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Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, S., Almuhanna, Y., Alshahrani, M. Y., Lowman, D. W., Rice, P. J., Gell, C., …Martinez-Pomares, L. (2021). Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7(1), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00257-w

Bacterial biofilms represent a challenge to the healthcare system because of their resilience against antimicrobials and immune attack. Biofilms consist of bacterial aggregates embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) composed of polysa... Read More about Carbohydrates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms interact with immune C-type lectins and interfere with their receptor function.

Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester (2021)
Journal Article
Akintoye, S., Ogoh, G., Krokida, Z., Nnadi, J., & Eke, D. (2021). Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 19(4), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-06-2021-0071

Purpose Digital contact tracing technologies are critical to the fight against COVID-19 in many countries including the UK. However, a number of ethical, legal and socio-economic concerns that can affect uptake of the app have been raised. The purpo... Read More about Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester.

Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends (2021)
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Toolan, D. T. W., Weir, M. P., Allardice, J., Smith, J. A., Dowland, S. A., Winkel, J., …Ryan, A. J. (2022). Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(13), Article 2109252. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202109252

Controlling the dispersibility of crystalline inorganic quantum dots (QD) within organic-QD nanocomposite films is critical for a wide range of optoelectronic devices. A promising way to control nanoscale structure in these nanocomposites is via the... Read More about Insights into the Structure and Self‐Assembly of Organic‐Semiconductor/Quantum‐Dot Blends.

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
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Cervellini, M., Di Musciano, M., Zannini, P., Fattorini, S., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Agrillo, E., …Chiarucci, A. (2021). Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure. Ecology and Evolution, 11(24), 18111-18124. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8409

Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species (2021)
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Kinoshita, M., Kobayashi, T., Planells, B., Klisch, D., Spindlow, D., Masaki, H., …Smith, A. (2021). Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species. Development, 148(23), Article dev199901. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199901

Despite four decades of effort, robust propagation of pluripotent stem cells from livestock animals remains challenging. The requirements for self-renewal are unclear and the relationship of cultured stem cells to pluripotent cells resident in the em... Read More about Pluripotent stem cells related to embryonic disc exhibit common self-renewal requirements in diverse livestock species.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
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Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., …Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm (2021)
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Hassan, S., Khanesar, M. A., Hussein, N. K., Belhaouari, S. B., Amjad, U., & Mashwani, W. K. (2022). Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm. Computers, Materials & Continua, 71(2), 3513-3531. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.022018

The estimation of the fuzzy membership function parameters for interval type 2 fuzzy logic system (IT2-FLS) is a challenging task in the presence of uncertainty and imprecision. Grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) is a fresh population based met... Read More about Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system using grasshopper optimization algorithm.

Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials (2021)
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Zhu, H., & Ou, H. (2022). Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 832, Article 142473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.142473

The complexity of hot deformation behaviours of metallic materials is acknowledged in decades of study. The present work uses a new constitutive model by Zhu-Ou-Popov (ZOP model) and its modifications to predict the hot deformation behaviours of meta... Read More about Constitutive modelling of hot deformation behaviour of metallic materials.

Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites (2021)
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Hu, C., Liu, T., Neate, N., Fay, M., Hou, X., Grant, D., & Xu, F. (2022). Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites. Composites Science and Technology, 218, Article 109201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2021.109201

A nanostructure of graphene oxide (GO) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) decorated with silver nanoparticles (AgGNT) has been prepared via a molecular-level-mixing (MLM) method followed by a subsequent freeze-drying and reduction process. The obtained well... Read More about Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites.

Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation (2021)
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Gutierrez-Huerter, G., Gold, S., & Trautrims, A. (2023). Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-05013-w

This article shows how the ethical framing of the contemporary issue of modern slavery has evolved in UK construction, a sector in which there is a high risk of labor exploitation. It also examines how these framing dynamics have inhibited the emerge... Read More about Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation.

Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation (2021)
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Logan, P. A., Horne, J. C., Gladman, J. R., Gordon, A. L., Robertson, K., Sach, T., …Sims, E. (2021). Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation. BMJ, 375, Article e066991. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-066991

Objectives To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of a multifactorial fall prevention programme compared with usual care in long term care homes. Design Multicentre, parallel, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting Long term care home... Read More about Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation.

Epidemics on networks with preventive rewiring (2021)
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Ball, F., & Britton, T. (2022). Epidemics on networks with preventive rewiring. Random Structures and Algorithms, 61(2), 250-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.21066

A stochastic SIR (susceptible → infective → recovered) model is considered for the spread of an epidemic on a network, described initially by an Erd˝os-R´enyi random graph, in which susceptible individuals connected to infectious neighbours may drop... Read More about Epidemics on networks with preventive rewiring.

When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system (2021)
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Reyes, V., Hamid, M. O., & Hardy, I. (2022). When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25(2), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2021.2009038

This article explores the sense-making experiences of one specific stakeholder group in education reform–school leaders–who find themselves wedged by significant material challenges, on the one hand, and disparate reform efforts, on the other hand. T... Read More about When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system.

Effect of model parameter errors in model predictive control applications (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Munoz, J., Wheeler, P., Zanchetta, P., & Mirzaeva, G. (2021). Effect of model parameter errors in model predictive control applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CHILECON54041.2021.9702942

When implementing predictive control strategies for power electronic converters a good model of the system is needed because this model determines the quality of the resulting controller. In this paper a study of the model parameter error effects in... Read More about Effect of model parameter errors in model predictive control applications.

A comparative study of predictive control techniques in a voltage source inverter (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2021). A comparative study of predictive control techniques in a voltage source inverter. . https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9703047

Predictive control has emerged as an alternative to conventional modulation and control of power converters. This article presents a comparison between a classical predictive control technique and a technique operating at a fixed switching frequency,... Read More about A comparative study of predictive control techniques in a voltage source inverter.

Critical scenarios identification in power system simulations using graph measures and machine learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes, A., Salgueiro, Y., Rivera, M., Camargo, J., Hernandez, A., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Critical scenarios identification in power system simulations using graph measures and machine learning. . https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9703001

It is essential that electrical power systems are constructed with a reliable and resilient infrastructure. The evaluation of convergence scenarios of the load flow is a technique widely used to study the reliability of energy systems. This paper con... Read More about Critical scenarios identification in power system simulations using graph measures and machine learning.

Solar energy in the agrifood industry (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, R., Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Solar energy in the agrifood industry. . https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702972

The agriculture and food industry is very important for human society development and is constantly growing with the world's population. Agriculture is also among the activities that generate a lot of greenhouse gases, therefore there is a need to op... Read More about Solar energy in the agrifood industry.

Basic principles of solar energy (2021)
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Rojas, D., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Basic principles of solar energy. . https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9703066

The sun provides the earth with its main source of energy. In terms of renewable energy, solar energy is the most promising direction for producing electrical energy. For the efficient use of solar energy it is necessary to understand how electrical... Read More about Basic principles of solar energy.

Technologies and MPPT algorithms for solar energy applications (2021)
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Fuentes, R., Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Technologies and MPPT algorithms for solar energy applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702987

Due to environmental policies and the advancement of solar technology, the generation of electrical energy based on photovoltaic cells has become an important contributor to the renewable energy resource mix. In recent years, the development of photo... Read More about Technologies and MPPT algorithms for solar energy applications.

General view of solar energy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, R., Rojas, D., Rivera, M., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2021). General view of solar energy. In 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, CHILECON 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702964

Solar energy is considered clean, renewable and seemingly inexhaustible source of energy. Solar Energy has been used since ancient times for light and as heat, but in the 20th century, thanks to technological advances, different devices have been dev... Read More about General view of solar energy.