Aston University

The ‘legging up’ burden: Hidden struggles of model minorities in racialized mentoring at work

Drawing on contemporaneous microstoria narrated by Black model minorities (BMMs), this paper theorizes the legging up burden: the implicit expectation that BMMs, positioned as token representatives of their race, will provide mentoring and support to organizational members with w...

Understanding funding-related bias in gambling research: insights from unhealthy commodities industries and medical/pharmaceutical research – a scoping review

Despite the risk of funding-related bias (RoFRB) introduced by industry funding in gambling research, empirical investigations remain limited. To inform understanding of RoFRB in gambling research, this scoping review synthesized 52 peer-reviewed studies (2019–2024) spanning gamb...

Elite perceptions of the legitimacy of asymmetric fiscal decentralisation: evidence from Spain

Abstract This article examines the conditions under which asymmetric arrangements granting enhanced fiscal powers to minority nationalist regions sustain or undermine the legitimacy of the territorial decentralisation model among the remaining regions, drawing on evidence from Sp...

Predicting infection risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: an application of machine learning and healthcare big data

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) initiating biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/ts DMARDs) face elevated risk of serious infections, necessitating tools for individualized risk stratification. Primary objective was to develop and validat...

Physically Constrained Dual-Branch Front-End Optimization for DDH-Oriented Surgical Robot Navigation

Surgical robot navigation in a restricted pelvic workspace requires accurate target localization, directional consistency and robot-feasible execution. This study proposes a physically constrained dual-branch front-end network (PCD-Net) for DDH-oriented navigation using public CT...