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Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged (2025)
Journal Article

Virus taxonomy, comprising classification and nomenclature, is regulated by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Taxon names are standardized to facilitate recognition and communication, with defined suffixes for each rank (e.g.... Read More about Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged.

Regional concentrations of heavy metals in surface soils and risk of body pain in elderly residential population: A national cohort study in China (2025)
Journal Article

Background: The accumulation of heavy metals in surface soil raises significant environmental and public health concerns around the world. This study aimed to examine the relationship between exposure to heavy metals in surface soil and the risk of p... Read More about Regional concentrations of heavy metals in surface soils and risk of body pain in elderly residential population: A national cohort study in China.

Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: An overview of systematic reviews (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Due to the worldwide pressures on Emergency Departments (EDs), there is a focus on ED interventions to alleviate pressure. Ensuring interventions do not inadvertently impact upon other healthcare sectors is an important outcome. This over... Read More about Emergency department interventions and their effect on subsequent healthcare resource use after discharge: An overview of systematic reviews.

NO more hiding: Whole-plant live imaging of nitric oxide reveals systemic signalling (2025)
Journal Article

This article is a Commentary on Mohanty et al. ( 2025), doi: 10.1111/nph.70094.

Histoire d'eau. Le patrimoine de l'eau jailli des sources pour un developpement alternatif au Maroc (2020)
Book

Pourquoi s’intéresser à la gestion de l’eau dans un pays semi-aride du point de vue de sa dimension patrimoniale, en ce début de XXIème siècle ? Dans quelle mesure est-ce que la dimension patrimoniale peut-elle aider à aborder des problèmes de straté... Read More about Histoire d'eau. Le patrimoine de l'eau jailli des sources pour un developpement alternatif au Maroc.

Reviving indigenous water management practices in Morocco (2021)
Book

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi- arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribu... Read More about Reviving indigenous water management practices in Morocco.

Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering and construction a handbook (2024)
Book

This edited book addresses a gap in literature by advancing current understandings of the applications of immersive technology within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector.

Globally, the architecture, engineering and constru... Read More about Applications of immersive technology in architecture, engineering and construction a handbook.

The psychosocial impact of cleft lip and/or palate on caregivers and individuals in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review (2025)
Journal Article

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) represent the highest incidence, morbidity, and Disability Adjusted Life Years for cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) globally. Most cleft care models now include psychosocial support, yet the psychosocial impacts... Read More about The psychosocial impact of cleft lip and/or palate on caregivers and individuals in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review.

Story completion methods in qualitative research (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter reviews existing scholarship on qualitative story completion. We explicate the theoretical assumptions of qualitative story completion, demonstrating that what you can claim to have identified varies considerably, depending on whether yo... Read More about Story completion methods in qualitative research.

Environmental review: A framework for sustainable water management: Integrating ecological constraints in policy tools in the United Kingdom (1999)
Journal Article

Freshwater in the United Kingdom constitutes a typical example of a supposedly abundant resource for which no system of sustainable use and management has been planned in the past. Indeed, as H. Cook (The Protection and Conservation of Water Resource... Read More about Environmental review: A framework for sustainable water management: Integrating ecological constraints in policy tools in the United Kingdom.

An accounting representation of sustainable agriculture practices: The case of a biogas agricultural unit in Sichuan (2000)
Journal Article

This article provides an accounting representation of a system of sustainable agricultural production, organized around a biogas unit in the Province of Sichuan, China. The aims of this exercise are numerous.

First, it is important to highlight th... Read More about An accounting representation of sustainable agriculture practices: The case of a biogas agricultural unit in Sichuan.

Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming (2025)
Journal Article

Despite calls for curricula to be repurposed around environmental concerns, and the related significance of food-related emissions to global climate change, consideration of the wider impacts of the global food system (positive and negative) are freq... Read More about Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming.

Vibration energy transfer in nonlinear coupled near-identical systems (2025)
Journal Article

This study investigates the dynamic response and vibrational energy transfer characteristics of coupled near-identical systems, with a focus on coupled discrete oscillators and coupled cantilever beams. Using analytical approximations based on the av... Read More about Vibration energy transfer in nonlinear coupled near-identical systems.

Introduction (2000)
Book Chapter

This path-breaking book shows how green accounting can be compatible with ecological economics and how it can contribute to the implementation of sustainability. It explores the history and methodology of green accounting and describes the state of t... Read More about Introduction.

Self-organizing proteinoid–actin networks: Structure and voltage dynamics (2025)
Journal Article

Proteinoids are thermal proteins produced by heating amino acids to their melting point and initiation of polymerization to produce polymeric chains. Proteinoids swell in aqueous solution forming hollow microspheres, usually filled with aqueous solut... Read More about Self-organizing proteinoid–actin networks: Structure and voltage dynamics.

Setting the agenda for green accounting in the 21st century (2000)
Book Chapter

In this conclusion, our objective is to recapitulate the main outcomes of each part of the book and pay special attention to a set of fundamental questions that research in green accounting should help to answer. From this, a synthesis of the main ch... Read More about Setting the agenda for green accounting in the 21st century.

Sustainability, ecological economics and greening the accounts (2000)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses three important areas of research.
Green accounting - an analytical framework, a policy tool.
Sustainability - a concept, and
Ecological Economics - a paradigm.
Developed at different times, they were not originally linked... Read More about Sustainability, ecological economics and greening the accounts.

Alternative green accounting methodologies (2000)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we discuss some of the numerous methodologies that have been adopted, and are still being formulated, in research on green accounting. The variety of these approaches reflects the wide range of understandings and interpretations of g... Read More about Alternative green accounting methodologies.

Experimental investigation of static strength in CFRP and aluminium lugs subjected to uniaxial tensile loading (2025)
Journal Article

This study presents a comprehensive experimental investigation into the performance of lug structures made from Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) with three distinct lay-up configurations: Hard (L-C-H), Quasi-Isotropic (L-C-QI), and Soft (L-C-S... Read More about Experimental investigation of static strength in CFRP and aluminium lugs subjected to uniaxial tensile loading.

An illustrative application of the CRITINC framework to the UK (2003)
Journal Article

This paper sets out an illustrative application to the UK of a new framework for identifying critical natural capital (CNC). This involves classifying the characteristics of natural capital and the environmental functions to which it gives rise, and... Read More about An illustrative application of the CRITINC framework to the UK.

International trade and the sustainability footprint: A practical criterion for its assessment (1999)
Journal Article

A simple and minimal criterion for sustainability is that the value of natural capital plus manufactured capital be not decreasing. On the basis of any individual country or region, the above simple comparison may be misleading, as it does not take... Read More about International trade and the sustainability footprint: A practical criterion for its assessment.

The sustainability gap: A practical indicator of sustainability in the framework of the national accounts (1999)
Journal Article

The concept of sustainable development needs to be based on a clear definition of sustainability and how it is to be measured. This paper defines environmental sustainability as the maintenance of important environmental functions, and identifies sev... Read More about The sustainability gap: A practical indicator of sustainability in the framework of the national accounts.

Review of "Water on sand: Environmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa" (2020)
Journal Article

This is a book review.

User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia (2025)
Journal Article

As the population of persons living with dementia (PwDs) continues to rise, technological advancements offer an unprecedented opportunity to enhance their independence and quality of life while lowering the burden on the caregivers. Notably, the Inte... Read More about User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia.

Empowering urban transformation: The role of citizen observatories in inclusive and data-driven governance (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores how Citizen Observatories can foster participatory, data-driven governance by actively engaging local communities in co-creating urban knowledge and contributing to evidence-based decision-making processes. Within the EU-funded In... Read More about Empowering urban transformation: The role of citizen observatories in inclusive and data-driven governance.

"It's a kind of double-edged sword": Exploring the social media-related experiences of adults with visible differences using photo-elicitation interviews (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: Visible differences are associated with experiences of stigma, discrimination, anxiety, and social isolation. Social media provides a space to connect with others with the same condition, gain information and support, raise awareness, and... Read More about "It's a kind of double-edged sword": Exploring the social media-related experiences of adults with visible differences using photo-elicitation interviews.

Evaluating microplastic and macroplastic presence in the ephemeral fluvial systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To our knowledge this is the first study that looks at macro- and microplastics in ephemeral fluvial systems in deserts worldwide. By necessity, where formal waste disposal systems cannot be implemented, informal waste disposal takes place. Here, we... Read More about Evaluating microplastic and macroplastic presence in the ephemeral fluvial systems.

Sowing the seeds (2025)
Journal Article

Sowing the seeds: artists' books that can help bring us closer to nature

As we notice Spring edging towards summer in the northern hemisphere, and start emerging to explore the pathways forests, hedgerows and fields we can consider the ways book a... Read More about Sowing the seeds.

Master protocol for a series of cohort-based randomized controlled trials to test tools to communicate research results to study participants and others with relevant lived experience: The SPIN-CLEAR Trials (2025)
Journal Article

Background
Research results are often not communicated to study participants or others with relevant lived experience. Effective communication of research results would help study participants understand their contribution to research and could impr... Read More about Master protocol for a series of cohort-based randomized controlled trials to test tools to communicate research results to study participants and others with relevant lived experience: The SPIN-CLEAR Trials.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries (2025)
Journal Article

Social norms approaches have been widely applied in health promotion, as a cost-effective behaviour-change strategy, but have been little evaluated as a whole. We conducted a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries.

The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research (2025)
Journal Article

OA34 The contributions of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement groups to the conduct of a scoping review of non-pharmacological interventions for reducing fatigue in children and young people with musculoskeletal conditions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background/Aims Fatigue is an important symptom for people of all ages with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. This includes the 234,000 children and young people (CYP) in England and Scotland currently living with conditions such as juvenile inflamma... Read More about OA34 The contributions of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement groups to the conduct of a scoping review of non-pharmacological interventions for reducing fatigue in children and young people with musculoskeletal conditions.

Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference (2025)
Journal Article

This paper examines sociocultural factors that shape the experiences of people living with visible differences, highlighting the impact of stigma, societal judgment and appearance-based discrimination, traditional and social media, and the importance... Read More about Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference.

Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs? (2025)
Book Chapter

Seeking to clarify what trade unions brought to the promotion of EDI in Italy with the support of three metaphors drawn from the employment relations literature—‘bread and butter’, ‘bread and roses’, and ‘just breadcrumbs’—this chapter provides a his... Read More about Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs?.

Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany (2025)
Journal Article

Delivery and enforcement have received comparatively less attention in planning practice and research than plan making and the granting of development rights. Once planning permission has been granted or a binding land use plan has been approved, th... Read More about Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany.

Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience (2025)
Digital Artefact

In this episode, host James Hazzard is joined by Antony Hill, Cathy Minett-Smith, and Jackie Rogers for a timely discussion on how universities are reimagining what it means to support, empower, and engage students in a post-pandemic world.

From p... Read More about Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience.

Open data business models and financial stability in open innovation environments (2025)
Journal Article

Businesses increasingly rely on data to enhance operations, drive innovation, and create new products and services. Data has become a critical organizational asset, and the Open Innovation (OI) paradigm highlights its potential to be shared or freely... Read More about Open data business models and financial stability in open innovation environments.

The adoption of UAVs for enhancing safety in construction industry: A systematic literature review (2025)
Journal Article

The nexus between sustainability and safety in construction is crucial for improving a resilient and responsible built environment. By adhering to sustainable principles, construction practices can not only mitigate the environmental impact but also... Read More about The adoption of UAVs for enhancing safety in construction industry: A systematic literature review.

Total model-free robust control of non-affine nonlinear systems with discontinuous inputs (2025)
Journal Article

Taking the plant as a total uncertainty in a black box with measurable inputs and attainable outputs, this paper presents a constructive control design of agnostic nonlinear dynamic systems with discontinuous input (such as hard nonlinearities in the... Read More about Total model-free robust control of non-affine nonlinear systems with discontinuous inputs.

Is it time to ditch old favourites: An alternative to Florence Nightingale (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will consider alternatives to favourite topics such as the Great Fire of London and Florence Nightingale at Key Stage 1. The concept of significance will be explored and Partington's criteria will be applied to a number of key indiv... Read More about Is it time to ditch old favourites: An alternative to Florence Nightingale.

Towards a rights-based approach to AI chatbot usage: Navigating ethical considerations in ChatGPT interactions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates the ethical dimensions of AI chatbot usages, with a specific focus on ChatGPT. Through an exploration of user perspectives (N=20), the study examines the ethical challenges users encounter and identifies actionable strategi... Read More about Towards a rights-based approach to AI chatbot usage: Navigating ethical considerations in ChatGPT interactions.

Podcast - everything is so very much connected - Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman (2025)
Digital Artefact

Audio from an artists' talk for World Collage Day:

Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman invited the public to join them on Zoom for an informal talk about their recent collaborative collage project for World Collage Day - Saturday 10th May 2025. Their m... Read More about Podcast - everything is so very much connected - Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.

BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors (2025)
Journal Article

Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers a powerful means to enhance collaboration and efficiency in construction project delivery. However, many organizations still face persistent technical, organizational, and environmental challenges during im... Read More about BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors.

Creative deviation: Reclaiming agency in the age of generative aesthetics (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the evolving relationship between human creativity and technological derivative creation through a practice-based research project inspired by Philip K. Dick's "Pay for the Printer" (1956). In this speculative work, Dick portrays... Read More about Creative deviation: Reclaiming agency in the age of generative aesthetics.

The Sibling Sexual Behaviour and Abuse (SSB-A) Practice Outcomes Framework for services and organisations supporting and responding to sibling sexual behaviour and abuse (2025)
Report

In the UK practice guidance on how services/organisations and professionals should respond to, and support individuals and families affected by SSB-A is increasing (see, Hanson, 2024; Sanderson, 2024; Yates and Allardyce, 2023a; King-Hill and Gilsena... Read More about The Sibling Sexual Behaviour and Abuse (SSB-A) Practice Outcomes Framework for services and organisations supporting and responding to sibling sexual behaviour and abuse.

Blood loss and transfusion in assisted vaginal birth: A retrospective, single centre cohort study (2025)
Journal Article

Abstract

Objective
To evaluate blood loss, blood product use and associated maternal and neonatal outcomes following attempted assisted vaginal birth (AVB).

Methods
Retrospective cohort study of women who had an attempted AVB during 18-month... Read More about Blood loss and transfusion in assisted vaginal birth: A retrospective, single centre cohort study.

Dysregulation of neuronal differentiation by saturated fatty acids links diet and neurodegeneration (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have been associated with a nearly 2-fold increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) development . Recent studies have reported dysregulated hippocampal neurogenesis in AD patients during postmortem examinations. Addit... Read More about Dysregulation of neuronal differentiation by saturated fatty acids links diet and neurodegeneration.

Dysfunctional neuronal differentiation links type-2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction:
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most significant risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD), associated with a nearly 2-fold increase in risk, although the reasons for this are not fully understood. Several re... Read More about Dysfunctional neuronal differentiation links type-2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.

A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks (2025)
Journal Article

Positive Energy Block (PEBlock) is an emerging energy paradigm described as a mesoscale model distinct from building and district scale models. The paper's novel methodology introduces a first-of-its-kind three-level early-stage design framework for... Read More about A decision-making framework for early-stage design of positive energy blocks.

Trust by design: An ethical framework for collaborative intelligence systems in industry 5.0 (2025)
Journal Article

Industry 5.0 highlights human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. This article presents a novel Trust by Design framework applicable to collaborative intelligence systems within Industry 5.0, addressing the need for collaborative systems to b... Read More about Trust by design: An ethical framework for collaborative intelligence systems in industry 5.0.