University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Review article: Mountain flash floods: from hazard formation to disaster risk reduction pathways

Abstract. Flash floods in mountainous regions are becoming more frequent and destructive under climate warming, yet cross-regional understanding of their triggering mechanisms, cascading impacts, and governance remains fragmented. This review synthesises 1,967 studies published d...

Delayed Diagnosis of Hereditary Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Presenting with Autonomic Neuropathy: A Case Report

Background: As a rare disease, cardiac amyloidosis (CA) has seen a deepening of epidemiological understanding, driven by advances in imaging and genetic testing, alongside drug development. However, the identification of suspected patients in the early stages remains inadequate....

The Pursuit of Security: How Loneliness Shapes Consumers' Preference for Simple Versus Complex Packaging Designs

ABSTRACT This research examines how loneliness influences consumers' preferences for the design (simple vs. complex) of product packaging and uncovers the underlying mechanisms across 7 studies, including 1 survey and 6 experimental designs ( N = 1636). The results show that lone...

Performance of the axial length-to-corneal radius ratio in distinguishing pre-myopia from hyperopia under cycloplegia in school-aged children: an age-stratified retrospective cross-sectional study

The axial length/corneal radius (AL/CR) ratio is an established structural indicator of myopia, but its ability to discriminate within the non-myopic range—specifically pre-myopia from hyperopia under cycloplegia—remains poorly characterised. We aimed to evaluate the performance...

Real-Time Physical-to-Virtual Scene Reconstruction for Dynamic Manufacturing Systems via Semantic—Spatial Mapping

Real-time reconstruction of virtual scenes in response to changing physical conditions remains a challenge in manufacturing digital-twin systems. During manufacturing operations, changes in object positions, orientations, and spatial arrangements require the virtual scene to be u...

Ratio-optimized NiCo scaffolding integration with biomass-derived carbon for efficient lithium-ion battery performance

Biomass-derived carbon-supported transition-metal hydroxides are promising anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Optimizing the morphology and transition-metal molar ratio of layered double hydroxide (LDH) enhances sustainability, redox activity, and...

Fixed or flexible: How product formats affect consumer redemption behavior for live-streamed food and beverage (F&B) products

With the rapid growth of live-streaming e-commerce in the food and beverage industry, low redemption rates despite high sales volumes have become a critical challenge for merchants. This research investigates how product formats and familiarity affect consumer redemption behavior...

NAD-CD: Addressing concept drift in network IDS alert classification for Security Operations Centers

A Network Intrusion Detection System (network IDS or NIDS) is a widely used technology to enhance an organization’s security posture. A NIDS monitors the organizational network for cyber attacks, malware activity, and other malicious network traffic, raising alerts upon detecting...

Information, goal setting and performance: Experimental evidence

We investigate how information about relative performance shapes goal setting and subsequent performance. Combining a field experiment in a university course with a complementary laboratory experiment, we exogenously vary whether individuals receive baseline relative-performance...

Initiation mechanism of irrigation-induced retrogressive loess landslides on the South Jingyang Tableland, China

Abstract Repeated sliding disturbs the slope structure and degrades soil mechanical properties, promoting the progressive development of retrogressive loess landslides on the South Jingyang Plateau, China. These landslides progressively encroach upon the plateau surface and have...

Asymmetric Modality Domain Randomization for Drone-Based RGB–Thermal Tiny Person Detection Under Controlled Synthetic Sensor Shifts

Drone-based red–green–blue (RGB)–thermal tiny person detection must account for the different appearance statistics of visible and thermal sensing. We propose Asymmetric Modality Domain Randomization (AMDR), a training-only strategy that applies modality-conditioned perturbations...

AI-Assisted Speaking Practice and Human-Directed Communicative Readiness: Survey and Scenario Evidence on Anxiety, Self-Efficacy, and Evaluation Pressure

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) voice tools create low-risk opportunities for second-language (L2) speaking practice, but it remains unclear whether AI-assisted speaking practice is associated with human-directed communicative readiness and how this relationship varies...

Global disparities and structural imbalances in AI integration for urban climate resilience research

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential to decode urban climate resilience (UCR) complexities, yet its unguided expansion risks amplifying systemic biases. Here, we leverage large language models to conduct a systematic analysis of around 12,500 UCR publicatio...

Spatial heterogeneity driven by pollution shapes distinct microbial community assembly across six coastal bays of the Shandong Peninsula

Coastal bays are critical land-sea interfaces increasingly threatened by anthropogenic activities, yet how pollution and trophic gradients shape microbial community assembly remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated spatial heterogeneity in environmental conditions and mic...

Highly inclusive teachers’ practices in responding to all students’ learning characteristics

Background Although inclusive education places strong emphasis on addressing all students’ strengths and needs, the understanding of student diversity in its broadest sense remains limited. Studies exploring how inclusion is implemented tend to focus on specific groups of learner...

Controlled evaluation of architectural, classifier, and training refinements in MolTrans-based drug-target interaction prediction

Abstract Drug–target interaction (DTI) prediction is a central task in computational drug discovery, but performance improvements can be difficult to attribute when architectural modifications and training changes are introduced simultaneously. This study evaluates a Bidirectiona...

Manufacturing Paradigm III—From Conception to the Academic Frontier

The theory of the “three paradigms of manufacturing development” is derived from a systematic analysis of the evolution of manufacturing precision and controllable feature size. It posits that Manufacturing Paradigm III is grounded in quantum theory as its new theoretical foundat...

Research on the Impact of Corporate ESG on Promoting Common Prosperity—Empirical Evidence from Chinese A-share Listed Companies 2011-2023

Using data on Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2023, this paper examines the relationship between ESG and common prosperity at the firm level. From a theoretical perspective, corporate ESG activities can promote common prosperity through two channels: first, by impro...

Research on the Impact of Corporate ESG on Promoting Common Prosperity—Empirical Evidence from Chinese A-share Listed Companies 2011-2023

Using data on Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2023, this paper examines the relationship between ESG and common prosperity at the firm level. From a theoretical perspective, corporate ESG activities can promote common prosperity through two channels: first, by impro...

Mechanism of the influence of solids holdup on the heat transfer rate of high-density particle flows in cyclone pyrolyzer

Introducing centrifugal force into a free-fall downer (FFD) creates a cyclone pyrolyzer (CP), which can achieve a synergistic effect of high gas velocity and localized high solids holdup (>0.1) to enhance heat transfer in high-density particle flows. However, the mechanism of int...