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Computational prediction of a phage cocktail active against multidrug-resistant bacteria [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] (2024)
Journal Article
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].

Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital (2024)
Journal Article
Hu, X., Zimmermann, A., & Marlow, S. (2024). Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 1-23. 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 Multilevel causal mechanisms in social entrepreneurship: the enabling role of social capital.

The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories (2024)
Journal Article
Pummerer, L., Gkinopoulos, T., Douglas, K., JOLLEY, D., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories. Psychological Inquiry,

Beliefs in conspiracy theories are related to a diverse set of emotional and behavioral consequences. At the same time, a theoretical model detailing when a conspiracy theory is more likely to elicit confrontation rather than withdrawal, indirect agg... Read More about The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories.

Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study (2024)
Journal Article
Swiderski, M., Vinogradova, Y., Knaggs, R. D., Harman, K., Harwood, R. H., Prasad, V., Persson, M. S. M., Figueredo, G., Layfield, C., & Gran, S. (2024). The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study. British Journal of Dermatology, Article ljae416. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjd/ljae416

Background
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune skin disease that affects mainly older people. Numerous drugs have been previously associated with BP based on case series and small hospital-based studies. More reliable and precise estimates of a... Read More about The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study.

Hydroxyacid oxidase 1, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in luminal breast cancer (2024)
Journal Article
Erkan, B., MacIntyre, S., Brown, C., Fakroun, A., Lashen, A. G., Mongan, N. P., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (2024). Hydroxyacid oxidase 1, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in luminal breast cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(21), Article 11572. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252111572

Background
Breast cancer (BC), which remains the most prevalent malignancy among women, is characterised by significant heterogeneity across its molecular subtypes. Oestrogen Receptor-positive (ER+) (luminal) BC represents approximately 75% cases an... Read More about Hydroxyacid oxidase 1, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in luminal breast cancer.

Consensus‐Based Guidelines for Communicating a Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to Reduce Psychological Distress (2024)
Journal Article
Baufeldt, A. L., Evangelou, N., Moghaddam, N., Gresswell, M., & das Nair, R. (2024). Consensus‐Based Guidelines for Communicating a Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to Reduce Psychological Distress. Brain and Behavior, 14(10), Article e70109. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70109

Background
Multiple sclerosis (MS) misdiagnosis is common, and when discovered, frequently leads to substantial disruption to patients’ lives and anxiety for clinicians. Our objective was to develop expert consensus-based guidelines about how to com... Read More about Consensus‐Based Guidelines for Communicating a Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis to Reduce Psychological Distress.

Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Thermou, G. E. (2024). Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading. Materials, 17(21), Article 5227. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17215227

This study experimentally assessed the shear performance of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with U-shaped High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) under static and fatigue loading. Key parameters included HPFRC jacket thickness... Read More about Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading.

Augmenting Musical Instruments with Digital Identities (2024)
Journal Article
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.

How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Huo, D., Davies, B., Li, J., Alzaghrini, N., Sun, X., Meng, F., Abdul-Manan, A. F., McKechnie, J., Posen, I. D., & MacLean, H. L. (2024). How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 195, 114390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114390

Electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets is essential to decarbonize road transport, however its efficacy relies on policies targeting country-specific challenges and opportunities. We model and compare fleet-level life cycle GHG emissions for differen... Read More about How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.

Comparison of rigorous scattering models to accurately replicate the behaviour of scattered electromagnetic waves in optical surface metrology (2024)
Journal Article
Hooshmand, H., Pahl, T., Hansen, P.-E., Fu, L., Birk, A., Karamehmedović, M., Lehmann, P., Reichelt, S., Leach, R., & Piano, S. (2024). Comparison of rigorous scattering models to accurately replicate the behaviour of scattered electromagnetic waves in optical surface metrology. Journal of Computational Physics, Article 113519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113519

How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Garrett, R., Schneiders, E., Tennent, P., Chamberlain, A., Avila, J., Brundell, P., & Castle-Green, S. (2024, October). How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. Poster presented at 16th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR + AI) 2024, Odense, Denmark

We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Bronco-matic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bull ride. Blast Theory's Cat Royale deployed a robot arm to play with... Read More about How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics.

Norman Gash: Political Historian (2024)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2024). Norman Gash: Political Historian. Parliamentary History, 43(3), 338-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12766

This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th-century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became i... Read More about Norman Gash: Political Historian.

Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Cooper, N., He, Y., Hopton, B., Johnson, D., Zhao, P., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Fromhold, T. M., Wildman, R., Turyanska, L., & Hackermueller, L. (2025). Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies. Quantum Science and Technology, 10(1), Article 015019. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ad8678

Atomic vapour cells are an indispensable tool for quantum technologies (QT), but potential improvements are limited by the capacities of conventional manufacturing techniques. Using an additive manufacturing (AM) technique—vat polymerisation by digit... Read More about Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies.

The care of older patients with cancer across the United Kingdom in 2024: A narrative review by the International Society of Geriatric Oncology UK Country Group (2024)
Journal Article
Gomes, F., Farrington, N., Pearce, J., Swinson, D., Welford, J., Greystoke, A., Baxter, M., Brown-Kerr, A. G., Wyld, L., Morgan, J., Battisti, N. M. L., Barrell, A., Cobben, D., Cree, A., Johnston, M., Colquhoun, K., Phillips, I., Smith, J., Stapley, S., Lyons, L., …Cheung, K.-L. (2024). The care of older patients with cancer across the United Kingdom in 2024: A narrative review by the International Society of Geriatric Oncology UK Country Group. Journal of Geriatric Oncology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2024.102133

The worldwide population is ageing, alongside an increase in cancer incidence rates. Over the past 10 years, there has been huge progress in the field of oncology with earlier diagnosis and an expansion of treatment options, leading to a growing numb... Read More about The care of older patients with cancer across the United Kingdom in 2024: A narrative review by the International Society of Geriatric Oncology UK Country Group.

The Infected Blood Inquiry: Impact on Public Perceptions of Blood Supply Risk, Safety, and Donation Attitudes (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.