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Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices (2022)
Journal Article
Hamann, R., Sewlal, A., Pariag-Maraye, N., Muthuri, J., Amaeshi, K., Nwagwu, I., & Soderbergh, J. (2024). Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices. Business and Society, 63(4), 774-812. https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503221134100

We explore the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on companies’ sustainability strategies and practices. Prior research has identified a number of factors that shape such effects, including crisis severity, resource slack, and prior investments, but their in... Read More about Strengthening or Restricting? Explaining the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Configurational Effects on Companies’ Sustainability Strategies and Practices.

Evaporation Characteristics and Morphological Evolutions of Fuel Droplets After Hitting Different Wettability Surfaces (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Guo, L., Cai, N., Sun, W., Yan, Y., Li, D., …Xuan, R. (2023). Evaporation Characteristics and Morphological Evolutions of Fuel Droplets After Hitting Different Wettability Surfaces. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 20(2), 734-747. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-022-00293-y

To solve the wall-wetting problem in internal combustion engines, the physical and chemical etching 11 methods are used to prepare different wettability surfaces with various microstructures. The evaporation 12 characteristics and morphological evolu... Read More about Evaporation Characteristics and Morphological Evolutions of Fuel Droplets After Hitting Different Wettability Surfaces.

Smart Contracts in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review (2022)
Journal Article
Rathnayake, I., Wedawatta, G., & Tezel, A. (2022). Smart Contracts in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review. Buildings, 12(12), Article 2082. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122082

On-time delivery of documentation and contracts has been recognized as a crucial requirement for the successful delivery of projects. However, the construction industry still depends on time-consuming traditional contract processes, which negatively... Read More about Smart Contracts in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review.

Numerical study on the aeroacoustics and interaction of two distributed-propulsion propellers in co- and counter-rotations (2022)
Journal Article
Sharma, S., Huang, G., Ambrose, S., & Jefferson-Loveday, R. (2022). Numerical study on the aeroacoustics and interaction of two distributed-propulsion propellers in co- and counter-rotations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), A52-A52. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015514

Driven by increasing demands for a sustainable and eco-friendly future in aviation, distributed electric propulsion (DEP) systems have received much attention for their high aerodynamic efficiency. DEP systems of lower noise emissions are desired by... Read More about Numerical study on the aeroacoustics and interaction of two distributed-propulsion propellers in co- and counter-rotations.

Temperature-Dependent Mechanism of Magnetization Reversal in the Spintronic Electrode Material La0.67Sr0.33Mn O3 (2022)
Journal Article
Yan, W., Phillips, L. C., & Mathur, N. D. (2022). Temperature-Dependent Mechanism of Magnetization Reversal in the Spintronic Electrode Material La0.67Sr0.33Mn O3. Physical Review Applied, 18(5), Article 054084. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.054084

We investigate magnetization-reversal processes in half-metallic epitaxial films of La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on SrTiO3 (110) substrates. At 150 K, major-loop magnetization reversal (MLMR) occurs beyond minor-loop switching fields, implying that MLMR is limit... Read More about Temperature-Dependent Mechanism of Magnetization Reversal in the Spintronic Electrode Material La0.67Sr0.33Mn O3.

Procalcitonin Evaluation of Antibiotic Use in COVID-19 Hospitalised Patients (PEACH): Protocol for a Retrospective Observational Study (2022)
Journal Article
Euden, J., Pallmann, P., Grozeva, D., Albur, M., Bond, S. E., Brookes-Howell, L., …PEACH Study Group. (2022). Procalcitonin Evaluation of Antibiotic Use in COVID-19 Hospitalised Patients (PEACH): Protocol for a Retrospective Observational Study. Methods and Protocols, 5(6), Article 95. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps5060095

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Although COVID-19 is a viral illness, many patients admitted to hospital are prescribed antibiotics, based... Read More about Procalcitonin Evaluation of Antibiotic Use in COVID-19 Hospitalised Patients (PEACH): Protocol for a Retrospective Observational Study.

Surface Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: High Speed Design and Limits (2022)
Journal Article
Gallicchio, G., Nardo, M. D., Palmieri, M., Ilkhani, M. R., Degano, M., Gerada, C., & Cupertino, F. (2023). Surface Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: High Speed Design and Limits. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 38(2), 1311-1324. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2022.3225224

Surface permanent magnet synchronous machines are one of the most widely adopted machine topologies in high-speed applications where efficiency and power factor cannot be compromised. Although the design of such machine type has been extensively inve... Read More about Surface Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: High Speed Design and Limits.

Airgap Length Analysis of a 350kW PM-Assisted Syn-Rel Machine for Heavy Duty EV Traction (2022)
Journal Article
Zou, T., Gerada, D., La Rocca, S., La Rocca, A., Walker, A., Vakil, G., …Gerada, C. (2023). Airgap Length Analysis of a 350kW PM-Assisted Syn-Rel Machine for Heavy Duty EV Traction. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 59(2), 1557-1570. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2022.3225255

Synchronous reluctance (Syn-Rel) machines with embedded permanent magnets (PMs) are research hotspots in variable speed motor drives due to their robust rotor structure and wide constant power speed range (CPSR). In this paper, the potential of PM-as... Read More about Airgap Length Analysis of a 350kW PM-Assisted Syn-Rel Machine for Heavy Duty EV Traction.

Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones (2022)
Journal Article
Mehmood, H., Musa, M., Woodward, S., Hossan, M. S., Bradshaw, T. D., Haroon, M., …Akhtar, T. (2022). Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones. RSC Advances, 12(52), 34126-34141. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra03226k

Cyclization of substituted thiosemicarbazones with α-bromo-4-cyanoacetophenone allows rapid single-step sustainable syntheses of 4-cyanophenyl-2-hydrazinylthiazoles libraries (30 examples, 66–79%). All show anticancer efficacy against HCT-116 and MCF... Read More about Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones.

