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The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing (2023)
Journal Article
Ringwood, J. V., Tom, N., Ferri, F., Yu, Y. H., Coe, R. G., Ruehl, K., …Faedo, N. (2023). The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing. Applied Ocean Research, 138, Article 103653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2023.103653

The wave energy control competition established a benchmark problem which was offered as an open challenge to the wave energy system control community. The competition had two stages: In the first stage, competitors used a standard wave energy simula... Read More about The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing.

X-ray CT-based numerical investigation of nickel foam-based GDLs under compression (2023)
Journal Article
Ercelik, M., Ismail, M. S., Hughes, K. J., Ingham, D. B., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2024). X-ray CT-based numerical investigation of nickel foam-based GDLs under compression. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 50(Part B), 1338-1357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.001

Nickel foams feature superior structural and transport characteristics and are therefore strong candidates to be used as gas diffusion layers (GDLs) in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). In this work, the impact of compression on the key structu... Read More about X-ray CT-based numerical investigation of nickel foam-based GDLs under compression.

A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long COVID in Scotland: Part II (2023)
Journal Article
Mclaughlin, M., Cerexhe, L., Macdonald, E., Ingram, J., Sanal-Hayes, N. E., Hayes, L. D., …Sculthorpe, N. (2023). A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long COVID in Scotland: Part II. American Journal of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.07.009

Background: There has been some effort to map the prevalence, frequency, and severity of symptoms of long COVID at local and national levels. However, what is frequently absent from such accounts is details of the impact the disease and its symptoms... Read More about A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long COVID in Scotland: Part II.

A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long-COVID in Scotland: Part I (2023)
Journal Article
Mclaughlin, M., Cerexhe, L., Macdonald, E., Ingram, J., Sanal-Hayes, N. E., Meach, R., …Sculthorpe, N. (2023). A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long-COVID in Scotland: Part I. American Journal of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.07.004

Background: Commonly reported symptoms of long COVID may have different patterns of prevalence and presentation across different countries. While some limited data have been reported for the United Kingdom, national specificity for Scotland is less c... Read More about A Cross-Sectional Study of Symptom Prevalence, Frequency, Severity, and Impact of Long-COVID in Scotland: Part I.

History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment (2023)
Book
Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (2023). History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36892-9

This book provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales. It vividly illustrat... Read More about History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment.

Gravitational effects on coffee-ring formation during the evaporation of sessile droplets (2023)
Journal Article
Moore, M., & Wray, A. (2023). Gravitational effects on coffee-ring formation during the evaporation of sessile droplets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 967, Article A26. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.493

We consider the role of gravity in solute transport when a thin droplet evaporates. Under the physically relevant assumptions that the contact line is pinned and the solutal Péclet number, Pe , is large, we identify two asymptotic regimes that depen... Read More about Gravitational effects on coffee-ring formation during the evaporation of sessile droplets.

Large Eddy Simulation of Bubble Column Bubbly Flow Considering Subgrid-Scale Turbulent Diffusion Effects and Bubble Oscillation (2023)
Journal Article
Long, S., Yang, X., Yang, J., Sommerfeld, M., & Xue, C. (in press). Large Eddy Simulation of Bubble Column Bubbly Flow Considering Subgrid-Scale Turbulent Diffusion Effects and Bubble Oscillation. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 46(9), https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.202300142

Through Euler/Euler large eddy simulation (LES) modeling, it is demonstrated that turbulent dispersion of bubbles can effectively indicate the impact of turbulent eddies on the bubble dynamics, i.e., the bubble oscillation behavior. This finding buil... Read More about Large Eddy Simulation of Bubble Column Bubbly Flow Considering Subgrid-Scale Turbulent Diffusion Effects and Bubble Oscillation.

Insights into the pathological basis of dementia from population-based neuropathology studies (2023)
Journal Article
Wharton, S. B., Simpson, J. E., Ince, P. G., Richardson, C. D., Merrick, R., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2023). Insights into the pathological basis of dementia from population-based neuropathology studies. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 49(4), Article e12923. https://doi.org/10.1111/nan.12923

The epidemiological neuropathology perspective of population and community-based studies allows unbiased assessment of the prevalence of various pathologies and their relationships to late-life dementia. In addition, this approach provides complement... Read More about Insights into the pathological basis of dementia from population-based neuropathology studies.

Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Cui, Y., Song, Z., Zhao, X., Li, J., & Shen, C. (2023). Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system. Energy, 283, Article 128478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.128478

Decarbonization of building heating is the key to carbon neutrality. Heat pumps have great potential to replace non-renewable heating devices, thus creating economic and renewable heating systems. To overcome the application challenges of conventiona... Read More about Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system.

A pyrene-based platform for studying the relationship of steric effects on optical properties (2023)
Journal Article
Song, X., Wang, M., Liu, W., Zheng, H., Redshaw, C., Feng, X., Zhao, Z., & Tang, B. Z. (2023). A pyrene-based platform for studying the relationship of steric effects on optical properties. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 219, Article 111532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2023.111532

Triphenylamine (TPA) is a weak fluorophore with an aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect. By integrating pyrene and different substituents (such as benzene, pyrene, phenylcarbazole, tetraphenylethylene (TPE)), a set of new pyrene-based TPA analog... Read More about A pyrene-based platform for studying the relationship of steric effects on optical properties.

