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Report of RILEM TC 281-CCC: insights into factors affecting the carbonation rate of concrete with SCMs revealed from data mining and machine learning approaches
(2024-10-23)The RILEM TC 281–CCC ‘‘Carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials’’ conducted a study on the effects of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) on the carbonation rate of blended cement concretes ... -
Asset manager society and financial subordination
(2024-08-27)This essay critically engages with the concept of asset-manager society (AMS) proposed by Brett Christophers. We begin by drawing out its five key elements through a contrast with the related but distinct concept of ... -
Client and therapists’ subjective understanding of an ideal therapy room: A divergent reflection of experience, for publication in the European Journal of Counselling Psychology
(2023-12-13)An abundance of studies showed that the room/space where therapy takes place could significantly impact the engagement, process, and how people experience therapy. The need to balance the comfort of the room with its ... -
Health and wellbeing of sexual abuse survivors attending sexual assault referral centres in England: the MESARCH mixed-methods evaluation
(2024-10-17)Background: One million people in England and Wales experience sexual violence and abuse each year with around half experiencing serious sexual offences; 55,000 survivors access Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs). ... -
The Buckinghamshire ‘School Food Partnership’ Programme
(University of Hertfordshire, 2024-08-15)BiteBack2030 are a "youth activist movement" challenging the food system. They prioritise young people’s voices and support secondary school students to advocate for themselves, to change their ‘school food culture’ and ... -
Food insecurity and health conditions in the Australian adult population: A nationally representative analysis
(2024-10-21)Aim: This study aimed to identify key health condition correlates of food insecurity in Australia using nationally representative data. Methods: This cross‐sectional study used data from a large, nationally representative ... -
Identification of multi-component LOFAR sources with multi-modal deep learning
(2024-06-11)Modern high-sensitivity radio telescopes are discovering an increased number of resolved sources with intricate radio structures and fainter radio emissions. These sources often present a challenge because source detectors ... -
Superfluid Spin-up: Three-dimensional Simulations of Post-glitch Dynamics in Neutron Star Cores
(2024-10-20)Neutron stars show a steady decrease in their rotational frequency, occasionally interrupted by sudden spin-up events called glitches. The dynamics of a neutron star after a glitch involve the transfer of angular momentum ... -
Responses to killing in state-sanctioned and unsanctioned killers: pathways of construing
(2024-09-17)Examples of responses to killing are provided from three groups of state-sanctioned killers: executioners, perpetrators of genocide, and members of the armed forces; as well as violent offenders. The extent to which such ... -
A study of transmission properties in tapered graded-index fibre
(SPIE (International Society for Optics and Phonotics), 2024-09-30)We investigated the transmission properties of tapered fibres both experimentally with simulations in order to select the appropriate fibre for the high-resolution spectrograph EXOhSPEC. The work focuses on testing commercial ... -
Assessing the sensitivity and acceptability of the Royal Marsden Palliative Care Referral “Triggers” Tool for outpatients with cancer
(2024-11-01)Purpose: To evaluate the use, acceptability, and experience of a seven-item palliative care referral screening tool in an outpatient oncology setting. Methods: A two-phase convergent parallel mixed-methods study. Patient ... -
Experimental investigation on evaporative cooling coupled phase change energy storage technology for data centers under natural air cooling
(2024-10-10)To address the challenges of prolonged cooling air supply for data centers (DCs) in high-temperature climates, a cooling ventilation system combining evaporative cooling with phase change energy storage (PCES) under natural ... -
Patient experience and barriers of using a mHealth exercise app in musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy
(2024-10-07)Digital transformation has led to an abundance of digital health technologies (DHTs) readily available for Physiotherapists. In July 2020, the Physiotherapy department at a London NHS Trust implemented a mobile health ... -
Hormone replacement therapy (conjugated oestrogens plus bazedoxifene) for post-menopausal women with symptomatic hand osteoarthritis: primary report from the HOPE-e randomised, placebo-controlled, feasibility study
(2022-10-30)Background Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis is more common in women than in men, and its incidence increases around the age of menopause, implicating oestrogen deficiency. No randomised controlled trials of hormone replacement ... -
The LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Probabilistic Spectral Source Classifications and Faint Radio Source Demographics
(2024-09-11)We present an analysis of 152,355 radio sources identified in the second data release of the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR2) with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.00 < < 0.57. ... -
Exploring the high-density reflection model for the soft excess in RBS 1124
(2024-09-09)'Bare' active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a subclass of Type 1 AGN that show little or no intrinsic absorption. They offer an unobscured view of the central regions of the AGN and therefore serve as ideal targets to study ... -
Optimising prostate biopsies and imaging for the future – a review
(2024-09-19)Conventionally, transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy (TRUS-Bx) was the main technique used for the diagnosis of prostate cancer since it was first described in 1989 [1]. However, the PROMIS trial showed that this ... -
On the present and future changes in Indian summer monsoon precipitation characteristics under different SSP scenarios from CMIP6 models
(2024-10-14)Monsoons are a vital part of the agriculture and economy of India which most of its population rely on for their livelihoods. It still is not clear how climate change will impact precipitation events over India due to the ...