• AnfiS grid partition framework with difference between two  sigmoidal membership functions  structure for validation of nanofluid  flow 

  Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Babanezhad,  Meisam; Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie; Rezakazemi, Mashallah; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed (Springer Nature, 2020)

  In this study, a square cavity is modeled using Computational Fluid  Dynamics (CFD) as well as artificial intelligence (AI) approach. In the square cavity, copper (Cu) nanoparticle is the nanofluid and  the flow veloc ...
• 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, ...
• Application of innovation strategies to the development of health information systems 

  Travers, Marie (University of Limerick, 2020)

  The aim of this research is to identify and analyse the process requirements for Health Information Systems (HIS). It develops and evaluates a software innovation model for use in the development and deployment of HIS ...
• 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 ...
• A Review of factors affecting the mechanical properties of maraging steel 300 fabricated via laser powder bed fusion 

  Mooney, Barry; Kourousis, Kyriakos I. (MDPI, 2020)

  Maraging steel is an engineering alloy which has been widely employed in metal additive manufacturing. This paper examines manufacturing and post-processing factors affecting the properties of maraging steel fabricated ...
• On the specially designed fractal metasurface-based dual-polarization converter in the THz regime 

  Bilal, R.M.H; Baqir, M.A.; Choudhury, P.K.; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Rahim, A.A. (Elsevier, 2020)

  A specially designed fractal metasurface-based structure was investigated as a dual-polarization converter operating in the terahertz(THz) band. The proposed converter has the ability to perform both the linear-to-cross ...
• Dynamic mechanical analysis as a complementary technique for stickiness determination in model whey protein powders 

  O'Donoghue, Laura T.; Haque, Md. Kamrul; Hogan, Sean A.; Laffir, Fathima R.; O'Mahony, James A.; Murphy, Eoin G. (MDPI, 2020)

  The α-relaxation temperatures (Tα), derived from the storage and loss moduli using dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), were compared to methods for stickiness and glass transition determination for a selection of model ...
• Skew gaussian processes for classification 

  Benavoli, Alessio; Azzimonti, Dario; Piga, Dario (Springer, 2020)

  Gaussian processes (GPs) are distributions over functions, which provide a Bayesian nonparametric approach to regression and classification. In spite of their success, GPs have limited use in some applications, for ...
• Accelerating onset of puberty through modification of early life nutrition induces modest but persistent changes in bull sperm DNA methylation profiles post-puberty 

  Perrier, Jean-Philippe; Kenny, David A.; Chaulot-Talmon, Aurélie; Byrne, Colin J.; Sellem, Eli; Jouneau, Luc; Aubert-Frambourg, Anne; Schibler, Laurent; Jammes, Hélène; Lonergan, Patrick; Fair, Sean; Kiefer, Hélène (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  In humans and model species, alterations of sperm DNA methylation patterns have been reported in cases of spermatogenesis defects, male infertility and exposure to toxins or nutritional challenges, suggesting that a ...
• A critical assessment of the flory-huggins (FH) theory to predict aqueous two-phase behaviour 

  Bussamra, Bianca Consorti; Sietaram, Devi; Verheijen, Peter; Mussattoc, Solange I.; da Costa, Aline Carvalho; van der Wielen, Luuk A.M.; Ottens, Marcel (Elsevier, 2020)

  This article provides an analysis on published models used to calculate phase separation in aqueous two-phase systems(ATPS)based on Flory-Huggins(FH) theory, in terms of problem formulation and mathematical solving ...
• Tunable mechanical and optoelectronic properties of organic cocrystals by unexpected stacking transformation from H- to J- and X-aggregation 

  Ji, Wei; Xue, Bin; Bera, Santu; Guerin, Sarah; Liu, Yanqing; Yuan, Hui; Li, Qi; Yuan, Chengqian; Shimon, Linda J. W.; Ma, Qing; Kiely, Evan; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Si, Mingsu; Yan, Xuehai; Cao, Yi; Wang, Wei; Yang, Rusen; Thompson, Damien; Li, Junbai; Gazit, Ehud (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Molecular stacking modes, generally classified as H-, J-, and X-aggregation, play a key role in determining the optoelectronic properties of organic crystals. However, the control of stacking transformation of a specific ...
• Plastic ingestion in post-hatchling sea turtles: assessing a major threat in Florida near shore waters 

  Eastman, Catherine B.; Farrell, Jessica A.; Whitmore, Liam; Rollinson Ramia, Devon R.; Thomas, Rachel S.; Prine, Jenifer; Eastman, Scott F.; Osborne, Todd Z.; Martindale, Mark Q.; Duffy, David J. (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  Pollution from anthropogenic marine debris, particularly buoyant plastics, is ubiquitous across marine ecosystems. Due to the persistent nature of plastics in the environment, their buoyancy characteristics, degradation ...
• Immobilization of a polar sulfone moiety onto the pore surface of a humid stable MOF for highly efficient CO2 separation under dry and wet environment through direct CO2-sulfone interaction 

  Pal, Arun; Chand, Santanu; Madden, David G.; Franz, Douglas M.; Ritter, Logan; Space, Brian; Curtin, Teresa; Chand Pal, Shyam; Das, Madhab C. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  The stability of microporous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in moist environments must be taken into consideration for their practical implementations, which has been largely ignored thus far. Herein, we synthesized a new ...
• Metal configurations on 2D materials investigated via atomic resolution HAADF stem 

  Courtney, Eileen; Conroy, Michele A.; Bangert, Ursel (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  The behaviour of palladium & nickel deposited on mechanically exfoliated samples of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, WS2, and WSe2) via e-beam evaporation was investigated.Sputtering of metals on the flakes allowed ...
• Revealing early stage nuleation events of pharmaceutical crystals using liquid phase electron microscopy 

  Cookman, Jennifer; Hamilton, Victoria; Hall, Simon; Bangert, Ursel (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Liquid phase electron microscopy has enabled the direct observation of liquid phase events that had previously been unexplored in situ at the nanoscale such as nanoparticle nucleation, electrochemical dynamics, catalysis ...
• Probing the dynamics of topologically protected charged ferroelectric domain walls with the electron beam at the atomic scale 

  Conroy, Michele A.; Moore, Kalani; O'Connell, Eoghan; Jones, Lewys; Downing, Clive; Whamore, Roger; Gruverman, Alexei; Gregg, Marty; Bangert, Ursel (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Dynamic charged ferroelectric domain walls (CDWs) overturn the classical idea that our electronic circuits need to consist of fixed components of hardware.[1,2] With their own unique electronic properties and exotic ...
• In-situ TEM investigation of the amorphous to crystalline phase change during electrical breakdown of highly conductive polymers at the atomic scale 

  Conroy, Michele A.; Moore, Kalani; Lehane, Rob; Gamero-Quijano, Alonso; Scanlon, Micheál D.; Bangert, Ursel (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  Flexible electronics has been a field of intense research focus for the diverse and new class of applications not achievable by wafer-based electronics. [1-4] Polymers that are both conductive and stretchable have been put ...
• Key performance indicators to explain energy & economic efficiency across water utilities, and identifying suitable proxies 

  Walker, Nathan L.; Williams, A Prysor; Styles, David (Elsevier, 2020)

  Water companies consume up to 8% of global energy demand, at billions of dollars’ cost. Benchmarking of performance between utilities can facilitate improvements in efficiency; however, inconsistencies in benchmarking ...
• Comparing the environmental efficiency of milk and beef production through life cycle assessment of interconnected cattle systems 

  Mazzetto, Andre M.; Bishop, George; Styles, David; Arndt, Claudia; Brook, Robert; Chadwick, Dave (Elsevier, 2020)

  Dairy production has a substantial environmental impact. Currently, most studies analysing the environmental burdens of milk production employ attributional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), for cradle to farm-gate analysis of ...

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