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Write better, publish better (2020)
Journal Article
Marino Fages, D. (2020). Write better, publish better. Scientometrics, 122, 1671–1681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03332-4

There is evidence that having more readable abstracts and introductions help authors get cited. I show that, in economics, there is also an effect of readability on the probability of publishing in a Top 5 journal (and in a higher-ranked journal in g... Read More about Write better, publish better.

How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly (2020)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., De Fraja, G., & Tiezzi, S. (2021). How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly. Oxford Economic Papers, 73(2), 879–902. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpz076

In this paper we study the ability of the 19th century Italian government to choose profit maximizing prices for a multiproduct monopolist. We use very detailed historical data on the tobacco consumption in 62 Italian provinces from 1871 to 1888 to e... Read More about How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th century Italian State Monopoly.

X-ray microtomography analysis of soil pore structure dynamics under wetting and drying cycles (2020)
Journal Article
Pires, L. F., Auler, A. C., Roque, W. L., & Mooney, S. J. (2020). X-ray microtomography analysis of soil pore structure dynamics under wetting and drying cycles. Geoderma, 362, Article 114103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114103

The soil water retention curve is one of the most important properties used to predict the amount of water available to plants, pore size distribution and hydraulic conductivity, as well as knowledge for drainage and irrigation modeling. Depending on... Read More about X-ray microtomography analysis of soil pore structure dynamics under wetting and drying cycles.

Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry (2020)
Book Chapter
RYAN, B. (2020). Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry. In Human and Organizational Factors: Practices and Strategies for a Changing World (5-13). Springer

This chapter reflects on how researchers have worked in differ-ent ways with industry in five research projects, investigating and imple-menting solutions for problems related to human and organisational fac-tors (HOF). Three observations are present... Read More about Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry.

Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Harvey, K. (2020). Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem. Changing English, 27(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2019.1702455

In this article, we explore how adults in a community shared reading group discuss the notoriously difficult poem ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’ by the American poet Wallace Stevens. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s notion of action, we explore how participant... Read More about Participation, Perplexity and Plurality: Exploring the Shared Reading of a ‘Difficult’ Poem.

Mapping Recent Shoreline Changes Spanning the Lateral Collapse of Anak Krakatau Volcano, Indonesia (2020)
Journal Article
Novellino, A., Engwell, S. L., Grebby, S., Day, S., Cassidy, M., Madden-Nadeau, A., …Hunt, J. (2020). Mapping Recent Shoreline Changes Spanning the Lateral Collapse of Anak Krakatau Volcano, Indonesia. Applied Sciences, 10(2), Article 536. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10020536

Gene expression profiling of Trypanosoma cruzi in the presence of heme points to glycosomal metabolic adaptation of epimastigotes inside the vector (2020)
Journal Article
Alcocer, M., Paes, M. C., Sang, F., Saraiva, F. M. S., Pane, A., Nogueira, N. P., …Dias, F. A. (2020). Gene expression profiling of Trypanosoma cruzi in the presence of heme points to glycosomal metabolic adaptation of epimastigotes inside the vector. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(1), e0007945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007945

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, and is transmitted by triatomine insects during its blood meal. Proliferative epimastigotes forms t... Read More about Gene expression profiling of Trypanosoma cruzi in the presence of heme points to glycosomal metabolic adaptation of epimastigotes inside the vector.

Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people (2020)
Journal Article
Khan, K., Hollis, C., Hall, C. L., Davies, E. B., Mataix-Cols, D., Andrén, P., …Glazebrook, C. (2020). Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people. Trials, 21(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3974-3

Background

Process evaluations are an important component in the interpretation and understanding of outcomes in trials. The Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) study is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectivenes... Read More about Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people.

Iron Catalysed Radical Polymerisation by Living Bacteria (2020)
Journal Article
Bennett, M., Gurnani, P., Alexander, C., Hill, P., & Rawson, F. J. (2020). Iron Catalysed Radical Polymerisation by Living Bacteria. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(12), 4750-4755. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201915084

The ability to harness cellular redox processes for abiotic synthesis might allow the preparation of engineered hybrid living systems. Towards this goal, we describe a new bacteria‐mediated Iron‐catalysed Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerisatio... Read More about Iron Catalysed Radical Polymerisation by Living Bacteria.

