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Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry (2025)
Journal Article
Brereton, J., Jones, B., Reeve, C., Zborowski, J., & Bramwell-Dicks, A. (in press). Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry. Popular Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2486773

Screen industry employers report that they are unable to recruit graduates with the right skills for entry-level roles in film and television, citing a lack of business awareness and various “soft skills” as barriers to employment. Traditionally, suc... Read More about Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry.

One-class support vector machines for detecting population drift in deployed machine learning medical diagnostics (2025)
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Jones, W. S., & Farrow, D. J. (2025). One-class support vector machines for detecting population drift in deployed machine learning medical diagnostics. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 12157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94427-x

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being applied to diagnose and predict disease, but face technical challenges such as population drift, where the training and real-world deployed data distributions differ. This phenomenon can degrade mod... Read More about One-class support vector machines for detecting population drift in deployed machine learning medical diagnostics.

DiffFormer: a Differential Spatial-Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification (2025)
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Ahmad, M., Mazzara, M., Distefano, S., Khan, A. M., & Ullo, S. L. (in press). DiffFormer: a Differential Spatial-Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 10419-10428. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3558889

Hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) presents significant challenges due to spectral redundancy and spatial discontinuity, both of which can negatively impact classification performance. To mitigate these issues, this work proposes the Different... Read More about DiffFormer: a Differential Spatial-Spectral Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification.

Using Lyα Absorption to Measure the Intensity and Variability of z ∼ 2.4 Ultraviolet Background Light (2025)
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Weiss, L. H., Gebhardt, K., Davis, D., Mentuch Cooper, E., Lujan Niemeyer, M., Qezlou, M., Mirza Khanlari, M., Ciardullo, R., Farrow, D., Gawiser, E., Gazagnes, S., Gronwall, C., Hill, G. J., & Schneider, D. P. (2025). Using Lyα Absorption to Measure the Intensity and Variability of z ∼ 2.4 Ultraviolet Background Light. The Astrophysical journal, 983(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc0f9

We present measurements of z ∼ 2.4 ultraviolet (UV) background light using Lyα absorption from galaxies at z ∼ 2–3 in the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) database. Thanks to the wide area of this survey, we also measure the var... Read More about Using Lyα Absorption to Measure the Intensity and Variability of z ∼ 2.4 Ultraviolet Background Light.

Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5 (2025)
Journal Article
Kurawa, G. (online). Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2025.2489860

Opening paragraph:
Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education, edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, is an essential and timely addition to the current debate surrounding migrants in education. This edit... Read More about Book Review: Promoting inclusive systems for migrants in education edited by Paul Downes, Jim Anderson, Alireza Behtoui and Lore Van Praag, London, Routledge, 2024, 224 pp., £133.24 (hard cover), ISBN: 978-1-032-19304-5.

Performance Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient Oscillating Air-Conditioning Dehumidification System through Experimental Testing and Numerical Modelling (2025)
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Yue, J., Zeng, C., Wang, Z., Lu, J., Qin, J., Shang, X., Liu, L., & Pei, Z. (online). Performance Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient Oscillating Air-Conditioning Dehumidification System through Experimental Testing and Numerical Modelling. Building services engineering research & technology : BSER & T, https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244251333135

This study examines the performance of a new oscillating air-conditioning dehumidification system, designed to overcome the limitations of traditional methods, such as energy-intensive defrost cycles and inconsistent dehumidification in high-humidity... Read More about Performance Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient Oscillating Air-Conditioning Dehumidification System through Experimental Testing and Numerical Modelling.

A new hydrogen production route through biomass gasification in a two-stage fixed bed reactor within the BECCS concept: A techno-economic and life cycle assessment study (2025)
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Rabea, K., Michailos, S., Hughes, K. J., Ingham, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2025). A new hydrogen production route through biomass gasification in a two-stage fixed bed reactor within the BECCS concept: A techno-economic and life cycle assessment study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 124, 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.03.441

Hydrogen is projected to be a major contributor to the renewable and sustainable energy mix in the near future. Among the different routes of hydrogen production, the Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) approach has gained much interest... Read More about A new hydrogen production route through biomass gasification in a two-stage fixed bed reactor within the BECCS concept: A techno-economic and life cycle assessment study.

Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework (2025)
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Murillo-Zepeda, C., Pearson, M., & Ellawala, A. (2025). Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework. Clinical Teacher, 22(3), Article e70092. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.70092

Background: Interventions aimed at supporting international medical graduates during the transition to host countries facilitate adjustment to these new workplace environments. Despite the progress made on clarifying the mechanisms operating behind s... Read More about Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework.

Hydrodynamic simulations of the Disc of Gas Around Supermassive black holes (HDGAS) - II. The transition from neutral atomic to molecular gas phases (2025)
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Raouf, M., Viti, S., Karimi, R., & Richings, A. J. (2025). Hydrodynamic simulations of the Disc of Gas Around Supermassive black holes (HDGAS) - II. The transition from neutral atomic to molecular gas phases. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(2), 1516-1527. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf557

We use HDGAS (Hydrodynamic simulations of the Disc of Gas Around Supermassive black holes) hydrodynamic simulations to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback on the conversion of atomic gas to molecular gas within the circumnuclea... Read More about Hydrodynamic simulations of the Disc of Gas Around Supermassive black holes (HDGAS) - II. The transition from neutral atomic to molecular gas phases.

A Quantitative study on the consumption of organic fruits and vegetables in Vietnam (2025)
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Thuy, N. N., Saxena, G., Bhattarai, K., & Anh, H. H. (2025). A Quantitative study on the consumption of organic fruits and vegetables in Vietnam. SAGE Open, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251348843

This study explores the key factors that shape Vietnamese consumers' intentions to purchase organic fruits and vegetables, with a particular focus on the role of consumer trust. Analysis of data collected from 330 randomly sampled individuals in Ho C... Read More about A Quantitative study on the consumption of organic fruits and vegetables in Vietnam.

A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia (2025)
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Clarke, C., Baird, K., Moniz-Cook, E., Mountain, G., Wolverson, E., Lee, E., & Hewitt, C. (2025). A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, 11(2), Article e70097. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.70097

INTRODUCTION: There are few validated strengths-based outcome measures for evaluations of psychosocial interventions in dementia and measurement of the concept of flourishing has not been directly explored. This study therefore examined the psychomet... Read More about A psychometric study of the Flourishing Scale for people living with dementia.

Impact of real-time glucose monitoring using FreeStyle Libre 3 on glycaemia in type 2 diabetes managed with basal insulin plus SGLT2 inhibitor and/or GLP-1 agonist: the FreeDM2 randomised controlled trial protocol (2025)
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Wilmot, E. G., Ajjan, R. A., Cheah, Y. S., Choudhary, P., Cranston, I., Elliott, R. A., Evans, M., Iqbal, A., Kamaruddin, S., Barnard-Kelly, K., Lumb, A., Min, T., Moore, P., Narendran, P., Neupane, S., Rayman, G., Sathyapalan, T., Thabit, H., Yates, T., & Leelarathna, L. (2025). Impact of real-time glucose monitoring using FreeStyle Libre 3 on glycaemia in type 2 diabetes managed with basal insulin plus SGLT2 inhibitor and/or GLP-1 agonist: the FreeDM2 randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ open, 15(4), Article e090154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090154

Introduction Effective management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) consists of lifestyle modification and therapy optimisation. While glycaemic monitoring can be used as a tool to guide these changes, this can be challenging with self-monitoring of... Read More about Impact of real-time glucose monitoring using FreeStyle Libre 3 on glycaemia in type 2 diabetes managed with basal insulin plus SGLT2 inhibitor and/or GLP-1 agonist: the FreeDM2 randomised controlled trial protocol.

O-GlcNAcylation and Phosphorylation Crosstalk in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Cellular and Therapeutic Significance in Cardiac and Vascular Pathologies (2025)
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Bolanle, I. O., & Palmer, T. M. (2025). O-GlcNAcylation and Phosphorylation Crosstalk in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Cellular and Therapeutic Significance in Cardiac and Vascular Pathologies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26(7), Article 3303. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26073303

More than 400 different types of post-translational modifications (PTMs), including O-GlcNAcylation and phosphorylation, combine to co-ordinate almost all aspects of protein function. Often, these PTMs overlap and the specific relationship between O-... Read More about O-GlcNAcylation and Phosphorylation Crosstalk in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Cellular and Therapeutic Significance in Cardiac and Vascular Pathologies.

Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (2025)
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Rivero Crespo, F., Wollenberg-Valero, K., & Banu, S. (2025). Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Microbial Ecology, 88, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02519-y

The effects of heatwaves at organism and population levels have been widely investigated; however, little is known about how they affect the development of cell populations and the fitness of the resulting organism. Disruptions caused by heatwaves ar... Read More about Simulated heat waves affect cell fate and fitness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Socioeconomic status and older adult's experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis (2025)
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Bullock, A., Newton-Clarke, A., Johnson, M. J., Murtagh, F. E., & Nwulu, U. (2025). Socioeconomic status and older adult's experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0321313. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321313

Objectives Unintentional weight loss in older adults is common, with 15–20% of those aged >65 having clinically significant weight loss, associated with increased mortality and morbidity. People with socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to be o... Read More about Socioeconomic status and older adult's experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis.

ASSIST: Development of a simplified clinician-patient hybrid reporting outcome measure for remote diagnosis of surgical site infection (2025)
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Lathan, R., Hitchman, L., Walshaw, J., Ravindhran, B., Sidapra, M., Lim, A., Long, J., Totty, J., Carradice, D., Smith, G., & Chetter, I. (2025). ASSIST: Development of a simplified clinician-patient hybrid reporting outcome measure for remote diagnosis of surgical site infection. International wound journal, 22(4), Article e70234. https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70234

Remote assessment of surgical site infection(SSI) lacks sensitivity for the diagnosis of SSI, but current evidence has not evaluated whether a combination of photographs and questionnaires improves diagnostic accuracy. This study aims to develop a re... Read More about ASSIST: Development of a simplified clinician-patient hybrid reporting outcome measure for remote diagnosis of surgical site infection.

The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper (2025)
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Hurrell, E. R., Hutchinson, S. M., Yorke, L., Batty, L. C., Bunting, M. J., Swanton, D., McDougall, D. A., & Parsons, D. R. (in press). The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper. Area, Article e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70011

In this perspective paper, we explore the role virtual field trips (VFTs) may play in creating a more resilient, sustainable and equitable field education for Geography students in higher education as we move away from the pandemic but into a financi... Read More about The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper.

LiqState: Liquid Identification and State Monitoring Using mmWave IoT Sensing (2025)
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Niaz, F., Zhang, J., Khalid, M., Younas, M., & Majid, A. (online). LiqState: Liquid Identification and State Monitoring Using mmWave IoT Sensing. IEEE internet of things journal, https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2025.3549374

Traditional RF-based liquid identification methods generally rely on a single characteristic such as refractive index or permittivity and often assume prior container knowledge, limiting their versatility. These approaches also face challenges in sce... Read More about LiqState: Liquid Identification and State Monitoring Using mmWave IoT Sensing.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity: the By-Band-Sleeve multi-centre, open label, three-group randomised controlled trial (2025)
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The By-Band-Sleeve Collaborative Group, Blazeby, J., Rogers, C., Reeves, B., Welbourn, R., Mazza, G., Gidman, E., Kanavou, S., Edwards, D., Maishman, R., Pike, K., Wordsworth, S., Pouwels, K., Doble, B., Fermont, J., Koleva Kolarova, R., Blencowe, N., Byrne, J., Thompson, J., Pouwels, K., …Edmond, J. (2025). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity: the By-Band-Sleeve multi-centre, open label, three-group randomised controlled trial. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 13(5), 410-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587%2825%2900025-7+

Background
The health risks of severe obesity can be reduced with metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS), but it is uncertain which operation is most effective or cost-effective. We compared Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), adjustable gastric band (A... Read More about Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity: the By-Band-Sleeve multi-centre, open label, three-group randomised controlled trial.