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Resilience in older people living with dementia – A narrative analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Buggins, S.-L., Clarke, C., & Wolverson, E. (2021). Resilience in older people living with dementia – A narrative analysis. Dementia, 20(4), 1234-1249. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301220927614

Dominant discourses surrounding dementia tend to focus on narratives of loss and decline. Simultaneously, individuals living with dementia are vulnerable to being dispossessed of personal narratives supportive of identity and well-being. How older pe... Read More about Resilience in older people living with dementia – A narrative analysis.

The ethics of cyber attack: Pursuing legitimate security and the common good in contemporary conflict scenarios (2020)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, D. J. (2020). The ethics of cyber attack: Pursuing legitimate security and the common good in contemporary conflict scenarios. Journal of Military Ethics, 19(1), 20-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1764694

Cyber attack against Critical National Infrastructure is a developing capability in state arsenals. The onset of this new instrument in national security has implications for conflict thresholds and military ethics. To serve as a legitimate tool of p... Read More about The ethics of cyber attack: Pursuing legitimate security and the common good in contemporary conflict scenarios.

Stellar migrations and metal flows -- Chemical evolution of the thin disc of a simulated Milky Way analogous galaxy (2020)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., & Kobayashi, C. (2020). Stellar migrations and metal flows -- Chemical evolution of the thin disc of a simulated Milky Way analogous galaxy. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(1), 80–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1451

In order to understand the roles of metal flows in galaxy formation and evolution, we analyse our self-consistent cosmological chemo-dynamical simulation of a Milky Way like galaxy during its thin-disc phase. Our simulated galaxy disc qualitatively r... Read More about Stellar migrations and metal flows -- Chemical evolution of the thin disc of a simulated Milky Way analogous galaxy.

Magnetic array-templated method for fabrication of polymer nanoporous films (2020)
Journal Article
Ng, J. K. G., Rybchenko, S. I., & Lukaschuk, S. (2020). Magnetic array-templated method for fabrication of polymer nanoporous films. Nano Express, 1(1), 010044. https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-959X/ab970b

This paper describes the development of a novel method of producing nanoporous polymeric membranes in a cost-effective and reproducible manner. The novelty of the technique hinges on the exploitation of a new type of sacrificial material & structures... Read More about Magnetic array-templated method for fabrication of polymer nanoporous films.

'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard' (2020)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (in press). 'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard'. Politik, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v23i1.120308

Music video is an underappreciated type of audiovisual artefact in studies of the aesthetics of world politics, which typically privilege linear narrative storytelling and struggle to communicate how sonic and embodied practices also constitute world... Read More about 'Couture military' and a queer aesthetic curiosity: music video aesthetics, militarised fashion, and the embodied politics of stardom in Rihanna’s 'Hard'.

On the performance of existing acoustic energy models when applied to multi-purpose performance halls (2020)
Journal Article
Gao, J., Tang, S. K., Zhao, Y., Cai, Y., & Pan, L. (2020). On the performance of existing acoustic energy models when applied to multi-purpose performance halls. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 167, Article 107401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107401

Acoustical measurements were done in two multi-purpose performance halls in the present study. The measured data are compared with predictions from three acoustic energy models in existing literature derived for churches and large reverberant theatre... Read More about On the performance of existing acoustic energy models when applied to multi-purpose performance halls.

Reimagined Community in London: The transmission of food as heritage in the Afghan Diaspora (2020)
Book Chapter
Haboucha, R. (2020). Reimagined Community in London: The transmission of food as heritage in the Afghan Diaspora. In R. Matta, C.-E. de Suremain, & C. Crenn (Eds.), Food Identities at Home and On the Move: Explorations at the Intersection of Food, Belonging and Dwelling (34-48). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003085430

This chapter focuses on an applied thematic analysis of the continuity and change of foodstuffs and food practices, their transmission within and beyond the domestic unit, and their role in the formation of identity within the Afghan diaspora. These... Read More about Reimagined Community in London: The transmission of food as heritage in the Afghan Diaspora.

The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent’s use of sexual and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Onukwugha, F., Smith, L., Kaseje, . D., Wafula, . C., Kaseje, . M., Were, V., Orton, B., Hayter, M., Jomeen, . J., & Magadi, . M. The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent’s use of sexual and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review

Quantitative Redox Biology of Exercise (2020)
Journal Article
Nikolaidis, M. G., Margaritelis, N. V., & Matsakas, A. (2020). Quantitative Redox Biology of Exercise. International journal of sports medicine, 41(10), 633-645. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1157-9043

© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York. Biology is rich in claims that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species are involved in every biological process and disease. However, many quantitative aspects of redox biology remain elusive. The important... Read More about Quantitative Redox Biology of Exercise.

Interactions between sediment microbial ecology and physical dynamics drive heterogeneity in contextually similar depositional systems (2020)
Journal Article
Hope, J. A., Malarkey, J., Baas, J. H., Peakall, J., Parsons, D. R., Manning, A. J., Bass, S. J., Lichtman, I. D., Thorne, P. D., Ye, L., & Paterson, D. M. (2020). Interactions between sediment microbial ecology and physical dynamics drive heterogeneity in contextually similar depositional systems. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(10), 2403-2419. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11461

This study focuses on the interactions between sediment stability and biological and physical variables that influence the erodibility across different habitats. Sampling at short-term temporal scales illustrated the persistence of the microphytobent... Read More about Interactions between sediment microbial ecology and physical dynamics drive heterogeneity in contextually similar depositional systems.

