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The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards] (2021)
Journal Article
Prestes, E., Houghtaling, M. A., Goncalves, P. J., Fabiano, N., Ulgen, O., Fiorini, S. R., Murahwi, Z., Olszewska, J. I., & Haidegger, T. (2021). The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 28(4), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2021.3117414

In the complex and rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, the elaboration of ethical concerns, considerations, and requirements helps elucidate the nature of technology’s reach and impact on society where there is a leg... Read More about The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards].

Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, M., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Thangamuthu, M., Yue, Y., Yan, Z., Feng, J., Zhang, D., Zhang, H., Guan, S., Titirici, M. M., Abrahams, I., Tang, J., Zhang, Z., Dunn, S., & Yan, H. (2021). Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(40), 2693–23298. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ta04131b

The development of noble-metal-free co-catalysts is seen as a viable strategy for improving the performance of semiconductor photocatalysts. Although the photocatalytic efficiency of ferroelectrics is typically low, it can be enhanced through the inc... Read More about Facile one-step synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic activity of a WC/ferroelectric nanocomposite.

The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance (2021)
Journal Article
Suntong, Q. I., Dai, X., Ching Canice Kwan, M., & Wyer, R. S. (2021). The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance. Advances in Consumer Research, 49, 273-274

Salesperson-customer similarity can positively or negatively affect persuasiveness. Consumers more likely to take a recommendation from a dissimilar (vs. similar) salesperson when purchasing a familiar product, but the reverse is true when purchasing... Read More about The Curse of Similarity: When and How Similarity Induces Persuasion Reactance.

(Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & le Roux, K. (2021, September). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. Presented at Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference, Austria

Contemporary discourse about the ‘opening’/‘closing’ of schools and what is ‘inside’/‘outside’ the curriculum potentially exacerbates existing inequities in mathematics education. This paper explores how different spatial imaginaries might advance or... Read More about (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education.

Word order effect in collocation processing (2021)
Journal Article
Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Word order effect in collocation processing. Mental Lexicon, 16(2-3), 362-396. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.20022.vil

Collocations are words associated because of their frequent co-occurrence, which makes them predictable and leads to facilitated processing. While there have been suggestions that collocations are stored as unanalysed chunks, other researchers disagr... Read More about Word order effect in collocation processing.

Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in England (2021)
Book Chapter
Fuller, K., & McGinity, R. (2021). Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in England. In Understanding Educational Leadership (29-44). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter provides an account of the field from a critical perspective which will enable you to undertake an analysis of power which is relational and situated within the English context. In undertaking this analysis, we take seriously the notion... Read More about Critical perspectives in and approaches to educational leadership in England.

Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC) (2021)
Other
Mistry, H. (2021). Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC)

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (EiPro) features detailed accounts of key events, concepts and institutions, original research, rich historical contextualization, in-depth legal analyses, and critical assessments of existi... Read More about Referral by the United Nations Security Council: International Criminal Court (ICC).

Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2021). Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing. In J. Kitchen (Ed.), Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice (137-154). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2498-8_8

We are teacher educators who facilitate and participate in transdisciplinary self-study research communities in our respective home countries of South Africa and the United States of America. Our comparable experiences first brought us together in 20... Read More about Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing.

From Pollution To Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution (2021)
Report
McGlade, J., Samy Fahim, I., Green, D., Landrigan, P., Andrady, A., Costa, M., Geyer, R., Gomes, R., Tan Shau Hwai, A., Jambeck, J., Li, D., Rochman, C., Ryan, P., Thiel, M., Thompson, R., Townsend, K., & Turra, A. (2021). From Pollution To Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution. United Nations Environment Programme

Outcome from working on the United Nations Environment Programme Advisory Group with the aim to address the UN Environment Assembly’s adopted resolution (UN/EA.4/RES.6) on Marine Plastic Litter and Microplastics by recommending indicators to harmonis... Read More about From Pollution To Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution.

Immune-instructive materials and surfaces for medical applications (2021)
Book Chapter
Fisher, L. E., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2021). Immune-instructive materials and surfaces for medical applications. In S. F. Badylak, & J. H. Elisseeff (Eds.), Immunomodulatory Biomaterials: Regulating the Immune Response with Biomaterials to Affect Clinical Outcome (67-87). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821440-4.00008-6

Biomaterials are an integral part of modern medicine with diverse applications including drug delivery platforms, scaffolds for tissue engineering, biosensors and medical devices/implants. The aging population and steady increase in the prevalence of... Read More about Immune-instructive materials and surfaces for medical applications.

Regulating Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Through a Lens of Inclusivity (2021)
Journal Article
Marson, J., Dickinson, J., & Ferris, K. (2021). Regulating Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Through a Lens of Inclusivity. Hong Kong Law Journal, 51(3), 983-1012

Following concurrent global enthusiasm and concern regarding the introduction into public spaces of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), this paper critically examines the legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks around their introduction, focus... Read More about Regulating Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Through a Lens of Inclusivity.

Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside (2021)
Journal Article
Laurier, E., Dunkley, R., Smith, T. A., & Reeves, S. (2021). Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside. Gesprächsforschung, 22, 544-568

In this paper, we use ethnomethodology, membership categorisation analysis, and conversation analysis (EMCA) to investigate traversing obstacles in outdoor environments as reflexively constitutive of producing, resisting and adjusting family relation... Read More about Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside.

A PMSM With Enhanced Anisotropic Rotor Configuration for Sensorless Operations (2021)
Journal Article
Xu, Z., Zhang, T., & Gerada, C. (2021). A PMSM With Enhanced Anisotropic Rotor Configuration for Sensorless Operations. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 36(4), 2872-2883. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2021.3069096

Sensorless control technologies based on rotor saliency may not operate well due to the effect of magnetic saturation. In this work, a rotor backend (RB) is attached to an existing rotor structure of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) to enh... Read More about A PMSM With Enhanced Anisotropic Rotor Configuration for Sensorless Operations.

Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator (2021)
Journal Article
Russo, M., Sriratanasak, N., Ba, W., Dong, X., Mohammad, A., & Axinte, D. (2022). Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 1558-1565. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3139371

Continuum robots are able of in-situ inspection tasks in cluttered environments and narrow passages, where conventional robots and human operators cannot intervene. However, such intervention often requires the robot to interact with the environment,... Read More about Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator.

A Shortcut from Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) to Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): c-MYC a Promising Target for Preventative Strategies and Individualized Therapy (2021)
Journal Article
Guo, F., Estévez-Vázquez, O., Benedé-Ubieto, R., Maya-Miles, D., Zheng, K., Gallego-Durán, R., Rojas, Á., Ampuero, J., Romero-Gómez, M., Philip, K., Egbuniwe, I. U., Chen, C., Simon, J., Delgado, T. C., Martínez-Chantar, M. L., Sun, J., Reissing, J., Bruns, T., Lamas-Paz, A., Moral, M. G. D., …Nevzorova, Y. A. (2022). A Shortcut from Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) to Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): c-MYC a Promising Target for Preventative Strategies and Individualized Therapy. Cancers, 14(1), Article 192. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14010192

Background: Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) has risen as one of the leading etiologies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Oncogenes have been suggested to be responsible for the high risk of MAFLD-related HCC. We analyzed the impact... Read More about A Shortcut from Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) to Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): c-MYC a Promising Target for Preventative Strategies and Individualized Therapy.