• Analysis of area-efficiency vs. unrolling for eSTREAM hardware portfolio stream ciphers 

  Alharbi, Fares; Hameed, Muhammad Khurram; Chowdhury, Anusha; Khalid, Ayesha; Chattopadhyay, Anupam; Javed, Ibrahim Tariq (MDPI, 2020)

  The demand for low resource devices has increased rapidly due to the advancements in Internet-of-things applications. These devices operate in environments that have limited resources. To ensure security, stream ciphers ...
• Safety contributions, events and operating context as criteria in safety awards: A case study from a large organisation 

  Karanikas, Nektarios; Obadimu, Solomon; Plioutsias, Anastasios (MDPI, 2020)

  Although the value and impact of safety award programmes (SAPs) have been criticised in literature, various programmes still operate within and across industries to recognise safety achievements, motivate employees and ...
• Converging evidence supporting the cognitive link between exercise and esport performance: A dual systematic review 

  Toth, Adam J.; Ramsbottom, Niall; Kowal, Magdalena; Campbell, Mark J. (MDPI, 2020)

  Background: Research into action video games (AVG) has surged with the popularity of esports over the past three decades. Specifically, evidence is mounting regarding the importance of enhanced cognitive abilities for ...
• Photo-recycling the sacrificial electron donor: towards sustainable hydrogen evolution in a biphasic system 

  Ge, Peiyu; Hojeij, Mohamad; Scanlon, Micheál D.; Girault, Hubert H. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  H2 may be evolved biphasically using a polarised liquid|liquid interface, acting as a “proton pump”, in combination with organic soluble metallocenes as electron donors. Sustainable H2 production requires methodologies ...
• A square lattice topology coordination network that exhibits highly selective C2H2/CO2 separation performance 

  Kumar, Naveen; Mukherjee, Soumya; Bezrukov, Andrey A.; Vandichel, Matthias; Shivanna, Mohana; Sensharma, Debobroto; Bajpai, Alankriti; Gascón, Victoria; Otake, Ken‐ichi; Kitagawa, Susumu; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Wiley, 2020)

  C2H2/CO2 separation is an industrially important process that remains challenging because of the similar physicochemical properties of C2H2 and CO2. We herein report that the new square lattice (sql) coordination network ...
• Using static method to measure tolmetin solubility at different pressures and temperatures in supercritical carbon dioxide 

  Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Zabihi, Samyar; Sarafzadeh, Pegah; Borousan, Fatemeh; Marjani, Azam; Pelalak, Rasool; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature Research, 2020)

  Tolmetin is a non-steroidal anti-infammatory drug being used to decrease the level of hormones which are the reasons for pain, swelling, tiredness, and stifness for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis cases. We evaluated ...
• Using finite element analysis to develop a digital twin of a manufacturing bending operation 

  Hinchy, Eoin; Carcagno, C.; O'Dowd, Noel P.; McCarthy, Conor T. (Elsevier, 2020)

  In today’s business environment, the trend towards more product variety and customization is unbroken. Due to this development, the need of agile and reconfigurable production systems emerged to cope with various products ...
• Metal-organic frameworks as a platform for CO2 capture and chemical processes: adsorption, membrane separation, catalytic-conversion, and electrochemical reduction of CO2 

  Elhenawy, Salma Ehab Mohamed; Khraisheh, Majeda; Almomani, Fares; Walker, Gavin M. (MDPI, 2020)

  The continuous rise in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) is of significant global concern. Several methodologies and technologies are proposed and applied by the industries to mitigate the emissions ...
• Charcoal as an alternative reductant in ferroalloy production: A review 

  Surup, Gerrit Ralf; Trubetskaya, Anna; Tangstad, Merete (MDPI, 2020)

  This paper provides a fundamental and critical review of biomass application as renewable reductant in integrated ferroalloy reduction process. The basis for the review is based on the current process and product quality ...
• A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol 

