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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., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2022). Microparticles Decorated with Cell‐Instructive Surface Chemistries Actively Promote Wound Healing. Advanced Materials, 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.

Assessing diversity and inclusivity is the next frontier in mental health recovery narrative research and practice (Preprint) (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kotera, Y., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Ng, F., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ali, Y., Newby, C., …Slade, M. Assessing diversity and inclusivity is the next frontier in mental health recovery narrative research and practice (Preprint)

Demand for digital health interventions is increasing in many countries. The use of recorded mental health recovery narratives in digital health interventions is becoming more widespread in clinical practice. Mental health recovery narratives are fir... Read More about Assessing diversity and inclusivity is the next frontier in mental health recovery narrative research and practice (Preprint).

Reverse entrepreneurship and integration in poor areas of China: Case studies of tourism entrepreneurship in Ganzi Tibetan Region of Sichuan (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, B., Geng, B., Wang, Y., Scott McCabe, S., Liao, L., Zeng, L., & Deng, B. (2022). Reverse entrepreneurship and integration in poor areas of China: Case studies of tourism entrepreneurship in Ganzi Tibetan Region of Sichuan. Journal of Rural Studies, 96, 358-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.11.012

In the context of urbanisation and the decline of the countryside, reverse entrepreneurship cannot be separated from integration, referring to a process of mutual trust and cooperation between reverse (returnee or immigrant from urban areas) entrepre... Read More about Reverse entrepreneurship and integration in poor areas of China: Case studies of tourism entrepreneurship in Ganzi Tibetan Region of Sichuan.

Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where? (2022)
Journal Article
Panter, C. T., Baines, O., Draper, E. L., Hunt, L., Schrodt, F., Veeken, A., …Field, R. (2022). Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, Article 856833. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.856833

Our world contains many ecosystems, from tropical forests to coral reefs to urban parks. Ecosystems help us in important ways, including cleaning our air and water, storing carbon, and producing food. People have been shaping most ecosystems for at l... Read More about Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where?.

Task-dependent plasticity in distributed neural circuits after transcranial direct current stimulation of the human motor cortex: A proof-of-concept study (2022)
Journal Article
Hodkinson, D. J., Jackson, S. R., & Jung, J. (2022). Task-dependent plasticity in distributed neural circuits after transcranial direct current stimulation of the human motor cortex: A proof-of-concept study. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3, Article 1005634. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2022.1005634

The ability of non-invasive brain stimulation to induce neuroplasticity and cause long-lasting functional changes is of considerable interest for the reversal of chronic pain and disability. Stimulation of the primary motor cortex (M1) has provided s... Read More about Task-dependent plasticity in distributed neural circuits after transcranial direct current stimulation of the human motor cortex: A proof-of-concept study.

Storm chasing: Tracking Holocene storminess in southern Sweden using mineral proxies from inland and coastal peat bogs (2022)
Journal Article
Kylander, M. E., Martínez-Cortizas, A., Sjöström, J. K., Gåling, J., Gyllencreutz, R., Bindler, R., …Gallagher, K. (2023). Storm chasing: Tracking Holocene storminess in southern Sweden using mineral proxies from inland and coastal peat bogs. Quaternary Science Reviews, 299, Article 107854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107854

Severe extratropical winter storms are a recurrent feature of the European climate and cause widespread socioeconomic losses. Due to insufficient long-term data, it remains unclear whether storminess has shown a notable response to changes in externa... Read More about Storm chasing: Tracking Holocene storminess in southern Sweden using mineral proxies from inland and coastal peat bogs.

BV quantization of dynamical fuzzy spectral triples (2022)
Journal Article
Gaunt, J., Nguyen, H., & Schenkel, A. (2022). BV quantization of dynamical fuzzy spectral triples. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(47), Article 474004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aca44f

This paper provides a systematic study of gauge symmetries in the dynamical fuzzy spectral triple models for quantum gravity that have been proposed by Barrett and collaborators. We develop both the classical and the perturbative quantum BV formalism... Read More about BV quantization of dynamical fuzzy spectral triples.

A comprehensive characterization of fracture in unit cell open foams generated from Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (2022)
Journal Article
Préve, D., Lenarda, P., Maskery, I., & Paggi, M. (2023). A comprehensive characterization of fracture in unit cell open foams generated from Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 277, Article 108949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2022.108949

The main scope of the proposed study is to assess the occurrence of fracture in Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) foams subjected to compressive loading. TPMS, developed by the mathematics community, may be exploited as a backbone for developin... Read More about A comprehensive characterization of fracture in unit cell open foams generated from Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces.