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Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Mutlu, B., & Reeves, S. (2025, March). Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design. Presented at HRI 2025, Melbourne, Australia

If robots are to be deployed in public places, we need to understand what factors their design should consider. Informed by sociological studies of urban settings, particularly the work of William H. Whyte and the Street Life Project, we describe fou... Read More about Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design.

Lotería as an expression of tejanidad (2025)
Book Chapter
Zapata, G. C. (2025). Lotería as an expression of tejanidad. In J. A. Marín, & N. E. Cantú (Eds.), ¡Somos Tejanas! Chicana identity and culture in Texas (168-185). University of Texas Press

A British Road To Socialism? Die Kommunistische Partei Großbritanniens und der große Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85 (2025)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2025). A British Road To Socialism? Die Kommunistische Partei Großbritanniens und der große Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85. Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, 2025, 151-164

The popular memory of the famous British miners' strike of 1984/85 owes much to the contribution of communist intellectuals. Yet communism itself has been written out of the story. While popular memory owes much to the interpretations first put forwa... Read More about A British Road To Socialism? Die Kommunistische Partei Großbritanniens und der große Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85.

Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus (2025)
Book Chapter
Mutibwa, D. (2025). Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus. In H. Bao, & D. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter discusses China-Africa relations in the development of digital economy industries within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Digital Silk Road (DSR) flagship. In doing so, the chapter explores related encounters, en... Read More about Digital Economy Industries, the Logic of Globalisation, and the Engineered and Entangled Cultures of Production and Consumption Behind the China-Africa Nexus.

Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. (2025). Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

Two prominent developments in global geopolitics in the twenty-first century have been the rise of Africa and China, and the growing prominence of their entangled histories and present. But these histories, and the present they have engendered, are... Read More about Introduction: Entangled Histories and Ambivalent Feelings in Africa-China Relations.

The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa (2025)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

In this chapter, I examine grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by using Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 202... Read More about The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa.

Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture (2025)
Book
Bao, H., & Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.). (2025). Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

This book explores the ambivalent relationship between China and the Global South from literary, media and cultural perspectives. It underlines the rich histories and complex processes of cultural exchange, cross-cultural communication, and transcult... Read More about Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture.

Harnessing MOF-based and derived catalysts for efficient BTEX oxidation: Progress, challenges, and future directions (2025)
Journal Article
Murindababisha, D., Wang, Z., Xiao, Z., Yusuf, A., Chen, G. Z., Li, J., & He, J. (2025). Harnessing MOF-based and derived catalysts for efficient BTEX oxidation: Progress, challenges, and future directions. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13(2), Article 115781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.115781

Metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived catalysts have emerged as promising materials for the catalytic oxidation of BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) pollutants due to their high surface area, customizable pore structures, and uniform... Read More about Harnessing MOF-based and derived catalysts for efficient BTEX oxidation: Progress, challenges, and future directions.

Solitary bubbles rising in quiescent liquids: A critical assessment of experimental data and high-fidelity numerical simulations, and performance evaluation of selected prediction methods (2025)
Journal Article
Cioncolini, A., & Magnini, M. (2025). Solitary bubbles rising in quiescent liquids: A critical assessment of experimental data and high-fidelity numerical simulations, and performance evaluation of selected prediction methods. Physics of Fluids, 37(2), Article 021304. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253636

Bubbles are ubiquitous in industrial applications and in the natural environment. The dynamics of solitary bubbles rising through quiescent liquids, in particular, underpins the physics of two-phase bubbly flows, which are commonplace in industrial,... Read More about Solitary bubbles rising in quiescent liquids: A critical assessment of experimental data and high-fidelity numerical simulations, and performance evaluation of selected prediction methods.

