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What do employers need when supporting stroke survivors to return to work?: a mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article
Craven, K., Kettlewell, J., De Dios Péreza, B., Powers, K., Holmes, J., & Radford, K. A. (2024). What do employers need when supporting stroke survivors to return to work?: a mixed-methods study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/10749357.2024.2409005

Background

Employers are key in supporting stroke survivors to return to work (RTW) but do not always have knowledge/skills or guidance to do so.

Objectives

To explore employers’ needs for provision of post-stroke RTW support.

Methods... Read More about What do employers need when supporting stroke survivors to return to work?: a mixed-methods study.

Development of a Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention to support Return to Work and Wellbeing following Major Trauma: A Person-Based Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Radford, K., Kettlewell, J., das Nair, R., Morriss, R., Holmes, J., Kellezi, B., Timmons, S., Jones, T., Tressider, H., Andrews, I., Bridger, K., Patel, P., Lindley, R., De Dios Perez, B., Statham, A., Jones, T., Hoffman, K., James, M., Kendrick, D., & ROWTATE study team. (2024). Development of a Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention to support Return to Work and Wellbeing following Major Trauma: A Person-Based Approach. BMJ Open, 14(10), Article e085724. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085724+

Objectives: Major trauma centres save lives but rehabilitation to support return-to-work (RTW) is lacking. This paper describes development of a vocational rehabilitation intervention (the ROWTATE intervention) to support RTW following traumatic inju... Read More about Development of a Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention to support Return to Work and Wellbeing following Major Trauma: A Person-Based Approach.

Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, C., & Marshall, A. M. (2024, October). Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study. Presented at 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics ECPMG 2024, Delft, Netherlands

In this study, a novel coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling (CCNM) approach of shallow strip foundations developed at the University of Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG) is used to study the response of masonry building behaviour during tunn... Read More about Effect of elastic modulus on masonry buildings during tunnelling: a coupled centrifuge-numerical modelling study.

Transfer learning in very-short-term solar forecasting: Bridging single site data to diverse geographical applications (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Wilson, R., Sumner, M., & Wu, Y. (2025). Transfer learning in very-short-term solar forecasting: Bridging single site data to diverse geographical applications. Applied Energy, 377, Article 124353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124353

Over the past decade, the rapid growth of solar energy penetration has posed significant challenges for grid balancing and scheduling, heightening the need for accurate and efficient short-term solar forecasting. While deep learning models have shown... Read More about Transfer learning in very-short-term solar forecasting: Bridging single site data to diverse geographical applications.

Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection (2024)
Journal Article
Sharker, Y., Diallo, Z., KhudaBukhsh, W. R., & Kenah, E. (2024). Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection. Statistics in Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10226

Many important questions in infectious disease epidemiology involve associations between covariates (e.g., age or vaccination status) and infectiousness or susceptibility. Because disease transmission produces dependent outcomes, these questions are... Read More about Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection.

Geometric characteristics of stromal collagen fibres in breast cancer using differential interference contrast microscopy (2024)
Journal Article
Ghannam, S. F., Rutland, C. S., Allegrucci, C., Mather, M. L., Alsaleem, M., Bateman‐Price, T. D., Patke, R., Ball, G., Mongan, N. P., & Rakha, E. (2024). Geometric characteristics of stromal collagen fibres in breast cancer using differential interference contrast microscopy. Journal of Microscopy, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13361

Breast cancer (BC) is characterised by a high level of heterogeneity, which is influenced by the interaction of neoplastic cells with the tumour microenvironment. The diagnostic and prognostic role of the tumour stroma in BC remains to be defined. Di... Read More about Geometric characteristics of stromal collagen fibres in breast cancer using differential interference contrast microscopy.

Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals (2024)
Journal Article
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.

Towards Frugal Industrial AI: a framework for the development of scalable and robust machine learning models in the shop floor (2024)
Journal Article
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.

SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities (2024)
Journal Article
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.

Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.