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London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war (2024)
Thesis
Dyball, R. (2024). London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706378

The modern history of London, and ultimately its transformation into a global or world city, can be told through its transformative shocks. Here, the focus will be on the Great Fire of 1666, the Great Stink of 1858, and the Blitz of the Second World... Read More about London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war.

Improving environmental DNA (eDNA) methods for the detection and monitoring of invasive Dreissenid mussels (2024)
Thesis
Peixoto, S. P. F. (2024). Improving environmental DNA (eDNA) methods for the detection and monitoring of invasive Dreissenid mussels. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706368

Dreissenid bivalves, zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha, Pallas, 1771) and quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis, Andrusov, 1897), are small freshwater molluscs native to the Ponto-Caspian region in Eastern Europe. Increasing globalization h... Read More about Improving environmental DNA (eDNA) methods for the detection and monitoring of invasive Dreissenid mussels.

Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm (2024)
Journal Article
Nguyen, T. A., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm. Engineering Computations, 41(4), 991-1034. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-10-2023-0675

Purpose: Design a novel optimal integrated control algorithm for the automotive electric steering system to improve the stability and adaptation of the system. Design/methodology/approach: Simulation and calculation. Findings: The output signals foll... Read More about Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm.

Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps (2024)
Journal Article
Forrest, S., De Ita, C., Smith, K., Davidson, G., & Amen-Thompson, E. (in press). Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps. Disaster Prevention and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-01-2024-0035

• Purpose: To understand the potential of serious gaming as an imaginative and creative method to collect data in disaster studies that addresses key concerns such as extractive research, power inequalities, and bridging the theory-practice gap in ex... Read More about Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps.

The Environmental Dependence of the Stellar Mass - Gas Metallicity Relation in Horizon Run 5 (2024)
Journal Article
Rowntree, A., Singh, A., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B., Gouin, C., Galárraga-Espinosa, D., …Kim, Y. (in press). The Environmental Dependence of the Stellar Mass - Gas Metallicity Relation in Horizon Run 5. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stae1384. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1384

Metallicity offers a unique window into the baryonic history of the cosmos, being instrumental in probing evolutionary processes in galaxies between different cosmic environments. We aim to quantify the contribution of these environments to the scatt... Read More about The Environmental Dependence of the Stellar Mass - Gas Metallicity Relation in Horizon Run 5.

The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport (2024)
Journal Article
Towlson, C., Cumming, S., Donnan, K., & Toner, J. (2024). The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport. European Physical Education Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336x241251654

Students’ experiences of physical education (PE) are considered important for lifelong attitudes toward physical activity. Sex-related differences, and the individualised tempo in anthropometric growth because of biological maturation, leads to secon... Read More about The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport.

Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England (2024)
Journal Article
Roychowdhury, S., Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Checco, A., Lanfranchi, V., & Goodchild, B. (2024). Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England. Land, 13(6), Article 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060831

This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective measures of deprivation. Our study was set within a specific city in the United Kingdom, with... Read More about Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England.

The trade of the port of Hull under the Hull Dock Company, 1830-1860 (2024)
Working Paper
Wright, S. The trade of the port of Hull under the Hull Dock Company, 1830-1860

Opening paragraph: From the 1770s to 1894, the port of Hull found itself under the almost exclusive control of the Hull Dock Company [hereafter HDC] a private enterprise formed during the port’s desperate attempts to construct its first commercial d... Read More about The trade of the port of Hull under the Hull Dock Company, 1830-1860.

Redefining Digital Twins – A Wind Energy Operations and Maintenance Perspective (2024)
Journal Article
Tuton, E., Ma, X., & Dethlefs, N. (2024). Redefining Digital Twins – A Wind Energy Operations and Maintenance Perspective. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2767(5), Article 052001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2767/5/052001

Digital Twin (DT) technology has seen an explosion in popularity, with wind energy no exception. This is particularly true for Operations & Maintenance (O&M) applications. However, this expanded use has been accompanied by loose, conflicting, definit... Read More about Redefining Digital Twins – A Wind Energy Operations and Maintenance Perspective.

A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images (2024)
Journal Article
Hamal, S., Mishra, B. K., Baldock, R., Sayers, W., Adhikari, T. N., & Gibson, R. M. (2024). A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images. Decision Analytics Journal, 11, Article 100460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100460

Machine intelligence has the potential to play a significant role in diagnosing, managing, and guiding the treatment of disease, which supports the rising demands on healthcare to provide rapid and accurate interpretation of clinical data. The global... Read More about A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images.

Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure (2024)
Journal Article
Winter, M. R., Taranto, A. P., Yimer, H. Z., Coomer Blundell, A., Siddique, S., Williamson, V. M., & Lunt, D. H. (2024). Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure. PLoS ONE, 19(6), Article e0302506. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302506

We present the chromosome-scale genome assembly of the allopolyploid root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica. We show that the M. javanica genome is predominantly allotetraploid, comprising two subgenomes, A and B, that most likely originated from hy... Read More about Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures (2024)
Journal Article
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2024). Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures. Journal of international and comparative law, 11(1), 103-120

Legislators operate in different spaces within a legislative estate. The public and scholarly focus is on behaviour in formal space – the chamber and committee rooms, where formal decisions are taken – but the utilization of informal and party (and... Read More about Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures.

Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions (2024)
Journal Article
Aljudaya, A., Michailos, S., Ingham, D. B., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2024). Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions. Energies, 17(11), Article 2719. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17112719

Concentrated solar power (CSP) has gained traction for generating electricity at high capacity and meeting base-load energy demands in the energy mix market in a cost-effective manner. The linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) is valued for its cost-effecti... Read More about Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions.

Assessing Biodiversity Loss and the Challenge of Implementing Nature Conservation Laws in Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunniyi, D., & Azeta, A. (2024). Assessing Biodiversity Loss and the Challenge of Implementing Nature Conservation Laws in Africa. African Journal of Legal Studies, 16(2), 79-105. https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340103

Despite global multilateral efforts to improve biodiversity conservation, African biodiversity range are increasingly facing existential threats. The Red List of Threatened Species (RLTS) adopted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nat... Read More about Assessing Biodiversity Loss and the Challenge of Implementing Nature Conservation Laws in Africa.

A new pulsar timing model for scalar-tensor gravity with applications to PSR J2222-0137 and pulsar-black hole binaries (2024)
Journal Article
Batrakov, A., Hu, H., Wex, N., Freire, P. C., Venkatraman Krishnan, V., Kramer, M., …Theureau, G. (2024). A new pulsar timing model for scalar-tensor gravity with applications to PSR J2222-0137 and pulsar-black hole binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686(June), Article A101. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245246

Context. Scalar-tensor gravity (STG) theories are well-motivated alternatives to general relativity (GR). One class of STG theories, Damour- Esposito- Farèse (DEF) gravity, has a massless scalar field with two arbitrary coupling parameters. We are in... Read More about A new pulsar timing model for scalar-tensor gravity with applications to PSR J2222-0137 and pulsar-black hole binaries.

Can tumour antigens act as biomarkers for the early detection of non-small cell lung cancer? (2024)
Journal Article
Mohamed, E., Fletcher, D., Hart, S., & Guinn, B.-A. (2024). Can tumour antigens act as biomarkers for the early detection of non-small cell lung cancer?. Onco, 4(2), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.3390/onco4020008

Lung cancer (LC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Pulmonary nodules are one of the risk factors and their discovery rate has been increasing due to enhanced performance of chest CT scans but more than 90% are non-malignant causi... Read More about Can tumour antigens act as biomarkers for the early detection of non-small cell lung cancer?.

Accelerating the Low-Carbon Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa through Floating Photovoltaic Solar Farms (2024)
Journal Article
Ingo, T. I., Gyoh, L., Sheng, Y., Kaymak, M. K., Sahin, A. D., & Pouran, H. M. (2024). Accelerating the Low-Carbon Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa through Floating Photovoltaic Solar Farms. Atmosphere, 15(6), Article 653. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15060653

Climate change has become a global issue and is predicted to impact less-developed regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, severely. Innovative, sustainable renewable energy systems are essential to mitigate climate change's effects and unlock the regio... Read More about Accelerating the Low-Carbon Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa through Floating Photovoltaic Solar Farms.

Views of patients with progressive illness and carers about the role of digital advance care planning systems to record and share information: a qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
Birtwistle, J., Allsop, M. J., Bradshaw, A., Millares Martin, P., Sleeman, K. E., Twiddy, M., & Evans, C. J. (in press). Views of patients with progressive illness and carers about the role of digital advance care planning systems to record and share information: a qualitative study. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241255511

Background: Digital approaches are being explored internationally to support the elicitation, documentation and sharing of advance care planning information. However, views and experiences of patients and carers are little understood, impeding develo... Read More about Views of patients with progressive illness and carers about the role of digital advance care planning systems to record and share information: a qualitative study.