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Building Entrepreneurial Resilience during Crisis using Generative AI: An empirical study on SMEs (2024)
Journal Article
Shore, A., Tiwari, M., Tandon, P., & Foropon, C. (2024). Building Entrepreneurial Resilience during Crisis using Generative AI: An empirical study on SMEs. Technovation, 135, Article 103063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103063

Recently, Gen AI has garnered significant attention across various sectors of society, particularly capturing the interest of small business due to its capacity to allow them to reassess their business models with minimal investment. To understand ho... Read More about Building Entrepreneurial Resilience during Crisis using Generative AI: An empirical study on SMEs.

‘I'm a failure again, I can't do it’: Attitudes towards, and experiences of, exercise participation in adults with class III obesity (2024)
Journal Article
Orange, S., Roebuck, J., Marshall, P., Madden, L., Vince, R., & Bell, B. (in press). ‘I'm a failure again, I can't do it’: Attitudes towards, and experiences of, exercise participation in adults with class III obesity. British Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12739

Objectives Living within a larger body brings unique challenges to exercise participation, which are poorly understood. This qualitative study explored the attitudes towards, and experiences of, exercise participation in adults with class III obesit... Read More about ‘I'm a failure again, I can't do it’: Attitudes towards, and experiences of, exercise participation in adults with class III obesity.

The cost of providing care by family and friends (informal care) in the last year of life: A population observational study (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Currow, D. C., Chynoweth, J., Weatherly, H., Keser, G., Hutchinson, A., …Allgar, V. (2024). The cost of providing care by family and friends (informal care) in the last year of life: A population observational study. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241259649

Introduction: Little is known about replacement costs of care provided by informal carers during the last year of life for people dying of cancer and non-cancer diseases. Aim: To estimate informal caregiving costs and explore the relationship with ca... Read More about The cost of providing care by family and friends (informal care) in the last year of life: A population observational study.

Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future (2024)
Journal Article
Hook, E., Fieldhouse, S., Flatman-Fairs, D., & Williams, G. (2024). Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future. Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society, 64(4), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2024.06.004

Classifying bloodstains is an essential part of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis. Various experts have developed methods. Each method considers the same basic bloodstain pattern types. These use either terminology based on the observable characteristics o... Read More about Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future.

Ancient sculptures lost at sea: stories of loss and discovery (2024)
Book Chapter
Velentza, K. (2024). Ancient sculptures lost at sea: stories of loss and discovery. In Delivering the Deep: Maritime archaeology for the 21st century: selected papers from IKUWA 7 (135–147). Oxford: BAR Publishing. https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407361475

This chapter explores stories of loss and discovery of ancient sculptures in the Mediterranean Sea from the period of Classical Antiquity until today. Through the study of archaeological evidence, literary sources, historical records, contemporary ar... Read More about Ancient sculptures lost at sea: stories of loss and discovery.

“She’s been a rock”: the function and importance of ‘holding’ by social prescribing link workers in primary care in England: findings from a realist evaluation. (2024)
Journal Article
Westlake, D., Wong, G., Markham, S., Turk, A., Gorenberg, J., Pope, C., …Tierney, S. (2024). “She’s been a rock”: the function and importance of ‘holding’ by social prescribing link workers in primary care in England: findings from a realist evaluation. Health and Social Care in the Community, Article 2479543. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/2479543

Social prescribing link workers are new roles in English primary care. One of their intended functions is to address the increasing number of patients with conditions influenced by the wider, social determinants of health. Their main purpose is to co... Read More about “She’s been a rock”: the function and importance of ‘holding’ by social prescribing link workers in primary care in England: findings from a realist evaluation..

Endothelial-derived microvesicles promote pro-migratory cross-talk with smooth muscle cells by a mechanism requiring tissue factor and PAR2 activation (2024)
Journal Article
Featherby, S., & Ettelaie, C. (2024). Endothelial-derived microvesicles promote pro-migratory cross-talk with smooth muscle cells by a mechanism requiring tissue factor and PAR2 activation. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 11, Article 1365008. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2024.1365008

Introduction: Microvesicles (MV) released by endothelial cells (EC) following injury or inflammation contain tissue factor (TF) and mediate communication with the underlying smooth muscle cells (SMC). Ser253-phosphorylated TF co-localizes with filami... Read More about Endothelial-derived microvesicles promote pro-migratory cross-talk with smooth muscle cells by a mechanism requiring tissue factor and PAR2 activation.

Maternal inequality: scoping the threats and reflecting on our opportunities to affect positive change (2024)
Journal Article
Bailey, E., & Ette, L. (2024). Maternal inequality: scoping the threats and reflecting on our opportunities to affect positive change. Evidence-Based Nursing, 27, 81-83. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104098

This editorial seeks to shine a spotlight on maternal inequalities, which will feature in our blog posts from the end of May for a few weeks. Undoubtedly, this is a broad and complex topic and, so our spotlight will take a view on how we might work t... Read More about Maternal inequality: scoping the threats and reflecting on our opportunities to affect positive change.

The accounting profession in the Twilight Zone: navigating digitalisation's sided challenges through ethical pathways for decision-making (2024)
Journal Article
Tiron-Tudor, A., Rodgers, W., & Deliu, D. (in press). The accounting profession in the Twilight Zone: navigating digitalisation's sided challenges through ethical pathways for decision-making. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-12-2022-6173

The paper aims to explore the sided challenges facing the accounting profession in an advanced digitalized future where humans and robots will collaborate in working teams. Employing a qualitative approach, the paper conducts a reflexive thematic an... Read More about The accounting profession in the Twilight Zone: navigating digitalisation's sided challenges through ethical pathways for decision-making.

