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The Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale: Initial development and evaluation of four and eight item short forms. (2023)
Journal Article
Vowles, K. E., Kruger, E. S., Bailey, R. W., Ashworth, J., Hickman, J., Sowden, G., & McCracken, L. M. (in press). The Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale: Initial development and evaluation of four and eight item short forms. The Journal of Pain, 25(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.08.001

Elevated levels of anxiety in relation to chronic pain have been consistently associated with greater distress and disability. Thus, accurate measurement of pain-related anxiety is an important requirement in modern pain services. The Pain Anxiety Sy... Read More about The Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale: Initial development and evaluation of four and eight item short forms..

Engaging and motivating crowd-workers in gamified crowdsourcing mobile apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management (2023)
Journal Article
Behl, A., Jayawardena, N., Pereira, V., Jabeen, F., Jain, K., & Gupta, M. (2023). Engaging and motivating crowd-workers in gamified crowdsourcing mobile apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05557-2

This study attempts to explore the factors that engage (behavioural factors) and motivate (psychological factors) crowd-workers in the gamified crowdsourcing apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management. Thus, using the se... Read More about Engaging and motivating crowd-workers in gamified crowdsourcing mobile apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management.

RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data (2023)
Journal Article
Finnigan, W., Lubberink, M., Hepworth, L. J., Citoler, J., Mattey, A. P., Ford, G. J., …Turner, N. J. (2023). RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data. ACS catalysis, 13(17), 11771-11780. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c01418

Despite the increasing use of biocatalysis for organic synthesis, there are currently no databases that adequately capture synthetic biotransformations. The lack of a biocatalysis database prevents accelerating biocatalyst characterization efforts fr... Read More about RetroBioCat Database: A Platform for Collaborative Curation and Automated Meta-Analysis of Biocatalysis Data.

Women entrepreneurs in transport family business: a perspective article (2023)
Journal Article
Mogaji, E. (2023). Women entrepreneurs in transport family business: a perspective article. Journal of Family Business Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-08-2023-0121

Purpose This paper underscores the importance of conducting studies that examine the experiences of women transport entrepreneurs within the context of the intersectionality of patriarchal culture, the challenges posed by insufficient infrastructure... Read More about Women entrepreneurs in transport family business: a perspective article.

Economics for a low carbon future (2023)
Book Chapter
Fernandez Martin, R. M. (2023). Economics for a low carbon future. In P. Molthan-Hill (Ed.), Sustainable Management. A complete guide for faculty and students (237-264). (3). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294665-12

In this chapter you will learn about the interactions between economy and environment as well as how economists try to solve the puzzle of giving the right value to our environmental resources so that sustainable development can be achieved. In this... Read More about Economics for a low carbon future.

Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Metallicity-dependent Yields (2023)
Journal Article
Keegans, J. D., Pignatari, M., Stancliffe, R. J., Travaglio, C., Jones, S., Gibson, B. K., …Few, G. (2023). Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Metallicity-dependent Yields. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 268(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ace102

Type Ia supernova explosions (SN Ia) are fundamental sources of elements for the chemical evolution of galaxies. They efficiently produce intermediate-mass (with Z between 11 and 20) and iron group elements—for example, about 70% of the solar iron is... Read More about Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Metallicity-dependent Yields.

Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects (2023)
Journal Article
Riley, R. D., Ensor, J., Hattle, M., Papadimitropoulou, K., & Morris, T. P. (in press). Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects. Research Synthesis Methods, 14(6), 903-910. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1661

Individual participant data meta‐analysis (IPDMA) projects obtain, check, harmonise and synthesise raw data from multiple studies. When undertaking the meta‐analysis, researchers must decide between a two‐stage or a one‐stage approach. In a two‐stage... Read More about Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects.

Visual Attention Assisted Games (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mandal, B., Puhan, N. B., & Homi Anil, V. (2023). Visual Attention Assisted Games. In 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). https://doi.org/10.1109/cog57401.2023.10333186

In this work, we propose a committee of attention models developed for improving the deep reinforcement learning frequently used for games. The game environment is manifested with spatial and temporal attention mechanisms so as to focus on important... Read More about Visual Attention Assisted Games.

Global prioritization of endemic zoonotic diseases for conducting surveillance in domestic animals to protect public health (2023)
Journal Article
Qiu, Y., Guitian, J., Webster, J. P. P., Musallam, I., Haider, N., Drewe, J. A. A., & Song, J. (2023). Global prioritization of endemic zoonotic diseases for conducting surveillance in domestic animals to protect public health. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 378(1887), Article ARTN 20220407. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0407

Zoonotic diseases (zoonoses) originating from domestic animals pose a significant risk to people's health and livelihoods, in addition to jeopardizing animal health and production. Effective surveillance of endemic zoonoses at the animal level is cru... Read More about Global prioritization of endemic zoonotic diseases for conducting surveillance in domestic animals to protect public health.