Systematic review of genetic association studies in people with Lewy body dementia (2020)
Journal Article
Sanghvi, H., Singh, R., Morrin, H., & Rajkumar, A. P. (2020). Systematic review of genetic association studies in people with Lewy body dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 35(5), 436-448. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5260

Objectives

Lewy body dementia (LBD) causes more morbidity, disability, and earlier mortality than Alzheimer disease. Molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in LBD are poorly understood. We aimed to do a systematic review of all genetic... Read More about Systematic review of genetic association studies in people with Lewy body dementia.

Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling (2020)
Journal Article
Adesso, G., Serafini, A., Hsieh, C.-Y., Lostaglio, M., Shackerley-Bennett, U., & Longden, S. (2020). Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling. Physical Review Letters, 124(1), Article 010602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.010602

The study of thermal operations allows one to investigate the ultimate possibilities of quantum states and of nanoscale thermal machines. Whilst fairly general, these results typically do not apply to continuous variable systems and do not take into... Read More about Gaussian Thermal Operations and The Limits of Algorithmic Cooling.

DDAB-assisted synthesis of iodine-rich CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals with improved stability in multiple environments (2020)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Luan, W., Liu, M., & Turyanska, L. (2020). DDAB-assisted synthesis of iodine-rich CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals with improved stability in multiple environments. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8(7), 2381-2387. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc06566k

© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. All-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, I) nanocrystals (NCs) have attracted considerable attention due to their tunable optical properties and high optical quantum yield. However, their... Read More about DDAB-assisted synthesis of iodine-rich CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals with improved stability in multiple environments.

Linking Law: Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Law in Literature and History (2020)
Journal Article
Ruiter, K. (2020). Linking Law: Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Law in Literature and History. The Historian, 8-12

This short magazine article highlights ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship which has cast light on the surprisingly sophisticated world of Viking-Age and Medieval Scandinavian law and its wide-ranging influence in these societies.

Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham (2020)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2020). Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham. Midland History, 45(1), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2020.1712078

It is well known that Nottingham was one of the most densely built and overcrowded towns in Victorian England. Following the enclosure, 1845-65, green spaces, including public parks, had to be provided in the new suburbs. This article looks at the cr... Read More about Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham.

Designing drawing activities to support simulation-based learning in quantum mechanics (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ainsworth, S., Kohnle, A., & Passante, G. (2020, June). Designing drawing activities to support simulation-based learning in quantum mechanics. Presented at Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL, Tenesse

In recent years, the argument that drawing can play a fundamental role in learning in the STEM disciplines has received much support. One area that is receiving growing attention is whether drawing is of value when students work with multi-representa... Read More about Designing drawing activities to support simulation-based learning in quantum mechanics.

Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences (2020)
Journal Article
Saini, R., & Begum, N. (2020). Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences. Political Quarterly, 91(1), 217-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12797

Decolonisation of the curriculum is a burgeoning yet controversial project of radical change, gaining slow but steady traction in higher education politics departments across the country. At its heart is the acknowledgement and systematic unravelling... Read More about Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences.

Galaxy cluster illuminates the cosmic dark ages (2020)
Journal Article
Nina A., H. (2020). Galaxy cluster illuminates the cosmic dark ages. Nature, 577(7788), 36-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03893-7

Re-thinking International Students' Voice in South-South Cooperation in Higher Education 关于发展中国家留学生在华学习体验的反思: An International Development Perspective 国际发展的视角 (2020)
Journal Article
Yuan, T. (2020). Re-thinking International Students' Voice in South-South Cooperation in Higher Education 关于发展中国家留学生在华学习体验的反思: An International Development Perspective 国际发展的视角. Journal of International Students, 10(S(1)), 94-98. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10is%281%29.1778

This article provides an initial reflection based on a recent qualitative study on China’s higher education and scholarship provision to international students from developing countries. The empirical data collected from focus groups reveal two emerg... Read More about Re-thinking International Students' Voice in South-South Cooperation in Higher Education 关于发展中国家留学生在华学习体验的反思: An International Development Perspective 国际发展的视角.

Beyond gender binaries: pedagogies and practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC) (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Warin, J., & Robb, M. (2020). Beyond gender binaries: pedagogies and practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Early Years, 40(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2020.1728077

Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic? (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 17(1-2), 85-90. https://doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7299

© 2021 by the author(s). In this article, I offer a critical analysis of a video artwork titled Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (Learn German in My Kitchen) (2020), created by Berlin-based queer filmmaker Popo Fan. By focusing on Fan’s negotiation of r... Read More about Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?.