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Splitting schemes for coupled differential equations: Block Schur-based approaches & Partial Jacobi approximation (2024)
Journal Article
Nuca, R., Storvik, E., Radu, F. A., & Icardi, M. (2024). Splitting schemes for coupled differential equations: Block Schur-based approaches & Partial Jacobi approximation. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 161, 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2024.02.042

Coupled multi-physics problems are encountered in countless applications and pose significant numerical challenges. In a broad sense, one can categorise the numerical solution strategies for coupled problems into two classes: monolithic approaches an... Read More about Splitting schemes for coupled differential equations: Block Schur-based approaches & Partial Jacobi approximation.

Prevalence, regional patterns and socio-demographic factors associated with poly-tobacco use in India: A secondary data analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Bantwal, P., Kulkarni, M. M., Kamath, V. G., Naik, A. K., Fogarty, A. W., Dhar, M., & Ahankari, A. S. (2024). Prevalence, regional patterns and socio-demographic factors associated with poly-tobacco use in India: A secondary data analysis. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(3), Article e0002999. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002999

Background: Tobacco use is associated with early, intermediate and long-term complications throughout the life course. With an influx of newer products containing nicotine, poly-tobacco use is slowly emerging as a public health concern, that is defin... Read More about Prevalence, regional patterns and socio-demographic factors associated with poly-tobacco use in India: A secondary data analysis.

Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change (2024)
Book
Clancy, S., & Jones, I. (Eds.). (2024). Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032715605

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe.

While the relentless push of neoliberalism has s... Read More about Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change.

“Until the decision to admit the patient is made...”: Experiences of clinicians working in the inpatient-community mental health care pathway for young people in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Shah, A., Holland, J., Briley, P. M., & Majumder, P. (in press). “Until the decision to admit the patient is made...”: Experiences of clinicians working in the inpatient-community mental health care pathway for young people in the UK. British Journal of Healthcare Management,

Objective
The raised complexity, severity, and risk level of referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has put serious pressure on bed availability in adolescent psychiatry hospitals, which resulted in lengthy admission process... Read More about “Until the decision to admit the patient is made...”: Experiences of clinicians working in the inpatient-community mental health care pathway for young people in the UK.

A proposed brand architecture model for UK fashion brands (2024)
Journal Article
Rashid, A., Spry, L., & Pich, C. (2024). A proposed brand architecture model for UK fashion brands. Journal of Brand Management, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41262-024-00358-9

Corporate brand identity is becoming a strategic issue in the UK fashion industry, as it is complex and constantly under pressure to differentiate. Fashion brands are expanding through a range of channels and rapidly changing takeovers, and it is unc... Read More about A proposed brand architecture model for UK fashion brands.

Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. X., Fong, L., & Li, S. (2024). Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises. Journal of China Tourism Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/19388160.2024.2329652

While our travel decisions involve many decisions related to the right or wrong way to behave, our understanding of morality in tourism is largely underdeveloped. Currently, we are hoping for a more responsible and sustainable future after the pandem... Read More about Should I Travel? Moral Motivation During Crises.

A novel integration of supplementary photovoltaic module into compound parabolic concentrator for accelerated defrosting of solar collecting system (2024)
Journal Article
Chang, Z., Liu, X., Guo, Z., Hou, J., & Su, Y. (2024). A novel integration of supplementary photovoltaic module into compound parabolic concentrator for accelerated defrosting of solar collecting system. Renewable Energy, 225, Article 120316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.120316

In order to improve the temperature of solar greenhouse in winter and reduce the cost and energy consumption of traditional heating methods for solar greenhouse. This study presents a novel compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) coupled with a supplem... Read More about A novel integration of supplementary photovoltaic module into compound parabolic concentrator for accelerated defrosting of solar collecting system.

Patient and health professional views on risk-stratified monitoring of immune-suppressing treatment in adults with inflammatory diseases (2024)
Journal Article
Fuller, A., Hancox, J., Williams, H. C., Card, T., Taal, M. W., Aithal, G. P., Fox, C. P., Mallen, C. D., Maxwell, J. R., Bingham, S., Vedhara, K., & Abhishek, A. (in press). Patient and health professional views on risk-stratified monitoring of immune-suppressing treatment in adults with inflammatory diseases. Rheumatology, Article keae175. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae175

Objective
To explore the acceptability of an individualised risk-stratified approach to monitoring for target-organ toxicity in adult patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases established on immune-suppressing treatment(s).

Methods
Adu... Read More about Patient and health professional views on risk-stratified monitoring of immune-suppressing treatment in adults with inflammatory diseases.

Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines (2024)
Journal Article
Kopp, R. O., Kleynemeyer, S. L., Groth, L. J., Ernst, M. J., Rupf, S. M., Weber, M., …Müller, C. (2024). Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines. Chemical Science, 15, 5496-5506. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc05930h

Tetrapyridyl-functionalized phosphinines were prepared and structurally characterized. The donor-functionalized aromatic phosphorus heterocycles react highly selectively and even reversibly with water. Calculations reveal P,N-cooperativity for this p... Read More about Highly selective, reversible water activation by P,N-cooperativity in pyridyl-functionalized phosphinines.

An optimized short‐term steroid therapy for chronic drug‐induced liver injury: A prospective randomized clinical trial (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, A., Zhu, Y., Liu, S., Sun, Y., Liu, Z., Liang, Q., Zhao, J., Chang, B., Bi, J., Liu, J., Zhai, X., Xie, H., Li, N., Tian, H., Han, L., Zhuang, Y., Ma, H., Teng, G., Zhang, W., Aithal, G. P., …Zou, Z. (2024). An optimized short‐term steroid therapy for chronic drug‐induced liver injury: A prospective randomized clinical trial. Liver International, 44(6), 1435-1447. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.15899

Background and Aims
The use of corticosteroids in chronic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an important issue. Our previous randomized controlled trial showed that patients with chronic DILI benefited from a 48-week steroid stepwise reduction (SS... Read More about An optimized short‐term steroid therapy for chronic drug‐induced liver injury: A prospective randomized clinical trial.

Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning (2024)
Journal Article
Andersen, R., Fernandez-Garcia, P., Martin-Walker, A., Klein, D., Marshall, C., Large, D. J., …Hancock, M. H. (2024). Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning. Fire Ecology, 20(1), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00256-0

Background
In 2019, a wildfire impacted an area of blanket bog and wet heath > 60 km2 in the Flow Country peatlands of northern Scotland, a site of global significance. Unusually the footprint of the wildfire included discrete areas of degraded, res... Read More about Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning.

Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2024). Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption. Indian Growth and Development Review, 17(2), 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/IGDR-10-2023-0162

Purpose: This paper aims to consider the effects of a merger on technology adoption and welfare in the presence of passive cross ownership. Merger increases investments in process technology and may increase welfare. The results are important for ant... Read More about Cross ownership and merger under technology adoption.

The effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with common immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Gold (2024)
Journal Article
Nakafero, G., Grainge, M. J., Card, T., Mallen, C. D., Nguyen Van-Tam, J. S., & Abhishek, A. (2024). The effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with common immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Gold. The Lancet Rheumatology, Article keae160. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae160

Background
The effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in people with common immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) has not been evaluated. We investigated the effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in preventing respiratory morbidity a... Read More about The effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with common immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Gold.

A Living Lab approach to understanding dairy farmers' technology and data needs to improve herd health: Focus groups from 6 European countries (2024)
Journal Article
Doidge, C., Ånestad, L. M., Burrell, A., Frössling, J., Palczynski, L., Pardon, B., Veldhuis, A., Bokma, J., Carmo, L. P., Hopp, P., Guelbenzu-Gonzalo, M., Meunier, N. V., Ordell, A., Santman-Berends, I., van Schaik, G., & Kaler, J. (2024). A Living Lab approach to understanding dairy farmers' technology and data needs to improve herd health: Focus groups from 6 European countries. Journal of Dairy Science, 107(8), 5754-5778. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2024-24155

For successful development and adoption of technology on dairy farms, farmers need to be included in the innovation process. However, the design of agricultural technologies usually takes a top-down approach with little involvement of end-users at th... Read More about A Living Lab approach to understanding dairy farmers' technology and data needs to improve herd health: Focus groups from 6 European countries.

Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter (2024)
Journal Article
Duff, K. (2024). Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter. Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 2(1), 34-63. https://doi.org/10.1163/27727882-bja00022

Policing is broadly legitimate – even while imperfect and in need of reform. This axiom of liberal political theory and practice is shaken by movements like Black Lives Matter, which confront and expose carceral violence as the routine, deadly edge o... Read More about Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter.

Interfacial Behaviors and Oil Detachment Mechanisms by Modified Silica Nanoparticles: Insights from Molecular Simulations (2024)
Journal Article
Zhou, W., Tang, X., Liu, X., Yan, Y., & Chen, C. (2024). Interfacial Behaviors and Oil Detachment Mechanisms by Modified Silica Nanoparticles: Insights from Molecular Simulations. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(12), 2985-2994. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07697

Surfactant flooding has been considered as a promising approach for chemically enhanced oil recovery (EOR). However, this technique encounters several limitations, such as high costs, environmental concerns, and reduced efficiency under high-temperat... Read More about Interfacial Behaviors and Oil Detachment Mechanisms by Modified Silica Nanoparticles: Insights from Molecular Simulations.

The Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Atopic Dermatitis (2024)
Journal Article
Harvey-Seutcheu, C., Hopkins, G., & Fairclough, L. C. (2024). The Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Atopic Dermatitis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(6), Article 3255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25063255

Atopic dermatitis, or eczema, is the most common chronic skin disorder, characterized by red and pruritic lesions. Its etiology is multifaceted, involving an interplay of factors, such as the allergic immune response, skin barrier dysfunction, and dy... Read More about The Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Atopic Dermatitis.

Uptake and safety of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide observational study (2024)
Journal Article
Nakafero, G., Grainge, M. J., Card, T., Mallen, C. D., Nguyen Van-Tam, J. S., Abhishek, A., & . (2024). Uptake and safety of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide observational study. Rheumatology, Article keae160. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae160

Objective The uptake and safety of pneumococcal vaccination in people with immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) is poorly understood. We investigated the UK wide pneumococcal vaccine uptake in adults with IMIDs and explored the association b... Read More about Uptake and safety of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide observational study.