• The regulation of sequence specific NF-kB DNA binding and transcription by IKKβ phosphorylation of NF-kB p50 at serine 80 

  Smith, Emma L.; Somma, Domenico; Kerrigan, David; McIntyre, Zoe; Cole, John J.; Ling Liang, Kai; Kiely, Patrick A.; Keeshan, Karen; Carmody, Ruaidhrı J. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Phosphorylation of the NF-kB transcription factor is an important regulatory mechanism for the control of transcription. Here we identify serine 80 (S80) as a phosphorylation site on the p50 subunit of NF-kB, and IKKβ as ...
• A novel arsenate resistant determinant associated with the ICE pMERPH a member of the SXT/R391 group of mobile genetic elements. 

  Ryan, Michael P.; Slattery, Shannon; Pembroke, Tony J. (MDPI, 2019)

  ICEpMERPH, the first integrative conjugative element (ICE) of the SXT/R391 family isolated in the United Kingdom and Europe, was analyzed to determine the nature of its adaptive functions, its genetic structure, and its ...
• LiveBox: a self-adaptive forensic-ready service for drones 

  Yu, Yijun; Barthaud, Danny; Price, Blaine A.; Bandara, Arosha K.; Zisman, Andrea; Nuseibeh, Bashar (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly expected to operate in spaces populated by humans while avoiding injury to people or damaging property. However, incidents and accidents can, and increasingly ...
• Innovative practices for knowledge sharing in large-scale DevOps 

  Hemon, Aymeric; Fitzgerald, Brian; Lyonnet, Barbara; Rowe, Frantz (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Agile development methods and DevOps require adaptation during implementation to meet the needs of a constantly changing software development environment. The emergence of knowledge-sharing practices for large-scale DevOps ...
• Exploring the possibilities of automated feedback for third level students 

  Clancy, Ian; Marcus-Quinn, Ann (Firenze University Press, 2019)

  There are a multitude of methods of providing third level students with feedback on their performance. Feedback can take many forms, from handwritten comments, to individual verbal feedback delivered face to face, and some ...
• Novel glass fibre reinforced hierarchical composites with improved interfacial, mechanical and dynamic mechanical properties developed using cellulose microcrystals 

  Parveen, Shama; Pichandi, Subramani; Goswami, Parikshit; Rana, Sohel (Elsevier, 2019)

  This paper reports the use of cellulose microcrystals (CMCs) for improving fibre-matrix interface, mechanical, dynamic mechanical and thermal degradation behaviour of glass fibre reinforced epoxy composites. An ultrasonic ...
• Investigating sex differences, cognitive effort, strategy, and performance on a computerised version of the mental rotations test via eye tracking 

  Toth, Adam J.; Campbell, Mark J. (Nature Research, 2019)

  Mental rotation tests (MRTs) have previously shown one of the most prominent sex differences in cognitive psychology, marked by a large male performance advantage. However, debate continues over the reasons for these sex ...
• The color-word stroop task does not differentiate cognitive inhibition ability among esports gamers of varying expertise 

  Toth, Adam J.; Kowal, Magdalena; Campbell, Mark J. (Frontiers Media, 2019)

  This study set out for the first time to identify whether gamers of low, intermediate, and elite skill level in a prominent esports game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, demonstrated increasingly superior performance on ...
• 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 ...
• Computing camps for girls - a first-time experience at the University of Limerick 

  McInerney, Clare; Lamprecht, Anna-Lena; Margaria, Tiziana (Springer, 2017)

  Increasing the number of females in ICT-related university courses has been a major concern for several years. In 2015, we offered a girls-only computing summer camp for the first time, as a new component in our education ...
• An efficient high speed AES implementation using traditional FPGA and LabVIEW FPGA platforms 

  Rao, Muzaffar; Kaknjo, Admir; Omerdic, Edin; Toal, Daniel; Newe, Thomas (IEEE Computer Society, 2018)

  The LabVIEW FPGA platform is based on graphical programming approach, which makes easy the FPGA programming and the I/O interfacing. The LabVIEW FPGA significantly improves the design productivity and helps to reduce the ...
• [Cu(4‐phenylpyridine)4(trifluoromethanesulfonate)2], a Werner complex that exhibits high selectivity for o‐xylene 

  Kałuża, Adrianna M.; Mukherjee, Soumya; Wang, Shi-Qiang; O'Hearn, Daniel J.; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020)

  [Cu(4-phenylpyridine)4(trifluoromethanesulfonate)2] is a new Werner complex that exhibits switching behaviour between non-porous (apohost) and porous (guest-loaded) phases upon exposure to o-xylene but not when exposed to ...
• Development of the minimum equipment list: current practice and the need for standardisation 

  Obadimu, Solomon; Karanikas, Nektarios; Kourousis, Kyriakos I. (MDPI, 2020)

  As part of the airworthiness requirements, an aircraft cannot be dispatched with an inoperative equipment or system unless this is allowed by the Minimum Equipment List (MEL) under any applicable conditions. Commonly, ...
• Assessing police topological efficiency in a major sting operation on the dark web 

  da Cunha, Bruno Requião; MacCarron, Pádraig; Passold, Jean Fernando; dos Santos, Luiz Walmocyr; Oliveira, Kleber A.; Gleeson, James P. (2020)

  The networked nature of criminals using the dark web is poorly understood and infrequently studied, mostly due to a lack of data. Rarer still are studies on the topological effectiveness of police interventions. Between ...
• Comparison of finite volume and lattice Boltzmann methods for multicomponent flow simulations 

  Shardt, Orest (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  In pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann (LB) models for simulating multicomponent flows, interaction forces between the components of a mixture lead to phase separation and interfacial tension. At the macroscopic scale, such ...
• 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 ...
• The effects of sous-vide cooking on the bio-functionality, nutritional value and health benefits of salmon lipids 

  Redfern, Shane (Univesity of Limerick, 2019)

  Cardiovascular diseases has become the major cause of death globally. Inflammation and platelet aggregation play crucial role in the development and progression of atherosclerosis and CVD. prevent inflammation, atherosclerosis, ...
• 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 ...
• Ordered layers of nanocrystals through EPD 

  Bhowmick, Saikat (University of Limerick, 2019)

  It is quite well-known that, deposition of highly-ordered layers of colloidal nanocrystals (mostly semiconductor and metal) onto different types of substrates is a really important aspect for various types of device ...

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