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Exploring constraining factors for use of private sector finance in delivery of public sector infrastructure in Tanzania: A qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Kavishe, N., Zulu, S. L., Luvara, V., Zulu, E., Musonda, I., Moobela, C., & Chileshe, N. (2023). Exploring constraining factors for use of private sector finance in delivery of public sector infrastructure in Tanzania: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Built Environment, 9, Article 1098490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2023.1098490

While governments remain accountable for the delivery of infrastructure services, given the paucity of public resources, studies have recommended the use of private sector finance (PSF) as an alternative approach to delivering sustainable infrastruct... Read More about Exploring constraining factors for use of private sector finance in delivery of public sector infrastructure in Tanzania: A qualitative study.

The HEADS: UP development study: Working with key stakeholders to adapt a mindfulness-based stress reduction course for people with anxiety and depression after stroke (2023)
Journal Article
Lawrence, M., Davis, B., De Amicis, L., Booth, J., Dickson, S., Dougall, N., Grealy, M., Jani, B., Maxwell, M., Parkinson, B., Pieri, M., & Mercer, S. (2023). The HEADS: UP development study: Working with key stakeholders to adapt a mindfulness-based stress reduction course for people with anxiety and depression after stroke. Healthcare, 11(3), Article 355. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030355

Background: Following stroke, rates of mood disorder are and remain high at five years (anxiety 34.4%; depression 23%). Structured mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) courses are effective in a range of health conditions, but stroke survivors f... Read More about The HEADS: UP development study: Working with key stakeholders to adapt a mindfulness-based stress reduction course for people with anxiety and depression after stroke.

Dietary Change and Climate Change: What Role for Law Making? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, R. (2023, January). Dietary Change and Climate Change: What Role for Law Making?. Paper presented at LEAP Conference 2023, Oxford

Studies on agriculture and climate change are few and far between in legal studies, despite the fact current market distortions in the food system are underpinned by historical agricultural and trade law policies. This paper seeks to connect findings... Read More about Dietary Change and Climate Change: What Role for Law Making?.

Mesoporous TiO2-layer’s rheological impact on the perovskite solar cell performance (2023)
Journal Article
Valsalakumar, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., Hinshelwood, J., & Sundaram, S. (2023). Mesoporous TiO2-layer’s rheological impact on the perovskite solar cell performance. Materials Letters, 337, Article 133960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2023.133960

The rheological impact of the mesoporous-TiO2 (m-TiO2) layer was investigated, which impacted perovskite solar cell (PSC) performance. This also implies the significance of morphological variations according to the pastes’ viscosity and corresponding... Read More about Mesoporous TiO2-layer’s rheological impact on the perovskite solar cell performance.

Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Apgar, M., Fournie, G., Haesler, B., Higdon, G. L., Kenny, L., Oppel, A., Pauls, E., Smith, M., Snijder, M., Vink, D., & Hossain, M. (2023). Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis. European Journal of Development Research, 35(2), 323-350. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00576-y

Achieving impact through research for development programmes (R4D) requires engagement with diverse stakeholders across the research, development and policy divides. Understanding how such programmes support the emergence of outcomes, therefore, requ... Read More about Revealing the Relational Mechanisms of Research for Development Through Social Network Analysis.

A general theoretical scheme for shape-programming of incompressible hyperelastic shells through differential growth (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Wang, J., Hossain, M., & Kadapa, C. (2023). A general theoretical scheme for shape-programming of incompressible hyperelastic shells through differential growth. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 255-256, Article 112128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2023.112128

In this paper, we study the problem of shape-programming of incompressible hyperelastic shells through differential growth. The aim of the current work is to determine one of the possible growth tensors (or growth functions) that can produce the defo... Read More about A general theoretical scheme for shape-programming of incompressible hyperelastic shells through differential growth.

Electronic trading and stock market participation in Africa: Does technology induce participation? (2023)
Journal Article
Adamolekun, G., Sakariyahu, R., Lawal, R., & Ahmed, A. (2023). Electronic trading and stock market participation in Africa: Does technology induce participation?. Economics Letters, 224, Article 110991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110991

This study examines the effect of migrating to electronic trading platforms on stock market participation among African stock exchanges. Using Bayesian estimations, we demonstrate that transitioning from a physical to an electronic stock exchange dec... Read More about Electronic trading and stock market participation in Africa: Does technology induce participation?.

The State of the Art and Challenges of In Vitro Methods for Human Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Context of Safe-by-Design (2023)
Journal Article
Ruijter, N., Soeteman-Hernández, L. G., Carrière, M., Boyles, M., McLean, P., Catalán, J., Katsumiti, A., Cabellos, J., Delpivo, C., Sánchez Jiménez, A., Candalija, A., Rodríguez-Llopis, I., Vázquez-Campos, S., Cassee, F. R., & Braakhuis, H. (2023). The State of the Art and Challenges of In Vitro Methods for Human Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Context of Safe-by-Design. Nanomaterials, 13(3), Article 472. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13030472

The Safe-by-Design (SbD) concept aims to facilitate the development of safer materials/products, safer production, and safer use and end-of-life by performing timely SbD interventions to reduce hazard, exposure, or both. Early hazard screening is a c... Read More about The State of the Art and Challenges of In Vitro Methods for Human Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials in the Context of Safe-by-Design.

Effects of COVID-19 on the relationship between inflation and REITs returns in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Mpofu, B., Moobela, C., & Simbanegavi, P. (2023). Effects of COVID-19 on the relationship between inflation and REITs returns in South Africa. Journal of Property Investment and Finance, 41(5), 506-522. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpif-10-2022-0072

Purpose
This research aims to ascertain the extent to which the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic affected the relationship between inflation and real estate investment trusts (REITs) returns in South Africa.

Design/methodology/approac... Read More about Effects of COVID-19 on the relationship between inflation and REITs returns in South Africa.

Cost-Effective Heating Control Approaches by Demand Response and Peak Demand Limiting in an Educational Office Building with District Heating (2023)
Journal Article
Yuan, X., Vand, B., Martin, K., Jokisalo, J., Liang, Y., Kosonen, R., & Pan, Y. (2023). Cost-Effective Heating Control Approaches by Demand Response and Peak Demand Limiting in an Educational Office Building with District Heating. Buildings, 13(2), Article 332. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020332

This study examined three different approaches to reduce the heating cost while maintaining indoor thermal comfort at acceptable levels in an educational office building, including decentralized (DDRC) and centralized demand response control (CDRR) a... Read More about Cost-Effective Heating Control Approaches by Demand Response and Peak Demand Limiting in an Educational Office Building with District Heating.

How cross-service collaboration between ambulance, fire, and policing services can improve community safety and wellbeing: A systematic review and case study of an area experiencing significant disadvantage (2023)
Report
Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Tatnell, A., Wooff, A., & MacGillivray, S. (2023). How cross-service collaboration between ambulance, fire, and policing services can improve community safety and wellbeing: A systematic review and case study of an area experiencing significant disadvantage. SIPR

Predicting Hourly Boarding Demand of Bus Passengers Using Imbalanced Records From Smart-Cards: A Deep Learning Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Tang, T., Liu, R., Choudhury, C., Fonzone, A., & Wang, Y. (2023). Predicting Hourly Boarding Demand of Bus Passengers Using Imbalanced Records From Smart-Cards: A Deep Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3237134

The tap-on smart-card data provides a valuable source to learn passengers’ boarding behaviour and predict future travel demand. However, when examining the smart-card records (or instances) by the time of day and by boarding stops, the positive insta... Read More about Predicting Hourly Boarding Demand of Bus Passengers Using Imbalanced Records From Smart-Cards: A Deep Learning Approach.

ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in Lithuanian university students: Prevalence and associations with trauma exposure (2023)
Journal Article
Truskauskaite, I., Dumarkaite, A., Petrauskaite, G., Andersson, G., Brailovskaia, J., Karatzias, T., Margraf, J., & Kazlauskas, E. (2023). ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in Lithuanian university students: Prevalence and associations with trauma exposure. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(5), 772–780. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001436

Objective: Young adults are at high risk for developing mental disorders. Moreover, trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in emerging adulthood are highly prevalent. The study aimed to explore the prevalence of traumatic experiences, probable... Read More about ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in Lithuanian university students: Prevalence and associations with trauma exposure.

Use of viscoelastic polymer sheet as an acoustic control treatment in ceramic tiles to improve sound insertion loss (2023)
Journal Article
Sukontasukkul, P., Tontiwattanakul, K., Puttiwongrak, A., Zhang, H., Parichatprecha, R., Suksiripattanapong, C., Phoo-ngernkham, T., Imjai, T., & Chindaprasirt, P. (2023). Use of viscoelastic polymer sheet as an acoustic control treatment in ceramic tiles to improve sound insertion loss. Results in Engineering, 17, Article 100897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2023.100897

Ceramic tiles are commonly used in non-structural components of a building such as walls, partitions, floors, and roofs. However, due to their high surface hardness and density, ceramic tiles are not an ideal soundproof material. To... Read More about Use of viscoelastic polymer sheet as an acoustic control treatment in ceramic tiles to improve sound insertion loss.

Performance analysis and comparison between bifacial and monofacial solar photovoltaic at various ground albedo conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Alam, M., Gul, M. S., & Muneer, T. (2023). Performance analysis and comparison between bifacial and monofacial solar photovoltaic at various ground albedo conditions. Renewable Energy Focus, 44, 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ref.2023.01.005

This paper analyses and compares the performance between a bifacial and a monofacial PV system based on the tests conducted at Heriot-Watt University, UK. The module's performance was observed on different ground reflective surfaces: concrete, white... Read More about Performance analysis and comparison between bifacial and monofacial solar photovoltaic at various ground albedo conditions.

Low-Loss and Dual-Band Filter Inspired by Glide Symmetry Principle Over Millimeter-Wave Spectrum for 5G Cellular Networks (2023)
Journal Article
Karamirad, M., Pouyanfar, N., Alibakhshikenari, M., Ghobadi, C., Nourinia, J., See, C. H., & Falcone, F. (2023). Low-Loss and Dual-Band Filter Inspired by Glide Symmetry Principle Over Millimeter-Wave Spectrum for 5G Cellular Networks. iScience, 26(1), Article 105899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105899

This paper focuses on designing a dual-band, bandpass filter configuration inspired by glide-symmetric structures in a single plane. Geometry configuration of elliptical slots on both sides of single substrate generally affects electromagnetic fields... Read More about Low-Loss and Dual-Band Filter Inspired by Glide Symmetry Principle Over Millimeter-Wave Spectrum for 5G Cellular Networks.

Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Ryan, D. (2023). Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises

Recent events have highlighted the folly of over-reliance on imported oil and gas. However, it’s important that we don’t lose sight of this knowledge so that it disappears once priorities change, like a passing fad. A long-term commitment to a transi... Read More about Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises.

Climate change aggravating migration and health issues in the African context: The views and direct experiences of a community of interest in the field (2023)
Journal Article
Trummer, U., Ali, T., Mosca, D., Mukuruva, B., Mwenyango, H., & Novak-Zezula, S. (2023). Climate change aggravating migration and health issues in the African context: The views and direct experiences of a community of interest in the field. Journal of Migration and Health, 7, Article 100151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100151

Climate change is an increasingly important theme in Africa, where a large majority of its people depend on livestock and agricultural activities for livelihood. Concurrently, the topic of health of migrants and people on the move is rapidly raising... Read More about Climate change aggravating migration and health issues in the African context: The views and direct experiences of a community of interest in the field.