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Revisiting Student Evaluation of Teaching during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Fry, J. (2023). Revisiting Student Evaluation of Teaching during the pandemic. Applied Economics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2178623

The pandemic has placed unprecedented pressures upon staff and students alike. Yet performance management of academics including Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) persists. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has intervened on... Read More about Revisiting Student Evaluation of Teaching during the pandemic.

Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review (2022)
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Chung, C. Y., Yang, J., Yang, X., & He, J. (2022). Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review. Frontiers in public health, 10, Article 1060153. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1060153

This review paper covers an overview of air pollution-related disease burden in China and a literature review on the previous studies which have recently adopted a mathematical modeling approach to demonstrate the relative risk (RR) of air pollution-... Read More about Mathematical modeling in the health risk assessment of air pollution-related disease burden in China: A review.

A novel mathematical model for estimating the relative risk of mortality attributable to the combined effect of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cold ambient temperature (2022)
Journal Article
Chung, C. Y., Yang, J., Yang, X., & He, J. (2023). A novel mathematical model for estimating the relative risk of mortality attributable to the combined effect of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cold ambient temperature. The Science of the total environment, 858, pt.1, Article 159634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159634

Exposures to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cold ambient temperatures have been identified as important risk factors in contributing towards the global mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite China currently... Read More about A novel mathematical model for estimating the relative risk of mortality attributable to the combined effect of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cold ambient temperature.

Chemically active filaments: analysis and extensions of slender phoretic theory (2022)
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Katsamba, P., Butler, M. D., Koens, L., & Montenegro-Johnson, T. D. (2022). Chemically active filaments: analysis and extensions of slender phoretic theory. Soft matter, 18, 7051-7063. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00942k

Autophoretic microswimmers self-propel via surface interactions with a surrounding solute fuel. Chemically-active filaments are an exciting new microswimmer design that augments traditional autophoretic microswimmers, such as spherical Janus particle... Read More about Chemically active filaments: analysis and extensions of slender phoretic theory.

Long-term effects of ambient air pollution on lung cancer and COPD mortalities in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies (2022)
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Chee, Y., Yang, J., Yang, X., & He, J. (2022). Long-term effects of ambient air pollution on lung cancer and COPD mortalities in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 97, Article 106865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106865

The long-term effects of ambient air pollution on lung cancer (LC) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mortalities in the more polluted regions in the world require a comprehensive analysis. In this study, a systematic literature search... Read More about Long-term effects of ambient air pollution on lung cancer and COPD mortalities in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.

A novel asymptotic formulation for partial slip half-plane frictional contact problems (2022)
Journal Article
Moore, M., & Hills, D. (2022). A novel asymptotic formulation for partial slip half-plane frictional contact problems. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 121, Article 103457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2022.103457

A method of solution and the necessary calibrations are given to permit the steady-state extent of slip to be found in contacts properly described within a half-plane formulation using only two parameters: the contact law and the first-order descript... Read More about A novel asymptotic formulation for partial slip half-plane frictional contact problems.

Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19 (2022)
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Burke, M., Fry, J., Kemp, S., & Woodhouse, D. (2022). Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19. Finance research letters, 49, Article 103081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103081

In this paper we investigate the predictability of cryptocurrency returns following increases in Covid-19 cases/deaths. We find that the rate of government intervention moderates the impact that Covid-19 cases/deaths have on cryptocurrency returns. W... Read More about Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19.

Euler/Euler large eddy simulation of bubbly flow in bubble columns under CO2 chemisorption conditions (2022)
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Long, S., Yang, X., Yang, J., & Sommerfeld, M. (2022). Euler/Euler large eddy simulation of bubbly flow in bubble columns under CO2 chemisorption conditions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 445, Article 136654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.136654

It has been generally recognised that the turbulent dispersion force plays an important role in interphase momentum transfer. However, the effect of the added mass stress on the momentum and mass transfer in bubble column bubbly flow has not been add... Read More about Euler/Euler large eddy simulation of bubbly flow in bubble columns under CO2 chemisorption conditions.

The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis (2022)
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Moore, M., Vella, D., & Oliver, J. (2022). The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 940, Article A38. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.251

We consider the effect of droplet geometry on the early-stages of coffee ring formation during the evaporation of a thin droplet with an arbitrary simple, smooth, pinned contact line. We perform a systematic matched asymptotic analysis of the small-c... Read More about The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis.

Analysing the accuracy of asymptotic approximations in incomplete contact problems (2022)
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Moore, M., & Hills, D. (2022). Analysing the accuracy of asymptotic approximations in incomplete contact problems. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 253, Article 111557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111557

The error incurred in the representation of the contact pressure at the edges of incomplete contacts by first order asymptotes is treated, and the maximum value of the relative error found for a range of geometries, both symmetric and non-symmetric.... Read More about Analysing the accuracy of asymptotic approximations in incomplete contact problems.