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A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction (2024)
Journal Article
Meister, P., Alexandre, A., Bailey, H., Barker, P., Biskaborn, B. K., Broadman, E., …Meyer, H. (2024). A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 20(2), 363-392. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-363-2024

Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica (δ18OBSi) from lake sediments allow for quantitative reconstruction of past hydroclimate and proxy-model comparison in terrestrial environments. The signals of individual records have been attributed to different fa... Read More about A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction.

Development of the UPSIDES global mental health training programme for peer support workers: Perspectives from stakeholders in low, middle and high-income countries (2024)
Journal Article
Nixdorf, R., Kotera, Y., Baillie, D., Garber Epstein, P., Hall, C., Hiltensperger, R., …Mahlke, C. (2024). Development of the UPSIDES global mental health training programme for peer support workers: Perspectives from stakeholders in low, middle and high-income countries. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0298315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298315

Background. Peer support in mental health is a low-threshold intervention with increasing evidence for enhancing personal recovery and empowerment of persons living with severe mental health conditions. As peer support spreads globally, there is a gr... Read More about Development of the UPSIDES global mental health training programme for peer support workers: Perspectives from stakeholders in low, middle and high-income countries.

Parasitic Inductance Impact of a High-Turn-Ratio Half Bridge Active Clamped Converter for More-Electric Aircraft Applications (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, Y., Yang, T., Wang, Z., Yan, X., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2024). Parasitic Inductance Impact of a High-Turn-Ratio Half Bridge Active Clamped Converter for More-Electric Aircraft Applications. In 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) (2226-2231). https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC48139.2024.10509461

Within a More-Electric Aircraft (MEA) dc power distribution system, Half-Bridge-Active-Clamped (HBAC) converters can be used to control the power transfer between different dc buses, for example, between +/-270V to 28V dc buses. However, due to the r... Read More about Parasitic Inductance Impact of a High-Turn-Ratio Half Bridge Active Clamped Converter for More-Electric Aircraft Applications.

Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2024). Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae011

This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern wa... Read More about Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa.

The impact of prior care experience on nursing students' compassionate values and behaviours: A mixed methods study (2024)
Journal Article
Field-Richards, S. E., Aubeeluck, A., Callaghan, P., Keeley, P., Redsell, S. A., Spiby, H., …Lymn, J. S. (2024). The impact of prior care experience on nursing students' compassionate values and behaviours: A mixed methods study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 153, Article 104732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2024.104732

Background: Compassion is critical to the provision of high-quality healthcare and is foregrounded internationally as an issue of contemporary concern. Paid care experience prior to nurse training has been suggested as a potential means of improving... Read More about The impact of prior care experience on nursing students' compassionate values and behaviours: A mixed methods study.

Using Electronic Health Records to Facilitate Precision Psychiatry (2024)
Journal Article
Oliver, D., Arribas, M., Perry, B. I., Whiting, D., Blackman, G., Krakowski, K., …McGuire, P. (2024). Using Electronic Health Records to Facilitate Precision Psychiatry. Biological Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.1006

The use of clinical prediction models to produce individualized risk estimates can facilitate the implementation of precision psychiatry. As a source of data from large, clinically representative patient samples, electronic health records (EHRs) prov... Read More about Using Electronic Health Records to Facilitate Precision Psychiatry.

Masculinity, veganism and discursive struggle on Twitter (2024)
Book Chapter
BROOKES, G., & CHALUPNIK, M. Masculinity, veganism and discursive struggle on Twitter. In Discourses of Digital Masculinities. Oxford University Press (OUP)

This chapter examines gendered discourses surrounding veganism and masculinity on Twitter. Analysing 1,200 collected tweets over three months, the analysis identifies five recurring, inter-connected areas of discursive struggle: hormones; sex drive,... Read More about Masculinity, veganism and discursive struggle on Twitter.

Spin-state dependent pressure responsiveness of Fe(<scp>ii</scp>)-based triazolate metal–organic frameworks (2024)
Journal Article
Kronawitter, S. M., Röβ-Ohlenroth, R., Hallweger, S. A., Hirrle, M., Krug von Nidda, H., Luxenhofer, T., …Kieslich, G. (2024). Spin-state dependent pressure responsiveness of Fe(ii)-based triazolate metal–organic frameworks. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 12(14), 4954-4960. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tc00360h

Fe(II)-containing Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that exhibit temperature-induced spin-crossover (SCO) are candidate materials in the field of sensing, barocalorics, and data storage. Their responsiveness towards pressure is therefore of practical i... Read More about Spin-state dependent pressure responsiveness of Fe(<scp>ii</scp>)-based triazolate metal–organic frameworks.

Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China (2024)
Journal Article
Shun Chan, F. K., Zhu, Y.-G., Wang, J., Chen, J., Johnson, M. F., Li, G., …Wang, J. (2024). Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(2), Article 100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2023.100013

Droughts and floods in 2022 and 2023 have compounded stress on Chinese food security. China’s northeast region is a major grain-producing powerhouse, but recent climatic extremes combined with EI Niño effects have exposed vulnerabilities in its agric... Read More about Food security in climatic extremes: Challenges and opportunities for China.

Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Ratchford, J. L., Fleeson, W., King, N. L., Blackie, L. E., Zhang, Q., Porter, T., & Jayawickreme, E. (2024). Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Topoi, 43, 1067–1076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10028-9

What does it mean to be a good thinker? Which virtues work together in someone who possesses good intellectual character? Although recent research on virtues has highlighted the benefits of individual intellectual virtues, being an excellent thinker... Read More about Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Genetic regulation of the root angle in cereals (2024)
Journal Article
Kirschner, G. K., Hochholdinger, F., Salvi, S., Bennett, M. J., Huang, G., & Bhosale, R. A. (2024). Genetic regulation of the root angle in cereals. Trends in Plant Science, 29(7), 814-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.01.008

The root angle plays a critical role in efficiently capturing nutrients and water from different soil layers. Steeper root angles enable access to mobile water and nitrogen from deeper soil layers, whereas shallow root angles facilitate the capture o... Read More about Genetic regulation of the root angle in cereals.

Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care (2024)
Journal Article
Baumgartner, K., Hüttner, T., Clegg, I. L. K., Garcia Hartmann, M., Garcia-Párraga, D., Manteca, X., …Delfour, F. (2024). Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care. Animals, 14(5), Article 701. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14050701

Ensuring high standards of animal welfare is not only an ethical duty for zoos and aquariums, but it is also essential to achieve their conservation, education, and research goals. While for some species, animal welfare assessment frameworks are alre... Read More about Dolphin-WET—Development of a Welfare Evaluation Tool for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) under Human Care.

A good life with psychosis: rate of positive outcomes in first-episode psychosis at 10-year follow-up (2024)
Journal Article
Simonsen, C., Åsbø, G., Slade, M., Wold, K. F., Widing, L., Flaaten, C. B., …Melle, I. (2024). A good life with psychosis: rate of positive outcomes in first-episode psychosis at 10-year follow-up. Psychological Medicine, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291724000205

Background More knowledge about positive outcomes for people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) is needed. An FEP 10-year follow-up study investigated the rate of personal recovery, emotional wellbeing, and clinical recovery in the total sample and... Read More about A good life with psychosis: rate of positive outcomes in first-episode psychosis at 10-year follow-up.

An in silico and in vitro assessment of the neurotoxicity of mefloquine (2024)
Journal Article
El Sharazly, B. M., Ahmed, A., Elsheikha, H. M., & Carter, W. G. (2024). An in silico and in vitro assessment of the neurotoxicity of mefloquine. Biomedicines, 12(3), Article 505. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12030505

Mefloquine (MQ) is a quinoline-based anti-malarial drug used for chemoprophylaxis or as treatment in combination with artesunate. Although MQ has clear anti-Plasmodium properties, it can induce neurotoxicity and undesired neuropsychiatric side effect... Read More about An in silico and in vitro assessment of the neurotoxicity of mefloquine.

Randomized controlled trial of molnupiravir SARS-CoV-2 viral and antibody response in at-risk adult outpatients (2024)
Journal Article
Standing, J. F., Buggiotti, L., Guerra-Assunção, J. A., Woodall, M., Ellis, S., Agyeman, A. A., …Breuer, J. (2024). Randomized controlled trial of molnupiravir SARS-CoV-2 viral and antibody response in at-risk adult outpatients. Nature Communications, 15, Article 1652. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45641-0

Viral clearance, antibody response and the mutagenic effect of molnupiravir has not been elucidated in at-risk populations. Non-hospitalised participants within 5 days of SARS-CoV-2 symptoms randomised to receive molnupiravir (n=253) or Usual Care (n... Read More about Randomized controlled trial of molnupiravir SARS-CoV-2 viral and antibody response in at-risk adult outpatients.

Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates (2024)
Journal Article
Assimopoulos, S., Warrington, S., Bryant, K. L., Pszczolkowski, S., Jbabdi, S., Mars, R. B., & Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2024). Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates. Brain Structure and Function, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-024-02760-0

Non-human primates are extensively used in neuroscience research as models of the human brain, with the rhesus macaque being a prominent example. We have previously introduced a set of tractography protocols (XTRACT) for reconstructing 42 correspondi... Read More about Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates.

Regulation as a management challenge for small businesses (2024)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2024). Regulation as a management challenge for small businesses. In C. Nolan, & B. Harney (Eds.), Reframing HRM in SMEs: Challenges and Dynamics. Palgrave Macmillan

In this chapter we seek to take up the challenge posed by the book’s editors, to reframe HRM in SMEs. We do this by considering employment regulation as a management challenge for small firms. We take this ‘management challenge’ approach to explore h... Read More about Regulation as a management challenge for small businesses.

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study (2024)
Book
Beheshti, R. (2024). Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study. Hart Publishing

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer. The book concentrates on four prominent legal regimes, namely the... Read More about Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law: A Comparative Study.

Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Williams-Clayson, A. M., Vane, C. H., Jones, M. D., Thomas, R., Taylor, C., & Beriro, D. J. (2024). Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 469, Article 133858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.133858

An enhanced in vitro human dermal bioavailability method was developed to measure the release of twenty parent and seven alkylated high molecular weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated soils collected from five former... Read More about Dermal absorption of high molecular weight parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from manufactured gas plant soils using in vitro assessment.

Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility (2024)
Book
Baron, T., & Cowley, C. (2024). Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility. Bloomsbury Publishing

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a 'family'? What is a 'family tie'? We use the general concept of 'family' in many contexts – in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politi... Read More about Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility.