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Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience (2022)
Journal Article
Maltby, J., & Hall, S. S. (2022). Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience. Journal of Research in Personality, 97, Article 104193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104193

The current paper establishes the latent factors of many direct or proxy trait resilience assessments. Study 1 (n = 849) demonstrates four latent factors (recovery, sustainability, adaptability, and social cohesion) among 61 direct and proxy assessme... Read More about Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience.

Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., Brown, J. A., Trueba, M., Trautrims, A., Bostock, B., Day, E., …Bhutta, M. F. (2023). Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis. Global Networks, 23(1), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12360

This paper evaluates ways in which labour issues in global value chains for medical gloves have been affected by, and addressed through, the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on production in Malaysia and supply to the United Kingdom's National Health Se... Read More about Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis.

Timing of blockchain adoption in a supply chain with competing manufacturers (2022)
Journal Article
Ji, G., Zhou, S., Lai, K.-H., Tan, K. H., & Kumar, A. (2022). Timing of blockchain adoption in a supply chain with competing manufacturers. International Journal of Production Economics, 247, Article 108430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108430

Recent improvements in consumers' awareness of product traceability have revealed the disadvantages of traditional supply chain traceability systems. Traditional traceability systems are centralized, and the data that they use are vulnerable to tampe... Read More about Timing of blockchain adoption in a supply chain with competing manufacturers.

Electric Vehicles: V2G for Rapid, Safe, and Green EV Penetration (2022)
Journal Article
Dik, A., Omer, S., & Boukhanouf, R. (2022). Electric Vehicles: V2G for Rapid, Safe, and Green EV Penetration. Energies, 15(3), Article 803. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15030803

Low carbon and renewable energy sources (RESs) are fast becoming a key sustainable instrument in meeting the global growth of electricity demand while curbing carbon emissions. For example, the gradual displacement of fossil-fuelled vehicles with ele... Read More about Electric Vehicles: V2G for Rapid, Safe, and Green EV Penetration.

Making (remote) sense of lianas (2022)
Journal Article
van der Heijden, G. M., Proctor, A. D., Calders, K., Chandler, C., Field, R., Foody, G. M., …Boyd, D. S. (2022). Making (remote) sense of lianas. Journal of Ecology, 110(3), 498-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13844

Lianas (woody vines) are abundant and diverse, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Lianas use trees for structural support to reach the forest canopy, often putting leaves above their host tree. Thus they are major parts of many forest canopies. Yet... Read More about Making (remote) sense of lianas.

Repositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological Challenges and Possibilities for Researching Learning Beyond School (2022)
Book
Rose, J., Jay, T., Goodall, J., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (Eds.). (2022). Repositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological Challenges and Possibilities for Researching Learning Beyond School. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781787697393

The need for time, flexibility, and agility in research within out-of-school learning is highlighted throughout this multi-disciplinary edited volume, as each author reflects on how to make sense of the unknown and varied contexts in which out-of-sch... Read More about Repositioning Out-of-School Learning: Methodological Challenges and Possibilities for Researching Learning Beyond School.

Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships (2022)
Book Chapter
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (185-206). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (2022)
Book
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds.). (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume a... Read More about Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy.

Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes (2022)
Book Chapter
Murchie, E. H., McAusland, L., & Burgess, A. J. (2022). Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes. In A. Ruban, C. H. Foyer, & E. H. Murchie (Eds.), Photosynthesis in Action: Harvesting Light, Generating Electrons, Fixing Carbon (103-132). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-823781-6.00011-3

Chloroplast CO2 assimilation rate is highly sensitive to environmental changes, and this has a great influence on productivity. Changes in temperature, light, humidity, nutrients, and salinity can all affect processes that limit photosynthesis. In th... Read More about Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes.

Self-targeting of zwitterion-based platforms for nano-antimicrobials and nanocarriers (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, D. Y., Su, L., Yang, G., Ren, Y., Zhang, M., Jing, H., …Shi, L. (2022). Self-targeting of zwitterion-based platforms for nano-antimicrobials and nanocarriers. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 10(14), 2316-2322. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1tb02647j

Self-targeting antimicrobial platforms have yielded new possibilities for the treatment of infectious biofilms. Self-targeting involves stealth transport through the blood circulation towards an infectious biofilm, where the antimicrobial platform pe... Read More about Self-targeting of zwitterion-based platforms for nano-antimicrobials and nanocarriers.

Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model (2022)
Journal Article
Aristidou, C., Lee, K., & Shields, K. (2022). Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model. Journal of International Money and Finance, 123, Article 102601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102601

A ‘meta’ model of the exchange rate combines a range of models distinguished by the drivers of the rate and by regime duration. Alternative model weights are proposed, including those obtained from a novel non-nested hypothesis-testing technique that... Read More about Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model.

