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The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (2025). The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00119.cot

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

Cognitive Outcomes in Children Treated for Ependymoma Diagnosed Under 36 Months: A Systematic Review (2025)
Journal Article
Thomas, S., Morley, E., Ritzmann, T., Clayton, C., Powers, K., Airdrie, J., Robinson, L., Fifield, K., Packham, A., Oprandi, M. C., Lui, J., Whitfield, G., Thorp, N., Limond, J., & Grundy, R. (in press). Cognitive Outcomes in Children Treated for Ependymoma Diagnosed Under 36 Months: A Systematic Review. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, Article e31588. https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.31588

It is crucial to understand the morbidity associated with treatments for young children with ependymoma given this is a high incidence age group also known to be at risk of poorer cognitive outcomes. This review aimed to identify the quality of exist... Read More about Cognitive Outcomes in Children Treated for Ependymoma Diagnosed Under 36 Months: A Systematic Review.

Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study (2025)
Journal Article
Rhee, H., Macedo, E., Cutter, G., Judd, E., Parameswaran, S., Maccariello, E., Liu, W.-J., Selby, N. M., Bouchard, J., Garcia-Garcia, G., Neyra, J. A., Manjusha, Y., Abraham, J., Doi, K., Villamizar, G., Hurtado, A., & Mehta, R. L. (2025). Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(4), Article 1212. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14041212

Background/Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), but the impact of baseline kidney function and care processes on outcomes is not well understood. We hypothesized that baseline kidney hea... Read More about Influence of Baseline Kidney Function on Patient and Kidney Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Observational Study.

Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures (2025)
Journal Article
Krasnov, K., & Shaw, A. (in press). Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures. Classical and Quantum Gravity, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adb531

The main aim of this paper is to simplify and popularise the construction from the 2013 paper by Apostolov, Calderbank, and Gauduchon, which (among other things) derives the Pleba´nskiPleba´nski-Demia´nskiDemia´nski family of solutions of GR using id... Read More about Kerr metric from two commuting complex structures.

Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial (2025)
Journal Article
Horby, P. W., Emberson, J. R., Thwaites, L., Campbell, M., Peto, L., Pessoa-Amorim, G., Staplin, N., Hamers, R. L., Amuasi, J., Nel, J., Kestelyn, E., Thanh Phong, N., Shrestha, A., Nasronudin, N., Sarkar, R., Ngoc Thach, P., Paudel, D., Sumardi, U., Stewart, R., Nelwan, E., …Landray, M. J. (2025). Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial. eClinicalMedicine, 81, Article 103080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103080

Background
Low dose corticosteroids (e.g., 6 mg dexamethasone) have been shown to reduce mortality for hypoxic COVID-19 patients. We have previously reported that higher dose corticosteroids cause harm in patients with clinical hypoxia but not recei... Read More about Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation (2025)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Yin, Y., Sreeram, A., Si, W., Airey, G. D., Li, B., Singh, B., Özdemir, D. K., & Zhou, L. (2025). Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation. Construction and Building Materials, 467, Article 140387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.140387

Aging deteriorates the performance of bitumen whereas rejuvenation can partially restore these properties. Although the macroscale properties of bitumen ageing and rejuvenation have been well documented, the microscale mechanisms are still not well u... Read More about Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based microstructural and micromechanical analysis of bitumen during ageing and rejuvenation.

Enacting Artful Knowing Through Collective Poetic Inquiry: “Space, Movement, Entanglement, Ambiguity, and Flow” (2025)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2025). Enacting Artful Knowing Through Collective Poetic Inquiry: “Space, Movement, Entanglement, Ambiguity, and Flow”. International Review of Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447251319417

The article traces the authors’ polyvocal work at the interface of poetry, social cohesion, and in/justice in higher education, asking, “How is our poetic knowing artful inquiry?”, “How do we enact poetic artful inquiry?”, “What does poetic artful in... Read More about Enacting Artful Knowing Through Collective Poetic Inquiry: “Space, Movement, Entanglement, Ambiguity, and Flow”.

Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling Initiatives in Occupational Settings: A Scoping Review (2025)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Yildirim, M., Lax, S. J., & Evans, C. (2025). Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling Initiatives in Occupational Settings: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(2), Article 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22020263

Voluntary HIV testing and counselling (VCT) in the workplace could reach population groups who may be at risk for HIV but may not readily seek out testing from other services. We conducted a scoping review to understand (a) the nature of evidence rel... Read More about Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling Initiatives in Occupational Settings: A Scoping Review.

The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery (2025)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Somers, N., Williams, C., O'Brien, M., & Jackson, B. (2025). The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery. Marine Policy, 175, Article 106629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106629

Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we... Read More about The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery.

Digital physical activity intervention via the Kidney BEAM platform in patients with polycystic kidney disease: a randomised controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article
Briggs, J., Ralston, E., Wilkinson, T. J., Walklin, C., Mangahis, E., ML Young, H., Castle, E. M., Billany, R. E., Asgari, E., Bhandari, S., Bramham10, K., Burton, J. O., Campbell, J., Chilcot, J., Deelchand, V., Hamilton, A., Jesky, M., Kalra, P. A., McCafferty, K., Nixon, A. C., …Greenwood, S. A. (2025). Digital physical activity intervention via the Kidney BEAM platform in patients with polycystic kidney disease: a randomised controlled trial. Clinical Kidney Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfaf041

Background
In people living with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), physical inactivity may contribute to poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To date, no research has elucidated the impact of a PKD-specific physical activity programme on HRQo... Read More about Digital physical activity intervention via the Kidney BEAM platform in patients with polycystic kidney disease: a randomised controlled trial.

Three-Dimensional Runout Characterisation For Rotationally Symmetric Components (2025)
Journal Article
Tompkins, C. G., Todhunter, L. D., Gottmann, H., Rettig, C., Schmitt, R., Wacker, J., & Piano, S. (2025). Three-Dimensional Runout Characterisation For Rotationally Symmetric Components. Communications Engineering, 4, Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-025-00354-0

Rotationally symmetric components are ubiquitous to modern devices, and their precision manufacture is necessary to keep costs and manufacture time down, as well as reduce waste and possibly hazardous component failure. Here we present a potential up... Read More about Three-Dimensional Runout Characterisation For Rotationally Symmetric Components.

Facilitating safe transition to home for preterm infants (FAST home): Protocol for a retrospective observational study (2025)
Journal Article
Szatkowski, L., Abramson, J., Tao, S., Seaton, S. E., Dorling, J., Arellano-Meza, M., Harvey, J., Harvey, T., & Ojha, S. (2025). Facilitating safe transition to home for preterm infants (FAST home): Protocol for a retrospective observational study. PLoS ONE, 20(2), Article e0318309. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318309

Background
Preterm infants (i.e., those born before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy) often require additional care and are admitted to neonatal units soon after birth. Readiness for discharge home typically requires a level of physiological maturity... Read More about Facilitating safe transition to home for preterm infants (FAST home): Protocol for a retrospective observational study.

The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students (2025)
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Hall, H., Stroud, S., Culham, A., Clubbe, C., Batke, S., Medcalf, S., Jones, M. G., Baker, L., Lydon, S., McGale, E., Acedo, C., Charmley, J., Warren, J. M., & Mitchley, J. (2025). The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students. Plants, People, Planet, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10636

The Botanical University Challenge (BUC) competition was first devised by three academic botanists in 2015 to champion plants and plant-aware students and to help connect disparate and disconnected student botanists across the United Kingdom and Irel... Read More about The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students.

Integrated Phase-Change Materials in a Hybrid Windcatcher Ventilation System (2025)
Journal Article
Eso, O., Darkwa, J., & Calautit, J. (2025). Integrated Phase-Change Materials in a Hybrid Windcatcher Ventilation System. Energies, 18(4), Article 848. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18040848

Windcatchers are effective passive ventilation systems, but their inability to actively reduce and stabilize supply air temperatures reduces indoor cooling performance. This study addresses this limitation by integrating encapsulated phase-change mat... Read More about Integrated Phase-Change Materials in a Hybrid Windcatcher Ventilation System.

Fucoxanthin mitigates mercury-induced mitochondrial toxicity in the human ovarian granulosa cell line (2025)
Journal Article
Elmorsy, E. M., Al Doghaither, H. A., Al-Ghafari, A. B., Amer, S., Fawzy, M. S., & Toraih, E. A. (2025). Fucoxanthin mitigates mercury-induced mitochondrial toxicity in the human ovarian granulosa cell line. Reproductive Toxicology, 132, Article 108855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reprotox.2025.108855

Mercury (Hg) is known to be a hazardous toxin with a significant negative impact on female reproduction through mechanisms that remain unclear. The carotenoid fucoxanthin (FX) is an antioxidant with several positive effects on human health. This stud... Read More about Fucoxanthin mitigates mercury-induced mitochondrial toxicity in the human ovarian granulosa cell line.

Acute vascular and cardiac effects of lenvatinib in mice (2025)
Journal Article
Krüger, D. N., Pannucci, P., Wesley, C. D., Neutel, C. H. G., Martinet, W., De Meyer, G. R. Y., Hill, S. J., Woolard, J., Franssen, C., & Guns, P.-J. (2025). Acute vascular and cardiac effects of lenvatinib in mice. Cardio-Oncology, 11(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40959-025-00307-8

Abstract
Background Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor signalling
are used in cancer therapy to inhibit angiogenesis. Unfortunately, VEGF inhibitors are known to induce severe hypertension... Read More about Acute vascular and cardiac effects of lenvatinib in mice.

Unraveling mechanisms of N₂O emissions and nitrogen cycling: The role of biochar C:N ratios in loamy and sandy soils (2025)
Journal Article
Jaffar, M. T., Ahmed, M., Shi, R., Jiang, S., Kong, Z., Girkin, N., Zhang, J., & Huo, H. (2025). Unraveling mechanisms of N₂O emissions and nitrogen cycling: The role of biochar C:N ratios in loamy and sandy soils. Applied Soil Ecology, 207, Article 105950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105950

The influence of biochar on N cycle is well-known, but specific biological and chemical mechanisms under biochar with different C:N ratios and soil types, remain inadequately unclear. This study aimed to explore the changes in N cycle after adding N-... Read More about Unraveling mechanisms of N₂O emissions and nitrogen cycling: The role of biochar C:N ratios in loamy and sandy soils.

Protective efficacy of a bivalent equine influenza H3N8 virus-like particle vaccine in horses (2025)
Journal Article
O'Kennedy, M. M., Reedy, S. E., Abolnik, C., Khan, A., Smith, T., du Preez, I., Olajide, E., Daly, J., Cullinane, A., & Chambers, T. M. (2025). Protective efficacy of a bivalent equine influenza H3N8 virus-like particle vaccine in horses. Vaccine, 50, Article 126861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126861

Equine influenza (EI) is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of wild and domesticated horses, donkeys, mules, and other Equidae. EI is caused by the Equine Influenza virus (EIV), is endemic in many countries and outbreaks still have a sever... Read More about Protective efficacy of a bivalent equine influenza H3N8 virus-like particle vaccine in horses.

Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children (2025)
Journal Article
Gripton, C., Bates, K. E., Gifford, S., Gilligan-Lee, K. A., Williams, H. J., Borthwick, A., Williams, A. Y., Lancaster, A., & Farran, E. K. (2025). Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children. Early Years, https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2025.2463666

Ensuring that knowledge generated through research has an impact on early childhood education practice is a familiar and complex challenge. This article reports on an attempt to bridge the research-practice divide in one area of mathematics, early sp... Read More about Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children.

“You Pretend to Pay Me; I Pretend to Work”: A Multi‐Level Exploration of Quiet Quitting in the Greek Context (2025)
Journal Article
Georgiadou, A., Vezyridis, P., & Glaveli, N. (2025). “You Pretend to Pay Me; I Pretend to Work”: A Multi‐Level Exploration of Quiet Quitting in the Greek Context. Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22292

This study explores quiet quitting-a distinct form of workplace withdrawal-in the Greek context, adopting a multilevel approach to understand how cultural, institutional and individual factors shape this emerging phenomenon. Drawing upon relevant lit... Read More about “You Pretend to Pay Me; I Pretend to Work”: A Multi‐Level Exploration of Quiet Quitting in the Greek Context.