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Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (in press). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies,

This article seeks to reassess monasticism within Abbasid Palestine, arguing that monasteries experienced decline and insecurity in the eighth and ninth centuries. It focuses on the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas by Leontios of Damascus, arguing that L... Read More about Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine.

Performance analysis of a battery thermal management system combining thermoelectric, composite phase change material, and liquid cooling under extreme operating conditions (2024)
Journal Article
Luo, D., Wu, Z., Yan, Y., Sun, Z., Yang, L., & Cao, B. (2024). Performance analysis of a battery thermal management system combining thermoelectric, composite phase change material, and liquid cooling under extreme operating conditions. Journal of Energy Storage, 95, Article 112679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.112679

To maintain optimal operating temperatures for lithium-ion batteries under extreme operating conditions, a battery thermal management system (BTMS) integrating the thermoelectric cooler (TEC), liquid cooling, and composite phase change material (CPCM... Read More about Performance analysis of a battery thermal management system combining thermoelectric, composite phase change material, and liquid cooling under extreme operating conditions.

‘Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care’: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Public Experiences and Anticipation of Death and Dying (2024)
Journal Article
Pollock, K., Caswell, G., Turner, N., & Wilson, E. (2024). ‘Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care’: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Public Experiences and Anticipation of Death and Dying. Qualitative Health Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241246705

The demands and costs of health care resulting from increasingly ageing populations have become a major public health issue in the United Kingdom and other industrially developed nations. Concern with cost containment and shortage of resources has pr... Read More about ‘Beyond the Reach of Palliative Care’: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Public Experiences and Anticipation of Death and Dying.

Altered landscape of total RNA, tRNA and sncRNA modifications in the liver and spleen of mice infected by Toxoplasma gondii (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, X.-X., Sun, Y.-Z., Wang, W., Gao, Y., Wei, X.-Y., Sun, H.-C., …Guo, H.-P. (2024). Altered landscape of total RNA, tRNA and sncRNA modifications in the liver and spleen of mice infected by Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(6), Article e0012281. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012281

Background Pathogens can impact host RNA modification machinery to establish a favorable cellular environment for their replication. In the present study, we investigated the effect of Toxoplasma gondii infection on host RNA modification profiles... Read More about Altered landscape of total RNA, tRNA and sncRNA modifications in the liver and spleen of mice infected by Toxoplasma gondii.

Design and optimization of a thermoelectric generator with dimple fins to achieve higher net power (2024)
Journal Article
Luo, D., Li, Z., Yan, Y., Yang, L., Cao, J., Yang, X., & Cao, B. (2024). Design and optimization of a thermoelectric generator with dimple fins to achieve higher net power. Applied Thermal Engineering, 252, Article 123735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.123735

To enhance the performance of the automobile thermoelectric generator (ATEG), this study proposes a heat exchanger with dimple fins, where the number of dimples systematically increases along the direction of exhaust flow. The innovative combination... Read More about Design and optimization of a thermoelectric generator with dimple fins to achieve higher net power.

A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models (2024)
Journal Article
Aristotelous, G., Kypraios, T., & O'neill, P. D. (in press). A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics,

This paper addresses the problem of assessing the homogeneity of the disease transmission process in stochastic epidemic models in populations that are partitioned into social groups. We develop a classical hypothesis test for completed epidemics whi... Read More about A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models.

A novel and selective fluorescent ligand for the study of adenosine A2B receptors (2024)
Journal Article
Patera, F., Mistry, S. J., Kindon, N. D., Comeo, E., Gouding, J., Kellam, B., …Hill, S. J. (2024). A novel and selective fluorescent ligand for the study of adenosine A2B receptors. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, 12(4), Article e1223. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.1223

Fluorescent ligands have proved to be powerful tools in the study of G protein-coupled receptors in living cells. Here we have characterised a new fluorescent ligand PSB603-BY630 that has high selectivity for the human adenosine A2B receptor (A2BR).... Read More about A novel and selective fluorescent ligand for the study of adenosine A2B receptors.

Greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs: emission processes and management approaches (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., Chan, F. K. S., Feng, M., & Johnson, M. F. (2024). Greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs: emission processes and management approaches. Environmental Research Letters, 19(7), Article 073002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad560c

Hydropower reservoirs, as vital inland waters bodies of anthropogenic origin, exhibit distinct characteristics from natural waters, thereby garnering research interest in the quantification and mapping of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this revie... Read More about Greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs: emission processes and management approaches.

