially support plant growth is less well understood. In this study, the effect of biochar soil amendment was investigated ...
• On the uptake of flexible working arrangements and the association with human resource and organizational performance outcomes 

  Berkery, Elaine C; Morley, Michael; Tiernan, Siobhan; Purtill, Helen; Parry, Emma (John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2017)

  The aim of this study was to identify bundles of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) from data provided by 1,064 organizations in seven EU countries, and to relate bundle membership to demographic variables and human ...
• A framework for analyzing contagion in assortative banking networks 

  Hurd, Thomas R; Gleeson, James P.; Melnik, Sergey (Public Library of Science, 2017)

  We introduce a probabilistic framework that represents stylized banking networks with the aim of predicting the size of contagion events. Most previous work on random financial networks assumes independent connections ...
• Maximum-norm a posteriori error estimates for singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion problems 

  Kopteva, Natalia (Springer, 2016)

  Residual-type a posteriori error estimates in the maximum norm are given for singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion equations posed in polyhedral domains. Standard finite element approximations are considered. ...
• A second-order overlapping Schwarz method for a 2d singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion problem 

  Kopteva, Natalia; Pickett, Maria (American Mathematical Society, 2012)

  An overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition is applied to a semilinear reaction-diffusion equation posed in a smooth two-dimensional domain. The problem may exhibit multiple solutions; its diffusion parameter epsilon(2) ...
• Green's function estimates for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem 

  Franz, Sebastian; Kopteva, Natalia (Elsevier, 2012)

  We consider a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem posed in the unit square with a horizontal convective direction. Its solutions exhibit parabolic and exponential boundary layers. Sharp estimates of the Green's ...
• Stabilised approximation of interior-layer solutions of a singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion problem 

  Kopteva, Natalia; Stynes, Martin (Springer, 2011)

  A semilinear reaction-diffusion two-point boundary value problem, whose second-order derivative is multiplied by a small positive parameter epsilon(2), is considered. It can have multiple solutions. The numerical computation ...
• How accurate is the streamline-diffusion FEM inside characteristic (boundary and interior) layers? 

  Kopteva, Natalia (Elsevier, 2004)

  Two model two-dimensional singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems are considered whose solutions may have characteristic boundary and interior layers. They are solved numerically by the streamline-diffusion ...
• Uniform pointwise convergence of difference schemes for convection-diffusion problems on layer-adapted meshes 

  Kopteva, Natalia (Springer, 2001)

  We consider two convection-diffusion boundary value problems in conservative form: for an ordinary differential equation and for a parabolic equation. Both the problems are discretized using a four-point second-order upwind ...
• What information is used in treatment decision aids? A systematic review of the types of evidence populating health decision aids 

  Clifford, Amanda M; Ryan, Jean; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; McCurtin, Arlene (BioMed Central, 2017)

  Background: Patient decision aids (DAs) are support tools designed to provide patients with relevant information to help them make informed decisions about their healthcare.  While DAs can be effective in improving ...

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