Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (20550)

Arx: City of Broken Minds (2024)
Book
Hurst, E. (in press). Arx: City of Broken Minds. Plymouth, UK: Barbican Press

Publisher's promotional text: Inhale the memory. Exhale the truth. Arx: City of Broken Minds is a standalone epic of grimdark fantasy. In Arx, no-one remembers anything. Not the Flame Protests. Not the Sightless executioner. Not even themselves.... Read More about Arx: City of Broken Minds.

Social responsibility and corporate borrowing (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Li, Y., Xiao, Y., Xiong, X., & Zhang, W. (in press). Social responsibility and corporate borrowing. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2024.2377356

We study the impact of social capital, measured by corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, on corporate borrowing. Using a sample of 120,204 bank loan applications of China's listed firms, we find that an increase in CSR performance increa... Read More about Social responsibility and corporate borrowing.

The experiences of patients attending the emergency department who were managed by physiotherapists: a person-centred perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Naylor, J., Killingback, C., & Green, A. (in press). The experiences of patients attending the emergency department who were managed by physiotherapists: a person-centred perspective. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2382311

Purpose: The expectation for all clinicians to deliver person-centred practices extends to the growing number of primary contact physiotherapists based in United Kingdom emergency departments (ED). Research on ED patients’ experience of this physioth... Read More about The experiences of patients attending the emergency department who were managed by physiotherapists: a person-centred perspective.

Network meta-analysis of upfront fixed-duration therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (2024)
Journal Article
Molica, S., Allsup, D., & Giannarelli, D. (online). Network meta-analysis of upfront fixed-duration therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. American Journal of Hematology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajh.27437

The emergence of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors marked a significant advancement in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) management, especially for high-risk patients. 1 Ibrutinib, the pioneering BTK inhibitor, has undergone extensive study.... Read More about Network meta-analysis of upfront fixed-duration therapies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Effectiveness of Social Technical Assistance (STA) Program for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction 4 (2024)
Journal Article
Bhusal, N. P., Bhattarai, K., & Walkley, F. (2024). Effectiveness of Social Technical Assistance (STA) Program for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction 4. Sustainability, 16(5), Article 6284. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156284

This research assesses the effectiveness of the Socio-Technical Assistance (STA) program 8 combined with Owner-Driven Housing Reconstruction for rural private housing recovery after Ne-9 pal's 2015 earthquake, particularly targeting vulnerable househ... Read More about Effectiveness of Social Technical Assistance (STA) Program for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction 4.

Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disk galaxies (2024)
Journal Article
Nobels, F. S. J., Schaye, J., Schaller, M., Ploeckinger, S., Chaikin, E., & Richings, A. J. (online). Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disk galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stae1390. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1390

We use smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulations of isolated Milky Way-mass disk galaxies that include cold, interstellar gas to test subgrid prescriptions for star formation (SF). Our fiducial model combines a Schmidt law with a gravitational inst... Read More about Tests of subgrid models for star formation using simulations of isolated disk galaxies.

Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries (2024)
Journal Article
Dodd, J. R., Noble, R. A. A., Nunn, A. D., Owen, H. M., Moccetti, P., Harvey, J. P., Wallace, L., Gillespie, B., Joyce, D. A., & Bolland, J. D. (online). Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries. Journal of fish biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15814

This investigation compared the spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. between reservoirs with (impact; Langsett Reservoir) and without (control; Grimwith Reservoir) barriers to fish movements into headwater tributarie... Read More about Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries.

Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity (2024)
Journal Article
Chestnut, U., Goetz, A., & Jonas, A. (online). Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2367389

Public transit service provision is fraught with contradictions and tensions, which today tend to converge around the city-regional scale of planning and governance. The promise of public transit is to promote economic development and improve regiona... Read More about Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity.

Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification (2024)
Journal Article
Ahmad, M., Usama, M., Khan, A. M., Distefano, S., Altuwaijri, H. A., & Mazzara, M. (2024). Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2024.3431188

In Transformer-based Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC), predefined positional encodings (PEs) are crucial for capturing the order of each input token. However, their typical representation as fixed-dimension learnable vectors makes it challen... Read More about Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification.

British Idealist Engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858-1929 (2024)
Journal Article
Tyler, C. (online). British Idealist Engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858-1929. Journal of political ideologies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2369304

This article contributes to the scholarship on Giuseppe Mazzini’s impact on British radicalism through an analysis of British idealist engagements with his life and writings between 1858 and 1929. Section one introduces the topic. Section two (“Brita... Read More about British Idealist Engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858-1929.

Experimental Development of Lightweight Manipulators with Improved Design Cycle Time that leverages off-the-shelf Robotic Arm Components (2024)
Journal Article
Rzi Abbas, M., Ahsan, M., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Experimental Development of Lightweight Manipulators with Improved Design Cycle Time that leverages off-the-shelf Robotic Arm Components. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0305379. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305379

The growing market for lightweight robots inspires new use-cases, such as collaborative manipulators for human-centered automation. However, widespread adoption faces obstacles due to high R&D costs and longer design cycles, although rapid advances i... Read More about Experimental Development of Lightweight Manipulators with Improved Design Cycle Time that leverages off-the-shelf Robotic Arm Components.

Validation of Field-Based Running Tests to Determine Maximal Aerobic Speed in Professional Rugby League (2024)
Journal Article
Bennett, T., Marshall, P., Barrett, S., Malone, J., Simpson, A., Bray, J., Christopherson, C., Nickolay, T., Metcalfe, J., & McLaren-Towlson, C. (2024). Validation of Field-Based Running Tests to Determine Maximal Aerobic Speed in Professional Rugby League. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306062. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306062

Practitioners place importance on high-speed running (HSR) to monitor training practice and match-play demands, whilst attempting to maximise fitness and minimize the risk of injury occurrence. Practitioners apply various methods to quantify HSR, suc... Read More about Validation of Field-Based Running Tests to Determine Maximal Aerobic Speed in Professional Rugby League.

Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry (2024)
Journal Article
Renforth, P., Campbell, J., Foteinis, S., Cosgun, E., Young, J., Strunge, T., Riley, A., Mayes, W., & van der Spek, M. (2024). Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry. Journal of cleaner production, 468, Article 142987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142987

Reducing the emissions from steel production is essential in meeting climate targets while maintaining economic prosperity. Here we show that applying deep emissions mitigation to the steel industry together with the reaction of by-product slag with... Read More about Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry.

Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept (2024)
Journal Article
Cuevas-Castillo, G. A., Michailos, S., Akram, M., Hughes, K., Ingham, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2024). Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept. Journal of cleaner production, 469, Article 143143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143143

The paper deals with exhaustive process modelling, techno-economic and life cycle assessment (TEA/LCA) of olefin (ethylene and propylene) production through captured CO2 and electrolytic hydrogen. Olefins are important building block chemicals with s... Read More about Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept.

Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, K., Redshaw, C., Zhao, X., Wang, A., Chen, K., & Qiao, Y. (2024). Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films. ACS Applied Nano Materials, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c02258

The development of nanozymes has emerged as a promising pathway for combating bacterial infections. In this work, Ag/Schiff base nanozymes are obtained through the in situ reduction method on [2 + 3] Schiff base macrocycles using eco-friendly reducta... Read More about Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films.

Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England (2024)
Journal Article
Mahon, N., Finan, S., Holloway, L., Clark, B., & Proctor, A. (in press). Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England. Scottish Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2024.2343951

Farmed animals are expected to move through farmed spaces in certain ways to maximise their productivity. These spaces are also designed to limit the movement of disease-causing organisms. However, both types of lifeforms do not always move in expect... Read More about Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England.

Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, X., Shen, L., Tan, X., Wang, X., Liang, X., Shan, X., Xu, H., Wang, Z. Y., Redshaw, C., & Zhang, Q. L. (2024). Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells. Journal of molecular structure, 1318(pt.1), Article 139262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.139262

H2O2 plays a key regulatory role as a bioendogenous reactive oxygen species in cells and organisms. However, excessive production or accumulation of H2O2 during mitochondrial oxidative stress may lead to oxidative damage of cellular proteins and trig... Read More about Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells.

Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Chan, A., Jamieson, C., Draper, H., O'Callaghan, S., & Guinn, B. (online). Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112719

Objectives: To examine disparities in attendance rates at cancer screening services between transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people in comparison with their cisgender (CG) counterparts, and to determine whether these differences were based on the... Read More about Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.