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Arx: City of Broken Minds (2024)
Book
Hurst, E. (in press). Arx: City of Broken Minds. Plymouth, UK: Barbican Press

Publisher's promotional text: Inhale the memory. Exhale the truth. Arx: City of Broken Minds is a standalone epic of grimdark fantasy. In Arx, no-one remembers anything. Not the Flame Protests. Not the Sightless executioner. Not even themselves.... Read More about Arx: City of Broken Minds.

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2024)
Book
Baker, C. (Ed.). (in press). The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans. London: Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject a... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans.

Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Ives, B., Nelson, L., Gale, L., Potrac, P., & Toner, J. (2024). Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice. In S. B. Rynne, & C. J. Mallett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport (132-143). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160939-11

The purpose of this chapter is to explore how coach educators can and do teach coach learners about the key principles of behaviourism and their application to sport coaching practice. To achieve this goal, the chapter has been divided into four main... Read More about Introducing Coach Learners to Behaviourist Coaching Principles: Critical Reflections on Coach Educator Practice.

Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2024)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2024). Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Historical reflections, 50(2), 61-76. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2024.500205

Alexander Lemtov, the Russian antagonist of Netflix's 2020 musical comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, embodies and dramatizes contentions over Russian homophobia, disavowals of homosexuality in Russian entertainment, and the cons... Read More about Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Determinants of thermal homeostasis in the preimplantation embryo: a role for the embryo's central heating system? (2024)
Journal Article
Leese, H. J., & Sturmey, R. G. (2024). Determinants of thermal homeostasis in the preimplantation embryo: a role for the embryo's central heating system?. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-024-03130-9

A number of factors may impinge on thermal homeostasis in the early embryo. The most obvious is the ambient temperature in which development occurs. Physiologically, the temperature in the lumen of the female tract is typically lower than the core bo... Read More about Determinants of thermal homeostasis in the preimplantation embryo: a role for the embryo's central heating system?.

Interpreting UK Legislatures: An Introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Beech, M., & Bevir, M. (in press). Interpreting UK Legislatures: An Introduction. Journal of Legislative Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2345038

The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies is to explain and understand the era of profound change that has affected, and continues to impact, UK legislatures. This is an era of special change, wrought by the phenomena of... Read More about Interpreting UK Legislatures: An Introduction.

Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China (2024)
Journal Article
Fan, R., Xiong, X., Li, Y., & Gao, Y. (2024). Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2024.2343113

Based on a comprehensive dataset of Chinese A-share stocks, we find significant evidence for analysts’ anchoring in China. This anchoring behavior exists only when forecasts are lower than the industry median and correlates to a series of analysts’ a... Read More about Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China.

Qualitative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions among Athletes from Six European Countries (2024)
Journal Article
Toner, J., Jones, L., Fairs, L., Mantis, C., Barkoukis, V., Daroglou, G., …Nicholls, A. R. (2024). Qualitative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions among Athletes from Six European Countries. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 6, Article 1335258. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2024.1335258

Although whistleblowing is thought to represent an effective mechanism for detecting and uncovering doping in sport, it has yet to become a widely adopted practice. Understanding the factors that encourage or discourage whistleblowing is of vital imp... Read More about Qualitative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Whistleblowing Intentions among Athletes from Six European Countries.

Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground (2024)
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (in press). Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground. In L. Huey, & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook (304-315). Bristol: Bristol University Press

Owing to domestic abuse’s complexity, wherein a wide spectrum of behaviours can be subsumed, the subject has been studied in multiple fields (from health sciences to policing), and through different prisms (such as prevention, detection, and response... Read More about Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground.

The implicit power of positive thinking: The effect of positive episodic simulation on implicit future expectancies (2024)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., Clayton McClure, J. H., Bishop, E., Howe, D., Riggs, K. J., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2024). The implicit power of positive thinking: The effect of positive episodic simulation on implicit future expectancies. PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0298817. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298817

Previous research demonstrating that positive episodic simulation enhances future expectancies has relied on explicit expectancy measures. The current study investigated the effects of episodic simulation on implicit expectancies. Using the Future Th... Read More about The implicit power of positive thinking: The effect of positive episodic simulation on implicit future expectancies.

Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background (2024)
Journal Article
Agazie, G., Antoniadis, J., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., …The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration. (2024). Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background. The Astrophysical journal, 966(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad36be

The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohertz gravitational-wave background (GWB). Given that each PTA made differ... Read More about Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background.

Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunniyi, D. (2024). Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups. Anti-Trafficking Review, 22, 74-90. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201224225

Although organised criminal networks and non-state armed groups (NSAGs) have historically exploited conflict situations to commit various crimes, the extent of human trafficking by these entities in the Sahel has barely been interrogated in academic... Read More about Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups.

SC-Track: a robust cell tracking algorithm for generating accurate single-cell lineages from diverse cell segmentations (2024)
Journal Article
Li, C., Xie, S. S., Wang, J., Sharvia, S., & Chan, K. (2024). SC-Track: a robust cell tracking algorithm for generating accurate single-cell lineages from diverse cell segmentations. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(3), Article bbae192. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae192

Computational analysis of fluorescent timelapse microscopy images at the single-cell level is a powerful approach to study cellular changes that dictate important cell fate decisions. Core to this approach is the need to generate reliable cell segmen... Read More about SC-Track: a robust cell tracking algorithm for generating accurate single-cell lineages from diverse cell segmentations.

An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, S. (in press). An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2024.2345466

As historical debate has moved from an analysis of the end of empire to its aftermath and consequences, there has been growing emphasis on the retention by the colonial powers of a large measure of influence over their former dependencies. With respe... Read More about An Empire of Influence? British Relations with the United Arab Emirates in the 1970s.

Why the Beliefs of Parliamentarians Matter: An Interpretive Approach to Legislative Studies (2024)
Journal Article
Beech, M., & Bevir, M. (in press). Why the Beliefs of Parliamentarians Matter: An Interpretive Approach to Legislative Studies. Journal of Legislative Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2345035

In this article, we argue, following the interpretive approach, that parliamentarians’ beliefs, and the intellectual traditions on which they draw matter. Parliamentary behaviour and legislative practice is the contingent product of the historically... Read More about Why the Beliefs of Parliamentarians Matter: An Interpretive Approach to Legislative Studies.

Do T2DM and Hyperglycaemia Affect the Expression Levels of the Regulating Enzymes of Cellular O-GlcNAcylation in Human Saphenous Vein Smooth Muscle Cells? (2024)
Journal Article
Bolanle, I. O., Durham, G., Hobkirk, J. P., Loubani, M., Sturmey, R. G., & Palmer, T. M. (2024). Do T2DM and Hyperglycaemia Affect the Expression Levels of the Regulating Enzymes of Cellular O-GlcNAcylation in Human Saphenous Vein Smooth Muscle Cells?. Diabetology, 5(2), 162-177. https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology5020013

Protein O-GlcNAcylation, a dynamic and reversible glucose-dependent post-translational modification of serine and threonine residues on target proteins, has been proposed to promote vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration events impli... Read More about Do T2DM and Hyperglycaemia Affect the Expression Levels of the Regulating Enzymes of Cellular O-GlcNAcylation in Human Saphenous Vein Smooth Muscle Cells?.

Variability in the summer movements, habitat use and thermal biology of two fish species in a temperate river (2024)
Journal Article
Amat-Trigo, F., Tarkan, A. S., Andreou, D., Aksu, S., Bolland, J. D., Gillingham, P. K., …Britton, J. R. (2024). Variability in the summer movements, habitat use and thermal biology of two fish species in a temperate river. Aquatic sciences, 86(3), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-024-01073-y

The ability of fish to cope with warm water temperatures in summer depends on factors including their thermal traits and the ability of individuals to access cool-water refugia. Knowledge is highly limited on the in situ responses of many fishes to e... Read More about Variability in the summer movements, habitat use and thermal biology of two fish species in a temperate river.

The real work of general practice: understanding our hidden workload (2024)
Journal Article
Reeve, J., & Woolford, S. (2024). The real work of general practice: understanding our hidden workload. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 74(742), 196-197. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp24X737061

Opening paragraph: GPs are consistently being asked to work even harder than we already are. We see endless news stories about falling GP appointment numbers and suboptimal patient care due to lack of GP availability. We hear it from our patients, s... Read More about The real work of general practice: understanding our hidden workload.