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Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience (2017)
Book Chapter
Forrest, S., Trell, E., & Woltjer, J. (2017). Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience. In E. Trell, B. Restemeyer, M. M. Bakema, & B. van Hoven (Eds.), Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places (92-115). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315103761

By focusing on developing a working definition of flood groups in England, and by analysing their governance arrangements, this chapter aims to shed light on their potential influence on community resilience to flooding. It discusses resilience in re... Read More about Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience.

The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (2017)
Journal Article
Wood, R. A., Jones, C., Machacek, M. E., Forman, W. R., Bogdan, A., Andrade-Santos, F., Kraft, R. P., Paggi, A., & Roediger, E. (2017). The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The Astrophysical journal, 847(1), Article ARTN 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8723

We present Chandra observations of hot gas structures, characteristic of gas stripping during infall, in the Virgo cluster elliptical galaxy M60 (NGC4649) located 1 Mpc east of M87. 0.5−2 keV Chandra X-ray images show a sharp leading edge in the surf... Read More about The infall of the Virgo elliptical galaxy M60 toward M87 and the gaseous structures produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities.

A superstring field theory for supergravity (2017)
Journal Article
Reid-Edwards, R., & Riccombeni, D. (2017). A superstring field theory for supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(9), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282017%29103

A covariant closed superstring field theory, equivalent to classical tendimensional Type II supergravity, is presented. The defining conformal field theory is the ambitwistor string worldsheet theory of Mason and Skinner. This theory is known to repr... Read More about A superstring field theory for supergravity.

Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life' (2017)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2017). Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life'. In D. Albert Jones, C. Gastmans, & C. MacKellar (Eds.), Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (188-201). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182799.012

In Belgium and the Netherlands, a debate is developing about people who express a desire to end their lives although they do not suffer from an incurable, life-threatening disease. In 2000, a court in Haarlem in the Netherlands considered the case of... Read More about Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life'.

The Severe Impairment Battery (2017)
Book Chapter
Hutchinson, N. (2018). The Severe Impairment Battery. In V. P. Prasher (Ed.), Neuropsychological Assessments of Dementia in Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities (235-254). (2nd ed.). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61720-6_13

The term dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a clinical syndrome that consists, primarily, of significant, progressive and irreversible deterioration of cognitive functioning (learning and memory, language, perception, executive functioning... Read More about The Severe Impairment Battery.

Dependency of the combustion behavior of energy grass and three other types of biomass upon lignocellulosic composition (2017)
Journal Article
Ma, Y., Guan, Y., Zhang, K., Xu, G., Yang, Y., & Stevenson, P. (2018). Dependency of the combustion behavior of energy grass and three other types of biomass upon lignocellulosic composition. Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, 37(2), 815-823. https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.12705

The combustion characteristics of four kinds of biomass fuels (energy grass, sawdust, corn cob, and walnut shell) are investigated in this article. All the samples are heated from room temperature to 800°C at multiple heating rates of 10, 20, and 30°... Read More about Dependency of the combustion behavior of energy grass and three other types of biomass upon lignocellulosic composition.

Silicon diimide gel as an efficient stationary phase in thin layer chromatography for acid-sensitive organic compounds (2017)
Journal Article
Kitney, S. P., Sajedin, S. M., Rocher, V., Cheng, F., & Kelly, S. M. (2017). Silicon diimide gel as an efficient stationary phase in thin layer chromatography for acid-sensitive organic compounds. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 53(80), 11080-11082. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cc04952h

We report the use of mesoporous silicon diimide gel as a basic stationary phase in thin layer chromatography for the characterisation and purification of acid-sensitive compounds. The gel is prepared by a simple sol-gel process and exhibits a large s... Read More about Silicon diimide gel as an efficient stationary phase in thin layer chromatography for acid-sensitive organic compounds.

One-step reforming of CO₂ and CH₄ to high-value liquid chemicals and fuels at room temperature via plasma-driven catalysis (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Yi, Y., Wu, C., Guo, H., & Tu, X. (2017). One-step reforming of CO₂ and CH₄ to high-value liquid chemicals and fuels at room temperature via plasma-driven catalysis. Angewandte Chemie, 129(44), 13867-13871. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201707131

Conversion of CO₂ with CH₄ into liquid fuels and chemicals in a single-step catalytic process bypassing the production of syngas remains a challenge. In this study, one-step synthesis of liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g. acetic acid, methanol, ethanol... Read More about One-step reforming of CO₂ and CH₄ to high-value liquid chemicals and fuels at room temperature via plasma-driven catalysis.

On the testability of coarsening assumptions: a hypothesis test for subgroup independence (2017)
Journal Article
Plass, J., Cattaneo, M., Schollmeyer, G., & Augustin, T. (2017). On the testability of coarsening assumptions: a hypothesis test for subgroup independence. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 90, 292-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2017.07.014

Since coarse(ned) data naturally induce set-valued estimators, analysts often assume coarsening at random (CAR) to force them to be single-valued. Focusing on a coarse categorical response variable and a precisely observed categorical covariate, we r... Read More about On the testability of coarsening assumptions: a hypothesis test for subgroup independence.

Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system (2017)
Journal Article
Ali, U., Akram, M., Font-Palma, C., Ingham, D. B., & Pourkashanian, M. (2017). Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system. Fuel, 210, 873-884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.023

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is recognised as a key technology to mitigate CO2 emissions and achieve stringent climate targets due to its potential for negative emissions. However, the cost for its deployment is expected to be hi... Read More about Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system.

Infection prevention and human factors (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dyson, J. (2017, September). Infection prevention and human factors. Paper presented at Infection Prevention Society Conference, Harrogate

Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, C. R., & Hollins Martin, C. J. (2017). Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). Journal of Nursing and Practice, 1(1), 25-30

Introduction: The 10-item Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a theoretically anchored and easy to administer multidimensional measure of the birth satisfaction construct. The use of the BSS-R Internationally has led to an increasing number... Read More about Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R).

TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (2017)
Journal Article
Edginton, E., Walwyn, R., Burton, K., Cicero, R., Graham, L., Reed, S., Tubeuf, S., Twiddy, M., Wright-Hughes, A., Ellis, L., Evans, D., Hughes, T., Midgley, N., Wallis, P., & Cottrell, D. (2017). TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Trials, 18(1), Article 431. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2166-2

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends evidence-based parenting programmes as a first-line intervention for conduct disorders (CD) in children aged 5–11 years. As these are not effective in 25–33% of cases... Read More about TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure (2017)
Journal Article
Nikolaidou, T., Pellicori, P., Zhang, J., Kazmi, S., Goode, K. M., Cleland, J. G., & Clark, A. L. (2018). Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure. Clinical Research in Cardiology, 107(2), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-017-1162-6

© 2017 The Author(s) Aims: To determine the prevalence, incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients referred with suspected heart failure. Methods and results: Consecutive patients referred with suspecte... Read More about Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure.

An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Ren, J., N Davis, D., & Cheng, Y. (2018). An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 24(2), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/10798587.2017.1340135

Frequent pattern mining usually requires much run time and memory usage. In some applications, only the patterns with top frequency rank are needed. Because of the limited pattern numbers, quality of the results is even more important than time and m... Read More about An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure.

Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea (2017)
Book Chapter
Bianchini, F. (2017). Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea. In I. Van Damme, B. De Munck, & A. Miles (Eds.), Cities and creativity from the renaissance to the present (23-42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315167046-2

This chapter considers the complex origins of the concept of the creative city in the late 1980s to early 1990s and some of the ways in which it has evolved and been applied since then. It explains how the idea of the creative city evolved in several... Read More about Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea.

The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns (2017)
Journal Article
Mangano, M. C., Bottari, T., Caridi, F., Porporato, E. M., Rinelli, P., Spanò, N., Johnson, M., & Sarà, G. (2017). The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns. Marine environmental research, 131, 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.09.004

The ability to observe and predict trawling-induced patterns at spatial and temporal scales that are relevant to inform realistic management strategies is a challenge which scientists have consistently faced in recent decades. Here, we use fish feedi... Read More about The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns.

The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals (2017)
Journal Article
Haughton, J., Bachman, P., Bhattarai, K., & Tuerck, D. G. (2017). The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals. Atlantic Economic Journal, 45(4), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-017-9554-6

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican candidates for President of the U.S. in 2016, proposed several changes in the federal tax code. Hillary Clinton would add a personal income tax surcharge of 4% on high annual incomes, li... Read More about The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals.

Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation (2017)
Journal Article
Tochwin, A., El-Betany, A., Tai, H., Chan, K. Y., Blackburn, C., & Wang, W. (2017). Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation. Polymers, 9(9), Article 443. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym9090443

Here, we report the synthesis of new thermoresponsive hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) via one-pot reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) copolymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMEMA,Mn = 475 g/mol), poly(... Read More about Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation.