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Telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen elastomer films (2024)
Journal Article
Sharp, J. S., Roberts, N. M., & Walker, S. (2024). Telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen elastomer films. Soft Matter, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01035c

Video imaging was used to study large-slope folded telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen films of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers. Chlorobenzene, chloroform, heptane and toluene were used to swell PDMS films with thickness values... Read More about Telephone cord blister formation in solvent swollen elastomer films.

Cinematic Fabulation (2024)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (in press). Cinematic Fabulation. In Chinese Independent Cinema Book. Amsterdam University Press

This chapter offers a critical reading of the film Miss Jin Xing by focusing on the formal and narrative strategies that the filmmaker Zhang deploys to represent Jin Xing the trans person. I draw on the Deleuzian (2004) concept of fabulation to elabo... Read More about Cinematic Fabulation.

Fiscal and Macroprudential Policies in a Monetary Union (2024)
Journal Article
Rubio, M., Ferri, J., & Bosca, J. E. (in press). Fiscal and Macroprudential Policies in a Monetary Union. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting,

In the European Monetary Union (EMU), monetary policy is determined by the European Central Bank (ECB). This arrangement can give rise to certain national economic imbalances that may potentially be addressed through national policies. Traditionally,... Read More about Fiscal and Macroprudential Policies in a Monetary Union.

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2024). ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens. Journal of Sociolinguistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12676

In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research-particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality-which attends robustly to the question of race. Through the analysis of four moments... Read More about ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens.

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security (2024)
Book
Kumar, M., Agarwal, V., Gomes, R. L., & Prasad Panday, D. (Eds.). (2024). Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security. Elsevier

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security presents a study for the mitigation of hydrological extremes through case studies. The focus is on the effect of extremes on water quality and the fate of geogenic, micro... Read More about Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security.

Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors (2024)
Journal Article
Quispe–Torreblanca, E., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., & Stewart, N. (in press). Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors. Review of Economic Studies,

We study attention utility, the hedonic pleasure or pain derived purely from paying attention to information, which differs from the news utility that arises from gaining new information. The main, field, study examines brokerage account login data t... Read More about Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors.

Metagenomic profiling of cecal microbiota and antibiotic resistome in rodents (2024)
Journal Article
Shang, K.-M., Elsheikha, H. M., Ma, H., Wei, Y.-J., Zhao, J.-X., Qin, Y., Li, J.-M., Zhao, Z.-Y., & Zhang, X.-X. (2024). Metagenomic profiling of cecal microbiota and antibiotic resistome in rodents. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 286, Article 117186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117186

The rodent gut microbiota is a known reservoir of antimicrobial resistance, yet the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) within rodent cecal microbial communities and the specific bacterial species harboring these ARGs remain largely un... Read More about Metagenomic profiling of cecal microbiota and antibiotic resistome in rodents.

Interactions between antibiotic removal, water matrix characteristics and layered double hydroxide sorbent material (2024)
Journal Article
Johnston, A.-L., Lester, E., Williams, O., & Gomes, R. L. (2024). Interactions between antibiotic removal, water matrix characteristics and layered double hydroxide sorbent material. Chemosphere, 367, Article 143546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143546

Sorption by layered double hydroxides (LDH) is gaining substantial interest for remediating emerging contaminants, including pharmaceuticals from wastewaters. Findings from a sorbent material performing successfully in lab-based studies using non-env... Read More about Interactions between antibiotic removal, water matrix characteristics and layered double hydroxide sorbent material.

Climate justice beliefs related to climate action and policy support around the world (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunbode, C. A., Doran, R., Ayanian, A. H., Park, J., Utsugi, A., van den Broek, K. L., Ghorayeb, J., Aquino, S. D., Lins, S., Aruta, J. J., Reyes, M. E., Zick, A., & Clayton, S. (2024). Climate justice beliefs related to climate action and policy support around the world. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02168-y

Climate justice is increasingly prominent in climate change communication and advocacy but little is known about public understanding of the concept or how widely it resonates with different groups. In our global survey of 5,627 adults in 11 countrie... Read More about Climate justice beliefs related to climate action and policy support around the world.

PIMMS-Dash: Accessible analysis, interrogation, and visualisation of high-throughput transposon insertion sequencing (TIS) data (2024)
Journal Article
Blanchard, A. M., Taylor, A., Warry, A., Shephard, F., Curwen, A., Leigh, J. A., Emes, R. D., & Egan, S. A. (2024). PIMMS-Dash: Accessible analysis, interrogation, and visualisation of high-throughput transposon insertion sequencing (TIS) data. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 23, 3780-3783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2024.10.025

Motivation: Current methods for visualising and interrogating high-throughput transposon insertion mutagenesis sequencing (TIS) data requires a significant time investment in learning bioinformatics, often producing static figures that do not facilit... Read More about PIMMS-Dash: Accessible analysis, interrogation, and visualisation of high-throughput transposon insertion sequencing (TIS) data.

