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Comparison of Echo Planar and Turbo Spin Echo Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Intraoperative MRI (2024)
Journal Article
Thorpe, J. C., Thust, S. C., Gillon, C. H., Rowe, S., Swain, C. E., MacArthur, D. C., Howarth, S. P., Avula, S., Morgan, P. S., & Dineen, R. A. (in press). Comparison of Echo Planar and Turbo Spin Echo Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Intraoperative MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

Background: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is routinely used in brain tumor surgery guided by intraoperative MRI (IoMRI). However, conventional echo planar imaging DWI (EPI-DWI) is susceptible to distortion and artifacts that affect image quality.... Read More about Comparison of Echo Planar and Turbo Spin Echo Diffusion-Weighted Imaging in Intraoperative MRI.

Physics-informed neural network simulation of conjugate heat transfer in manifold microchannel heat sinks for high-power IGBT cooling (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Tu, C., & Yan, Y. (2024). Physics-informed neural network simulation of conjugate heat transfer in manifold microchannel heat sinks for high-power IGBT cooling. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 159, Article 108036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2024.108036

This study explores the application of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) in modeling fluid flow and heat transfer dynamics within intricate geometric configurations, focusing on manifold microchannel (MMC) heat sinks designed for efficient hig... Read More about Physics-informed neural network simulation of conjugate heat transfer in manifold microchannel heat sinks for high-power IGBT cooling.

The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum (2024)
Journal Article
Mediastika, C. E., Sudarsono, A. S., Utami, S. S., Setiawan, T., Mansell, J. G., Santosa, R. B., Wiratama, A., Yanti, R. J., & Cliffe, L. (2024). The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum. Built Heritage, 8(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0

Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a... Read More about The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum.

Identifying the Health Educational Needs of Refugees: Empirical Evidence from a Delphi Study (2024)
Journal Article
Harjani, M. G., Stathakarou, N., Konstantinidis, S. T., Dratsiou, I., Varella, A., Salcedo, V. T., Segura Segura, M., Tsoupouroglou, I., Bamidis, P. D., & Karlgren, K. (2024). Identifying the Health Educational Needs of Refugees: Empirical Evidence from a Delphi Study. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-024-01626-1

Refugees experience poorer health outcomes especially which can be exacerbated by or can be a result of low health literacy of refugee populations. To address poor health outcomes, health literacy, and health usage in refugee populations, it is essen... Read More about Identifying the Health Educational Needs of Refugees: Empirical Evidence from a Delphi Study.

What is the relationship between raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco above 20 and cigarette smoking? A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, N., Bogdanovica, I., McGill, S., & Murray, R. L. (2024). What is the relationship between raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco above 20 and cigarette smoking? A systematic review. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae206

Introduction
There is considerable interest in raising the age of sale of tobacco above the conventional age of 18. We systematically reviewed whether raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco (MLSA) to 20 or above is associated with reduced pr... Read More about What is the relationship between raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco above 20 and cigarette smoking? A systematic review.

Structural Transformations of Metal–Organic Cages through Tetrazine-Alkene Reactivity (2024)
Journal Article
Black, M. R., Bhattacharyya, S., Argent, S. P., & Pilgrim, B. S. (2024). Structural Transformations of Metal–Organic Cages through Tetrazine-Alkene Reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c08591

The assembly of metal-organic cages is governed by metal ion coordination preferences and the geometries of the typically rigid and planar precursor ligands. PdnL2n cages are amongst the most structurally diverse, with subtle differences in the metal... Read More about Structural Transformations of Metal–Organic Cages through Tetrazine-Alkene Reactivity.

Assessing the Performance of Machine Learning Methods Trained on Public Health Observational Data: A Case Study From COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article
Pigoli, D., Baker, K., Budd, J., Butler, L., Coppock, H., Egglestone, S., Gilmour, S., Holmes, C., Hurley, D., Jersakova, R., Kiskin, I., Koutra, V., Mellor, J., Nicholson, G., Packham, J., Patel, S., Roberts, S. J., Schuller, B. W., Tendero-Cañadas, A., Thornley, T., & Titcomb, A. (2024). Assessing the Performance of Machine Learning Methods Trained on Public Health Observational Data: A Case Study From COVID-19. Statistics in Medicine, 43(25), 4861-4871. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10211

From early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there was interest in using machine learning methods to predict COVID-19 infection status based on vocal audio signals, for example, cough recordings. However, early studies had limitati... Read More about Assessing the Performance of Machine Learning Methods Trained on Public Health Observational Data: A Case Study From COVID-19.

Global prevalence and characteristics of infections and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients with cirrhosis: a prospective cohort study for the CLEARED Consortium (2024)
Journal Article
Cao, Z., Wong, F., Choudhury, A. K., Kamath, P. S., Topazian, M., Torre, A., Hayes, P. C., George, J., Idilman, R., Seto, W.-K., Desalegn, H., Alvares-da-Silva, M. R., Bush, B. J., Thacker, L. R., Xie, Q., & Bajaj, J. S. (2024). Global prevalence and characteristics of infections and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients with cirrhosis: a prospective cohort study for the CLEARED Consortium. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 9(11), 997-1009. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-1253%2824%2900224-3

Background
Infections have a poor prognosis in inpatients with cirrhosis. We aimed to determine regional variations in infections and their association with clinical outcomes in a global cohort of inpatients with cirrhosis.
Methods
In this prospec... Read More about Global prevalence and characteristics of infections and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients with cirrhosis: a prospective cohort study for the CLEARED Consortium.

Challenges and opportunities for identifying people with Familial hypercholesterolaemia in the UK: Evidence from the National FH PASS database (2024)
Journal Article
Cox, E., Faria, R., Saramago, P., Haralambos, K., Watson, M., Humphries, S. E., Qureshi, N., & Woods, B. (2024). Challenges and opportunities for identifying people with Familial hypercholesterolaemia in the UK: Evidence from the National FH PASS database. Journal of Clinical Lipidology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2024.08.007

Background
Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a monogenic disorder that causes high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Cascade testing, where relatives of known individuals with FH (‘index’) are genetically tested, is effective... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for identifying people with Familial hypercholesterolaemia in the UK: Evidence from the National FH PASS database.

The effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation dynamics of silica nanofluid (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, Z., & Yan, Y. (2024). The effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation dynamics of silica nanofluid. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 234, Article 126156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.126156

This study focuses on the influence of copper surface roughness on evaporation dynamics and deposition mode of fixed silica nanofluid droplets. It aims to achieve an enhanced cooling effect based on silica nanofluid spray. The results show that rough... Read More about The effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation dynamics of silica nanofluid.

d-Xylose oxetane copolymers as bioderived and tuneable polyesters for amorphous solid dispersions (2024)
Journal Article
F. Clark, E., Howard, A., D. Morales Feliu, S., F. McCabe, J., C. Burley, J., Taresco, V., & Buchard, A. (2024). d-Xylose oxetane copolymers as bioderived and tuneable polyesters for amorphous solid dispersions. RSC Applied Polymers, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4LP00203B

The ring-opening copolymerisation of cyclic anhydrides with an oxetane derived from natural monosaccharide D-xylose has been used to synthesise fully biobased water soluble polyesters, which are able to stabilise the amorphous phases of nifedipine an... Read More about d-Xylose oxetane copolymers as bioderived and tuneable polyesters for amorphous solid dispersions.

Ice source heat pump system for energy supply via gas pipelines – Part1: Performance analysis in residential units (2024)
Journal Article
Mehdipour, R., Garvey, S., Baniamerian, Z., & Cardenas, B. (2024). Ice source heat pump system for energy supply via gas pipelines – Part1: Performance analysis in residential units. Energy, 309, Article 132974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.132974

This study evaluates the performance of heat pumps using water or ice as the heat source, with energy transferred via repurposed gas delivery pipes. The proposed system offers significant benefits for urban energy networks, particularly in densely po... Read More about Ice source heat pump system for energy supply via gas pipelines – Part1: Performance analysis in residential units.

An asset management modelling framework for wind turbine blades considering monitoring system reliability (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, W., Prescott, D., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Saleh, A., & Chiachio Ruano, M. (2024). An asset management modelling framework for wind turbine blades considering monitoring system reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 252, Article 110478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2024.110478

By incorporating information about asset condition from a monitoring system, engineers can utilize asset management models to manage maintenance activities on wind turbine blades throughout their lifespan. This can lower operating and maintenance cos... Read More about An asset management modelling framework for wind turbine blades considering monitoring system reliability.

Mental Health, Well-being and Performance at Work: The role of organisational, leadership and team-level factors (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, L. E., Wishart, M., Hassard, J., Bourke, J., Roper, S., Belt, V., Bartle, C., Leka, S., & Blake, H. (2024, September). Mental Health, Well-being and Performance at Work: The role of organisational, leadership and team-level factors. Presented at BAM 2024 Conference, Nottingham, UK

This symposium will present evidence on the organisational, leadership, and team-level factors which have a role in mental well-being, performance and innovation. Three papers will present the latest findings from research funded by the ESRC: results... Read More about Mental Health, Well-being and Performance at Work: The role of organisational, leadership and team-level factors.

Analysis of conducted EMI for dual active bridge DC-DC converter in an electric traction application (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adhena, H. H., Watson, A. J., Greedy, S., Moonen, N., & Leferink, F. (2024, June). Analysis of conducted EMI for dual active bridge DC-DC converter in an electric traction application. Presented at 13th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2024), Nottingham, UK

Dual active bridge (DAB) converters are commonly used in power conversion applications with switching devices that operate at high frequencies and high switching speeds. There can be current ringing (oscillation) both in the collector of the switchin... Read More about Analysis of conducted EMI for dual active bridge DC-DC converter in an electric traction application.

The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It (2024)
Book
Korczynski, M. (2024). The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It. Bristol University Press

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed.

Leading sociology of work scholar, Marek Korczynski, praises the discipline’s comprehensive approach to theory, its... Read More about The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It.

Towards a psychotherapy publishing ethics concordat (2024)
Journal Article
Winship, G., Scott, A., & Edgar, J. (2024). Towards a psychotherapy publishing ethics concordat. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2024.2384864

The changing landscape of data management and privacy have far-reaching implications for psychotherapy research regarding confidentiality, informed consent, and data de-identification in scientific publications. This paper reports on discussions amon... Read More about Towards a psychotherapy publishing ethics concordat.