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Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation (2024)
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Burnett, J., & Chebe, F. (in press). Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation. Justice, power and resistance, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338Y2024D000000009

This article examines the theft of migrant workers’ wages in England by their employers, drawing from original accounts and testimonies of a sample of workers employed between 2018 and 2023. It builds on and establishes new conceptual understandings... Read More about Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation.

Pyrene-Based Deep-Blue Fluorophores with Narrow-Band Emission (2024)
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Liu, Y., Zhang, J., Wang, X., Xie, Z., Zheng, H., Zhang, S., …Feng, X. (2024). Pyrene-Based Deep-Blue Fluorophores with Narrow-Band Emission. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89(5), 3319–3330. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c02775

High-efficiency narrow-band luminescent materials have attracted intense interest, resulting in their great colorimetric purity. This has led to a variety of high-tech applications in high-definition displays, spectral analysis, and biomedicine. In t... Read More about Pyrene-Based Deep-Blue Fluorophores with Narrow-Band Emission.

The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. IX. Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars (2024)
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McEwen, A. E., Swiggum, J. K., Kaplan, D. L., Tan, C. M., Meyers, B. W., Fonseca, E., …Stairs, I. H. (2024). The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. IX. Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars. The Astrophysical journal, 962(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11f0

The Green Bank North Celestial Cap survey is one of the largest and most sensitive searches for pulsars and transient radio objects. Observations for the survey have finished; priorities have shifted toward long-term monitoring of its discoveries. In... Read More about The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. IX. Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars.

Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network (2024)
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Hunt, L. J., Pimbblet, K. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2024). Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(1), 479-498. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae479

We present a new method of predicting the ages of galaxies using a machine learning (ML) algorithm with the goal of providing an alternative to traditional methods. We aim to match the ability of traditional models to predict the ages of galaxies by... Read More about Predicting the ages of galaxies with an artificial neural network.

Patterned hydrophobic gas diffusion layers for enhanced water management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (2024)
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Calili-Cankir, F., Can, E., Ingham, D., Hughes, K., Ma, L., Pourkashanian, M., …Ismail, M. (2024). Patterned hydrophobic gas diffusion layers for enhanced water management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Journal, 484, Article 149711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.149711

Flooding of the cathode due to water accumulation is one of the biggest limiting factors in the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). This study therefore attempts to solve this issue by fabricating gas diffusion layers (GDLs) with d... Read More about Patterned hydrophobic gas diffusion layers for enhanced water management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells.

The role of place in the development of a circular economy: a critical analysis of potential for social redistribution in Hull, UK (2024)
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Deutz, P., Jonas, A., Newsholme, A., Pusz, M., Rogers, H., Affolderbach, J., …Ramos, T. (in press). The role of place in the development of a circular economy: a critical analysis of potential for social redistribution in Hull, UK. Cambridge journal of regions economy and society, Article rsae002. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae002

This paper examines the role of place in the local development of a circular economy and the potential for consequent social redistribution. Based on a case study of public, private and third sector approaches to a circular economy in Hull, an indust... Read More about The role of place in the development of a circular economy: a critical analysis of potential for social redistribution in Hull, UK.

Evaluating the Role of Ultrasound in Prostate cancer (ERUP) trial – Phase 1 early experience of micro-ultrasound in the UK (2024)
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Parker, P., Twiddy, M., Rigby, A., Whybrow, P., & Simms, M. (2024). Evaluating the Role of Ultrasound in Prostate cancer (ERUP) trial – Phase 1 early experience of micro-ultrasound in the UK. Ultrasound, https://doi.org/10.1177/1742271X231226302

Purpose: To evaluate if the use of micro-ultrasound (microUS) can detect significant prostate (csPCa) pathology when compared to histology obtained during a transperineal prostate biopsy. Methods: Patients suspected of having prostate cancer, who h... Read More about Evaluating the Role of Ultrasound in Prostate cancer (ERUP) trial – Phase 1 early experience of micro-ultrasound in the UK.

Enhanced Wastewater Remediation Using Mesoporous Activated Wheat Straw Biochars: A Dye Removal Perspective (2024)
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Priyanka, P., Vashisht, D., Ibhadon, A. O., Mehta, S. K., & Taylor, M. J. (in press). Enhanced Wastewater Remediation Using Mesoporous Activated Wheat Straw Biochars: A Dye Removal Perspective. ACS Sustainable Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.3c00109

The escalating contamination of water bodies by synthetic dyes necessitates innovative and ecoconscious strategies for wastewater treatment. In this study, activated biochars BC-800 (1:0.25), BC-800 (1:0.5), and BC-800 (1:1) from wheat straw were syn... Read More about Enhanced Wastewater Remediation Using Mesoporous Activated Wheat Straw Biochars: A Dye Removal Perspective.

Absorption Troughs of Lyα Emitters in HETDEX (2024)
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Weiss, L. H., Davis, D., Gebhardt, K., Gazagnes, S., Mirza Khanlari, M., Mentuch Cooper, E., …Zeimann, G. R. (2024). Absorption Troughs of Lyα Emitters in HETDEX. The Astrophysical journal, 962(2), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1b51

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is designed to detect and measure the redshifts of more than 1 million Lyα emitting galaxies (LAEs) 1.88 < z < 3.52. In addition to its cosmological measurements, these data enable studies of... Read More about Absorption Troughs of Lyα Emitters in HETDEX.

South Asian and black women’s perinatal mental health care services require careful work with families, translators and peer supporters to reduce stigma and ensure confidentiality (2024)
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Davenport, C., & Smith, L. (in press). South Asian and black women’s perinatal mental health care services require careful work with families, translators and peer supporters to reduce stigma and ensure confidentiality. Evidence-Based Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103917

Implications for practice and research Improving access for South Asian and black women requires work with communities to challenge mental health stigma and improve confidentiality among translators. Research is required into the role of the peer... Read More about South Asian and black women’s perinatal mental health care services require careful work with families, translators and peer supporters to reduce stigma and ensure confidentiality.

Embedding the service user voice to co-produce UK mental health nurse education—A lived experience narrative (2024)
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O'Brien, S., & Davenport, C. (2024). Embedding the service user voice to co-produce UK mental health nurse education—A lived experience narrative. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.13031

What is known on the subject?: Co-production aims to value service user voices and is increasingly used in healthcare. Less is known about how co-production in nursing education is experienced by service users. What the paper adds to existing knowled... Read More about Embedding the service user voice to co-produce UK mental health nurse education—A lived experience narrative.

An exploration of person-centredness among emergency department physiotherapists: a mixed methods study (2024)
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Naylor, J., Killingback, C., & Green, A. (in press). An exploration of person-centredness among emergency department physiotherapists: a mixed methods study. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2310179

Purpose: There is a growing number of primary contact physiotherapists based in United Kingdom emergency departments (ED) who are expected to deliver person-centred practices. Perceptions of physiotherapists working in these high-pressure environment... Read More about An exploration of person-centredness among emergency department physiotherapists: a mixed methods study.

Hydrogen production from plastic waste: A comprehensive simulation and machine learning study (2024)
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Lahafdoozian, M., Khoshkroudmansouri, H., Zein, S. H., & Jalil, A. (2024). Hydrogen production from plastic waste: A comprehensive simulation and machine learning study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 59, 465-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.01.326

Gasification, a highly efficient method, is under extensive investigation due to its potential to convert biomass and plastic waste into eco-friendly energy sources and valuable fuels. Nevertheless, there exists a gap in comprehension regarding the i... Read More about Hydrogen production from plastic waste: A comprehensive simulation and machine learning study.

Nonlinear control of two-stage single-phase standalone photovoltaic system (2024)
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Latif, A., Khan, L., Agha, S., Mumtaz, S., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Nonlinear control of two-stage single-phase standalone photovoltaic system. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article 0297612. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297612

This paper presents a single-phase Photovoltaic (PV) inverter with its superior and robust control in a standalone mode. Initially, modeling and layout of the Buck-Boost DC-DC converter by adopting a non-linear Robust Integral Back-stepping controlle... Read More about Nonlinear control of two-stage single-phase standalone photovoltaic system.

ScribFormer: Transformer Makes CNN Work Better for Scribble-based Medical Image Segmentation (2024)
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Li, Z., Zheng, Y., Shan, D., Yang, S., Li, Q., Wang, B., …Shen, D. (in press). ScribFormer: Transformer Makes CNN Work Better for Scribble-based Medical Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, https://doi.org/10.1109/tmi.2024.3363190

Most recent scribble-supervised segmentation methods commonly adopt a CNN framework with an encoder-decoder architecture. Despite its multiple benefits, this framework generally can only capture small-range feature dependency for the convolutional la... Read More about ScribFormer: Transformer Makes CNN Work Better for Scribble-based Medical Image Segmentation.

Passivity-based Rieman Liouville fractional order sliding mode control of three phase inverter in a grid-connected photovoltaic system (2024)
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Khan, L., Khan, L., Agha, S., Hafeez, K., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Passivity-based Rieman Liouville fractional order sliding mode control of three phase inverter in a grid-connected photovoltaic system. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0296797. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296797

Photovoltaic (PV) system parameters are always non-linear due to variable environmental conditions. The Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is difficult under multiple uncertainties, disruptions and the occurrence of time-varying stochastic condition... Read More about Passivity-based Rieman Liouville fractional order sliding mode control of three phase inverter in a grid-connected photovoltaic system.

The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968) (2024)
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Paramesha, D. (in press). The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968). Journal of Intelligence History, https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2024.2311479

This article is the first academic work exploring the evolution of wireless monitoring capabilities (COMINT) in India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) between 1959 and 1968. Until 1968, the IB was India’s foreign intelligence agency and experienced its lar... Read More about The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968).

Bloodstain Pattern Dynamics in Microgravity: Observations of a Pilot Study in the Next Frontier of Forensic Science (2024)
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Kowalske, Z., Pantalos, G., Oleiwi, A., & Williams, G. (2024). Bloodstain Pattern Dynamics in Microgravity: Observations of a Pilot Study in the Next Frontier of Forensic Science. Forensic Science International, 9, Article 100358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100358

As humanity advances into a space-faring species, the risk of injury by multiple means and intentions will follow. Expanding understanding of how forensic science adapts to extraterrestrial environments is a novel and inevitable expansion into the ne... Read More about Bloodstain Pattern Dynamics in Microgravity: Observations of a Pilot Study in the Next Frontier of Forensic Science.