UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Introduction to the Selected Writings of Jan Patočka
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Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design
(Manchester University Press, 2023-09-30)This chapter explores the mutually constitutive relationships between touch and interior design for the home, in an analysis attentive to modernisms and mediation. The phrase ‘home comforts’ indicates that the home is not ... -
Improving Public Engagement with Ethical Complexities of Assistive Robots
(Springer Nature Link, 2023-08-24)In order for society to fully realise the potential benefits offered by assistive robots, a number of ethical challenges must firstly be addressed. Crucially, it is important to enhance public understanding of the ways in ... -
Insights into software development approaches: mining Q &A repositories
(2024-01)Context: Software practitioners adopt approaches like DevOps, Scrum, and Waterfall for high-quality software development. However, limited research has been conducted on exploring software development approaches concerning ... -
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
(Amsterdam University Press, 2023-11-13)How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid and engaging history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on ... -
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. Are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?
(2023-07-07)This article questions the hypothesis, put forward by several historians and IR academics, that the 1980s decline in British union membership and strike frequency, was driven by major industrial defeats, a cultural shift ... -
Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison
(Bristol University Press, 2023-11-30)Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into the criminal justice ... -
Subjugation and Subterfuge: Struggling with Metrics as a Middle Manager in a UK Business School
(2021-05-20)This thesis explores the behaviours and emotions which emerge when middle managers in Higher Education (HE) use metrics as a tool to measure organisational performance. It uses autoethnography as a methodological approach, ... -
Characterisation of Temperature-Sensitivity of Brassica Resistance Against Leptosphaeria maculans
(2021-03-15)Variety resistance is an important tool in controlling against plant pathogens. As temperatures increase due to global warming, temperature-resilient resistance may play an important role in crop protection. However, the ... -
Thermogelling Materials for Topical Drug Delivery
(2021-02-26)This thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of thermogelling materials and their evaluation as topical drug delivery excipients. Thermogelling materials are polymers which transition from solution to gel ... -
Confirmation of a new resonance in 26Si and contribution of classical novae to the galactic abundance of 26Al
(2023-09-14)The 25Al(p ,γ ) reaction has long been highlighted as a possible means to bypass the production of 26Al cosmic γ rays in classical nova explosions. However, uncertainties in the properties of key resonant states in 26Si ... -
Assessing and Improving Prognosis in Patients with High Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2020-08-11)Endogenous fibrinolysis, if impaired, has been identified as a novel risk factor in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in-depth understanding of endogenous fibrinolysis, whether it varies day to day ... -
Understanding R Gene-Mediated Resistance Against Leptosphaeria maculans for Effective Control of Phoma Stem Canker in Oilseed Rape
(2020-01-28)This project aims to improve understanding of R gene-mediated resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans for effective control of phoma stem canker in oilseed rape. This was achieved through three objectives by (i) monitoring ... -
The impossible, necessary outside of nature: a Luhmannian intervention into post-humanist ecology
(2023-07-23)In the wake of climate change, social theory has been subject to a surge of new materialist and posthuman approaches that reconfigure ontology and politics beyond the modern nature/culture binary which the Anthropocene has ... -
Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events Comparing East Asians With Westerners: A Meta-Analysis
(2023-09-12)Background East Asians have shown different risk profiles for both thrombophilia and bleeding than Western counterparts. Objectives The authors sought to evaluate the effect of low-dose aspirin for primary prevention between ... -
Dual functional mesoporous silica colloidal electrolyte for lithium-oxygen batteries
(2023-01-01)Dual functional mesoporous silica (mSiO2) colloidal electrolytes are promising to protect lithium anode and accelerate the reaction kinetics on cathode for lithium-oxygen batteries (LOBs). In this work, we achieved a ... -
Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s
(2023-10-30)This article examines the women's protest camps at RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, Berkshire, England, between 1981 and 1990. Using new evidence from government correspondence in the Home Office archives, it argues ... -
Chartist Studies and Malcolm Chase: a Re-appreciation
(2023-11-17)Malcolm Chase (1957–2020) was the pre-eminent scholar of the Chartist democratic movement, and more broadly, of working-class political and social action in early nineteenth-century Britain. His work in many respects shaped ... -
ALMA 400 pc Imaging of a z = 6.5 Massive Warped Disk Galaxy
(2023-12-01)We present 0.″075 (≈400 pc) resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the [C ii] and dust continuum emission from the host galaxy of the z = 6.5406 quasar, P036+03. We find that the ... -
Evolving Understandable Cognitive Models
(Applied Cognitive Science Lab, 2022-07-27)Cognitive models for explaining and predicting human performance in experimental settings are often challenging to develop and verify. We describe a process to automatically generate the programs for cognitive models from ...