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Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications (2016)
Journal Article
Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., & Aziz, A. R. A. (2016). Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 32(4), 670-683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-016-0557-3

Due to the increasing demand for harvesting energy from environmental vibration, for use in self-powered electronic applications, cantilever-based vibration energy harvesting has attracted great interest from various parties and become one of the mos... Read More about Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications.

Reverse resource exchanges in service supply chains: the case of returnable transport packaging (2016)
Journal Article
Matopoulos, A., Psychogios, A., Selviaridis, K., & Thomas Szamosi, L. (2016). Reverse resource exchanges in service supply chains: the case of returnable transport packaging. Supply chain management, 21(3), 381-397. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-07-2015-0265

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how reverse resource exchanges and resource dependencies are managed in the service supply chain (SSC) of returnable transport packaging (RTP). Design/met... Read More about Reverse resource exchanges in service supply chains: the case of returnable transport packaging.

Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space (2016)
Journal Article
Fallin, L. (2016). Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space. New library world, 117(5-6), 308-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/NLW-10-2015-0079

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The paper aims to explore the issues surrounding the user conceptualisation of academic libraries. The paper will solidify the role of academic libraries as learning spaces and problematise how lib... Read More about Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space.

First report of Laternula elliptica in the Antarctic intertidal zone (2016)
Journal Article
Waller, C. L., Overall, A., Fitzcharles, E. M., & Griffiths, H. (2017). First report of Laternula elliptica in the Antarctic intertidal zone. Polar Biology, 40(1), 227-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1941-y

Many Antarctic marine invertebrates are considered to be highly stenothermal, subjected to loss of functionality at increased temperatures and so at high risk of mortality in a rapidly warming environment. The bivalve Laternula elliptica is often use... Read More about First report of Laternula elliptica in the Antarctic intertidal zone.

Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations (2016)
Journal Article
Oppenheimer, B. D., Crain, R. A., Schaye, J., Rahmati, A., Richings, A. J., Trayford, J. W., …Theuns, T. (2016). Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(2), 2157-2179. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1066

We introduce a series of 20 cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of L* (M200 = 10^11.7-10^12.3M⊙) and group-sized (M200 = 10^12.7-10^13.3M⊙) haloes run with the model used for the eagle project, which additionally includes a non-equilibrium ioniza... Read More about Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations.

Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia (2016)
Journal Article
Naef, P., & Ploner, J. (2016). Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 14(3), 181-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1180802

Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994 Todorova, M. (1994). The Balkans: From discovery to invention. Slavic Review, 53, 453–482. doi: 10.2307/2501301) notes that early travellers were... Read More about Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia.

Drug breakthrough offers hope to arthritis sufferers: qualitative analysis of medical research in UK newspapers (2016)
Journal Article
Hanson, H., O'Brien, N., Whybrow, P., Isaacs, J. D., & Rapley, T. (2017). Drug breakthrough offers hope to arthritis sufferers: qualitative analysis of medical research in UK newspapers. Health Expectations, 20(2), 309-320. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12460

Background Newspaper stories can impact behaviours, particularly in relation to research participation. It is therefore important to understand the narratives presented and ways in which these are received. Some work to date assumes journalism trans... Read More about Drug breakthrough offers hope to arthritis sufferers: qualitative analysis of medical research in UK newspapers.

Perceptions of practitioners: Managing marine protected areas for climate change resilience (2016)
Journal Article
Hopkins, C. R., Bailey, D. M., & Potts, T. (2016). Perceptions of practitioners: Managing marine protected areas for climate change resilience. Ocean and Coastal Management, 128, 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.04.014

Climate change is impacting upon global marine ecosystems and ocean wide changes in ecosystem properties are expected to continue. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been implemented as a conservation tool throughout the world, primarily as a measure... Read More about Perceptions of practitioners: Managing marine protected areas for climate change resilience.

Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments (2016)
Journal Article
Scharin, H., Ericsdotter, S., Elliott, M., Turner, R. K., Niiranen, S., Blenckner, T., …Rockström, J. (2016). Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments. Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 128, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.04.010

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Sustainable stewardship of the marine environment necessitates a holistic approach encompassing all the relevant drivers, activities and pressures causing problems for the natural state of the system and their impact on human soc... Read More about Processes for the sustainable stewardship of marine environments.

Passion play : staging York's The conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiphas (2016)
Book Chapter
Crispin, P. (2016). Passion play : staging York's The conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiphas. In Staging scripture (279-308). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004313958

In March 2013, I directed two Passion Pageants from the York Mysteries – The Conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiaphas (hereafter Conspiracy and Annas and Caiaphas). Each of them is both sacred and profane, devotional and political, providing a... Read More about Passion play : staging York's The conspiracy and Christ before Annas and Caiphas.

A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems (2016)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Parker, D., Sharvia, S., Bottaci, L., Kabir, S., …Sorokos, I. (2016). A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems. Annual Reviews in Control, 41, 170-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2016.04.008

Much of the development of model-based design and dependability analysis in the design of dependable systems, including software intensive systems, can be attributed to the application of advances in formal logic and its application to fault forecast... Read More about A synthesis of logic and bio-inspired techniques in the design of dependable systems.

Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US (2016)
Journal Article
Upward, R., & Wang, Z. (2016). Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US. Economics letters, 144, 71-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.04.025

We study how Chinese textile and clothing firms adjusted the product structure of their exports to the US, as triggered by the termination of Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas. We find that the removal of MFA quotas induced firms to expand their pr... Read More about Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US.

The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study (2016)
Journal Article
Ismail, M., Ingham, D., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2016). The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 26(3-4), 1145-1156. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-10-2015-0416

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to numerically investigate the effects of the shape on the performance of the cathode catalyst agglomerate used in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). The shapes investigated are slabs, cylinders and spheres... Read More about The effects of shape on the performance of cathode catalyst agglomerates in polymer electrolyte fuel cells A micro-scale FEM study.

Relationship between methylation status of Vitamin D-related genes, Vitamin D levels, and methyl-donor biochemistry (2016)
Journal Article
Beckett, E., Duesing, K., Martin, C., Jones, P., Furst, J., King, K., …Lucock, M. (2016). Relationship between methylation status of Vitamin D-related genes, Vitamin D levels, and methyl-donor biochemistry. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediary Metabolism, 6, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnim.2016.04.010

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. Vitamin D is known for its role in the regulation of gene expression via the Vitamin D receptor, a nuclear transcription factor. More recently, a role for Vitamin D in regulating DNA methylation has been... Read More about Relationship between methylation status of Vitamin D-related genes, Vitamin D levels, and methyl-donor biochemistry.

Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities (2016)
Journal Article
Creazza, A., Restelli, U., Porazzi, E., Garagiola, E. R., Croce, D., Arpesella, M., …Noè, C. (2016). Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities. Benchmarking, 23(4), 817-842. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-12-2013-0123

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benchmarking framework for assessing the performance of the distribution models adopted by the local branches of National Health Services (NHSs) for delivering health technologies to patients at a l... Read More about Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models: an investigation of Lombardy’s local health authorities.

Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project (2016)
Journal Article
Edinborough, C. (2016). Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project. Performance Research, 21(3), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1176737

In November 2014 a specially created audio walk, A Roving Soul: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin, was presented as part of the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities. The piece invited listeners to put on headphones an... Read More about Constructing dialectical images in sound and space : adapting Walter Benjamin's The Arcades project.