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Optimal actuator design based on shape calculus (2018)
Journal Article
Kalise, D., Kunisch, K., & Sturm, K. (2018). Optimal actuator design based on shape calculus. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 28(13), 2667-2717. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202518500586

An approach to optimal actuator design based on shape and topology optimization techniques is presented. For linear diffusion equations, two scenarios are considered. For the first one, best actuators are determined depending on a given initial condi... Read More about Optimal actuator design based on shape calculus.

Active financial analysis: Stimulating engagement using Bloomberg for introductory finance students (2018)
Journal Article
McCann, M., & Russon, J. (2019). Active financial analysis: Stimulating engagement using Bloomberg for introductory finance students. International Review of Economics Education, 30, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2018.12.001

There is increasing interest in the adoption of real-world interactive and participative learning techniques within economics and finance teaching through the use of trading room software. Previous research suggests that the integration of trading ro... Read More about Active financial analysis: Stimulating engagement using Bloomberg for introductory finance students.

Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff (2018)
Journal Article
Di Lorito, C., Dening, T., & Völlm, B. (2019). Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 30(2), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2018.1542449

Background: Although the prevalence of older patients in forensic psychiatric services is increasing, research around service provision for this population is very limited. We aimed to gather the views of members of staff on how well secure services... Read More about Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff.

Formulation of Bioerodible Ketamine Microparticles as an Analgesic Adjuvant Treatment Produced by Supercritical Fluid Polymer Encapsulation (2018)
Journal Article
Han, F., Whittaker, A., Howdle, S., Naylor, A., Shabir-Ahmed, A., Zhang, C., & Smith, M. (2018). Formulation of Bioerodible Ketamine Microparticles as an Analgesic Adjuvant Treatment Produced by Supercritical Fluid Polymer Encapsulation. Pharmaceutics, 10(4), Article 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics10040264

Pain is inadequately relieved by escalating doses of a strong opioid analgesic such as morphine in up to 25% of patients with cancer-related severe pain complicated by a neuropathic (nerve damage) component. Hence, there is an unmet medical need for... Read More about Formulation of Bioerodible Ketamine Microparticles as an Analgesic Adjuvant Treatment Produced by Supercritical Fluid Polymer Encapsulation.

Model Predictive Control for Isolated DC/DC Power Converters with Transformer Peak Current Shaving (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, L., Tarisciotti, L., Costabeber, A., Wheeler, P., & Zanchetta, P. (2018). Model Predictive Control for Isolated DC/DC Power Converters with Transformer Peak Current Shaving. In 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (5954-5960). https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8558301

In this paper a Model Predictive Control, suitable for isolated DC/DC power converters and featuring optimization on converter operations, is proposed. The control is designed based on a specific a current-fed DC/DC converter topology, named Active-B... Read More about Model Predictive Control for Isolated DC/DC Power Converters with Transformer Peak Current Shaving.

Computer simulation clarifies mechanisms of carbon dioxide clearance during apnoea (2018)
Journal Article
Laviola, M., Das, A., Chikhani, M., Bates, D., & Hardman, J. (2019). Computer simulation clarifies mechanisms of carbon dioxide clearance during apnoea. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 122(3), 395-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2018.11.012

Background Apnoeic oxygenation can come close to matching the oxygen demands of the apnoeic patient but does not facilitate carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination, potentially resulting in dangerous hypercapnia. Numerous studies have shown that high-flo... Read More about Computer simulation clarifies mechanisms of carbon dioxide clearance during apnoea.

The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles (2018)
Journal Article
Mostoghiu, R., Knebe, A., Cui, W., Pearce, F. R., Yepes, G., Power, C., …Arth, A. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3390-3403. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3306

Recent numerical studies of the dark matter density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (Mhalo > 1015 M) show that their median radial mass density profile remains unchanged up to z > 1, displaying a highly self-similar evolution. We verify this by u... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: the evolution of galaxy cluster density profiles.

A validated analytical-numerical modelling strategy to predict residual stresses in single-track laser deposited IN718 (2018)
Journal Article
Walker, T., Bennett, C., Lee, T., & Clare, A. (2019). A validated analytical-numerical modelling strategy to predict residual stresses in single-track laser deposited IN718. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 151, 609-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.12.004

Direct Energy Deposition (DED) is being increasingly used to repair high value components that have been damaged in-service. The uptake of DED and laser cladding operations for repair is inhibited by accurate modelling techniques. Often the repair pr... Read More about A validated analytical-numerical modelling strategy to predict residual stresses in single-track laser deposited IN718.

