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Net zero ready new build housing: Benefits and barriers to delivery (2022)
Report

To meet the UK’s legally-binding climate change targets, the Climate Change Committee (2019) and the Sixth Carbon Budget (2020) propose that all new residential buildings should be zero carbon-ready from 2025. Building the zero carbon ready homes req... Read More about Net zero ready new build housing: Benefits and barriers to delivery.

The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation? (2022)
Journal Article

This study investigates how personality and individual experiences influence decision-making processes during the transition into Higher Education (HE). It offers insights into application choices, where applicants employ different quantitative hedgi... Read More about The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation?.

Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity (2022)
Journal Article

Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps. We analysed electrical activity of ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis),... Read More about Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity.

Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China (2022)
Journal Article

China is the largest driver of growth in the global building sector. The longstanding construction boom across China has generated a massive flow of materials with significant associated embodied energy consumption and carbon emissions. Despite the s... Read More about Modelling future trends of annual embodied energy of urban residential building stock in China.

Conference session convenor: 'Shōwa Japan and modern European Art' (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Short-Term safety outcomes of mastectomy and immediate prepectoral implant-based breast reconstruction: Pre-BRA prospective multicentre cohort study (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Prepectoral breast reconstruction (PPBR) has recently been introduced to reduce postoperative pain and improve cosmetic outcomes in women having implant-based procedures. High-quality evidence to support the practice of PPBR, however, is... Read More about Short-Term safety outcomes of mastectomy and immediate prepectoral implant-based breast reconstruction: Pre-BRA prospective multicentre cohort study.

"The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic (2022)
Digital Artefact

Can we find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on- and offline? In this wide-ranging and timely conversation with Jana Bacevic, sociologist and activist Finn Mackay provides important theoretical background and conte... Read More about "The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic.

Mess and making matters in feminist teaching (2022)
Journal Article

How do materials and making come to matter in the messy practices of feminist teaching? This Lab Meeting shares examples of interdisciplinary work in feminist making and teaching across a range of contexts (AI portraiture, printmaking, quilting, musi... Read More about Mess and making matters in feminist teaching.

Psychosocial and health-related experiences of individuals with microtia and craniofacial microsomia and their families: Narrative review over two decades (2022)
Journal Article

Objective: This paper describes 20 years of microtia and craniofacial microsomia (CFM) psychosocial and healthcare studies and suggests directions for clinical care and research. Design: A narrative review of papers January 2000 to July 2021 related... Read More about Psychosocial and health-related experiences of individuals with microtia and craniofacial microsomia and their families: Narrative review over two decades.

Introduction: Global fertility chains and the colonial present of assisted reproductive technologies (2022)
Journal Article

The introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”(re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures,and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colon... Read More about Introduction: Global fertility chains and the colonial present of assisted reproductive technologies.

Sharing experiences on sustaining NGO participation in post conflict space: A Colombia-Northern Ireland dialogue (2022)
Report

How can civil society be supported and enhanced in post-conflict scenarios? Despite the recognition of their added value and importance, NGOs often come under significant strain as they guard the frontline of accountability during conflict and are of... Read More about Sharing experiences on sustaining NGO participation in post conflict space: A Colombia-Northern Ireland dialogue.

Simulation of laparoscopic ultrasound imaging and suturing of the bile duct using silicone (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The laparoscopic treatment of gallstone is a complex procedure requiring multiple skills, notably laparoscopic ultrasounds imaging and laparoscopic suturing. This procedure has many benefits comparing to open surgery, but still fail to be generalised... Read More about Simulation of laparoscopic ultrasound imaging and suturing of the bile duct using silicone.

Can we adopt sea sponges as reliable indicators of aquatic pollution? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Toxic chemical cocktails in aquatic ecosystems exist in various
environmental matrices (water column, sediment, and biota) Therefore, each of these matrices can indicate pollution in an aquatic ecosystem

Aquatic biota as indicators has an advan... Read More about Can we adopt sea sponges as reliable indicators of aquatic pollution?.

Holes in architecture: A queer eye on a design method (2022)
Journal Article

This article analyzes the formation of a conceptual persona in a narrative which some architects use in the design process. It focuses on a description of such a persona borrowed from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What is Philosophy? It present... Read More about Holes in architecture: A queer eye on a design method.

Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of gamma-butyrolactone and gamma-hydroxybutyrate in alcoholic beverage samples (2022)
Journal Article

Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GBH) is a popular recreational drug. Its strong sedative and amnesic effects have led to drug-facilitated sexual assaults, poisonings, overdose, and death. As a result, legislation has restricted its availability leading to GHB... Read More about Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of gamma-butyrolactone and gamma-hydroxybutyrate in alcoholic beverage samples.

The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description (2022)
Journal Article

Research investigating British Sign Language (BSL)–and sign languages more generally–from systemic functional perspectives is gradually increasing but remains nascent overall. The current paper offers a step towards a steadily growing set of function... Read More about The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Special Issue 4: Themed Issue: Precision Medicine and Personalised Healthcare in Psychiatry (2022)
Journal Article

Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating condition putatively triggered by a viral infection. The Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) has been proposed as a causative agent in multiple sclerosis because of observations of an increased... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Special Issue 4: Themed Issue: Precision Medicine and Personalised Healthcare in Psychiatry.

Insights into the use of modular housing in addressing homelessness (2022)
Report

Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalisation in children aged ≤5 years: a scoping review of literature from 2009 to 2021 (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction Following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in many countries, a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisations was reported, surpassing yearly trends pre-pandemic. The changes to RSV epidemiology may have unforeseen effec... Read More about Respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospitalisation in children aged ≤5 years: a scoping review of literature from 2009 to 2021.

Flutter By (2022)
Digital Artefact

Every Friday in March

Together with The One Minutes Foundation, the last month we have been calling for digital moving image works by artists and visual storytellers on the theme of Happiness. What does happiness look like and what power does it h... Read More about Flutter By.