Closing the equity gap: A call for policy and programmatic reforms to ensure inclusive and effective HIV prevention, treatment and care for persons with disabilities in Eastern and Southern Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Dzinamarira, T., Peta, C., Moyo, E., Madziva, R., Eghtessadi, R., Makoni, T., & Musuka, G. (2024). Closing the equity gap: A call for policy and programmatic reforms to ensure inclusive and effective HIV prevention, treatment and care for persons with disabilities in Eastern and Southern Africa. 00 Journal not listed, 7, Article 100131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2024.100131

In this paper, we explore the critical barriers that persons with disabilities face in accessing HIV services in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, despite significant advancements in overall accessibility. We highlight the intersectional... Read More about Closing the equity gap: A call for policy and programmatic reforms to ensure inclusive and effective HIV prevention, treatment and care for persons with disabilities in Eastern and Southern Africa.

From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters (2024)
Journal Article
de Vos, K., Hatch, N. A., & Merrifield, M. R. (2024). From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(1), 217–222. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2391

To investigate how the radio-identified active galactic nuclei (AGN) fraction varies with cluster-centric radius, we present the projected and de-projected distributions of a large sample of LOFAR-identified radio AGN out to 30𝑅500 around galaxy clus... Read More about From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters.

Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India (2024)
Journal Article
Devilat, B. M., Lanuza, F., Mane, M., & Pithawalla, Z. (2024). Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India. Disaster Prevention and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm-12-2023-0316

Purpose: Despite the recurrence of earthquakes, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish risks. Damaged dwellings cannot be immediately reinforced to continue inhabitation, generating disruption. Repairs a... Read More about Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India.

Tumour Heterogeneity and Disease Infiltration as Paradigms of Glioblastoma Treatment Resistance (2024)
Journal Article
Malhotra, P., & Rahman, R. (2024). Tumour Heterogeneity and Disease Infiltration as Paradigms of Glioblastoma Treatment Resistance. Onco, 4(4), 349-358. https://doi.org/10.3390/onco4040024

Isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type glioblastoma, a Grade 4 malignant brain neoplasm, remains resistant to multimodal treatment, with a median survival of 16 months from diagnosis with no geographical bias. Despite increasing appreciation of intra-tum... Read More about Tumour Heterogeneity and Disease Infiltration as Paradigms of Glioblastoma Treatment Resistance.

Hidden Cooling Flows IV: More Details on Centaurus and the Efficiency of AGN Feedback in Clusters (2024)
Journal Article
Fabian, A. C., Ferland, G. J., Sanders, J. S., Russell, H. R., Mcnamara, B. R., Pinto, C., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Walker, S., & Ivey, L. R. (in press). Hidden Cooling Flows IV: More Details on Centaurus and the Efficiency of AGN Feedback in Clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,

Cooling flows are common in galaxy clusters which have cool cores. The soft X-ray emission below 1 keV from the flows is mostly absorbed by cold dusty gas within the central cooling sites. Further evidence for this process is presented here through a... Read More about Hidden Cooling Flows IV: More Details on Centaurus and the Efficiency of AGN Feedback in Clusters.

State-of-the-art review on the integration of BIM with pavement management systems (2024)
Journal Article
Utami, R., Osorio-Sandoval, C., & Thom, N. (2024). State-of-the-art review on the integration of BIM with pavement management systems. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 29, 810-825. https://doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2024.035

Pavement management systems require comprehensive data, including design and existing conditions. These data may be utilised to forecast conditions and determine the optimal timing for implementing maintenance measures to reduce expenses. On the othe... Read More about State-of-the-art review on the integration of BIM with pavement management systems.

Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2024). Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now. Studies in Continuing Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2024.2417095

Social media afford the proliferation of doctoral memes across numerous, generally anonymous, accounts spread over multiple platforms-the timeline where the PhD candidate starts off gleaming with health and beaming in delight and ends up an overweigh... Read More about Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now.

Dilemmas of Care (Re) Allocation: Care and Consumption in Pandemic Times (2024)
Journal Article
Heath, T., Gallage, S., Chatzidakis, A., & Hutton, M. (2024). Dilemmas of Care (Re) Allocation: Care and Consumption in Pandemic Times. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05829-2

Studies into the ethical aspects of consumption tend to focus on a limited class of actions that are explicitly understood as “ethical consumption”. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided a context in which other ethical issues and questions of whom we sho... Read More about Dilemmas of Care (Re) Allocation: Care and Consumption in Pandemic Times.

Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities (2024)
Journal Article
Alkhulaifi, N., Bowler, A. L., Pekaslan, D., Serdaroglu, G., Closs, S., Watson, N. J., & Triguero, I. (2024). Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities. IEEE Access, 12, 153935-153951. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3482572

As energy demands and costs rise, enhancing energy efficiency in Food and Drink Cold Storage (FDCS) rooms is important for reducing expenses and achieving environmental sustainability ambitions. Forecasting electricity use in FDCSs can help optimise... Read More about Machine Learning Pipeline for Energy and Environmental Prediction in Cold Storage Facilities.