Production of high purity silica by microfluidic-inclusion fracture using microwave pre-treatment (2018)
Journal Article
Buttress, A., Rodriguez, J., Ure, A., Ferrari, R., Dodds, C., & Kingman, S. (2019). Production of high purity silica by microfluidic-inclusion fracture using microwave pre-treatment. Minerals Engineering, 131, 407-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2018.11.025

© 2018 Demand for high purity silica used in component manufacture is set to outstrip current supply in the near future. As such, alternative processing routes to feed-stock materials suitable for use in lighting and solar cell fabrication are requir... Read More about Production of high purity silica by microfluidic-inclusion fracture using microwave pre-treatment.

Treatment-resistant and multi-therapy-resistant criteria for bipolar depression: consensus definition (2018)
Journal Article
Hidalgo-Mazzei, D., Berk, M., Cipriani, A., Cleare, A. J., Florio, A. D., Dietch, D., …Stokes, P. R. A. (2018). Treatment-resistant and multi-therapy-resistant criteria for bipolar depression: consensus definition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(1), 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.257

© The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018. Background Most people with bipolar disorder spend a significant percentage of their lifetime experiencing either subsyndromal depressive symptoms or major depressive episodes, which contribute greatly to th... Read More about Treatment-resistant and multi-therapy-resistant criteria for bipolar depression: consensus definition.

A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area (2018)
Journal Article
Sandoval Barron, E., Swift, B., Chantrey, J., Christley, R., Gardner, R., Jewell, C., …Bennett, M. (2018). A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 17206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35652-5

The role of badgers in the geographic expansion of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) epidemic in England is unknown: indeed there have been few published studies of bTB in badgers outside of the Southwest of England where the infection is now endemic in... Read More about A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area.

Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline? (2018)
Journal Article
Harvey, K., & Brookes, G. (2018). Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?. Qualitative Health Research, 29(7), 104973231881454. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318814542

Commercial stock images are existing, artificially-constructed visuals used by businesses and mass media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and ready accessibility, little is known about the way... Read More about Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?.

Cross-chemistry leads to product diversity from atromentin synthetases in Aspergilli from section Nigri (2018)
Journal Article
Geib, E., Baldeweg, F., Doerfer, M., Nett, M., & Brock, M. (2019). Cross-chemistry leads to product diversity from atromentin synthetases in Aspergilli from section Nigri. Cell Chemical Biology, 26(2), 223-234.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.10.021

Nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-like enzymes catalyse the non-oxidative homodimerisation of aromatic α-keto acids, but the exact reaction mechanism is unknown. The furanone-forming thioesterase domain of the Aspergillus terreus aspulvinone E s... Read More about Cross-chemistry leads to product diversity from atromentin synthetases in Aspergilli from section Nigri.

A Wideband Fault Location Scheme for Active Distribution Systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aboshady, F., Sumner, M., & Thomas, D. (2018). A Wideband Fault Location Scheme for Active Distribution Systems. In 2018 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) (891-896). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRERA.2018.8566780

This paper proposes a fault location technique for future distribution systems with distributed generation. The technique considers the circuit analysis at the non-fundamental frequencies that are generated when a fault occurs. To consider both induc... Read More about A Wideband Fault Location Scheme for Active Distribution Systems.

Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Yang, J., Ma, H., Wang, Z., Olanrewaju, K. O., & Wheeler, P. (2019). Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 34(9), 8613-8625. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2018.2885145

Silicon carbide (SiC) junction field-effect transistor (JFET) based bi-directional switches (BDSs) have great potential in the construction of several power electronic circuits, including matrix converters, multi-level converters, solid state breaker... Read More about Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation.

Surface-groundwater flow numerical model for barrier beach with exfiltration incorporated bottom boundary layer model (2018)
Journal Article
Perera, E., Zhu, F., Dodd, N., Briganti, R., Blenkinsopp, C., & Turner, I. L. (2019). Surface-groundwater flow numerical model for barrier beach with exfiltration incorporated bottom boundary layer model. Coastal Engineering Journal, 146, 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2018.12.002

A surface-groundwater flow model is developed for the swash flow on a barrier beach. The non-linear shallow water equations are used to simulate the surface flow. Laplace's equation is used to describe the groundwater flow and is solved using the Bou... Read More about Surface-groundwater flow numerical model for barrier beach with exfiltration incorporated bottom boundary layer model.

Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells (2018)
Book Chapter
Hausmann, N., Kokkinaki, O., & Leng, M. J. (2019). Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells. In N. M. Rasullan, & C. F. Stewart (Eds.), Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea (725-740). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99408-6_33

The southern Red Sea coast is the location of more than 4,200 archaeological shell midden sites. These shell middens preserve archaeological and climatic archives of unprecedented resolution and scale. By using shells from these contexts, it is possi... Read More about Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells.

Alibaba Goes to the Movies (2018)
Book Chapter
Gallagher, M. (2018). Alibaba Goes to the Movies. In A. H. J. Magnan-Park, G. Marchetti, & S. K. Tan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema, 109-127. Palgrave Macmillan