• Branching process descriptions of information cascades on twitter 

  Gleeson, James P.; Onaga, Tomokatsu; Fennell, Peter; Cotter, James; Burke, Raymond; O'Sullivan, David J.P. (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  A detailed analysis of Twitter-based information cascades is performed, and it is demonstrated that branching process hypotheses are approximately satisfied. Using a branching process framework, models of agent-to-agent ...
• Profile development in population studies: clustering and latent class methodologies 

  O'Neill, Aoife (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Identifying subgroups within a population can provide important insights to decision makers. When concerned with health data, identifying profiles of individuals who share similar characteristics may inform targeted ...
• Serum uric acid and mortality thresholds among men and women in the Irish health system: A cohort study 

  Browne, Leonard D.; Jaouimaa, Fatima-Zahra; Walsh, Cathal; Perez-Ruiz, Fernando; Richette, Paschal; Burke, Kevin; Stack, Austin G. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: Elevation of serum uric acid (SUA) is associated with increased mortality; however, controversy exists regarding the nature of the relationship and differences between men and women. We explored relationships ...
• Applying lean six sigma methodology to a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility: A case study 

  Byrne, Brian; McDermott, Olivia; Noonan, John (MDPI, 2021)

  This research examines a case study on the implementation of an effective approach to advanced Lean Six Sigma problem-solving within a pharmaceutical manufacturing site which manufactures acetaminophen (paracetamol containing ...
• Current injury monitoring and player education practices in Irish amateur rugby union. 

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

  To ascertain current injury surveillance and player education practices in Irish amateur rugby union. Cross-sectional survey. Amateur rugby clubs in Ireland. Medical professionals and rugby coaches of the top 58 amateur ...
• Generalized mean-field approximation for the Deffuant opinion dynamics model on networks 

  Fennell, Susan C.; Burke, Kevin; Quayle, Michael; Gleeson, James P. (American Chemical Society, 2021)

  When the interactions of agents on a network are assumed to follow the Deffuant opinion dynamics model, the outcomes are known to depend on the structure of the underlying network. This behavior cannot be captured ...
• A complex networks approach to ranking professional snooker players 

  O'Brien, Joseph D.; Gleeson, James P. (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  A detailed analysis of matches played in the sport of Snooker during the period 1968–2020 is used to calculate a directed and weighted dominance network based upon the corresponding results. We consider a ranking procedure ...
• Identification of skill in an online game: The case of fantasy premier league 

  O'Brien, Joseph D.; Gleeson, James P.; O'Sullivan, David J.P. (Public Library of Science, 2021)

  In all competitions where results are based upon an individual’s performance the question of whether the outcome is a consequence of skill or luck arises. We explore this question through an analysis of a large dataset ...
• Difficulties arising in reimbursement recommendations on new medicines due to inadequate reporting of population adjustment indirect comparison methods 

  Holmes, Eileen M.; Leahy, Joe; White, Arthur; Donnan, Peter T.; Lamrock, Felicity (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Indirect treatment comparisons are useful to estimate relative treatment effects when head‐to‐head studies are not conducted. Statisticians at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics Ireland (NCPE) and Scottish Medicines ...
• 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 ...

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