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The Indo-Pacific as Japan’s emotional space: emotions, the duality of space, and Watsuji tetsurō’s <i>aidgara</i>
No full textSpace as a concept remains subdued in the discussions of emotions in International Relations (IR). The geographical space within which Japan is located plays a crucial role in the emergence and elaboration of emotions in Japan’s foreign relations. How, then, can we incorporate space back into the considerations of emotions in Japan’s foreign relations? A Japanese philosopher, Watsuji Tetsurō, provides us with a valuable theoretical tool. Watsuji’s notion of aidagara–‘inter-relationships’ – helps to bring the agents, the structures, the space and the emotions together as factors co-producing one another. Using pronouncements on the Indo-Pacific by the second Abe administration, I identify how the Japanese government emotionally constructed various Others, ranging from anger and anxiety towards a threatening Chinese Other, to confidence and contentment at finding like-minded actors willing to subscribe to the language of the Indo-Pacific. I suggest that the Indo-Pacific is an emotional space for Japan.</p
Supplementary information files for "Enhancing incremental capacity and differential voltage diagnostics for lithium-ion battery cells connected in parallel"
No full textSupplementary files for article "Enhancing incremental capacity and differential voltage diagnostics for lithium-ion battery cells connected in parallel"Voltage profile diagnostic techniques such as Incremental Capacity Analysis (ICA) and Differential Voltage Analysis (DVA) are powerful tools that can extract degradation modes directly from cell voltage data using measured half-cell voltage profiles and simple models. As multiple individual cells are connected in parallel, cell-to-cell variations and cell interconnection resistances will alter the current distribution and measured voltage, blending and smoothing features in the voltage profile, impacting degradation diagnostics. This work experimentally investigates the application of voltage profile diagnostics on 16 NMC811/Graphite 21700 cells connected in parallel. Experimental results show that whilst the influence of cell-to-cell variation is small for unaged cells, the influence of cell interconnection resistance creates inhomogeneous current distribution between parallel cells which can significantly reduce the accuracy of ICA and DVA, even at low C-rates of C/25, due to reduced definition of degradation features caused by a distribution of phase transitions between cells. This effect is most significant in ‘U-shape’ parallel strings where the positive and negative connections are located close to the same cell compared to ‘Z-shape’ where the connections are at opposite ends. A numerical model is presented and validated to quantify inhomogeneous current distribution at low C-rates. A simple voltage fitting process is introduced and validated to compensate for these effects by conducting a resistance based voltage shift prior to fitting half-cell voltage profiles to obtain a corrected low C-rate voltage profile, improving the accuracy of degradation diagnostics in parallel cells.© The Author(s), CC BY 4.0</p
Fragile peace, persistent systems: child recruitment through the lens of the transformative justice cube
No full textThis master's dissertation won the Dean's Prize for the best dissertation by a student at the London campus in 2024-25. It has been temporarily embargoed at the author's request.</p
Children playing in a street in Mandela Village, Hammanskraal, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
No full textTwo children are playing in a street in Mandela Village. The older girl is pushing the younger girl on a skateboard in the street. Both girls are wearing pink and white clothes. Multiple people are visible in the background. A black, white, and red road sign on the right warns of a turn ahead.</p
HortiMulti: A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Localisation and Mapping in Horticultural Polytunnels
No full textHortiMulti: A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Localisation and Mapping in Horticultural PolytunnelsFunding abstractHorticulture is suffering a labour productivity crisis. A rise in farm gate prices for strawberries since 2010 of just 23% _Defra_ versus minimum wage increases of 77% in the same period _HomeOffice_ have squeezed growers' margins to the absolute limit. Meanwhile a lack of labour availability, with 44% of growers employing seasonal labourers reporting a shortfall _Defra-2021_, has made the running of many farms at current scale impossible. There are only two possible answers to this twin labour threat of cost and availability: shrink the size of the industry dramatically, ceding the market to foreign competition, or develop and invest in the tools to massively boost labour productivity. AREA-H is squarely aimed at the latter.The UK Food Strategy recognises that autonomous machines are providing an increasingly essential role within horticulture, with the transformative potential to solve the labour crisis, increase productivity, resilience and also decrease the environmental impact of farming. However, uptake of robotics by UK farms is low compared to other industrialised nations despite the sector facing many critical challenges (including labour availability, rising costs, and climate change pressures).To enable the transition to autonomous fleets at scale, robust robot localisation and navigation is key for high confidence operations and low levels of supervision. Current tech focuses on semi-autonomous navigation systems for high-cost large-scale equipment that are not operational in the unique mixed environment of horticulture - where polytunnels/greenhouses interfere with signals (such as GPS) and where high levels of human density are present - therefore horticulture-specific solutions are needed.The project Accelerating Robotics and Embedding Autonomy in Horticulture (AREA-H) has assembled a world-class collaboration between technology leaders bringing expertise in robotic harvesting, AI and embedded controls, horticulture growing systems and state-of-the-art autonomous-operation research - necessary to realise the transformative impact of robotics to UK horticulture growers.© the authors</p
Using qualitative surveys for neurodiversity research
No full textThis case study describes the use of a qualitative online survey in research exploring how universities support autistic students with employability and employment. The survey gathered data on support for developing employability skills, navigating recruitment for placements or jobs, and managing workplace relationships. Because autistic people often experience anxiety in interviews (and interviews can be a greater employment barrier for them than for neurotypical people) a survey was chosen over interviews or focus groups. The study, published in Autism in Adulthood, produced rich qualitative data that informed strong recommendations for universities on improving employability support for autistic students. The case study also outlines effective survey question types for enabling autistic participants to share their views, and reflects on how the research aims might evolve during and after data analysis.</p
Supplementary information files for "The ADePT framework for assessing autonomous laboratory robotics"
No full textSupplementary files for article "The ADePT framework for assessing autonomous laboratory robotics"Laboratory robotics is advancing from routine automation toward autonomous systems capable of intelligent decision-making and flexible execution. This perspective outlines key milestones and introduces the ADePT framework, which defines four core dimensions of robotic capability proficiency: adaptability and learning, dexterity, perception, and task complexity. We discuss future directions for self-driving laboratories, including robot-centric, end-to-end robotic integration, and collaborative human–robot environments. These scenarios highlight the importance of technological enablers and evolving regulatory paradigms. By connecting present technologies to emerging system configurations, this work offers a foundation for designing autonomous laboratory ecosystems that support scientific discovery and operational efficiency.© The Author(s), CC BY 4.0</p
Neomania: How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust (PDF)
No full textContemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology—our collective obsession with innovation. This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific enterprise, privileging novelty over reliability and fragmentation over coordination.
Drawing on metascience as well as the philosophy and sociology of science, Neomania offers a critical analysis of how this ethos has permeated the norms and institutions of modern science. The book traces its historical emergence, diagnoses its systemic consequences, and articulates a reform agenda centered on coordination, shared research programs, and epistemic integrity—an agenda that goes well beyond the principles of Open Science.
Neomania advances a constructive vision for rebuilding science as a coherent and truth-oriented system. Combining philosophical depth with institutional analysis, it addresses students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the organization of knowledge production in an era of epistemic crisis. It is both a critique of contemporary scientific culture and a normative proposal for its renewal
Autumn love: aging, desire and modernity in Anna Ruina (1899)
No full textThe 1890s were a challenging time for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s dramatic aspirations. Michael Field’s attempts to succeed on the fin-de-siècle stage had so far proved a failure: A Question of Memory (1893), performed for one night only, was a professional and personal disaster, while Attila, My Attila! (1895) was mocked by critics and friends alike. As they entered the second half of the 1890s, plans for the Roman trilogy offered a glimmer of hope. As Ana Parejo Vadillo has shown, these plays approached modernity obliquely, as Bradley and Cooper used the historical past as “a screen upon which to discuss the contemporaneous,” including their feelings about the encroaching turn of the century.1 During this same transitional period, in September 1896 Bradley and Cooper conceived another new play, inspired by an article entitled “Russian princess, queen of France” in the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires.2 This play eventually became Anna Ruina, published by David Nutt in 1899. (Cont.)</p