All Outputs (741)

Unravelling the Occurrence of Mediator-Blood Protein Interactions via the Redox Catalysis of the Physiological Gasotransmitter Hydrogen Sulfide (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, H. J., Ward, R. A., Lawrence, N. S., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2021). Unravelling the Occurrence of Mediator-Blood Protein Interactions via the Redox Catalysis of the Physiological Gasotransmitter Hydrogen Sulfide. ChemistrySelect, 6(37), 10059-10062. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202102974

Ferrocenemethanol is employed as an aqueous, homogeneous redox mediator for hydrogen sulfide. The reaction is seen to follow an EC’ mechanism over the range 6≤pH≤9, with bisulfide reacting four times more rapidly than hydrogen sulfide. In the presenc... Read More about Unravelling the Occurrence of Mediator-Blood Protein Interactions via the Redox Catalysis of the Physiological Gasotransmitter Hydrogen Sulfide.

Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models (2021)
Journal Article
Vincenzo, F., A. Thompson, T., H. Weinberg, D., J. Griffith, E., W. Johnson, J., & A. Johnson, J. (2021). Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 3499-3507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2828

We test the hypothesis that the observed first-peak (Sr, Y, Zr) and second-peak (Ba) s-process elemental abundances in low-metallicity Milky Way stars, and the abundances of the elements Mo and Ru, can be explained by a pervasive r-process contributi... Read More about Nucleosynthesis signatures of neutrino-driven winds from proto-neutron stars: a perspective from chemical evolution models.

Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model (2021)
Journal Article
Johnson, J. W., Weinberg, D. H., Vincenzo, F., Bird, J. C., Loebman, S. R., Brooks, A. M., Quinn, T. R., Christensen, C. R., & Griffith, E. J. (2021). Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 4484-4511. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2718

We develop a hybrid model of galactic chemical evolution that combines a multiring computation of chemical enrichment with a prescription for stellar migration and the vertical distribution of stellar populations informed by a cosmological hydrodynam... Read More about Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the milky way disc: a hybrid model.

KiDS-1000: Constraints on the intrinsic alignment of luminous red galaxies (2021)
Journal Article
Fortuna, M. C., Hoekstra, H., Johnston, H., Vakili, M., Kannawadi, A., Georgiou, C., Joachimi, B., Wright, A. H., Asgari, M., Bilicki, M., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., Kuijken, K., & Von Wietersheim-Kramsta, M. (2021). KiDS-1000: Constraints on the intrinsic alignment of luminous red galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 654, Article A76. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140706

We constrain the luminosity and redshift dependence of the intrinsic alignment (IA) of a nearly volume-limited sample of luminous red galaxies selected from the fourth public data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). To measure the shapes o... Read More about KiDS-1000: Constraints on the intrinsic alignment of luminous red galaxies.

The 59Fe (n,γ) 60Fe Cross Section from the Surrogate Ratio Method and Its Effect on the 60Fe Nucleosynthesis (2021)
Journal Article
Yan, S. Q., Li, X. Y., Nishio, K., Lugaro, M., Li, Z. H., Makii, H., Pignatari, M., Wang, Y. B., Orlandi, R., Hirose, K., Tsukada, K., Mohr, P., Li, G. S., Wang, J. G., Gao, B. S., Han, Y. L., Guo, B., Li, Y. J., Shen, Y. P., Sato, T. K., …Liu, W. P. (2021). The 59Fe (n,γ) 60Fe Cross Section from the Surrogate Ratio Method and Its Effect on the 60Fe Nucleosynthesis. The Astrophysical journal, 919(2), Article 84. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac12ce

The long-lived 60Fe (with a half-life of 2.62 Myr) is a crucial diagnostic of active nucleosynthesis in the Milky Way galaxy and in supernovae near the solar system. The neutron-capture reaction 59Fe(n,γ)60Fe on 59Fe (half-life = 44.5 days) is the ke... Read More about The 59Fe (n,γ) 60Fe Cross Section from the Surrogate Ratio Method and Its Effect on the 60Fe Nucleosynthesis.

Slow White Dwarf Mergers as a New Galactic Source of Trans-Iron Elements (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Battino, U., Lederer-Woods, C., Travaglio, C., Röpke, F. K., & Gibson, B. (2021, September). Slow White Dwarf Mergers as a New Galactic Source of Trans-Iron Elements. Paper presented at 16th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, NIC-XVI 2021, Chengdu, China

The astrophysical origins of the heaviest stable elements that we observe today in the Solar System are still not fully understood. Recent studies have demonstrated that H-accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in a binary system exploding as type Ia supernova... Read More about Slow White Dwarf Mergers as a New Galactic Source of Trans-Iron Elements.

The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface (2021)
Journal Article
Clark, V. H., & Benoit, D. M. (2021). The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(3), 3239-3250. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2670

We present a hybrid CCSD(T) + PBE-D3 approach to calculating the vibrational signatures for gas-phase benzene and benzene adsorbed on an ordered water ice surface. We compare the results of our method against experimentally recorded spectra and calcu... Read More about The vibrational properties of benzene on an ordered water ice surface.

Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia and Severe Hypoglycemia in Drivers With Diabetes: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Nationwide Audit (2021)
Journal Article
Deshmukh, H., Wilmot, E. G., Choudhary, P., Narendran, P., Shah, N., Barnes, D., Kamruddin, S., Banatwalla, R., Christian, P., Saunders, S., Lumb, A., Herring, R., Patmore, J., Walton, C., Ryder, R. E., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia and Severe Hypoglycemia in Drivers With Diabetes: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Nationwide Audit. Diabetes Care, 44(11), e190-e191. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc21-1181

The Gaia-ESO Survey: A new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters (2021)
Journal Article
Baratella, M., D'Orazi, V., Sheminova, V., Spina, L., Carraro, G., Gratton, R., Magrini, L., Randich, S., Lugaro, M., Pignatari, M., Romano, D., Biazzo, K., Bragaglia, A., Casali, G., Desidera, S., Frasca, A., De Silva, G., Melo, C., Van Der Swaelmen, M., Tautvaišienė, G., …Zaggia, S. (2021). The Gaia-ESO Survey: A new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 653, Article A67. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141069

Context. Young open clusters (ages of less than 200 Myr) have been observed to exhibit several peculiarities in their chemical compositions. These anomalies include a slightly sub-solar iron content, super-solar abundances of some atomic species (e.g... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: A new approach to chemically characterising young open clusters.

Quantitative morphology of galaxy clusters at X-ray wavelengths (2021)
Thesis
Hunt, L. Quantitative morphology of galaxy clusters at X-ray wavelengths. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224267

We apply quantitative morphology techniques to X-ray imaging of clusters of galaxies to determine correlation between calculated parameters (CAS, Gini and M20) and features such as bow shocks, cold fronts, gas sloshing, Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities... Read More about Quantitative morphology of galaxy clusters at X-ray wavelengths.

Signatures of i-process nucleosynthesis (2021)
Thesis
Womack, K. A. Signatures of i-process nucleosynthesis. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224179

Neutron capture nucleosynthesis is responsible for the production of heavy elements. Three neutron capture processes are currently known, each occurring at their own characteristic neutron density and operating in different ways. The slow neutron cap... Read More about Signatures of i-process nucleosynthesis.

Inhibition of arginine methylation impairs platelet function (2021)
Journal Article
Marsden, A. J., Riley, D. R. J., Barry, A., Khalil, J. S., Guinn, B. A., Kemp, N. T., Rivero, F., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (in press). Inhibition of arginine methylation impairs platelet function. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsptsci.1c00135

Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) catalyze the transfer of methyl groups to arginine residues in proteins. PRMT inhibitors are novel, promising drugs against cancer that are currently in clinical trials, which include oral administration of... Read More about Inhibition of arginine methylation impairs platelet function.

Pulsars with NenuFAR: Backend and pipelines (2021)
Journal Article
Bondonneau, L., Grießmeier, J. M., Theureau, G., Cognard, I., Brionne, M., Kondratiev, V., Bilous, A., McKee, J. W., Zarka, P., Viou, C., Guillemot, L., Chen, S., Main, R., Pilia, M., Possenti, A., Serylak, M., Shaifullah, G., Tiburzi, C., Verbiest, J. P., Wu, Z., …Tasse, C. (2021). Pulsars with NenuFAR: Backend and pipelines. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 652, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039339

Context. NenuFAR (New extension in Nançay upgrading LOFAR) is a new radio telescope developed and built on the site of the Nançay Radio Observatory. It is designed to observe the largely unexplored frequency window from 10 to 85 MHz, offering a high... Read More about Pulsars with NenuFAR: Backend and pipelines.

Polymer/TiO2Nanorod Nanocomposite Optical Memristor Device (2021)
Journal Article
Jaafar, A. H., Al Chawa, M. M., Cheng, F., Kelly, S. M., Picos, R., Tetzlaff, R., & Kemp, N. T. (2021). Polymer/TiO2Nanorod Nanocomposite Optical Memristor Device. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 125(27), 14965–14973. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c02799

Modulation of resistive switching memory by light opens the route to new optoelectronic devices that can be controlled both optically and electronically. Applications include integrated circuits with memory elements switchable by light and neuromorph... Read More about Polymer/TiO2Nanorod Nanocomposite Optical Memristor Device.

Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex (2021)
Journal Article
Mincarelli, L. F., Rotchell, J. M., Chapman, E. C., Turner, A. P., & Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2021). Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex. Marine pollution bulletin, 170, Article 112624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112624

Little is known about the combined effect of environmental factors and contaminants on commercially important marine species, and whether this effect differs by sex. In this study, blue mussels were exposed for seven days to both single and combined... Read More about Consequences of combined exposure to thermal stress and the plasticiser DEHP in Mytilus spp. differ by sex.

A Tutorial on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Nanogap Electrodes for Biosensing Applications (2021)
Journal Article
Kemp, N. T. (2021). A Tutorial on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Nanogap Electrodes for Biosensing Applications. IEEE sensors journal, https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3084284

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful measurement technique used by scientists and engineers to characterize and understand the interfacial behavior of liquid-solid interfaces. Such investigations are important in numerous applic... Read More about A Tutorial on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Nanogap Electrodes for Biosensing Applications.

Polarization tuning of an H1 organic–inorganic nano-cavity (2021)
Journal Article
Murshidy, M. M., Adawi, A. M., Fry, P. W., & Lidzey, D. G. (2021). Polarization tuning of an H1 organic–inorganic nano-cavity. Journal of applied physics, 129(20), Article 203103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0050458

We investigate the optical properties of the dipole-like modes of an H1 nano-cavity consisting of a single missing airhole imbedded into a triangular two-dimensional silicon nitride (Si3N4) based photonic crystal coated with a red-fluorescent molecul... Read More about Polarization tuning of an H1 organic–inorganic nano-cavity.

Ocean Acidification Amplifies the Olfactory Response to 2-Phenylethylamine: Altered Cue Reception as a Mechanistic Pathway? (2021)
Journal Article
Hardege, J. D., Schirrmacher, P., Roggatz, C. C., & Benoit, D. M. (in press). Ocean Acidification Amplifies the Olfactory Response to 2-Phenylethylamine: Altered Cue Reception as a Mechanistic Pathway?. Journal of Chemical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-021-01276-9

With carbon dioxide (CO2) levels rising dramatically, climate change threatens marine environments. Due to increasing CO2 concentrations in the ocean, pH levels are expected to drop by 0.4 units by the end of the century. There is an urgent need to u... Read More about Ocean Acidification Amplifies the Olfactory Response to 2-Phenylethylamine: Altered Cue Reception as a Mechanistic Pathway?.

Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way (2021)
Journal Article
Montalbán, J., Mackereth, J. T., Miglio, A., Vincenzo, F., Chiappini, C., Buldgen, G., Mosser, B., Noels, A., Scuflaire, R., Vrard, M., Willett, E., Davies, G. R., Hall, O. J., Nielsen, M. B., Khan, S., Rendle, B. M., van Rossem, W. E., Ferguson, J. W., & Chaplin, W. J. (2021). Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way. Nature Astronomy, 5(7), 640-647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01347-7

The standard cosmological model predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales1,2. The Milky Way, like other disk galaxies, underwent violent mergers and accretion of small satellite galaxies in its early hi... Read More about Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way.

New experimental 23Na(α,p)26Mg Reaction Rate for Massive Star and Type-Ia Supernova models (2021)
Journal Article
J. Hubbard, N., Aa. Diget, C., P. Fox, S., O. U. Fynbo, H., M. Howard, A., S. Kirsebom, O., M. Laird, A., Munch, M., Parikh, A., Pignatari, M., & R. Tomlinson, J. (2021). New experimental 23Na(α,p)26Mg Reaction Rate for Massive Star and Type-Ia Supernova models. The Astrophysical journal, 912(1), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee91

The 23Na(α,p)26Mg reaction has been identified as having a significant impact on the nucleosynthesis of several nuclei between Ne and Ti in type-Ia supernovae, and of 23Na and 26Al in massive stars. The reaction has been subjected to renewed experime... Read More about New experimental 23Na(α,p)26Mg Reaction Rate for Massive Star and Type-Ia Supernova models.