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Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies (2024)
Journal Article
Rella, L., Hansen, K. B., Thylsturp, N. B., Campbell-Verduyn, M., Preda, A., Rodima-Taylor, D., Xu, R., & Straube, T. (online). Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2024.2414312

This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockchain. The term hybridisation is frequently invoked to... Read More about Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies.

BaYaka mothers balance childcare and subsistence tasks during collaborative foraging in Congo Basin (2024)
Journal Article
Visine, A. E. S., Boyette, A. H., Ouamba, Y. R., Lew-Levy, S., Sarma, M. S., & Jang, H. (2024). BaYaka mothers balance childcare and subsistence tasks during collaborative foraging in Congo Basin. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 24893. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-75467-1

Across cultures, mothers balance childcare with other labour. Hunter-gatherer mothers face a daily choice of whether to take infants on foraging trips or leave them with caregivers in the settlement, as well as deciding with whom to forage. Yet, it r... Read More about BaYaka mothers balance childcare and subsistence tasks during collaborative foraging in Congo Basin.

An optimal nonlinear fractional order controller for passive/active base isolation building equipped with friction-tuned mass dampers (2024)
Journal Article
Akbari, M., Zamani, A.-A., Seifi, M., Pantò, B., Falborski, T., & Jankowski, R. (2025). An optimal nonlinear fractional order controller for passive/active base isolation building equipped with friction-tuned mass dampers. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 140(Part 1), Article 108405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108405

This paper presents an optimal nonlinear fractional-order controller (ONFOC) designed to reduce the seismic responses of tall buildings equipped with a base-isolation (BI) system and friction-tuned mass dampers (FTMDs). The parameters for the BI and... Read More about An optimal nonlinear fractional order controller for passive/active base isolation building equipped with friction-tuned mass dampers.

Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music (2024)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Kirts, C., & Saarikallio, S. (online). Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music. Psychology of Music, https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241279763

We present a novel framework for music and emotion research that addresses emotional experiences with music as functional episodes. This framework, called the Episode Model, places the situation and the function of the music for the individual at the... Read More about Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music.

Chiral and racemic BINOL spiroborate anions and radical-cation salt with BEDT-TTF (2024)
Journal Article
Ogar, J. O., Blundell, T. J., Usman, R., Vavrovič, M., & Martin, L. (online). Chiral and racemic BINOL spiroborate anions and radical-cation salt with BEDT-TTF. Polyhedron, Article 117262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2024.117262

Sodium salts of the spiroborate anion bis[(1,1′-binaphthalene)-2,2′-diolato-O,O’]borate in enantiopure and racemic forms have been obtained through reaction of BORAX (sodium tetraborate hexahydrate) with the corresponding stereoisomers of BINOL [(1,1... Read More about Chiral and racemic BINOL spiroborate anions and radical-cation salt with BEDT-TTF.

The Use of High-Capacity Tensiometer for Cyclic Triaxial Testing of Railway Formation Material (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, A., Azizi, A., & Toll, D. G. (2024, November). The Use of High-Capacity Tensiometer for Cyclic Triaxial Testing of Railway Formation Material. Presented at 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Sydney, Australia

The formation layers of railway embankments are often unsaturated and subjected to coupled cyclic traffic-induced and hydraulic loading. Understanding this coupled response requires the development of a testing protocol capable of subjecting soil sam... Read More about The Use of High-Capacity Tensiometer for Cyclic Triaxial Testing of Railway Formation Material.

Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities (2024)
Journal Article
Keating, C., Kilbride, E., Stalham, M. A., Nellist, C., Milner, J., Humphris, S., Toth, I., Mable, B. K., & Ijaz, U. Z. (2024). Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities. Microbiome, 12(1), Article 210. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01918-6

Background: Understanding the interaction between environmental conditions, crop yields, and soil health is crucial for sustainable agriculture in a changing climate. Management practices to limit disease are a balancing act. For example, in potato p... Read More about Balancing the scales: assessing the impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities.

On the principle of reciprocity in inelastic electron scattering (2024)
Journal Article
Mendis, B. G. (online). On the principle of reciprocity in inelastic electron scattering. Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273324009550

In electron microscopy the principle of reciprocity is often used to imply time reversal symmetry. While this is true for elastic scattering, its applicability to inelastic scattering is less well established. From the second law of thermodynamics, t... Read More about On the principle of reciprocity in inelastic electron scattering.

ChatGPT versus human essayists: an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence for authorship and academic integrity in the humanities (2024)
Journal Article
Revell, T., Yeadon, W., Cahilly-Bretzin, G., Clarke, I., Manning, G., Jones, J., Mulley, C., Pascual, R. J., Bradley, N., Thomas, D., & Leneghan, F. (in press). ChatGPT versus human essayists: an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence for authorship and academic integrity in the humanities. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 20(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-024-00161-8

Generative AI has prompted educators to reevaluate traditional teaching and assessment methods. This study examines AI’s ability to write essays analysing Old English poetry; human markers assessed and attempted to distinguish them from authentic ana... Read More about ChatGPT versus human essayists: an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence for authorship and academic integrity in the humanities.

Development of an open-source tool for risk assessment in pulmonary endarterectomy (2024)
Journal Article
Liley, J., Bunclark, K., Newnham, M., Cannon, J., Sheares, K., Taboada, D., Ng, C., Screaton, N., Jenkins, D., Pepke-Zaba, J., & Toshner, M. (in press). Development of an open-source tool for risk assessment in pulmonary endarterectomy. European Respiratory Journal,

Background
Risk prediction tools are routinely utilised in cardiothoracic surgery but have not been developed for pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA). There is no data on whether patients undergoing PEA may benefit from a tailored risk modelling approach... Read More about Development of an open-source tool for risk assessment in pulmonary endarterectomy.

Interleaving in mathematical category learning (2024)
Journal Article
Rowlandson, P., & Simpson, A. (in press). Interleaving in mathematical category learning. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,

On the basis of a substantial, robust and well-replicated cognitive science research literature, interleaving has been recommended across a wide range of professional pedagogical works as an evidence-based strategy for mathematics teachers. This pape... Read More about Interleaving in mathematical category learning.

Differential behaviour of a risk score for emergency hospital admission by demographics in Scotland -a retrospective study (2024)
Journal Article
Thoma, I., Rogers, S., Ireland, J., Porteous, R., Borland, K., Vallejos, C. A., Aslett, L. J. M., & Liley, J. (in press). Differential behaviour of a risk score for emergency hospital admission by demographics in Scotland -a retrospective study. PLoS Digital Medicine,

The Scottish Patients at Risk of Re-Admission and Admission (SPARRA) score predicts individual risk of emergency hospital admission for approximately 80% of the Scottish population. It was developed using routinely collected electronic health records... Read More about Differential behaviour of a risk score for emergency hospital admission by demographics in Scotland -a retrospective study.

Certified B Corps: An Examination of a Standard Based Approach to Stakeholder Governance (2024)
Journal Article
Adeyeye, A. (2024). Certified B Corps: An Examination of a Standard Based Approach to Stakeholder Governance. European Business Law Review, 35(6), 755-778. https://doi.org/10.54648/eulr2024041

In 2015, B Corp certification was launched in the UK. Since then, over 1,200 companies have adopted certified B Corps status. Most certified B Corps in the UK are small and medium-sized, with SMEs accounting for 99.9% of businesses in the UK. The B... Read More about Certified B Corps: An Examination of a Standard Based Approach to Stakeholder Governance.

Assessing the feasibility of the GOTT (Gabapentinoid and Opioid Tapering Toolkit) in a primary care setting in North-East England (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, L., Cole, F., Kinchin, R., Francis, A., Winiarek, K., Hampshire, K., & Chazot, P. (online). Assessing the feasibility of the GOTT (Gabapentinoid and Opioid Tapering Toolkit) in a primary care setting in North-East England. British Journal of Pain, https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637241291534

Objective
To assess the feasibility and possible impacts of implementation of systematic non-pharmacological interventions to reduce the level of prescribing of opioid and gabapentinoid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP), particularly hig... Read More about Assessing the feasibility of the GOTT (Gabapentinoid and Opioid Tapering Toolkit) in a primary care setting in North-East England.

Rankings and the Organisational-level Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Case Study (2024)
Journal Article
Alhanaya, I., Belal, A., & Gebreiter, F. (online). Rankings and the Organisational-level Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Case Study. Financial Accountability and Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.12418

This paper examines the organisational-level implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education institutions, with a particular emphasis on the roles of rankings in this context. Drawing on translation theory and a case stu... Read More about Rankings and the Organisational-level Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Case Study.

Understanding the Role of Organic Hole Transport Layers on Pinhole Blocking and Performance Improvement in Sb 2 Se 3 Solar Cells (2024)
Journal Article
Shalvey, T. P., Don, C. H., Bowen, L., Veal, T. D., & Major, J. D. (online). Understanding the Role of Organic Hole Transport Layers on Pinhole Blocking and Performance Improvement in Sb 2 Se 3 Solar Cells. Advanced Materials Interfaces, Article 2400394. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400394

Sb2Se3 is an emerging semiconductor which has shown promise for low‐cost photovoltaic applications. After successive record‐efficiencies using a range of device structures, spiro‐OMeTAD has emerged as the default hole transport material (HTM), howeve... Read More about Understanding the Role of Organic Hole Transport Layers on Pinhole Blocking and Performance Improvement in Sb 2 Se 3 Solar Cells.

A Glycopolymer Sensor Array That Differentiates Lectins and Bacteria (2024)
Journal Article
Leslie, K. G., Jolliffe, K. A., Müllner, M., New, E. J., Turnbull, W. B., Fascione, M. A., Friman, V.-P., & Mahon, C. S. (online). A Glycopolymer Sensor Array That Differentiates Lectins and Bacteria. Biomacromolecules, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c01129

Identification of bacterial lectins offers an attractive route to the development of new diagnostics, but the design of specific sensors is complicated by the low selectivity of carbohydrate–lectin interactions. Here we describe a glycopolymer-based... Read More about A Glycopolymer Sensor Array That Differentiates Lectins and Bacteria.

Are local government accounts trusted? Exploring the UK Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee Verdict (2024)
Journal Article
Ferry, L., Fright, M., Midgley, H., Murphie, A., & Sandford, M. (in press). Are local government accounts trusted? Exploring the UK Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee Verdict. Public Money & Management,

This paper analyses the system of local government accounting and auditing in England and how successfully it is performing its role in supporting democratic accountability. To do this, the paper asks whether the accounts of local councils in England... Read More about Are local government accounts trusted? Exploring the UK Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee Verdict.