This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the ‘infraspace’. Starting with financial institutions and multilateral development agencies that steer global infrastructure money, it will trace the financial, tech...

Social media (and the world at large) have been awash with news of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the passage of time, news and awareness about COVID-19 spread like the pandemic itself, with an explosion of messages, updates, videos, and posts. Mass hysteria manifest as another&#...

This thesis investigates the coupled heat and moisture transport (hygrothermal performance) of retrofit insulation systems for external walls made of hollow-bricks representative of Jordan’s housing stock in three Jordanian microclimate zones. Two bio-based options (sheep wool and hemp–lime) and two&#...

In this Policy Brief, Dr Luke Heslop draws on his research showing that micro-entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka rely primarily on informal networks, whilst formal advisory systems are fragmented, poorly targeted, and do not align with the realities of small-scale survivalist enterprise.

The use of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation to study the rheology of fluids under shear has always been of great interest to the research community. Despite being a powerful tool, a limitation of DPD is the need to use high shear rates to obtain viscosity&#x...

We derive an admissible parameter space for vector multiplicative error models (vMEMs), explicitly formulating it in terms of the model’s matrix parameters through a set of matrix inequalities. Another key contribution is the adoption of constrained maximum likelihood estimation for the mult...

2025 Data Collection: Data collection is now complete for another year with results from 280 patrols processed.

In this paper, the influence mechanism of ultrafine glass powder (UGP) on the sulfate resistance of cement mortar is studied by replacing cement with different of equal quality amounts. The reliability analysis of UGP-modified cement mortar in sulfate environment is systematically discussed&...

Pyrethroid insecticides are used worldwide, yet their potential effects on early human development remain poorly understood. We applied the PluriLum assay, a human induced pluripotent stem cell-based 3D in vitro model, to evaluate the embryotoxicity of three commonly used pyrethroids (α-cypermeth...