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Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
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Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.

Editorial Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in the Perioperative Period: Current Controversies and Concerns (2024)
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Joshi, G. P., Kehlet, H., & Lobo, D. N. (in press). Editorial Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in the Perioperative Period: Current Controversies and Concerns. British Journal of Anaesthesia,

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 specific inhibitors provide significant analgesic and opioid-sparing benefits. However, these analgesics are commonly avoided due to concerns of potential adverse effects. The... Read More about Editorial Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in the Perioperative Period: Current Controversies and Concerns.

Pursuing systemic improvement through educational resources (2024)
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Gripton, C., & Noyes, A. (2024). Pursuing systemic improvement through educational resources. British Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4093

England’s schooling landscape is being remodelled and the move from hierarchical to heterarchical modes of governance has implications for systemic change strategies. Balancing local and networked autonomy with centralising policies complexifies choi... Read More about Pursuing systemic improvement through educational resources.

Challenges and opportunities of sustained public involvement in maternal health research: a practice case study with reflections from researchers and public contributors (2024)
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Roberts, J., Sunney, C., Ekeh, J. I., Tchuissi, C. N., Norman, R., & Spiby, H. (in press). Challenges and opportunities of sustained public involvement in maternal health research: a practice case study with reflections from researchers and public contributors. Research for All, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.14324/rfa.08.1.08

It is widely agreed that collaboration with people with lived experience of specific health conditions or health services is both a moral imperative and a utility to improve research quality, validity and impact. However, there is little agreement ab... Read More about Challenges and opportunities of sustained public involvement in maternal health research: a practice case study with reflections from researchers and public contributors.

Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations (2024)
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Buchholtz, U., De Jong, T., & Rijke, E. (in press). Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations. Journal of Symbolic Logic,

We characterize the epimorphisms in homotopy type theory (HoTT) as the fiberwise acyclic maps and develop a type-theoretic treatment of acyclic maps and types in the context of synthetic homotopy theory as developed in univalent foundations. We prese... Read More about Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations.

Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe (2024)
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Pupavac, V., & Pupavac, M. (2024). Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2408930

This article examines the technopopulist strains of statebuilding in Croatia, drawing on the history, language, and culture approaches in Slavonic studies. Through its exploration of EU migration governance in Croatia, the article discusses the dual... Read More about Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe.

Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration (2024)
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Chen, H., Ji, L., Wong, A., Chu, Y., Feng, W., Zhu, Y., Wang, J., Comeo, E., Kim, D.-H., Stocks, M. J., & Gershkovich, P. (in press). Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration. International Journal of Pharmaceutics,

Intestinal lymph nodes are involved in the progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). Tumours suppress the activation of dendritic cells (DCs) in draining lymph nodes, diminishing anti-cancer immune response. Imiquimod (IMQ) facilitates DCs activation v... Read More about Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration.

Computational prediction of a phage cocktail active against multidrug-resistant bacteria [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] (2024)
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Nawaz, R., Husnain, A., Arif, M. A., Hassan, Z., Ahad, A., Amat, H., Rasool, U., Shahid, M., Mehmood, U., Razzaq, A., Idrees, M., & Carter, W. G. (2024). Computational prediction of a phage cocktail active against multidrug-resistant bacteria [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research, 13, Article 1292

Background
Antibiotic misuse and overuse have contributed to the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria, posing a serious public health problem across the globe. Phage cocktails, which combine multiple phages, provide an efficient method t... Read More about Computational prediction of a phage cocktail active against multidrug-resistant bacteria [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital (2024)
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Hu, X., Zimmermann, A., & Marlow, S. (2024). Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2422368

We take a new mechanism-based approach to explain how social entre-preneurship emerges from the interaction of multilevel elements, based on case study evidence from China. Informed by Coleman's 'boat model' of social mechanisms, social capital theor... Read More about Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital.

Drop-on-Demand 3D Printing of Programable Magnetic Composites for Soft Robotics (2024)
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Bastola, A., Parry, L., Worsley, R., Ahmed, N., Lester, E., Hague, R., & Tuck, C. (2024). Drop-on-Demand 3D Printing of Programable Magnetic Composites for Soft Robotics. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 11, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2024.100250

Soft robotics have become increasingly popular as a versatile alternative to traditional robotics. Magnetic composite materials, which respond to external magnetic fields, have attracted significant interest in this field due to their programmable tw... Read More about Drop-on-Demand 3D Printing of Programable Magnetic Composites for Soft Robotics.

A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications (2024)
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Duman, S., Elewi, A., Hajhamed, A., Khankan, R., Souag, A., & Ahmed, A. (2024). A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications. Data in Brief, Article 111074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111074

State-of-the-art technologies such as computer vision and machine learning, are revolutionizing the smart mushroom industry by addressing diverse challenges in yield prediction, growth analysis, mushroom classification, disease and deformation detect... Read More about A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications.

The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved (2024)
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Whitt, R. (in press). The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Journal of Literary Semantics, 54(1),

This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employ... Read More about The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer (2024)
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Suzuki, K., Dang, P. T., Homma, H., Fathnan, A. A., Ashikaga, Y., Tsuchiya, Y., Phang, S., & Wakatsuchi, H. (2024). Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer. Applied Physics Letters, 125(18), Article 181701. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226667

We present an effective method for transmitting electromagnetic waves as surface waves with a tape-based metasurface design. This design incorporates silver square patches periodically patterned on an adhesive tape substrate. Specifically, our study... Read More about Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer.

Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities (2024)
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Benford, S., Mcgarry, G., Hazzard, A., Gibson, R., Avila, J., Chamberlain, A., & Mcgarry, G. (in press). Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities. Journal of New Music Research,

We explore how augmenting musical instruments with digital identities can enhance their provenance, utility during creative practice, and personal meaning. A literature review reveals the importance of object identities in general and instrument iden... Read More about Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities.

Systemic Risk in Banking, Fire Sales, and Macroeconomic Disasters (2024)
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Bougheas, S., Harvey, D. I., Kirman, A., & Nelson, D. (in press). Systemic Risk in Banking, Fire Sales, and Macroeconomic Disasters. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,

We develop a dynamic computational network model of the banking system where fire sales provide the amplification mechanism of financial shocks. Each period a finite number of banks offers a large, but finite, number of loans to households. Banks wit... Read More about Systemic Risk in Banking, Fire Sales, and Macroeconomic Disasters.

The Infected Blood Inquiry: Impact on Public Perceptions of Blood Supply Risk, Safety, and Donation Attitudes (2024)
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Mills, R., Merz, E.-M., Croucher, M., Masser, B., Brailsford, S., Smith, R., & Ferguson, E. (in press). The Infected Blood Inquiry: Impact on Public Perceptions of Blood Supply Risk, Safety, and Donation Attitudes. Transfusion Medicine,

Background: The UK’s Infected Blood Inquiry (IBI) highlighted a major public health scandal, with at least 30,000 people infected and more than 3,000 deaths attributable to infected blood and blood products. This study investigates the impact of the... Read More about The Infected Blood Inquiry: Impact on Public Perceptions of Blood Supply Risk, Safety, and Donation Attitudes.

Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride (2024)
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Hall, M., Rigby, S. P., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride. RSC Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4su00354c

One promising carbon capture technology is the absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) by molten salt, specifically the molten mixture of calcium oxide and chloride (CaO + CaCl2, COC), as it solves some of the key issues with alternative methods, includin... Read More about Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride.

Humans: an integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia (2024)
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Bøgmose, J., Olivares Bøgeskov, B. M., Dening, T., & Martinsen, B. (2024). Humans: an integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia. Nursing Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330241277989

Background: People living with advanced dementia risk being seen as someone without personhood in contemporary societies, an understanding that has been described and challenged for decades in dementia scholarly literature. Such perception can be cha... Read More about Humans: an integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia.

A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites (2024)
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Yang, Y.-C., Gou, J.-J., Gong, C.-L., Sun, Y.-E., & Li, S. (2024). A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites. Composite Structures, Article 118648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2024.118648

The uncertainty quantification is crucial to the high-precision prediction of composites’ effective properties. However, the unclear input uncertainties of multiscale parameters, complex uncertainty propagations of inter-scale correlations, and unaff... Read More about A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites.