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Preface (2016)
Book Chapter
Hernández Adrián, F. (2016). Preface. In E. S. P. Gabriel, & F. Rosa (Eds.), Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral epistemologies of the Global South (xxii-xxiii). Routledge

Combined exposure of diesel exhaust particles and respirable Soufrière Hills volcanic ash causes a (pro-)inflammatory response in an in vitro multicellular epithelial tissue barrier model (2016)
Journal Article
Tomašek, I., Horwell, C., Damby, D., Barošová, H., Geers, C., Petri-Fink, A., …Clift, M. (2016). Combined exposure of diesel exhaust particles and respirable Soufrière Hills volcanic ash causes a (pro-)inflammatory response in an in vitro multicellular epithelial tissue barrier model. Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 13(1), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12989-016-0178-9

Background: There are justifiable health concerns regarding the potential adverse effects associated with human exposure to volcanic ash (VA) particles, especially when considering communities living in urban areas already exposed to heightened air p... Read More about Combined exposure of diesel exhaust particles and respirable Soufrière Hills volcanic ash causes a (pro-)inflammatory response in an in vitro multicellular epithelial tissue barrier model.

Cue versus independent food attributes: the effect of adding attributes in choice experiments (2016)
Journal Article
Caputo, V., Scarpa, R., & Nayga, R. (2017). Cue versus independent food attributes: the effect of adding attributes in choice experiments. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 44(2), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbw022

We examine the effects of adding an independent food attribute on consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for both cue and independent food attributes. In three separate choice experiments, a cue attribute present along the entire sequence of c... Read More about Cue versus independent food attributes: the effect of adding attributes in choice experiments.

Particulate matter produced during commercial sugarcane harvesting and processing: a respiratory health hazard? (2016)
Journal Article
Le Blond, J., Woskie, S., Horwell, C., & Williamson, B. (2017). Particulate matter produced during commercial sugarcane harvesting and processing: a respiratory health hazard?. Atmospheric Environment, 149, 34-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.11.012

Emissions from sugarcane burning are known to impact on the respiratory health of sugar estate workers and local populations. Despite this, there have been few studies on occupational and ambient exposures and risks from airborne particulate matter (... Read More about Particulate matter produced during commercial sugarcane harvesting and processing: a respiratory health hazard?.

The influence of genotype information on psychiatrists’ treatment recommendations: more experienced clinicians know better what to ignore (2016)
Journal Article
McMichel, A., Boeri, M., Rolison, J., Kane, J., O’Neill, F., Kee, F., & Scarpa, R. (2017). The influence of genotype information on psychiatrists’ treatment recommendations: more experienced clinicians know better what to ignore. Value in Health, 20(1), 126-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2016.09.2395

Background This study applies attribute nonattendance to medical decision making. We aimed to demonstrate how this type of analysis can be used in medical decision making to assess whether psychiatrists were influenced in their treatment recommendati... Read More about The influence of genotype information on psychiatrists’ treatment recommendations: more experienced clinicians know better what to ignore.

Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby? (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, P., Cotter, G., Brown, A., & Chadwick, P. (2017). Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(1), 1218-1226. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2776

Classical novae were revealed as a surprise source of γ-rays in Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. During the first 8 yr since the LAT was launched, 6 novae in total have been detected to >5σ in γ-rays, in contrast to the 69 discovered op... Read More about Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby?.

Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams (2016)
Journal Article
Botha, M. (2016). Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams. American Literary History, 28(4), 779-786. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajw054

In this brief set of responses to the five challenging and insightful articles gathered above under the banner, Security Studies and American Literary History, I draw attention to a particularly pressing area for future research on the relation betwe... Read More about Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams.

A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour (2016)
Journal Article
Lloret-Cabot, M., Wheeler, S. J., & Sánchez, M. (2017). A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour. Acta Geotechnica, 12(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-016-0497-x

The coupled mechanical and water retention elasto-plastic constitutive model of Wheeler, Sharma and Buisson (the Glasgow coupled model, GCM) predicts unique unsaturated isotropic normal compression and unsaturated critical state planar surfaces for s... Read More about A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour.

Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Beckett, C., Fourie, A., & Toll, D. (2016). Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911011

Water repellent (or “hydrophobic” or “non-wetting”) soils have been studied by soil scientists for well over a century. These soils are typified by poor water infiltration, which leads to increased soil erosion and poor crop growth. However, the impo... Read More about Water repellent soils: the case for unsaturated soil mechanics.

Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Osinski, P., Toll, D., & Koda, E. (2016). Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911008

The design of engineering structures is still a challenging task when considering unsaturated soil mechanics behaviour. The present paper focuses on analysing Soil Water Retention Curves (SWRC) for clayey soil samples collected from a purpose built e... Read More about Comparison of Soil Water Retention Curves for sandy clay, obtained using different laboratory testing methods.

Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Toll, D., Hughes, P., & Asquith, J. (2016). Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160910013

Measurement of soil suction is important as soil suction is one of the two stress-state variables that control both the hydro and mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. One of the soil suction measurement techniques is the filter paper method. Ev... Read More about Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment.

Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Y., Sheng, D., Ross, K., & Toll, D. G. (2016). Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160911005

A recently proposed water retention model has been further developed for the application on unsaturated deformable soils. The physical mechanisms underpinning the water retention characteristic of soils was at first described in terms of traditional... Read More about Modelling of the water retention characteristic of deformable soils.