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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.

Probabilistic model-checking of collaborative robots: a human injury assessment in agricultural applications (2024)
Journal Article
Guevara, L., Khalid, M., Hanheide, M., & Parsons, S. (2024). Probabilistic model-checking of collaborative robots: a human injury assessment in agricultural applications. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 222, Article 108987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.108987

Current technology has made it possible to automate a number of agricultural processes that were traditionally carried out by humans and now can be entirely performed by robotic platforms. However, there are certain tasks like soft fruit harvesting,... Read More about Probabilistic model-checking of collaborative robots: a human injury assessment in agricultural applications.

Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study (2024)
Journal Article
London, S., Chen, S., Sidhom, E., Lewis, J., Wolverson, E., Cardinal, R., …Underwood, B. (in press). Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.14

BACKGROUND. Dementia is a common and progressive condition whose prevalence is grow-ing worldwide. It is challenging for healthcare systems to provide continuity in clinical ser-vices for all patients from diagnosis to death. AIMS. To test whether pa... Read More about Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: a retrospective multi-site cohort study.

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.

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe (2024)
Journal Article
EPTA Collaboration and InPTA Collaboration, Antoniadis, J., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., Babak, S., Bagchi, M., …Valtolina, S. (2024). The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 685, Article A94. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347433

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and first data releases, respectively, with the correlation properties of a g... Read More about The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe.

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.

The longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution exposure and dementia in the UK: results from the cognitive function and ageing study II and Wales (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, Y. T., Kitwiroon, N., Beevers, S., Barratt, B., Brayne, C., Cerin, E., …Matthews, F. (2024). The longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution exposure and dementia in the UK: results from the cognitive function and ageing study II and Wales. BMC public health, 24(1), Article 1233. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18723-3

Background: Air pollution has been recognised as a potential risk factor for dementia. Yet recent epidemiological research shows mixed evidence. The aim of this study is to investigate the longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution expos... Read More about The longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution exposure and dementia in the UK: results from the cognitive function and ageing study II and Wales.

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.