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Effects of Hearing Intervention on Physical Activity Measured by Accelerometry: a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE Study (2025)
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Schrack, J. A., Wanigatunga, A. A., Glynn, N. W., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T. H., Couper, D., Deal, J. A., Gmelin, T., Goman, A. M., Huang, A. R., Gravens-Mueller, L., Hayden, K. M., Martinez-Amezcua, P., Mitchell, C. M., Pankow, J. S., Pike, J. R., Reed, N. S., Sanchez, V. A., Sullivan, K. J., …Lin, F. R. (in press). Effects of Hearing Intervention on Physical Activity Measured by Accelerometry: a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,

Background: Hearing loss is prevalent in older adults and associated with reduced daily physical activity, but whether hearing intervention attenuates declines in physical activity is unknown . We investigated the 3-year effect of a hearing intervent... Read More about Effects of Hearing Intervention on Physical Activity Measured by Accelerometry: a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE Study.

Impact of a hearing intervention on the levels of leisure-time physical activity and T.V. viewing in older adults: results from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial (2025)
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Martinez-Amezcua, P., Zhang, W., Assi, S., Gupta, H., Twardzik, E., Huang, A. R., Reed, N. S., Deal, J. A., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Goman, A. M., Gravens-Mueller, L., Hayden, K. M., Mitchell, C. M., Pankow, J. S., Russell Pike, J., …Coresh, J. (online). Impact of a hearing intervention on the levels of leisure-time physical activity and T.V. viewing in older adults: results from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE trial. Journals of Gerontology, Series A, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf033

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Age-related hearing loss is common among older adults and may influence physical activity and sedentary behaviors, such as TV viewing. This study examined whether a hearing intervention could affect these behaviors over three years.

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Mechanical and thermal properties of polylactic acid blended with recycled polymethyl methacrylate (2025)
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Dehghani, S., Salehiyan, R., Pholharn, D., & Srithep, Y. (online). Mechanical and thermal properties of polylactic acid blended with recycled polymethyl methacrylate. Polymer Engineering and Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/pen.27141

This study investigates the effect of incorporating recycled polymethyl methacrylate (r-PMMA) into polylactic acid (PLA) and further modifications with a bio-based compatibilizer (epoxidized soybean oil [ESO]). Various PLA:r-PMMA ratios were evaluate... Read More about Mechanical and thermal properties of polylactic acid blended with recycled polymethyl methacrylate.

Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene (2025)
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Holmes, R., Salzmann, U., Djamaluddin, R., Hocking, E. P., Williams, M., Berrio, J. C., Siregar, I., Tjoa, B., Fusi, M., & Diele, K. (2025). Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene. Ecological Indicators, 171, Article 113231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113231

The mangroves of Sulawesi have been subject to widespread deforestation and degradation, which has intensified since the 1980s. Despite efforts by government and community initiatives to restore these intertidal forests, comprehensive, long-term asse... Read More about Mangrove dynamics and resilience in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, across the Holocene.

Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements (2025)
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Tonnarelli, F., & Mora, L. (online). Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2450755

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) systems are increasingly used by local governments to manage urban planning activities. However, there is a lack of clear guidelines for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. We address th... Read More about Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements.

Generative AI for Finance: Applications, Case Studies and Challenges (2025)
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Sai, S., Arunakar, K., Chamola, V., Hussain, A., Bisht, P., & Kumar, S. (2025). Generative AI for Finance: Applications, Case Studies and Challenges. Expert Systems, 42(3), Article e70018. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.70018

Generative AI (GAI), which has become increasingly popular nowadays, can be considered a brilliant computational machine that can not only assist with simple searching and organising tasks but also possesses the capability to propose new ideas, make... Read More about Generative AI for Finance: Applications, Case Studies and Challenges.

Use of deep geothermal energy to supply heat to a village in Scotland (2025)
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Penman, D., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Bani, N. A., & Mas’ud, A. A. (2025). Use of deep geothermal energy to supply heat to a village in Scotland. Interactions, 246(1), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-025-02265-0

This paper explores the possibility of utilising geothermal energy in an existing district heat network in the Aberdeenshire village of Banchory to provide hot water through the creation of a hypothetical geothermal well. It considers a simulated dee... Read More about Use of deep geothermal energy to supply heat to a village in Scotland.

Generative AI and LLMs for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Evaluation Benchmarks, Agentic AI, Challenges, and Opportunities (2025)
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Yigit, Y., Amine Ferrag, M., Ghanem, M. C., Sarker, I. H., Maglaras, L. A., Chrysoulas, C., Moradpoor, N., Tihanyi, N., & Janicke, H. (in press). Generative AI and LLMs for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Evaluation Benchmarks, Agentic AI, Challenges, and Opportunities. Sensors,

Critical National Infrastructures (CNIs)—including energy grids, water systems, 1 transportation networks, and communication frameworks—are essential to modern society 2 yet face escalating cybersecurity threats. This review paper comprehensively ana... Read More about Generative AI and LLMs for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Evaluation Benchmarks, Agentic AI, Challenges, and Opportunities.

