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Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history (2020)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. (in press). Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history. Business history, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1808885

Reinsurance is often characterised as a business built on personal relationships, goodwill and mutual trust. However, at different times in its history observers have warned that technological and other changes threaten the survival of normative prac... Read More about Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history.

Blockchain, business and the fourth industrial revolution: Whence, whither, wherefore and how? (2020)
Journal Article
Kimani, D., Adams, K., Attah-Boakye, R., Ullah, S., Frecknall-Hughes, J., & Kim, J. (2020). Blockchain, business and the fourth industrial revolution: Whence, whither, wherefore and how?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161, Article 120254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120254Get

Blockchain is one the most remarkable technological innovations of the 21st century. The most notable application of blockchain is in the development and operation of cryptocurrencies (e.g. bitcoin, ethereum, among others). Besides the financial serv... Read More about Blockchain, business and the fourth industrial revolution: Whence, whither, wherefore and how?.

Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction (2020)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2020). Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction. In A. E. Gavin, & C. W. de la L. Oulton (Eds.), British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s (265-278). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6

Janine Hatter examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s sensation fiction and the changing relationship between crime, genre, gender, class and the periodical press. Focusing on 'Taken at the Flood', 'The Cloven Foot', ‘Dr. Carrick’ and ‘Mr. and Mrs. d... Read More about Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction.

Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies (2020)
Journal Article
Oppenheimer, M., Schech, S., Fathi, R., Wylie, N., & Cresswell, R. (in press). Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1810100

© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS)–known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991–has received little h... Read More about Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies.

Feasibility and acceptability evaluation of the PRIDE (Promoting Independence in Dementia) intervention for living well with dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Csipke, E., Moniz-Cook, E., Leung, P., Yates, L., Birt, L., Walton, H., Hogervorst, E., Mountain, G., Charlesworth, G., & Orrell, M. (2020). Feasibility and acceptability evaluation of the PRIDE (Promoting Independence in Dementia) intervention for living well with dementia. International Psychogeriatrics, 33(Special Issue 6), 601 - 614. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220001386

Objectives: Post-diagnostic psychosocial interventions could play an important role in supporting people with mild dementia remain independent. The PRIDE intervention was developed to address this.
Method: The mixed methods non-randomised, pre-pos... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability evaluation of the PRIDE (Promoting Independence in Dementia) intervention for living well with dementia.

Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies (2020)
Journal Article
Gurvich, A. B., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Richings, A. J., Hopkins, P. F., Grudić, M. Y., Hafen, Z., …Murray, N. (2020). Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(3), 3664-3683. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2578

Pressure balance plays a central role in models of the interstellar medium (ISM), but whether and how pressure balance is realized in a realistic multiphase ISM is not yet well understood. We address this question by using a set of FIRE-2 cosmologica... Read More about Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies.

A review of organic waste enrichment for inducing palatability of black soldier fly larvae: Wastes to valuable resources (2020)
Journal Article
Raksasat, R., Lim, J. W., Kiatkittipong, W., Kiatkittipong, K., Ho, Y. C., Lam, M. K., Font-Palma, C., Mohd Zaid, H. F., & Cheng, C. K. (2020). A review of organic waste enrichment for inducing palatability of black soldier fly larvae: Wastes to valuable resources. Environmental pollution, 267, Article 115488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115488

The increase of annual organic wastes generated worldwide has become a major problem for many countries since the mismanagement could bring about negative effects on the environment besides, being costly for an innocuous disposal. Recently, insect la... Read More about A review of organic waste enrichment for inducing palatability of black soldier fly larvae: Wastes to valuable resources.

Industrial restructuring through eco-transformation: Green industrial transfer in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Hunan Province (2020)
Journal Article
Deng, B., Affolderbach, J., & Deutz, P. (2020). Industrial restructuring through eco-transformation: Green industrial transfer in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Hunan Province. Sustainability, 12(17), Article 6945. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU12176945

As industrial activities account for a large part of environmental degradation and carbon emissions in China, the geographic location of industries significantly shapes the environmental performance and quality of life of surrounding areas. Since the... Read More about Industrial restructuring through eco-transformation: Green industrial transfer in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Hunan Province.

Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search (2020)
Journal Article
Coleman, S., Wright, J. M., Nixon, J., Schoonhoven, L., Twiddy, M., & Greenhalgh, J. (2020). Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01084-x

BACKGROUND: Realist methodologies are increasingly being used to evaluate complex interventions in health and social care. Programme theory (ideas and assumptions of how a particular intervention works) development is the first step in a realist eval... Read More about Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search.

Atmospheric particulate matter from an industrial area as a source of metal nanoparticle contamination in aquatic ecosystems (2020)
Journal Article
Souza, I. D. C., Morozesk, M., Mansano, A. S., Mendes, V. A., Azevedo, V. C., Matsumoto, S. T., Elliott, M., Monferrán, M. V., Wunderlin, D. A., & Fernandes, M. N. (2021). Atmospheric particulate matter from an industrial area as a source of metal nanoparticle contamination in aquatic ecosystems. The Science of the total environment, 753, Article 141976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141976

Air pollution legislation and control worldwide is based on the size of particulate matter (PM) to evaluate the effects on environmental and human health, in which the small diameter particles are considered more dangerous than larger sizes. This stu... Read More about Atmospheric particulate matter from an industrial area as a source of metal nanoparticle contamination in aquatic ecosystems.

