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Modeling Humidity Impact on PDIV for Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Inverter-Fed Motors at Different Temperatures (2023)
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Naderiallaf, H., Ji, Y., Giangrande, P., & Galea, M. (2024). Modeling Humidity Impact on PDIV for Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Inverter-Fed Motors at Different Temperatures. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 31(3), 1573-1582. https://doi.org/10.1109/tdei.2023.3338138

This paper models the partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) as a function of ambient humidity ( H ) at various temperatures ( Ts ) using Schumann’s streamer inception criterion (SCSIC) for turn-to-turn insulation, which is the most vulnerable pa... Read More about Modeling Humidity Impact on PDIV for Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Inverter-Fed Motors at Different Temperatures.

Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems (2023)
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Houghtaling, M. A., Fiorini, S. R., Fabiano, N., Gonçalves, P. J. S., Ulgen, O., Haidegger, T., …Prestes, E. (2024). Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(3), 1791-1804. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2023.3330981

Domain-specific ontologies support system design and can establish a framework for fulfilling user-level, safety, or ethical requirements. The IEEE 7007-2021 Ontological Standard for ethically driven robotics and automation systems is the first indus... Read More about Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems.

(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales (2023)
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Tomczak, P., Quinn, K., Traynor, C., & Wainwright, L. (2023). (Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales. Law and Social Inquiry, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2023.75

Because states must rebut the presumption of responsibility, all prisoner deaths must be investigated. These investigations frequently illustrate the tip of an iceberg of rights abuses and systemic hazards but have largely escaped analysis in prison-... Read More about (Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales.

Evidence-based appraisal of the role of SJTs in selection (2023)
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Sahota, G., McLachlan, J., Patterson, F., & Tiffin, P. (2023). Evidence-based appraisal of the role of SJTs in selection. Clinical Medicine, 23(6), 641-642. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2023-0295

A recent opinion article in Clinical Medicine promoted a new preference-based algorithm to allocate training places for the UK Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO). This replaced the previous process, which ranked candidates based on medical school ac... Read More about Evidence-based appraisal of the role of SJTs in selection.

The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands (2023)
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Girkin, N. T., Burgess, P. J., Cole, L., Cooper, H. V., Honorio Coronado, E., Davidson, S. J., …Young, D. (2023). The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands. Carbon Management, 14(1), Article 2275578. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2023.2275578

Peatlands are a globally important carbon store, but peatland ecosystems from high latitudes to the tropics are highly degraded due to increasingly intensive anthropogenic activity, making them significant greenhouse gas (GHG) sources. Peatland resto... Read More about The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands.

Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop (2023)
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Witham, M. D., Bridges, J., Gladman, J., Gordon, A. L., Kay, S., Manthorpe, J., …Sayer, A. A. (2023). Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop. Clinical Medicine Journal, 23(6), 611-614. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2023-0389

High-quality care for older people is best delivered by multidisciplinary teams involving a range of professions. Similarly, if research evidence is to effectively inform practice, it needs to be designed and executed by teams that are both multidisc... Read More about Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop.

The Macroprudential Toolkit: Effectiveness and Interactions (2023)
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Millard, S., Rubio, M., & Varadi, A. (2024). The Macroprudential Toolkit: Effectiveness and Interactions. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 86(2), 335-384. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12582

We use a DSGE model with financial frictions and with macroprudential limits on both banks and mortgage borrowers, in the form of capital requirements and maximum debt‐service ratios. We then examine: (i) the impact of different combinations of macro... Read More about The Macroprudential Toolkit: Effectiveness and Interactions.

'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor (2023)
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GREEN, M. (2023). 'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor. Gothic Studies, 25(3), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2023.0176

Exploring the intersection of Gothic Medicine and Graphic Medicine in Ian William's graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, this article discusses the ways in which gothic aesthetics, particularly representations of the abject encounter, contribute to an unde... Read More about 'Keep it Gothic, Man': Gothic and Graphic Medicine in Ian Williams's The Bad Doctor.

Solar Power for Resilient Health Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organisational Options for Sustainable Business Models (2023)
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Paim, M.-A., Gershon, O., Adeyemi, A., Azubuike, S., Mu, X., & Roeben, V. (2023). Solar Power for Resilient Health Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organisational Options for Sustainable Business Models. Journal of Energy and Development, 48(1-2), 175-194

This article investigates sustainable business models for the electrification of primary healthcare facilities (PHCs) through Renewable Energy (RE) in Nigeria. The PHCs using Luminous or lithium batteries require careful allocation of costs potential... Read More about Solar Power for Resilient Health Systems in Nigeria: Regulatory, Financial and Organisational Options for Sustainable Business Models.

“Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods (2023)
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Rueda, V., & Wilemme, G. (2023). “Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods. Revue Economique, 74(6), 1053-1065. https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.746.1053

This article presents a new efficiency-equity trade-off when setting up tax rebates in the presence of multiple goods. Although tax rebates can efficiently raise more public funds, they can also alter the mix of public goods. We find the condition fo... Read More about “Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods.

Performance investigation and design optimization of a battery thermal management system with thermoelectric coolers and phase change materials (2023)
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Luo, D., Wu, Z., Yan, Y., Cao, J., Yang, X., Zhao, Y., & Cao, B. (2024). Performance investigation and design optimization of a battery thermal management system with thermoelectric coolers and phase change materials. Journal of Cleaner Production, 434, Article 139834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139834

In this work, a novel battery thermal management system (BTMS) integrated with thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and phase change materials (PCMs) is developed to ensure the temperature working environment of batteries, where a fin framework is adopted t... Read More about Performance investigation and design optimization of a battery thermal management system with thermoelectric coolers and phase change materials.

Evolution of Treatment Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2023)
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Kyriacou, M., Vuyyuru, S., & Moran, G. (2023). Evolution of Treatment Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Medical Research Archives, 11(11), https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i11.4662

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which encompasses Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, represents a chronic and progressive condition characterised by periods of active inflammation interspersed with periods of remission. The r... Read More about Evolution of Treatment Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Optimal Design of Single-Layer and Multi-Layer Air-Core Inductors Considering Uncertainty Factors (2023)
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Wan, L., Khilnani, A. D., Wu, X., Liu, X., Pignari, S. A., Thomas, D. W., Sumner, M., & Grassi, F. (2023). Optimal Design of Single-Layer and Multi-Layer Air-Core Inductors Considering Uncertainty Factors. IEEE Access, 11, 134460 -134472. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3336572

Air-core inductors are key components in power converters and measurement equipment. To optimally design inductors, their self-resonant frequency (SRF) as a result of inherent stray capacitance should be accurately estimated. This paper presents opti... Read More about Optimal Design of Single-Layer and Multi-Layer Air-Core Inductors Considering Uncertainty Factors.

Optimization of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in a small animal model (2023)
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Dooley, M., Luckett, J., Alexander, M. R., Matousek, P., Dehghani, H., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Notingher, I. (2023). Optimization of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in a small animal model. Biomedical Optics Express, 14(12), 6592-6606. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.512118

Diffuse Raman spectroscopy (DRS) allows subsurface molecular analysis of optically turbid samples. Numerical modeling of light propagation was used as a method for improving the design of an DRS instrument to maximize the signal to noise ratio (SNR)... Read More about Optimization of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in a small animal model.

Four-Body Nonadditive Potential Energy Surface and the Fourth Virial Coefficient of Helium (2023)
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Wheatley, R. J., Garberoglio, G., & Harvey, A. H. (2023). Four-Body Nonadditive Potential Energy Surface and the Fourth Virial Coefficient of Helium. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, 68(12), 3257-3264. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jced.3c00578

The four-body nonadditive contribution to the energy of four helium atoms is calculated and fitted for all geometries for which the internuclear distances exceed a small minimum value. The interpolation uses an active learning approach based on Gauss... Read More about Four-Body Nonadditive Potential Energy Surface and the Fourth Virial Coefficient of Helium.

Diagnosis and investigation of suspected haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults: 2023 Hyperinflammation and HLH Across Speciality Collaboration (HiHASC) consensus guideline (2023)
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Cox, M. F., Mackenzie, S., Low, R., Brown, M., Sanchez, E., Carr, A., …Manson, J. J. (2024). Diagnosis and investigation of suspected haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults: 2023 Hyperinflammation and HLH Across Speciality Collaboration (HiHASC) consensus guideline. The Lancet Rheumatology, 6(1), e51-e62. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2665-9913%2823%2900273-4

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a hyperinflammatory syndrome characterised by persistently activated cytotoxic lymphocytes and macrophages, which, if untreated, leads to multiorgan dysfunction and death. HLH should be considered in any a... Read More about Diagnosis and investigation of suspected haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults: 2023 Hyperinflammation and HLH Across Speciality Collaboration (HiHASC) consensus guideline.

Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries (2023)
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Guo, Q., Fan, P., Zhang, Y., Guan, L., Croft, A., Wang, H., …Chen, G. Z. (2024). Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries. RSC Sustainability, 2024(2), 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3su00197k

The full oxidation of lithium metal (4Li + O2 ⇌ 2Li2O) offers a mass normalised Gibbs energy change greater than that for the combustion of carbon (C + O2 ⇌ CO2) or any hydrocarbon fuel (CnH2n+2 + ((3n+1)/2)O2 ⇌ nCO2 + (n+1)H2O). This thermodynamic c... Read More about Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries.

Model-Free Optimization and Experimental Validation of RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications Under Rich Multipath Fading (2023)
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Chen, T., You, M., Zhang, Y., Zheng, G., Gros, J. B., Lerosey, G., Nasser, Y., Burton, F., & Gradoni, G. (2024). Model-Free Optimization and Experimental Validation of RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications Under Rich Multipath Fading. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 13(3), 627-631. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2023.3337709

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) devices have emerged as an effective way to control the propagation channels for enhancing the end-users' performance. However, RIS optimization involves configuring the radio frequency response of a large num... Read More about Model-Free Optimization and Experimental Validation of RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications Under Rich Multipath Fading.

Optimisation of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in small animal model (2023)
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Dooley, M., Luckett, J., Alexander, M. R., Matousek, P., Dehghani, H., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Notingher, I. (2023). Optimisation of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in small animal model. Biomedical Optics Express, 14(12), 6592-6606. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.512118

Diffuse Raman spectroscopy (DRS) allows subsurface molecular analysis of optically turbid samples. Numerical modelling of light propagation was used as a method for improving the design of an DRS instrument to maximize the signal to noise ratio (SNR)... Read More about Optimisation of diffuse Raman spectroscopy for in-vivo quantification of foreign body response in small animal model.