Teesside University

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...