Human Parainfluenza 2 & 4: clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013-2017, reveals distinct disease features and co-circulating genomic subtypes (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Chellapuri, A., Smitheman, M., Chappell, J. G., Clark, G., Howson-Wells, H. C., Berry, L., …McClure, C. P. Human Parainfluenza 2 & 4: clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013-2017, reveals distinct disease features and co-circulating genomic subtypes

Human Parainfluenza viruses (HPIV) are constituted by four members of the genetically distinct genera of Respirovirus (type 1 and 3) and Orthorubulavirus (type 2 and 4), causing significant upper and lower respiratory tract infections in both childre... Read More about Human Parainfluenza 2 & 4: clinical and genetic epidemiology in the UK, 2013-2017, reveals distinct disease features and co-circulating genomic subtypes.

The effect of Rényi entropy on Hawking radiation (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y. (2022). The effect of Rényi entropy on Hawking radiation. General Relativity and Gravitation, 54(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-021-02896-y

It is widely believed that Hawking radiation originates from excitations near the horizons of black holes (Hawking in Commun Math Phys 43:199, 1975, Giddings in Phys Lett B 754:39, 2016, Mathur in Class Quantum Gravity 26:224001, 2009). However, Gidd... Read More about The effect of Rényi entropy on Hawking radiation.

Vegans and vegetarians living in Nottingham (UK) continue to be at risk of iodine deficiency (2022)
Journal Article
Eveleigh, E., Coneyworth, L., Zhou, M., Burdett, H., Malla, J., Nguyen, V. H., & Welham, S. (2023). Vegans and vegetarians living in Nottingham (UK) continue to be at risk of iodine deficiency. British Journal of Nutrition, 129(9), 1510-1527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114522000113

Iodine is essential for thyroid hormone synthesis. Individuals adhering to vegan and vegetarian diets have been found to be vulnerable to iodine deficiency. Yet, iodine has not been monitored in these groups across time. This study aims to investigat... Read More about Vegans and vegetarians living in Nottingham (UK) continue to be at risk of iodine deficiency.

Evolution of silicate bioglass particles as porous microspheres with a view towards orthobiologics (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, M. T., Nuzulia, N. A., Macri-Pellizzeri, L., Nigar, F., Sari, Y. W., & Ahmed, I. (2022). Evolution of silicate bioglass particles as porous microspheres with a view towards orthobiologics. Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 36(8), 1427-1443. https://doi.org/10.1177/08853282211059294

Although FDA approved and clinically utilised, research on 45S5 Bioglass® and S53P4 including other bioactive glasses continues in order to advance their applicability for a range of alternate applications. For example, rendering these particles poro... Read More about Evolution of silicate bioglass particles as porous microspheres with a view towards orthobiologics.

In situ silane activation enables catalytic reduction of carboxylic acids (2022)
Journal Article
Stoll, E. L., Barber, T., Hirst, D. J., & Denton, R. M. (2022). In situ silane activation enables catalytic reduction of carboxylic acids. Chemical Communications, 58(21), 3509-3512. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC03396D

We describe a catalytic system for the conversion of carboxylic acids into alcohols using substoichiometric zinc acetate and N-methyl morpholine, in combination with phenylsilane as the nominal terminal reductant. Reaction monitoring by 19F NMR spect... Read More about In situ silane activation enables catalytic reduction of carboxylic acids.

Borane Adducts of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles: Synthesis, Crystallographic Characterization and Reactivity of a Phosphinine‐B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 Lewis Pair (2022)
Journal Article
Lin, J., Wossidlo., F., Coles, N. T., Weber, M., Steinhauer, S., Böttcher, T., & Müller, C. (2022). Borane Adducts of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles: Synthesis, Crystallographic Characterization and Reactivity of a Phosphinine‐B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 Lewis Pair. Chemistry - A European Journal, 28(7), Article e202104135. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202104135

A phosphinine-borane adduct of a Me3Si-functionalized phosphinine and the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 has been synthesized and characterized crystallographically for the first time. The reaction strongly depends on the nature of the substituents in the α-pos... Read More about Borane Adducts of Aromatic Phosphorus Heterocycles: Synthesis, Crystallographic Characterization and Reactivity of a Phosphinine‐B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 Lewis Pair.

Selective photoinduced charge separation in perylenediimide-pillar[5]arene rotaxanes (2022)
Journal Article
Pearce, N., Reynolds, K. E. A., Kayal, S., Sun, X. Z., Davies, E. S., Malagreca, F., …Champness, N. R. (2022). Selective photoinduced charge separation in perylenediimide-pillar[5]arene rotaxanes. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 415. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28022-3

The ability to control photoinduced charge transfer within molecules represents a major challenge requiring precise control of the relative positioning and orientation of donor and acceptor groups. Here we show that such photoinduced charge transfer... Read More about Selective photoinduced charge separation in perylenediimide-pillar[5]arene rotaxanes.