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A Multidisciplinary Approach for an Effective and Rational Energy Transition in Crete Island, Greece (2022)
Journal Article
Katsaprakakis, D., Michopoulos, A., Skoulou, V., Dakanali, I., Maragkaki, A., Pappa, S., …Contaxakis, C. (2022). A Multidisciplinary Approach for an Effective and Rational Energy Transition in Crete Island, Greece. Energies, 15(9), Article 3010. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093010

This article proposes a mixture of actions for the development of an effective and rational energy transition plan for all sectors and for all types of onshore final energy use in Crete. Energy transition is initiated with an appropriate capacity bui... Read More about A Multidisciplinary Approach for an Effective and Rational Energy Transition in Crete Island, Greece.

Gaussian Distribution-Based Inertial Control of Wind Turbine Generators for Fast Frequency Response in Low Inertia Systems (2022)
Journal Article
Kheshti, M., Lin, S., Zhao, X., Ding, L., Yin, M., & Terzija, V. (2022). Gaussian Distribution-Based Inertial Control of Wind Turbine Generators for Fast Frequency Response in Low Inertia Systems. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, https://doi.org/10.1109/tste.2022.3168778

Decline of rotating inertia due to the high share of renewable sources cause challenges in controlling grid frequency. With recent grid codes, large-scale wind turbines (WTs) are required to provide frequency support. Existing stepwise inertial contr... Read More about Gaussian Distribution-Based Inertial Control of Wind Turbine Generators for Fast Frequency Response in Low Inertia Systems.

Impact of pharmacological interventions on biochemical hyperandrogenemia in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2022)
Journal Article
Abdalla, M. A., Shah, N., Deshmukh, H., Sahebkar, A., Östlundh, L., Al-Rifai, R. H., …Sathyapalan, T. (in press). Impact of pharmacological interventions on biochemical hyperandrogenemia in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-022-06549-6

Context: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine disease that affects women of reproductive age and is characterised by biochemical and clinical androgen excess. Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of pharmacological interventions used to d... Read More about Impact of pharmacological interventions on biochemical hyperandrogenemia in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Cucurbit[8]uril triggered fluorescence visualization of concentration-dependent interconversion of supramolecular polymer and dimer assemblies (2022)
Journal Article
Ren, J., Zhang, X., Redshaw, C., & Ni, X. L. (2022). Cucurbit[8]uril triggered fluorescence visualization of concentration-dependent interconversion of supramolecular polymer and dimer assemblies. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 203, Article 110335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.110335

Concentration-dependent dynamically equilibrating systems play a crucial role in biology, supramolecular assemblies, and materials science. Herein, host-guest interaction triggered fluorescence emissions have been exploited to monitor concentration-d... Read More about Cucurbit[8]uril triggered fluorescence visualization of concentration-dependent interconversion of supramolecular polymer and dimer assemblies.

Situating Immigration Fees in 21st Century Britain (2022)
Report
Burnett, J. (2022). Situating Immigration Fees in 21st Century Britain. London: Trust For London

Introduction to the Report:
The purpose of this report is to illustrate the cost – in the broadest sense – of obtaining and renewing a visa in the UK and the impact this has on migrants’ lives.
We have been aware for a long time that the cost of th... Read More about Situating Immigration Fees in 21st Century Britain.

Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil (2022)
Journal Article
Mohammed, S. K., Hasan, A. H., Dimitrakis, G., & Azzopardi, B. J. (2022). Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil. International journal of multiphase flow, 152, Article 104104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104104

A limited number of studies are available in literature on the small bubbles which create from gas-very high viscosity oils interaction and its contribution to the gas holdup in the system. The rate of small bubble formation has an important impact o... Read More about Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil.

Computing on Wheels: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Ahsan Kazmi, S. M., Ho, T. M., Nguyen, T. T., Fahim, M., Khan, A., Piran, M. J., & Baye, G. (2022). Computing on Wheels: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(11), 22535-22548. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3165662

Future generation vehicles equipped with modern technologies will impose unprecedented computational demand due to the wide adoption of compute-intensive services with stringent latency requirements. The computational capacity of the next generation... Read More about Computing on Wheels: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach.

