• Mechanics of human brain organoids 

  Balbi, Valentina; Destrade, Michel; Goriely, Alain (American Physical Society, 2020)

  Organoids are prototypes of human organs derived from cultured human stem cells. They provide a reliable and accurate experimental model to study the physical mechanisms underlying the early developmental stages of human ...
• Evaluation of current equine influenza vaccination protocols prior to shipment, guided by OIE standards 

  Cullinane, Ann; Gahan, Jacinta; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Nemoto, Manabu; Entenfellner, Johanna; Olguin-Perglione, Cecilia; Garvey, Marie; Huang Fu, Tao Qi; Venne, Monica (MDPI, 2020)

  To facilitate the temporary importation of horses for competition and racing purposes, with a minimum risk of transmitting equine influenza, the World Organisation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties, ...
• Population-level impact, herd immunity, and elimination after human papillomavirus vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis of predictions from transmission-dynamic models 

  Brisson, Marc; Bénard, Élodie; Drolet, Melanie; Bogaards, Johannes A.; Baussano, Iacopo; Vänskä, Simopekka; Jit, Mark; Boily, Marie-Claude; Smith, Megan A.; Berkhof, Johannes; Canfell, Karen; Chesson, Harrell W.; Burger, Emily A.; Choi, Yoon H.; De Blasio, Birgitte Freiesleben; De Vlas, Sake J.; Guzzetta, Giorgio; Hontelez, Jan A. C.; Horn, Johannes; Jepsen, Martin R.; Kim, Jane J.; Lazzarato, Fulvio; Matthijsse, Suzette M.; Mikolajczyk, Rafael; Pavelyev, Andrew; Pillsbury, Matthew; Shafer, Leigh Anne; Tully, Stephen P.; Turner, Hugo C.; Usher, Cara; Walsh, Cathal Dominic (Elsevier, 2016)

  Background Modelling studies have been widely used to inform human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination policy decisions; however, many models exist and it is not known whether they produce consistent predictions of population-level ...
• Aquatic exercise therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial 

  Carroll, Louise M.; Volpe, Daniele; Morris, Meg E.; Saunders, Jean; Clifford, Amanda M. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Objective To evaluate the effects of aquatic exercise therapy on gait variability and disability compared with usual care for people with Parkinson disease (PD). Design Single-blind randomized controlled ...
• The change of pain classes over time: a latent transition analysis 

  O'Neill, Aoife; O'Sullivan, Kieran; O'Keeffe, Mary; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Purtill, Helen (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2020)

  Background Pain is common in older adults, and associated with increased morbidity and reduced quality of life. Recent research has highlighted different classes of older adults with pain, each with differing impacts ...
• B-spline smoothing and statistical inference for systems of differential equations 

  O'Shea, Pádraig (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Traditional algorithms for modelling functional data use derivative-based optimisation methods to fit parameters. The process of finnding the derivatives of the fitting criterion with respect to the parameters is complex. ...
• A branching process approach to the identification of influential nodes in complex networks 

  Cassidy, Ailbhe (University of Limerick, 2019)

  We live in a world surrounded by networks. They are ubiquitous. Be it social media networks linking us to our friends, transportation networks interconnecting locations around the globe, or the metabolic network breaking ...
• Assessing the impact of a matching adjusted indirect comparison in a bayesian network meta analysis 

  Leahy, Joy; Walsh, Cathal Dominic (Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2019)

  if IPD is available for some or all trials in an NMA, then incorporating this IPD into an NMA is routinely considered to be preferable. However, the situation often arises where a researcher has IPD for trials concerning ...
• Monitoring type 2 diabetes from volatile faecal metabolome in cushing’s syndrome and single Afmid mouse models via a longitudinal study 

  Lourenço, Célia; Kelly, Darren; Cantillon, Jack; Cauchi, Michael; Yon, Marianne A.; Bentley, Liz; Cox, Roger D.; Turner, Claire (Nature Research, 2019)

  The analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a non-invasive method for disease monitoring, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) has shown potential over the years although not yet set in clinical practice. Longitudinal ...
• Three essays on stopping 

  Mayerhofer, Eberhard (MDPI, 2019)

  First, we give a closed-form formula for first passage time of a reflected Brownian motion with drift. This corrects a formula by Perry et al. (2004). Second, we show that the maximum before a fixed drawdown is exponentially ...
• On the modelling of joint formation in dissolutive brazing processes 

  Vynnycky, Michael; Lacaze, J. (Springer, 2019)

  In this paper, earlier dissolutive wetting models describing the dynamics of an axisymmetric alloy drop spreading on pure metal substrate are extended to describe reactive wetting and subsequent joint formation in brazing ...
• Cognitive functional therapy compared with a group-based exercise and education intervention for chronic low back pain: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) 

  O'Keeffe, Mary; O'Sullivan, Peter B.; Purtill, Helen; Bargary, Norma; O'Sullivan, Kieran (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Background: One-size-fits-all interventions reduce chronic low back pain (CLBP) a small amount. An individualised intervention called cognitive functional therapy (CFT) was superior for CLBP compared with manual therapy ...
• Equine rhinitis a virus infection in thoroughbred racehorses—A putative role in poor performance? 

  Back, Helena; Weld, John; Walsh, Cathal Dominic (MDPI, 2019)

  The aim of this study was to identify respiratory viruses circulating amongst elite racehorses in a training yard by serological testing of serial samples and to determine their impact on health status and ability to race. ...
• Resilience for stochastic systems interacting via a quasi-degenerate network 

  Nicoletti, Sara; Fanelli, Duccio; Zagli, Niccolò; Asllani, Malbor; Battistelli, Giorgio; Carletti, Timoteo; Chisci, Luigi; Innocenti, Giacomo; Livi, Roberto (AIP Publishing, 2019)

  A stochastic reaction-diffusion model is studied on a networked support. In each patch of the network, two species are assumed to interact following a non-normal reaction scheme. When the interaction unit is replicated ...
• A general theory of glacier surges 

  Benn, D. I.; Fowler, Andrew C.; Hewitt, I.; Sevestre, H. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  We present the first general theory of glacier surging that includes both temperate and polythermal glacier surges, based on coupled mass and enthalpy budgets. Enthalpy (in the form of thermal energy and water) is gained ...
• Static capillary structures and their stability 

  Haynes, Matthew (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This thesis examines the static equilibrium shapes and stability of various capillary surfaces. The equilibrium shapes are accurately approximated using asymptotic series solutions in the micro-gravity limit. The stability ...
• Mathematical modelling of diffusion in polymers 

  McInerney, Niall (University of Limerick, 2019)

  In the first part of this thesis, mathematical models describing solvent and drug diffusion in glassy polymers are investigated using both numerical and approximate methods. These models are analysed using formal ...
• Multi-parameter regression survival models 

  Burke, Kevin (University of Limerick, 2014)

  In general, parametric regression models can be motivated by allowing the parameters of a probability distribution to depend on covariates. Furthermore, it is standard practice to relate covariates to one parameter of ...
• Contact-Based model for epidemic spreading on temporal networks 

  Koher, Andreas; Lentz, Hartmut H.K.; Gleeson, James P. (American Physical Society, 2019)

  We present a contact-based model to study the spreading of epidemics by means of extending the dynamic message-passing approach to temporal networks. The shift in perspective from node- to edgecentric quantities enables ...
• Emergence of power laws in noncritical neuronal systems 

  Faqeeh, Ali; Osat, Saeed; Radicchi, Filippo; Gleeson, James P. (2019)

  Experimental and computational studies provide compelling evidence that neuronal systems are characterized by power-law distributions of neuronal avalanche sizes. This fact is interpreted as an indication that these systems ...

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