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Signboard in Nelson Mandela Park, Mamelodi, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
No full textA white signboard with the words “Nelson Mandela Park” is accompanied by icons indicating what activities are allowed or prohibited in the park.</p
Values, emotions and views of the future – Democratic deliberation as pathway to inner transformation
No full textVisons of the future are fundamental for achieving transformational socioenvironmental change. Whilst a host of methods have been developed for creating future visions and reflecting on underlying values of nature, we examine underresearched aspects of future creation and value reflection. We explore how deliberative democratic processes, illustrated by a case study of citizen panels deliberating on treescapes in three United Kingdom cities, can serve to influence people’s subjective views of the future, with particular attention to the role of values and emotions. The deliberation on values and visions was guided by the IPBES Life Framework. Our findings suggest that these workshops influence the richness and degree of optimism and concern in participants’ views of the future through several mechanisms, including the reinforcement of relevant values and emotions. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of future making, its motivational consequences, and the importance of citizen workshops as a pathway to inner transformation.</p
Drawings and dimensional information of metal-free solar thermal collector with fresnel lens
No full textThese are 3D drawings of a metal-free solar-thermal collector with a Fresnel lens, which is applied to an electrochemical flow cell. The computational works have been conducted by Joseph Emberson-Marl under Dr Dowon Bae's supervision. This outcome is a part of our STFC-funded project.© the authors</p
Don DeLillo and the visual
No full textOver the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image. Whilst the author is sometimes characterised and even caricatured as a ‘novelist of ideas’, this study makes a case for DeLillo as a ‘body artist’ with a particular fascination for the varieties of visual experience. DeLillo’s work dramatises diverse ways of seeing: the eye of the artist, the scientific stare, the consumer leer, the plagiarised perception of the tourist, the athlete’s field of sight and the seer’s sacred vision. Framed by the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the dialectical optic of Walter Benjamin, a series of close readings consider the visuality of writing itself, light and colour, the screen cultures of cinema, television (TV) and computer and the ekphrastic depiction of painting and photography.</p
A semi-automated framework for generating data-driven geometric digital twins of bridges for structural analysis
No full textA semi-automated framework for generating data-driven geometric digital twins of bridges for structural analysis</p
AI ready: how to prepare archives for artificial intelligence, improve discoverability, and enhance access
No full textArtificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning hold significant potential for archives: they can help identify sensitive content at scale, support the creation and enhancement of descriptive metadata, and offer new forms of access and interpretive engagement. Yet, AI also risks compounding long-standing challenges around archival description, bias, and power, especially where collections are fragmentary, under-described, or documented using outdated and harmful terminology. This article asks: how can archives prepare their collections for AI in ways that enhance discoverability and access, while remaining grounded in archival principles and ethical commitments?Co-authored by a computer scientist and a digital humanist with experience in the cultural heritage sector, the article offers a cross-disciplinary literature review and a set of practice-oriented guidelines for “AI data preparedness” in archives. Drawing on the authors’ expertise at the intersection of technology and cultural heritage, the article also benefited from the insights of our project partners, the National Library of Wales and The National Archives UK. It brings together recent work on data documentation, data readiness, and collections-as-data with archival theory on provenance, appraisal, description, and the politics of archival silences. We also engage with the findings of the InterPARES Trust AI project, which has articulated how archival concepts such as authenticity, reliability, and trustworthiness can and should shape AI applications in records and archives.Building on this foundation, we distinguish between task-specific AI systems and generative AI, and discuss how each can support archival work when collections are appropriately prepared. We propose concrete workflows in which AI assists—rather than replaces—archivists, for example in suggesting item-level descriptions, mapping outdated subject terms to contemporary vocabularies, and flagging potentially sensitive or harmful content for human review. Throughout, we emphasise that AI readiness is not a purely technical process of standardisation, but an interventionist, ethically informed approach to data curation that explicitly acknowledges gaps, biases, and community needs. Our goal is to help Libraries, Archives and Museums professionals make their collections responsibly AI-ready while preserving the integrity and value of archives as records, institutions, and sites of power.</p
Prevalence and psychological profiles of comorbid obstructive sleep apnoea and post-traumatic stress disorder in a UK general population sample [Abstract]
No full textAbstract from the 18th World Sleep Congress, September 5-10, 2025 — Singapore.</p
Accurate state of charge estimation in lithium‐ion batteries by second‐order sliding mode observer
No full textAccurate state‐of‐charge (SoC) estimation in lithium‐ion batteries is crucial for efficient energy management, safe operation, and extended battery lifespan. Although sliding mode observers (SMOs) are widely used for this purpose, conventional first‐order designs often suffer from chattering and slow convergence, resulting in noisy and less reliable estimation signals. This paper proposes a finite‐time second‐order sliding mode observer (SO‐SMO) for accurate SoC estimation based on an equivalent circuit model of the battery. The proposed observer analytically derives a closed‐form expression for the finite convergence time, enabling predictable estimation dynamics. Moreover, it eliminates chattering and significantly improves estimation smoothness and robustness against modeling uncertainties and measurement noise. A comparative analysis with the Extended Kalman Filter and traditional SMO demonstrates that the proposed method achieves higher estimation accuracy and faster convergence while maintaining lower computational complexity, making it well‐suited for real‐time applications. Theoretical analysis and simulation results confirm that the SO‐SMO offers a superior balance between accuracy, robustness, and efficiency, establishing its potential for next‐generation battery management systems in electric and hybrid vehicles.</p
Art Deco Loughborough Leaflet
No full textArt Deco Loughborough is a project that counts on the participation and involvement of the Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group (LLLSVG) and the Impact Hub team (TIH). The LLLSVG is a volunteer group recognised for its research into local history, its promotion of heritage activities in the town, and its hosting of exhibitions at the Loughborough Library. The participation of LLLSVG with the TIH is key to enriching two of the TOWN Observatory's Loughborough Stories Platform. Art Deco Loughborough is a project that specifically covers the Art Deco buildings in Loughborough. The leaflet is the result of the StoryMaps partnership, which led to the creation of an Art Deco Loughborough. The leaflet was supported by TIH, with contributions from the LLLSVG team and Zainab Mahomed from the Marketing Team at Loughborough University.Photography credits to Nigel Bampton© the authors</p
Yes, we read: The intersectional relationships between women of colour and books in Britain
No full textThis interdisciplinary thesis employs storytelling embedded in cultural studies and material culture to explore the realities of how women of colour in the United Kingdom relate to books in their everyday lives. An intersectional feminist framework positions women of colour as the knowledge holders when it pertains to their personal relationships with books, with memory and experiences through intersectional identity theoretically framing these stories. British book publishers have not only neglected the voices of people of colour as a readership, they have also acted to speak for them, labelling them as either less interested in reading, or only having niche subject matters they might seek from books. This study recognises this label as being part of 'the other audience'. It is only recently that research is finally engaging with publishers and authors of colour to voice the realities of the industry but there has been a lack of voicing those who are being most actively spoken for. Following the framework of the intersectional feminist lens informed by Black, Asian and Indigenous storytelling, 39 women of colour between the ages of 20-55 with residential, professional, or social ties to East London interrogated and expressed how books exist in their everyday lives, and how this impacts their senses of self. Through the storytelling principles of valuing lived and emotional experiences of the everyday, exploration into how books are positioned in their lives was carried out through interviews and zine making. Interviews were positioned as conversational platforms for the women to share their stories, with them able to lead the conversation. Zine-making workshops were held with individuals as well as in community groups which enabled the women accessibility to express themselves through comfortable means of self-expression. By recentring women of colour, as both researchers and participants, the positioning of them as the other audience is not only challenged but resisted by the women involved. Insight into motivations to read, popular themes, and how the social symbolism of books feeds into the women's lives emerge as well as how their relationships with books exist fluidly, shifting throughout their lifetimes depending on their backgrounds and lived experiences.</p