Metropolitan University

‘Alexa, dinner time’: Exploring how connected devices shape domestic atmospheres, intimacy, and power

This paper explores how people use smart home technologies in home-making practices. Employing the concept of atmospheres, we examine how smart home technologies contribute to producing the feeling of home and give texture to everyday activities. The concept of atmosphere denotes...

Operating room spatial layout, capacity utilization, and resource efficiency: evidence from a tertiary hospital in China

Purpose Operating rooms (ORs) are among the most resource-intensive hospital units. This study examines how OR spatial layout influences surgical preparation time, staff movement, equipment utilization, patient flow, and OR utilization in a large tertiary hospital in China. Desig...

Do climate shocks induce technological change? Firm-level evidence from wildfire exposure and robot adoption

Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine whether wildfire exposure is related to firms’ adoption of industrial robots. The study focuses on Chinese manufacturing firms over 2001–2014 and analyzes whether the wildfire–automation relationship varies across adoption margins, fina...

“I am the only one doing anything at all here”: Sponsored, shared, and felt unplugged videogame play in Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care classrooms

Young children create broader playscapes by moving fluidly between devices and surrounding artefacts and invoking screens and nondigital interfaces—enacting playful literacies of unruly affect and patterned discourse. We present findings from a video-ethnographic case study of th...

Cardiac Electro-structural Remodeling and Arrhythmia Risks Across the Spectrum of Obesity Defined by the New Lancet framework

Abstract Background Obesity is linked to higher arrhythmia risk, yet BMI overlooks its complexity. Recently, the Lancet Commission has introduced a new obesity framework. We aimed to compare arrhythmia risks across distinct obesity categories. Methods Participants from the UK Bio...

Knowledge mobilization and work autonomy: from ambiguous directives to situated knowledge in public service delivery

Purpose This study aims to investigate how public service employees resolve the tension between ambiguous directives and concrete work situations. It explores knowledge mobilization as a social process through which directives are transformed into situated knowledge for legitimat...

Red blood cell-based drug delivery systems: Construction strategies, biomedical applications, and future perspectives

Over the past few decades, traditional drug delivery systems have been extensively investigated and applied in clinical settings. However, they still face several limitations, including low delivery efficiency, short circulation times in vivo, and potential toxicity. In contrast,...

Revealing Subject-Specific Temporal Patterns from Longitudinal Data

MOTIVATION: Temporal multivariate data is ubiquitous in many domains, for instance, being collected over time at planned visits (every few months/years) in longitudinal cohorts, or every few minutes/hours in challenge tests. The analysis of such data often focuses on revealing th...

Geopolitical risk and renewable energy consumption: distributional patterns, innovation, and energy-exporter heterogeneity

Purpose This paper aims to examine how the relationship between geopolitical risk and renewable energy consumption varies across the conditional distribution. It also assesses renewable-energy innovation as a partial channel and energy-exporter status as a moderator. Design/metho...

Employee control and work pace while working compressed work schedules in long-term care: a sequential mixed method study

Abstract Background In Compressed Work Schedules (CWS), employees work extended shifts in exchange for fewer workdays. While shift work is often associated with poorer psychosocial working conditions, little is known about how CWS compares with traditional shift schedules. This s...

Numerical Investigation of the Thermal Performance of a PCM-Filled Glazing Cavity in a Trombe Wall System

Trombe walls are widely used passive solar heating systems for cold winter climates, but suffer from large diurnal temperature swings and limited heat delivery after sunset. This study numerically investigates replacing the air in the double-glazing gap of a Trombe wall with a ph...

Students’ use of artificial intelligence in higher education, and their reflections on that use: an interview study

Purpose The purpose of this study was to understand how students in higher education utilise artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools in their studies and to explore their reflections on their use. Further, we aimed to identify the areas where students require assistance or lack...

Clusters of out-of-home care trajectories and precarious school-to-work transitions: A Norwegian national register study

BACKGROUND: Trajectories through child protection services involving out-of-home care (OHC) are diverse, yet studies of OHC and school-to-work transitions often overlook this heterogeneity. METHODS: Using monthly records for three complete Norwegian birth cohorts (1994-1996; N =...

Business Strategy for a Greener Future: How Entrepreneurial Cognition and Networks Drive Environmental Innovation Diffusion

ABSTRACT Despite growing recognition of environmental challenges to sustainability, the diffusion of green innovation within entrepreneurs' social networks remains uneven, and the mechanisms by which entrepreneurial decisions are disseminated within these networks have not receiv...

Relational support, social inequality and completion in upper-secondary VET to age 28: evidence from a linked survey-register cohort in Norway

Relational conditions, such as caring teachers and close networks, are often highlighted for their role in students’ motivation and engagement. Whether such support relates to completion remains unclear. This study examines whether relational support reported midway through upper...

The Effects of Alternative Energy Consumption on Inflationary Trends in Sustainable Growth: A Quantile Study in the European Union

ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of the green energy transition and foreign direct investment on inflationary dynamics, distinguishing between general price inflation and electricity price inflation across 27 EU member states over 2014–2024. Using feasible generalized lea...