Teesside University

Consumer Decision‐Making Styles Across Product Involvement Levels: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Online Flash Sale Events

ABSTRACT Online flash sale events create urgency, scarcity and deep‐discount conditions, yet little is known about how consumer decision‐making styles vary across product involvement levels and how they are associated with situational involvement. Grounded in consumer decision‐ma...

Life cycle environmental and cost analysis of a building insulated with different insulation materials: a British case study

Purpose To evaluate the whole-life environmental and economic performance of four insulation materials used in the UK, hemp fibre, wood fibre, glass wool and extruded polystyrene (XPS), by comparing their embodied and operational impacts within a consistent regulatory and modelli...

Acute postoperative dietary intake in older adult hip fracture patients: An exploratory three-day weighed food diary observational study

BackgroundOlder adults recovering from hip fracture surgery are at risk from poor outcomes that can impede dietary intake, delay recovery and exacerbate comorbidities. Adequate nutrition is critical to recovery in this group, yet acute postoperative intake is poorly understood. M...

Castlereagh, Brian Maguire and the trade union campaign against repression in Ireland, 1977–80

This article examines how the Northern Ireland trade union movement confronted state repression during the Troubles, focusing on the short-lived Trade Union Campaign Against Repression (TUCAR) and the death of AUEW-TASS shop steward Brian Maguire in Castlereagh RUC barracks in Ma...

A Mixed‐Methods Evaluation of a Dietetic Outcome Measure Tool Pilot in a Community Eating Disorder Service

ABSTRACT Background Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with significant physical, psychological, and social impairments. Dietitians play a vital role in ED treatment, yet their impact is underreported. Aim To evaluate the pilot implementation of a novel dietetic outcome measur...

Navigating dark kitchens in England: environmental health, planning, and public health perspectives

BACKGROUND: Dark kitchens, 'tech-enabled commercial kitchen(s) operating mostly for delivery, to fulfil remote on-demand consumer online orders of food for immediate consumption', are a global phenomenon. As part of a wider project exploring dark kitchens and the fast-moving onli...

An exploration of how mental health professionals with lived experience of psychological distress navigate their professional world

Purpose People with lived experience of psychological distress can be attracted to work in mental healthcare and figures are indicative of a sector with high rates of professionals having experience of psychological distress. This study aims to explore how mental health professio...

Harnessing mental imagery to improve mental health in the perinatal period: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Mental imagery is an important maintenance factor in many mental health difficulties, and imagery-based treatments are effective, yet often underutilised. The perinatal period is a critical time for mental health outcomes. This review synthesised data on the relations...

Atomistic Insights into Gradient Architecture Driven Strengthening in Additively Manufactured Cu–Ni Stepwise Graded Structures

ABSTRACT In this study, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are employed to compare the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured Cu‐Ni Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) as a function of the functional gradient design. Two gradient architectures, a stepwise graded archite...

The influence of employees' entrepreneurial socio-cognitive traits and the country-level institutional context on employees' entrepreneurial behavior

Purpose This study seeks to identify the individual- and country-level factors that influence employees' entrepreneurial behavior (EEB) by examining the direct effects of entrepreneurial socio-cognitive traits on EEB and the moderating influence of country-level institutional fac...

Developing Growth Reference Curves for Jordanian Children and Adolescents: A Comparative Analysis with WHO Growth Standards and References

Background: Growth standards and growth references serve different purposes. The WHO Child Growth Standards for ages 0–5 years describe growth under specified optimal conditions, whereas the WHO 5–19-year curves are a reference reconstructed from historical NCHS data. This study...

Perceptions and Barriers in Workplace Artificial Intelligence Adoption Among Industry Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Survey

As professionals increasingly encounter artificial intelligence (AI) in their workplaces, questions around adoption barriers, ethical concerns, and job security have grown in prominence. This paper reports an exploratory cross-sectional descriptive survey of self-reported percept...

Microstructural Evolution and Morphological Aspects of Titanium Carbides in Weld-Deposited Coatings using Chip-Based Fluxes

Abstract This work examines how joint design–controlled dilution governs microstructural evolution and titanium carbide morphology in GTAW cladded hardfacing layers produced using recycled Ti6Al4V chips and graphite. Hardfacing coatings were deposited into V-groove geometries of...

Complete strategy spaces reveal hidden pathways to cooperation

Understanding how cooperation emerges and persists is a central challenge in evolutionary game theory. However, models of communication often rely on restricted strategy sets, making it unclear whether omitted behaviours alter cooperation. Here, we study the complete deterministi...

Stakeholder agency in humanitarian projects addressing forced displacement

Purpose Humanitarian projects address critical global issues such as poverty, climate change and forced displacement. However, research reveals that many such projects yield limited results when managed through a top-bottom approach. In this research, we investigate how the agenc...

‘A policy of national emasculation’? The gendered debate over Irish neutrality in the Second World War

Abstract This article argues that, during the Second World War, Irish neutrality was constantly debated in gendered terms. For its proponents, neutrality was situated within a nationalist tradition which spoke a markedly masculine language and thus supplied a useful justification...

Social welfare optimisation under institutional reward and punishment

Institutional incentives are widely used to promote cooperation among autonomous, self-regarding agents, from human societies to multi-agent and AI systems. Existing work typically treats incentive design as a bi-objective problem: minimise institutional cost while achieving a hi...

Numerical Assessment of the Stamping Formability of SS304 Metallic Bipolar Plates with Side-Boss Parallel Flow Channels

Side-boss parallel channels can enhance reactant transport and water removal in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, but their local protrusions increase the forming difficulty of ultra-thin metallic bipolar plates. This study numerically investigates the single-step stamping for...

Bittersweet: a multi-method qualitative analysis of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) tax discussion in the Nigerian media

Abstract In 2021, the government of late President Muhammad Buhari signed the Finance Act of 2021 into law. This law, through the Customs, Excise, Tariffs, etc. (Consolidation) Act, instituted a ₦10-per-litre tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to reduce excessive added-sugar consum...

High-accuracy lung region segmentation and injury classification using deep networks

This study developed and evaluated a hybrid deep learning framework for automated lung segmentation and multi-class severity classification in chest CT scans, addressing key methodological gaps including heterogeneous dataset labeling, pseudo-label bias in segmentation, limited i...