From Building Services to Process Loads: Whole-Building Utility-Calibrated Simulation of Sustainable Operational Decarbonisation Limits in a UK SME Restaurant Retrofit See

Restaurants combine long opening hours, catering demand, kitchen ventilation, DHW, and mixed-fuel cooking loads, making their decarbonisation different from generic commercial retrofit. For small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) hospitality premises, this makes the transition to net-zero operation a dist...

Real-Time Synchronisation in Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks: From Industry to Healthcare See

The growing demand for real-time data synchronisation has increased the importance of supervisory control systems in industrial automation, smart grids, healthcare monitoring, and environmental applications. Low-power wireless sensor networks (LPWSNs) have emerged as key enablers of scalable and energy-eff...

Lean Combustion Enhancement and Decarbonization Technologies for Natural Gas Engines See

This study explores key technological challenges and innovative strategies for improving the combustion performance and emission characteristics of low-carbon fuel engines, with a focus on natural gas applications. The core bottlenecks of natural gas combustion, including slow combustion speed and...

Burden and economic impact of RSV hospitalisations among English adults, 2023/24 See

Objectives: To provide updated, national estimates of the burden and secondary-care costs of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisations among adults aged ≥40 years in England, using data from 2023/24, the last season before the UK implemented its adult RSV vaccination pro...

The economic burden of COVID-19 undervaccination: costs of hospitalisation, ICU admission, and death in Scotland See

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed substantial financial and operational pressures on healthcare systems globally. While vaccines were known to reduce severe outcomes, their broader economic impacts, especially in publicly funded health systems, requires clearer quantification. This study evaluates the ...

Miscarriage, self-harm, and psychiatric disorders in first-time pregnant women: Evidence from a linkage study See

We leveraged the biological evidence that a first pregnancy ending in miscarriage is considered a quasi-exogenous shock to fertility and linked electronic health records to estimate adjusted associations between miscarriage and self-harm and psychiatric outcomes. In a random cohort of 1.2 mi...

A comparative evaluation of conventional, microwave and hybrid baking methods and their impact on bread quality, acrylamide formation and sustainability See

This study investigated the effects of conventional baking (CB), domestic microwave (DM), industrial solid-state microwave (IM), and hybrid baking approaches on the physicochemical properties, acrylamide formation, energy consumption, and environmental impact of bread. The results revealed that across an&#...

Ontology-based Keyword Enriched Topic Modelling for Biomedical Research Trends: A Business Intelligence Perspective See

Over the past ten years, the biomedical literature has increased exponentially, and it is becoming increasingly cumbersome for the researchers and policymakers to identify emerging directions in research and allocate resources appropriately. Bibliometric indicators that are traditional and topic model...

Ontology-Enriched Abstract Topic Modelling for Biomedical Trend Discovery: A MeSH-based LDA Framework with BI Visual Analytics See

The explosive growth of biomedical literature increasingly makes it difficult to identify incipient topics and long-term developments. Citation-based indicators are slow to capture developments and often fail to represent influence. Whilst Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) supports content-based trend disc...