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"L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique (2020)
Book
GILONNE, Y. (2020). "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique. Paris: L'Harmattan

Cet ouvrage questionne le concept de déception. Le nucléaire a en effet emporté jusqu'à l'idée de fondement, exposant la raison à l'effondrement de son principe et subvertissant le programme rationnel de la modernité. La raison semble alors incapable... Read More about "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique.

Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research? A comparative legal analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Dove, E. S., & Chen, J. (2020). Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research? A comparative legal analysis. International Data Privacy Law, 10(2), 117–131. https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipz023

Several recent data protection laws appear to afford a privileged position to scientific research, including health research. Provisions that might otherwise apply to data subjects and data controllers, including rights exercisable by data subjects a... Read More about Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research? A comparative legal analysis.

Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences? (2020)
Book Chapter
Milanovic, M. (2020). Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?. In K. J. Heller, F. Megret, S. Nouwen, J. Ohlin, & D. Robinson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of international criminal law. Oxford University Press

The primary role of international criminal courts and tribunals is to punish those deserving of punishment. But beyond dispensing individualized justice, the question still remains whether such tribunals can also help deeply traumatized and divided s... Read More about Courting failure: when are international criminal courts likely to be believed by local audiences?.

Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (2020). Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). Routledge

Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health (2020)
Book Chapter
Crawford, P. (2020). Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health. In The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Routledge

Health humanities is a fast-growing field of research, education, and practice that has generated a more inclusive, democratizing and applied approach to arts and humanities in health care, health, and well-being. Its rise over the past thirteen year... Read More about Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health.

Diatom-based water-table reconstruction in Sphagnum peatlands of northeastern China (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, X., McGowan, S., Bu, Z.-J., Yang, X.-D., Cao, Y.-M., Bai, X., …Qiao, Q.-L. (2020). Diatom-based water-table reconstruction in Sphagnum peatlands of northeastern China. Water Research, 174, 115648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115648

Peatlands are important ecosystems for biodiversity conservation, global carbon cycling and water storage. Hydrological changes due to climate variability have accelerated the degradation of global and regional ecosystem services of peatlands. Diatom... Read More about Diatom-based water-table reconstruction in Sphagnum peatlands of northeastern China.

The Role of Neural Networks in Predicting the Thermal Life of Electrical Machines (2020)
Journal Article
Turabee, G., Khowja, M. R., Giangrande, P., Madonna, V., Cosma, G., Vakil, G., …Galea, M. (2020). The Role of Neural Networks in Predicting the Thermal Life of Electrical Machines. IEEE Access, 8, 40283-40297. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2975985

© 2013 IEEE. For a continuous mode of operation, insulating material in an electrical machine is subject to constant thermal, electrical, mechanical and environmental stresses where thermal stress is a major cause of gradual insulation deterioration,... Read More about The Role of Neural Networks in Predicting the Thermal Life of Electrical Machines.

Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator (2020)
Journal Article
Ma, N., Dong, X., & Axinte, D. (2020). Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 25(3), 1409-1421. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2020.2976140

© 1996-2012 IEEE. Parallel kinematic manipulators (PKMs) are increasingly used in a wide range of industrial applications due to the characteristics of high accuracy and compact structure. However, most of the existing PKMs are structured with heavy... Read More about Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator.

Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling (2020)
Journal Article
Chamings, F. N., Avgoustidis, A., Copeland, E. J., Green, A. M., & Pourtsidou, A. (2020). Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling. Physical Review D, 101(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.043531

Models in which scalar field dark energy interacts with dark matter via a pure momentum coupling have previously been found to potentially ease the structure formation tension between early-and late-universe observations. In this article we explore t... Read More about Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling.

Neuropsychological outcomes of children with Optic Pathway Glioma (2020)
Journal Article
Papini, C., Dineen, R. A., Walker, D. A., Thomas, S., & Pitchford, N. J. (2020). Neuropsychological outcomes of children with Optic Pathway Glioma. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 3344. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59896-2

Optic Pathway Glioma (OPG) is a relatively common brain tumour in childhood; however, there is scarce understanding of neuropsychological sequelae in these survivors. In this study, 12 children with diagnosis of OPG before 6 years of age received a c... Read More about Neuropsychological outcomes of children with Optic Pathway Glioma.

Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems (2020)
Journal Article
Fiorelli, E., Rotondo, P., Carollo, F., Marcuzzi, M., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems. Physical Review Research, 2(1), Article 013198. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013198

Spin-boson Hamiltonians are an effective description for numerous quantum few-and many-body systems such as atoms coupled to cavity modes, quantum electrodynamics in circuits and trapped ion systems. While reaching the limit of strong coupling is pos... Read More about Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems.

Network explanations and explanatory directionality (2020)
Journal Article
Jansson, L. (2020). Network explanations and explanatory directionality. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 375(1796), Article 20190318. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0318

Network explanations raise foundational questions about the nature of scientific explanation. The challenge discussed in this article comes from the fact that network explanations are often thought to be non-causal, i.e. they do not describe the dyna... Read More about Network explanations and explanatory directionality.

Production of High Silicon-Doped Hydroxyapatite Thin Film Coatings via Magnetron Sputtering: Deposition, Characterisation, and In Vitro Biocompatibility (2020)
Journal Article
Coe, S. C., Wadge, M. D., Felfel, R. M., Ahmed, I., Walker, G. S., Scotchford, C. A., & Grant, D. M. (2020). Production of High Silicon-Doped Hydroxyapatite Thin Film Coatings via Magnetron Sputtering: Deposition, Characterisation, and In Vitro Biocompatibility. Coatings, 10(2), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10020190

In recent years, it has been found that small weight percent additions of silicon to HA can be used to enhance the initial response between bone tissue and HA. A large amount of research has been concerned with bulk materials, however, only recently... Read More about Production of High Silicon-Doped Hydroxyapatite Thin Film Coatings via Magnetron Sputtering: Deposition, Characterisation, and In Vitro Biocompatibility.

Evaluation of hip precautions following total hip replacement: a before and after study (2020)
Journal Article
Lightfoot, C. J., Sehat, K. R., Coole, C., Drury, G., Ablewhite, J., & Drummond, A. E. (2020). Evaluation of hip precautions following total hip replacement: a before and after study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(20), 2882-2889. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2020.1721575

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of hip precautions following total hip replacement (THR) by comparing outcomes of patients who received hip precautions with those who did not. Methods: Before (phase 1) and after (phase 2) study with two consecutive c... Read More about Evaluation of hip precautions following total hip replacement: a before and after study.

On the relationship between classical and deformed Hopf fibrations (2020)
Journal Article
Brzeziński, T., Gaunt, J., & Schenkel, A. (2020). On the relationship between classical and deformed Hopf fibrations. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 16, Article 008. https://doi.org/10.3842/sigma.2020.008

The θ-deformed Hopf fibration S3θ→S2 over the commutative 2-sphere is compared with its classical counterpart. It is shown that there exists a natural isomorphism between the corresponding associated module functors and that the affine spaces of clas... Read More about On the relationship between classical and deformed Hopf fibrations.

Nesterov-aided stochastic gradient methods using Laplace approximation for Bayesian design optimization (2020)
Journal Article
Gustavo Carlon, A., Mansour Dia, B., Espath, L., Holdorf Lopez, R., & Tempone, R. (2020). Nesterov-aided stochastic gradient methods using Laplace approximation for Bayesian design optimization. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 363, Article 112909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.112909

Finding the best setup for experiments is the primary concern for Optimal Experimental Design (OED). Here, we focus on the Bayesian experimental design problem of finding the setup that maximizes the Shannon expected information gain. We use the stoc... Read More about Nesterov-aided stochastic gradient methods using Laplace approximation for Bayesian design optimization.

Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Renewable Energy Sources (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pekaslan, D., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J. M., Marín, L. G., & Sáez, D. (2020). Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Renewable Energy Sources. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp). https://doi.org/10.1109/bigcomp48618.2020.00-68

Smart grid systems are designed to enable the efficient capture and intelligent distribution of electricity across a distributed set of utilities. They are an essential component of increasingly important renewable energy sources, where it is vital t... Read More about Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Renewable Energy Sources.

Reconnaissance sampling and determination of hexavalent chromium in potentially-contaminated agricultural soils in Copperbelt Province, Zambia (2020)
Journal Article
Hamilton, E. M., Lark, R. M., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., Sakala, G. M., Maseka, K. K., & Watts, M. J. (2020). Reconnaissance sampling and determination of hexavalent chromium in potentially-contaminated agricultural soils in Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Chemosphere, 247, Article 125984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.125984

© 2020 The distribution of elemental species of chromium (Cr) in potentially-contaminated soil samples warrants investigation due to the differing mobilities and toxicities of trivalent [Cr(III)] and hexavalent chromium [(Cr(VI)]. In addition, the po... Read More about Reconnaissance sampling and determination of hexavalent chromium in potentially-contaminated agricultural soils in Copperbelt Province, Zambia.