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Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments (2023)
Journal Article
Bernardini, G., Ferreira, T. M., Baquedano Julià, P., Ramírez Eudave, R., & Quagliarini, E. (2024). Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments. Sustainable Cities and Society, 100, Article 105043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.105043

Flood risk in an urban built environment depends on the combination of the hazard, the vulnerability of the built environment itself and its infrastructure (referred to as physical vulnerability), and the exposure and vulnerability... Read More about Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments.

Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Alexandrou, A., Fotouhi, S., Nelson, J., & Cochran, S. (2023, November). Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials. Poster presented at Electroceramics for End Users XII (ECEUXII), Glagow, UK

Piezoelectric materials play a key role in various technological applications owing to their unique elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, often represented in matrix form. Traditional methods for obtaining these properties, as defined by... Read More about Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials.

Multiple innovations in characterizing piezoelectric materials (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Fotouhi, S., Athanasiadis, I., Shvarts, A., Kaczmarczyk, L., Liu, B., Pearce, C., & Cochran, S. (2023, November). Multiple innovations in characterizing piezoelectric materials. Poster presented at Electroceramics for End Users XII (ECEUXII), Glasgow

Characterisation of piezoelectric materials is a key part. The IEEE standard is the only approach that can produce a full elastopiezodielectric matrix. However, it requires multiple samples. This often involves difficulties preparing the samples for... Read More about Multiple innovations in characterizing piezoelectric materials.

The alchemy of metaphor (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Mahood, K. (2023, November). The alchemy of metaphor. Paper presented at Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research, St Anne's College, Oxford

In Joan Didion’s biopic ‘The Centre Will Not Hold’ there’s a moment when she speaks of seeing a five year old girl on acid in Haight Ashbury. ‘It was gold,’ she says, sharp-eyed and birdlike. Didion knew the power of writing to transform... Read More about The alchemy of metaphor.

The effects of psychosocial and behavioral interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
Journal Article
He, J., Lin, J., Sun, W., Cheung, T., Cao, Y., Fu, E., …Tsang, H. W. H. (2023). The effects of psychosocial and behavioral interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 19094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45839-0

Psychosocial and behavioral interventions have been shown to significantly reduce depressive and anxiety symptoms in different populations. Recent evidence suggests that the mental health of the general population has deteriorated significantly since... Read More about The effects of psychosocial and behavioral interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

What is drawing research? Symposium (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Embury, G., Mercier, A., & Masi, C. (2023, November). What is drawing research? Symposium. Presented at What is Drawing Research? Symposium, Birmingham School of Art

Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species cellular crosstalk (2023)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, V., Hancock, J. T., & Corpas, F. J. (2024). Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species cellular crosstalk. In Oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species in post-harvest physiology of horticultural crops (247-271). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91798-8.00001-1

Accumulating data highlight the fact that nitric oxide (NO), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as intercellular key signaling molecules in plants. These molecules act in a well-orchestrated manner that regulates cells redo... Read More about Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species cellular crosstalk.

Economic evaluation of dialysis and comprehensive conservative care for chronic kidney disease using the ICECAP-O and EQ-5D-5L; a comparison of evaluation instruments (2023)
Journal Article
Zahirian Moghadam, T., Powell, J., Sharghi, A., & Zandian, H. (2023). Economic evaluation of dialysis and comprehensive conservative care for chronic kidney disease using the ICECAP-O and EQ-5D-5L; a comparison of evaluation instruments. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 21(1), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-023-00491-3

Background: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients often require long-term care, and while Hemodialysis (HD) is the standard treatment, Comprehensive Conservative Care (CCC) is gaining popularity as an alternative. Economic evaluations comparing their... Read More about Economic evaluation of dialysis and comprehensive conservative care for chronic kidney disease using the ICECAP-O and EQ-5D-5L; a comparison of evaluation instruments.

A quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2023)
Journal Article
Shrimpton, A. J., Brown, V., Vassallo, J., Nolan, J. P., Soar, J., Hamilton, F., …Pickering, A. E. (2024). A quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Anaesthesia, 79(2), 156-167. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16162

It is unclear if cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an aerosol-generating procedure and whether this poses a risk of airborne disease transmission to healthcare workers and bystanders. Use of airborne transmission precautions during cardiopulmonary res... Read More about A quantitative evaluation of aerosol generation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Multi-agent learning of asset maintenance plans through localised subnetworks (2023)
Journal Article
Pérez Hernández, M., Puchkova, A., & Parlikad, A. K. (2024). Multi-agent learning of asset maintenance plans through localised subnetworks. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 127(Part B), Article 107362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107362

Maintenance planning of networked multi-asset systems is a complex problem due to the inherent individual and collective asset constraints and dynamics as well as the size of the system and interdependencies among assets. Although multi-asset systems... Read More about Multi-agent learning of asset maintenance plans through localised subnetworks.

Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62 (2023)
Journal Article
Ward Clavier, S. (2023). Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62. Seventeenth Century, 38(6), 1025-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2266301

This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. The article argues that seventeenth-century clergy may... Read More about Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62.

The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley (2023)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2024). The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22145.nar

Informed by a critical discourse analytical approach to agency, this paper examines the construction of agency in the speeches of Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. The analysis reveals that she enacts her agency in three main ways: (1) con... Read More about The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley.

Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South (2023)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2024). Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22143.nar

This Special Issue expands on the ongoing dialogue on the decolonial project by bringing together thought-provoking papers that examine the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. It draws on data from West Africa, Latin Americ... Read More about Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South.

Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Studley, M., hansen, M., anca, M., thomas, J., & pedamonti, D. (2023, November). Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning. Paper presented at Future Technologies Conference, San Francisco

Real-time control for robotics is a popular research area in the reinforcement learning community. Through the use of techniques such as reward shaping, researchers have managed to train online agents across a multitude of domains. Despite these adva... Read More about Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning.

The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K., & Van der Waag, I. (2023). The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign. In M. Thomas, & G. Curless (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies (784). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198866787.013.39

The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.

A manifesto for slow immersion (2023)
Physical Artefact
Abba, T., & Clark, S. A manifesto for slow immersion. [Print]. Online

Conceived as an answer to the question - how can we curate complex relationships in immersive narratives? This manifesto was presented at ZIPSCENE in Prague (Nov 2023) and distributed to attendees.

Chinese university students’ preferences for physical activity incentive programs: A discrete choice experiment (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Li, Q., Zhang, J., Zhao, X., Jiang, M., Huang, X., …Wu, Y. (2023). Chinese university students’ preferences for physical activity incentive programs: A discrete choice experiment. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1281740. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1281740

Purpose: This study aims to explore and compare Chinese university students’ preferences for various physical activity motivation programs. Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in China from February 25 to March 25, 2022. Parti... Read More about Chinese university students’ preferences for physical activity incentive programs: A discrete choice experiment.