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Target Product Profile for a Machine Learning–Automated Retinal Imaging Analysis Software for Use in English Diabetic Eye Screening: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (2024)
Journal Article
Macdonald, T., Dinnes, J., Maniatopoulos, G., Taylor-Phillips, S., Shinkins, B., Hogg, J., …Denniston, A. K. (2024). Target Product Profile for a Machine Learning–Automated Retinal Imaging Analysis Software for Use in English Diabetic Eye Screening: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols, 13(1), Article e50568. https://doi.org/10.2196/50568

Background: Diabetic eye screening (DES) represents a significant opportunity for the application of machine learning (ML) technologies, which may improve clinical and service outcomes. However, successful integration of ML into DES requires careful... Read More about Target Product Profile for a Machine Learning–Automated Retinal Imaging Analysis Software for Use in English Diabetic Eye Screening: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.

Research and innovation identified to decarbonise the maritime sector (2024)
Journal Article
Ling-Chin, J., Simpson, R., Cairns, A., Wu, D., Xie, Y., Song, D., …Roskilly, A. P. (2024). Research and innovation identified to decarbonise the maritime sector. Green Energy and Sustainability, 4(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.47248/ges2404010001

The maritime sector requires technically, environmentally, socially, and economically informed pathways to decarbonise and eliminate all emissions harmful to the environment and health. This is extremely challenging and complex, and a wide range of t... Read More about Research and innovation identified to decarbonise the maritime sector.

‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses (2024)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P. (2024). ‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses. Social Science and Medicine, 348, Article 116824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116824

This paper explores news media discourse about care.data: an NHS England programme of work for amalgamating and sharing patient data from primary care for planning and research. It was scrapped in 2016 after three years of public outcry, delays and a... Read More about ‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses.

The role of Healthy Life Centres in delivering weight management: a retrospective study (2024)
Journal Article
Okuyucu, K., Kaçar, H. K., Kose, E. D., & Avery, A. (2024). The role of Healthy Life Centres in delivering weight management: a retrospective study. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 68, Article 102358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2024.102358

Introduction: Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) in Turkey were established as primary health services to promote healthier lifestyle behaviours, aiming to reduce obesity and diseases linked to physical inactivity. This study aimed to investigate the weight... Read More about The role of Healthy Life Centres in delivering weight management: a retrospective study.

Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms (2024)
Journal Article
Bossert, S. A., Jayawickreme, E., Blackie, L. E., & Cole, V. T. (2024). Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms. Journal of Research in Personality, 110, Article 104488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104488

Current research provides conflicting views of the relationship between cumulative lifetime adversity and dispositional functioning. We examined this relationship in a sample of adults (N = 1009), conducting the analysis three ways: by utilizing a su... Read More about Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms.

Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment (2024)
Journal Article
Jin, Y., Mukherjee, A., & Zeng, C. (2024). Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment. Journal of Industrial Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12391

According to Hu et al. [Journal of Industrial Economics, 70(3), pp. 775–789], downstream cross-holdings are permissible based on the social welfare standard if the investment technology in the upstream sector is highly inefficient. However, the concl... Read More about Downstream cross-holdings and upstream R&D: A comment.

Experts’ views on translating NHS support to stop smoking in pregnancy into a comprehensive digital intervention (2024)
Journal Article
McDaid, L., Belderson, P., Emery, J., Coleman, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., & Naughton, F. (in press). Experts’ views on translating NHS support to stop smoking in pregnancy into a comprehensive digital intervention. PLOS Digital Health, 3(3), Article e0000472. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000472

Many pregnant smokers need support to quit successfully. In the United Kingdom, trained smoking cessation advisors deliver structured behavioural counselling alongside access to free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT); known as the ‘Standard Treatmen... Read More about Experts’ views on translating NHS support to stop smoking in pregnancy into a comprehensive digital intervention.

Reduced disclosure and default risk: analysis of smaller reporting companies (2024)
Journal Article
Yin, S., Yao, K., Chevapatrakul, T., & Huang, R. (2024). Reduced disclosure and default risk: analysis of smaller reporting companies. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 63, 355-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-024-01262-8

We examine the causal effect of reduced disclosure levels on the risk of default. Employing regression discontinuity (RD) design as our main identification strategy and the smaller reporting company rule (SRC rule) as the exogenous source of variatio... Read More about Reduced disclosure and default risk: analysis of smaller reporting companies.

A qualitative survey approach to investigating beef and dairy veterinarians’ needs in relation to technologies on farms (2024)
Journal Article
Doidge, C., Burrell, A., van Schaik, G., & Kaler, J. (2024). A qualitative survey approach to investigating beef and dairy veterinarians’ needs in relation to technologies on farms. Animal, 18(4), Article 101124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2024.101124

Globally, farmers are being increasingly encouraged to use technologies. Consequently, veterinarians often use farm data and technologies to provide farmers with advice. Yet very few studies have sought to understand veterinarians’ perceptions of dat... Read More about A qualitative survey approach to investigating beef and dairy veterinarians’ needs in relation to technologies on farms.

‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4. (2024)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. (2024). ‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 30(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2024.2325291

This article examines in detail the exchange of letters between Ruy López de Villalobos, captain general of a significant Spanish fleet which landed on the island of Mindanao in February 1543 and the captain of the Portuguese fort on the Malukan isla... Read More about ‘Requeiro huma duas e tres vezes’: the confrontation between Ruy López de Villalobos and Jorge de Castro over the Maluku Islands in 1543-4..

Driving next generation manufacturing through advanced metals characterisation capability (2024)
Journal Article
Clare, A., Seita, M., Speidel, A., Collins, P., & Clark, M. (2024). Driving next generation manufacturing through advanced metals characterisation capability. Scripta Materialia, 246, Article 116009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116009

Understanding the effects of manufacturing methods upon materials has driven constant innovation for over 300 years. While our ability to fabricate metallurgical wonders extends into the annals of history our ability to understand the scientific prin... Read More about Driving next generation manufacturing through advanced metals characterisation capability.

Pharmacological inhibition of RAS overcomes FLT3 inhibitor resistance in FLT3-ITD+ AML through AP-1 and RUNX1 (2024)
Journal Article
Coleman, D. J., Keane, P., Chin, P. S., Ames, L., Kellaway, S., Blair, H., …Bonifer, C. (2024). Pharmacological inhibition of RAS overcomes FLT3 inhibitor resistance in FLT3-ITD+ AML through AP-1 and RUNX1. iScience, 27(4), Article 109576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109576

AML is characterized by mutations in genes associated with growth regulation such as internal tandem duplications (ITD) in the receptor kinase FLT3. Inhibitors targeting FLT3 (FLT3i) are being used to treat patients with FLT3-ITD+ but most relapse an... Read More about Pharmacological inhibition of RAS overcomes FLT3 inhibitor resistance in FLT3-ITD+ AML through AP-1 and RUNX1.

Light Cannabis Use and the Adolescent Brain: An 8-years Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health, Cognition, and Reward Processing. (2024)
Journal Article
Macedo, I., Paiva, T. O., Pasion, R., Daedelow, L., Heinz, A., Magalhães, A., …Barbosa, F. (2024). Light Cannabis Use and the Adolescent Brain: An 8-years Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health, Cognition, and Reward Processing. Psychopharmacology, 241, 1447-1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-024-06575-z

Rationale: For decades, cannabis has been the most widely used illicit substance in the world, particularly among youth. Research suggests that mental health problems associated with cannabis use may result from its effect on reward brain circuit, em... Read More about Light Cannabis Use and the Adolescent Brain: An 8-years Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health, Cognition, and Reward Processing..

How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colegate, E. (2024, March). How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online. Presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Two timelines are created when a piece of user-generated content is published online. One concerns the content and its existence; the other is connected to its impact on users exposed to or interacting with such. These timelines, if mapped, could ass... Read More about How Edited and Disappearing Content Poses a Challenge to The UK’s Online Safety Regulations Tackling Harm Facing Young People Online.

The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field (2024)
Journal Article
Papadogiannis Varouchakis, T. (2024). The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field. Journal of Financial Regulation, https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjae002

This article critically assesses the European securitization industry’s claim of the existence of an uneven regulatory playing field for securitization structures vis-à-vis financial instruments deemed ‘neighbouring’ to securitization by the industry... Read More about The European Securitization Market: Effects of an Uneven Regulatory Playing Field.

Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, K., Hall, C. L., Babbage, C., Dodzo, S., Greenhalgh, C., Lucassen, M., …Hollis, C. (2024). Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01475-7

Background : A serious game called SPARX (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts), originally developed in New Zealand and incorporating cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles, has been shown to help reduce symptoms of depressi... Read More about Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK.

Prospective study of change in skin autofluorescence over time and mortality in people receiving hemodialysis (2024)
Journal Article
Viramontes-Hörner, D., Selby, N. M., & Taal, M. W. (2024). Prospective study of change in skin autofluorescence over time and mortality in people receiving hemodialysis. Kidney International Reports, 9(7), 2110-2116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.03.020

Introduction: Elevated skin autofluorescence (SAF), a measure of tissue accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), is a strong predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the hemodialysis population. However, prospective studi... Read More about Prospective study of change in skin autofluorescence over time and mortality in people receiving hemodialysis.

Climate change and economic prosperity: Evidence from a flexible damage function (2024)
Journal Article
Desbordes, R., & Eberhardt, M. (2024). Climate change and economic prosperity: Evidence from a flexible damage function. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 125, Article 102974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102974

The damage function used to assess the economic impact of secular changes in temperature is one of the most speculative components of integrated assessment models of climate change. Existing work informing this debate is based on pooled empirical mod... Read More about Climate change and economic prosperity: Evidence from a flexible damage function.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Bai, R., Qu, R., Dong, J., & Jin, Y. (2024). Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2024.3381042

Efficient truck dispatching is crucial for optimizing container terminal operations within dynamic and complex scenarios. Despite good progress being made recently with more advanced uncertainty-handling techniques, existing approaches still have gen... Read More about Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks.