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Upcycling Alum Sludge as a Reinforcement in PBAT Composites: A Sustainable Approach to Waste Valorisation (2025)
Journal Article
Sun, D., Henthorn, T., Popescu, C.-M., & Salehiyan, R. (2025). Upcycling Alum Sludge as a Reinforcement in PBAT Composites: A Sustainable Approach to Waste Valorisation. Applied Sciences, 15(5), Article 2591. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052591

This study explores the valorisation of alum sludge, a byproduct of water treatment processes, as a sustainable reinforcement material in Poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT) composites. The research aims to address industrial waste challen... Read More about Upcycling Alum Sludge as a Reinforcement in PBAT Composites: A Sustainable Approach to Waste Valorisation.

Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities (2025)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Wu, X., Cui, T., Goodell, J. W., & Du, A. M. (2025). Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities. International Review of Financial Analysis, 102, Article 104030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104030

Climate change is a highly controversial topic within the socioeconomic context. Climate Policy Uncertainty (CPU) arises from the process of climate policies formulation and implementation. This uncertainty impacts financial market volatilities, incl... Read More about Modeling climate policy uncertainty into cryptocurrency volatilities.

Predictor Factors Associated With Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Precautions Across a UK Oncology Nurse Sample and Implications for Novel Treatments (2025)
Journal Article
Campbell, K., Dicksit, D., & Polovich, M. (online). Predictor Factors Associated With Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Precautions Across a UK Oncology Nurse Sample and Implications for Novel Treatments. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2025.151817

Objectives
The development and use of novel systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) treatments are advancing rapidly. While cytotoxic drugs have traditionally been the cornerstone of treatment, they are increasingly used alongside novel agents. This stud... Read More about Predictor Factors Associated With Hazardous Drug Safe Handling Precautions Across a UK Oncology Nurse Sample and Implications for Novel Treatments.

Practitioner Guidance for Implementing Low-Volume High Intensity Interval Training in People with Coronary Artery Disease (2025)
Journal Article
Ingle, L., Begg, B., Powell, R., Nichols, S., Birkett, S., Young, S., Cowie, A., & McGregor, G. (online). Practitioner Guidance for Implementing Low-Volume High Intensity Interval Training in People with Coronary Artery Disease. Physiotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2025.101777

Objective
High intensity interval training (HIIT) is recognised within many international cardiac rehabilitation (CR) guidelines. In the United Kingdom (UK), however, similar guidance does not exist; moderate intensity training regimens have traditi... Read More about Practitioner Guidance for Implementing Low-Volume High Intensity Interval Training in People with Coronary Artery Disease.

Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective (2025)
Journal Article
Beckers, D., & Mora, L. (online). Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2461983

This commentary explores the potential of strengthening smart city development (SCD) governance theory through a more meaningful integration of innovation management studies. We highlight the limited theoretical framework in SCD governance and show h... Read More about Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective.

Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Anitha, S., Zielinska, I., Rasell, M., & Kane, R. (online). Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2025.2467173

Scholarship on domestic violence and abuse has sought to understand how women's experiences are influenced by gender and its intersections with other social relations of power. We draw upon life history interviews with Polish women and interviews wit... Read More about Polish women’s experiences of domestic violence: intersecting roles of migration and socio-cultural, religious and policy contexts in Poland and in the UK.

Sex differences in absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training in healthy adults: a systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis (2025)
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Refalo, M. C., Nuckols, G., Galpin, A. J., Gallagher, I. J., Hamilton, D. L., & Fyfe, J. J. (2025). Sex differences in absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training in healthy adults: a systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis. PeerJ, 13, Article e19042. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19042

Background
Muscle hypertrophy may be influenced by biological differences between males and females. This meta-analysis investigated absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training (RT) between males and females and whethe... Read More about Sex differences in absolute and relative changes in muscle size following resistance training in healthy adults: a systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis.

Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1–249 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170 (2025)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (online). Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1–249 pp., £125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170. Language and Intercultural Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2464477

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Flexible Electrochemical Capacitors based on ZnO-Carbon Black Composite (2025)
Journal Article
Habib, W., Saji, A., Paul, F., Markapudi, P. R., Wilson, C., & Manjakkal, L. (online). Flexible Electrochemical Capacitors based on ZnO-Carbon Black Composite. Results in Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.104510

Flexible electrochemical capacitors (EC) or supercapacitors are found to be an efficient energy storage device for modern and future electronic gadgets that offer lightweight and compact energy solutions. In this work, we investigated the electrochem... Read More about Flexible Electrochemical Capacitors based on ZnO-Carbon Black Composite.

Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets (2025)
Journal Article
Ali, F., Du, A., & Majeed, M. A. (2025). Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets. Finance Research Letters, 77, Article 107016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.107016

Cryptocurrencies trade continuously, unlike traditional assets limited to weekdays, creating challenges in calculating Monday returns. This paper investigates the impact of four benchmark closing prices—Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and a weekend average... Read More about Reevaluating Intermarket Connectedness: The Impact of Monday Return Calculations on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Assets.

Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs (2025)
Journal Article
Bakyt, M., La Spada, L., Zeeshan, N., Moldamurat, K., & Atanov, S. (2025). Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs. Applied Sciences, 15(5), Article 2429. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052429

Ensuring secure data transmission in agrotechnical monitoring systems using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical due to increasing cyber threats, particularly with the advent of quantum computing. This study proposes the integration of Quantum... Read More about Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs.

Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning (2025)
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Oliver, P. G., Mora, L., & Zhang, J. (2025). Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 214, Article 124046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124046

This article explores how smart city entrepreneurs (SCEs) learn to address urban sustainability challenges with innovative digital products and services. SCEs embody social, digital, and urban entrepreneurialism features and play a pivotal role in ad... Read More about Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning.

Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning (2025)
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Oliver, P. G., Mora, L., & Zhang, J. (2025). Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 214, Article 124046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124046

This article explores how smart city entrepreneurs (SCEs) learn to address urban sustainability challenges with innovative digital products and services. SCEs embody social, digital, and urban entrepreneurialism features and play a pivotal role in ad... Read More about Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning.

Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia (2025)
Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Wight, C. (online). Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia. Language and Intercultural Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2464577

This study examines the experiences of international sojourners attending English-language schools in Australia, exploring how these students' imaginaries shape their expectations and perceptions of authenticity. Using qualitative interviews with stu... Read More about Object authenticity applied to imaginaries of racialized national culture: English-language-school sojourners in Australia.

CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts (2025)
Journal Article
Kwabi, F., Adamolekun, G., & Kyiu, A. (2025). CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts. International Review of Financial Analysis, 101, Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104044

Using a global sample of 899 firms from 26 countries for the period 2000 to 2021, this study investigates the effect of CEO power on firms' decarbonisation efforts. We find that firms with higher levels of CEO power are associated with lower carbon e... Read More about CEO power and firm decarbonisation efforts.

Building a modern data platform based on the data lakehouse architecture and cloud-native ecosystem (2025)
Journal Article
AbouZaid, A., Barclay, P. J., Chrysoulas, C., & Pitropakis, N. (2025). Building a modern data platform based on the data lakehouse architecture and cloud-native ecosystem. Discover Applied Sciences, 7, Article 166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-025-06545-w

In today’s Big Data world, organisations can gain a competitive edge by adopting data-driven decision-making. However, a modern data platform that is portable, resilient, and efficient is required to manage organisations’ data and support their growt... Read More about Building a modern data platform based on the data lakehouse architecture and cloud-native ecosystem.

Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada (2025)
Journal Article
Nolan, E., Redican, E., Hyland, P., Duffy, M., Karatzias, T., & Shevlin, M. (online). Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada. Journal of Loss and Trauma, https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2025.2465392

Lower perceived social support is a known risk factor for problematic grief reactions, but specific facets such as social disconnection may play a critical role in shaping grief responses. This study utilized the Oxford-Grief Social Disconnection Sca... Read More about Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada.

Synergistic integration of digital twins and zero energy buildings for climate change mitigation in sustainable smart cities: A systematic review and novel framework (2025)
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Bibri, S. E., Huang, J., Omar, O., & Kenawy, I. (2025). Synergistic integration of digital twins and zero energy buildings for climate change mitigation in sustainable smart cities: A systematic review and novel framework. Energy and Buildings, 333, Article 115484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.115484

Sustainable smart cities are increasingly turning to innovative technologies, such as Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) and Zero Energy Buildings (ZEBs), which offer transformative opportunities to enhance energy management and reduce environmental impacts.... Read More about Synergistic integration of digital twins and zero energy buildings for climate change mitigation in sustainable smart cities: A systematic review and novel framework.

Confronting the smart city governance challenge (2025)
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Mora, L., Gerli, P., Batty, M., Binet Royall, E., Carfi, N., Coenegrachts, K.-F., de Jong, M., Facchina, M., Janssen, M., Meijer, A., Pasi, G., Perrino, M., Raven, R., Sagar, A., Sancino, A., Santi, P., Sharp, D., Trencher, G., van Zoonen, L., Westerberg, P., …Ziemer, G. (online). Confronting the smart city governance challenge. Nature Cities, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00168-9

Governance inefficiencies threaten the potential of smart city projects to deliver equitable urban transformations. Current strategies often hinder implementation, and risk harmful technological effects on communities. Tackling this challenge demands... Read More about Confronting the smart city governance challenge.