The Potential of Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) to Supply Net Zero Carbon Housing (2022)
Journal Article
Finnegan, S., Edwards, R., Al-Derbi, B., Campbell, I., & Fulton, M. (2022). The Potential of Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) to Supply Net Zero Carbon Housing. Buildings, 12(12), Article 2081. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122081

Governments throughout the EU and the UK face a persistent challenge of satisfying the continual growth in demand for housing and create zero carbon buildings. This paper presents a novel conceptual framework and empirical results to evaluate the pot... Read More about The Potential of Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) to Supply Net Zero Carbon Housing.

Microparticles Decorated with Cell‐Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing (2022)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Fisher, L. E., Dundas, A. A., Crucitti, V. C., Imir, Z., Lawler, K., Pappalard, F., Muir, B. W., Wildman, R., Irvine, D. J., Alexander, M. R., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2024). Microparticles Decorated with Cell‐Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing. Advanced Materials, 36(43), Article 2208364. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202208364

Wound healing is a complex biological process involving close crosstalk between various cell types. Dysregulation in any of these processes, such as in diabetic wounds, results in chronic nonhealing wounds. Fibroblasts are a critical cell type involv... Read More about Microparticles Decorated with Cell‐Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing.

Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994 (2022)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2023). Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994. Historical Journal, 66(1), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000310

Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1... Read More about Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994.

Shape and Structure Preserving Differential Privacy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soto, C., Bharath, K., Reimherr, M., & Slavkovic, A. (2022, November). Shape and Structure Preserving Differential Privacy. Poster presented at Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), New Orleans, USA

It is common for data structures such as images and shapes of 2D objects to be represented as points on a manifold. The utility of a mechanism to produce sanitized differentially private estimates from such data is intimately linked to how compatible... Read More about Shape and Structure Preserving Differential Privacy.

Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts (2022)
Journal Article
Hoskins, K., Xu, Y., Gao, J., & Zhai, J. (2023). Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts. Children & Society, 37(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12664

This special issue was proposed by Children & Society editors specifically for the journal's strategic aims to enhance its internationalisation; and to embrace children's perspectives and experiences in producing knowledge about childhoods in challen... Read More about Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts.

Integrated taxonomy reveals new threatened freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Hyriidae: Westralunio) from southwestern Australia (2022)
Journal Article
Klunzinger, M. W., Whisson, C., Zieritz, A., Benson, J. A., Stewart, B. A., & Kirkendale, L. (2022). Integrated taxonomy reveals new threatened freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Hyriidae: Westralunio) from southwestern Australia. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 20385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24767-5

The freshwater mussel Westralunio carteri (Iredale, 1934) has long been considered the sole Westralunio species in Australia, limited to the Southwest and listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and under Australian legislation. Here, we used speci... Read More about Integrated taxonomy reveals new threatened freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Hyriidae: Westralunio) from southwestern Australia.

Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data (2022)
Journal Article
Naybour, M. T., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2024). Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 238(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X221135459

There are 11,619 community pharmacies in England which dispense over 1 billion prescriptions each year, providing essential primary care to NHS (National Health Service) patients. These pharmacies are facing pressure from a number of sources includin... Read More about Ant colony optimisation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using Coloured Petri-Net simulation and UK pharmacy in-field data.

Development of p-Tau Differentiated Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease to Screen Novel Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors (2022)
Journal Article
Uras, G., Li, X., Manca, A., Pantaleo, A., Bo, M., Xu, J., …Zhu, Z. (2022). Development of p-Tau Differentiated Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease to Screen Novel Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(23), Article 14794. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232314794

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by an initial accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, along with the depletion of cholinergic markers. The currently available therapies for AD do not present any disease-modifying effect... Read More about Development of p-Tau Differentiated Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease to Screen Novel Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors.

Edible algae allergenicity – a short report (2022)
Journal Article
James, C. A., Welham, S., & Rose, P. (2023). Edible algae allergenicity – a short report. Journal of Applied Phycology, 35(1), 339–352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-022-02880-2

The use of seaweed and algal derived products in the food industry has grown rapidly in recent times. Major areas of expansion have been in Western countries where algal derived commodities are being utilised as edible foods or sources of high value... Read More about Edible algae allergenicity – a short report.

The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Şaylı, M., Skeldon, A. C., Thul, R., Nicks, R., & Coombes, S. (2023). The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 444, Article 133595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2022.133595

Since its inception four decades ago the two-process model introduced by Borbély has provided the conceptual framework to explain sleep–wake regulation across many species, including humans. At its core, high level notions of circadian and homeostati... Read More about The two-process model for sleep–wake regulation: A nonsmooth dynamics perspective.

Cross-cultural effects on drivers’ use of explicit and implicit communicative cues to predict intentions of other road users (2022)
Journal Article
Sheppard, E., Lee, Y. T., Lunt, J., Janssen, S. M. J., & Lee, Y. M. (2023). Cross-cultural effects on drivers’ use of explicit and implicit communicative cues to predict intentions of other road users. Safety Science, 159, Article 106001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.106001

This study explored whether British and Malaysian drivers differ in their use of explicit (turn signals) and implicit (e.g., vehicle position, speed) communicative cues when judging the intention of other road users. Participants viewed videoclips of... Read More about Cross-cultural effects on drivers’ use of explicit and implicit communicative cues to predict intentions of other road users.