Iron(III), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) coordination compounds with a carboximidamide ligand: Synthesis, structures and properties (2020)
Journal Article
Eya'ane Meva, F., Prior, T. J., Evans, D. J., Shah, S., & Cespedes, O. (2020). Iron(III), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) coordination compounds with a carboximidamide ligand: Synthesis, structures and properties. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 121, Article 108196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2020.108196

Coordination complexes of iron(III), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) with the ligand N′-{[1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidene]amino}pyridine-2-carboximidamide (pmhpa) have been synthesised and were structurally characterized by elemental analysis, mass spectrometry,... Read More about Iron(III), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) coordination compounds with a carboximidamide ligand: Synthesis, structures and properties.

Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice (2020)
Journal Article
Reeve, J. (in press). Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14531

Problematic polypharmacy is a growing challenge. Medication that is intended to improve patients' health and wellbeing is instead becoming part of the problem. The way we practice medicine has become a driver for the problem. Dealing with the challen... Read More about Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice.

Numerical analysis of an urban road pavement solar collector (U-RPSC) for heat island mitigation: Impact on the urban environment (2020)
Journal Article
Nasir, D. S., Pantua, C. A. J., Zhou, B., Vital, B., Calautit, J., & Hughes, B. (2021). Numerical analysis of an urban road pavement solar collector (U-RPSC) for heat island mitigation: Impact on the urban environment. Renewable energy, 164, 618-641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.07.107

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a phenomenon whereby urban areas become warmer than their surrounding rural areas, due to the replacement of vegetation and soil with built surfaces. The increase in urban temperatures can increase energy demand... Read More about Numerical analysis of an urban road pavement solar collector (U-RPSC) for heat island mitigation: Impact on the urban environment.

The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chatterjee, J., & Dethlefs, N. (2020, August). The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines. Paper presented at Fragile Earth: Data Science for a Sustainable Planet. KDD 2020, Virtual Conference

The global pursuit towards sustainable development is leading to increased adaptation of renewable energy sources. Wind turbines are promising sources of clean energy, but regularly suffer from failures and down-times, primarily due to the complex en... Read More about The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines.

Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study (2020)
Journal Article
James, S. L., Bertolacci, G. J., Castle, C. D., Dingels, Z. V., Fox, J. T., Hamilton, E. B., Roberts, N. L., Sylte, D. O., Henry, N. J., LeGrand, K. E., Banerjee, S. K., Abushouk, A. I., Adebayo, O. M., Adsuar, J. C., Advani, S. M., Alghnam, S. A., Almasri, N. A., Badiye, A. D., Bennett, D. A., Yaw Appiah, S. C., …Vos, T. (2020). Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. Injury Prevention, 26, i125-i153. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043531

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. BACKGROUND: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disabili... Read More about Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study.

Improving forecasting accuracy of the Phillips curve in OECD countries: The role of commodity prices (2020)
Journal Article
Salisu, A. A., Salisu, A. A., Swaray, R., & Sa'id, H. (in press). Improving forecasting accuracy of the Phillips curve in OECD countries: The role of commodity prices. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1944

We investigate the power of commodity prices to improve inflation forecast performance in 21 OECD countries, within the framework of commodity prices-augmented Phillips curve model. Using monthly data spanning over 57 years, we use single and multi-f... Read More about Improving forecasting accuracy of the Phillips curve in OECD countries: The role of commodity prices.

The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies (2020)
Journal Article
Attah-Boakye, R., Adams, K., Kimani, D., & Ullah, S. (2020). The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161, Article 120247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120247

This paper contributes to burgeoning research concerning the relationship between boardroom gender diversity and corporate innovation. The paper deploys a multi-theoretical framework comprising insights from the upper echelons, resource-dependency, a... Read More about The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: a multi- country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies.

Patterns of acute surgical inflammatory processes presentation of in the COVID-19 outbreak (PIACO Study): Surgery may be the best treatment option (2020)
Journal Article
Guadalajara, H., Muñoz de Nova, J. L., Fernandez Gonzalez, S., Yiasemidou, M., Recarte Rico, M., Juez, L. D., García Septiem, J., Galindo Jara, P., García Virosta, M., Lobo Martínez, E., Martín-Pérez, E., García-Olmo, D., Fernández-Cebrián, J. M., Blazquez Martin, A., Jover, J. M., Iparraguirre, M. A., Acín-Gándara, D., Perea-del-Pozo, E., Dios-Barbeito, S., Martin-Antona, E., …Fuenmayor-Valera, M. L. (2020). Patterns of acute surgical inflammatory processes presentation of in the COVID-19 outbreak (PIACO Study): Surgery may be the best treatment option. British journal of surgery, 107(11), e494-e495. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11950

Is “Three” a lucky number? Exchange-rate exposure in a “Rule of Three” model (2020)
Journal Article
Andrikopoulos, A., & Dassiou, X. (2020). Is “Three” a lucky number? Exchange-rate exposure in a “Rule of Three” model. Journal of business research, 121, 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.008

We examine exchange-rate exposure in an international model of differentiated goods using the frequently encountered in international markets “Rule of Three” (RoT) market structure that allows both within and between countries competition. In a stati... Read More about Is “Three” a lucky number? Exchange-rate exposure in a “Rule of Three” model.