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Numerical study on ballast disturbance and maintenance performance of tamping and stone-blowing (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, C., Li, P.-Y., McDowell, G., Zhang, L., & Rao, W.-J. (2025). Numerical study on ballast disturbance and maintenance performance of tamping and stone-blowing. Construction and Building Materials, 460, Article 139837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.139837

Ballasted trackbeds are prone to settlement and degradation under long-term train loads, effective and timely maintenance is crucial for extending the lifespan of trackbeds and ensuring the safety of railway operations. Ballast maintenance, such as t... Read More about Numerical study on ballast disturbance and maintenance performance of tamping and stone-blowing.

Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica (2025)
Journal Article
Barker, T., Gray, A., Weir, M., Sharp, J., Kenton, A., Kudrynskyi, Z., Rostami, H., & Patané, A. (2025). Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica. npj Flexible Electronics, 9, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-024-00375-3

Understanding the bending behaviour of a crystal onto a flexible platform is crucial for flexible electronics. The Young’s modulus, a measure of how easily a material deforms, plays a critical role in the coupled deformation of a crystal on a flexibl... Read More about Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica.

A reduced-order model for advection-dominated problems based on the Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (2025)
Journal Article
Long, T., Barnett, R., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Stabile, G., & Icardi, M. (2025). A reduced-order model for advection-dominated problems based on the Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform. Advances in Computational Mathematics, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-024-10209-5

Problems with dominant advection, discontinuities, travelling features, or shape variations are widespread in computational mechanics. However, classical linear model reduction and interpolation methods typically fail to reproduce even relatively sma... Read More about A reduced-order model for advection-dominated problems based on the Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform.

Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey (2025)
Journal Article
Euclid Collaboration, Böhringer, H., Chon, G., Cucciati, O., Dannerbauer, H., Bolzonella, M., De Lucia, G., Cappi, A., Moscardini, L., Giocoli, C., Castignani, G., Hatch, N. A., Andreon, S., Bañados, E., Ettori, S., Fontanot, F., Gully, H., Hirschmann, M., Maturi, M., Mei, S., …Verza, G. (2025). Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, Article A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451683

Galaxy proto-clusters are receiving increased interest since most of the processes shaping the structure of clusters of galaxies and their galaxy population happen at the early stages of their formation. The Euclid Survey will provide a unique opport... Read More about Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey.

Interfacial water confers transcription factors with dinucleotide specificity (2025)
Journal Article
Morgunova, E., Nagy, G., Yin, Y., Zhu, F., Nayak, S. P., Xiao, T., Sokolov, I., Popov, A., Laughton, C., Grubmuller, H., & Taipale, J. (2025). Interfacial water confers transcription factors with dinucleotide specificity. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-024-01449-6

Transcription factors (TFs) recognize specific bases within their DNA-binding motifs, with each base contributing nearly independently to total binding energy. However, the energetic contributions of particular dinucleotides can deviate strongly from... Read More about Interfacial water confers transcription factors with dinucleotide specificity.

Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yong, L. X., Zhou, Z., Vallières, C., He, Y., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Alexander, M. R., Avery, S., Wildman, R., & Irvine, D. (2024, August). Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening. Presented at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

The fungal pathogen Candida albicans (C. albicans) is particularly problematic for immunocompromised patients and those with medical implants. Introducing Candida-resistant medical devices could potentially reduce mortality rates from such infections... Read More about Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening.

Passive Monitoring of Parkinson Tremor in Daily Life: A Prototypical Network Approach (2025)
Journal Article
Evers, L. J. W., Raykov, Y. P., Heskes, T. M., Krijthe, J. H., Bloem, B. R., & Little, M. A. (2025). Passive Monitoring of Parkinson Tremor in Daily Life: A Prototypical Network Approach. Sensors, 25(2), Article 366. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25020366

Objective and continuous monitoring of Parkinson’s disease (PD) tremor in free-living conditions could benefit both individual patient care and clinical trials, by overcoming the snapshot nature of clinical assessments. To enable robust detection of... Read More about Passive Monitoring of Parkinson Tremor in Daily Life: A Prototypical Network Approach.

