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Social responsibility and corporate borrowing (2024)
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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.

Green Pathways for Biomass Transformation: A Holistic Evaluation of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) through Life Cycle and Techno-economic Assessment (2024)
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Yiin, C. L., Lai, Z. Y., Chin, B. L. F., Lock, S. S. M., Cheah, K. W., Taylor, M. J., Al-Gailani, A., Kolosz, B. W., & Chan, Y. H. (online). Green Pathways for Biomass Transformation: A Holistic Evaluation of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) through Life Cycle and Techno-economic Assessment. Journal of cleaner production, Article 143248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143248

The utilization of renewable biomass resources to manufacture biofuels, chemicals, and materials has garnered considerable attention. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have surfaced as a promising instrument within the realm of biomass conversion, owing... Read More about Green Pathways for Biomass Transformation: A Holistic Evaluation of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) through Life Cycle and Techno-economic Assessment.

Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys (2024)
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Sellers, G. S., Jerde, C. L., Harper, L. R., Benucci, M., Di Muri, C., Li, J., Peirson, G., Walsh, K., Hatton-Ellis, T., Duncan, W., Duguid, A., Ottewell, D., Willby, N., Law, A., Bean, C. W., Winfield, I. J., Read, D. S., Lawson Handley, L., & Hänfling, B. (2024). Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 8, 121–143. https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8.104655

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is transforming biodiversity monitoring in aquatic environments. Such an approach has been developed and deployed for monitoring lake fish communities in Great Britain, where the method has repeatedly shown a co... Read More about Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys.

The experiences of patients attending the emergency department who were managed by physiotherapists: a person-centred perspective (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification (2024)
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Okoye, I. J., Zein, S. H., Oko, E., & Jalil, A. A. (2024). Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification. Progress in Rubber, Plastics and Recycling Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14777606241262888

This paper promotes awareness of the circular economy as a superior waste disposal system alternative. The novelty of this study is to model cleaner energy generation from the gasification of polyethene terephthalate (PET) waste accompanied by a deta... Read More about Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification.

Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries (2024)
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Dodd, J. R., Noble, R. 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)
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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.

Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media (2024)
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Dhiman, A., Yom-Tov, E., Pellis, L., Edelstein, M., Pebody, R., Hayward, A., House, T., Finnie, T., Guzman, D., Lampos, V., Virus Watch Consortium, & Cox, I. J. (2024). Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media. npj Digital Medicine, 7(1), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01160-2

We propose a method to estimate the household secondary attack rate (hSAR) of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom based on activity on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conventional methods of hSAR estimation are resource intensive,... Read More about Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media.

Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification (2024)
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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)
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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.

Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design (2024)
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Winterbottom, A., Hurst, H., Murtagh, F. E., Bekker, H. L., Ormandy, P., Hole, B., Russon, L., Murphy, E., Bucknall, K., & Mooney, A. (2024). Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design. Kidney Medicine, 6(9), Article 100874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100874

Rationale & Objective Planning and delivering treatment pathways that integrate end-of-life care, frailty assessment, and enhanced supportive care is a service priority. Despite this, people with kidney failure are less likely to have an advance car... Read More about Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design.

Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits (2024)
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Burdon, D., Barnard, S., Strong, J. A., & Atkins, J. P. (2024). Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits. Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 224, Article 108316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108316

There is a growing call to better understand society's relationship with the natural environment and the environment's economic contribution to the economy and human well-being. This paper presents a new methodology for estimating the spatial monetar... Read More about Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits.

Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry (2024)
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Renforth, P., Campbell, J., Foteinis, S., Cosgun, E., Young, J., Strunge, T., Riley, A. L., Mayes, W. M., & van der Spek, M. W. (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)
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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)
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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.