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Regional bias when benchmarking services using customer satisfaction scores (2019)
Journal Article
Brint, A., & Fry, J. (2021). Regional bias when benchmarking services using customer satisfaction scores. Total quality management & business excellence, 32(3-4), 344-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/14783363.2019.1568867

Regional monopoly service organisations such as electricity, gas and water distributors, health trusts, public transport, and local government are subject to regulatory oversight. A common element in this is benchmarking an organisation against simil... Read More about Regional bias when benchmarking services using customer satisfaction scores.

How easy is it to understand consumer finance? (2019)
Journal Article
Burke, M., & Fry, J. (2019). How easy is it to understand consumer finance?. Economics letters, 177, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.01.004

We consider the readability of payday loan websites against conventional lenders. Our findings show that credit card websites are harder to read and contain more complex terminology. Our central contribution is to provide the first known measurement... Read More about How easy is it to understand consumer finance?.

The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks (2019)
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Koens, L., Wang, W., Sitti, M., & Lauga, E. (2019). The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks. Soft matter, 15(7), 1497-1507. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm02215a

Control on microscopic scales depends critically on our ability to manipulate interactions with different physical fields. The creation of micro-machines therefore requires us to understand how multiple fields, such as surface capillary or electro-ma... Read More about The near and far of a pair of magnetic capillary disks.

Computations of the slice genus of virtual knots (2018)
Journal Article
Rushworth, W. (2019). Computations of the slice genus of virtual knots. Topology and its Applications, 253, 57-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2018.11.028

A virtual knot is an equivalence class of embeddings of $ S^1 $ into thickened (closed oriented) surfaces, up to self-diffeomorphism of the surface and certain handle stabilisations. The slice genus of a virtual knot is defined diagrammatically, in d... Read More about Computations of the slice genus of virtual knots.

Early-time jet formation in liquid–liquid impact problems: theory and simulations (2018)
Journal Article
Cimpeanu, R., & Moore, M. R. (2018). Early-time jet formation in liquid–liquid impact problems: theory and simulations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 856, 764-796. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.704

We perform a thorough qualitative and quantitative comparison of theoretical predictions and direct numerical simulations for the two-dimensional, vertical impact of two droplets of the same fluid. In particular, we show that the theoretical predicti... Read More about Early-time jet formation in liquid–liquid impact problems: theory and simulations.

The swimming of a deforming helix (2018)
Journal Article
Koens, L., Zhang, H., Moeller, M., Mourran, A., & Lauga, E. (2018). The swimming of a deforming helix. European Physical Journal E, 41(10), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2018-11728-2

Abstract.: Many microorganisms and artificial microswimmers use helical appendages in order to generate locomotion. Though often rotated so as to produce thrust, some species of bacteria such Spiroplasma, Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Spirochetes induc... Read More about The swimming of a deforming helix.

Upstream passage of adult sea trout (Salmo trutta) at a low-head weir with an Archimedean screw hydropower turbine and co-located fish pass (2018)
Journal Article
Dodd, J. R., Bolland, J. D., Hateley, J., Cowx, I. G., Walton, S. E., Cattaneo, M. E. G. V., & Noble, R. A. A. (2018). Upstream passage of adult sea trout (Salmo trutta) at a low-head weir with an Archimedean screw hydropower turbine and co-located fish pass. Marine and Freshwater Research, 69(12), 1822-1833. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF18125

© 2018 CSIRO. The exploitation of riverine systems for renewable energy has resulted in large numbers of small-scale hydropower schemes on low-head weirs. Although considered a clean and 'green' energy source in terms of emissions, hydropower can aff... Read More about Upstream passage of adult sea trout (Salmo trutta) at a low-head weir with an Archimedean screw hydropower turbine and co-located fish pass.

Booms, busts and heavy tails: the story of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets (2018)
Journal Article
Fry, J. (2018). Booms, busts and heavy tails: the story of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets. Economics letters, 171, 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.08.008

We develop bespoke rational bubble models for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies that incorporate both heavy tails and the probability of a complete collapse in asset prices. Empirically, we present robustified evidence of bubbles in Bitcoin and Ethereum.... Read More about Booms, busts and heavy tails: the story of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets.

Methods to solve half-plane partial slip contact problems (2018)
Journal Article
Hills, D., Ramesh, R., Barber, J., & Moore, M. (2018). Methods to solve half-plane partial slip contact problems. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 155, 155-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.07.019

There exists a family of methods for finding the extent of partial slip in contact problems between elastically similar bodies, capable of idealisation by half-planes. Closed form solutions are given to problems subject to a constant normal load and... Read More about Methods to solve half-plane partial slip contact problems.