Transitions and Continuities in Petitioning in Early Modern England (2024)
Book Chapter
Waddell, B., & Worthen, H. (2024). Transitions and Continuities in Petitioning in Early Modern England. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Working with wood in rivers in the Western United States (2024)
Journal Article
Ockelford, A., Wohl, E., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Comiti, F., Piégay, H., Darby, S., …Aarnink, J. (2024). Working with wood in rivers in the Western United States. River Research and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4331

Recognition of the important physical and ecological roles played by large wood in channels and on floodplains has grown substantially during recent decades. Although large wood continues to be routinely removed from many river corridors worldwide, t... Read More about Working with wood in rivers in the Western United States.

Fuzzy-Augmented Model Reference Adaptive PID Control Law Design for Robust Voltage Regulation in DC–DC Buck Converters (2024)
Journal Article
Saleem, O., Rasheed Ahmad, K., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Fuzzy-Augmented Model Reference Adaptive PID Control Law Design for Robust Voltage Regulation in DC–DC Buck Converters. Mathematics, 12(12), Article 1893. https://doi.org/10.3390/math12121893

This paper presents a novel fuzzy-augmented model reference adaptive voltage regulation strategy for the DC–DC buck converters to enhance their resilience against random input variations and load-step transients. The ubiquitous proportional-integral-... Read More about Fuzzy-Augmented Model Reference Adaptive PID Control Law Design for Robust Voltage Regulation in DC–DC Buck Converters.

Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells (2024)
Journal Article
Manolis, D., Hasan, S., Maraveyas, A., O'Brien, D. P., Kessler, B. M., Kramer, H., & Nikitenko, L. L. (2024). Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 300(6), Article 107399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107399

The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CLR) mediates essential functions in several cell types and is implicated in cardiovascular pathologies, skin diseases, migraine and cancer. To date, the network of proteins int... Read More about Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells.

Phase-Based Adaptive Fractional LQR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robots: Formulation and Verification (2024)
Journal Article
Saleem, O., & Iqbal, J. (in press). Phase-Based Adaptive Fractional LQR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robots: Formulation and Verification. IEEE Access, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3415494

The underlying principles of inverted pendulums are widely applied to develop stabilization control strategies for under-actuated robotic systems in various applications. This article methodically designs an adaptive fractional-order linear quadratic... Read More about Phase-Based Adaptive Fractional LQR for Inverted-Pendulum-Type Robots: Formulation and Verification.

A content analysis of mothers’ online communications of their partners’ presumed paternal postnatal depression (2024)
Journal Article
Davenport, C., & Swami, V. (2024). A content analysis of mothers’ online communications of their partners’ presumed paternal postnatal depression. Journal of Health Visiting, 12(5), 210–216. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2024.12.5.210

Research has increasingly focused on fathers’ experiences of maternal postnatal depression (PND), but there is little information on mothers’ experiences of their partners’ PND. Aims: The aim of this study was to understand how mothers perceive and c... Read More about A content analysis of mothers’ online communications of their partners’ presumed paternal postnatal depression.

Meta-Heuristic Optimization of Sliding Mode Control—Application to Quadrotor-Based Inspection of Solar Panels (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rezoug, A., Bouderbala, F.-Z., Baizid, K., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Meta-Heuristic Optimization of Sliding Mode Control—Application to Quadrotor-Based Inspection of Solar Panels. In A. Mellit, H. Belmili, & B. Seddik (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES 2022) (187-195). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2777-7_21

In this paper, inspection of solar energy system is addressed using a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. The accurate positioning of the system on the solar panel requires a robust controller to precisely address the fault while ensuring... Read More about Meta-Heuristic Optimization of Sliding Mode Control—Application to Quadrotor-Based Inspection of Solar Panels.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide and intermedin induce phosphorylation of p44/42 MAPK in primary human lymphatic endothelial cells in vitro (2024)
Journal Article
Hasan, S. R., Manolis, D., Stephenson, E., Ryskiewicz-Sokalska, O. A., Maraveyas, A., & Nikitenko, L. L. (2024). Calcitonin gene-related peptide and intermedin induce phosphorylation of p44/42 MAPK in primary human lymphatic endothelial cells in vitro. Cellular Signalling, 121, Article 111261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cellsig.2024.111261

Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and adrenomedullin 2/intermedin (AM2/IMD) play important roles in several pathologies, including cardiovascular disease, migraine and cancer. The efficacy of drugs targeting CGRP signalling axis for the treatmen... Read More about Calcitonin gene-related peptide and intermedin induce phosphorylation of p44/42 MAPK in primary human lymphatic endothelial cells in vitro.

Dual frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation method for the production of few layer graphene in green solvents (2024)
Journal Article
Kaur, A., Morton, J. A., Tyurnina, A. V., Priyadarshi, A., Ghorbani, M., Mi, J., …Tzanakis, I. (2024). Dual frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation method for the production of few layer graphene in green solvents. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 108, Article 106954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2024.106954

In this work, we implement a dual frequency (24 kHz and 1174 kHz) ultrasonic assisted liquid phase exfoliation (ULPE) technique in deionized water (DIW) and other eco-friendly solvents, to produce a variety of high-quality few-layer graphene (FLG) so... Read More about Dual frequency ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation method for the production of few layer graphene in green solvents.