Teaching person-centered practice to pre-registration physiotherapy students: a qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Killingback, C., Tomlinson, A., Thompson, M., Whitfield, C., & Stern, J. (2023). Teaching person-centered practice to pre-registration physiotherapy students: a qualitative study. Physiotherapy theory and practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2023.2236195

Introduction: There has been a call for healthcare to consider more explicitly the needs of the individual patient by adopting a person-centered approach to practice. Consideration needs to be given to how this is taught to pre-registration physiothe... Read More about Teaching person-centered practice to pre-registration physiotherapy students: a qualitative study.

Adaptive Backstepping Integral Sliding Mode Control of a MIMO Separately Excited DC Motor (2023)
Journal Article
Afifa, R., Ali, S., Pervaiz, M., & Iqbal, J. (2023). Adaptive Backstepping Integral Sliding Mode Control of a MIMO Separately Excited DC Motor. Robotics, 12(4), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12040105

This research proposes a robust nonlinear hybrid control approach to the speed control of a multi-input-and-multi-output separately excited DC motor (SEDCM). The motor that was under consideration experienced parametric uncertainties and load disturb... Read More about Adaptive Backstepping Integral Sliding Mode Control of a MIMO Separately Excited DC Motor.

A Comprehensive Technoeconomic and Environmental Evaluation of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System for a Smart Farm in South Korea (2023)
Journal Article
Rabea, K., Michailos, S., Udeh, G. T., Park, J., Lee, Y., Kim, S., …Pourkashanian, M. (2023). A Comprehensive Technoeconomic and Environmental Evaluation of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System for a Smart Farm in South Korea. International journal of energy research, 2023, Article 4951589. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4951589

The farming sector like any other industry needs to be decarbonized. Hence, it is essential to meet the energy demands of the farms by adopting energy systems with a low-carbon footprint. Depending on the weather conditions, heating or cooling is nee... Read More about A Comprehensive Technoeconomic and Environmental Evaluation of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System for a Smart Farm in South Korea.

The European Council, Council and Member States: jostling for influence (2023)
Book Chapter
Wurzel, R. K., Di Lullo, M., & Liefferink, D. (2023). The European Council, Council and Member States: jostling for influence. In T. Rayner, K. Szulecki, A. J. Jordan, & S. Oberthür (Eds.), Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics (38-52). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906981.00014

The European Council and the Council each constitute at once supranational EU institutions in which Member States collectively take decisions in the interest of the EU and intergovernmental bargaining arenas for Member States which try to defend thei... Read More about The European Council, Council and Member States: jostling for influence.

Local positive feedback in the overall negative: the impact of quasar winds on star formation in the FIRE cosmological simulations (2023)
Journal Article
Mercedes-Feliz, J., Anglés-Alcázar, D., Hayward, C. C., Cochrane, R. K., Terrazas, B. A., Wellons, S., …Kereš, D. (2023). Local positive feedback in the overall negative: the impact of quasar winds on star formation in the FIRE cosmological simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(3), 3446-3463. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2079

Negative feedback from accreting supermassive black holes is considered crucial in suppressing star formation and quenching massive galaxies. However, several models and observations suggest that black hole feedback may have a positive effect, trigge... Read More about Local positive feedback in the overall negative: the impact of quasar winds on star formation in the FIRE cosmological simulations.

Asymptotic linear convergence of fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient methods (2023)
Journal Article
Bredies, K., Carioni, M., Fanzon, S., & Walter, D. (2023). Asymptotic linear convergence of fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient methods. Mathematical Programming, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-023-01975-z

We propose a fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient method (FC-GCG) for the minimization of the sum of a smooth, convex loss function and a convex one-homogeneous regularizer over a Banach space. The algorithm relies on the mutual update o... Read More about Asymptotic linear convergence of fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient methods.

Commodity market financialization, herding and signals: An asymmetric GARCH R-vine copula approach (2023)
Journal Article
Xiao, Q., Zhang, D., & Yan, M. (2023). Commodity market financialization, herding and signals: An asymmetric GARCH R-vine copula approach. International review of financial analysis, 89, Article 102743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102743

Institutional investors have significantly increased their exposure to commodity futures after 2004 in the process of commodity market financialization, raising questions about the risk-sharing and price-discovery functions of the market. We identi... Read More about Commodity market financialization, herding and signals: An asymmetric GARCH R-vine copula approach.

Mrs Van Gogh [US Edition] (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). Mrs Van Gogh [US Edition]. New York: HarperCollins US

She’s been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled talent finally recogni... Read More about Mrs Van Gogh [US Edition].

Mrs Van Gogh [Canadian edition] (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). Mrs Van Gogh [Canadian edition]. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada

She’s been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled talent finally recognise... Read More about Mrs Van Gogh [Canadian edition].