• Costing pressure ulcer care in an Irish acute care setting: a feasibility study 

  Reilly, Aoife; Sorensen, Jan; Strapp, Helen; Patton, Declan; Blair, Amy; Avsar, Pinar; Burns, Jane; Moore, Zena (Wiley, 2021-11)

  Objective: To test the feasibility of using a standardised data collection tool to estimate the cost of stage 2–4 pressure ulcer (PU) care within an acute care setting. Method: Data on resource use and cost were ...

• Perspectives on engineering education from the world of practice 

  Buckley, Jeffrey; Trevelyan, James; Winberg, Christine (Taylor & Francis, 2021-11-16)

  This special issue on early career engineers responds to a key challenge in engineering education – that of bringing the largely separate worlds of engineering education and engineering practice closer together. There ...

• Upcycling biodegradable PVA/starch film to a bacterial biopigment and biopolymer 

  Pantelic, Brana; Ponjavic, Marijana; Jankovic, Vukasin; Aleksic, Ivana; Stevanovic, Sanja; Murray, James; Brennan Fournet, Margaret (MDPI, 2021-10-27)

  Meeting the challenge of circularity for plastics requires amenability to repurposing post-use, as equivalent or upcycled products. In a compelling advancement, complete circularity for a biodegradable polyvinyl ...

• GRU-based deep learning approach for network intrusion alert prediction 

  Ansari, Mohammad Samar; Bartoš, Václav; Lee, Brian (Elsevier, 2021-11)

  The exponential growth in the number of cyber attacks in the recent past has necessitated active research on network intrusion detection, prediction and mitigation systems. While there are numerous solutions available for ...

• Post-exercise cold water immersion does not improve subsequent 4-km cycling time-trial compared with passive and active recovery in normothermia. 

  Egaña, Mikel; Allen, Lynn; Gildea, Norita; Warmington, Stuart (Frontiers Media, 2021-10-25)

  Background: We investigated whether a brief cold water immersion between two cycling time trials (TT) improves the performance of the latter compared with passive and active recovery in normothermic conditions ...

• Development of electrospun PVA nanofibers via freeze-thawing method 

  Chee, Bor Shin; Wu, Husheng; Zhu, Wenquan; Masood, Unsa; Sampaio, Viviane Seba; Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)

  The polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels are proven to have the benefits of improving water retention ability, cell attachment and controlled drug release in medical device materials for pharmaceutical applications. Due to ...

• Deep neural networks for sequence based anomaly detection in cyber security 

  Chawla, Ashima; Jacob, Paul; Lee, Brian; Fallon, Sheila (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)

  Cyber security has become one of the most challenging aspects of modern world digital technology and it has become imperative to minimize and possibly avoid the impact of cybercrimes. Host based intrusion detection systems ...

• A workflow engine server (WES) for the design of adaptive and scalable workflows 

  Jasinski, Andzej; Qiao, Yuansong; Keeney, John; Fallon, Enda; Flynn, Ronan (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)

  The generation of a workflow is an important management system that is widely applied in many different types of business. The traditional workflow approach, applied in specialised areas such as health or environmental ...

• A QoE evaluation on the influence of spatial audio on visual attention in 360° videos 

  Hirway, Amit; Murray, Niall; Qiao, Yuansong (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)

  Research on neurological analysis of the human brain shows evidence of multimodal information processing. However, research in the area of human visual attention do not take into consideration the impact of the audio ...

• Transfer and optimisation of injection moulding manufacture of medical devices using scientific moulding principles 

  Fitzgerald, Aimee; McDonald, Paul; Devine, Declan; Fuenmayor, Evert (MDPI, 2021-10-25)

  Scientific moulding, also known as decoupled injection moulding, is a production methodology used to develop and determine robust moulding processes resilient to fluctuations caused by variation in temperature and viscosity. ...

• Blockchain for decentralized multi-drone to combat COVID-19 

  Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Lee, Brian; Guizani, Mohsen; Kumar, N.; Qiao, Yuansong; Liu, Xuan (Wiley, 2021-03-17)

  Currently, drones represent a promising technology for combating Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to the transport of goods, medical supplies to a given target location in the quarantine areas experiencing an epidemic ...

• Machine learning for smart environments in B5G networks: connectivity and QoS 

  Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Almalki, Faris, A.; Al-Dois, Hatem; Othman, Soufiene Ben; Hassan, Jahan; Hawbani, Anmar; Sahal, Radyah; Lee, Brian; Saleh, Hager (Hindawi, 2021-09-20)

  The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to be connected via the Internet is overgrowing. The heterogeneity and complexity of the IoT in terms of dynamism and uncertainty complicate this landscape dramatically and ...

• Delay-based network utility maximization modelling for congestion control in name data networking 

  Ye, Yuhang; Flynn, Ronan; Xu, Jin; Guiming, Fang; Yuansong, Qiao (IEEE, 2021-10-05)

  Content replication and name-based routing lead to a natural multi-source and multipath transmission paradigm in NDN. Due to the unique connectionless characteristic of NDN, current end-to-end multipath congestion control ...

• Unsupervised noise detection in unstructured data for automatic parsing 

  Jain, Shubham; de Buitléir, Amy; Fallon, Enda (IEEE, 2020-11-30)

  The telecommunications industry makes extensive use of data extracted from logs, alarms, traces, diagnostics, and other monitoring devices. Analyzing the generated data requires that the data be parsed, re-structured, and ...

• Microalgae as a natural ecological bioindicator for the simple real-time monitoring of aquaculture wastewater quality including provision for assessing impact of extremes in climate variance - a comparative case study from the Republic of Ireland 

  O'Neill, Emer; Rowan, Neil J. (Elsevier, 2021-08-17)

  Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food producing industries globally, providing ~50% of fish for human consumption. However, the rapid growth of aquaculture presents a range of challenges including balancing ...

• Type III solar radio burst detection and classification: a deep learning approach 

  Scully, Jeremiah; Flynn, Ronan; Carley, Eoin; Gallagher, Peter; Daly, Mark (IEEE, 2021-06-10)

  Solar Radio Bursts (SRBs) are generally observed in dynamic spectra and have five major spectral classes, labelled Type I to Type V depending on their shape and extent in frequency and time. Due to their complex characterization, ...

• On the possibility of replacement of calcium carbonate by a high-performance, economically viable filler in polyethylene composites 

  Hesabi, Mohammadnabi; Brennan, Shane; Boulard, Quentin; Le Blanc, Francois; Major, Ian (Sage, 2021-07-14)

  Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is frequently added to polyethylene (PE) as a filler to reduce costs. An alternative to CaCO3, calcium fluoride (CaF2) was proposed in this research. PE/CaCO3 and PE/CaF2 composites in a wide ...

• Blockchain-empowered digital twins collaboration: smart transportation use case. 

  Sahal, Radhya; Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Brown, Kenneth N.; O'Shea, Donna; McCarthy, Connor; Guizani, Mohsen (2021-09-09)

  Digital twins (DTs) is a promising technology in the revolution of the industry and essential for Industry 4.0. DTs play a vital role in improving distributed manufacturing, providing up-to-date operational data representation ...

• UDL Guidelines for PowerPoints 

  Athlone Institute of Technology (2021)

  Universal Design for Learning is a way of making material more easily accessible. Follow these guidelines to create accessible PowerPoint presentations

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