Intermediate Temperature PEFC’s with Nafion® 211 Membrane Electrolytes: An Experimental and Numerical Study (2022)
Journal Article
Fernihough, O., Ismail, M. S., & El‐kharouf, A. (2022). Intermediate Temperature PEFC’s with Nafion® 211 Membrane Electrolytes: An Experimental and Numerical Study. Membranes, 12(4), Article 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12040430

This paper evaluates the performance of Nafion 211 at elevated temperatures up to 120 °C using an experimentally validated model. Increasing the fuel cell operating temperature could have many key benefits at the cell and system levels. However, curr... Read More about Intermediate Temperature PEFC’s with Nafion® 211 Membrane Electrolytes: An Experimental and Numerical Study.

Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching (2022)
Journal Article
Li, G., Zheng, X., Wang, J., Lu, X., Wu, J., Cai, J., …Xu, Y. (in press). Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching. Rare Metals,

The manipulation of the magnetic direction by using the ultrafast laser pulse is attractive for its great advantages in terms of speed and energy efficiency for information storage applications. However, the heating and helicity effects induced by ci... Read More about Timescales and contribution of heating and helicity effect in helicity-dependent all- optical switching.

Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies (2022)
Journal Article
Abdalla, E., Abellán, G. F., Aboubrahim, A., Agnello, A., Akarsu, Ö., Akrami, Y., …Zumalacárregui, M. (2022). Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 34, 49-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jheap.2022.04.002

The standard Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model provides a good description of a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological data. However, there are a few big open questions that make the standard model look like an approximation to a mor... Read More about Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies.

A survey of Circular Economy initiatives in Portuguese central public sector organisations: National outlook for implementation (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, N., Deutz, P., & Ramos, T. B. (2022). A survey of Circular Economy initiatives in Portuguese central public sector organisations: National outlook for implementation. Journal of environmental management, 314, Article 114982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114982

The Circular Economy (CE) is generally understood as an opportunity to transform the current unsustainable linear economic system by redesigning the way organisations provide goods and services rethinking how society consumes and uses those resources... Read More about A survey of Circular Economy initiatives in Portuguese central public sector organisations: National outlook for implementation.

Use of the oral beta blocker bisoprolol to reduce the rate of exacerbation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomised controlled trial (BICS) (2022)
Journal Article
Cotton, S., Devereux, G., Abbas, H., Briggs, A., Campbell, K., Chaudhuri, R., …Lipworth, B. J. (2022). Use of the oral beta blocker bisoprolol to reduce the rate of exacerbation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomised controlled trial (BICS). Trials, 23(1), Article 307. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06226-8

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with significant morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. Beta blockers are well-established drugs widely used to treat cardiovascular conditions. Observational studies consiste... Read More about Use of the oral beta blocker bisoprolol to reduce the rate of exacerbation in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomised controlled trial (BICS).

Heterometallic cobalt(ii) calix[6 and 8]arenes: synthesis, structure and electrochemical activity (2022)
Journal Article
Ignaszak, A., Patterson, N., O'Brien, C., True, A., Elsegood, M. R., Prior, T. J., & Redshaw, C. (2022). Heterometallic cobalt(ii) calix[6 and 8]arenes: synthesis, structure and electrochemical activity. RSC advances, 12(19), 11672-11685. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra01009g

Heterometallic cobalt p-tert-butylcalix[6 and 8]arenes have been generated from the in situ reaction of lithium reagents (n-BuLi or t-BuOLi) or NaH with the parent calix[n]arene and subsequent reaction with CoBr2. The reverse route, involving the add... Read More about Heterometallic cobalt(ii) calix[6 and 8]arenes: synthesis, structure and electrochemical activity.

Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies (2022)
Journal Article
Holwerda, B. W., Smith, D., Porter, L., Henry, C., Porter-Temple, R., Cook, K., …Grootes, M. W. (2022). Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 1972-1984. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac889

Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and Sérsic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy and Mass Ass... Read More about Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): Self-Organizing Map application on nearby galaxies.

Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waldman, S. (2022). Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home

Tidal energy has long lurked at the back of the UK’s renewable energy arsenal, outshone by its wind and solar counterparts due in part to early issues with technology readiness and high costs.

Yet with recent research showing it could provide 11%... Read More about Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home.

Drosophila Primary Neuronal Cultures as a Useful Cellular Model to Study and Image Axonal Transport (2022)
Book Chapter
Voelzmann, A., & Sanchez-Soriano, N. (2022). Drosophila Primary Neuronal Cultures as a Useful Cellular Model to Study and Image Axonal Transport. In A. Vagnoni (Ed.), Axonal Transport (429-449). New York: Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1990-2_23

The use of primary neuronal cultures generated from Drosophila tissue provides a powerful model for studies of transport mechanisms. Cultured fly neurons provide similarly detailed subcellular resolution and applicability of pharmacology or fluoresce... Read More about Drosophila Primary Neuronal Cultures as a Useful Cellular Model to Study and Image Axonal Transport.

The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities (2022)
Journal Article
Sonnenfeld, A., Tortora, C., Hoekstra, H., Asgari, M., Bilicki, M., Heymans, C., …Wright, A. H. (in press). The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142511

Context. The assembly history of the stellar component of a massive elliptical galaxy is closely related to that of its dark matter halo. Measuring how the properties of galaxies correlate with their halo mass can therefore help to understand their e... Read More about The dark matter halo masses of elliptical galaxies as a function of observationally robust quantities.

Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice (2022)
Journal Article
Sirdfield, C., Nichols, H., & Mullen, P. (2022). Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice. Probation Journal, 69(2), 216-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505221087980

Probation staff perform a health-related role involving identifying health-related drivers of offending behaviour; facilitating access to support for these, including continuity of care for people leaving prison; and advising the courts on appropriat... Read More about Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice.

Severe iatrogenic hypoglycaemia modulates the fibroblast growth factor protein response (2022)
Journal Article
Nandakumar, M., Moin, A. S. M., Ramanjaneya, M., Qaissi, A. A., Sathyapalan, T., Atkin, S. L., & Butler, A. E. (2022). Severe iatrogenic hypoglycaemia modulates the fibroblast growth factor protein response. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 24(8), 1483-1497. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.14716

Introduction: There is evidence that fibroblast growth factor (FGF) levels may be implicated in hypoglycaemia, with FGF19 being a potential contributor to insulin-independent pathways driving postprandial hypoglycaemia following bariatric surgery and... Read More about Severe iatrogenic hypoglycaemia modulates the fibroblast growth factor protein response.

Erratum: A Twisted Cucurbit[14]Uril-Based Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymer Mediated by Metal Ion (Macromolecules (2022) 55: 5 (1642-1646) DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00075) (2022)
Journal Article
Luo, Y., Zhang, W., Yang, M. X., Feng, X. H., Redshaw, C., Li, Q., …Xiao, X. (2022). Erratum: A Twisted Cucurbit[14]Uril-Based Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymer Mediated by Metal Ion (Macromolecules (2022) 55: 5 (1642-1646) DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00075). Macromolecules, 55(8), 3361-3362. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00556

In our original article, twisted cucubit[14]uril (tQ[14]) forms a fluorescent supramolecular polymer with the water-soluble fluorescent tetrapyridinium pyrene compound TPYP with a molar ratio of 2:1 (tQ[14]:TPYP) via host?guest interactions. The addi... Read More about Erratum: A Twisted Cucurbit[14]Uril-Based Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymer Mediated by Metal Ion (Macromolecules (2022) 55: 5 (1642-1646) DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00075).