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Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing (2024)
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Bradford, J., Dewes, B. T., Shiffa, M., Cottam, N. D., Rahman, K., Cheng, T. S., Novikov, S. V., Makarovsky, O., O'Shea, J. N., Beton, P. H., Lara-Avila, S., Harknett, J., Greenaway, M. T., & Patanè, A. (2024). Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing. Small, Article 2404809. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202404809

2D semiconductors can drive advances in quantum science and technologies. However, they should be free of any contamination; also, the crystallographic ordering and coupling of adjacent layers and their electronic properties should be well‐controlled... Read More about Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing.

Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network (2024)
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Wei, Z., Tien, P. W., Calautit, J., Darkwa, J., Worall, M., & Boukhanouf, R. (2024). Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network. Applied Energy, 376(Part A), Article 124164

This research investigates the integration of model predictive control (MPC) with seasonal thermochemical energy storage systems (STES) within district heating networks, focusing on the Nottingham district heating network as a case study. The primary... Read More about Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network.

Universal First-Order Massey Product of a Prefactorization Algebra (2024)
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Bruinsma, S., Schenkel, A., & Vicedo, B. (2024). Universal First-Order Massey Product of a Prefactorization Algebra. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 405(9), Article 206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-024-05084-6

This paper studies the universal first-order Massey product of a prefactorization algebra, which encodes higher algebraic operations on the cohomology. Explicit computations of these structures are carried out in the locally constant case, with appli... Read More about Universal First-Order Massey Product of a Prefactorization Algebra.

MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions (2024)
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Mahdiyasa, A. W., Large, D. J., Icardi, M., & Muljadi, B. P. (2024). MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions. Earth Surface Dynamics, 12(4), 929-952. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-929-2024

Higher-dimensional models of peatland development are required to analyse the influence of spatial heterogeneity and complex feedback mechanisms on peatland behaviour. However, the current models exclude the mechanical process that leads to uncertain... Read More about MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions.

Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity (2024)
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Liu, J., Li, D., Chen, H., Wang, H., Wada, Y., Gosling, S. N., Yang, H., Pokhrel, Y., & Ciais, P. (2024). Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity. Nature Communications, 15, Article 7129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51302-z

Alleviating water scarcity is at the core of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Yet the timing of water scarcity in its onset and possible relief in different regions of the world due to climate change and changing human population dynamics remains poor... Read More about Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity.

Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs' (2024)
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Rocchini, D., Chieffallo, L., Thouverai, E., D'Introno, R., Dagostin, F., Donini, E., Foody, G., Garnier, S., Mazzochini, G. G., Moudry, V., Rudis, B., Simova, P., Torresani, M., & Nowosad, J. (2024). Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'. Environmetrics, Article e2877. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877

Colorblindness is a genetic condition that affects a person's ability to accurately perceive colors. Several papers still exist making use of rainbow colors palette to show output. In such cases, for colorblind people such graphs are meaningless. In... Read More about Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'.

Investigation of simultaneous production of H2 and separable carbon from CH4 in a fluidised bed of NiO/Ca2Fe2O5/CaO particles (2024)
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Alkhatib, K., Santihayu Sukma, M., A. Scott, S., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Investigation of simultaneous production of H2 and separable carbon from CH4 in a fluidised bed of NiO/Ca2Fe2O5/CaO particles. Fuel, 377, Article 132816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.132816

This work investigated the possibility of simultaneous production of hydrogen/syngas and separable solid carbon in a fluidised bed by using CH4-CO2 cycles and exploring the carbon growth over solid catalytic particles of NiO/Ca2Fe2O5/CaO. This two-st... Read More about Investigation of simultaneous production of H2 and separable carbon from CH4 in a fluidised bed of NiO/Ca2Fe2O5/CaO particles.

Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia (2024)
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Loveluck, C. P., Tielidze, L. G., Elashvili, M., Kurbatov, A. V., Gadrani, L., Erb-Satullo, N., von Suchodoletz, H., Dan, A., Laermanns, H., Brückner, H., Schlotzhauer, U., Sulava, N., & Chagelishvili, R. (2024). Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia. Sustainability, 16(16), Article 7116. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16167116

In the midlatitudes of the planet, we are facing the imminent disappearance of one of our best high-resolution (pre)historic climate and anthropogenic pollution archives, namely the loss of glacial ice, through accelerated global warming. To capture... Read More about Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia.

At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect (2024)
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Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Hume, D., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., & Stewart, N. (in press). At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics,

The disposition effect is the reluctance to sell assets at a loss relative to a salient point of reference, typically assumed to be the purchase price. Using data on stocks and housing sales, we show that the peak price achieved by an asset during th... Read More about At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect.

