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Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model (2025)
Journal Article
Zhang, F. L., Tian, Y., Lam, L. K., & Mian, Z. (online). Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model. Enterprise Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2024.2448315

In 2013, China launched a cooperative initiative to build the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. Based on the data of import and export trade between 57 countries along the “Belt and Road” and China from 2010 to 2021... Read More about Analysis of the influencing factors of the trade potential between countries along the ‘Belt and Road’ and China: a study based on spatial panel data model.

Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells (2025)
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Abid, Z., Akram, W., Marcial-Hernandez, R., Gunturkun, D., Shahid, M., Altaf, M., Min, J., Khan, J. I., Iqbal, J., Rasul, S., Nielsen, C. B., & Ashraf, R. S. (in press). Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c07415

Lead-free perovskites based on nontoxic titanium(IV) are promising candidates for photovoltaic applications due to their improved intrinsic/environmental stability compared to the lead analogues in metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However,... Read More about Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells.

Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?” (2025)
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O'Dea, M., Zhou, X., Teng, D., Mundy, D., & Ishaya, T. (2025). Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?”. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 21(08), https://doi.org/10.53761/1bdbms32

Technology acceptance research has been an important and fruitful research domain since the late 1980s. At the forefront has been the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and related models such as UTAUT. These models aim... Read More about Editorial: “Are Technology Acceptance Models still fit for purpose?”.

Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial (2025)
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Waldron, C.-A., Pallmann, P., Schoenbuchner, S., Harris, D., Brookes-Howell, L., Mateus, C., Bernatoniene, J., Cathie, K., Faust, S. N., Hinds, L., Hood, K., Huang, C., Jones, S., Kotecha, S., Nabwera, H. M., Patel, S., Paulus, S. C., Powell, C. V. E., Preston, J., Xiang, H., …on behalf of the BATCH Trial Team. (2025). Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 9(2), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2824%2900306-7

Background
Procalcitonin is a rapid response biomarker specific for bacterial infection, which is not routinely used in the UK National Health Service. We aimed to assess whether using a procalcitonin-guided algorithm would safely reduce the duratio... Read More about Procalcitonin-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection in the UK (BATCH): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, two-arm, individually randomised, controlled trial.

Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings (2025)
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Butler, S. (2025). Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings. Primary Health Care, https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2025.e1856

The NHS is facing a critical shortage of general practice nurses (GPNs), which is projected to worsen significantly by 2030, threatening the sustainability of primary care services. Contributing factors include rising appointment volumes and patient... Read More about Addressing staffing shortages: benefits and challenges of employing newly registered nurses in general practice settings.

Attention allocation: An empirical analysis of the asymmetric market responses to information shocks in China (2025)
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Gao, Y., Han, X., Li, Y., Vigne, S. A., & Xiong, X. (online). Attention allocation: An empirical analysis of the asymmetric market responses to information shocks in China. Financial Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12425

Attention allocation—investors allocate their attention disproportionately within a day—has implications on how the market responds to information. Using high-frequency jumps detected in China, we show that the market underreacts to overnight informa... Read More about Attention allocation: An empirical analysis of the asymmetric market responses to information shocks in China.

Cognitive reserve and its impact on cognitive and functional abilities, physical activity and quality of life following a diagnosis of dementia: longitudinal findings from the Improving the experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life (IDEAL) study (2025)
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Gamble, L. D., Clare, L., Opdebeeck, C., Martyr, A., Jones, R. W., Rusted, J. M., Pentecost, C., Thom, J. M., & Matthews, F. E. (2025). Cognitive reserve and its impact on cognitive and functional abilities, physical activity and quality of life following a diagnosis of dementia: longitudinal findings from the Improving the experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life (IDEAL) study. Age and ageing, 54(1), Article afae284. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae284

Background: The concept of cognitive reserve may explain inter-individual differences in susceptibility to neuropathological changes. Studies suggest that experiences over a lifetime impact on cognitive reserve, and it is hypothesised that following... Read More about Cognitive reserve and its impact on cognitive and functional abilities, physical activity and quality of life following a diagnosis of dementia: longitudinal findings from the Improving the experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life (IDEAL) study.

Time Below Range and Its Influence on Hypoglycemia Awareness and Severe Hypoglycemia: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Study (2025)
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Deshmukh, H., Wilmot, E. G., Choudhary, P., Ssemmondo, E., Barnes, D., Walker, N., Walton, C., Ryder, R. E., & Sathyapalan, T. (in press). Time Below Range and Its Influence on Hypoglycemia Awareness and Severe Hypoglycemia: Insights From the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Study. Diabetes Care, https://doi.org/10.2337/dc24-1833

Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations (2025)
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Cowgill, C., Gilbert, J. D. J., Convery, I., & Lawson Handley, L. (2025). Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, Article 1473957. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1473957

Introduction: Rewilding, the facilitation of self-sustaining and resilient ecosystems by restoring natural processes, is an increasingly popular conservation approach and potential solution to the biodiversity and climate crises. Outcomes of rewildin... Read More about Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations.

Motivational interviewing: a framework for healthcare assistants to improve patient-centred care (2025)
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Butler, S. (2025). Motivational interviewing: a framework for healthcare assistants to improve patient-centred care. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 19(1), 007-009. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2025.19.1.007

Healthcare assistants are integral to patient care in the UK healthcare system, and often the first point of contact for patients to access care. This article explores the application of motivational interviewing as a transformative approach for heal... Read More about Motivational interviewing: a framework for healthcare assistants to improve patient-centred care.

Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language? (2025)
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Lago, S., Oltrogge, E., & Stone, K. (2025). Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language?. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011.25340

Adult language learners have variable performance with subject-verb number agreement. But it is unclear whether their performance additionally depends on the availability of agreement morphology in their first language. To address this question, we c... Read More about Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language?.

Comparing the technical and individual possession statistics of academy players across different age groups in match-play (2025)
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Escreet, E., Barrett, S., Toner, J., Iga, J., & Towlson, C. (2025). Comparing the technical and individual possession statistics of academy players across different age groups in match-play. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0316833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316833

Background Youth soccer players in the UK transition into the professional game at 16 years of age. Understanding the differences between youth and professional standards can help coaches and clubs to support player development during this transition... Read More about Comparing the technical and individual possession statistics of academy players across different age groups in match-play.

Predictive performance of noninvasive factors for liver fibrosis in severe obesity: a screening based on machine learning models (2025)
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Jamialahmadi, T., Looha, M. A., Jangjoo, S., Emami, N., Abdalla, M. A., Ganjali, M., Salehabadi, S., Karav, S., Sathyapalan, T., Eid, A. H., Jangjoo, A., & Sahebkar, A. (2025). Predictive performance of noninvasive factors for liver fibrosis in severe obesity: a screening based on machine learning models. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 24(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40200-025-01564-1

Objectives
Liver fibrosis resulting from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic disorders is highly prevalent in patients with severe obesity and poses a significant health challenge. However, there is a lack of data on the effective... Read More about Predictive performance of noninvasive factors for liver fibrosis in severe obesity: a screening based on machine learning models.

Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes (2025)
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Almeida, M. V., Blumer, M., Yuan, C. U., Sierra, P., Price, J. L., Quah, F. X., Friman, A., Dallaire, A., Vernaz, G., Putman, A. L. K., Smith, A. M., Joyce, D. A., Butter, F., Haase, A. D., Durbin, R., Santos, M. E., & Miska, E. A. (2025). Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes. Genome Biology, 26(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03475-z

Background
East African cichlid fishes have diversified in an explosive fashion, but the (epi)genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity of these fishes remains largely unknown. Although transposable elements (TEs) have been associated with phenotypi... Read More about Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes.

Tyrosine supplementation is ineffective in facilitating soccer players’ physical and cognitive performance during high-intensity intermittent exercise in hot conditions (2025)
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Donnan, K. J., Williams, E. L., & Stanger, N. (2025). Tyrosine supplementation is ineffective in facilitating soccer players’ physical and cognitive performance during high-intensity intermittent exercise in hot conditions. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0317486. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317486

Tyrosine has been proposed to potentially provide ergogenic benefits to cognitive and physical performance in physiologically demanding environments. However research into its effectiveness on cognitive and physical performance during exercise in the... Read More about Tyrosine supplementation is ineffective in facilitating soccer players’ physical and cognitive performance during high-intensity intermittent exercise in hot conditions.

"I'm living in a 'no' world now…"-A Qualitative Study of The Widespread Impact of Living with Chronic Breathlessness, and Experiences of Identification and Assessment of this Symptom in an Older, Frail community-based Population (2025)
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Elliott-Button, H., Johnson, M., Hutchinson, A., Currow, D., & Clark, J. (2025). "I'm living in a 'no' world now…"-A Qualitative Study of The Widespread Impact of Living with Chronic Breathlessness, and Experiences of Identification and Assessment of this Symptom in an Older, Frail community-based Population. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 35, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00409-3

Chronic breathlessness is a debilitating symptom with detrimental impact on individuals and carers. However, little is known about the experiences of community-dwelling, frail, older adults living with chronic breathlessness. To explore, (i) the psyc... Read More about "I'm living in a 'no' world now…"-A Qualitative Study of The Widespread Impact of Living with Chronic Breathlessness, and Experiences of Identification and Assessment of this Symptom in an Older, Frail community-based Population.

Matrix Metalloproteinases, Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases, and Their Ratios in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Healthy Controls (2025)
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Butler, A. E., Nandakumar, M., Sathyapalan, T., Brennan, E., & Atkin, S. L. (2025). Matrix Metalloproteinases, Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases, and Their Ratios in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Healthy Controls. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26(1), Article 321. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26010321

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are M2 macrophage markers that are modulated by inflammation. A disintegrin and metalloproteinases (ADAMS) and those with thrombospondin motifs (ADAMTS) regulate the shedding of membrane-bound proteins, growth factors... Read More about Matrix Metalloproteinases, Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases, and Their Ratios in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Healthy Controls.

Robust Position Control of VTOL UAVs Using a Linear Quadratic Rate-Varying Integral Tracker: Design and Validation (2025)
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Saleem, O., Kazim, M., & Iqbal, J. (2025). Robust Position Control of VTOL UAVs Using a Linear Quadratic Rate-Varying Integral Tracker: Design and Validation. Drones, 9(1), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones9010073

This article presents an optimal tracking controller retrofitted with a nonlinear adaptive integral compensator, specifically designed to ensure robust and accurate positioning of Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing (VTOL) Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) t... Read More about Robust Position Control of VTOL UAVs Using a Linear Quadratic Rate-Varying Integral Tracker: Design and Validation.

A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map (2025)
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Alam, A., Pimbblet, K., & Gordon, Y. (2025). A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 42, Article e013. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2024.133

Next generations of radio surveys are expected to identify tens of millions of new sources, and identifying and classifying their morphologies will require novel and more efficient methods. Self-Organising Maps (SOMs), a type of unsupervised machine... Read More about A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map.