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Improving the reporting of primary care research: Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care - the CRISP Statement (2025)
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Phillips, W., Sturgiss, E., Glasziou, P., olde Hartmann, T., Orkin, A. M., Prathivadi, P., Reeve, J., Russell, G. M., & van Weel, C. (2025). Improving the reporting of primary care research: Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care - the CRISP Statement. Annals of Family Medicine, 28(4), 385-392. https://doi.org/10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2024.A0025

Primary care（PC）is a unique clinical specialty and research discipline with its own perspectives and methods. Research in this field uses varied research methods and study designs to investigate myriad topics. The diversity of PC presents challenge... Read More about Improving the reporting of primary care research: Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care - the CRISP Statement.

Experiences of integrating social prescribing link workers into primary care in England: Bolting on, fitting in or belonging (2025)
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Tierney, S., Westlake, D., Wong, G., Turk, A., Markham, S., Gorenberg, J., Reeve, J., Mitchell, C., Husk, K., Redwood, S., Pope, C., Baird, B., & Ram Mahtani, K. (online). Experiences of integrating social prescribing link workers into primary care in England: Bolting on, fitting in or belonging. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0279

Background: Following the 2019 NHS Long-Term Plan, link workers (LWs) have been employed across primary care in England to deliver social prescribing (SP).
Aim: To understand and explain how the LW role is being implemented in primary care in Englan... Read More about Experiences of integrating social prescribing link workers into primary care in England: Bolting on, fitting in or belonging.

An Ordinal Collaboration Network Model with Zero Truncated Poisson Latent Variables and Its Application (2025)
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Yang, Q., Tian, Y.-Z., Zhang, Y.-J., Wang, Y., & Mian, Z. (2025). An Ordinal Collaboration Network Model with Zero Truncated Poisson Latent Variables and Its Application. Stat, 14(1), Article e70040. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.70040

Link prediction has traditionally been regarded as a binary classification problem, aiming to predict whether a link exists between two nodes in a given network. However, this binary framework fails to account for the cooperation intensity or the div... Read More about An Ordinal Collaboration Network Model with Zero Truncated Poisson Latent Variables and Its Application.

Spatial and temporal (annual and decadal) trends of metal(loid) concentrations and loads in an acid mine drainage-affected river (2025)
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Jennings, E., Onnis, P., Crane, R., Comber, S. D. W., Byrne, P., Riley, A. L., Mayes, W. M., Jarvis, A. P., & Hudson-Edwards, K. A. (2025). Spatial and temporal (annual and decadal) trends of metal(loid) concentrations and loads in an acid mine drainage-affected river. Science of the Total Environment, 964, Article 178496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178496

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a worldwide problem that degrades river systems and is difficult and expensive to remediate. To protect affected catchments, it is vital to understand the behaviour of AMD-related metal(loid) contaminants as a function of... Read More about Spatial and temporal (annual and decadal) trends of metal(loid) concentrations and loads in an acid mine drainage-affected river.

Sequence Outlier Detection And Application Of GRU Autoencoder Gaussian Mixture Model Based On Various Loss Optimization (2025)
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Xu, T., Tian, Y., Wu, C., & Mian, Z. (2025). Sequence Outlier Detection And Application Of GRU Autoencoder Gaussian Mixture Model Based On Various Loss Optimization. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 18(1), Article e70001. https://doi.org/10.1002/sam.70001

In the era of big data, detecting outliers in time series data is crucial, particularly in fields such as finance and engineering. This article proposes a novel sequence outlier detection method based on the gated recurrent unit autoencoder with Gaus... Read More about Sequence Outlier Detection And Application Of GRU Autoencoder Gaussian Mixture Model Based On Various Loss Optimization.

Parents’ wellbeing: perceptions of happiness and challenges in parenthood in Latin America (2025)
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Urbina-Garcia, A. (2025). Parents’ wellbeing: perceptions of happiness and challenges in parenthood in Latin America. International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 20(1), Article 2454518. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2025.2454518

Traditional research on parenthood and wellbeing often employs a positivist perspective and focuses on non-LA samples -limiting our knowledge and understanding of the influence that strong components of the LA culture such as Machismo and Marianismo,... Read More about Parents’ wellbeing: perceptions of happiness and challenges in parenthood in Latin America.

Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades (2025)
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Nunn, A. D., Ainsworth, R. F., Qu, Y., Keller, V. D., Bachiller-Jareno, N., Antoniou, V., Eastman, M., Rizzo, C., Peirson, G., Eley, F., Johnson, A. C., & Cowx, I. G. (2025). Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades. Water Research, 274, Article 123163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123163

Globally, fish have been severely affected by the widespread, chronic degradation of fresh waters, with a substantial proportion of species declining in abundance or range in recent decades. This has especially been the case in densely populated coun... Read More about Responses of fish to nationwide improvements in the water quality of a densely populated and heavily modified country over four decades.

The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity (2025)
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Megaritis, A., Bakas, D., Bermpei, T., & Triantafyllou, A. (2025). The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity. Economics letters, 247, Article 112190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112190

We examine the impact of the volatility of the US Treasury yield curve slope (term spread volatility) on US economic activity within a VAR framework. Our findings show that a positive shock to term spread volatility leads to a persistent decline in U... Read More about The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity.

Time-Series Machine Learning for Predictive Optimisation of a Highly Efficient Evaporative Cooling System (2025)
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Wang, Z., Zeng, C., Zhu, Z., Li, Y., Ma, X., & Zhao, X. (online). Time-Series Machine Learning for Predictive Optimisation of a Highly Efficient Evaporative Cooling System. Building services engineering research & technology : BSER & T, https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244251315047

As data centres become integral to modern infrastructure, their energy consumption, particularly in cooling systems, presents a critical challenge for sustainability. This paper addresses this issue by applying time-series machine learning models to... Read More about Time-Series Machine Learning for Predictive Optimisation of a Highly Efficient Evaporative Cooling System.

A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students (2025)
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Nicholls, A. R., Lazuras, L., Petrou, M., Corazza, O., Santos, C., Nunes, A. J., Rynkowski, M., Martins, J. F., Zandonai, T., Kühn, U., & Tota, Ł. (2025). A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 5, Article 100168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2024.100168

Abstract
Background: Doping poses a threat to the integrity of sport and the health of athletes who dope, including university students. In this systematic review, we identified the content of anti-doping education that universities provide, the dis... Read More about A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Anti-Doping Education for University Students.

Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer (2025)
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Ibrahem, M. A., Rasheed, B. G., Canimkurbey, B., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J.-S. G., & O’Neill, M. (2025). Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer. ACS Omega, 10(3), 2849–2857. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c08801

We investigate the enhancement in the efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells enabled by plasmonic excitation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) of different diameters (10, 20, and 30 nm), randomly incorporated within an optical spacing layer of... Read More about Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer.

Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources (2025)
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Fenn, K., Millar, I. L., Bird, A., Veres, D., & Wagner, D. (2025). Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 1624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83698-5

Loess profiles along the Danube River provide a record of long-term Quaternary dust (loess) deposition in central-eastern Europe. Here, Sr-Nd isotopic data from four loess-palaeosol profiles (47 samples) spanning the last two-glacial-interglacial cyc... Read More about Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources.

Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies (2025)
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White, S. H. (2025). Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies. New area studies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.37975/NAS.78

This article develops a new approach for using photographic sources that might be of interest to American Studies scholars whose research contributes broadly to environmental education. Over the past forty years of photographic scholarship, scientifi... Read More about Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies.

Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime (2025)
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Eatson, J. L., Stephenson, B. T., Gordon, J. R., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, D. M. A. (in press). Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime. Acta Mechanica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-024-04206-4

The unique behaviour of colloids at liquid interfaces provides exciting opportunities for engineering the assembly of colloidal particles into functional materials. In particular, the deformable nature of liquid interfaces means that we can use inter... Read More about Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime.

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)
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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

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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.