Excluding Sexual Behaviour Evidence: Back to First Principles (2024)
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Thomason, M. (in press). Excluding Sexual Behaviour Evidence: Back to First Principles. Criminal Law Review,

Relevant sexual behaviour (SB) evidence should be admissible unless there are good reasons to exclude it. Starting from first principles, this article provides an in-depth analysis of reasons which might justify a rule of exclusion for relevant SB ev... Read More about Excluding Sexual Behaviour Evidence: Back to First Principles.

Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design (2024)
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McDonald, S., Huntington, B., & Allen, H. (2024). Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.56230/osotl.108

The present investigation sought to evaluate the influence of active and blended learning approaches to teaching on student engagement, learning gains, confidence, and sense of belonging in their psychology course. Two-hundred and eighty-four undergr... Read More about Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design.

One-year results of the first road surface with the addition of sunflower oil porous capsules (2024)
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Abedraba-Abdalla, M., Garcia-Hernández, A., Haughey, F., Thom, N., & Li, L. (2024). One-year results of the first road surface with the addition of sunflower oil porous capsules. Construction and Building Materials, 445, Article 137939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.137939

This paper presents findings from the first surface course in the UK employing sunflower oil-filled porous capsules as a self-healing additive. The capsules, designed to mitigate ravelling, were tested on a road constructed at an asphalt plant and su... Read More about One-year results of the first road surface with the addition of sunflower oil porous capsules.

Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants (2024)
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Phillip, E., Walsh, A., Jewitt, S., Elnakoury, F., Simon, J., Conroy, R. M., & Stanistreet, D. (2024). Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 2233. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19614-3

Background: Despite the extensive use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) in health-related projects, there is limited work on how CBPR processes result in outcomes, especially in household and ambient air pollution (HAAP) research. This... Read More about Exploring community-based participatory research for household and ambient air pollution projects: insights from key informants.

Understanding Quality of Life for People with Motor Neurone Disease Who Use Tracheostomy Ventilation and Family Members: A Scoping Review (2024)
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Turner, N., Faull, C., Palmer, J., Armstrong, A., Bedford, J., Turner, M. R., & Wilson, E. (2024). Understanding Quality of Life for People with Motor Neurone Disease Who Use Tracheostomy Ventilation and Family Members: A Scoping Review. Brain Sciences, 14(8), Article 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14080821

Tracheostomy ventilation (TV) can increase survival time for people living with motor neurone disease (MND); however, the use of TV varies between countries. Concerns regarding anticipated quality of life (QoL) are among the reasons given by healthca... Read More about Understanding Quality of Life for People with Motor Neurone Disease Who Use Tracheostomy Ventilation and Family Members: A Scoping Review.

Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Concrete panels under high-velocity impact loading (2024)
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Esaker, M., Thermou, G. E., & Neves, L. (2024). Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Concrete panels under high-velocity impact loading. Construction and Building Materials, 445, 137806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.137806

This study aims to experimentally investigate the impact resistance of Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) panels under high-velocity impact loading. 54 control and TRC panels were fabricated using a standard (29 MPa) and a high (101 MPa) compressive s... Read More about Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Concrete panels under high-velocity impact loading.

Mapping, geography (2024)
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Legg, S. (2024). Mapping, geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Article e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12707

This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers plus a paper by the Society's Cartographic Collections Manage... Read More about Mapping, geography.

Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost (2024)
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Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2024). Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost. Foreign Trade Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00157325241266040

We provide a simple reason for export tax in a third-country model of strategic trade policy. We show that the optimal policy under Cournot competition could be export tax in the presence of convex production costs. This happens whether or not the im... Read More about Strategic trade policy in a Cournot oligopoly with convex cost.

Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl) (2024)
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Bahr, P., & Hutton, G. (2024). Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8(ICFP), 370-394. https://doi.org/10.1145/3674638

Bahr and Hutton recently developed an approach to compiler calculation that allows a wide range of compilers to be derived from specifications of their correctness. However, a limitation of the approach is that it results in compilers that produce tr... Read More about Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl).

MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect (2024)
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Acharya, B., Alexandre, J., Benes, P., Bergmann, B., Bertolucci, S., Bevan, A., Brancaccio, R., Branzas, H., Burian, P., Campbell, M., Cecchini, S., Cho, Y., de Montigny, M., De Roeck, A., Ellis, J., Fairbairn, M., Felea, D., Frank, M., Gould, O., Hays, J., …Vives, O. (2024). MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect. Physical Review Letters, 133(7), Article 071803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071803

We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07  μ⁢b−1 of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 T... Read More about MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect.

How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats (2024)
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Isler, O., Yilmaz, O., Maule, A. J., & Gächter, S. (2024). How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02481-6

Understanding our cognitive and behavioral reactions to large-scale collective problems involving health and resource scarcity threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, helps us be better prepared for future collective threats. However, existing studie... Read More about How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats.