• Engineering bioinks for 3D bioprinting 

  Decante, Guy; Costa, João B.; Silva-Correia, Joana; Collins, Maurice N.; Reis, Rui L.; Oliveira, Miguel J. (IOP Publishing, 2021)

  In recent years, three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has attracted wide research interest in biomedical engineering and clinical applications. This technology allows for unparalleled architecture control, adaptability and ...
• Catalytic etherification of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into 5-ethoxymethy-furfural over sulfated bimetallic SO4 2− /Al-Zr/KIT-6, a Lewis/Brønsted acid hybrid catalyst 

  Hafizi, Hamid; Walker, Gavin M.; Iqbal, Javed; Leahy, James J.; Collins, Maurice N. (Elsevier, 2020)

  .A series of mesoporous composites of SO4 2− /Al-Zr/KIT-6, with varied ratios of ZrO2 to Al2O3 and degrees of sulfation have been synthesized as an efficient, clean, facile and environmental-friendly nano-catalyst for ...
• Enzyme kinetic and binding studies identify determinants of specificity for the immunomodulatory enzyme ScpA, a C5a inactivating bacterial protease 

  Teçza, Malgorzata; Kagawa, Todd F.; Jain, Monica; Cooney, Jakki C. (Elsevier, 2021)

  The Streptococcal C5a peptidase (ScpA) specifically inactivates the human complement factor hC5a, a potent anaphylatoxin recently identified as a therapeutic target for treatment of COVID-19 infections. Biologics used to ...
• Modified fiber optic sensor for highly precise identification of mercuric ion (Hg2+) concentrations in aqueous solution 

  Qazi, Hummad Habib; bin Salim, Mohd Rashidi; Bin Mohd Supa'at, Abu Sahmah; Ahmed, Iftikhar; Abbasi, Misbah Sehar; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Idrus, Sevia Mahdaliza; bin Mohammad, Abu Bakar; Irshad, Muhammad Sultan; Yasmeen, Farhat (IOP Publishing, 2021)

  A fiber optic sensor for monitoring mercuric (Hg2+) ions in the aqueous sample have been developed based on modified cladding. To fabricate a D-shaped sensing zone onto the multimode optical fiber lengthwise polishing was ...
• The effect of wind on the optimal design and performance of a modular air-cooled condenser for a concentrated solar power plant 

  Butler, Colin; Grimes, Ronan (Elsevier, 2014)

  Air-cooled condensers overcome one of the main issues facing the construction of concentrated solar power plants by replacing water with air as the medium for cooling of the steam turbine waste heat. The recent development ...
• Experimental and numerical analysis of thermally dissipating equipment in an aircraft confined compartment 

  Butler, Colin; Newport, David (Elsevier, 2014)

  Aircraft confined compartments are subject to a wide range of boundary conditions during operation which leads to the setting up of complex internal thermal environments. These compartments require strict thermal management ...
• Optimising the locations of thermally sensitive equipment in an aircraft crown compartment 

  Butler, Colin; Newport, David; Geron, Marco (Elsevier, 2013)

  A Design of Experiments (DoE) analysis was undertaken to generate a list of configurations for CFD numerical simulation of an aircraft crown compartment. Fitted regression models were built to predict the convective heat ...
• Natural convection experiments on a heated horizontal cylinder in a differentially heated square cavity 

  Butler, Colin; Newport, David; Geron, Marco (Elsevier, 2013)

  Natural convection heat transfer from a heat generating horizontal cylinder enclosed in a square cavity where a temperature difference exists across its vertical walls has been experimentally investigated for the range ...
• ECG heartbeat classification based on an improved ResNet-18 model 

  Jing, Enbiao; Zhang, Haiyang; Li, ZhiGang; Liu, Yazhi; Ji, Zhanlin; Ganchev, Ivan (Hindawi, 2021)

  Based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach, this article proposes an improved ResNet-18 model for heartbeat classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals through appropriate model training and parameter ...
• Maximising the potential use of ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) in cement: An Irish investigation 

  Higgins, Brendan; Curran, Michael; Spillane, John P. (2020)

  The production of cement is estimated to account for around 8% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide, and the Irish construction industry yields fifteen million tonnes of CO2 annually. Measures must be employed to ...
• Variational autoencoder for image-based augmentation of eye-tracking data 

  Elbattah, Mahmoud; Loughnane, Colm; Guérin, Jean-Luc; Carette, Romuald; Cilia, Federica; Dequen, Gilles (MDPI, 2021)

