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Shadow banking, macroprudential regulation and redistributional effects (2024)
Journal Article
Rubio, M. (2024). Shadow banking, macroprudential regulation and redistributional effects. European Journal of Finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2024.2401590

This paper studies the implications of increasing the size of the shadow banking sector for economic activity, financial stability, and welfare. I consider a DSGE model in which lending can come from two different sources; a formal bank or private le... Read More about Shadow banking, macroprudential regulation and redistributional effects.

Investigation of thermal comfort and preferred temperatures among rural elderly in Weihai, China: Considering metabolic rate effects (2024)
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Zhang, J., Lu, J., Deng, W., Beccarelli, P., & Lun, I. Y. F. (2024). Investigation of thermal comfort and preferred temperatures among rural elderly in Weihai, China: Considering metabolic rate effects. Journal of Building Engineering, 97, Article 110940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.110940

As the population ages, the thermal environment indoors for the elderly has garnered extensive attention. However, current research on thermal comfort for the elderly is not comprehensive, particularly for rural elderly individuals who experience uni... Read More about Investigation of thermal comfort and preferred temperatures among rural elderly in Weihai, China: Considering metabolic rate effects.

Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam (2024)
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Ramli, R., Chai, A. B., Kamaruddin, S., Ho, J. H., Mohd Rasdi, F. R., De Focatiis, D. S. A., Ong, S. K., & Bachmann, R. T. (in press). Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam. Journal of Rubber Research,

Oil palm trunk biochar (OPTB) serves as a flame-retardant additive aimed at enhancing the thermal stability of natural rubber (NR) latex foam. This study explores whether OPTB affects the physical and mechanical properties of specialty NR (SpNR) late... Read More about Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam.

Cognitive impairment and exploitation: connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data (2024)
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Abubakar, A. M., Seymour, R. G., Gardner, A., Lambert, I., Fyson, R., & Wright, N. (2024). Cognitive impairment and exploitation: connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data. Journal of Public Health, Article fdae266. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae266

Background
Exploitation poses a significant public health concern. This paper highlights ‘jigsaw pieces’ of statistical evidence, indicating cognitive impairment as a pre- or co-existing factor in exploitation.

Methods
We reviewed English Safegu... Read More about Cognitive impairment and exploitation: connecting fragments of a bigger picture through data.

Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers (2024)
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Lermytte, E., Paredis, M., Hobson-West, P., Bracke, P., & Ceuterick, M. (2024). Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers. Health, Risk and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2024.2410150

Under processes of responsibilisation and individualisation in the ‘risk society’, as well as discourses of intensive motherhood, mothers are expected to make ‘good’ decisions regarding their children’s health. Consequently, decision-making concernin... Read More about Risk, emotion and responsibility: an analysis of the storylines used by vaccine hesitant mothers.

International review of blood donation screening for anti‐HBc and occult hepatitis B virus infection (2024)
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Fu, M. X., Faddy, H. M., Candotti, D., Groves, J., Saa, P., Styles, C., Adesina, O., Perez Carrillo, J., Seltsam, A., Weber‐Schehl, M., O'Brien, S. F., Drews, S. J., Benyin Aidoo, N., Pajares, Á. L., Navarro Perez, L., Deng, X., van de Laar, T., Laperche, S., Lehtisalo, R., Yilmaz, S., …on behalf of the Virology subgroup of the ISBT WP-TTID. (2024). International review of blood donation screening for anti‐HBc and occult hepatitis B virus infection. Transfusion, https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.18018

Background
Hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc) screening has been implemented in many blood establishments to help prevent transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV), including from donors with occult HBV infection (OBI). We review HBV screening algor... Read More about International review of blood donation screening for anti‐HBc and occult hepatitis B virus infection.

Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process (2024)
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Lumley-Sapanski, A., Rodriguez-Huerta, E., Schwarz, K., Nicholson, A., & Young, M. (2024). Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process. Journal of Social Policy,

The United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying potential victims of modern slavery (slavery, servitude, forced labour or human trafficking) and ensuring that they receive adequate care. This research explores di... Read More about Criminalizing survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process.

Nonthermal eigenstates and slow relaxation in quantum Fredkin spin chains (2024)
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Causer, L., Bañuls, M. C., & Garrahan, J. P. (2024). Nonthermal eigenstates and slow relaxation in quantum Fredkin spin chains. Physical Review B, 110(13), Article 134322. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.134322

We study the dynamics and thermalization of the Fredkin spin chain, a system with local three-body interactions, particle conservation, and explicit kinetic constraints. We consider deformations away from its stochastic point in order to tune between... Read More about Nonthermal eigenstates and slow relaxation in quantum Fredkin spin chains.

Temporal Trends in Equine Sperm Motility and Semen Volume: A Retrospective Analysis from a Single UK Breeding Facility (2024)
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Harris, I. T., Nankervis, K., Pyatt, A., Gardner, D. S., Humphreys, P., & Blanchard, R. N. (2024). Temporal Trends in Equine Sperm Motility and Semen Volume: A Retrospective Analysis from a Single UK Breeding Facility. International Journal of Equine Science, 3(2), 100-106

The equine industry preferentially selects sires based on pedigree, performance, and conformation, with little concern given to fertility. Increasing evidence supports the theory of geographic-sensitive declines in a range of semen quality parameters... Read More about Temporal Trends in Equine Sperm Motility and Semen Volume: A Retrospective Analysis from a Single UK Breeding Facility.

THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS ALIVE IN A BRANCHING PROCESS GIVEN ONLY TIMES OF DEATHS (2024)
Journal Article
Ball, F., & Neal, P. (in press). THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS ALIVE IN A BRANCHING PROCESS GIVEN ONLY TIMES OF DEATHS. Advances in Applied Probability,

The study of many population growth models are complicated by only partial observation of the underlying stochastic process driving the model. For example, in an epidemic outbreak we might know when indivdiuals show symptoms to a disease, and are rem... Read More about THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS ALIVE IN A BRANCHING PROCESS GIVEN ONLY TIMES OF DEATHS.

The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals (2024)
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Bellows, E., Fray, R. G., Knight, H. M., & Archer, N. (2024). The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals. Frontiers in RNA Research, 2, Article 1485307. https://doi.org/10.3389/frnar.2024.1485307

Eukaryotic mRNA cap structures directly influence mRNA stability, translation, and immune recognition. While the significance of the mRNA cap itself has been well-established, recent research has revealed the intricate modifications to the nucleotide... Read More about The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals.

Rethinking ethics in interdisciplinary and big data-driven neuroscience projects (2024)
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Stahl, B. C., Ogoh, G., Schumann, G., Walter, H., On behalf of the environMENTAL consortium, Walter, H., Heinz, A., Ralser, M., Twardziok, S., Vaidya, N., Bernas, A., Serin, E., Jentsch, M., Hitchen, E., Polemiti, E., Kebir, H., Lett, T. A., Roy, J.-C., Eils, R., Taron, U.-H., …Ogoh, G. (2024). Rethinking ethics in interdisciplinary and big data-driven neuroscience projects. nature mental health, 2, 1128–1130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00320-3

Towards Frugal Industrial AI: a framework for the development of scalable and robust machine learning models in the shop floor (2024)
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Martínez-Arellano, G., & Ratchev, S. (2024). Towards Frugal Industrial AI: a framework for the development of scalable and robust machine learning models in the shop floor. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-024-14508-5

Artificial intelligence (AI) among other digital technologies promise to deliver the next level of process efficiency of manufacturing systems. Although these solutions such as machine learning (ML) based condition monitoring and quality inspection a... Read More about Towards Frugal Industrial AI: a framework for the development of scalable and robust machine learning models in the shop floor.

Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China (2024)
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Appleton, S., Huang, J., Lou, X., & Zhou, M. (2024). Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China. Health Economics, 33(11), 2645-2670. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4887

Using three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper examines whether financial transfers from adult children to elderly parents affect the latter's mental health. Both OLS and instrumental variable (IV) estimates show... Read More about Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China.

SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities (2024)
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Ball, F., Sirl, D., & Trapman, P. (2024). SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities. Annals of Applied Probability, 34(5), 4408–4454. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-aap2070

We investigate final outcome properties of an SIR (susceptible → in-fective → recovered) epidemic model defined on a population of large sub-communities in which there is stronger disease transmission within the communities than between them. Our ana... Read More about SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities.

Bearing Witness to Violence Through Noise: A Critical Exploration of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck’s Affective Curriculum (2024)
Journal Article
Woods, P. (2024). Bearing Witness to Violence Through Noise: A Critical Exploration of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck’s Affective Curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 39(1b),

This paper explores the nature of earwitnessing, or the act of bearing witness through sound, via noise. Employing Thompson’s (2017) definition of the term, I argue that noise holds the pedagogical potential to address critiques of bearing witness an... Read More about Bearing Witness to Violence Through Noise: A Critical Exploration of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck’s Affective Curriculum.

The potential of citizen mental health science (2024)
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Batty, R., Florescu, A., Gulliksen, E., Wong, A., Kamvar, R., Pinfold, V., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., & Todowede, O. (2024). The potential of citizen mental health science. London: Wellcome Trust

Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases (2024)
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Marchetto, E., Livornese, M., Sabatini, F. M., Tordoni, E., Da Re, D., Lenoir, J., Testolin, R., Bacaro, G., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Chiarucci, A., Foody, G. M., Gábor, L., Groom, Q., Iaria, J., Malavasi, M., Moudrý, V., Santovito, D., Šímová, P., Zannini, P., & Rocchini, D. (2024). Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases. Biodiversity Informatics, 18, https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v18i.21810

The availability of biodiversity databases is expanding at unprecedented rates. Nevertheless, species occurrence data can be intrinsically biased and contain uncertainties that impact the accuracy and reliability of biodiversity estimates. In this st... Read More about Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases.

Examining support marshalling within an asynchronous online peer support forum for individuals affected by dementia (2024)
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Coulson, N. S., & Talbot, C. V. (in press). Examining support marshalling within an asynchronous online peer support forum for individuals affected by dementia. Journal of Health Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241287029

Online support communities may provide individuals affected by dementia opportunities for reciprocal peer support, however, the support marshalling strategies employed and their success remain unclear. Analysis of100 randomly selected conversation th... Read More about Examining support marshalling within an asynchronous online peer support forum for individuals affected by dementia.