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A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali-Gombe, B., Tokbolat, S., & Mckechnie, J. (2024, June). A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly. Presented at 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices (Net-Zero Future 2024), Oslo, Norway

In the quest to achieve a sustainable built environment, circular construction emerged as an innovative approach to aid towards a quick transition for the resource-intensive construction industry. The successful implementation of circular approaches... Read More about A Transition to Sustainable Built Environment: A Framework for Modular Building Construction Designed for Disassembly.

Community engagement with English devolution (2025)
Report
McCabe, H. Community engagement with English devolution. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Successive governments have promoted greater devolution in England, but challenges remain about community engagement with the policy and local decision-making.

Chemical looping combustion of low-volatile semi-anthracite coal with Co-based metal oxide: Performances, kinetics, and mechanisms (2025)
Journal Article
Güleç, F., & Okolie, J. A. (2025). Chemical looping combustion of low-volatile semi-anthracite coal with Co-based metal oxide: Performances, kinetics, and mechanisms. Journal of the Energy Institute, 119, Article 101993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2025.101993

The kinetics of Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC) using Co3O4 as an oxygen carrier for low-volatile semi-anthracite coal were studied with the aim of integrating CO2 capture into the combustion process. The effectiveness of varying temperature regime... Read More about Chemical looping combustion of low-volatile semi-anthracite coal with Co-based metal oxide: Performances, kinetics, and mechanisms.

Evolution of amorphous ruthenium nanoclusters into stepped truncated nano-pyramids on graphitic surfaces boosts hydrogen production from ammonia (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Young, B. J., Aliev, G. N., Kordatos, A., Popov, I., Ghaderzadeh, S., Liddy, T. J., Cull, W. J., Kohlrausch, E. C., Weilhard, A., Hutchings, G. J., Besley, E., Theis, W., Alves Fernandes, J., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2025). Evolution of amorphous ruthenium nanoclusters into stepped truncated nano-pyramids on graphitic surfaces boosts hydrogen production from ammonia. Chemical Science, 16(6), 2648-2660. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc06382a

Atomic-scale changes can significantly impact heterogeneous catalysis, yet their atomic mechanisms are challenging to establish using conventional analysis methods. By using identical location scanning transmission electron microscopy (IL-STEM), whic... Read More about Evolution of amorphous ruthenium nanoclusters into stepped truncated nano-pyramids on graphitic surfaces boosts hydrogen production from ammonia.

Dairy farmers’ intention to use calf management technologies in four European countries: A QCA and PLS-SEM approach (2025)
Journal Article
Doidge, C., Bokma, J., ten Brinke, N., Carmo, L. P., Hopp, P., Santman-Berends, I., Veldhuis, A., & Kaler, J. (2025). Dairy farmers’ intention to use calf management technologies in four European countries: A QCA and PLS-SEM approach. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 236, Article 106417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2025.106417

Whilst livestock management technologies may help to improve productivity, economic performance, and animal welfare on farms, there has been low uptake of technologies across farming systems and countries. This study aimed to understand dairy farmers... Read More about Dairy farmers’ intention to use calf management technologies in four European countries: A QCA and PLS-SEM approach.

Connecting the circular and drifted Rindler Unruh effects (2025)
Journal Article
Parry, L. J., & Louko, J. (2025). Connecting the circular and drifted Rindler Unruh effects. Physical Review D, 111(2), Article 025012. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.025012

In Minkowski spacetime quantum field theory, each stationary motion is associated with an effective, energy-dependent notion of temperature, which generalizes the familiar Unruh temperature of uniform linear acceleration. Motivated by current experim... Read More about Connecting the circular and drifted Rindler Unruh effects.

The effect of inter- and intra-layer delay time on TPU parts fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (2025)
Journal Article
Connor, S., Goodridge, R., & Maskery, I. (2025). The effect of inter- and intra-layer delay time on TPU parts fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. Progress in Additive Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-024-00933-1

In polymer laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB-P) techniques, such as laser sintering, the time between scanning a given point in one layer and the same x-y point in the next layer is known as the ‘inter-layer delay time’. Multiple parts are normally fab... Read More about The effect of inter- and intra-layer delay time on TPU parts fabricated by laser powder bed fusion.

Elective peri-operative management of adults taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide agonists andsodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: a multidisciplinary consensus statement: A consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, Association of BritishClinical Diabetologists, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society, Centrefor Perioperative Care, Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care, RoyalCollege of Anaesthetists, Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (2025)
Journal Article
El-Boghdadly, K., Dhesi, J., Fabb, P., Levy, N., Lobo, D. N., McKechnie, A., Mustafa, O., Newland-Jones, P., Patel, A., Pournaras, D. J., Clare, K., & Dhatariya, K. (2025). Elective peri-operative management of adults taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide agonists andsodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: a multidisciplinary consensus statement: A consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, Association of BritishClinical Diabetologists, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society, Centrefor Perioperative Care, Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care, RoyalCollege of Anaesthetists, Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association. Anaesthesia, 80(4), 412-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16541

Introduction: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors are used increasingly in patients receiving peri-operative care. These drugs may be... Read More about Elective peri-operative management of adults taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide agonists andsodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: a multidisciplinary consensus statement: A consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, Association of BritishClinical Diabetologists, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society, Centrefor Perioperative Care, Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care, RoyalCollege of Anaesthetists, Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association.

Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception (2025)
Journal Article
McGing, J. J., Serres, S., Nicholas, R., Gupta, A., Radford, S. J., Nixon, A. V., Mallinson, J., Bradley, C., Bawden, S., Francis, S. T., Greenhaff, P. L., & Moran, G. W. (2025). Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 19(1), Article jjae194. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/

Background & Objective

IBD fatigue aetiology is poorly understood. This study quantified body composition and physical function alongside proton magnetic resonance imaging (1H MRI) and spectroscopy (31P MRS) measures of organ structure and functio... Read More about Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception.

[SUBMITTED] A Complete Re-evaluation of the Accuracy of the Standardised Roundness Evaluation Methods (2025)
Journal Article
TOMPKINS, C., & PIANO, S. [SUBMITTED] A Complete Re-evaluation of the Accuracy of the Standardised Roundness Evaluation Methods. Manuscript submitted for publication

Roundness evaluation is the process of measuring how well an object conforms to a circle, a ubiquitous process in the manufacture of any rotating part, and the evaluation of rounded objects throughout science and engineering. This evaluation is a sta... Read More about [SUBMITTED] A Complete Re-evaluation of the Accuracy of the Standardised Roundness Evaluation Methods.

Evaluating student understanding of pharmacodynamics core concepts (2025)
Journal Article
Kelly-Laubscher, R., Koenig, J., Cunningham, M., Aljofan, M., Babey, A.-M., Hawes, M., Hinton, T., Karpa, K., Karunaratne, N., Nicolazzo, J., Liang, W., Mraiche, F., Restini, C., Santiago, M., Volbrecht, K., Guilding, C., & White, P. J. (2025). Evaluating student understanding of pharmacodynamics core concepts. European Journal of Pharmacology, 990, Article 177257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2025.177257

Pharmacodynamics is an essential subdiscipline of pharmacology that underpins safe and effective prescribing and therapeutic decision-making, as well as drug discovery and development. The exponential increase in the number of therapeutic drugs has p... Read More about Evaluating student understanding of pharmacodynamics core concepts.

Decoding physical sensor signals to reveal chip formation and surface deformation: An example in machining nickel-based superalloys (2025)
Journal Article
Mypati, O., Robles-Linares, J. A., Zan, S., Axinte, D., & Liao, Z. (2025). Decoding physical sensor signals to reveal chip formation and surface deformation: An example in machining nickel-based superalloys. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 225, Article 112297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2024.112297

The current research aims to provide a basic understanding of decoding sensor signals with chip formation and surface integrity during the machining of Ni-based superalloys. Force signal analysis provides cutting energy information, offering insight... Read More about Decoding physical sensor signals to reveal chip formation and surface deformation: An example in machining nickel-based superalloys.

Feasibility within-subject RCT of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; an Intervention to Maintain and improve neuroMuscular function during period of Immobility (IMMI) (2025)
Journal Article
Alqurashi, H. B., Masud, T., Gordon, A. L., Piasecki, M., O’Connor, D., Robinson, K., & Gladman, J. R. F. (2025). Feasibility within-subject RCT of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; an Intervention to Maintain and improve neuroMuscular function during period of Immobility (IMMI). European Geriatric Medicine, 16, 635-643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-024-01133-4

Introduction
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is a potentially effective intervention to improve outcomes after a fragility fracture, but its feasibility in this group has not been established.

Methods
A feasibility study was conducte... Read More about Feasibility within-subject RCT of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; an Intervention to Maintain and improve neuroMuscular function during period of Immobility (IMMI).

Structural basis of THC analog activity at the Cannabinoid 1 receptor (2025)
Journal Article
Thorsen, T. S., Kulkarni, Y., Sykes, D. A., Bøggild, A., Drace, T., Hompluem, P., Iliopoulos-Tsoutsouvas, C., Nikas, S. P., Daver, H., Makriyannis, A., Nissen, P., Gajhede, M., Veprintsev, D. B., Boesen, T., Kastrup, J. S., & Gloriam, D. E. (2025). Structural basis of THC analog activity at the Cannabinoid 1 receptor. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55808-4

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive compound derived from the cannabis plant Cannabis sativa and approved for emetic conditions, appetite stimulation and sleep apnea relief. THC’s psychoactive actions are mediated primarily by th... Read More about Structural basis of THC analog activity at the Cannabinoid 1 receptor.

Local quantum detection of the cosmological expansion: Unruh-DeWitt detectors in spatially compact Milne cosmology (2025)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, A. S., & Louko, J. (2025). Local quantum detection of the cosmological expansion: Unruh-DeWitt detectors in spatially compact Milne cosmology. Physical Review D, 111(2), Article 025008. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.025008

We analyze the excitations and deexcitations of an inertial Unruh-DeWitt detector in the (1+1)-dimensional expanding Milne cosmology with compact spatial sections, coupled to a real massless scalar field with either untwisted or twisted boundary cond... Read More about Local quantum detection of the cosmological expansion: Unruh-DeWitt detectors in spatially compact Milne cosmology.

Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments (2025)
Journal Article
Sakaguchi, H., Gathergood, J., & Stewart, N. (in press). Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments. Management Science,

We examine round number preferences and left-digit bias in credit card repayments. We show half of all manual credit card payments are at a small set of round-number values, although all values between the statement minimum and balance were permissib... Read More about Round Number Preferences and Left-Digit Bias: Evidence from Credit Card Repayments.

On Medical Tourism Overseas: Ethical Analysis of the Duties of NHS Doctors in Managing the Negative Health Consequences of Accessing Medical Treatments Abroad (2025)
Journal Article
Armitage, R. C. (2025). On Medical Tourism Overseas: Ethical Analysis of the Duties of NHS Doctors in Managing the Negative Health Consequences of Accessing Medical Treatments Abroad. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31(1), Article e14300. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.14300

Introduction: An increasing number of UK residents are travelling overseas to access medical treatments, the negative health consequences of which are largely managed by NHS doctors. Methods: This paper performs an ethical analysis, using the ethical... Read More about On Medical Tourism Overseas: Ethical Analysis of the Duties of NHS Doctors in Managing the Negative Health Consequences of Accessing Medical Treatments Abroad.

Comprehensive prediction of subaerial landslide-tsunamis via slide model- and water body geometry-invariant machine learning techniques (2025)
Journal Article
Jenkins, D. G., Heller, V., & Giannakidis, A. (2025). Comprehensive prediction of subaerial landslide-tsunamis via slide model- and water body geometry-invariant machine learning techniques. Ocean Engineering, 320, Article 120197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.120197

Subaerial landslide-tsunamis (SLTs) are generated by mass movements impacting water bodies. These phenomena are responsible for substantial loss of life and damage to properties making their prediction vital. There is limited literature on deriving c... Read More about Comprehensive prediction of subaerial landslide-tsunamis via slide model- and water body geometry-invariant machine learning techniques.

Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation (2025)
Journal Article
Houlgreave, M. S., Dyke, K., Berrington, A., & Jackson, S. R. (2025). Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation. Brain and Behavior, 15(1), Article e70250. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70250

Background: Rhythmic median nerve stimulation (MNS) at 10Hz has been shown to cause a substantial reduction in tic frequency in individuals with Tourette syndrome. The mechanism of action is currently unknown but is hypothesized to involve entrainmen... Read More about Investigating Neurometabolite Changes in Response to Median Nerve Stimulation.