  Scazufca, Marcia; Nakamura, Carina Akemi; Peters, Tim J.; Henrique, Maiara Garcia; Seabra, Antônio; La Rotta, Ehidee Gomez; Franzin, Renato M.; Martins, Daniele Ferreira; van de Ven, Pepijn; Hollingworth, William; Araya, Ricardo (BMC, 2020)

  Background: The elderly population has been growing in most low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and depression is a common condition among these populations. The lack of integration between mental health and primary ...
• Prediction of turbulence eddy dissipation of water flow in a heated metal foam tube 

  Babanezhad, Meisam; Behroyan, Iman; Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie; Rezakazemi, Mashallah; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature, 2020)

  The insertion of porous metal media inside the pipes and channels has already shown a significant heat transfer enhancement by experimental and numerical studies. Porous media could make a mixing flow and small-scale ...
• Tantalum coating inhibits Ni-migration from titanium out-diffusion in NiTi shape memory biomedical alloy 

  McNamara, Karrina; Beloshapkin, S.; Hossain, K.M.; Dhoubhadel, M.S.; Tofail, Syed A.M. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Despite the presence of over 56% Ni by weight, equiatomic NiTi is generally considered biocompatible as it naturally oxidises to form a surface oxide mainly composed of biocompatible oxides of titanium (TiOx). This ...
• Non‑classical crystallisation pathway directly observed for a pharmaceutical crystal via liquid phase electron microscopy 

  Cookman, Jennifer; Hamilton, V.; Hall, S. R.; Bangert, Ursel (Nature Research, 2020)

  Non‑classical crystallisation (NCC) pathways are widely accepted, however there is conflicting evidence regarding the intermediate stages of crystallisation, how they manifest and further develop into crystals. Evidence ...
• Computational modeling of drug separation from aqueous solutions using octanol organic solution in membranes 

  Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Nakhjiri, Ali Taghvaie; Taleghani, Arezoo Sodagar; Ghadiri, Mahdi; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed (Nature Research, 2020)

  Continuous membrane separation of pharmaceuticals from an aqueous feed was studied theoretically by development of high-performance mechanistic model. The model was developed based on mass and momentum transfer to ...
• A unique collaboration revolutionises the pharmaceutical sector in Ireland 

  Frawley, Patrick J.; Hayes, Sarah; Hodnett, Benjamin K.; O'Halloran, Jon (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Pharmaceutical manufacturing contributes vitally to Ireland’s economy: it employs over 25,000 individuals directly and 24,500 indirectly, and produces over 50% of all exports, making Ireland the second-largest pharmaceutical ...
• Improved software development methods driving industry competitiveness: scaling agile methods 

  Fitzgerald, Brian; Stol, Klaas-Jan (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Agile software development methods are the most popular used today. However, agile methods were initially thought to be limited to small projects with co-located teams, in non-safety-critical domains. In the past 10 years, ...
• Improving the lives of people with musculoskeletal conditions 

  Kennedy, Norelee; O'Sullivan, Kieran (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Musculoskeletal conditions* (MSCs) are the primary cause of work absence in Ireland with an estimated direct cost to the economy of €750 million (Arthritis Ireland 2009). The management of MSCs focuses on keeping ...
• Ground-breaking new medical alloy with higher x-ray visibility to improve patient treatment worldwide 

  Tofail, Syed A.M. (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Since the 1990s therapeutic procedures using catheters, stents and other minimally invasive medical devices have replaced the need for invasive surgical procedures of the past. However, many of these devices are made ...
• Enzymatic bioreactors: An electrochemical perspective 

  Arshi, Simin; Nozari-Asbemarz, Mehran; Magner, Edmond (MDPI, 2020)

  Biocatalysts provide a number of advantages such as high selectivity, the ability to operate under mild reaction conditions and availability from renewable resources that are of interest in the development of bioreactors ...
• Cracking the code for continuous processing and personalised medicine 

  Walker, Gavin M.; Albadarin, Ahmad B. (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Personalised medicine is the next great global challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. The vision of the pharmacy of the future is one in which pharmacies employ disruptive technologies to enable on-demand manufacture ...

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