University of Strathclyde

Using podcasts to forward Universal Design for Learning in civil engineering education

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Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy: opportunities and challenges for gender justice in Mauritius

Climate change is intrinsically linked to gender. Evidence shows women face the greatest impacts of climate change due to higher poverty presence, reliance on land, family responsibilities, and less societal power. Our study uses Carol Bacchi’s "What is the Problem Represented to...

Hydroelasticity-based structural optimisation of a stepped barge backbone beam

Structural optimisation that utilises ship hydroelasticity has significant gaps in marine structural design due to limitations in its practical applications. To address this issue, the present study initiates hydroelasticity-based structural optimisation using a scaled model of a...

Technology-mediated emergence of a competing logic in a mature field: The case of Bitcoin

Emerging technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, are enabling new configurations of practices, roles, and meaning systems within mature fields that can disrupt institutionalized field arrangements and alter the centrality of institutional logics. Given the g...

Ice-ray pentagonal packing of pseudo-fivefold helices

While fivefold point symmetry is common in nature, fivefold spatial symmetry is seldom observed. Regular pentagons cannot tile a plane without leaving voids, and even the densest “ice-ray” packing is exceptionally rare. Fivefold helices are equally elusive. We report a small mole...

Intersecting Identities: How Gender and Disability Shape Voter Perceptions of Election Candidates

Voters’ perceptions of election candidates are known to be shaped by stereotypes about candidates’ characteristics and social identities, including gender and disability. More recently, scholars have started paying attention to how the intersection of politicians’ identities shap...

A comparative study of diet choice and feeding management among UK pet and child caregivers

Introduction Caregivers play a central role in shaping the dietary habits and nutritional health of dependents. However, the diversity of available diets and feeding advice can complicate everyday food decisions. This qualitative study explored how caregivers make feeding decisio...

Navigating the Radical Oxo‐Functionalization of Alkenes Toward Ketones

Ketones are ubiquitous structural motifs in pharmaceuticals, natural products, agrochemicals, and functional materials, as well as indispensable building blocks in organic synthesis. This outlines the design of efficient carbonyl‐forming strategies a crucial target in methodology...

Bromine Retention Versus Electrochemical Accessibility in a Ferri‐/Ferrocyanide–Bromine Flow Battery

Bromine retention in aqueous redox flow batteries can be improved by complexation, but the resulting gain in stability is often accompanied by losses in electrochemical accessibility and transport. Here, we investigate a ferri‐/ferrocyanide–bromine flow battery based on soluble f...

Naming and Shaming to Protect Civilians During Peacekeeping: Lessons from South Sudan

Abstract What can the United Nations do to strengthen the protection of civilians when it fails? When missions struggle to protect civilians, high‐level naming and shaming of non‐responsive units within the operation can occur to reorient the operation. Shaming helps rehabilitate...

Budget impact analysis of subcutaneous infliximab (CT-P13 SC) for treating autoimmune diseases in Jordan

Autoimmune diseases are increasingly prevalent, and their management in Jordan relies heavily on costly intravenous infliximab (IV IFX). Subcutaneous infliximab (IFX SC) may offer cost savings by reducing administration-related expenses. This study aims to investigate the financi...

Engineered 3D Fibronectin‐Based Environments Modulate the Pathogenic Profile of Arthritic Synovial Fibroblasts

Inflammation is essential for fighting infections and initiating tissue repair, but chronic unresolved inflammation underlies many conditions, like cancer and autoimmune disorders. While dysregulated immune responses drive chronic inflammation, non‐immune stromal cells such as fi...

One foot after the other – embodied information on the West Highland Way

Purpose Embodied information is posited to be a rich and novel concept with which to explore information behaviour in serious leisure pursuits (Cox et al., 2017). This research uncovers how embodied information is experienced on the West Highland Way (WHW), a long-distance hiking...

Is the antihypertensive activity of Hibiscus sabdariffa affected by factors such as origin of the plant and time of decoction? Implications for clinical practice

Abstract Hibiscus sabdariffa is effective against hypertension in clinical trials, with a dose-response effect, making it an important, accessible and sustainable treatment. The aim of the present work was to clarify the influence of origin of Hibiscus on clinical effect and deco...

Investigation of the influence of nutrient additives and the role of microstructure on the unconfined compression behaviour of mycelium composites

Abstract Mycelium composites are emerging as low-carbon alternatives to conventional materials, but scalable engineering interventions to enable tailoring of mycelium composite behaviour for different engineering applications are needed. This study investigated the mechanical beh...

Advances in Sensing, Control and Path Planning for Robotic Systems

Robotic systems are increasingly expected to operate autonomously, safely, and efficiently in dynamic and uncertain environments [...]

Activating relational welfare: insights from Supported Employment

Abstract In the face of ongoing welfare challenges, a wave of academic and policy thinking has advocated for recentring public policy around the principles and practices of relational welfare. The present paper argues that the potential of relational welfare can be further suppor...

The party soldier, the young careerist, and the outsider: How distinctive career paths affect party dissent

Parties are not unified entities, yet research on intra-party dissent has focused on legislators while overlooking the broader pool of candidates and the distinct career paths that bring them into politics. Drawing on theories of careerism, representation, and spatial competition...

Predictive modeling of thermogravimetric analysis data of medium-density fibreboard waste: a machine learning approach

Abstract This study investigates the application of machine learning (ML) techniques to predict thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) mass-loss data of medium-density fibreboard (MDF) waste under oxidative and pyrolytic conditions. Thermal decomposition provides a potential alternativ...

Ultimate compressive strength inversion in initially imperfect plates under different boundary conditions: A conservative assessment method

This study presents a predictive framework for the ultimate compressive strength (UCS) of initially deflected plates subjected to longitudinal axial compression under simply supported (SS) and clamped (CL) boundary conditions. A comprehensive database comprising 2800 non-linear f...