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Informal Institutions and Multinationals' Drive Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Dark‐Side Perspective (2025)
Journal Article
Umoru, U., Martins Ogundana, O., Mangena, M., & Udeozor, V. (2025). Informal Institutions and Multinationals' Drive Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Dark‐Side Perspective. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12773

This study explores the influence of informal institutions (including its dark side) on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a developing nation. Using qualitative interviews, we find that informal ins... Read More about Informal Institutions and Multinationals' Drive Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Dark‐Side Perspective.

Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Houghton, R., Zhai, X., Li, Z., & Large, D. (2025, April). Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education. Presented at Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Burton upon Trent, UK

Findings from an online study and focus groups show that students and staff were receptive to AI decision-making in higher education, highlighting transparency and equitability. Even so, students expressed a desire for creative work to be seen by a ‘... Read More about Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education.

Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pande, S., Harvey, C., & Large, D. (2025, April). Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems. Presented at Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Burton upon Trent, UK

This study aimed to develop heuristics for designing and evaluating in-vehicle Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems. Utilising an expert focus group (n=3) and a user study (n=8), 15 preliminary heuristics were derived. These aim to ensure that in-vehic... Read More about Developing Preliminary Heuristics for In-Vehicle Ambient Intelligence Systems.

Scale and the Parable of the 'Dishonest' Steward (2025)
Journal Article
Mckenzie, R. (in press). Scale and the Parable of the 'Dishonest' Steward. Theology,

Scale in quantities of oil and wheat contracts in Luke 16.1-9: an analysis of the size of farm to supply, together with an analysis in supplying the main consumer market in Rome, scale within the gospel canon, a reappraisal of the Steward's character

Stressful but Not Unhappy: A Review of the Positive Aspects of Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2025)
Journal Article
Curley, K., Hughes, R., & Kotera, Y. (2025). Stressful but Not Unhappy: A Review of the Positive Aspects of Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Children, 12(1), Article 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12010107

This review aimed to identify and synthesise the evidence for the positive aspects of parenting a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To date, ASD parental research has predominantly focused on the negative aspects; parents and carers are left... Read More about Stressful but Not Unhappy: A Review of the Positive Aspects of Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

“It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Rossiter, L., Houdmont, J., & Brooks, C. (2025). “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2451213

Purpose
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has been associated with various adverse work outcomes in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding regarding how and why these outcomes arise for survivors experiencing fatigue. In response,... Read More about “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes.

“It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Rossiter, L., Houdmont, J., & Brooks, C. (2025). “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2451213

Purpose
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has been associated with various adverse work outcomes in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding regarding how and why these outcomes arise for survivors experiencing fatigue. In response,... Read More about “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes.

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices (2025)
Journal Article
Reiss-Woolever, V. J., Wakhid, W., Ikhsan, M., Caliman, J.-P., Naim, M., Azmi, E. N., Shufiyan, S., Howes, J., Azmi, R., Lim, Y. Y., Abdul Jan, S. Z., Barrock, I., Azhar, B., Drewer, J., Ward, C., Jones, J. A., Luke, S. H., Turner, E. C., Hidayat, P., & Buchori, D. (2025). Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0304837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304837

Smallholder farmers produce over 40% of global palm oil, the world’s most traded and controversial vegetable oil. Awareness of the effects of palm oil production on ecosystems and human communities has increased drastically in recent years, with ever... Read More about Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices.

Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study (2025)
Journal Article
Patone, M., Snelling, A. J., Tibble, H., Coupland, C., Sheikh, A., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2025). Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study. Communications Medicine, 5(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00720-7

Background
Sotrovimab is a neutralising monoclonal antibody (nMAB) currently available to treat extremely clinically vulnerable COVID-19 patients in England. Trials have shown it to have mild to moderate side effects, however, evidence regarding its... Read More about Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study.

Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants (2025)
Journal Article
Kwok, T. C., Fiolna, M., Jones, N., Walker, K., & Sharkey, D. (2025). Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328066

Objective Perinatal epidemiological studies and outcomes are often reported on gestational week thresholds. This study aims to quantify and investigate the association of each gestational day at birth on antenatal management, mortality and respirator... Read More about Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants.

Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes (2025)
Journal Article
Vanderstraeten, S., & Searle, A. (2025). Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes. Theory, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241304719

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of microbial life in environmental samples, some microbiologists and commentator... Read More about Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes.

Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
Journal Article
Azim, H., Johnston, A.-L., Nixon, M., Woodliffe, J. L., Theunissen, R., Suresh, R., Sivapalan, S., Bobo, J., & Licence, P. (2025). Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c10171

We illustrate the importance of early career perspectives and diverse partnerships to develop solutions and overcome key challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity (2025)
Journal Article
Sherif, M. A., Carter, W. G., & Mellor, I. R. (2025). Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity. Journal of Xenobiotics, 15(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/jox15010012

Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is a broad-spectrum organophosphate insecticide. Long-term exposure to low levels of CPF is associated with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The mechanisms leading to these effects are still not fully understood... Read More about Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity.

Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system (2025)
Journal Article
Leoni, L., Andrews, J., & De Carlo, F. (2025). Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 94, Article 105545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2025.105545

Fault Tree (FT) Analysis is still one of the most common approaches for conducting reliability analysis of complex systems. However, it conceals several limitations such as the assumption of independent events and inability to model modern maintenanc... Read More about Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system.

The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre‐registration Education (2025)
Journal Article
Pearson, M. (2025). The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre‐registration Education. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34(1), Article e13509. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13509

This paper examines the potential of poetry as a resource within mental health nurse pre-registration education. There has long been a debate as to whether the art or the science of nursing should be foregrounded within pre-registration education, es... Read More about The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre‐registration Education.

Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Sisodia, S., Hammond, Z., Leonardi-Bee, J., Hanlon, C., & Asher, L. (2025). Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0311554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311554

Background

This scoping review aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness (SMI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and to summarise those nee... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review.

Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient (2025)
Journal Article
Fernandez, L. B., Shehzad, M., & Hadley, L. V. (2025). Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient. Psychology and Aging, https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000872

While there is strong evidence that younger adults use contextual information to generate semantic predictions, findings from older adults are less clear. Age affects cognition in a variety of different ways that may impact prediction mechanisms; whi... Read More about Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient.

Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Sisodia, S., Hammond, Z., Leonardi-Bee, J., Hanlon, C., & Asher, L. (2025). Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0311554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311554

Background

This scoping review aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness (SMI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and to summarise those nee... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review.

Income disaster model with optimal consumption (2025)
Journal Article
Park, S. (2025). Income disaster model with optimal consumption. Economic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01629-x

We propose a continuous-time income disaster model with optimal consumption. We endogenously determine the stochastic discount factor (SDF) in an incomplete market caused by income disaster. We then derive optimal consumption decisions for two types... Read More about Income disaster model with optimal consumption.