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Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes? (2024)
Book Chapter
Siddiqui, N. (in press). Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes?. In V. Boliver, & N. Siddiqui (Eds.), Researching Social Inequalities in Higher Education: Access, Diversity and Inclusion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003452430-3

Financial incentives have been widely implemented for the improvement of participation and subsequent educational outcomes of disadvantaged and underrepresented students in education. This chapter presents an evaluation of a well-designed and careful... Read More about Do Supported Progression and Bursary Initiatives Improve Student Outcomes?.

Stress-based topology optimization using maximum entropy basis functions-based meshless method (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, I., Ullah, Z., Ullah, B., Siraj-ul-Islam, & Khan, W. (online). Stress-based topology optimization using maximum entropy basis functions-based meshless method. Engineering with Computers, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-02047-2

This paper presents volume-constrained stress minimization-based, topology optimization. The maximum entropy (maxent) basis functions-based meshless method for two-dimensional linear elastic structures is explored. This work focuses to test the effec... Read More about Stress-based topology optimization using maximum entropy basis functions-based meshless method.

Multi-million-year magmatic and hydrothermal activity is key to the formation of supergiant to behemothian porphyry copper deposits (2024)
Journal Article
Virmond, A. L., Wotzlaw, J.-F., Rojas-Arancibia, R., Selby, D., & Chelle-Michou, C. (2024). Multi-million-year magmatic and hydrothermal activity is key to the formation of supergiant to behemothian porphyry copper deposits. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 179(10), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02167-4

Understanding the primary controls on mineral deposit formation and size is essential for sourcing the metals required by our ever-growing economy. The tonnage of porphyry copper deposits ranges five orders of magnitude but the key mechanisms and pro... Read More about Multi-million-year magmatic and hydrothermal activity is key to the formation of supergiant to behemothian porphyry copper deposits.

Nonconjugated Polyurethane Derivatives with Aggregation-Induced Luminochromism for Multicolor and White Photoluminescent Films (2024)
Journal Article
Jiang, N., Meng, Y.-J., Zhu, C.-Y., Li, K.-X., Li, X., Xu, Y.-H., Xu, J.-W., & Bryce, M. R. (online). Nonconjugated Polyurethane Derivatives with Aggregation-Induced Luminochromism for Multicolor and White Photoluminescent Films. ACS Macro Letters, 1226-1232. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00534

A simple and effective strategy to obtain solid-state multicolor emitting materials is a particularly attractive topic. Nonconventional/nonconjugated polymers are receiving widespread attention because of their advantages of rich structural diversity... Read More about Nonconjugated Polyurethane Derivatives with Aggregation-Induced Luminochromism for Multicolor and White Photoluminescent Films.

Advancing Healthcare Practice and Education via Data Sharing: Demonstrating the Utility of Open Data by Training an Artificial Intelligence Model to Assess Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skills (2024)
Journal Article
Constable, M. D., Zhang, F. X., Conner, T., Monk, D., Rajsic, J., Ford, C., Park, L. J., Platt, A., Porteous, D., Grierson, L., & Shum, H. P. H. (online). Advancing Healthcare Practice and Education via Data Sharing: Demonstrating the Utility of Open Data by Training an Artificial Intelligence Model to Assess Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skills. Advances in Health Sciences Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-024-10369-5

Health professional education stands to gain substantially from collective efforts toward building video databases of skill performances in both real and simulated settings. An accessible resource of videos that demonstrate an array of performances –... Read More about Advancing Healthcare Practice and Education via Data Sharing: Demonstrating the Utility of Open Data by Training an Artificial Intelligence Model to Assess Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skills.

An assessment of seasonal bait uptake by individual grey squirrels to develop a delivery system for oral contraceptives (2024)
Journal Article
Beatham, S. E., Stephens, P. A., Goodwin, D., Coats, J., Rochester, I., Thomas, E., Rochester, A., & Massei, G. (online). An assessment of seasonal bait uptake by individual grey squirrels to develop a delivery system for oral contraceptives. Pest Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.8379

Globally, human–wildlife conflicts continue to increase, owing to human population growth and expansion. Many of these conflicts concern the impacts of invasive non‐native species. In the UK, the invasive, non‐native grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensi... Read More about An assessment of seasonal bait uptake by individual grey squirrels to develop a delivery system for oral contraceptives.

Superpixel-based Anomaly Detection for Irregular Textures with a Focus on Pixel-level Accuracy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rafiei, M., Breckon, T. P., & Iosifidis, A. (2024, June). Superpixel-based Anomaly Detection for Irregular Textures with a Focus on Pixel-level Accuracy. Presented at 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Yokohama, Japan

Recent anomaly detection methods achieve high performance on commonly used image and pixel-level metrics. However, due to the imbalance in the number of normal and abnormal pixels commonly encountered in anomaly detection problems, commonly adopted p... Read More about Superpixel-based Anomaly Detection for Irregular Textures with a Focus on Pixel-level Accuracy.

Influencing Search (2024)
Journal Article
Janssen, M. C. W., & Williams, C. (online). Influencing Search. The RAND Journal of Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12475

We show that in search markets an influencer who recommends a product to her followers improves consumer surplus and total welfare despite the firm paying for her recommendation. As consumers learn their value for the product upon search, they will n... Read More about Influencing Search.

Hedging political risk in international portfolios (2024)
Journal Article
Lotfi, S., Pagliardi, G., Paparoditis, E., & Zenios, S. A. (in press). Hedging political risk in international portfolios. European Research Journal,

We show that internationally diversified portfolios carry sizeable political risk premia and expose investors to tail risk. We use a portfolio selection model for skewed distributions to obtain political efficient frontiers and develop a new asymptot... Read More about Hedging political risk in international portfolios.

Exploring the Impact of Stigma on Health and Wellbeing: Insights from Mothers with Lived Experience Accessing Recovery Services (2024)
Journal Article
Lochhead, L., Addison, M., Cavener, J., Scott, S., & McGovern, W. (in press). Exploring the Impact of Stigma on Health and Wellbeing: Insights from Mothers with Lived Experience Accessing Recovery Services. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(9), Article 1189. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091189

Stigmatisation is the process by which an individual is devalued based on their attributes, characteristics, and/or behaviour, with this often leading to prejudice, social and health-related harms, active discrimination, and microaggressions. The aim... Read More about Exploring the Impact of Stigma on Health and Wellbeing: Insights from Mothers with Lived Experience Accessing Recovery Services.

Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53–54°S) during the last glacial – interglacial transition (2024)
Journal Article
McCulloch, R. D., Bentley, M. J., Fabel, D., Fernández-Navarro, H., García, J.-L., Hein, A. S., Huynh, C., Jamieson, S. S., Lira, M.-P., Lüthgens, C., Nield, G. A., San Román, M., & Tisdall, E. W. (online). Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53–54°S) during the last glacial – interglacial transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, Article 108866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108866

Raised shorelines and associated lacustrine sediments in the central Estrecho de Magallanes (Strait of Magellan) have been interpreted as products of cordilleran glaciers impounding a large proglacial lake and preventing drainage to the South Pacific... Read More about Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53–54°S) during the last glacial – interglacial transition.

Environments of Luminous Low-frequency Radio Galaxies Since Cosmic Noon: Jet-mode Feedback Dominates in Groups (2024)
Journal Article
Petter, G. C., Hickox, R. C., Morabito, L. K., & Alexander, D. M. (2024). Environments of Luminous Low-frequency Radio Galaxies Since Cosmic Noon: Jet-mode Feedback Dominates in Groups. The Astrophysical Journal, 972(2), Article 184. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad6849

Coupling between relativistic jets launched by accreting supermassive black holes and the surrounding gaseous media is a vital ingredient in galaxy evolution models. To constrain the environments in which this feedback takes place over cosmic time, w... Read More about Environments of Luminous Low-frequency Radio Galaxies Since Cosmic Noon: Jet-mode Feedback Dominates in Groups.

One-Index Vector Quantization Based Adversarial Attack on Image Classification (2024)
Journal Article
Fan, H., Qin, X., Chen, S., Shum, H. P. H., & Li, M. (2024). One-Index Vector Quantization Based Adversarial Attack on Image Classification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 186, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2024.09.001

To improve storage and transmission, images are generally compressed. Vector quantization (VQ) is a popular compression method as it has a high compression ratio that suppresses other compression techniques. Despite this, existing adversarial attack... Read More about One-Index Vector Quantization Based Adversarial Attack on Image Classification.

Re-entrant percolation in active Brownian hard disks (2024)
Journal Article
Evans, D., Martín-Roca, J., Harmer, N. J., Valeriani, C., & Miller, M. A. (online). Re-entrant percolation in active Brownian hard disks. Soft Matter, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00975d

Non-equilibrium clustering and percolation are investigated in an archetypal model of two-dimensional active matter using dynamic simulations of self-propelled Brownian repulsive particles. We concentrate on the single-phase region up to moderate lev... Read More about Re-entrant percolation in active Brownian hard disks.