On the productivity advantage of cities (2024)
Journal Article
Jacob, N., & Mion, G. (in press). On the productivity advantage of cities. Journal of Economic Geography, Article lbae020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae020

Agglomeration externalities are the key factor explaining the existence of cities and their size. However, while the various micro foundations of agglomeration externalities stress the importance of total factor productivity (TFP), the empirical evid... Read More about On the productivity advantage of cities.

Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poltronieri, F., & Vear, C. (2024, June). Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores. Paper presented at International Symposium of Electronic Art 2024, Brisbane, Australia

This short paper is a provocation in which we lean into the notion of sentience in Creative-AI music. The purpose of this is to highlight that a critical component when using bucket terms such as ”creativity”, ”intelligence” or ”sentience” in the des... Read More about Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores.

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique (2024)
Journal Article
de la Barreda-Bautista, B., Ledger, M. J., Sjögersten, S., Gee, D., Sowter, A., Cole, B., …Boyd, D. S. (2024). Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique. Remote Sensing, 16(12), Article 2249. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16122249

Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have experienced widespread subsidence due to forest clearance and drainage for agriculture, oil palm and pulp wood production, causing concerns about their function as a long-term carbon store. Peatland drainage... Read More about Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique.

Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (2024)
Journal Article
Burwell, T., Thangamuthu, M., Aliev, G. N., Ghaderzadeh, S., Kohlrausch, E. C., Chen, Y., …Khlobystov, A. N. (2024). Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Communications Chemistry, 7(1), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01218-y

A key strategy for minimizing our reliance on precious metals is to increase the fraction of surface atoms and improve the metal-support interface. In this work, we employ a solvent/ligand/counterion-free method to deposit copper in the atomic form d... Read More about Direct formation of copper nanoparticles from atoms at graphitic step edges lowers overpotential and improves selectivity of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.

The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism (2024)
Journal Article
Enders, A., Klofstad, C., Diekman, A., Drochon, H., Rogers de Waal, J., Littrell, S., …Uscinski, J. (2024). The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 14184. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64098-1

Despite hundreds of studies examining belief in conspiracy theories, it is still unclear who—demographically—is most likely to believe such theories. To remedy this knowledge gap, we examine survey data containing various operationalizations of consp... Read More about The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism.

Exploring galaxy evolution time-scales in clusters: insights from the projected phase space (2024)
Journal Article
Sampaio, V. M., De Carvalho, R. R., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Merrifield, M. R., Ferreras, I., & Cornwell, D. J. (2024). Exploring galaxy evolution time-scales in clusters: insights from the projected phase space. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(1), 982-994. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1533

Galaxies infalling into clusters undergo both star-formation quenching and morphological transformation due to environmental effects. We investigate these processes and their timescales using a local sample of 20,191 cluster and 11,674 field galaxies... Read More about Exploring galaxy evolution time-scales in clusters: insights from the projected phase space.

Shock wave generation and propagation in dissipative and nonlocal nonlinear Rydberg media (2024)
Journal Article
Qin, L., Hang, C., Huang, G., & Li, W. (in press). Shock wave generation and propagation in dissipative and nonlocal nonlinear Rydberg media. Physical Review A,

We investigate the generation of optical shock waves in strongly interacting Rydberg atomic gases with a spatially homogeneous dissipative potential. The Rydberg atom interaction induces an optical nonlocal nonlinearity. We focus on local nonlinear (... Read More about Shock wave generation and propagation in dissipative and nonlocal nonlinear Rydberg media.

Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy (2024)
Journal Article
Madriaga, M., & Blaisdell, B. (2024). Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy. International Studies in Sociology of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2024.2369887

This paper presents evidence that sheds light on both the limitations and the possibilities of race-focused staff forums that have formed across UK higher education as part of a response to equality legislation. Based on interviews conducted with thi... Read More about Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy.

Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden (2024)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J. (2024). Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden. Research Papers in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2024.2368509

The concept of belonging has grown in prominence in research and policy relating to new arrivals from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. Arguably, belonging is replacing integration and inclusion as the panacea to perceived problems associated w... Read More about Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden.