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Performance of sustainable road pavements founded on clay subgrades treated with eco-friendly cementitious materials (2022)
Journal Article
Amakye, S. Y., Abbey, S. J., Booth, C. A., & Oti, J. (2022). Performance of sustainable road pavements founded on clay subgrades treated with eco-friendly cementitious materials. Sustainability, 14(19), 12588. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912588

Clays encountered during road construction are mostly weak and result in major pavement failures due to their low California bearing ratio (CBR) and high swelling potential. In this study, sustainable and eco-friendly waste materials including brick... Read More about Performance of sustainable road pavements founded on clay subgrades treated with eco-friendly cementitious materials.

Excellence in book art exhibition (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S. Excellence in book art exhibition. [artists' books]. Exhibited at Wollaton Library, Nottingham. 3 October 2022 - 29 October 2022. (Unpublished)

Showcasing the wonder of book arts, from unique hand-made books to book sculptures selected book artists from the region and beyond. SELECTED ARTISTS Sarah Bodman, Louisa Boyd, Melanie Bush, Larissa Cox, Lizanne van Essen, Sarah Grace-Dye, Paul... Read More about Excellence in book art exhibition.

Earthship buildings: Stakeholder opinions of their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the United Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
Booth, C., Horry, R., Majeed Mahamadu, A., Manu, P., Awuah, K., Aboagye, N., …Prabhakaran, A. (2023). Earthship buildings: Stakeholder opinions of their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the United Kingdom. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 176(4), 192-198. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.22.00026

Society requires additional affordable housing to meet its growing demands. Further, people expect their homes to meet sustainability targets and for the lifestyles they proffer to accord with low impact living. Earthship buildings are marketed as be... Read More about Earthship buildings: Stakeholder opinions of their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the United Kingdom.

Targeted support is needed to protect the wellbeing of researchers working with emotionally challenging material (2022)
Report
Hammet, J., Garcia-Reyes, K., & Nunan, C. (2022). Targeted support is needed to protect the wellbeing of researchers working with emotionally challenging material. Policy Bristol: ESRC

This project, funded by the ESRC IAA, focused on the lived experiences of PhD and early career researchers who are routinely exposed to emotionally challenging material. It investigated existing wellbeing resources and piloted counsellor-led trai... Read More about Targeted support is needed to protect the wellbeing of researchers working with emotionally challenging material.

Circular cumulative causation (2022)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (in press). Circular cumulative causation. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

Three different strands of Circular Cumulative Causation can be distinguished: 1) Veblen’s “Cumulative causation”; 2) Myrdal’s “Circular Cumulative Causation”, 3) and Young-Kaldor “Cumulative causation”. (Berger 2009)

Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh (2022)
Report
Wilks, R., & O'Neill, R. (2022). Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh

Having conducted a review of the impact of the Scottish national BSL plan on deaf education, in particular its issues, failures and successes, during Phase 1 of this project, the purpose of this report was to ascertain whether there is an appetite at... Read More about Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh.

A wide spectral range sky radiance model (2022)
Journal Article
Vévoda, P., Bashford-Rogers, T., Kolářová, M., & Wilkie, A. (2022). A wide spectral range sky radiance model. Computer Graphics Forum, 41(7), 291-298. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14677

Pre-computed models of sky radiance are a tool to rapidly determine incident solar irradiance in applications as diverse as movie VFX, lighting simulation for architecture, experimental biology, and flight simulators. Several such models exist, but m... Read More about A wide spectral range sky radiance model.

Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to predict intrinsic compressibility characteristic of Clay (2022)
Journal Article
Eyo, E. E., Abbey, S. J., & Booth, C. A. (2022). Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to predict intrinsic compressibility characteristic of Clay. Applied Sciences, 12(19), https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199940

Reconstituted clays have often provided the basis for the interpretation and modelling of the properties of natural clays. The term “intrinsic” was introduced to describe a clay remoulded or reconstituted at moisture content up to 1.5 times its liqui... Read More about Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to predict intrinsic compressibility characteristic of Clay.

Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape (2022)
Journal Article
Fialas, P. C., Gilmour, L. R. V., Vickress, S., Underwood, E., Williams, C. A., Miller, H., & Lintott, P. R. (2022). Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), e9350. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9350

Species-specific responses to landscape configuration and landscape composition have been studied extensively. However, little work has been done to compare intraspecific differences in habitat preferences. Bats have potential as good bioindicator ta... Read More about Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape.

K. William Kapp (2022)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (in press). K. William Kapp. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

August Karl Wilhelm Kapp (*1910 in Königsberg – †1976 Dubrovnik) was born in the cultural and economic capital of East Prussia during the epoch of Imperial Germany. His formative years saw post-WW I revolutions of 1918, territorial separation of East... Read More about K. William Kapp.

Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks (2022)
Journal Article
Tsakalos, K., Dragkola, P., Karamani, R., Tsompanas, M., Provata, A., Dimitrakis, P., …Sirakoulis, G. C. (2022). Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 69(10), 4128-4140. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3187376

Synchronization transition in neuromorphic networks has attracted much attention recently as a fundamental property of biological neural networks, which relies on network connectivity along with different synaptic features. In this work, an area-opti... Read More about Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks.

Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device (2022)
Journal Article
Stratakos, A., & Hansen, M. (2022). Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device. Applied Sciences, 12(19), Article 9909. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199909

Featured Application: Here, we report a practical and precise method for the identification of foodborne pathogenic bacteria using a Raman handheld device equipped with an orbital raster scan (ORS) technology that enables the system to generate a dis... Read More about Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device.

Social costs (2022)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (in press). Social costs. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

The root concern of American institutionalism is, arguably, the social waste of business enterprise. (Rutherford 2015; Gruchy 1976) In this tradition, the most comprehensive account and theory of social costs is “The Social Costs of Business Enterpri... Read More about Social costs.

Freight: The final frontier (2022)
Journal Article
Lyons, G. (in press). Freight: The final frontier. Logistics and Transport Focus, 29-30

On 14 July 2022 the 13th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat Series took place. With a panel of experts, this addressed the future of freight. This short article is the author's abridged writeup of that event.

A systematic review on the effectiveness of remediation methods for oil contaminated soils (2022)
Journal Article
Michael-Igolima, U., Abbey, S. J., & Ifelebuegu, A. O. (2022). A systematic review on the effectiveness of remediation methods for oil contaminated soils. Environmental Advances, 9, 100319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100319

There is no doubt that several soil remediation methods have been applied in removing oil contaminants in the soil. Selecting an appropriate method is critical for effective cleanup of a contaminated site. The aim of this study is to review field stu... Read More about A systematic review on the effectiveness of remediation methods for oil contaminated soils.

Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate (2022)
Conference Proceeding
MacKey, B., Bremner, P., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (678-685). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900587

Social isolation is an issue that effects many people, especially those from ethic minorities, LGBTQIA+ communities, the elderly, those in long-term healthcare, and those living with life-limiting illnesses. It has become increasingly evident during... Read More about Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate.

Ego-graph replay based continual learning for misinformation engagement prediction (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bo, H., McConville, R., Hong, J., & Liu, W. (2022). Ego-graph replay based continual learning for misinformation engagement prediction. In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (01-08). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892557

Online social network platforms have a problem with misinformation. One popular way of addressing this problem is via the use of machine learning based automated misinformation detection systems to classify if a post is misinformation. Instead of pos... Read More about Ego-graph replay based continual learning for misinformation engagement prediction.

The Rohingya crisis: A critical analysis of the United Nations security council and international human rights law (2022)
Journal Article
Nartey, E. K. (2022). The Rohingya crisis: A critical analysis of the United Nations security council and international human rights law. Athens Journal of Law, 8(4), 449-474. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajl.8-4-6

This essay reviews the human rights violations against the Rohingya people in 2017 and assesses the effectiveness of accountability under the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It is concluded that under the principles of ethics and integrity... Read More about The Rohingya crisis: A critical analysis of the United Nations security council and international human rights law.

Foreword (2022)
Book Chapter
Crociani-Windland, L., & Silver, R. (2022). Foreword. In R. R. Mersky (Ed.), The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop A Guide for Professionals. London: Routledge