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2023 EULAR classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis (2024)
Journal Article
Haugen, I. K., Felson, D. T., Abhishek, A., Berenbaum, F., Bierma-Zeinstra, S., Dziedzic, K. S., Edwards, J. J., Englund, M., Hermann-Eriksen, M., Herrero-Beaumont, G., Hill, C., Ishimori, M. L., Jonsson, H., Karjalainen, T., Leung, Y. Y., Maheu, E., Mallen, C. D., Marshall, M., Moe, R. H., Ramonda, R., …Kloppenburg, M. (2024). 2023 EULAR classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/ard-2023-225073

Objectives The objective of this study is to develop classification criteria for overall hand osteoarthritis (OA), interphalangeal OA and thumb base OA based on self-reported data and radiographic features.

Methods The classification criteria sets... Read More about 2023 EULAR classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis.

Esterification and volatile compound manipulation using radiofrequency cold plasma (2024)
Journal Article
Warne, G. R., Lim, M., Lamichhane, P., Machala, Z., Hessel, V., Williams, P. M., & Fisk, I. D. (2024). Esterification and volatile compound manipulation using radiofrequency cold plasma. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, 95, Article 103726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifset.2024.103726

Esters are vital in many industries, including food; however, there are still significant opportunities to improve production efficiency, sustainability, and cost. Cold plasma was trialled as a novel tool to induce esterification. Cold plasma increas... Read More about Esterification and volatile compound manipulation using radiofrequency cold plasma.

Protein Oxidative Modifications in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Advances in Detection and Modelling to Their Use as Disease Biomarkers (2024)
Journal Article
Anjo, S. I., He, Z., Hussain, Z., Farooq, A., McIntyre, A., Laughton, C. A., …Finelli, M. J. (2024). Protein Oxidative Modifications in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Advances in Detection and Modelling to Their Use as Disease Biomarkers. Antioxidants, 13(6), Article 681. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox13060681

Oxidation–reduction post-translational modifications (redox-PTMs) are chemical alterations to amino acids of proteins. Redox-PTMs participate in the regulation of protein conformation, localization and function, acting as signalling effectors that im... Read More about Protein Oxidative Modifications in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Advances in Detection and Modelling to Their Use as Disease Biomarkers.

Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application (2024)
Book
Chałupnik, M. (2024). Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54722-5

This book presents a comprehensive examination of how leadership and collaboration are discursively performed in professional communication, using real-world data from a UK public sector IT team. Taking an auto-ethnographic approach to workplace talk... Read More about Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application.

The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems (2024)
Journal Article
Bedard, S., Roxborough, E., O'Neill, E., & Mangal, V. (2024). The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems. Protist, 175(4), Article 126044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2024.126044

Over the past decade, the autotrophic and heterotrophic protist Euglena gracilis (E. gracilis) has gained popularity across the studies of environmental science, biosynthesis experiments, and nutritional substitutes. The unique physiology and versati... Read More about The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems.

Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2024)
Journal Article
Peggs, Z. J., Brooke, J. P., Bolton, C. E., Hall, I. P., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2024). Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.29444

Background: In respiratory medicine, there is a need for sensitive measures of regional lung function that can be performed using standard imaging technology, without the need for inhaled or intravenous contrast agents. Purpose: To describe VOxel‐wis... Read More about Free-breathing Functional Pulmonary Proton MRI: A Novel Approach Using Voxel-wise Lung Ventilation (VOLVE) Assessment in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Pathways between digital activity and depressed mood in adolescence: outlining a developmental model integrating risk, reactivity, resilience and reciprocity (2024)
Journal Article
Sonuga-Barke, E. J., Stoilova, M., Kostyrka-Allchorne, K., Bourgaize, J., Murray, A., Tan, M. P., Hollis, C., Townsend, E., & Livingstone, S. (2024). Pathways between digital activity and depressed mood in adolescence: outlining a developmental model integrating risk, reactivity, resilience and reciprocity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 58, Article 101411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101411

Digital technology use (i.e. digital activity) has been proposed to contribute to a decline in adolescents’ mental health. We present a new model of how risky digital activity may increase depressed mood via reciprocal pathways, cre... Read More about Pathways between digital activity and depressed mood in adolescence: outlining a developmental model integrating risk, reactivity, resilience and reciprocity.

Tripartite quantum Rabi model with trapped Rydberg ions (2024)
Journal Article
Hamlyn, T. J., Zhang, C., Lesanovsky, I., & Li, W. (2024). Tripartite quantum Rabi model with trapped Rydberg ions. Physical Review Research, 6(2), Article 023223. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023223

We investigate a tripartite quantum Rabi model (TQRM) wherein a bosonic mode concurrently couples to two spin-1/2 particles through a spin-spin interaction, resulting in a spin-spin-boson coupling - a departure from conventional quantum Rabi models f... Read More about Tripartite quantum Rabi model with trapped Rydberg ions.

Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elshafei, B., Martínez-Arellano, G., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2024, August). Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning. Presented at 18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2024), Austria, Vienna

Supply chains have been profoundly impacted by recent global disruptions, resulting in widespread shortages of parts, goods, and raw materials, significantly affecting the manufacturing sector to the extent of halting production lines completely. Thi... Read More about Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning.

Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A., & Sinha, U. B. (2024). Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(3), Article e12701. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12701

We consider a bilateral monopoly where a linear input price is determined by Nash bargaining. We show with an increasing marginal cost of input production that vertical integration reduces consumer surplus and welfare compared to bilateral monopoly i... Read More about Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining.

Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (2024)
Book
Fulda, A. (2024). Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security. Bloomsbury Publishing

As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republi... Read More about Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security.

A systematic analysis of affinity tags in the haloarchaeal expression system, Haloferax volcanii for protein purification (2024)
Journal Article
Karan, R., Renn, D., Allers, T., & Rueping, M. (2024). A systematic analysis of affinity tags in the haloarchaeal expression system, Haloferax volcanii for protein purification. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, Article 1403623. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1403623

Extremophilic proteins are valuable in various fields, but their expression can be challenging in traditional hosts like Escherichia coli due to misfolding and aggregation. Haloferax volcanii (H. volcanii), a halophilic expression system, offers a so... Read More about A systematic analysis of affinity tags in the haloarchaeal expression system, Haloferax volcanii for protein purification.

Effect of humidity and oxygen on friction, wear and durability of a polymer-bonded molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based dry film lubricant (DFL) coating system in large amplitude fretting (2024)
Journal Article
Laolu-Balogun, E., Owen, S., Read, S., Shipway, P., & Voisey, K. (2024). Effect of humidity and oxygen on friction, wear and durability of a polymer-bonded molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based dry film lubricant (DFL) coating system in large amplitude fretting. Wear, 552-553, Article 205426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2024.205426

Investigations into effects of humidity and oxygen on a polymer-bonded MoS2-based dry film lubricant (DFL) coating, on grit-blasted Ti-6Al-4V using a cylinder-on-flat configuration, are reported. Sustained low friction and low wear occurred in both l... Read More about Effect of humidity and oxygen on friction, wear and durability of a polymer-bonded molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based dry film lubricant (DFL) coating system in large amplitude fretting.

Roughness Prediction of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Using Physics Informed Neural Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Pasupunuri, S. K., Thom, N., & Li, L. (in press). Roughness Prediction of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Using Physics Informed Neural Networks. Transportation Research Record, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241245991

The International Roughness Index is used to measure the road roughness in pavements, as pavement roughness deteriorates over time. Despite many attempts by researchers to predict roughness in concrete pavements, there are limitations, such as small... Read More about Roughness Prediction of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement Using Physics Informed Neural Networks.

Use of Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) in the selection of highly effective rejuvenators for aged bitumen (2024)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Sreeram, A., Xia, W., Wang, H., Zhou, L., Si, W., & Airey, G. D. (2024). Use of Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) in the selection of highly effective rejuvenators for aged bitumen. Road Materials and Pavement Design, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2024.2357684

While there is considerable research regarding the recycling and reuse of aged bitumen in terms of the evaluation of rheological properties, there is not much fundamental understanding regarding the underlying mechanisms of the rejuvenation process.... Read More about Use of Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) in the selection of highly effective rejuvenators for aged bitumen.

Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on delayed reasons for presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anderson, E., Chaplin, W. J., Turner, C., Johnson, G., Blake, H., & Tabner, A. (2024, October). Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on delayed reasons for presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Presented at European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Congress, Copenhagen

Introduction The annual incidence of testicular torsion is approximately 1 in 4000 males under the age of 25. Despite the 97% testicular salvage rate when surgical intervention is within 6 hours of onset, orchidectomy is required in 40% of cases. The... Read More about Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on delayed reasons for presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Effects of implementation of a care bundle on rates of necrotising enterocolitis and own mother’s milk feeding in the East Midlands: protocol for a mixed methods impact and process evaluation study (2024)
Journal Article
Abramson, J., Szatkowski, L., Bains, M., Orton, E., Budge, H., Spruce, M., & Ojha, S. (2024). Effects of implementation of a care bundle on rates of necrotising enterocolitis and own mother’s milk feeding in the East Midlands: protocol for a mixed methods impact and process evaluation study. BMJ Open, 14(5), Article e078633. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078633

Introduction: Prevention of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is vital for improving neonatal outcomes. Feeding own mother’s milk helps prevent NEC. Rates of own mother’s milk feeding in the East Midlands are lower than the national average and the inc... Read More about Effects of implementation of a care bundle on rates of necrotising enterocolitis and own mother’s milk feeding in the East Midlands: protocol for a mixed methods impact and process evaluation study.

Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, N., Sobolewska, M., & Begum, N. (2024). Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2358080

The Brexit referendum was a seismic electoral event with far-reaching consequences, but ethnic minority voters’ decisions in the referendum remain under-researched. We examine what differentiates ethnic minority Remainers from Leavers in two large so... Read More about Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit.

Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference. Urban History, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926824000439

This survey reflects on the intersections of global and urban history through brief reflections on the Round Table Conference which took place over three sessions in London between 1930 and 1932. Uniting Indian representatives and the British governm... Read More about Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference.