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Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments (2024)
Journal Article
Akbarimehr, D., Rahai, M., Ahmadpour, M., & Sheng, Y. (2025). Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments. Geotechnics, 5(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics5010001

Urmia Lake (UL) is the sixth-largest saltwater lake in the world; however, there is a dearth of geotechnical studies on this region. Geotechnical characteristics of a site are considered important from different engineering perspectives. In this rese... Read More about Geotechnical Properties of Urmia Saltwater Lake Bed Sediments.

Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2024, September). Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien). Presented at SimBio-M 2024, Online

This conference introduces new technologies, advances and tools in the various fields of Simulation in Biosciences and Multiphysics, notably in the areas of BioMechanics, BioMaterials, and BioMedicine.

While the conference concentrates mainly on t... Read More about Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien).

‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts. In A. K. Regis, & D. Wynne (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered t... Read More about ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts.

Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, M., Martin, A., & Slater, M. (2024, July). Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces. Presented at ICMC2024. Sound In Motion, Seoul

'Nightports at Hull Minster' is a musical project that harnesses spatialisation techniques to present music composed of the sounds of Hull Minster, UK, in both the location itself and alternative performance spaces, whilst still expressing the spatia... Read More about Nightports at Hull Minster: Transporting a Site-Specific Musical Work Across Physical and Virtual Spaces.

Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China (2024)
Journal Article
Fang, Y., Yang, X., Zhao, Y., Li, Y., Ma, C., Chen, B., & Bunting, M. J. (2025). Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China. Quaternary science reviews, 350, Article 109151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109151

Montane ecotones such as the forest-steppe transition are highly sensitive and responsive to climate change. Thus, reconstructing changing ecotone position is a valuable tool for reconstructing past climate change in mountainous regions, although ide... Read More about Assessing the suitability of pollen dispersal and deposition model: A model-empirical data comparison study in the spruce (Picea schrenkiana) forest edge of Tian Shan Mountains, northwestern China.

Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Gregory, A., Atkins, J., & Dwivedi, A. (in press). Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective. Systems research and behavioral science, https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3108

The argument that the supply chain discipline needed to make an epistemological break with functionalism in favour of a systems approach was made by Mears-Young and Jackson (1997) but it has largely been overlooked. This paper seeks to address this o... Read More about Towards Transformative Supply Chain Research and Practice: A Critical Systems Perspective.

The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey (2024)
Journal Article
Holwerda, B. W., Robertson, C., Cook, K., Pimbblet, K., Casura, S., Sansom, A. E., Patel, D., Butrum, T. A., Glass, D. H. W., Kelvin, L. S., Baldry, I. K., De Propris, R., Bamford, S., Masters, K., Stone, M. B., Hardin, T., Walmsley, M., Liske, J., & Adnan, S. M. (2024). The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, Article e115. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2024.109

Galaxy Zoo is an online project to classify morphological features in extra-galactic imaging surveys with public voting. In this paper, we compare the classifications made for two different surveys, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ima... Read More about The Galaxy Zoo catalogues for Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey.

Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (2024)
Journal Article
Nandakumar, M., Das, P., Sathyapalan, T., Butler, A. E., & Atkin, S. L. (2025). Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Biomolecules, 15(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom15010004

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent metabolic disorder with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is enhanced by obesity. This study sought to determine whether a panel of cardiovascular risk proteins (CVRPs)... Read More about Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Stacey, L. J., Valla, F. V., Huang, C., Comfort, P., Chaparro, C. J., Latten, L., & Tume, L. N. (in press). The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpen.2715

Survivorship after pediatric critical illness is high in developed countries, but many suffer physical morbidities afterwards. The increasing focus on follow-up after critical illness has led to more pediatric studies reporting muscle mass changes (u... Read More about The relationship between muscle mass changes and protein or energy intake in critically ill children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts (2024)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. M., Cullen, D. A., Labonte, D., Sutton, G. P., Vanden Broeck, J. J., & Burrows, M. (2025). RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2415625121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415625121

Resilin, an elastomeric protein with remarkable physical properties that outperforms synthetic rubbers, is a near-ubiquitous feature of the power amplification mechanisms used by jumping insects. Catapult-like mechanisms, which incorporate elastic en... Read More about RNAi of the elastomeric protein resilin reduces jump velocity and resilience to damage in locusts.

mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology (2024)
Journal Article
Niaz, F., Zhang, J., Khalid, M., Younas, M., & Niaz, A. (online). mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2024.3520914

Wireless sensing offers a promising approach for non-destructive and contactless identification of the moisture content in fruits. Traditional methods assess fruit quality based on external features such as color, shape, size, and texture. However, f... Read More about mmFruit: A Contactless and Non-Destructive Approach for Fine-Grained Fruit Moisture Sensing Using Millimeter-Wave Technology.

Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces (2024)
Journal Article
Eatson, J., Bauernfeind, S., Midtvedt, B., Ciarlo, A., Menath, J., Pesce, G., Schofield, A. B., Volpe, G., Clegg, P. S., Vogel, N., Buzza, D. M. A., & Rey, M. (2025). Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces. Journal of colloid and interface science, 683, pt.2, 435-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.156

Hypothesis: Ellipsoidal particles confined at liquid interfaces exhibit complex self-assembly due to quadrupolar capillary interactions, favouring either tip-to-tip or side-to-side configurations. However, predicting and controlling which structure f... Read More about Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces.

Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity (2024)
Journal Article
Macgregor, C., Deutz, P., Bunting, J., & Mayes, W. (2024). Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity. People, Place and Policy, 18(3), 135-163. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2024.4947649325

Policies prioritising the repurposing of abandoned land ('brownfield sites'), in order to spare undeveloped sites, are widely perceived to limit damage to biodiversity. However, brownfield sites can be of significant ecological value, providing scarc... Read More about Conservation priorities for development: survey of UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity.

Combined Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality and Electroencephalography in the Study of Working Memory (2024)
Thesis
Durnin, A. (2024). Combined Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality and Electroencephalography in the Study of Working Memory. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5005212

Modern head-mounted display virtual reality (HMD-VR) is used to present immersive virtual environments which reduce external distractions during research. Working memory load (WML) is commonly measured using electroencephalography (EEG), which non-in... Read More about Combined Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality and Electroencephalography in the Study of Working Memory.

The sword of damocles: Debt and depression (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, J., Korkmaz, A. G., Li, Y., Yue, P., & Yan, Y. (2025). The sword of damocles: Debt and depression. International review of financial analysis, 98, Article 103877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103877

This paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of formal and informal debt on mental health. We use unique data on Chinese households between 2014 and 2018 to examine the relationship between household debt obtained from different sources and the... Read More about The sword of damocles: Debt and depression.

Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback (2024)
Journal Article
Grey, S., & Gordon, N. (2024). Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 19(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtns.vi19.4103

It is widely recognised that feedback is an important part of learning: effective feedback should result in a meaningful change in student behaviour (Morris et al., 2021). However, individual feedback takes time to produce, and for large cohorts-typi... Read More about Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback Teaching and Assessing at Scale: The Use of Objective Rubrics and Structured Feedback.

Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Umoh, K., Hasan, A., & Kenjegaliev, A. (2025). Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa. Ocean engineering, 317, Article 120037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.120037

A sustainable approach to site selection can enhance the techno-economic feasibility of floating wind projects. This is because site selection is a multicriteria problem including technical, environmental, social, and economic factors. The issue is m... Read More about Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa.

Feedback in nursing practice: exploring barriers to and strategies for effective delivery (2024)
Journal Article
Butler, S. (in press). Feedback in nursing practice: exploring barriers to and strategies for effective delivery. Nursing Management, https://doi.org/10.7748/nm.2024.e2145

Feedback is essential for promoting nurses’ professional development and enhancing the quality of patient care. Effective feedback, in terms of delivery, content and receipt, can support nurses to identify their strengths and areas for improvement, e... Read More about Feedback in nursing practice: exploring barriers to and strategies for effective delivery.