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Sentiment Matters: The effect of news-media on spillovers among cryptocurrency returns (2024)
Journal Article
Akyildirim, E., Aysan, A. F., Cepni, O., & Serbest, Ö. (2024). Sentiment Matters: The effect of news-media on spillovers among cryptocurrency returns. European Journal of Finance, 30(14), 1577-1613. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2024.2323454

This paper explores the relationship between news media sentiment and spillover effects in the cryptocurrency market. By employing a time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model, we initially develop measures of spillover specific to individual... Read More about Sentiment Matters: The effect of news-media on spillovers among cryptocurrency returns.

Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda (2024)
Book
Collord, M. (2024). Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191945335.001.0001

Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Micha... Read More about Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda.

Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates (2024)
Journal Article
Gilani, N., Aboulkhair, N. T., Simonelli, M., East, M., & Hague, R. J. (2024). Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates. Materials and Design, 240, Article 112834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112834

Copper, renowned for its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity at a low cost, holds great promise in electronic applications. While additive manufacturing of copper has attracted interest, the exploration of applying Drop-on-demand Metal Je... Read More about Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates.

One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (2024)
Journal Article
Householder, J. E., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Piedade, M. T. F., Junk, W. J., Latrubesse, E. M., …ter Steege, H. (in press). One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1

Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is... Read More about One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.

Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct (2024)
Journal Article
Yorke, J., Dew, T., & Cook, D. (2024). Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 130(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.58430/jib.v130i1.46

Why was the work done: The incorporation of unmalted barley at high proportion in the grist can introduce unfavourable bitter and astringent characteristics to beer, resulting in an upper limit on the proportion used. The flavour active compounds fro... Read More about Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct.

Self-assembled titanium-based macrostructures with hierarchical (macro-, micro-, and nano) porosities: A fundamental study (2024)
Journal Article
Wadge, M. D., Agyakwa, P. A., Felfel, R. M., Homer, R., Cooper, T. P., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., …Grant, D. M. (2024). Self-assembled titanium-based macrostructures with hierarchical (macro-, micro-, and nano) porosities: A fundamental study. Materials and Design, 240, Article 112835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112835

This study details the novel self-assembly of sodium titanate converted Ti-based microspheres into hierarchical porous 3D constructs, with macro-, micro-, and nanoporosity, for the first time. Ti6Al4V microspheres were suspended into 5 M NaOH (60 °C/... Read More about Self-assembled titanium-based macrostructures with hierarchical (macro-, micro-, and nano) porosities: A fundamental study.

Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in dermatology (2024)
Journal Article
Shariff, Z., Harvey, J., Leighton, P., Boyd, M., Ridd, M., Santer, M., …Maidment, I. (2024). Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in dermatology. Skin Health and Disease, Article e369. https://doi.org/10.1002/ski2.369

This research letter discusses the perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in this area. A mixed methods online survey was created, and a total of 174 commun... Read More about Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in dermatology.

Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2024)
Journal Article
Hunter, H., & Searle, A. (2024). Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(4), 770-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2304206

How do technologies animate more-than-human geographies after extinction? How can geographical scholarship evoke, or bring presence to, extinct biota? In an epoch simultaneously characterized by biotic loss at an unthinkable scale and the increased p... Read More about Postextinction Geographies: Audiovisual Afterlives of the Bucardo and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abioye, A. O., Hunt, W., Gu, Y., Schneiders, E., Naiseh, M., Fischer, J. E., …Sevegnani, M. (2024). The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction. In HRI ’24 Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (172-176). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640725

Formal Modelling is often used as part of the design and testing process of software development to ensure that components operate within suitable bounds even in unexpected circumstances. In this paper, we use predictive formal modelling (PFM) at run... Read More about The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction.

The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Row Farr, J., Tandavanitj, N., & Adams, M. (2024, March). The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI. Presented at HRI '24: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boulder CO USA

This paper showcases Cat Royale, an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on animal happiness situated at the intersection of Art, Computer Science, and Animal Welfare. We argue for the inclusion of non-human actors when designing... Read More about The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI.

Interplay between developmental cues and rhizosphere signals from mycorrhizal fungi shape root anatomy, impacting crop productivity (2024)
Journal Article
Grondin, A., Li, M., Bhosale, R., Sawers, R., & Schneider, H. M. (2024). Interplay between developmental cues and rhizosphere signals from mycorrhizal fungi shape root anatomy, impacting crop productivity. Plant and Soil, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06611-z

Background: The rhizosphere is the interface between roots and the soil and the site of nutrient and water uptake for plant growth. Root anatomy and the physical, chemical, and biological components of the rhizosphere interact to influence plant grow... Read More about Interplay between developmental cues and rhizosphere signals from mycorrhizal fungi shape root anatomy, impacting crop productivity.

EmpRess: an eHealth implementation readiness checklist for dementia developed through an interview study of stakeholder needs (2024)
Journal Article
Christie, H. L., Atefi, G., Craven, M. P., Orrell, M., & de Vugt, M. E. (2024). EmpRess: an eHealth implementation readiness checklist for dementia developed through an interview study of stakeholder needs. Aging and Mental Health, 28(5), 791-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2323951

Objective
This study aimed to create a tool to assess eHealth interventions for dementia by adapting an existing implementation readiness (ImpRess) checklist that assessed manualised interventions.

Methods
In Part 1, online semi-structured inter... Read More about EmpRess: an eHealth implementation readiness checklist for dementia developed through an interview study of stakeholder needs.

Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y., Yang, Y.-Q., Li, W., & Shao, X.-Q. (2024). Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms. Applied Physics Letters, 124(11), Article 114001. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0192602

High-dimensional quantum entanglement characterizes the entanglement of quantum systems within a larger Hilbert space, introducing more intricate and complex correlations among the entangled particles' states. The high-dimensional Greenberger-Horne-Z... Read More about Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms.

Topological phases in the dynamics of the simple exclusion process (2024)
Journal Article
Garrahan, J. P., & Pollmann, F. (2024). Topological phases in the dynamics of the simple exclusion process. Physical Review E, 109(3), Article L032105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032105

We study the dynamical large deviations of the classical stochastic symmetric simple exclusion process (SSEP) by means of numerical matrix product states. We show that for half-filling, long-time trajectories with a large enough imbalance between the... Read More about Topological phases in the dynamics of the simple exclusion process.

Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Reeves, S., & Cantarutti, M. N. (2024). Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets. In HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (561-571). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634936

Robots deployed in public settings enter spaces that humans live and work in. Studies of HRI in public tend to prioritise direct and deliberate interactions. Yet this misses the most common form of response to robots, which ranges from subtle fleetin... Read More about Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets.

The Impact of High BMI on Pregnancy Outcomes and Complications in Women with PCOS Undergoing IVF - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Alenezi, S. A., Khan, R., & Amer, S. (2024). The Impact of High BMI on Pregnancy Outcomes and Complications in Women with PCOS Undergoing IVF - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(6), Article 1578. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13061578

(1) Background: Current evidence indicates that women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) have an increased likelihood of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The objective of this systematic review was to clarify t... Read More about The Impact of High BMI on Pregnancy Outcomes and Complications in Women with PCOS Undergoing IVF - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, H., Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Pike, M., Landowska, A., & Wilson, M. L. (2024, March). Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload. Presented at CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Sheffield, UK

Cognitive style has been shown to influence users’ interaction with search interfaces. However, as a fundamental dimension of cognitive styles, the relationship between the Verbal-Imagery (VI) cognitive style dimension and search behaviour has not be... Read More about Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload.

Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies (2024)
Journal Article
Jin, Y., Wang, J., Wu, B., Zhong, S., Feng, L., & Si, Z. (2024). Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 448, Article 141615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141615

The eradication of illicit drug crops in developing countries through international agricultural cooperation in alternative livelihoods is a new mode of clean production. This paper examines the market-oriented alternative livelihood (AL) model imple... Read More about Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies.

Modelling interfacial inclusions embedded between dissimilar solids (2024)
Journal Article
Ma, L., Su, F., Wen, Y., Korsunsky, A. M., & Wiercigroch, M. (2024). Modelling interfacial inclusions embedded between dissimilar solids. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 272, Article 109176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109176

In this paper, a generic model for interfacial inclusions embedded between dissimilar solids is proposed to address a wide range of problems in materials engineering. By virtue of the equivalent eigenstrain principle and line inclusion concept, the m... Read More about Modelling interfacial inclusions embedded between dissimilar solids.

Multivariate canonical correlation analysis identifies additional genetic variants for chronic kidney disease (2024)
Journal Article
Osborne, A. J., Bierzynska, A., Colby, E., Andag, U., Kalra, P. A., Radresa, O., …Campbell, C. (2024). Multivariate canonical correlation analysis identifies additional genetic variants for chronic kidney disease. npj Systems Biology and Applications, 10(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-024-00350-8

Chronic kidney diseases (CKD) have genetic associations with kidney function. Univariate genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and blo... Read More about Multivariate canonical correlation analysis identifies additional genetic variants for chronic kidney disease.