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Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments (2024)
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Akbarimehr, D., Rahai, M., Ahmadpour, M., & Sheng, Y. (2025). Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments. Geotechnics, 5(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics5010001

Urmia Lake (UL) is the sixth-largest saltwater lake in the world; however, there is a dearth of geotechnical studies on this region. Geotechnical characteristics of a site are considered important from different engineering perspectives. In this rese... Read More about Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments.

The reforms of policing the Metropolis 1798-1829 (2024)
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Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2024). The reforms of policing the Metropolis 1798-1829. Journal of the Police History Society, 38,

The authors are in the process of preparing a manuscript for a book entitled The Governance of the Police in England and Wales: From Early Times to the Present Day. As part of our research, we examined a vast range of primary source material relating... Read More about The reforms of policing the Metropolis 1798-1829.

Mapping the local ambidextrous chirality in thin films of NTB phase by circular dichroism spectra (2024)
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Yu, H., Welch, C., & Mehl, G. H. (2025). Mapping the local ambidextrous chirality in thin films of NTB phase by circular dichroism spectra. Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 330, Article 125682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.125682

Circular dichroism mapping (CDM) method was introduced by utilizing the highly collimated light beam of synchrotron radiation (SR) available at Diamond Light Source B23 beamline for scanning the thin films of the NTB phase. We apply SR-CDM to two ach... Read More about Mapping the local ambidextrous chirality in thin films of NTB phase by circular dichroism spectra.

Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China (2024)
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Fang, Y., Yang, X., Zhao, Y., Li, Y., Ma, C., Chen, B., & Bunting, M. J. (2025). Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China. Quaternary science reviews, 350, Article 109151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109151

Montane ecotones such as the forest-steppe transition are highly sensitive and responsive to climate change. Thus, reconstructing changing ecotone position is a valuable tool for reconstructing past climate change in mountainous regions, although ide... Read More about Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China.

Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective (2024)
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Gregory, A., Atkins, J., & Dwivedi, A. (in press). Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective. Systems research and behavioral science, https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3108

The argument that the supply chain discipline needed to make an epistemological break with functionalism in favour of a systems approach was made by Mears-Young and Jackson (1997) but it has largely been overlooked. This paper seeks to address this o... Read More about Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective.

The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey (2024)
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Holwerda, B. W., Robertson, C., Cook, K., Pimbblet, K., Casura, S., Sansom, A. E., Patel, D., Butrum, T. A., Glass, D. H. W., Kelvin, L. S., Baldry, I. K., De Propris, R., Bamford, S., Masters, K., Stone, M. B., Hardin, T., Walmsley, M., Liske, J., & Adnan, S. M. (2024). The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, Article e115. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2024.109

Galaxy Zoo is an online project to classify morphological features in extra-galactic imaging surveys with public voting. In this paper, we compare the classifications made for two different surveys, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ima... Read More about The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey.

Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (2024)
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Nandakumar, M., Das, P., Sathyapalan, T., Butler, A. E., & Atkin, S. L. (2025). Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Biomolecules, 15(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15010004

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent metabolic disorder with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is enhanced by obesity. This study sought to determine whether a panel of cardiovascular risk proteins (CVRPs)... Read More about Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
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Stacey, L. J., Valla, F. V., Huang, C., Comfort, P., Chaparro, C. J., Latten, L., & Tume, L. N. (in press). The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpen.2715

Survivorship after pediatric critical illness is high in developed countries, but many suffer physical morbidities afterwards. The increasing focus on follow-up after critical illness has led to more pediatric studies reporting muscle mass changes (u... Read More about The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts (2024)
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Rogers, S. M., Cullen, D. A., Labonte, D., Sutton, G. P., Vanden Broeck, J. J., & Burrows, M. (2025). RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2415625121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415625121

Resilin, an elastomeric protein with remarkable physical properties that outperforms synthetic rubbers, is a near-ubiquitous feature of the power amplification mechanisms used by jumping insects. Catapult-like mechanisms, which incorporate elastic en... Read More about RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts.

mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology (2024)
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Niaz, F., Zhang, J., Khalid, M., Younas, M., & Niaz, A. (online). mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2024.3520914

Wireless sensing offers a promising approach for non-destructive and contactless identification of the moisture content in fruits. Traditional methods assess fruit quality based on external features such as color, shape, size, and texture. However, f... Read More about mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology.

Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces (2024)
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Eatson, J., Bauernfeind, S., Midtvedt, B., Ciarlo, A., Menath, J., Pesce, G., Schofield, A. B., Volpe, G., Clegg, P. S., Vogel, N., Buzza, D. M. A., & Rey, M. (2025). Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces. Journal of colloid and interface science, 683, pt.2, 435-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.156

Hypothesis: Ellipsoidal particles confined at liquid interfaces exhibit complex self-assembly due to quadrupolar capillary interactions, favouring either tip-to-tip or side-to-side configurations. However, predicting and controlling which structure f... Read More about Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces.

Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity (2024)
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Macgregor, C., Deutz, P., Bunting, J., & Mayes, W. (2024). Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity. People, Place and Policy, 18(3), 135-163. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2024.4947649325

Policies prioritising the repurposing of abandoned land ('brownfield sites'), in order to spare undeveloped sites, are widely perceived to limit damage to biodiversity. However, brownfield sites can be of significant ecological value, providing scarc... Read More about Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity.

Salinity does not affect late-stage in-egg embryonic or immediate post-hatch development in an ecologically important land crab species (2024)
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Turner, L. M., Clayton, K. A., Wiberg, L., Wilson, C. H., Ibbini, Z., Tills, O., & Spicer, J. I. (2025). Salinity does not affect late-stage in-egg embryonic or immediate post-hatch development in an ecologically important land crab species. The journal of experimental biology, 228(2), https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249629

Environmental drivers such as salinity can impact the timing and duration of developmental events in aquatic early life stages of crustaceans, including terrestrial crabs of the family Gecarcinidae. Low salinity delays larval development in land crab... Read More about Salinity does not affect late-stage in-egg embryonic or immediate post-hatch development in an ecologically important land crab species.

The sword of damocles: Debt and depression (2024)
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Zhou, J., Korkmaz, A. G., Li, Y., Yue, P., & Yan, Y. (2025). The sword of damocles: Debt and depression. International review of financial analysis, 98, Article 103877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103877

This paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of formal and informal debt on mental health. We use unique data on Chinese households between 2014 and 2018 to examine the relationship between household debt obtained from different sources and the... Read More about The sword of damocles: Debt and depression.

Women’s perspectives of molecular breast imaging: a qualitative study: Epidemiology (2024)
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Elliott, H., Allen, A. J., Forester, N. D., Graziadio, S., Jones, W. S., Lendrem, B. C., Pearce, M. S., Powell, T., Scott, J., & Bray, A. (2025). Women’s perspectives of molecular breast imaging: a qualitative study: Epidemiology. The British Journal of Cancer, 132, 276-282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-024-02930-1

Background: Mammography has poor sensitivity in dense breast tissue. Retrospective studies suggest that Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI), has superior diagnostic accuracy to mammography in women with very dense breast tissue. Women’s perspectives of MB... Read More about Women’s perspectives of molecular breast imaging: a qualitative study: Epidemiology.

Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback (2024)
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Grey, S., & Gordon, N. (2024). Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 19(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtns.vi19.4103

It is widely recognised that feedback is an important part of learning: effective feedback should result in a meaningful change in student behaviour (Morris et al., 2021). However, individual feedback takes time to produce, and for large cohorts-typi... Read More about Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback.

Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa (2024)
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Umoh, K., Hasan, A., & Kenjegaliev, A. (2025). Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa. Ocean engineering, 317, Article 120037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.120037

A sustainable approach to site selection can enhance the techno-economic feasibility of floating wind projects. This is because site selection is a multicriteria problem including technical, environmental, social, and economic factors. The issue is m... Read More about Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa.

Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion (2024)
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Wilson, D. (2024). Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion. Debates in Aesthetics, 18(2), 101-118

I reply to three authors who responded to my target article: 'Music, Visualization and the Multi-stage Account of Photography'. Mikael Pettersson raises concerns about absent light because traditional theories suppose that a photograph is a causal tr... Read More about Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion.

Best Practice for Patient-centred Radiotherapy in Clinical Trials and Beyond—A National Multidisciplinary Consensus (2024)
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Green, H., Rieu, R., Slevin, F., Ashmore, L., Bulbeck, H., Gkogkou, P., Ingram, S., Kelly, C., Probst, H., Shakir, R., Underwood, T., Wolfarth, J., Merchant, M. J., & Burnet, N. G. (2025). Best Practice for Patient-centred Radiotherapy in Clinical Trials and Beyond—A National Multidisciplinary Consensus. Clinical Oncology, 39, Article 103732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2024.103732

Aims: Patient-centred radiotherapy refers to an approach where patients' needs and preferences are prioritised. Guidelines for this personalised approach are lacking. We present a multidisciplinary national consensus with the aim to provide recommend... Read More about Best Practice for Patient-centred Radiotherapy in Clinical Trials and Beyond—A National Multidisciplinary Consensus.