Water‐soluble rhenium clusters with triazoles: the effect of chemical structure on cellular internalization and the DNA binding of the complexes (2020)
Journal Article
Konovalov, D. I., Ivanov, A. A., Frolova, T. S., Eltsov, I. V., Gayfulin, Y. M., Plunkett, L., Bazzar, M., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., Baiborodin, S. I., Sinitsyna, O. I., Kuratieva, N. V., Yanshole, V. V., Efremova, O. A., & Shestopalov, M. A. (2020). Water‐soluble rhenium clusters with triazoles: the effect of chemical structure on cellular internalization and the DNA binding of the complexes. Chemistry: a European journal, 26(61), 13904-13914. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202001680

Here we explore the effect of the nature of organic ligands in rhenium cluster complexes [Re6Q8L6]4− (where Q=S or Se, and L=benzotriazole, 1,2,3-triazole or 1,2,4-triazole) on the biological properties of the complexes, in particular on the cellular... Read More about Water‐soluble rhenium clusters with triazoles: the effect of chemical structure on cellular internalization and the DNA binding of the complexes.

Optimization of pH as a strategy to improve enzymatic saccharification of wheat straw for enhancing bioethanol production (2020)
Journal Article
Abdulsattar, M., Abdulsattar, J., Greenway, G., Welham, K., & Zein, S. H. (2020). Optimization of pH as a strategy to improve enzymatic saccharification of wheat straw for enhancing bioethanol production. Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 11(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40543-020-00217-7

In this work, wheat straw (WS) was used as a lignocellulosic substrate to investigate the influence of pH on enzymatic saccharification. The optimum enzymatic hydrolysis occurred at pH range 5.8 – 6.0, instead of 4.8 - 5.0 as has been widely reported... Read More about Optimization of pH as a strategy to improve enzymatic saccharification of wheat straw for enhancing bioethanol production.

Divided by values: Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party and England's 'North-South Divide' (2020)
Journal Article
Beech, M., & Hickson, K. (2020). Divided by values: Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party and England's 'North-South Divide'. Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 24(2),

This article explores the sociocultural divide in England exposed by Brexit. The metaphors of ‘North’ and ‘South’ are used to explain this, where the former is seen as more culturally conservative and the latter as more cosmopolitan. We examine the... Read More about Divided by values: Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party and England's 'North-South Divide'.

Big problem, little answer: overcoming bed agglomeration and reactor slagging during the gasification of barley straw under continuous operation (2020)
Journal Article
Aladbrabalameer, H., Taylor, M. J., Kauppinen, J., Soini, T., Pikkarainen, T., & Skoulou, V. (2020). Big problem, little answer: overcoming bed agglomeration and reactor slagging during the gasification of barley straw under continuous operation. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 4(7), 3764-3772. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0se00155d

Defluidisation as a result of reactor bed agglomeration is a global challenge associated with the gasification of lignocellulosic biomass waste, specifically its high inorganic content. The use of conventional water leaching has been scrutanised for... Read More about Big problem, little answer: overcoming bed agglomeration and reactor slagging during the gasification of barley straw under continuous operation.

REDUCE (Reviewing long-term antidepressant use by careful monitoring in everyday practice) internet and telephone support to people coming off long-term antidepressants: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2020)
Journal Article
Kendrick, T., Geraghty, A. W., Bowers, H., Stuart, B., Leydon, G., May, C., Yao, G., O'Brien, W., Glowacka, M., Holley, S., Williams, S., Zhu, S., Dewar-Haggart, R., Palmer, B., Bell, M., Collinson, S., Fry, I., Lewis, G., Griffiths, G., Gilbody, S., …Dowrick, C. (2020). REDUCE (Reviewing long-term antidepressant use by careful monitoring in everyday practice) internet and telephone support to people coming off long-term antidepressants: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 21(1), Article 419. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04338-7

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Around one in ten adults take antidepressants for depression in England, and their long-term use is increasing. Some need them to prevent relapse, but 30-50% could possibly stop them without relapsing and avoid adver... Read More about REDUCE (Reviewing long-term antidepressant use by careful monitoring in everyday practice) internet and telephone support to people coming off long-term antidepressants: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Aligning functional network constraint to evolutionary outcomes (2020)
Journal Article
Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2020). Aligning functional network constraint to evolutionary outcomes. BMC evolutionary biology, 20(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01613-8

Background. Functional constraint through genomic architecture is suggested to be an important dimension of genome evolution, but quantitative evidence for this idea is rare. In this contribution, existing evidence and discussions on genomi... Read More about Aligning functional network constraint to evolutionary outcomes.

A Hybrid Modular Approach for Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Kabir, S., Aslansefat, K., Sorokos, I., Papadopoulos, Y., & Konur, S. (2020). A Hybrid Modular Approach for Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis. IEEE Access, 8, 97175-97188. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2996643

Over the years, several approaches have been developed for the quantitative analysis of dynamic fault trees (DFTs). These approaches have strong theoretical and mathematical foundations; however, they appear to suffer from the state-space explosion a... Read More about A Hybrid Modular Approach for Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis.

Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co-creation study (2020)
Journal Article
Glover, L., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F., & Kinsey, D. (2020). Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co-creation study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(6), 2233-2242. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13036

Abstract With ageing comes an increased risk of poor health and social isolation, particularly in poorer populations. Older people are under-represented in research and as a result interventions may not take account of their context or barriers to p... Read More about Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co-creation study.

Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Shepherd, R., & Wilkinson, M. (in press). Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK. Critical social policy : CSP, https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018320921540

Presented here are the findings of a research study undertaken between 2015 and 2018 that focused on existing arrangements and mechanisms for front-line identification of the victims of forced labour in the UK. The study drew upon interviews with ser... Read More about Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK.