• Trustworthy health-related tweets on social media in Saudi Arabia: tweet metadata analysis 

  Albalawi, Yahya; Nikolov, Nikola S; Buckley, Jim (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019)

  Background: Social media platforms play a vital role in the dissemination of health information. However, evidence suggests that a high proportion of Twitter posts (ie, tweets) are not necessarily accurate, and many studies ...
• The use of formal methods to describe a financial crime analytics model 

  Nagle, Daniel (University of Limerick, 2019)

  There are many examples of the utilization of formal methods for creating complete specifications of software applications. Often these are bounded in scope to the concept of a critical system. This work looks to expand ...
• Assessment of the antithrombotic properties of polar lipids of beer and brewing industry by-products. 

  O'Keeffe, Eoin (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This study investigated the in vitro antithrombotic properties of the lipids extracted from malted grain (MG), brewer’s spent grain (BSG), raw hops (RWHP), spent hops (SPHP), wort, and beer. Total lipids (TL) were extracted ...
• Effects of reducing fat and salt on the composition, biochemical, sensory, functional and rheological properties of mozzarella-style cheese 

  Henneberry, Sarah (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The aims of this thesis were to (a) study the properties of Low Moisture Part-Skim (LMPS) Mozzarella; (b) investigate the effects of 40% fat and 30% salt reduction on the properties of LMPS Mozzarella; (c) improve the ...
• Nutritional analysis of forages for horses 

  Delaney, Caoimhe (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The horse industry in Ireland is renowned globally and is estimated to be worth approximately €2 billion per annum to the Irish economy. While Ireland excels in horse production the quality of forages fed to horses over ...
• Reconfigurable modular optical fibre resonance sensor system using field programmable gate array 

  Ong, Yong Sheng (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The optical fibre sensor (OFS) has been studied for the last few decades and has found extensive use in many scientific and engineering fields including major application areas such as environmental, chemical, and biomedical. ...
• Retaining and managing episodic contributors in free/libre/open source software communities 

  Barcomb, Ann Susan (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities are commonly understood according to the Onion model. This thesis presents an alternative approach of understanding participation, the habitualepisodic lens drawn from ...
• Impact of fluid shear on particle size distribution of batch crystallization processes in stirred vessels 

  Hogan, Brian (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Crystallization is a puriification process during which molecules of a crystal compound bond together arranging themselves in a compound specific orderly lattice structure in which foreign molecules known as impurities ...
• 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 ...
• The ASSL Approach to formal specification of self-managing systems 

  Vassev, Emil; Hinchey, Mike (Springer, 2019)

  Abstract. ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language) is a framework dedicated to the development of self-managing systems whereby developers are helped with problem formation, system design, system analysis and ...
• 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 ...
• MSC contributions to loading-induced bone formation: a role for adenylyl cyclase 6 

  Johnson, Gillian P. (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Physical loading is a potent regulator of bone anabolism, yet the cellular mechanisms by which this occurs are poorly understood. Due to the finite lifespan of bone forming osteoblasts, it is hypothesized that these cells ...
• On the development of a contactless thermal characterisation technique for micro-scale thermoelectric modules (μTEMs) 

  Hickey, Séamus (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Contemporary internet consumer usage, in the form of social media and wide scale video streaming, has induced an exponential rise in the demand for high speed data. Optical communications infrastructure has had to evolve ...
• Development of a laminar shear apparatus for characterising the shear-mitigating effect(s) of bovine serum albumin in mammalian cell suspension culture 

  Collins, Michael (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The stirred tank bioreactor is one of the most widely-utilised technologies in the biopharmaceutical industry for large-scale mammalian cell culture resulting in the production of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. In these ...
• The effect of control strategies for an active back-support exoskeleton on spine loading and kinematics during lifting 

  Koopman, Axel S.; Toxiri, Stefano; Power, Valerie; Kingma, Idsart; van Dieën, Jaap H.; Ortiz, Jesús; de Looze, Michiel P. (Elsevier, 2019)

  With mechanical loading as the main risk factor for LBP, exoskeletons (EXO) are designed to reduce the load on the back by taking over part of the moment normally generated by back muscles. The present study investigated ...
• Electrochemical detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules at a liquid | liquid interface 

  Burgoyne, Edward D.; Stockmann, Talia Jane; Molina-Osorio, Andrés; Shanahan, Rachel; McGlacken, Gerard; Scanlon, Micheál D. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Opportunistic pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pose a serious risk to patients suffering from a compromised immune system and those patients with cystic fibrosis. Confirming their presence often ...
• Mechanism and theory of d-glucopyranose homogeneous acid catalysis in the aqueous solution phase 

  Ghosh, Manik Kumer; Howard, Mícheál Howard; Dussan, Karla; Dooley, Stephen (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  A detailed systematic theoretical study of the mechanism of the homogeneous Brønsted -acid catalysis of D-glucose in aqueous solution phase ("acid hydrolysis") is reported. G4MP2 with the SMD solvation model at ...
• Droplet-turbulence interactions and quasi-equilibrium dynamics in turbulent emulsions 

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha; Safdari, Arman; Shardt, Orest; Kenjere, Sasa; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) of emulsions in homogeneous isotropic turbulence using a pseudopotential lattice-Boltzmann (PP-LB) method. Improving on previous literature by minimizing droplet dissolution ...
• Influence of impurities on the solubility, nucleation, crystallization and compressibility of paracetamol 

  Keshavarz, Leila; Steendam, René R.E.; Blijlevens, Melian A.R.; Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Frawley, Patrick J. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  The striking ability of impurities to significantly influence crystallization processes is a topic of paramount interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Despite being present in small quantities, impurities tend to considerably ...
• On the ubiquity of helical α-synuclein tetramers 

  Xu, Liang; Bhattacharya, Shanyon; Thompson, Damien (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  The experimental finding that α-synuclein (αS) occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer begs the question: why are helical tetramers the most populated multimers? While the helical tetramer is known to resist ...

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