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Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims (2021)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2021). Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 85(4), 381-400

The relationship between s2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (LP(MP)A 1989) and the doctrine of estoppel has long been a thorny issue; a lingering canker that has bedevilled an otherwise flexible, popular and productive equi... Read More about Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims.

Climate change risks to transport infrastructure (2021)
Report
Robson, E. (2021). Climate change risks to transport infrastructure. [Research paper for Northern Ireland Assembly, NIAR 227-2021]

This paper discusses climate risks to transport infrastructure in Northern Ireland and how they will change with a changing climate. Adaption measures to improve the resilience of transport infrastructure to these climate risks are also discussed.

Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes (2021)
Journal Article
Lloret-Cabot, M., & Sheng, D. (2022). Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes. Computers and Geotechnics, 141, Article 104531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104531

A first order accurate fully implicit integration scheme and four different order explicit substepping integration schemes with automatic error control are used in this paper to integrate the constitutive relations of a critical state model for satur... Read More about Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes.

Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading (2021)
Book Chapter
Ngo, C. N., Massacci, F., Kerschbaum, F., & Williams, J. (2021). Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading. In N. Borisov, & C. Diaz (Eds.), Financial Cryptography and Data Security 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Virtual Event, March 1–5, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (579-598). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64331-0_30

We introduce a new cryptographic scheme, Witness Key Agreement (WKA), that allows a party to securely agree on a secret key with a counter party holding publicly committed information only if the counter party also owns a secret witness in a desired... Read More about Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading.

Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES). (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Mertzimekis, T., Nomikou, P., Petra, E., Batista, P., Cabesinhas, D., Pascoal, A., …Maigne., L. (2021). Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES). In GoodIT '21: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475906

Natural radioactivity in the marine environment has been present since the Earth's formation, while artificial radionuclides were introduced into the oceans in 1944. More recent direct sources exist that feed the oceans, such as low-level liquid disc... Read More about Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES)..

Structural changes to forests during regeneration affect water flux partitioning, water ages and hydrological connectivity: Insights from tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling (2021)
Journal Article
Neill, A. J., Birkel, C., Maneta, M. P., Tetzlaff, D., & Soulsby, C. (2021). Structural changes to forests during regeneration affect water flux partitioning, water ages and hydrological connectivity: Insights from tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 4861-4886. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4861-2021

The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024) (2021)
Book
Bevan, C. (in press). The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024). Routledge

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention. Homelessness is regarded internationally as one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and one of the greatest social... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024).

A General Public Study on Preferences and Welfare Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Dorgali, M., Longo, A., Vass, C., Shields, G., Harrison, R., Scarpa, R., & Boeri, M. (2022). A General Public Study on Preferences and Welfare Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United Kingdom. PharmacoEconomics, 40(1), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-021-01076-9

Background: Antibiotics have led to considerable increases in life expectancy. However, over time, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has accelerated and is now a significant global public health concern. Understanding societal preferences for the use of... Read More about A General Public Study on Preferences and Welfare Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United Kingdom.

Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence (2021)
Journal Article
Truelove, Y., & Ruszczyk, H. A. (2022). Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence. Political Geography, 92, Article 102492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102492

Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the context of understanding cities such as Bharatpur and Dhangadhi in Nepal as well as Delhi, Ind... Read More about Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence.

A Contingent Valuation Test for Measuring the Construct Validity of Willingness-to-pay Estimates derived from choice-experiments (2021)
Journal Article
Crastes Dit Sourd, R., Beaumais, O., Mahieu, P., Martinez-Camblor, P., & Scarpa, R. (2021). A Contingent Valuation Test for Measuring the Construct Validity of Willingness-to-pay Estimates derived from choice-experiments. Land Economics, 97(3), 608-625. https://doi.org/10.3368/wple.97.3.102219-0150r1

We introduce a protocol for measuring the construct validity of competing willingness-to-pay (WTP) distributions derived from mixed logit models. The protocol is based on a two-round survey. Round 1 consists in a standard discrete choice experiment (... Read More about A Contingent Valuation Test for Measuring the Construct Validity of Willingness-to-pay Estimates derived from choice-experiments.

The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Rahman, M. F., & Ruszczyk, H. A. (2021). The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh. In B. Doucet, R. van Melik, & P. Filion (Eds.), Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities, Volume 1: Community and Society (83-91). Policy Press

The unfolding economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fault lines in existing food systems in both developed (Lawrence, 2020) and developing countries (Rahman et al, 2020). Bangladesh, a densely populated and rapidly urb... Read More about The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh.

Are Shareholders Willing To Pay For Financial, Social And Environmental Disclosure? A Choice-Based Experiment (2021)
Journal Article
de Villiers, C., Cho, C., Turner, M., & Scarpa, R. (2023). Are Shareholders Willing To Pay For Financial, Social And Environmental Disclosure? A Choice-Based Experiment. European Accounting Review, 32(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2021.1944890

This study investigates whether shareholders are willing to pay for higher levels of corporate financial, social, and environmental disclosure. We conduct a choice-based conjoint experiment wherein 65 shareholders are asked to make 12 choices, choosi... Read More about Are Shareholders Willing To Pay For Financial, Social And Environmental Disclosure? A Choice-Based Experiment.

JUNE: open-source individual-based epidemiology simulation (2021)
Journal Article
Aylett-Bullock, J., Cuesta-Lazaro, C., Quera-Bofarull, A., Icaza-Lizaola, M., Sedgewick, A., Truong, H., …Krauss, F. (2021). JUNE: open-source individual-based epidemiology simulation. Royal Society Open Science, 8(7), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210506

We introduce June, an open-source framework for the detailed simulation of epidemics on the basis of social interactions in a virtual population constructed from geographically granular census data, reflecting age, sex, ethnicity and socio-economic i... Read More about JUNE: open-source individual-based epidemiology simulation.

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation (2021)
Journal Article
Stuart-Smith, R. F., Otto, F. E., Saad, A. I., Lisi, G., Minnerop, P., Cedervall, K., …Wetzer, T. (2021). Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation. Nature Climate Change, 11, 651-655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01086-7

Lawsuits concerning the impacts of climate change make causal claims about the effect of defendants’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on plaintiffs and have proliferated around the world. Plaintiffs have sought, inter alia, compensation for climate-rel... Read More about Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation.

Numerical integration of an elasto-plastic critical state model for soils under unsaturated conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Lloret-Cabot, M., Wheeler, S. J., Gens, A., & Sloan, S. W. (2021). Numerical integration of an elasto-plastic critical state model for soils under unsaturated conditions. Computers and Geotechnics, 137, Article 104299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104299

This paper presents the complete set of incremental equations for the numerical integration of the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM) and a comprehensive algorithm for its numerical integration. The incremental formulation proposed is expressed in terms of... Read More about Numerical integration of an elasto-plastic critical state model for soils under unsaturated conditions.

Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data (2021)
Journal Article
Nikolopoulos, K., Tsinopoulos, C., & Vasilakis, C. (2023). Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 74(2), 448-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2021.1930208

How can policymakers and planners make informed decisions during a pandemic? What kind of (big) data are needed, and who and when is supposed to provide these? With the Operational Research community unable to get hold of reliable hard data – especia... Read More about Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data.

Aggregate selection, individual selection, and cluster selection: an empirical evaluation and implications for systems research (2021)
Journal Article
Vangumalli, D., Nikolopoulos, K., & Litsiou, K. (2021). Aggregate selection, individual selection, and cluster selection: an empirical evaluation and implications for systems research. Cybernetics and Systems, 52(7), 553-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/01969722.2021.1902049

Data analysts when forecasting large number of time series, they regularly employ one of the following methodological approaches: either select a single forecasting method for the entire dataset (aggregate selection), or use the best forecasting meth... Read More about Aggregate selection, individual selection, and cluster selection: an empirical evaluation and implications for systems research.

Predictive and prescriptive analytics in transportation geotechnics: Three case studies (2021)
Journal Article
Tinoco, J., Parente, M., Gomes Correia, A., Cortez, P., & Toll, D. (2021). Predictive and prescriptive analytics in transportation geotechnics: Three case studies. Transportation Engineering, 5, Article 100074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.treng.2021.100074

Transportation infrastructure is of paramount importance for any country. The construction, management and maintenance of this infrastructure is a complex task that requires a significant amount of resources (e.g., human work equipment, materials, ma... Read More about Predictive and prescriptive analytics in transportation geotechnics: Three case studies.