• Life after esports: a grand field challenge 

  Smithies, Tim D.; Toth, Adam J.; Conroy, Eoin; Ramsbottom, Niall; Kowal, Magdalena; Campbell, Mark J. (Frontierss Media, 2020)

  Esports has experienced unprecedented growth recently and with it, the proposition for aspiring gamers to pursue a professional esport career has become increasingly attractive. “Esports” are video-games played competitively ...
• COVID-19: The Inflammation link and the role of nutrition in potential mitigation 

  Zabetakis, Ioannis; Lordan, Ronan; Norton, Catherine; Tsoupras, Alexandros (MDPI, 2020)

  The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has engulfed the world, affecting more than 180 countries. As a result, there has been considerable ...
• Novel layered 2D materials for ultrafast photonics 

  Lia, Shi; Wanga, Cong; Yin, Yu; Lewis, Elfed; Wang, Pengfei (De Gruyter Open, 2020)

  A range of new 2D materials have recently been reported, including topological insulators, transitionmetal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, and metal-organic frameworks, which have demonstrated high optical ...
• Refining early stage interventional composite catheter design 

  Lynn, Sean; O'Malley, Philip; Tanner, David A.; Moore, Sean (Elsevier, 2019)

  The development paths of interventional medical devices are long and involve a significant numbers of iterative design steps. Composite interventional catheters deliver implants, facilitate the deployment of delicate ...
• Ferroelectric domain wall memristor 

  McConville, James P. V.; Lu, Haidong; Wang, Bo; Tan, Yueze; Cochard, Charlotte; Conroy, Michele A.; Moore, Kalani; Harvey, Alan; Bangert, Ursel; Chen, Long-Qing; Gruverman, Alexei; Gregg, J. Marty (Wiley_VCH Verlag, 2020)

  A domain wall-enabled memristor is created, in thin film lithium niobate capacitors, which shows up to twelve orders of magnitude variation in resistance. Such dramatic changes are caused by the injection of strongly ...
• Lipschitz stability at the boundary for time-harmonic diffuse optical tomography 

  Doeva, Olga; Gaburro, Romina; Lionheart, William R. B.; Nolan, Clifford J. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  We study the inverse problem in Optical Tomography of determining the optical properties of a medium ⊂ Rn, with n ≥ 3, under the so-called diffusion approximation. We consider the time-harmonic case where is probed ...
• An examination of water quality entering Irish dairy processors 

  O'Connor, E.; Ryan, A.; Cronin, P. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Agriculture plays an important role in the Irish economy. It provides food and employment and has strong linkages with the agri-food and other sectors. The abolition of EU milk quotas in April 2015 provided a platform for ...
• Using serious games to inform mass customization production methods from the fuzzy front-end of new product development 

  O'Sullivan, Michael; Sheahan, Con (Elsevier, 2019)

  Mass customization means to offer products or services which meet the demands of each individual customer, but which still can be produced and delivered with mass production efficiency. The buzz surrounding technologies ...
• Stability to thermal treatment of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitory activity of a boarfish (Capros aper) protein hydrolysate when incorporated into tomato-based products 

  Harnedy-Rothwell, Pádraigín A.; McLaughlin, Chris M.; Crowe, William; Allsopp, Philip J.; McSorley, Emeir M.; Devaney, Martin; Whooley, Jason; McGovern, Brian; Parthsarathy, Vadivel; O'Harte, Finbarr P.M.; Fitzgerald, Richard J. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Biofunctional peptide ingredients should retain their stability following standard processing operations in food‐based delivery vehicles. A boarfish protein hydrolysate, exhibiting anti‐diabetic activity was subjected to ...
• Object recognition within smart manufacturing 

  O'Riordan, Andrew D.; Toal, Daniel; Newe, Thomas; Dooly, Gerard (Elsevier, 2019)

  Process automation has become a norm within industry with cheap and easily accessible automation technology becoming a standard option available to manufacturing firms. However, without the implementation of flexibility ...
• Investigation on the polarization dependence of an angled polished multimode fibre structure 

  Wang, Ruoning; Tian, Ke; Zhang, Meng; Jiang, Yuxuan; Yuan, Libo; Jin, Guoyong; Farrell, Gerald; Lewis, Elfed; Wang, Pengfei (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  An angled polished multimode (APM) fibre structure is described for the first time, to the best our knowledge, and its polarization dependence investigated theoretically and experimentally. Two angled planes are established ...
• Quality perceptions and professional status: The impact of extrinsic information on translation editing 

  De Wille, Tabea Margaret (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2020)

  While there is a large body of knowledge on quality in translation and localisation, the question of how quality is perceived based on extrinsic factors has so far not been widely investigated. This paper provides some ...
• Investigating process variables and additive selection to optimize polymorphic control of carbamazepine in a CO2 antisolvent crystallization process 

  Long, Barry; Ryan, Kevin M.; Padrela, Luis (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Supercritical CO2 antisolvent crystallization typically promotes the formation of metastable polymorphic forms of pharmaceutical drugs. However, using this technological approach in combination with the use of distinct ...
• Color variation of the up-conversion luminescence in Er3+-Yb3+ Co-doped lead germanate glasses and microsphere integrated devices 

  Zhang, Meng; Tian, Ke; Wang, Shunbin; Yuan, Libo; Farrell, Gerald; Lewis, Elfed; Wang, Pengfei (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  Lead germanate glass samples with different Er3+/Yb3+ concentrations co-doped were prepared and the color variation of the up-conversion emissions in these glasses was observed using 980 nm laser pump power. A practical ...
• Synthesis, characterization, and In vitro studies of an reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive methoxy polyethylene glycol-thioketal- melphalan prodrug for glioblastoma treatment 

  Oddone, Natalia; Boury, Frank; Garcion, Emmanuel; Grabrucker, Andreas M.; Martinez, M. Carmen; Da Ros, Federica; Janaszewska, Anna; Forni, Flavio; Vandelli, Maria Angela; Tosi, Giovanni; Ruozi, Barbara; Duskey, Jason T. (Fronitiers Media, 2020)

  Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most frequent and aggressive primary tumor of the brain and averages a life expectancy in diagnosed patients of only 15 months. Hence, more effective therapies against thismalignancy are urgently ...
• In vitro Characterisation of the antioxidative properties of whey protein hydrolysates generated under pH- and non pH-controlled conditions 

  Kleekayai, Thanyaporn; Le Gouic, Aurélien V.; Deracinois, Barbara; Cudennec, Benoit; Fitzgerald, Richard J. (MDPI, 2020)

  Bovine whey protein concentrate (WPC) was hydrolysed under pH-stat (ST) and non pH-controlled (free-fall, FF) conditions using Debitrase (DBT) and FlavorPro Whey (FPW). The resultant whey protein hydrolysates (WPHs) were ...
• Dependence of the surface tension and contact angle on the temperature,as described by the diffuse-interface model 

  Benilov, Eugene (American Physical Society, 2020)

  Four results associated with the diffuse-interface model (DIM) for contact lines are reported in this paper. First, a boundary condition is derived, which states that the fluid near a solid wall must have a certain density ...
• Self-pixelation through fracture in VO2 thin films 

  Rodríguez, Laura; del Corro, Elena; Conroy, Michele A.; Moore, Kalani; Sandiumenge, Felip; Domingo, Neus; Santiso, Jose; Catalan, Gustau (ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2020)

  Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is an archetypal Mott material with a metal-insulator transition (MIT) near room temperature. In thin films, this transition is affected by substrate-induced strain but, as film thickness increases, ...
• Long-range regulation of partially folded amyloidogenic peptides 

  Bhattacharya, Shayon; Xu, Liang; Thompson, Damien (Nature Research, 2020)

  Neurodegeneration involves abnormal aggregation of intrinsically disordered amyloidogenic peptides (IDPs), usually mediated by hydrophobic protein-protein interactions. There is mounting evidence that formation of α-helical ...
• Doctor retention: A cross-sectional study of how Ireland has been losing the battle 

  Brugha, Ruairi; Clarke, Nicholas; Hendrick, Louise; Sweeney, James (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2020)

  Background: The failure of some high-income countries to retain their medical graduates is one driver of doctor immigration from low- and middle-income countries. Ireland, which attracts many international medical ...

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