A Dual-Polarized and Broadband Multiple-Antenna System for 5G Cellular Communications (2025)
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Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., & See, C. H. (2025). A Dual-Polarized and Broadband Multiple-Antenna System for 5G Cellular Communications. Sensors, 25(4), Article 1032. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25041032

This study presents a new multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array system designed for sub-6 GHz fifth generation (5G) cellular applications. The design features eight compact trapezoid slot elements with L-shaped CPW (Coplanar Waveguide)... Read More about A Dual-Polarized and Broadband Multiple-Antenna System for 5G Cellular Communications.

Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening (2025)
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Elkamhawy, A., Ammar, U. M., Kim, M., Gul, A. R., Park, T. J., & Lee, K. (online). Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening. Archives of Pharmacal Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12272-025-01533-5

Raf kinase enzymes are often dysregulated in melanoma. While sorafenib demonstrates strong activity against wild-type B-Raf, it fails to effectively inhibit the mutated form of B-Raf. In this study, sorafenib served as a lead compound for the develop... Read More about Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening.

Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster (2025)
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Keaney, T. A., & Holman, L. (online). Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf024

In species with separate sexes, selection on males causes evolutionary change in female traits values (and vice versa) via genetic correlations, which has far-reaching consequences for adaptation. Here, we utilise a sex-specific form of Robertson’s S... Read More about Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster.

Exploring safety at Mass Gathering Events through the lens of three different stakeholders (2025)
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Hutton, A., Robertson, M., & Ranse, J. (2025). Exploring safety at Mass Gathering Events through the lens of three different stakeholders. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, Article 1451891. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1451891

The work here reviews the role of those with responsibility in managing people and their safety at Mass Gathering Events (MGE); event managers, police, and medical personnel. Focus groups were used to gain insight into MGE safety through the lens of... Read More about Exploring safety at Mass Gathering Events through the lens of three different stakeholders.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach (2025)
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Siddik, A. B., Yong, L., Du, A. M., Vigne, S. A., & Sharif, A. (online). Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12901

Amid escalating global environmental challenges, the banking sector is increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance Environmental Sustainability Performance (ESP). Our research examines the impact of AI adoption on ESP through the... Read More about Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach.

Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada (2025)
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Nolan, E., Redican, E., Hyland, P., Duffy, M., Karatzias, T., & Shevlin, M. (in press). Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada. Journal of Loss and Trauma,

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.

Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems (2025)
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Moradpoor, N., Abah, E., Robles-Durazno, A., & Maglaras, L. (2025). Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems. Electronics, 14(3), Article 639. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030639

Critical National Infrastructure includes large networks such as telecommunications, 11 transportation, health services, police, nuclear power plants, and utilities like clean water, gas, and 12 electricity. The protection of these infrastructures is... Read More about Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems.

Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming (2025)
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Sai, S., Kumar, S., Gaur, A., Goyal, S., Chamola, V., & Hussain, A. (2025). Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming. Cognitive Computation, 17(1), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-025-10420-6

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) represents a pioneering class of artificial intelligence systems renowned for producing diverse media, such as text and images. Agriculture 4.0 (AG-4.0) is a concept that integrates advanced technologies such... Read More about Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming.

Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy (2025)
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Toredi, D., Mansour, J., Jones, S., Skelton, F., & McIntyre, A. (in press). Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy. Law and Human Behavior,

Objective: The Cross-Race Effect (CRE) is a reliable and robust phenomenon, whereby individuals better recognize faces that belong to their race compared to another race. Our goal was to produce items for a self-report Inventory (i.e., CRE-I) that br... Read More about Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy.

Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies (2025)
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Wyatt, B., Leask, A., & Barron, P. (in press). Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies. World Leisure Journal,

Visual research methods have been gaining attention among leisure studies scholars in recent years. As a form of freehand drawing, this paper mobilises rich picture building (RPB) for future serious leisure studies, and particularly those concerned w... Read More about Rich picture building: A visual method for future serious leisure studies.

Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation (2025)
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Gerli, P., Neves da Rocha, F., & Mora, L. (2025). Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, Article 126. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04320-7

The Covid-19 pandemic has further evidenced the potential of grassroots actors as initiators of digital innovations, in the form of open-source applications, platform cooperatives, and other crowdsourced digital artifacts. These innovations played a... Read More about Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation.

Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming (2025)
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Chapman, P. (2025). Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming. Journal of Functional Programming, 35, Article e4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796824000182

This paper reports on the experiences of using an early assessment intervention, specifically employing a Use-Modify-Create scaffold, to teach first-year undergraduate functional programming. The particular intervention that was trialled was the use... Read More about Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming.