Nottingham Trent University

Women's entrepreneurship and resilience: focusing on a Central European entrepreneurial setting

Purpose Despite extensive research on resilience in established organizations, scholarship intersecting entrepreneurial resilience and women's entrepreneurship has been slow to progress. Much of the academic discourse within this research stream often centres on women's negative...

Mapping the uneven impact of education on mental health: a cross-national analysis by income level

Abstract The relationship between education and mental health is not well understood. Findings are mixed, especially in low- and middle-income countries. We examine the impact of education on mental health using individual-level data from over 120,000 participants across 121 coun...

Building place-based capacity in an asymmetric system: supporting England’s devolution periphery or fuelling political spatial inequality?

In many national contexts, asymmetric decentralisation creates political spatial inequalities, as some places are given more power and resources than others. This can exacerbate underlying place-based disadvantages. Capacity-building programmes could offer an important counterwei...

Exploring citizen science as a tool for engaging zoo visitors with animal welfare

Abstract Global biodiversity losses are at an all-time high and conservation science is a priority discipline. Citizen science (providing opportunities for the public to play an active role in research projects) has been identified as a powerful tool for tackling conservation iss...

A Critical Review of Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Reinforced 4D-Printed Shape-Memory Polymers

Abstract Additive manufacturing (AM) combined with smart materials has enabled 4D printing of structures capable of programmable, stimulus-driven shape transformation. Among these, particle-reinforced shape-memory polymers (SMPs) have emerged as a key platform for achieving enhan...

Beyond generation rent: Tenure restructuring and intergenerational housing inequality in Ghana

Intergenerational housing inequality is commonly framed in terms of delayed homeownership and prolonged renting; however, this framing derives largely from high-income, mortgage-based systems. This paper examines changes in young adults' household position, tenure and housing con...

Cultural mapping in a Middle Eastern city: insights from Rasht’s culture-led regeneration

This paper examines how residents and visitors experience cultural assets in Rasht, Iran, following a major programme of culture-led regeneration linked to the city’s UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation. Addressing a gap in research on Middle Eastern cities, the study...

Roaring to Go: Engagement With Positive Reinforcement Training as a Valid and Reliable Indicator of Positive Welfare in Zoo Big Cats

Engagement with positive reinforcement training is a non-invasive, easily recorded, and valid indicator of welfare in captive bottlenose dolphins. However, despite the ubiquitousness of training programs in zoo-housed mammals in accredited zoos, this metric has yet to be explored...

Development of the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds—Brief Form: Accuracy in Detecting Autism in Toddlers

Early diagnosis of autism is crucial for timely intervention, yet existing screening tools are often limited by administration time in clinical settings. This study developed and evaluated the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds—Brief Form (STAT-BF) for detecting autism in...

Healthcare experiences and expectations of women survivors of domestic violence in Asia: a systemized review of the literature

Domestic violence significantly shapes women's healthcare experiences and expectations in Asian settings; however, evidence remains dispersed across diverse study designs and countries. This review synthesizes empirical findings on how survivors navigate healthcare systems and wh...

Towards fair gig work: integrating gig work into Scotland's renewed fair work agenda

Purpose This article examines how platform gig work in Scotland, which remains absent from both the fair work agenda, aligns with or diverges from, Scotland's fair work framework. Specifically, it discusses the employment practices in the sector in relation to Scotland's fair wor...

Phase-matching-free sensing with undetected light using a nonlinear thin-film metasurface

Abstract In this article, we report classical sensing with undetected light at a wavelength of 1500 nm, detected on a silicon camera at 580 nm, using four-wave mixing from a plasmonic metasurface. The bidirectional nonlinear scattering due to inherent reflections from such thin n...

Event-related potentials reveal enhanced processing of social media over monetary rewards

Since the first online social media platform, using social media has emerged as one of the defining behaviors of the new millennium. For most users such behavior is recreational. However, for some individuals, the use of social media may develop to problematic, compromising their...

Development and Validation of the Sharenting Behavior Scale Among Parents

Due to the proliferation of social media, sharenting has become a widespread parental behavior. Its prevalence, combined with its potential impact on children’s privacy and well-being, highlights the need for a parent-specific psychometric instrument. The present study aimed to d...

Empowered generative artificial intelligence in retail service recovery: Recovery justice, customer effort reduction, trust restoration, and purchase behaviour

Retailers increasingly deploy generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to handle complaints, yet evidence remains limited on when these agents restore purchasing rather than merely improve immediate evaluations. We develop a configuration model in which recovery agent identity...

Blockchain-enabled intelligent model for energy-constrained IoMT networks with privacy-preserving

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), with the integration of physical objects, is widely explored to advance healthcare applications, enabling real-time monitoring and diagnosis of patient conditions. These systems collaborate with biosensors, allowing medical experts to track...

Insulin resistance is associated with mammary mitochondrial dysfunction at the onset of human lactation

Insulin resistance (IR) has emerged as a risk factor for lactation insufficiency and delays the onset of milk secretion after childbirth, termed secretory activation (SA). This may cause inadequate infant weight gain and early breastfeeding cessation. However, the mechanisms unde...

Artificial intelligence and liquidation: Reality, destiny and fantasy

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping the administration of corporate liquidation. Beyond its established role in financial prediction and data analytics, AI is now assisting insolvency practitioners in identifying the onset of financial distress, managi...

The impact of rainfall characteristics on slope stability and the mitigation through sand pile reinforcement: a finite element analysis in tropical residual soils

Abstract Rainfall-induced slope failures are widespread in tropical regions where residual soils predominate, largely due to elevated pore water pressures and the loss of matric suction during infiltration. Although numerous studies have examined rainfall-triggered instability, l...

Privacy-Preserving Ambient Sensing for Activities of Daily Living: Multimodal Radar–Thermal Human Activity Recognition and Smart Plug Appliance Recognition

Continuous monitoring of Activities of daily living (ADLs) requires sensing systems that are privacy-preserving, low-power, and robust to environmental variation. Ambient sensing technologies provide an alternative to RGB video and wearable devices, but individual sensing modalit...