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Illusion of Control or Passive Superstition? A Comparison of Two Explanations for Irrational Gambling Beliefs (2024)
Journal Article
Monson, A., James, R. J. E., Wootton, R. E., & Newall, P. (2024). Illusion of Control or Passive Superstition? A Comparison of Two Explanations for Irrational Gambling Beliefs. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001036

Objective:

The “illusion of control” is a dominant cognitive illusion in disordered gambling, but its role in shaping irrational gambling beliefs has been questioned by recent null experimental findings. Here, we aimed to test this recent work, i... Read More about Illusion of Control or Passive Superstition? A Comparison of Two Explanations for Irrational Gambling Beliefs.

Military Justice and the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq (2024)
Book Chapter
White, N. D. (2024). Military Justice and the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. In R. Mulgrew, & M. J. Christensen (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes (387-406). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035312917.00028

The adjective ‘atrocity’ reflects the uniqueness of atrocity crimes and their separateness from normal criminal conduct. This chapter examines the distinction between ‘ordinary’ crimes and ‘atrocity crimes’ to provide a critical framework for the e... Read More about Military Justice and the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

How and why do community stakeholders participate in the national stroke audit in England? Findings from a mixed-method online survey (2024)
Journal Article
Russell, L., Chouliara, N., Lewis, S., James, M., & Fisher, R. (2024). How and why do community stakeholders participate in the national stroke audit in England? Findings from a mixed-method online survey. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), Article 1358. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11653-1

Background: National audit programmes are a recognised means of assessing quality of healthcare by collecting and reporting data in relation to evidence-based standards. The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme is a prospective audit of processes... Read More about How and why do community stakeholders participate in the national stroke audit in England? Findings from a mixed-method online survey.

Questions on travel and sexual behaviours negatively impact ethnic minority donor recruitment: Effect of negative word-of-mouth and avoidance (2024)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Mills, R., Dawe-Lane, E., Khan, Z., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Edge, D., Smith, R., O'Hagan, N., Desai, R., Croucher, M., Eaton, N., & Brailsford, S. R. (2024). Questions on travel and sexual behaviours negatively impact ethnic minority donor recruitment: Effect of negative word-of-mouth and avoidance. Vox Sanguinis, https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.13748

Background and Objectives
Donor selection questions differentially impacting ethnic minorities can discourage donation directly or via negative word-of-mouth. We explore the differential impact of two blood safety questions relating to (i) sexual co... Read More about Questions on travel and sexual behaviours negatively impact ethnic minority donor recruitment: Effect of negative word-of-mouth and avoidance.

Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric wards: multi-methods investigation (2024)
Journal Article
Holland, J., Da-Silva-Ellimah, M., Roe, J., Morriss, R., & Sayal, K. (2024). Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric wards: multi-methods investigation. BJPsych Open, 10(6), Article e197. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.783

Background
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) inpatient beds are unevenly spread throughout England. Where demand outstrips bed availability, young people may be admitted at-distance or to adult psychiatric wards. The COVID-19 pande... Read More about Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric wards: multi-methods investigation.

Investigation of support structure configurations for selective laser melting of In718 (2024)
Journal Article
Nie, Y., Xu, C., Liu, Z., Yang, L., Li, T., & He, Y. (2025). Investigation of support structure configurations for selective laser melting of In718. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 112, 281-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2024.11.006

The Selective Laser Melting (SLM), as a widely used metallic Additive manufacturing (AM) process, relies heavily on support structures. This study investigated the impact of different support structure configurations on the quality of In718 samples f... Read More about Investigation of support structure configurations for selective laser melting of In718.

Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark (2024)
Journal Article
Warren, T., & Hyltoft, L. (in press). Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy,

Purpose The article asks how to lead the world in work-life balance (WLB) societal rankings, identifies the major WLB challenges in contemporary societies, and rethinks how we conceptualise and measure WLB. Design/methodology/approach A case-study of... Read More about Global work-life balance trailblazing: how to lead the world in work-life balance, with insights from Denmark.

Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Chen, L., Hao, X., Qu, R., Zhou, W., Wang, D., & Liu, W. (2024). Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 91, Article 101763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2024.101763

When tackling large-scale multi-objective problems (LSMOPs), the computational budget could be wasted by traditional offspring generators that explore the search space in a nearly directionless manner, impairing the efficiency of many existing algori... Read More about Learning-guided cross-sampling for large-scale evolutionary multi-objective optimization.

How can specialist investigation agencies inform system-wide learning for patient safety? A qualitative study of perspectives on the early years of the English healthcare safety investigation branch (2024)
Journal Article
Crompton, A., Waring, J., Macrae, C., Overton, C., & Benneyworth, R. (2024). How can specialist investigation agencies inform system-wide learning for patient safety? A qualitative study of perspectives on the early years of the English healthcare safety investigation branch. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/13558196241291816

Objectives
System-wide learning for patient safety is a core challenge for the health care sector, despite the prevalence of localised reporting and learning approaches. There is growing interest in how health care services could emulate other safet... Read More about How can specialist investigation agencies inform system-wide learning for patient safety? A qualitative study of perspectives on the early years of the English healthcare safety investigation branch.

Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims (2024)
Journal Article
BARON, T. (in press). Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims. Moral Philosophy and Politics,

This paper examines the legitimacy of retrospective parental rights-claims through the lens of so-called ‘thwarted father’ cases: men who are unaware of their progeny’s existence until the window for establishing legal parentage (and associated right... Read More about Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims.