Evaluation of Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent Allied Health Professionals preceptorship programmes: a mixed method UK study (2023)
Journal Article
Salt, E., Jackman, K., & O’Brien, A. V. (in press). Evaluation of Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent Allied Health Professionals preceptorship programmes: a mixed method UK study. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), Article 591. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04515-7

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate current preceptorship provision across AHP professions in the Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent (SSOT) region of England to improve consistency, share and optimise best practice. Background: Preceptorship, defined as a p... Read More about Evaluation of Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent Allied Health Professionals preceptorship programmes: a mixed method UK study.

Comparison of typical radiation doses and risks using an anthropomorphic ‘bone fracture’ phantom for commonly performed X‐ray projections in a 5‐year‐old (2023)
Journal Article
Doyle, E., Dimmock, M. R., Lee, K. L., Thomas, P., & Bassed, R. B. (in press). Comparison of typical radiation doses and risks using an anthropomorphic ‘bone fracture’ phantom for commonly performed X‐ray projections in a 5‐year‐old. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.717

Introduction: Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) are typical dose levels for medical imaging examinations for groups of standard‐sized patients or standard phantoms for broadly defined types of equipment used as a tool to aid optimisation of protecti... Read More about Comparison of typical radiation doses and risks using an anthropomorphic ‘bone fracture’ phantom for commonly performed X‐ray projections in a 5‐year‐old.

Coherent Phonons in van der Waals MoSe2/WSe2 Heterobilayers (2023)
Journal Article
Li, C., Scherbakov, A. V., Soubelet, P., Samusev, A. K., Ruppert, C., Balakrishnan, N., …Akimov, A. V. (2023). Coherent Phonons in van der Waals MoSe2/WSe2 Heterobilayers. Nano Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02316

The increasing role of two-dimensional (2D) devices requires the development of new techniques for ultrafast control of physical properties in 2D van der Waals (vdW) nanolayers. A special feature of heterobilayers assembled from vdW monolayers is fem... Read More about Coherent Phonons in van der Waals MoSe2/WSe2 Heterobilayers.

Survival analysis in nonagenarian patients with non-hip lower limb fractures. (2023)
Journal Article
Narayana Murthy, S., Cheruvu, M. S., Siddiqui, R. S., Sharma, N., Dass, D., & Ali, A. (in press). Survival analysis in nonagenarian patients with non-hip lower limb fractures. World Journal of Orthopedics, 14(8), 621-629. https://doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v14.i8.621

The United Kingdom has an aging population with nearly 1 in 5 being over the age of 65, and over 0.5 million over the age of 90. The treatment of acute fractures of the lower limb in the nonagenarian cohort of patients poses a technical challenge to... Read More about Survival analysis in nonagenarian patients with non-hip lower limb fractures..

OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters Arising from a Five-day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event (2023)
Journal Article
Satoh, Y. K., Koshimoto, N., Bennett, D. P., Sumi, T., Rattenbury, N. J., Suzuki, D., …Spyratos, P. (2023). OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters Arising from a Five-day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event. Astronomical Journal, 166(3), Article 116. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ace908

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0825. This event was identified as a planetary candidate by preliminary modeling. We find that significant residuals from the best-fit static binary-lens model exist and a xallarap effect can... Read More about OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters Arising from a Five-day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event.

Reduced order modelling using neural networks for predictive modelling of 3d-magneto-mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners (2023)
Journal Article
Miah, S., Sooriyakanthan, Y., Ledger, P. D., Gil, A. J., & Mallett, M. (2023). Reduced order modelling using neural networks for predictive modelling of 3d-magneto-mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners. Engineering with Computers, 39(6), 4103-4127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-023-01870-3

The design of magnets for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners requires the numerical simulation of a coupled magneto-mechanical system where the effects that different material parameters and in-service loading conditions have on both imaging a... Read More about Reduced order modelling using neural networks for predictive modelling of 3d-magneto-mechanical problems with application to magnetic resonance imaging scanners.

The changing dynamics of crypto mining and environmental impact (2023)
Journal Article
Kumari, P., Mamidala, V., Chavali, K., & Behl, A. (2024). The changing dynamics of crypto mining and environmental impact. International Review of Economics and Finance, 89a, 940-953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2023.08.004

This study investigates the association between energy consumption in Bitcoin mining and energy indices. The study also examines the moderating effect of COVID-19 on the relationships between energy consumption in Bitcoin mining and energy indices. W... Read More about The changing dynamics of crypto mining and environmental impact.