  Over the past decade, deep learning has achieved unprecedented successes in a diversity of application domains, given large-scale datasets. However, particular domains, such as healthcare, inherently suffer from data paucity ...
• On the association between circulating biomarkers and atherosclerotic calcification in a cohort of arterial disease participants 

  Cahalane, Rachel M.; Barrett, Hilary E.; Ross, Aisling M.; Mulvihill, John J.E.; Purtill, Helen; Selvarajah, Logeswaran; O'Brien, Julie; Kavanagh, Eamon G.; Moloneye, Michael A.; Egan, Siobhan M.; Leahy, Fiona C.; Griffin, Tomás P.; Islam, M.N.; O'Shea, Paul M.; Walsh, Michael T.; O'Connor, Eibhlís M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background and aims Atherosclerotic calcification is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular disease. This study aims to determine whether circulating levels of a local/systemic calcification inhibitor or a marker of bone ...
• Prevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Irish Hospital Healthcare Workers 

  Allen, Niamh; Ni Riain, Una; Conlon, Niall; Ferenczi, Annamaria; Martin, Antonio Isidro Carrion; Domegan, Lisa; Walsh, Cathal Dominic; Doherty, Lorraine; O'Farrelly, Cliona; Higgins, Eibhlin; Kerr, Colm; McGrath, Jonathan; Fleming, Catherine; Bergin, Colm (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

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• The effect of liquid co-flow on gas fractions, bubble velocities and chord lengths in bubbly flows. Part II: asymmetric flow configurations 

  Muilwijk, Corné; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Elsevier, 2021)

  This paper describes the effects of uniform and non-uniform liquid co-flow on the bubbly flow in a rectangular column (with two inlets) deliberately aerated unevenly. The two vertical bubbly streams, comprising uniform ...
• A wideband 6th order programmable bandpass DEM implementation for a Nyquist DAC 

  Mehta, Shantanu; Mullane, Brendan; O'Brien, Vincent; Pelliconi, Roberto; Erdmann, Christophe; Farley, Brendan (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  This paper presents a 6th order programmable bandpass dynamic-element-matching (DEM) that shapes the static mismatch error of a Nyquist DAC for any choice of center-frequency. The mismatch error can be shaped over a ...
• Smart parking systems: reviewing the literature, architecture and ways forward 

  Biyik, Can; Allam, Zaheer; Pieri, Gabriele; Moroni, Davide; O' Fraifer, Muftah; O'Connell, Eoin; Olariu, Stephan; Khalid, Muhammad (MDPI, 2021)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age, and complex solutions can now be implemented seamlessly within urban governance and management frameworks and processes. For cities, growing rates of car ownership are rendering ...
• Legume-modified rotations deliver nutrition with lower environmental impact 

  Costa, Marcela P.; Reckling, Moritz; Chadwick, Dave; Rees, Robert M.; Saget, Sophie; Williams, Michael; Styles, David (Frontiers Media, 2021)

  Introducing legumes to crop rotations could contribute toward healthy and sustainable diet transitions, but the current evidence base is fragmented across studies that evaluate specific aspects of sustainability and ...
• Lignin doped carbon nanotube yarns for improved thermoelectric efficiency 

  Culebras, Mario; Ren, Guang; O'Connell, Steward; Vilatela, Juan J.; Collins, Maurice N. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Due to ever increasing public awareness of the deteriorating planetary health condition associated with climate change and increasing carbon emissions, sustainable energy development has come sharply into focus. Here, a ...
• Wood-derived hydrogels as a platform for drug-release systems 

  Culebras, Mario; Barrett, Anthony; Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Walker, Gavin M.; Collins, Maurice N. (American Chemical Society, 2021)

  Wood (cellulose and lignin)-based hydrogels were successfully produced as platforms for drug-release systems. Viscoelastic and cross-linking behaviors of precursor solutions were tuned to produce highly porous hydrogel ...
• Stretching the equilibrium limit of Sn in Ge1−xSnx nanowires: implications for field effect transistors 

  Biswas, Subhajit; Doherty, Jessica; Galluccio, Emmanuele; Manning, Hugh G.; Conroy, Michele A.; Duffy, Ray; Bangert, Ursel; Boland, John J.; Holme, Justin D. (ACS, 2021)

  Ge1−xSnx nanowires incorporating a large amount of Sn would be useful for mobility enhancement in nanoelectronic devices, a definitive transition to a direct bandgap for application in optoelectronic devices and to increase ...

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