On the Myth of Psychotherapy (2024)
Journal Article
French, C. (in press). On the Myth of Psychotherapy. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology,

Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz’ claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been... Read More about On the Myth of Psychotherapy.

A critical approach to research on perioperative pain management (2024)
Journal Article
Joshi, G. P., Beloeil, H., Lobo, D. N., Pogatzki-Zahn, E. M., Sauter, A. R., Van De Velde, M., Wu, C. L., & Kehlet, H. (in press). A critical approach to research on perioperative pain management. British Journal of Anaesthesia,

Optimal postoperative pain management is a prerequisite for enhancing functional recovery after surgery. However, many studies assessing analgesic interventions have limitations. Consequently, further improvements in study design are urgently needed.... Read More about A critical approach to research on perioperative pain management.

Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms (2024)
Journal Article
Donald, H. K., Swann, G. E., Rae, J. W., & Foster, G. L. (2024). Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39(11), Article e2024PA004968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024pa004968

The intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation (iNHG) at 2.73Ma is associated with a reorganization of the subarctic Pacific Ocean and abrupt drop in opal mass accumulation rates. Uncertainty, however, remains around the extent to which these... Read More about Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms.

Cross Ownership Under Strategic Tax Policy (2024)
Journal Article
Can, G., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). Cross Ownership Under Strategic Tax Policy. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2024-0051

We provide a new reason for the consumer surplus and welfare raising cross ownership. We show that cross ownership reduces the tax rate, and increases consumer surplus and welfare under Cournot and Bertrand competition when the marginal social cost/b... Read More about Cross Ownership Under Strategic Tax Policy.

Associations between biomarkers and skeletal muscle function in individuals with osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, S. L., Paul, L., Steultjens, M. P. M., & Jones, R. L. (2024). Associations between biomarkers and skeletal muscle function in individuals with osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 26, Article 189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-024-03419-1

Objectives: Skeletal muscle dysfunction is the primary cause of functional limitations in osteoarthritis, associated biomarkers have the potential as targets for early disease identification, diagnosis, and prevention of osteoarthritis disability. Th... Read More about Associations between biomarkers and skeletal muscle function in individuals with osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post (2024)
Journal Article
Hale, J., Hanks, L., & Simpson, C. (2024). Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 3(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.55755/DepArch.2024.31+

Whether it’s through sharing picture postcards or visitor-produced photographs of museums on social media, these processes of image sharing, often dismissed as trivial, are acts which create and sustain relationships between the visitor, museum, and... Read More about Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post.

Global co-regulatory cross talk between m6A and m5C RNA methylation systems coordinate cellular responses and brain disease pathways (2024)
Journal Article
Orji, O. C., Stones, J., Rajani, S., Markus, R., Demirbugen Öz, M., & Knight, H. M. (2024). Global co-regulatory cross talk between m6A and m5C RNA methylation systems coordinate cellular responses and brain disease pathways. Molecular Neurobiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-024-04555-0

N6 adenosine and C5 cytosine modification of mRNAs, tRNAs and rRNAs are regulated by the behaviour of distinct sets of writer, reader and eraser effector proteins which are conventionally considered to function independently. Here, we provide evidenc... Read More about Global co-regulatory cross talk between m6A and m5C RNA methylation systems coordinate cellular responses and brain disease pathways.

High α-SMA expression in the tumor stroma is associated with adverse clinical parameters in mismatch repair–proficient colorectal cancers only (2024)
Journal Article
Sculthorpe, D. J., Denton, A., Fadhil, W., Rusnita, D., Ilyas, M., & Mukherjee, A. (2024). High α-SMA expression in the tumor stroma is associated with adverse clinical parameters in mismatch repair–proficient colorectal cancers only. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqae145

Objectives
As mismatch repair status confers differential prognosis in colorectal cancers, this study aimed to determine associations of α–smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) protein expression in mismatch repair–proficient (pMMR) and mismatch repair–defici... Read More about High α-SMA expression in the tumor stroma is associated with adverse clinical parameters in mismatch repair–proficient colorectal cancers only.

The Role of AI Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory (2024)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., Saini, A., Tzirides, A.-O. (., Cope, W., & Kalantzis, M. (2025). The Role of AI Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory. Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, 18(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-9795/cgp/v18i02/1-30

This study employs Engeström’s second-generation activity theory (AT) to examine the transformative potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in providing formative feedback in higher education. Specifically, this research focuses on the experiences of fift... Read More about The Role of AI Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory.

The role of mesenchymal cells in cholangiocarcinoma (2024)
Journal Article
Sueca-Comes, M., Cristina Rusu, E., Ashworth, J. C., Collier, P., Probert, C., Ritchie, A., Meakin, M., P. Mongan, N., Egbuniwe, I. U., Andersen, J. B., Bates, D. O., & Grabowska, A. M. (2024). The role of mesenchymal cells in cholangiocarcinoma. Disease Models and Mechanisms, https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050716

The tumour microenvironment (TME) significantly influences tumour formation and progression through dynamic interactions. Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a highly desmoplastic tumour, lacks early diagnostic biomarkers and has limited effective treatments d... Read More about The role of mesenchymal cells in cholangiocarcinoma.