Data Checking of Asymmetric Catalysis Literature Using a Graph Neural Network Approach (2025)
Journal Article
Aguilar-Bejarano, E., Deorukhkar, V., & Woodward, S. (2025). Data Checking of Asymmetric Catalysis Literature Using a Graph Neural Network Approach. Molecules, 30(2), Article 355. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30020355

The range of chemical databases available has dramatically increased in recent years, but the reliability and quality of their data are often negatively affected by human-error fidelity. The size of chemical databases can make manual data curation/ch... Read More about Data Checking of Asymmetric Catalysis Literature Using a Graph Neural Network Approach.

Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure (2025)
Journal Article
Luo, D., Yang, S., Zhang, H., Cao, J., Yan, Y., & Chen, H. (2025). Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure. Applied Energy, 382, Article 125218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.125218

In this research, a novel split fin structure is proposed to enhance the performance of automotive thermoelectric generators (ATEGs). The traditional plate fin is segmented into two identical secondary fins from the middle, improving the thermal cont... Read More about Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure.

Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering (2025)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M. (2025). Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering. Remote Sensing, 17(1), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010130

The location of a pixel in feature space is a function of its thematic composition. The latter is central to an image classification analysis, notably as an input (e.g., training data for a supervised classifier) and/or an output (e.g., predicted cla... Read More about Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering.

Time Below Range and Its Influence on Hypoglycemia Awareness and Severe Hypoglycemia: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Study (2025)
Journal Article
Deshmukh, H., Wilmot, E. G., Choudhary, P., Ssemmondo, E., Barnes, D., Walker, N., Walton, C., Ryder, R. E., & Sathyapalan, T. (2025). Time Below Range and Its Influence on Hypoglycemia Awareness and Severe Hypoglycemia: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Study. Diabetes Care, Article dc241833. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc24-1833

OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to explore the relationship between time below range (TBR), impaired awareness of hypoglycemia (IAH), and severe hypoglycemia (SH).

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
This cross-sectional study analyzed data from individuals... Read More about Time Below Range and Its Influence on Hypoglycemia Awareness and Severe Hypoglycemia: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Study.

Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors (2025)
Journal Article
Andrus, P. S., Standley, C. J., Stothard, J. R., & Wade, C. M. (2025). Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 19(1), Article e0012771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012771

Lake Victoria is a well-known hot spot for intestinal schistosomiasis, caused by infection with the trematode Schistosoma mansoni. The snail intermediate hosts of this parasite are Biomphalaria snails, with Biomphalaria choanomphala being the predomi... Read More about Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors.

National Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development: Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements (2025)
Book
Pereira, E. G., Pappa, M., & Olawuyi, D. S. (Eds.). (2025). National Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development: Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements. Routledge

This book analyses the legal obstacles associated with the advancement of unitization processes and procedures at a national, domestic level.

It uses case studies of identified jurisdictions with relevant States practice and unitization experience... Read More about National Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development: Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements.

A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement (2025)
Journal Article
Stevens, D. (2025). A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement. Theory and Research in Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/14778785241309278

Many liberal democratic countries have enacted policy programmes aimed at preventing support for violent extremism. In countries such as the United Kingdom, part of this responsibility falls upon state-maintained schools. Teachers are charged with –... Read More about A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement.

Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (2025)
Journal Article
Kuta, A. A., Grebby, S., & Boyd, D. S. (2025). Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Applied Sciences, 15(1), Article 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15010338

The widespread oil extraction in the Niger Delta and the impacts on different types of vegetation are poorly understood due to lack of ground access. This study aims to determine the impact of oil spills on vegetation in the Niger Delta using a Lands... Read More about Remote Monitoring of the Impact of Oil Spills on Vegetation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.