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Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context (2024)
Journal Article
Leveridge, F., Mével, P.-A., & Tsikandilakis, M. (2024). Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context. Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 7(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.47476/jat.v7i1.2024.266

Situated at the intersection of Psychology, Film Studies, Accessibility Studies and Translation Studies, this article investigates the emotional correlates of two types of subtitles (standard and aesthetically integrated) on audiences in the context... Read More about Emotional Responses to Aesthetically Integrated and Standard Subtitles in a Fantasy-Thriller Audiovisual Context.

Coffee, Alcohol, and Artificial Sweeteners Have Temporal Associations with Gastrointestinal Symptoms (2024)
Journal Article
Clevers, E., Launders, D., Helme, D., Nybacka, S., Störsrud, S., Corsetti, M., Van Oudenhove, L., Simrén, M., & Tack, J. (2024). Coffee, Alcohol, and Artificial Sweeteners Have Temporal Associations with Gastrointestinal Symptoms. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 69, 2522-2529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-024-08457-y

Background
Various dietary strategies for managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) target mechanisms such as brain–gut interactions, osmotic actions, microbial gas production, and local immune activity. These pathophysiological mechanisms are diverse... Read More about Coffee, Alcohol, and Artificial Sweeteners Have Temporal Associations with Gastrointestinal Symptoms.

More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health? (2024)
Report
Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Bourke, J., Hassard, J., Blake, H., …Leka, S. (2024). More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?. Enterprise Research Centre

Using employer-level survey data, this report compares how firms in England, Ireland and Sweden are responding to the challenges of workplace mental health. The three countries adopt very different approaches to the funding and provision of healthcar... Read More about More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?.

How pressure affects costs of power conversion machinery in compressed air energy storage; Part I: Compressors and expanders (2024)
Journal Article
Baniamerian, Z., Garvey, S., Rouse, J., Cárdenas, B., Pottie, D. L., Barbour, E. R., & Bagdanavicius, A. (2024). How pressure affects costs of power conversion machinery in compressed air energy storage; Part I: Compressors and expanders. Journal of Energy Storage, 89, Article 111791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.111791

This study addresses a critical economic aspect in compressed air energy storage that has not been discussed much in existing literature: the impact of operating pressure on machinery capital cots. It aims to answer whether the cost per unit of power... Read More about How pressure affects costs of power conversion machinery in compressed air energy storage; Part I: Compressors and expanders.

Age Deficits in Associative Memory Are Not Alleviated by Multisensory Paradigms (2024)
Journal Article
Badham, S. P., Atkin, C., Stacey, J. E., Henshaw, H., Allen, H. A., & Roberts, K. L. (2024). Age Deficits in Associative Memory Are Not Alleviated by Multisensory Paradigms. Journals of Gerontology, Series B, 79(7), Article gbae063. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae063

OBJECTIVES: Age deficits in memory are widespread, this affects individuals at a personal level, and investigating memory has been a key focus in cognitive aging research. Age deficits occur in memory for an episode, where information from the enviro... Read More about Age Deficits in Associative Memory Are Not Alleviated by Multisensory Paradigms.

Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments (2024)
Journal Article
Higgins, E. A., Boyd, D. S., Brown, T. W., Owen, S. C., van der Heijden, G. M. F., & Algar, A. C. (2024). Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.393

To understand how ectotherms will respond to warming temperatures, we require information on thermal habitat quality at spatial resolutions and extents relevant to the organism. Measuring thermal habitat quality is either limited to small spatial ext... Read More about Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments.

Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment (2024)
Journal Article
Pervan, D., Bastola, A., Worsley, R., Wildman, R., Hague, R., Lester, E., & Tuck, C. (2024). Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment. Nanomaterials, 14(9), Article 753. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14090753

The additive manufacturing (AM) of functional copper (Cu) parts is a major goal for many industries, from aerospace to automotive to electronics, because Cu has a high thermal and electrical conductivity as well as being ~10× cheaper than silver. Pre... Read More about Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Conductive Multi-Layered Nanocopper in an Air Environment.

Martensite decomposition kinetics in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4 V alloy: in-situ characterisation and phase-field modelling (2024)
Journal Article
Boccardo, A., Zou, Z., Simonelli, M., Tong, M., Segurado, J., Leen, S., & Tourret, D. (2024). Martensite decomposition kinetics in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4 V alloy: in-situ characterisation and phase-field modelling. Materials and Design, 241, Article 112949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112949

Additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V alloy via laser powder-bed fusion leads to non-equilibrium 𝛼′ martensitic microstructures, with high strength but poor ductility and toughness. These properties may be modified by heat treatments, whereby the 𝛼′ ph... Read More about Martensite decomposition kinetics in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4 V alloy: in-situ characterisation and phase-field modelling.

Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qin, Z., Gatea, S., & Ou, H. (2024). Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities. Materials Research Proceedings, 41, 1606-1614. https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903131-178

Incremental sheet forming (ISF) is an advanced forming technology with high flexibility and excellent adaptability. However, conventional ISF encounters challenges in processing of hard-to-deformed materials at room temperature. To address this probl... Read More about Spindle speed effect on the ISF processing of materials with different thermal conductivities.

Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gatea, S., & Ou, H. (2024). Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process. Materials Research Proceedings, 41, 1596-1605. https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903131-177

This research investigates the use of Hooputra-based damage model to predict fracture of polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) material and its application to single point incremental forming (SPIF) process under different conditions. Flat PEEK sheets are us... Read More about Experimental testing and numerical modelling of ductile fracture of PEEK in incremental sheet forming process.

Deconvoluting the Mechanisms of Thermal Degradation and Oxidation during the Aging Simulation of Elastomeric Modified Asphalt Binders (2024)
Journal Article
Adwani, D., Sreeram, A., & Bhasin, A. (2024). Deconvoluting the Mechanisms of Thermal Degradation and Oxidation during the Aging Simulation of Elastomeric Modified Asphalt Binders. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 36(7), https://doi.org/10.1061/jmcee7.mteng-17450

Developing new and efficient methods to simulate the aging of asphalt binders and mixtures continues to be an important area of research for the asphalt community around the world. Temperatures exceeding pavement service temperatures are typically us... Read More about Deconvoluting the Mechanisms of Thermal Degradation and Oxidation during the Aging Simulation of Elastomeric Modified Asphalt Binders.

A service evaluation of more than 1 million self‐funding adults attending a community weight management programme (2024)
Journal Article
Toon, J., Bennett, S., Lavin, J., Pallister, C., & Avery, A. (2024). A service evaluation of more than 1 million self‐funding adults attending a community weight management programme. Clinical Obesity, 14(4), Article e12665. https://doi.org/10.1111/cob.12665

Scaled interventions are required to address levels of overweight and obesity and reduce health inequalities. Little data is available on the effectiveness of community weight management programmes for participants self-selecting to attend across dif... Read More about A service evaluation of more than 1 million self‐funding adults attending a community weight management programme.

Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process (2024)
Journal Article
Robinson, K. R., Hallam, F., Horne, J. C., Allen, F., Darby, J., Kilby, A., Timmons, S., Gordon, A., & Logan, P. (2024). Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2024, 162–170. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.170

Context: Managing falls in care homes requires an individualised approach for each resident with involvement of staff from care homes and the wider health and social care system. A large randomised controlled trial evaluating an individualised falls... Read More about Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process.

Virtual reality reusable e-resources for clinical skills training: a mixed-methods evaluation (2024)
Journal Article
Pears, M., Antoniou, P. E., Schiza, E., Ntakakis, G., Henderson, J., Frangoudes, F., Nikolaidou, M. M., Gkougkoudi, E., Pattichis, C. S., Bamidis, P. D., & Konstantinidis, S. T. (2024). Virtual reality reusable e-resources for clinical skills training: a mixed-methods evaluation. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28, 643-654. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01805-9

Virtual reality has long existed, but its wider adoption in education is recent. Studies informed by theoretical underpinned co-creation frameworks and utilization of theoretical informed evaluations are scarce in literature. Thus, this study interna... Read More about Virtual reality reusable e-resources for clinical skills training: a mixed-methods evaluation.

Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction (2024)
Journal Article
Ma, Y., Tian, Z., Wang, B., Zhao, Y., Nie, Y., Wildman, R. D., …He, Y. (2024). Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction. Materials and Design, 241, Article 112978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112978

Like many pixel-based additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, digital light processing (DLP) based vat photopolymerization faces the challenge that the square pixel based processing strategy can lead to zigzag edges especially when feature sizes come... Read More about Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction.

Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (2024)
Book
Bao, H. (2024). Dream of the Orchid Pavilion. Big White Shed Press

Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity.

On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of... Read More about Dream of the Orchid Pavilion.

Pulse oximeter bench tests under different simulated skin tones (2024)
Journal Article
Swamy, S. K. N., He, C., Hayes‑Gill, B. R., Hayes-Gill, B. R., Clark, D. J., Green, S., & Morgan, S. P. (2024). Pulse oximeter bench tests under different simulated skin tones. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-024-03091-2

Pulse oximeters’ (POs) varying performance based on skin tones has been highly publicised. Compared to arterial blood gas analysis, POs tend to overestimate oxygen saturation (SpO2) values for people with darker skin (occult hypoxemia). The objective... Read More about Pulse oximeter bench tests under different simulated skin tones.

Immune system inspired smart maintenance framework: tool wear monitoring use case (2024)
Journal Article
Pulikottil, T., Martínez-Arellano, G., & Barata, J. (2024). Immune system inspired smart maintenance framework: tool wear monitoring use case. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 132(9-10), 4699-4721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-024-13472-4

As the manufacturing industry is moving towards the fourth industrial revolution, there is an increasing need for smart maintenance systems that could provide manufacturers with a competitive advantage by predicting failures. Despite various efforts... Read More about Immune system inspired smart maintenance framework: tool wear monitoring use case.