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Design of Cellular Hexagonal and Cancellous-like plates for laminectomy (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ademuyiwa, S., Pearce, G., & Zioupos, P. (2024, September). Design of Cellular Hexagonal and Cancellous-like plates for laminectomy. Presented at SimBio-M 2024, Online

Our research investigates the development and evaluation of cancellous-like laminoplasty plate designs, focusing on honeycomb structures with thicknesses of 0.4mm, 0.8mm, 1.0mm, and 1.2mm, as well as a solid design. Laminoplasty plates are essential... Read More about Design of Cellular Hexagonal and Cancellous-like plates for laminectomy.

Fracture toughness of an industrially supplied cancellous bone simulant (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sohail, M. A., & Zioupos, P. (2024, September). Fracture toughness of an industrially supplied cancellous bone simulant. Presented at SimBio-M 2024, Online

Introduction:
The human cancellous bone has a hierarchical structure that gives it its unique mechanical properties. The study of the mechanical integrity of bone is crucial in diagnosing and treating condition of bone loss such as osteoporosis. Fra... Read More about Fracture toughness of an industrially supplied cancellous bone simulant.

The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity (2025)
Journal Article
Megaritis, A., Bakas, D., Bermpei, T., & Triantafyllou, A. (2025). The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity. Economics letters, 247, Article 112190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112190

We examine the impact of the volatility of the US Treasury yield curve slope (term spread volatility) on US economic activity within a VAR framework. Our findings show that a positive shock to term spread volatility leads to a persistent decline in U... Read More about The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity.

Time-series machine learning for predictive optimisation of a highly efficient evaporative cooling system (2025)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., Zeng, C., Zhu, Z., Li, Y., Ma, X., & Zhao, X. (online). Time-series machine learning for predictive optimisation of a highly efficient evaporative cooling system. Building services engineering research & technology : BSER & T, https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244251315047

As data centres become integral to modern infrastructure, their energy consumption, particularly in cooling systems, presents a critical challenge for sustainability. This paper addresses this issue by applying time-series machine learning models to... Read More about Time-series machine learning for predictive optimisation of a highly efficient evaporative cooling system.

Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production. (2025)
Book Chapter
Skoulou, V., & Arcelus-Arillagha, P. (2025). Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production. In B. Török (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Green Chemistry (39). (Elsevier). Elsevier

To align with international policies regarding climate change, resource efficiency and environmental protection when using woody biomass wastes for energy generation, wastes need upgrading to acquire better characteristics as energy carriers. In this... Read More about Torrefaction, carbonization and pyrolysis: Valorising woody wastes towards energy generation via solid biofuels production..

Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit (2025)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. D. (2025). Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit. In M. Quidu, B. Favier-Ambrosini, & M. Delalandre (Eds.), À la conquête de la forme: Regards sociologiques sur le marché du fitness (83-104). Presses universitaires de Grenoble

“Welcome to CrossFit: Join the World’s leading platform for health, happiness, and performance” – the CrossFit.com website advertises in bold letters. The background image features a group of athletes running, working out together, smiling. Health, h... Read More about Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit.

A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students (2025)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Lazuras, L., Petrou, M., Corazza, O., Santos, C., Nunes, A. J., Rynkowski, M., Martins, J. F., Zandonai, T., Kühn, U., & Tota, Ł. (2025). A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 5, Article 100168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2024.100168

Abstract
Background: Doping poses a threat to the integrity of sport and the health of athletes who dope, including university students. In this systematic review, we identified the content of anti-doping education that universities provide, the dis... Read More about A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students.

An examination of daily CO2 emissions prediction through a comparative analysis of machine learning, deep learning, and statistical models (2025)
Journal Article
Ajala, A. A., Adeoye, O. L., Salami, O. M., & Jimoh, A. Y. (2025). An examination of daily CO2 emissions prediction through a comparative analysis of machine learning, deep learning, and statistical models. Environmental science and pollution research, 32(5), 2510-2535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-35764-8

Human-induced global warming, primarily attributed to the rise in atmospheric CO2,poses a substantial risk to the survival of humanity. While most research focuses on predicting annual CO2emissions, which are crucial for setting long-term emission mi... Read More about An examination of daily CO2 emissions prediction through a comparative analysis of machine learning, deep learning, and statistical models.

Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer (2025)
Journal Article
Ibrahem, M. A., Rasheed, B. G., Canimkurbey, B., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & O’Neill, M. (2025). Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer. ACS Omega, 10(3), 2849-2857. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c08801

We investigate the enhancement in the efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells enabled by plasmonic excitation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) of different diameters (10, 20, and 30 nm), randomly incorporated within an optical spacing layer of... Read More about Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer.

Interventions to improve the quality of life in patients living with endocrine conditions A (2025)
Thesis
Ssemmondo, E. (2025). Interventions to improve the quality of life in patients living with endocrine conditions A. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5006299

Introduction
Patients living with chronic endocrine conditions experience a burden of disease which affects their quality of life compared to healthy controls. In people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, this may be due to micro or macrovascul... Read More about Interventions to improve the quality of life in patients living with endocrine conditions A.

Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources (2025)
Journal Article
Fenn, K., Millar, I. L., Bird, A., Veres, D., & Wagner, D. (2025). Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 1624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83698-5

Loess profiles along the Danube River provide a record of long-term Quaternary dust (loess) deposition in central-eastern Europe. Here, Sr-Nd isotopic data from four loess-palaeosol profiles (47 samples) spanning the last two-glacial-interglacial cyc... Read More about Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources.

Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies (2025)
Journal Article
White, S. H. (2025). Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies. New area studies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.37975/NAS.78

This article develops a new approach for using photographic sources that might be of interest to American Studies scholars whose research contributes broadly to environmental education. Over the past forty years of photographic scholarship, scientifi... Read More about Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies.

Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime (2025)
Journal Article
Eatson, J. L., Stephenson, B. T., Gordon, J. R., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, D. M. A. (in press). Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime. Acta Mechanica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-024-04206-4

The unique behaviour of colloids at liquid interfaces provides exciting opportunities for engineering the assembly of colloidal particles into functional materials. In particular, the deformable nature of liquid interfaces means that we can use inter... Read More about Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime.

Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model (2025)
Journal Article
Zhang, F. L., Tian, Y., Lam, L. K., & Mian, Z. (online). Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model. Enterprise Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2024.2448315

In 2013, China launched a cooperative initiative to build the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. Based on the data of import and export trade between 57 countries along the “Belt and Road” and China from 2010 to 2021... Read More about Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model.

Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells (2025)
Journal Article
Abid, Z., Akram, W., Marcial-Hernandez, R., Gunturkun, D., Shahid, M., Altaf, M., Min, J., Khan, J. I., Iqbal, J., Rasul, S., Nielsen, C. B., & Ashraf, R. S. (in press). Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c07415

Lead-free perovskites based on nontoxic titanium(IV) are promising candidates for photovoltaic applications due to their improved intrinsic/environmental stability compared to the lead analogues in metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However,... Read More about Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells.

Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?” (2025)
Journal Article
O'Dea, M., Zhou, X., Teng, D., Mundy, D., & Ishaya, T. (2025). Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?”. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 21(08), https://doi.org/10.53761/1bdbms32

Technology acceptance research has been an important and fruitful research domain since the late 1980s. At the forefront has been the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and related models such as UTAUT. These models aim to explain and predict adoption... Read More about Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?”.

Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article
Waldron, C. A., Pallmann, P., Schoenbuchner, S., Harris, D., Brookes-Howell, L., Mateus, C., Bernatoniene, J., Cathie, K., Faust, S. N., Hinds, L., Hood, K., Huang, C., Jones, S., Kotecha, S., Nabwera, H. M., Patel, S., Paulus, S. C., Powell, C. V. E., Preston, J., Xiang, H., …on behalf of the BATCH Trial Team. (2025). Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 9(2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2824%2900306-7

Background: Procalcitonin is a rapid response biomarker specific for bacterial infection, which is not routinely used in the UK National Health Service. We aimed to assess whether using a procalcitonin-guided algorithm would safely reduce the duratio... Read More about Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial.

Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings (2025)
Journal Article
Butler, S. (2025). Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings. Primary Health Care, https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2025.e1856

The NHS is facing a critical shortage of general practice nurses (GPNs), which is projected to worsen significantly by 2030, threatening the sustainability of primary care services. Contributing factors include rising appointment volumes and patient... Read More about Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings.