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Future Developments in Noise from Transport (2025)
Book Chapter
Torija Martinez, A. (2025). Future Developments in Noise from Transport. In I. van Kamp, & F. Woudenberg (Eds.), A Sound Approach to Noise and Health. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6121-0

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective lookin... Read More about Future Developments in Noise from Transport.

From Crisis to Opportunity: Exploring Urban Food Growing in the UK During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic (2025)
Book Chapter

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes. So-called ‘crisis gardening’ can even be linked to transformative change in food systems throu... Read More about From Crisis to Opportunity: Exploring Urban Food Growing in the UK During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Improving microgrid frequency stability through PI-PIDA-driven STATCOM optimization using a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm (2025)
Journal Article

Frequency instability caused by symmetrical and asymmetrical faults in a microgrid can cause significant oscillations and deviations from the nominal frequency. Therefore, there is a need to develop new control methods to ensure the rapid stabilizati... Read More about Improving microgrid frequency stability through PI-PIDA-driven STATCOM optimization using a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm.

Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards (2025)
Journal Article

The enforcement of noise pollution laws is impeded by subjective interpretations within legislation, fragmented statutes, and inconsistent enforcement mechanisms.
Noise pollution has significant impacts on public health, ranging from sleep disrupti... Read More about Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards.

Comparison of Deep Learning and Psychoacoustic Models to Predict UAV Noise Impact in Soundscapes (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

* The increasing prevalence of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in urban environments necessitates a deeper understanding of their impact on the experience of urban soundscapes. This study presents Machine Learning models aimed at predicting perceived annoy... Read More about Comparison of Deep Learning and Psychoacoustic Models to Predict UAV Noise Impact in Soundscapes.

Approaches to Automatic Classification, Detection and Segmentation of Breast Arterial Calcification Using Deep Learning (2025)
Journal Article

Adoption of circular economy within the UK construction industry: Particular analysis of one of the UK top-5 contractor companies (2025)
Journal Article

The construction industry is the major contributor to waste generation in the world. Construction and demolition waste comprised more than 60% of the total UK waste generation in 2020. This presents challenges to material resource efficiency, sustain... Read More about Adoption of circular economy within the UK construction industry: Particular analysis of one of the UK top-5 contractor companies.

Effect of Moisture and Temperature on FRP-strengthened Masonry Units (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study investigates the effects of temperature and humidity on fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) retrofitted masonry structures bonded with epoxy adhesive. Although FRP strengthening is widely used, there is limited understanding of how moisture and... Read More about Effect of Moisture and Temperature on FRP-strengthened Masonry Units.

Analytical Solutions Incorporating Interfacial Mode II Fracture Energy for Predicting the Shear Response of FRP-Strengthened Concrete Samples (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPs) are widely used for strengthening and rehabilitating ageing concrete structures, with their effectiveness strongly influenced by the behaviour at the FRP-concrete interface. This study presents a closed-form analytica... Read More about Analytical Solutions Incorporating Interfacial Mode II Fracture Energy for Predicting the Shear Response of FRP-Strengthened Concrete Samples.

Neoclassical Influences in Architecture, Manchester 18th-19th century (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The extend of neoclassical influences in Manchester’s Architecture, in 18th -19th centuries, is in at an unprecedented scale. The proposed research paper aspires to enhance our knowledge and understanding of how neoclassical style was integrated into... Read More about Neoclassical Influences in Architecture, Manchester 18th-19th century.

Computational Fourier Transform Analysis of Liquid Krypton Neutron Diffraction Data (2025)
Thesis

The structure factor of a fluid and its radial distribution function are linked by a Fourier transform relationship. This is tested on raw structure factor data of liquid krypton at 310K with pressures ranges from 400bar to 2000bar from neutron scatt... Read More about Computational Fourier Transform Analysis of Liquid Krypton Neutron Diffraction Data.

Bacteria transformation, Mini prep and PCR analysis (2025)
Other

Bacterial transformation is a useful tool in molecular genetics, being used to create genetically modified bacteria capable of adapting and surviving in conditions that the parent culture would not. Introducing a plasmid into a bacterial host can be... Read More about Bacteria transformation, Mini prep and PCR analysis.

Assessing perceptions, knowledge and satisfaction with seasonal malaria chemoprevention services: A cross-sectional study in northern Nigeria (2025)
Thesis

Introduction: Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the fight against malaria worldwide, the disease still remains a major health concern in Nigeria. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended using seasonal malaria chemopreventio... Read More about Assessing perceptions, knowledge and satisfaction with seasonal malaria chemoprevention services: A cross-sectional study in northern Nigeria.

Digital Twinning of Everything and Everyone (2025)
Report

This report makes clear that the UK has a generational opportunity. We are home to world-class research, innovation, and standards development. But we must act decisively. Without a cohesive long- term investment culture, one nurtured by Government f... Read More about Digital Twinning of Everything and Everyone.

A Study into Building Surveying Practice with Regards to the Evaluation of Marine Degradation in Building Fabric (2025)
Thesis

The World is surrounded by approximately 193,000 miles of coastline (Small & Nicholls, 2003). The United Kingdom is an island located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain... Read More about A Study into Building Surveying Practice with Regards to the Evaluation of Marine Degradation in Building Fabric.

Delivering Journal Clubs in Higher Education: A Roadmap for Success (2025)
Other

Within the Biomedicine Department at the University of Salford, we have been delivering extracurricular and Curriculum-embedded journal clubs for a number of years to support students' understanding of academic writing and journal article structure.... Read More about Delivering Journal Clubs in Higher Education: A Roadmap for Success.

Computation of Manganese Ferrite/Nickel Ferrite Ethylene glycol hybrid ferromagnetic nanofluid stretching flow with radiative flux: Applications in solar nano-coatings (2025)
Journal Article

Renewable energy has expanded significantly in the 21st century due to increasing efficiency and sustainability and reducing harmful emissions. Among various renewable sources, solar energy is the most abundant. Engineers have developed numerous sola... Read More about Computation of Manganese Ferrite/Nickel Ferrite Ethylene glycol hybrid ferromagnetic nanofluid stretching flow with radiative flux: Applications in solar nano-coatings.

PFAS Contamination: Regulatory Landscape and Future Perspectives for India (2025)
Journal Article

This article highlights the escalating concern of PFAS (Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances) contamination, which poses significant global concern and potentially serve implications for India. It offers a comprehensive overview of the types of... Read More about PFAS Contamination: Regulatory Landscape and Future Perspectives for India.

You don't know what you don't know; using high school outreach to improve awareness of bioscience-based careers and higher education (2025)
Journal Article

When considering the diversity of students in higher education, an important but frequently overlooked characteristic is socioeconomic background. It is well known that those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to progress to high... Read More about You don't know what you don't know; using high school outreach to improve awareness of bioscience-based careers and higher education.

Triptonide induces pro-apoptotic effectsagainst medulloblastoma subtypes (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction
Medulloblastoma is a major cause of paediatric braintumours worldwide. Whilst effective, current treatmentsare often associated with lifelong off-target effectsresulting in lower quality of life and early mortality inpaediatric patients... Read More about Triptonide induces pro-apoptotic effectsagainst medulloblastoma subtypes.