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5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories (2024)
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Schenkel, A., & Vicedo, B. (2024). 5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 405, Article 293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-024-05170-9

The 4-dimensional semi-holomorphic Chern-Simons theory of Costello and Yamazaki provides a gauge-theoretic origin for the Lax connection of 2-dimensional integrable field theories. The purpose of this paper is to extend this framework to the setting... Read More about 5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories.

Heat stress and the labour force (2024)
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Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E. J. Z., Shayegh, S., Bosello, F., Park, R. J., & Gosling, S. N. (2024). Heat stress and the labour force. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00606-1

Heat stress affects the health of workers through physiological and behavioural responses, in turn, affecting the labour force through impacts on labour supply, labour productivity and labour capacity. In this Review, we explore the extent to which h... Read More about Heat stress and the labour force.

Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula (2024)
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Goodchild, P. (2024). Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula. The Heythrop Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14384

Anselm's Proslogion developed its famous argument through meditation on a single formula: 'Now we believe that You are something than which nothing greater can be thought.' This article aims to re-enact such a meditation under changed conditions, bri... Read More about Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula.

Digital twin based photogrammetry field-of-view evaluation and 3D layout optimisation for reconfigurable manufacturing systems (2024)
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Wang, Z., Wang, L., Martínez-Arellano, G., Griffin, J., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2024). Digital twin based photogrammetry field-of-view evaluation and 3D layout optimisation for reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 77, 1045-1061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2024.11.001

Photogrammetry is extensively used in manufacturing processes due to its non-contact nature and rapid data acquisition. Positioning photogrammetry cameras requires knowledge of the manufacturing process and time in manual field-of-view (FoV) adjustme... Read More about Digital twin based photogrammetry field-of-view evaluation and 3D layout optimisation for reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

The Challenges and Lessons Learned Building a New UK Infrastructure for Finding and Accessing Population-Wide COVID-19 Data for Research and Public Health Analysis: The CO-CONNECT Project (2024)
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Jefferson, E., Milligan, G., Johnston, J., Mumtaz, S., Cole, C., Best, J., Giles, T. C., Cox, S., Masood, E., Horban, S., Urwin, E., Beggs, J., Chuter, A., Reilly, G., Morris, A., Seymour, D., Hopkins, S., Sheikh, A., & Quinlan, P. (2024). The Challenges and Lessons Learned Building a New UK Infrastructure for Finding and Accessing Population-Wide COVID-19 Data for Research and Public Health Analysis: The CO-CONNECT Project. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, Article e50235. https://doi.org/10.2196/50235

The COVID-19-Curated and Open Analysis and Research Platform (CO-CONNECT) project worked with 22 organizations across the United Kingdom to build a federated platform, enabling researchers to instantaneously and dynamically query federated datasets t... Read More about The Challenges and Lessons Learned Building a New UK Infrastructure for Finding and Accessing Population-Wide COVID-19 Data for Research and Public Health Analysis: The CO-CONNECT Project.

Push-pull effects of basal ganglia network in Parkinson’s disease inferred by functional MRI (2024)
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Wang, Y., Jiang, Z., Chu, C., Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Li, D., He, N., Fietkiewicz, C., Zhou, C., Kaiser, M., Bai, X., Zhang, C., & Liu, C. (2024). Push-pull effects of basal ganglia network in Parkinson’s disease inferred by functional MRI. npj Parkinson's Disease, 10, Article 224. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00835-7

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can ameliorate motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but its mechanism remains unclear. This work constructs a multi-scale brain model using the fMRI data from 27 PD patients with subthalamic DBS and 30 healthy cont... Read More about Push-pull effects of basal ganglia network in Parkinson’s disease inferred by functional MRI.

Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume (2024)
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Hu, J., Craig, M. S., Knight, S. P., De Looze, C., Meaney, J. F., Kenney, R. A., Chen, X., & Chappell, M. A. (2024). Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30376

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One possible contributing factor for cerebral blood flow (CBF) decline in normal aging is the increase in partial volume effects due to brain atrophy, as cortical thinning can exacerbate the contamination of gray-matter (GM) voxels by other... Read More about Regional changes in cerebral perfusion with age when accounting for changes in gray-matter volume.

Metabolites and Metabolic Functional Changes—Potential Markers for Endothelial Cell Senescence (2024)
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Ya, J., Whitby, A., & Bayraktutan, U. (2024). Metabolites and Metabolic Functional Changes—Potential Markers for Endothelial Cell Senescence. Biomolecules, 14(11), Article 1476. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom14111476

Accumulation of senescent endothelial cells (ECs) in vasculature represents a key step in the development of vascular aging and ensuing age-related diseases. Given that removal of senescent ECs may prevent disease and improve health and wellbeing, th... Read More about Metabolites and Metabolic Functional Changes—Potential Markers for Endothelial Cell Senescence.

Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes (2024)
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Mitchell, E. G., Dryden, I. L., Fallaize, C. J., Andersen, R., Bradley, A. V., Large, D. J., & Sowter, A. (in press). Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Article qlae060. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlae060

Peatlands account for 10% of UK land area, 80% of which are degraded to some degree, emitting carbon at a similar magnitude to oil refineries or landfill sites. A lack of tools for rapid and reliable assessment of peatland condition has limited monit... Read More about Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes.

The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies (2024)
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Gillman, S., Smail, I., Gullberg, B., Swinbank, A., Vijayan, A. P., Lee, M., Brammer, G., Dudzeviciute, U., Greve, T. R., Almaini, O., Brinch, M., Chapman, S. C., Chen, C.-C., Ikarashi, S., Matsuda, Y., Wang, W.-H., Walter, F., & van der Werf, P. P. (2024). The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, Article A299

We present an analysis of the JWST NIRCam and MIRI morphological and structural properties of 80 massive (log10(M∗[M]) = 11.2 ± 0.1) dusty star-forming galaxies at z = 2.7+1.2 −0.7 , identified as sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) by ALMA, that have bee... Read More about The structure of massive star-forming galaxies from JWST and ALMA: Dusty, high-redshift disc galaxies.

Feasibility and parametric study of a groove-type thermoelectric generator under multiphysics field conditions (2024)
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Luo, D., Liu, Z., Cao, J., & Yan, Y. (2025). Feasibility and parametric study of a groove-type thermoelectric generator under multiphysics field conditions. Applied Thermal Engineering, 259, Article 124972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124972

In this study, we propose a novel thermoelectric generator (TEG) configuration called the groove-type TEG, which introduces triangular brackets to increase the contact area between thermoelectric semiconductors and conductive strips. Through a therma... Read More about Feasibility and parametric study of a groove-type thermoelectric generator under multiphysics field conditions.

Characterizing how peer-to-peer learning navigates coopetitive tensions within Online Community-based Innovation Contest networks (2024)
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Galehbakhtiari, S., Perks, H., & McKechnie, S. (in press). Characterizing how peer-to-peer learning navigates coopetitive tensions within Online Community-based Innovation Contest networks. R&D Management,

Online Community-based Innovation Contests (OCIC) are an important form of network-based innovation. Creativity derives from the interactions between diverse community peers, positioned across the network, who learn from each other. However, learning... Read More about Characterizing how peer-to-peer learning navigates coopetitive tensions within Online Community-based Innovation Contest networks.

Socially responsible investment and fund performance: The moderating roles of mutual funds' operating environments (2024)
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Li, D., & Li, H. (2025). Socially responsible investment and fund performance: The moderating roles of mutual funds' operating environments. International Review of Financial Analysis, 97, Article 103804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103804

Mutual fund managers are increasingly inclined to demonstrate their social responsibility (SR) by adopting SR standards and integrating SR funds into investment portfolios. However, a debated question is whether the net effect of SR integration on fu... Read More about Socially responsible investment and fund performance: The moderating roles of mutual funds' operating environments.

Genomic characterization and cross-species transmission potential of hedgehog coronavirus (2024)
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Cruz, A. V., Santos-Silva, S., Queirós-Reis, L., Rodrigues, C., Soeiro, V., Tarlinton, R. E., & Mesquita, J. R. (2024). Genomic characterization and cross-species transmission potential of hedgehog coronavirus. One Health, Article 100940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100940

In the 21st century, three betacoronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2) have emerged in humans worldwide as a result of animal spillover, causing severe respiratory infections and resulting in more than seven million deaths. In 2013, a novel... Read More about Genomic characterization and cross-species transmission potential of hedgehog coronavirus.

Perinatal stress and anxiety in Ireland: experiences and support needs (2024)
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Looney, E., Houghton, C., Redsell, S., & Matvienko-Sikar, K. (2024). Perinatal stress and anxiety in Ireland: experiences and support needs. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2024.52

Objectives: Perinatal stress and anxiety from conception to two years postpartum have important adverse outcomes for women and infants. This study examined (i) women's perception of sources and experiences of perinatal stress and anxiety, (ii) women'... Read More about Perinatal stress and anxiety in Ireland: experiences and support needs.

A systematic review of teaching Comparative and International Education (CIE) in higher education: themes, contexts, and methods (2024)
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Li, M., Li, S., & Yuan, T. (in press). A systematic review of teaching Comparative and International Education (CIE) in higher education: themes, contexts, and methods. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429826

This paper scrutinises the teaching of Comparative and International Education (CIE) in higher education, addressing the gap in the discourse on how CIE is taught. Utilising the latest 'Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analys... Read More about A systematic review of teaching Comparative and International Education (CIE) in higher education: themes, contexts, and methods.

Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London (2024)
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Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J., & Xu, Y. (2024). Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429825

This comparative paper considers the similar challenges encountered in Beijing (China) and Greater London (England) when engaging low-income families in education research. Through semi-structured interviews with 10 parents/caregivers in Beijing and... Read More about Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London.

Trialling floral‐baited traps to survey flower‐visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study (2024)
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Popkin, M., Harianja, M. F., Luke, S. H., Setyawan, Y. P., Naim, M., Caliman, J., & Turner, E. C. (2024). Trialling floral‐baited traps to survey flower‐visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13525

Monitoring pollinating arthropods in crop systems can provide important information about pollinator populations and potential yield but can be hampered by accessibility to flowers in some systems, or by the timing of flowering and pollinator visits.... Read More about Trialling floral‐baited traps to survey flower‐visiting insects in tropical crops: Findings from an oil palm case study.