Too little and too much: medial prefrontal functional inhibition impairs early acquisition of operant reversal learning, whereas medial prefrontal disinhibition impairs established serial-reversal performance in rats (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Renstrom, J. G., Taylor, C. J. L., Grasmeder Allen, R., Loayza, J., O'Hara, L., von Heimendahl, M., Deiana, S., Moran, P. M., Stevenson, C. W., Maggi, S. G., & Bast, T. (2025). Too little and too much: medial prefrontal functional inhibition impairs early acquisition of operant reversal learning, whereas medial prefrontal disinhibition impairs established serial-reversal performance in rats

Schizophrenia has been linked to hypofrontality (reduced prefrontal activation) and neural disinhibition (reduced GABAergic inhibition) within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), as well as reversal learning deficits. Interestingly, whilst re... Read More about Too little and too much: medial prefrontal functional inhibition impairs early acquisition of operant reversal learning, whereas medial prefrontal disinhibition impairs established serial-reversal performance in rats.

The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery (2025)
Journal Article
Agergaard Jensen, R. A., Lehn Brand, S., Holm, T., Slade, M., & Kirkegaard Thomsen, D. (2025). The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000639

Objective: Personal recovery has become a guiding vision in mental health care, and peer workers play a key role in assisting individuals on their recovery journey. As a component of training to prepare for this role, peer workers need to engage with... Read More about The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery.

Oral Hyoscine butylbromide exerts spasmolytic effects both in gastrointestinal and urogenital tissues in rats (2025)
Journal Article
Traserra, S., Appelqvist, T., Lange, R., Corsetti, M., & Jimenez, M. (2025). Oral Hyoscine butylbromide exerts spasmolytic effects both in gastrointestinal and urogenital tissues in rats. British Journal of Pharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.17474

Background and Purpose: Hyoscine butylbromide (HBB) has a low oral (PO) bioavailability. Further, limited data on its activity on non-gastrointestinal (GI) smooth muscle spasms after oral dosing are available, meaning its effect outside the GI tract... Read More about Oral Hyoscine butylbromide exerts spasmolytic effects both in gastrointestinal and urogenital tissues in rats.

The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (2025). The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00119.cot

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study (2025)
Journal Article
Rhee, H., Macedo, E., Cutter, G., Judd, E., Parameswaran, S., Maccariello, E., Liu, W.-J., Selby, N. M., Bouchard, J., Garcia-Garcia, G., Neyra, J. A., Manjusha, Y., Abraham, J., Doi, K., Villamizar, G., Hurtado, A., & Mehta, R. L. (2025). Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(4), Article 1212. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14041212

Background/Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), but the impact of baseline kidney function and care processes on outcomes is not well understood. We hypothesized that baseline kidney hea... Read More about Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study.

Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures (2025)
Journal Article
Krasnov, K., & Shaw, A. (in press). Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures. Classical and Quantum Gravity, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adb531

The main aim of this paper is to simplify and popularise the construction from the 2013 paper by Apostolov, Calderbank, and Gauduchon, which (among other things) derives the Pleba´nskiPleba´nski-Demia´nskiDemia´nski family of solutions of GR using id... Read More about Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures.

Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial (2025)
Journal Article
Horby, P. W., Emberson, J. R., Thwaites, L., Campbell, M., Peto, L., Pessoa-Amorim, G., Staplin, N., Hamers, R. L., Amuasi, J., Nel, J., Kestelyn, E., Thanh Phong, N., Shrestha, A., Nasronudin, N., Sarkar, R., Ngoc Thach, P., Paudel, D., Sumardi, U., Stewart, R., Nelwan, E., …Landray, M. J. (2025). Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial. eClinicalMedicine, 81, Article 103080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103080

Background
Low dose corticosteroids (e.g., 6 mg dexamethasone) have been shown to reduce mortality for hypoxic COVID-19 patients. We have previously reported that higher dose corticosteroids cause harm in patients with clinical hypoxia but not recei... Read More about Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation (2025)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Yin, Y., Sreeram, A., Si, W., Airey, G. D., Li, B., Singh, B., Özdemir, D. K., & Zhou, L. (2025). Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation. Construction and Building Materials, 467, Article 140387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.140387

Aging deteriorates the performance of bitumen whereas rejuvenation can partially restore these properties. Although the macroscale properties of bitumen ageing and rejuvenation have been well documented, the microscale mechanisms are still not well u... Read More about Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation.