A discussion on two alternative approaches to CT coupon based K1C determination providing results comparable with ASTM E 399

Iyengar, Parthasarathy; Mardaras, Jon; Soe, Shwe

doi:10.1016/j.prostr.2025.06.080

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Guided self-help for bulimia nervosa: A comparison of individual and group provision (2025)
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This service evaluation explores the implementation of Guided Self-Help (GSH), the first line recommended treatment for Bulimia Nervosa, in both individual and group formats, in an NHS community eating disorder service. The study aimed to examine the... Read More about Guided self-help for bulimia nervosa: A comparison of individual and group provision.

Joining the dots: Part 2. SEND and AP: Creating a second schooling system (2025)
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In the first part of this article published in FORUM 66, 1 (2024), we noted that the English mass state education system, developing over 150 years, had created subsystems for (predominantly disadvantaged) children and/or young people who would not o... Read More about Joining the dots: Part 2. SEND and AP: Creating a second schooling system.

The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation (2025)
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People from different ethnic minorities in the UK are experiencing a steeper increase in dementia diagnosis compared to their white counterparts but are more likely to have a higher risk of dementia, to be diagnosed at a younger age and to die earlie... Read More about The Chinese-Think Brain Health community intervention for dementia prevention in the UK: From theoretical cultural adaptation to evaluation.

Immanent idealism (2025)
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This article introduces immanent idealism as an alternative path in social ontology and theory. It argues for a distinction between three basic ontological dimensions, the ideational, the institutional and the structural. This approach highlights the... Read More about Immanent idealism.

Behind the badge: Addressing organizational and operational stress in policing mental health (2025)
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Police officers in the UK and Ireland experience comparable mental health challenges, largely due to workplace culture and repeated exposure to trauma. Poor management, bullying, and lack of organzational support contribute as much to mental health c... Read More about Behind the badge: Addressing organizational and operational stress in policing mental health.

How police culture impacts mental health: Perspectives from retired police officers (2025)
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Take Home Messages

- A ‘macho’ police culture discourages police officers from discussing or seeking help for mental health struggles.

- Although mental health stigma remains prevalent, generational shifts are helping to foster more open and su... Read More about How police culture impacts mental health: Perspectives from retired police officers.

Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation (2025)
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Background Overactive bladder is a common problem affecting the United Kingdom adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. Initial conservative tre... Read More about Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation.

Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games (2025)
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Programming education faces persistent challenges, particularly in sustaining learner engagement and motivation while teaching abstract concepts like algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving skills. Traditional methods, focused heavily on the... Read More about Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games.

Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review (2025)
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The aim of this realist review was to systematically analyse the peer-reviewed academic literature, reports and blogs to determine: (1) the mechanisms and contexts by which recruitment and early employment experiences lead to poor outcomes for autist... Read More about Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review.

The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries (2025)
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Objectives: Caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions or injuries can experience common psychosocial challenges, regardless of the cause or nature of their child’s visible difference. Despite these common challenges, there is a lack... Read More about The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries.

The organisation of mortgage frauds: an empirical insight into the social networks of organised crime groups involved in mortgage and property fraud in the UK (2025)
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This article examines the role of organised crime groups (OCGs) in the organisation and commission of mortgage and property related frauds. Whilst conventionally in criminological and policing studies, serious and organised crime has been associated... Read More about The organisation of mortgage frauds: an empirical insight into the social networks of organised crime groups involved in mortgage and property fraud in the UK.

Serum mesothelin as a response biomarker for disease progression in pleural mesothelioma, Lung Cancer (2025)
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How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse? (2025)
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Increasing use of the term ‘wokeness’ in the UK has arisen from the Black Lives Matter movement that challenges anti-Black racism from police. BLM has led to the challenging of decision-making around how heritage is presented such as the toppling of... Read More about How is ‘wokeness’ constructed in newspaper articles about British heritage institutions move to be more diverse?.

Biohybrid computing with proteinoids and algae (2025)
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Proteinoids, or thermal proteinoids, are produced by heating amino-acids. When placed in water, proteinoids swell into microspheres which produce neuron-like spikes of electrical potential. This study combines proteinoid microspheres with Emiliania h... Read More about Biohybrid computing with proteinoids and algae.

Geopolitical risk and bond market dynamics: Assessing the impact of threats and realized events (2025)
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This study examines the impact of geopolitical risk on global bond markets, with a focus on distinguishing between geopolitical threats and realized geopolitical events. Using daily data, the study applies a multi-method framework comprising the time... Read More about Geopolitical risk and bond market dynamics: Assessing the impact of threats and realized events.

Paying forward - The new lights press model supporting artists’ books and print-based communities (2025)
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NewLights Press was founded by artist Aaron Cohick in 2000 in Baltimore, USA as a means of publishing his own practice - artists' books and experimental printmaking, as well as works by other artists and writers, all printed and bound by hand in hous... Read More about Paying forward - The new lights press model supporting artists’ books and print-based communities.

The hidden work of everyday decisions in the home - Domestic energy managers and their implications for future smart grids (2025)
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The role of residents in future smart energy systems and grids has been mainly seen as one of reactive users, responding to incentives or information often generated via automated processes. As new smart grids and smart energy systems begin to take s... Read More about The hidden work of everyday decisions in the home - Domestic energy managers and their implications for future smart grids.

Exploring participant generated examples of social change: A two-stage, mixed methods, Delphi study (2025)
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Many of the critical challenges facing our world, especially concerning the climate and ecological emergencies, require social change. Community psychology has a longstanding relationship with social change, but our focus on it, frameworks around it,... Read More about Exploring participant generated examples of social change: A two-stage, mixed methods, Delphi study.

Integration of a vertical voluntary medical male circumcision program into routine health services in Zimbabwe: A solution for sustainable HIV prevention (2025)
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The global health community has recognized the importance of integrating and sustaining health programs within national health systems rather than managing stand-alone ‘vertical’ interventions. Corresponding with these objectives, international aid d... Read More about Integration of a vertical voluntary medical male circumcision program into routine health services in Zimbabwe: A solution for sustainable HIV prevention.

A discussion on two alternative approaches to CT coupon based K1C determination providing results comparable with ASTM E 399 (2025)
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The value of Plane Strain Fracture Toughness of a material calculated in accordance with the ASTM E 399 has been noted to be a specimen size-dependent value. The size-dependency of the same with respect to ductile materials has been an area of debate... Read More about A discussion on two alternative approaches to CT coupon based K1C determination providing results comparable with ASTM E 399.