Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics

Morton, F. Blake; Gartner, Marieke; Norrie, Ellie Mae; Haddou, Yacob; Soulsbury, Carl D; Adaway, Kristy A

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.07.003

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A cucurbit[8]uril-based fluorescent probe for the selective detection of pymetrozine (2023)
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Shan, P. H., Pan, D. W., Chen, L. X., Prior, T. J., Redshaw, C., Tao, Z., & Xiao, X. (2023). A cucurbit[8]uril-based fluorescent probe for the selective detection of pymetrozine. Journal of molecular structure, 1294(2), Article 136418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2023.136418

Herein, we report a simple fluorescence-enhanced system for the selective recognition and determination of the insecticide pymetrozine. 1H NMR spectroscopic data indicate that 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene (BPE) is partially encapsulated in the cavity o... Read More about A cucurbit[8]uril-based fluorescent probe for the selective detection of pymetrozine.

We need to improve care for people with dementia at the end of life (2023)
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Wolverson, E. (2023). We need to improve care for people with dementia at the end of life. Nursing Times,

First paragraph: Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK and it is estimated that by 2040, 220,000 people with dementia will die each year in England and Wales (Etkind et at, 2017). People with dementia often do not die in their own homes;... Read More about We need to improve care for people with dementia at the end of life.

Modelling and robust controller design for an underactuated self-balancing robot with uncertain parameter estimation (2023)
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Choudhry, O. A., Wasim, M., Ali, A., Choudhry, M. A., & Iqbal, J. (2023). Modelling and robust controller design for an underactuated self-balancing robot with uncertain parameter estimation. PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0285495. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285495

A comprehensive literature review of self-balancing robot (SBR) provides an insight to the strengths and limitations of the available control techniques for different applications. Most of the researchers have not included the payload and its variati... Read More about Modelling and robust controller design for an underactuated self-balancing robot with uncertain parameter estimation.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production through power-to-liquid (PtL): A combined techno-economic and life cycle assessment (2023)
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Rojas-Michaga, M. F., Michailos, S., Cardozo, E., Akram, M., Hughes, K. J., Ingham, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2023). Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production through power-to-liquid (PtL): A combined techno-economic and life cycle assessment. Energy Conversion and Management, 292, Article 117427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117427

The current research critically evaluates the technical, economic, and environmental performance of a Power-to-Liquid (PtL) system for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This SAF production system comprises a direct air capture (DAC)... Read More about Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production through power-to-liquid (PtL): A combined techno-economic and life cycle assessment.

Consensus Statements Highlight the Need of Harmonizing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Management Worldwide (2023)
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Molica, S., Rossi, M., & Allsup, D. (2023). Consensus Statements Highlight the Need of Harmonizing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Management Worldwide. Acta Haematologica, 147(3), 257-259. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533349

In addition to the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines that are reference standards for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in Europe and the USA, several consensus... Read More about Consensus Statements Highlight the Need of Harmonizing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Management Worldwide.

Ratiometric red aggregation-induced emission luminogens for hydrazine hydrate detection (2023)
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Shan, X., Wu, S., Shen, L., Peng, S., Xu, H., Wang, Z. Y., Yang, X. J., Huang, Y. L., Feng, X., Redshaw, C., & Zhang, Q. L. (2023). Ratiometric red aggregation-induced emission luminogens for hydrazine hydrate detection. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 219, Article 111609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2023.111609

Based on a deprotection reaction and intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) mechanism induced by hydrazine hydrate, a fluorescent probe for the rapid recognition of hydrazine hydrate (N2H4·H2O) was designed. A simple one-step condensation reaction was... Read More about Ratiometric red aggregation-induced emission luminogens for hydrazine hydrate detection.

Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game (2023)
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Sydelko, P., Espinosa, A., & Midgley, G. (2024). Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game. European journal of operational research, 312(2), 746-764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.06.040

Government agencies struggle to address wicked problems because they are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. While both quantitative modelling and qualitative problem s... Read More about Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board game.

The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology (2023)
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Porter, L. E., Holwerda, B. W., Kruk, S., Lara-López, M., Pimbblet, K. A., Henry, C. P., …Kelvin, L. S. (2023). The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), 5768-5780. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1125

The large-scale structure of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found inside these void... Read More about The loneliest galaxies in the Universe: a GAMA and Galaxy Zoo study on void galaxy morphology.

Indian Ornamental Tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) Venom Affects Myoblast Function and Causes Skeletal Muscle Damage (2023)
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Richards, N. J., Alqallaf, A., Mitchell, R. D., Parnell, A., Haidar, H. B., Almeida, J. R., …Vaiyapuri, S. (2023). Indian Ornamental Tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) Venom Affects Myoblast Function and Causes Skeletal Muscle Damage. Cells, 12(16), Article 2074. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12162074

Envenomation by the Indian ornamental tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) is medically relevant to humans, both in its native India and worldwide, where they are kept as pets. Muscle-related symptoms such as cramps and pain are commonly reported in hum... Read More about Indian Ornamental Tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) Venom Affects Myoblast Function and Causes Skeletal Muscle Damage.

On the Effects of Local Environment on Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in the Horizon Run 5 Simulation (2023)
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Singh, A., Park, C., Choi, E., Kim, J., Jun, H., Gibson, B. K., …Snaith, O. (2023). On the Effects of Local Environment on Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in the Horizon Run 5 Simulation. The Astrophysical journal, 953(1), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acdd6b

We use the Horizon Run 5 cosmological simulation to study the effect of galaxy intrinsic properties and the local environment on active galactic nuclei (AGNs) characterized by their threshold of the accretion rate. We select galaxies in the stellar m... Read More about On the Effects of Local Environment on Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in the Horizon Run 5 Simulation.

Effect of Microporous Layer Ink Homogenisation on the Through-Plane Gas Permeability of PEFC Porous Media (2023)
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Neehall, N. D., Ismail, M. S., Hughes, K. J., & Pourkashanian, M. (2023). Effect of Microporous Layer Ink Homogenisation on the Through-Plane Gas Permeability of PEFC Porous Media. Energies, 16(16), Article 5944. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16165944

The through-plane gas permeability and morphology of PEFC gas diffusion media (GDM) is investigated for different microporous layer (MPL) ink homogenisation techniques (bath sonication and magnetic stirring) for low- (Vulcan XC-72R) and high (Ketjenb... Read More about Effect of Microporous Layer Ink Homogenisation on the Through-Plane Gas Permeability of PEFC Porous Media.

Complement Dysregulation in Obese Versus Nonobese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients (2023)
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Butler, A. E., Moin, A. S. M., Sathyapalan, T., & Atkin, S. L. (2023). Complement Dysregulation in Obese Versus Nonobese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients. Cells, 12(15), Article 2002. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12152002

Introduction: Upregulation of complement system factors are reported to be increased in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and may be due to obesity and insulin resistance rather than inherently due to PCOS. We directly compared complement factors from... Read More about Complement Dysregulation in Obese Versus Nonobese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients.

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background (2023)
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Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Blecha, L., …Sun, J. P. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 952(2), Article L37. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ace18b

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low-frequency gravitational waves, here we analyze the signal as coming from a populatio... Read More about The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background.

A multiscale orchestrated computational framework to reveal emergent phenomena in neuroblastoma (2023)
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Borau, C., Wertheim, K., Hervas-Raluy, S., Sainz-DeMena, D., Walker, D., Chisholm, R., …García-Aznar, J. (2023). A multiscale orchestrated computational framework to reveal emergent phenomena in neuroblastoma. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 241, Article 107742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107742

Neuroblastoma is a complex and aggressive type of cancer that affects children. Current treatments involve a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and stem cell transplantation. However, treatment outcomes vary due to the heterogeneous... Read More about A multiscale orchestrated computational framework to reveal emergent phenomena in neuroblastoma.

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable (2023)
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Fernando, B., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Williams, R., …Dowey, N. (2023). Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable. Nature Geoscience, 16(8), 658-660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01241-z

Admission to doctoral study is a crucial step in the academic pipeline, but discriminatory procedures can disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We show how these policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and pr... Read More about Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable.

Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War (2023)
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Wynne, C. (2023). Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War. British Journal of Military History, 9(2), 81-105. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i2.1712

By drawing on soldiers’ writings and their broader cultural representations, this article enables new ways of seeing Irish soldier identity as socially and politically mobile. Using Lady Butler’s famous ’Listed for the Connaught Rangers: Recruiting i... Read More about Soldier Stories: The Irish In The Army From The Late Nineteenth Century To The First World War.

An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations. (2023)
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Utley, T. A., Holdsworth, R. E., Walker, R. J., Dempsey, E. D., McCaffrey, K. J., Dichiarante, A., & Jones, T. L. (2023). An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations. Journal of Structural Geology, 174, Article 104922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104922

Strong tidal currents in the Pentland Firth separating NE Scotland and Orkney have stripped recent seafloor sediments revealing geological structures in parts of the Devonian Orcadian Basin that are otherwise limited to narrow coastal outcrops. Here... Read More about An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations..

A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation (2023)
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Gao, D., Li, J., Hao, Y., & Pei, G. (2023). A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation. Applied thermal engineering, 234, Article 121249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121249

Solar thermal power has attracted much attention because it is instrumental to solar energy storage and power grid peak shaving. Among the various solar thermal power technologies, the Organic Rankine Cycle stands out as a prevalent choice for low an... Read More about A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation.

Simulations of magnetization reversal in FM/AFM bilayers with THz frequency pulses (2023)
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Hirst, J., Ruta, S., Jackson, J., & Ostler, T. (2023). Simulations of magnetization reversal in FM/AFM bilayers with THz frequency pulses. Scientific reports, 13(1), Article 12270. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39175-6

It is widely known that antiferromagnets (AFMs) display a high frequency response in the terahertz (THz) range, which opens up the possibility for ultrafast control of their magnetization for next generation data storage and processing applications.... Read More about Simulations of magnetization reversal in FM/AFM bilayers with THz frequency pulses.

Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics (2023)
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Morton, F. B., Gartner, M., Norrie, E. M., Haddou, Y., Soulsbury, C. D., & Adaway, K. A. (2023). Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics. Animal behaviour, 203, 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.07.003

Urbanization is the fastest form of landscape transformation on the planet, but researchers' understanding of the relationships between urbanization and animal behaviour is still in its infancy. In terms of foraging, bold and innovative behaviours ar... Read More about Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics.