Publications

  • Godfrey A, Conway R, Leonard M. Meagher D, ÓLaighin G. Motion analysis in delirium:  A discrete approach in determining physical activity for the purpose of delirium motoric subtyping.  Medical Engineering & Physics: 2010 32(2): 101-110
  • Godfrey A, Conway R, Leonard M, Meagher D, ÓLaighin G. A classification system for delirium subtyping with the use of a commercial mobility monitor. Gait Posture. 2009 Aug;30(2):245-52.
  • Godfrey A, Conway R, Leonard M, Meagher D, ÓLaighin G. A Continuous Wavelet Transform and Classification Method for Delirium Motoric Subtyping. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2009 Jun;17(3):298-307.
  • O’Donovan KJ, Bourke AK, O’Keeffe DT, ÓLaighin G. The application of inertial and magnetic sensors to the monitoring of calf muscle pump activity. Med Eng Phys. 2009 Jan;31(1):55-60.
  • Godfrey A, Conway R, Meagher D, ÓLaighin G. Direct measurement of human movement by accelerometry. Med Eng Phys. 2008;30(10):1364-1386.
  • Noury N, Rumeau P, Bourke AK, ÓLaighin G, Lundy JE. A proposal for the classification and evaluation of fall detectors. IRBM. 2008;29:340-9.
  • Bourke AK, O’Donovan KJ, ÓLaighin G. The identification of vertical velocity profiles using an inertial sensor to investigate pre-impact detection of falls. Med Eng Phys. 2008 Sep;30(7):937-46.
  • Bourke AK, Lyons GM. A threshold-based fall-detection algorithm using a bi-axial gyroscope sensor. Med Eng Phys. 2008 Jan;30(1)-90.
  • O’Donovan KJ, Kamnik R, O’Keeffe DT, Lyons GM. An inertial and magnetic sensor based technique for joint angle measurement. J Biomech. 2007;40(12):2604-11.
  • Leonard M, Godfrey A, Silberhorn M, Conroy M, Donnelly S, Meagher D, ÓLaighin G. Motion Analysis in Delirium: A Novel Method of Clarifying Motoric Subtypes. Neurocase. 2007 Aug;13(4):272-7.
  • Godfrey A, Culhane KM, Lyons GM. Comparison of the performance of the activPAL Professional physical activity logger to a discrete accelerometer-based activity monitor. Med Eng Phys. 2007 Oct;29(8):930-4. Epub 2006 Nov 28.
  • Bourke AK, O’Brien JV, Lyons GM. Evaluation of a threshold-based tri-axial accelerometer fall detection algorithm. Gait Posture. 2007 Jul;26(2):194-9.
  • NíScanaill C, Carew S, Barralon P, Noury N, Lyons D, Lyons GM. A review of approaches to mobility telemonitoring of the elderly in their living environment. Ann Biomed Eng. 2006 Apr;34(4):547-63.
  • Clarke-Moloney M, Godfrey A, O’Connor V, Meagher H, Burke PE, Kavanagh EG, Grace PA, Lyons GM. Mobility in patients with venous leg ulceration. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2007 Apr;33(4):488-93.
  • Kamel Boulos MN, Rocha A, Martins A, Escriche Vicente M, Bolz A, Feld R, Tchoudovski I, Braecklein M, Nelson J, Ó Laighin G, Sdogati C, Cesaroni F, Antomarini M, Jobes A, Kinirons M. CAALYX: a new generation of location-based services in healthcare. Int J Health Geographics 2007;6(9):1-5.
  • NíScanaill C, Aherne B, Lyons GM. Long-term telemonitoring of mobility trends of elderly people using SMS messaging. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2006;10(2):412-3.
  • Culhane KM, O’Connor M, Lyons D, Lyons GM. Accelerometers in rehabilitation medicine for older adults. Age Ageing. 2005;34(6):556-60.
  • O’Donovan KJ, O’Keeffe DT, Grace PA, Lyons GM. Accelerometer based calf muscle pump activity monitoring. Med Eng Phys. 2005;27(8):717-22.
  • Lyons, GM, Culhane KM, Hilton D, Grace PA, Lyons D. A description of an accelerometer-based mobility monitoring technique. Med Eng Phys. 2005;27(6):497-504. Epub 2005 Jan 19.
  • Bussmann JBJ, Culhane KM, Horemans HLD, Lyons GM, Stam HJ. Validity of the Prosthetic Activity Monitor to assess the amount and spatio-temporal characteristics of prosthetic walking. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2004;12(4):379-86.
  • Culhane KM, Lyons GM, Hilton D, Grace PA, Lyons D. Long-term mobility monitoring of the elderly using accelerometers in a clinical environment. Clin Rehabil. 2004;18(3):335-43.
  • Mansfield A, Lyons GM. The use of accelerometry to detect heel contact events for use as a sensor in FES assisted walking. Med. Eng. Phys. 2003;25:879-85.
  • Anderson R, Lyons GM. Data logging technology in ambulatory medical instrumentation – a review. Physiol Meas. 2001;22(2):R1-13.
  • Four Dimensions of R&D for Medical Device and Diagnostics Companies.  Dolan, F., Medtec Ireland, Galway, 2003.
  • Van de Ven, P., A. Bourke, J. Nelson and G. ÓLaighin, A wireless platform for fall and mobility monitoring in health care, Bodynets 08, Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 2008.
  • Van de Ven, P., A. Bourke, J. Nelson and G. ÓLaighin, A Wearable Wireless Platform for Fall and Mobility Monitoring, Petra 08, Athens, Greece, July 2008.
  • Bourke, A., P. van de Ven, G. Ólaighin and J. Nelson, A Fall Detector Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly, International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 2008.
  • Bourke, A., P. van de Ven, G. Ólaighin and J. Nelson, Design and Test of a Long-Term Fall Detection System Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly, ISSC 08, Galway, Ireland, June 2008.
  • Bourke, A., P. van de Ven, A. Chaya, G. Ólaighin and J. Nelson, The Design and Development of a Long-Term Fall Detection System Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly, EMBC 08, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008.
  • Bourke, A., P. van de Ven, A. Chaya, G. Ólaighin and J. Nelson, Testing of a Long-Term Fall Detection System Incorporated into a Custom Vest for the Elderly, EMBC 08, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008.
  • Van de Ven, P., R. Feld, A. Bourke, J. Nelson and G. ÓLaighin, An Integrated Fall and Mobility Sensor and Wireless Health Signs Monitoring System, IEEE Sensors 08, Lecce, Italy, October 2008.
  • Nelson, J., P. van de Ven, A. Bourke, G. ÓLaighin, M. Antomarini, C. Sdogati and M. Escriche Vicente, The Role of Users in CAALYX, eChallenges e-2008 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2008.
  • Integration of RFID Technologies into Three-Screen Interactive Media Applications – IPTV, Mobile Phone, and Computer – for Patient Tracking. Owens, S., Ramgir M., Dowling, J., Dolan, F., Intel European Research & Innovation Conference, 2009.
  • Van de Ven, P., J. Nelson, A. Bourke, G. ÓLaighin, CAALYX: the Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment, Intel ERIC Conference, Leixlip, Ireland, September 2009.
  • Van de Ven, P., A. Bourke, C. Tavares, R. Feld, J. Nelson, A. Rocha, and G. ÓLaighin, Integration of a suite of sensors in a wireless health sensor platform, IEEE Sensors 09, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009.
  • Murphy AW, Cupples ME, Smith SM, Byrne M, Byrne MC, Newell J.  Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans.  British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b4220.  (Impact Factor 12.827)
  • Buckley B, Simpson CR, Hannaford PC, Murphy AW.  Five year survival in a primary care identified incident cohort of people with angina.  British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b3058. (Impact Factor 12.827)
  • Cupples ME, Smith SM, Murphy AW.  How effective is prevention in coronary heart disease? Heart 2008; 4(11):1370-1371. (Impact Factor 4.141)
  • Cupples ME, Byrne MC, Smith SM, Leathem C, Murphy AW. Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in different primary healthcare systems with and without pay-for-performance. Heart 2008; doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.145912.  (Impact Factor 4.141)
  • Buckley B, Murphy AW. Do patients with angina alone have a more benign prognosis than patients with a history of acute myocardial infarction, revascularisation or both? Findings from a community cohort study. Heart Published 2008; doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.146944. (Impact Factor 4.141).
  • McMenamin, R. & McGrath, M. “I nnovative Service Delivery by undergraduate occupational therapy and speech and language therapy students at the National University of Ireland, Galway”. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 9 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, November 2008.
  • McGrath,M., Sowman, R. & Roe,C. ” Successful collaboration between therapy services and volunteer services in an acute hospital”. Department of Health and Children Healthcare Innovation Awards, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2006.
  • McGrath, M. & Guerin, S. ” An exploration of the impact of a joint occupational therapy and clinical nutrition group programme for older adults attending an age related day hospital”. Rehabilitation and Therapy Research Annual Conference, University College Dublin May 2006.
  • McGrath, M. Meal Preparation – “A Meaningful Occupation?” Association of Occuaptional Therapists of Ireland, Annual Conference Dublin, May 2006.
  • McGrath, M. ” Falls prevention and management – an occupational perspective”. The Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, Annual Nursing Conference, Tallaght 2005.
  • F. Noor, M. Duffy; ‘Effect of a magnetic core in the receiver coil of a biomedical inductive power system’, Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference 2009, EMBC 2009.
  • D. Carroll, M. Duffy, “Demonstration of Wearable Power Generator”, 11th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE’05 Dresden, Germany, paper no. 884, CD ROM, September 2005.
  • D. Carroll, M. Duffy, “Maximising Power from Wearable Electromagnetic Generators”, 40th Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC’05, University College Cork, paper no. 268, CD ROM, pp. 475–479, September 2005.
  • N. Popa, M. Duffy, “Design of a Wearable Generator with a Magnetic Core”, 40th Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC’05, University College Cork, paper no. 193, CD ROM, pp. 745–749, September 2005.
  • D. Carroll, M. Duffy, “Electromagnetic Generators for Power Harvesting”, 35th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’04, Aachen, Germany, vol. 3, pp. 2075–2081, June 2004.
  • D. Carroll, M. Duffy, “Power Harvesting for Wearable Electronics”; 38th Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC’03, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2003.
  • Ronan Skehill, Alan Dunne, John Nelson “Booting Thin Clients over a Wireless Bridge” Linux Journal May 2008.
  • Dowling, J., Tentzeris, E.M., Beckett, N., RFID-enabled Temperature Sensing Devices: A Major Step Forward for Energy Efficiency in Home and Industrial Applications?, IEEE International Microwave Workshop, 2009.
  • Domegan, C.T., 2007, “Social Marketing Implications for Contemporary Marketing Practice “, Journal of Business & Interactive Marketing [in press].
  • Domegan, C.T., 2007, “The Use of Social Marketing in Evaluating Science Outreach Programmes in Ireland”, Irish Journal of Management [in press].
  • Domegan, C.T. with Wolf, M.A., McDonnell, J. & Yount, H. , 2004, “Consumer Attitudes Towards GM Food in Ireland & the USA “, in Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food; eds. by Everson, E., and Santaniello, V., CAB Publishing, UK.
  • J.G. Breslin, A. Passant, S. Decker, “The Social Semantic Web”, Springer, ISBN 9783642011719, 3 October 2009.
  • H.L. Kim, J.G. Breslin, H.G. Kim, “Representing and Sharing Tagging Data using Semantic Web”, The Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends, ISBN 9781605663685, July 2009.
  • H.L. Kim, J.G. Breslin, J.H. Choi, “Social Semantic Cloud of Tags: A Semantic Model for Tagging and Folksonomies”, The Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming.
  • H.L. Kim, S. Decker, J.G. Breslin, “Representing and Sharing Folksonomies with Semantics”, The Journal of Information Science, Sage, 24 September 2009.
  • C. Lally, F. Dolan, P.J. Prendergast, ”Stent Design and Vessel Stresses: a finite element analysis”. , Journal of Biomechanics, 38 (2005) 1574-1581.
  • Ball, M., O’Brien, A. Dolan, F. Abbas, G., McLaughlin, J.A., “Macrophage response to vascular stent coatings”.  , Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Wiley Interscience, 2004, 380-390.
  • P.J. Prendergast, C. Lally, S. Daly, T.C. Lee, D. Quinn & F. Dolan, “Analysis of prolapse in cardiovascular stents: a constitutive equation for vascular tissue and finite element modelling”.  .  ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2003;125:692-699.
  • Lally C., Dolan, F., Prendergast, P.J., “A computational Model for In-Stent Restenosis in response to a mechanical Stress”.  Bioengineering in Ireland, January 2004.
  • Dolan, F. “Four Dimensions of R&D for Medical Device and Diagnostics Companies”, Medtec Ireland, Galway, 2003.
  • Lally, C.A., Prendergast P.J., Dolan F., “An investigation of the extent of Tissue Prolapse within various stent designs using the finite element method”, BioEngineering Ireland 2001.
  • Daly, S., Prendergast, P.J., Dolan, F., Lee T.C. “The use of finite element analysis to simulate the hyper elastic behaviour of cardiovascular tissue”, European Soc.  Of Bio-Mechanics 2000.
  • Lally, C., Prendergast, P.J., Lee, T.C., Quinn, D., and Dolan, F., “Finite Element analysis to quantify tissue prolapse within three designs of cardio vascular stents”. , European Society for Engineering in Medicine, Conf., 2001.
  • A Barrett, A.E. Donnelly, Gearóid ÓLaighin, “Tibialis anterior EMG activation pattern changes with walking speed during over ground and treadmill walking,” in Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS Cité Internationale, Lyon, France August 23-26, 2007, pp. 4883-4886.
  • A. Barrett, M. O’Connor, K. Culhane, A.M. Finucane, E. Mulkerrin, D. Lyons, G. ÓLaighin, “Accelerometer versus footswitch evaluation of gait unsteadiness and temporal characteristics of gait in two elderly patient groups,” in Proc. 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008, pp. 4527–4530.
  • A. Barrett, M. O’Connor, K. Culhane, A.M. Finucane, and G. O´ . Laighin, “A footswitch evaluation of the gait of elderly fallers with and without a diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension and healthy elderly controls,” in Proc. 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008, pp. 5101–5104.
  • A Barrett, K.M. Culhane, A.M. Finucane, G. ÓLaighin, D Lyons. “Accelerometer and footswitch evaluation of movement in three patient groups.” ISSC 2008, Galway, June 18-19, 2008, pp. 109-114.
  • L. Shu, Z. Zhou, A. Aguilar, M. Hauswirth, “Stream Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks within Expected Lifetime”,
  • In The Third International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2007), ACM Nafpaktos, Greece, 2007.
  • A. Aguilar, W. Putten, G. Maguire, “Positive Patient Identification using RFID and Wireless Networks”,
  • In Proceedings of the HISI 11th Annual Conference and Scientific Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 2006.
  • A. Aguilar, “Semantic Interoperability in the context of eHealth” in Proceedings of the HP/DERI/CIMRU Research Seminar, Galway, Ireland, 2005.
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