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Organised crime - the cyber dimension (2023)
Book Chapter
Demetis, D. (2023). Organised crime - the cyber dimension. In B. Rider (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Organised Crime (177-194). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201369.00014

This chapter reviews a few critical technological developments and reflects both on their trajectory and on the opportunities they harbour for novel forms of cyber-enabled criminality. While the future of organised crime remains forever out of grasp,... Read More about Organised crime - the cyber dimension.

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array (2023)
Journal Article
Falxa, M., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Chalumeau, A., Chen, S., …Collaboration, I. (2023). Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 5077-5086. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad812

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of data sets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries in... Read More about Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array.

A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Hammond, S. P., D'Arcy, J., Minott, M., & Krasniqi, E. (2023). A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2023.2185103

Educators have an increasingly important role in supporting children with disabilities to connect with and through the Internet. Children with disabilities encounter more risks in connected environments than their peers. These risk experiences are li... Read More about A discursive psychological examination of educators’ experiences of children with disabilities accessing the Internet: a role for digital resilience.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., Clayton McClure, J. H., Boland, J., Howe, D., Riggs, K. J., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2023). The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087231164963

Depression is associated with difficulties in goal pursuit which could be related to deficits in emotional anticipation regarding goal success. Therefore, the reported study investigated emotional anticipation for personal goals and whether this diff... Read More about The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement.

Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3 (2023)
Journal Article
Vinkó, J., Thomas, B. P., Wheeler, J. C., Ho, A. Y., Cooper, E. M., Gebhardt, K., …Sárneczky, K. (2023). Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3. The Astrophysical journal, 946(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbfa8

We have extracted 636 spectra taken at the positions of 583 transient sources from the third data release of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment (HETDEX). The transients were discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) during 2018... Read More about Searching for Supernovae in HETDEX Data Release 3.

Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu (2023)
Journal Article
Yaribeygi, H., Maleki, M., Sathyapalan, T., Rizzo, M., & Sahebkar, A. (2024). Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu. Current medicinal chemistry, 31(2), 138-151. https://doi.org/10.2174/0929867330666230202163513

Patients with diabetes are at higher risk of cognitive impairment and memory loss than the normal population. Thus, using hypoglycemic agents to improve brain function is important for diabetic patients. Sodium-glucose cotransporters-2 inhibitors (S-... Read More about Cognitive Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters-2 Inhibitors in the Diabetic Milieu.

A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks (2023)
Journal Article
King, M., van Zyll de Jong, M., & Cowx, I. G. (2023). A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks. Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01627-9

Context: Increasing fragmentation of rivers caused by barriers continues to impact watersheds, especially disruption of fish migration patterns and loss of access to spawning and nursery habitats. Infrastructure expansion and ageing installations exa... Read More about A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks.

What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs? (2023)
Journal Article
Wolverson, E., Harrison Dening, K., Gower, Z., Brown, P., Cox, J., McGrath, V., …Prichard, J. (in press). What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs?. Health Expectations,

Introduction: An admission to a mental health ward is an uncertain and unexpected part of a person’s journey with dementia and consequently, families require information about what to expect and how to prepare. This study aimed to establish the infor... Read More about What are the information needs of people with dementia and their family caregivers when they are admitted to a mental health ward and do current ward patient information leaflets meet their needs?.

Are there socioeconomic inequalities in polypharmacy among older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Iqbal, A., Richardson, C., Iqbal, Z., O’Keefe, H., Hanratty, B., Matthews, F. E., & Todd, A. (2023). Are there socioeconomic inequalities in polypharmacy among older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03835-z

Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) may influence prescribing, concordance and adherence to medication regimens. This review set out to investigate the association between polypharmacy and an individual’s socioeconomic status. Methods: A systemati... Read More about Are there socioeconomic inequalities in polypharmacy among older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Techno-economic assessment of wireless charging systems for airport electric shuttle buses (2023)
Journal Article
Guo, Z., Lai, C. S., Luk, P., & Zhang, X. (2023). Techno-economic assessment of wireless charging systems for airport electric shuttle buses. Journal of Energy Storage, 64, Article 107123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.107123

Flightpath 2050, the European Commission's vision for aviation, requires that the aviation industry achieves a 75 % reduction in CO2 emissions per passenger mile and airports become emission-free by 2050. Airport shuttle buses in the airfields are go... Read More about Techno-economic assessment of wireless charging systems for airport electric shuttle buses.

Cultural Diversity in Police Organizations: A Quantitative Study between Two Generations of Recruits at the Rio Grande Do Norte State Police (2023)
Journal Article
Montenegro, M., & Papasava, A. (2023). Cultural Diversity in Police Organizations: A Quantitative Study between Two Generations of Recruits at the Rio Grande Do Norte State Police. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11(03), 138-163. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2023.113010

Managing multicultural teams is a contemporary challenge either in public, private, international, or domestic firms. Leading or working with individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds can be a risk, but an opportunity, though, especially in Brazi... Read More about Cultural Diversity in Police Organizations: A Quantitative Study between Two Generations of Recruits at the Rio Grande Do Norte State Police.

Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat (2023)
Journal Article
George, D., Killcross, S., & Haddon, J. (2023). Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat. Oxford Open Neuroscience, 2, Article kvad003. https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvad003

Ambiguous relationships between events may be established using interference procedures such as latent inhibition, extinction, or counterconditioning. Under these conditions, the retrieval of individual associations between a stimulus and outcome is... Read More about Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat.

Pollutant accumulation in road mitigation tunnels for amphibians: A multisite comparison on an ignored but important issue (2023)
Journal Article
White, K. J., Mayes, W., & Petrovan, S. O. (2023). Pollutant accumulation in road mitigation tunnels for amphibians: A multisite comparison on an ignored but important issue. Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 11, Article 1133253. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1133253

Underpasses or road tunnels are increasingly installed to reconnect habitats and ensure safe wildlife passage, thus preventing habitat fragmentation caused by roads and mortality from collisions with vehicles. In the UK, such underpasses are regularl... Read More about Pollutant accumulation in road mitigation tunnels for amphibians: A multisite comparison on an ignored but important issue.

A robust variable-structure LQI controller for under-Actuated systems via flexible online adaptation of performance-index weights (2023)
Journal Article
Saleem, O., Iqbal, J., & Afzal, M. S. (2023). A robust variable-structure LQI controller for under-Actuated systems via flexible online adaptation of performance-index weights. PLoS ONE, 18(3 March), Article e0283079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283079

This article presents flexible online adaptation strategies for the performance-index weights to constitute a variable structure Linear-Quadratic-Integral (LQI) controller for an underactuated rotary pendulum system. The proposed control procedure un... Read More about A robust variable-structure LQI controller for under-Actuated systems via flexible online adaptation of performance-index weights.

How is community based ‘out-of-hours’ care provided to patients with advanced illness near the end of life: A systematic review of care provision (2023)
Journal Article
Firth, A. M., Lin, C. P., Yi, D. H., Goodrich, J., Gaczkowska, I., Waite, F., …Evans, C. J. (2023). How is community based ‘out-of-hours’ care provided to patients with advanced illness near the end of life: A systematic review of care provision. Palliative medicine, 37(3), 310-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163231154760

Background: Deaths in the community are increasing. However, community palliative care out-of-hours is variable. We lack detailed understanding of how care is provided out-of-hours and the associated outcomes. Aim: To review systematically the compon... Read More about How is community based ‘out-of-hours’ care provided to patients with advanced illness near the end of life: A systematic review of care provision.

Carbon trading amidst global uncertainty: The role of policy and geopolitical uncertainty (2023)
Journal Article
Adediran, I. A., & Swaray, R. (2023). Carbon trading amidst global uncertainty: The role of policy and geopolitical uncertainty. Economic modelling, 123, Article 106279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106279

Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and geopolitical uncertainty (GPU) can fuel speculation, flood the carbon trading market with excess allowances, and undermine the scheme's efficacy in tackling climate change. While the existing literature documents... Read More about Carbon trading amidst global uncertainty: The role of policy and geopolitical uncertainty.

Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror. In S. Bacon (Ed.), Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (13-26). Rowman & Littlefield

Identifying and supporting men who experience paternal postnatal depression (2023)
Journal Article
Davenport, C. J., & Swami, V. (2023). Identifying and supporting men who experience paternal postnatal depression. Mental health practice, 26(3), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2023.e1641

Paternal postnatal depression (PND) is a condition that negatively affects fathers to a largely similar extent as mothers. Despite this, it is not commonly understood in society, which translates into a lack of support for fathers in healthcare setti... Read More about Identifying and supporting men who experience paternal postnatal depression.