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Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird (2025)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Butler, A., Wanless, S., Newell, M. A., Harris, M. P., Burthe, S. J., Gunn, C. M., Howells, R. J., & Daunt, F. (in press). Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird. Animal Behaviour,

In iteroparous, socially monogamous species, individuals vary in the extent of mate fidelity across breeding attempts, often with important fitness consequences. Numerous studies have demonstrated intrinsic drivers of mate fidelity, notably previous... Read More about Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird.

Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation (2025)
Journal Article
Ammar, U., El-Din, M. G., Abdel-Maksoud, M., Ali, E., El-Gamal, M., Mahmoud, Z., Ahn, S., Nguyen, N. H., Kim, E., Jun, P. S., Deug, K. Y., Choi, H. S., Lee, K. H., Choi, G., & Oh, C.-H. (2025). Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 320(Part 2), Article 145699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.145699

Despite the approved combination of BRAFV600E and MEK inhibitors to treat drug-resistant melanoma, serious side effects associated with this combination have been reported, particularly referring to MEK inhibitors. In the current study, an isosteric... Read More about Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation.

Using our nursing superpower: Improving cancer care for older people and their care partners by addressing what matters most (2025)
Journal Article
Campbell, K., Dunham, M., He, E. S., Kagan, S. H., Kinnane, N. A., Krishnasamy, M., Lynch, M. P., Staats, K., & Torstveit, A.-H. (2025). Using our nursing superpower: Improving cancer care for older people and their care partners by addressing what matters most. Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 12, Article 100752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjon.2025.100752

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Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance (2025)
Journal Article
Elbehairy, F., Mora, L., & Soe, R.-M. (2025). Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance. Technovation, 147, Article 103303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103303

Our study advances theoretical understanding of the diverse roles municipal governments play in governing the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within their administrative boundaries. While existing literature ty... Read More about Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance.

Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators (2025)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., & Launer, J. (online). Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-025-09756-4

This exploratory paper examines how the practical application of narrative medicine (NM) has the capability to support police hostage/crisis negotiators. Narrative medicine ensures that the humanity and dignity of both medical professional and patien... Read More about Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators.

Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients (2025)
Journal Article
Lisiak, M., Jędrzejczyk, M., Wleklik, M., Lomper, K., Czapla, M., & Uchmanowicz, I. (online). Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients. ESC Heart Failure, https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.15351

Aims: Heart failure (HF) in elderly patients is frequently associated with frailty, malnutrition and reduced functional status. This study assessed the associations between nutritional risk, functional capacity, frailty and length of hospital stay (L... Read More about Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients.

Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Gilchrist, J. (2025, September). Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery. Presented at 14th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security, Copenhagen, Denmark

In 2022, Persianom, Phan and Yung outlined the creation of Anamor-phic Cryptography. With this, we can create a public key to encrypt data, and then have two secret keys. These secret keys are used to decrypt the cipher into different messages. So, o... Read More about Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery.

Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Gilchrist, J., Jaroucheh, Z., Timosenko, D., Ramchandani, N., & Ali, H. (2025, September). Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis. Presented at 14th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security, Copenhagen, Denmark

In many areas of cybersecurity, we require access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as names, postal addresses and email addresses. Unfortunately, this can lead to data breaches, especially in relation to data compliance regulations... Read More about Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis.

Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory (2025)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Bratton, A., & Dutton, M. (2025). Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 17(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00189-1

Degree apprenticeships are a recent innovation in the UK. The overarching goal of the apprenticeship is to achieve a degree, while working and advancing careers. This involves apprentices and employing organisations investing in resources including w... Read More about Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory.

Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, N., & Earnshaw, H. (2025). Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 13(2), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.56433/my9hrj96

This research contributes to developing a deeper understanding of student lived experience of navigating the transition from undergraduate to taught postgraduate study. As reported in the literature, this is generally an under-studied phenomenon. In... Read More about Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science.

Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial (2025)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Taylor, C. D., Kelly, J., Emsley, R., Vikram, A., Alexander, C. H., McCann, A., Saddington, D., Eliasson, E., Burke, J., Harper, S., Karatzias, T., Taylor, P. J., Watson, A., Dougall, N., Stavert, J., O'Rourke, S., Glasgow, A., Murphy, R., Palmer, K., …Woodrow, A. (2025). Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial. Schizophrenia Research, 282, 184-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2025.06.018

Introduction
Many individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (‘psychosis’) lack capacity to make decisions about psychiatric treatment (‘incapacity’), however we lack robust evidence from clinical trials on interventions to improve it. To acce... Read More about Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial.

PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03 (2025)
Other
Mishra, M., Budhiraja, A., Neema, J., Romdhani, I., & Mishra, G. (2025). PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03

On a multi-access network, one of the PIM routers is elected as a Designated Router (DR). On the last hop LAN, the PIM DR is responsible for tracking local multicast listeners and forwarding traffic to these listeners if the group is operating in PIM... Read More about PIM Backup Designated Router Procedure draft-ietf-pim-bdr-03.

Circulating structural timber and engineered wood products – challenges and potentials towards reliable evaluation of mechanical properties (2025)
Journal Article
Ranttila, H., Fink, G., Brandner, R., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (online). Circulating structural timber and engineered wood products – challenges and potentials towards reliable evaluation of mechanical properties. Wood Material Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/17480272.2025.2517186

Circulating structural timber and engineered wood products require reliable assessment of key mechanical properties. However, existing standards for strength grading sawn timber are not designed for the reuse and recycling of timber and are unsuitabl... Read More about Circulating structural timber and engineered wood products – challenges and potentials towards reliable evaluation of mechanical properties.

Antiseizure medication and Dravet syndrome (2025)
Journal Article
MacVicar, S. (2025). Antiseizure medication and Dravet syndrome. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 7(7), 282-283. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2025.0072

Dravet syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes a rare form of childhood epilepsy. It results from a mutation carried on the sodium ion channel gene. Dravet syndrome is classified as a developmental encephalopathy which is categorised with prolonge... Read More about Antiseizure medication and Dravet syndrome.

OculusNet: Detection of retinal diseases using a tailored web-deployed neural network and saliency maps for explainable AI (2025)
Journal Article
Umair, M., Ahmad, J., Saidani, O., Alshehri, M. S., Al Mazroa, A., Hanif, M., Ullah, R., & Khan, M. S. (2025). OculusNet: Detection of retinal diseases using a tailored web-deployed neural network and saliency maps for explainable AI. Frontiers in Medicine, 12, Article 1596726. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1596726

Retinal diseases are among the leading causes of blindness worldwide, requiring early detection for effective treatment. Manual interpretation of ophthalmic imaging, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), is traditionally time-consuming, prone t... Read More about OculusNet: Detection of retinal diseases using a tailored web-deployed neural network and saliency maps for explainable AI.

Freedom to learn (2025)
Book Chapter
Di Domenico, A., Harvey, A., Karp, B., Shakespeare, E., van Knippenberg, I., Cowan, J., & Moir, Z. (2025). Freedom to learn. In S. Abegglen, T. Burns, R. F. Heller, R. Madhok, F. Neuhaus, J. Sandars, S. Sinfield, & U. Gitanjali Singh (Eds.), Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education (237-246). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0462.21

Rooted in the transformative pedagogies of Paulo Freire and Carl Rogers, and influenced by contemporary thinkers such as Jesse Stommel, Susan Blum, David Clark, Robert Talbert, and Jan McArthur, this chapter presents a collaborative exploration of se... Read More about Freedom to learn.

Computational Analysis of Aerodynamic Blade Load Transfer to the Powertrain of a Direct-Drive Multi-MW Wind Turbine (2025)
Journal Article
Bichan, M., Jaen-Sola, P., Muhammad Sukki, F., & Sellami, N. (2025). Computational Analysis of Aerodynamic Blade Load Transfer to the Powertrain of a Direct-Drive Multi-MW Wind Turbine. Machines, 13(7), Article 575. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines13070575

This paper details the development of a full turbine model and ensuing aero-servo-elastic analysis of the International Energy Agency’s 15MW Reference Wind Turbine. This model provides the means to obtain realistic turbine performance data, of which... Read More about Computational Analysis of Aerodynamic Blade Load Transfer to the Powertrain of a Direct-Drive Multi-MW Wind Turbine.

An Overview of Current Optimization Approaches for Hybrid Energy Systems Combining Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Technologies (2025)
Journal Article
Seidu, I., Salisu, S., Mas'ud, A. A., Musa, U., Jabire, A. H., Muhammad‐Sukki, F., & Mas'ud, I. A. (online). An Overview of Current Optimization Approaches for Hybrid Energy Systems Combining Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Technologies. Energy Science & Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.70190

This study reviews recent developments in optimization techniques for hybrid solar photovoltaic and wind energy systems,particularly those using artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid algorithms. Due to the global need for sustainable energy, thestu... Read More about An Overview of Current Optimization Approaches for Hybrid Energy Systems Combining Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Technologies.

Timber MMC Retrofit Case Study Analysis of Embodied Carbon Impact (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jiar, S., Hairstans, R., Livingstone, A., Saint, R., & Stinson, J. (2025, July). Timber MMC Retrofit Case Study Analysis of Embodied Carbon Impact. Paper presented at International Retrofit Conference 2025, University of Salford Energy House Labs

The demand for energy efficient retrofitting in residential buildings is rising, particularly in the UK, which has some of the oldest housing stock in Europe. Existing retrofit strategies primarily focus on operational energy savings while overlookin... Read More about Timber MMC Retrofit Case Study Analysis of Embodied Carbon Impact.

Sunamp Heat Battery as a Pre-heating Solution for Domestic Hot Water Heating: A Case Study Evaluation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dobas, C., Ernest, G., Hairstans, R., Irfan Abbas Gani, M., Livingstone, A., Stinson, J., & Keyworth, A. (2025, July). Sunamp Heat Battery as a Pre-heating Solution for Domestic Hot Water Heating: A Case Study Evaluation. Paper presented at International Retrofit Conference 2025, University of Salford Energy House Labs

To meet the UK Government’s net-zero target by 2050 requires a radical rethink around how existing households optimise and manage energy. Therefore, to accelerate the path to net-zero ‘Clean Heat’ homes, the research focuses on transitioning from car... Read More about Sunamp Heat Battery as a Pre-heating Solution for Domestic Hot Water Heating: A Case Study Evaluation.