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Animal health and welfare as a public good: what do the public think? (2024)
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Clark, B., Proctor, A., Boaitey, A., Mahon, N., Hanley, N., & Holloway, L. (2024). Animal health and welfare as a public good: what do the public think?. Agriculture and human values, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10585-0

This paper presents a novel perspective on an evolving policy area. The UK’s withdrawal from the EU has led to the creation of a new Agriculture Act and proposals for significant changes to the way farming subsidies are structured in England. Underpi... Read More about Animal health and welfare as a public good: what do the public think?.

A universal preference for animate agents in hominids (2024)
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Brocard, S., Wilson, V. A., Berton, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids. iScience, 27(6), Article 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996

When conversing, humans instantaneously predict meaning from fragmentary and ambiguous mspeech, long before utterance completion. They do this by integrating priors (initial assumptions about the world) with contextual evidence to rapidly decide on t... Read More about A universal preference for animate agents in hominids.

Bis-butoxyphenyl dipyridine cation with high affinity for PF6−: Enhancement of solid fluorescence and inhibits Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus activity through anion-π+ interactions (2024)
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Chen, L., Zhou, X., Shen, L., Peng, S., Yuan, J. L., Xu, H., Wang, Z. Y., Redshaw, C., & Zhang, Q. L. (2024). Bis-butoxyphenyl dipyridine cation with high affinity for PF6−: Enhancement of solid fluorescence and inhibits Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus activity through anion-π+ interactions. Journal of molecular structure, 1315, Article 138783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.138783

The contamination of anions and the overuse of antibiotics pose significant hazards to human health. Excess anions can cause serious damage to organisms and the natural environment, while the misuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of multi-dr... Read More about Bis-butoxyphenyl dipyridine cation with high affinity for PF6−: Enhancement of solid fluorescence and inhibits Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus activity through anion-π+ interactions.

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks (2024)
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Liu, C., Xia, Z., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2024.3406608

Vehicle platoon systems are regarded as autonomous vehicles in the platooning pattern, in which vehicles drive in sequence and maintain the desired inter-vehicle spacing. This paper investigates the platoon control problem of vehicle platoon dynamics... Read More about Distributed Fault-Tolerant Consensus Control of Vehicle Platoon Systems With DoS Attacks.

Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments? (2024)
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Sureshkumar, U., Durkalec, A., Pollo, A., Pearson, W., Farrow, D., Narayanan, A., Loveday, J., Taylor, E., & Suelves, L. (2024). Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments?. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, Article A40. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347705

Context. Galaxy mergers play a crucial role in galaxy evolution. However, the correlation between mergers and the local environment of galaxies is not fully understood.
Aims. We aim to address the question of whether galaxy mergers prefer denser or... Read More about Do galaxy mergers prefer under-dense environments?.

Fuzzy Fault-tolerant Controller With Guaranteed Performance for MIMO Systems Under Uncertain Initial State (2024)
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Yin, C. W., Riaz, S., Uppal, A. A., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Fuzzy Fault-tolerant Controller With Guaranteed Performance for MIMO Systems Under Uncertain Initial State. International journal of control, automation and systems, 22(6), 2038-2054. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-023-0327-5

It is always problematic that the initial value of the trajectory tracking error must be inside the area included in the prescribed performance constraint function. To overcome this problem, a novel fault-tolerant control strategy is designed for a s... Read More about Fuzzy Fault-tolerant Controller With Guaranteed Performance for MIMO Systems Under Uncertain Initial State.

Investigation of Monovalent Li and Divalent Ni Doping in Co3O4 for Enhanced Hydroelectric Cell Performance (2024)
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Kashyap, R., Chauhan, A., Kaur, G., Chaudhary, G. R., Taylor, M. J., & Sharma, R. K. (2024). Investigation of Monovalent Li and Divalent Ni Doping in Co3O4 for Enhanced Hydroelectric Cell Performance. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 688, Article 416150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2024.416150

The hydroelectric cell (HEC) produces green power at room temperature using non-photocatalytic water splitting. To achieve this goal, pure Ni (Nickel) and lithium (Li) substituted in cobalt oxide (Co3O4), a mesoporous oxygen-deficient material, is in... Read More about Investigation of Monovalent Li and Divalent Ni Doping in Co3O4 for Enhanced Hydroelectric Cell Performance.

Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings (2024)
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Ivanov, O. V., Bhavsar, K., Morgan-Clague, O., & Gilbert, J. M. (2024). Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings. Sensors, 24(11), Article 3397. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113397

The curing of epoxy resin is a complex thermo-chemical process that is difficult to monitor using existing sensing systems. We monitored the curing process of an epoxy resin by using long-period fiber gratings. The refractive index of the epoxy resin... Read More about Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings.

India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism (2024)
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Krishnan, V., & Paramesha, D. (2024). India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism. Strategic Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2024.2357516

This article argues that India-Israel cooperation in space-based imagery originated under a realist logic but has been developing under an increasingly strong value-based commitment in countering terrorism. In this regard, the relationship is somewha... Read More about India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism.

Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents Used for Sustainable Fashion: Systematic Literature Review (2024)
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Manzo, D. S. H., Jiang, Y., Elyan, E., & Isaacs, J. (in press). Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents Used for Sustainable Fashion: Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2352920

In the past five years, the textile industry has undergone significant transformations in response to evolving fashion trends and increased consumer garment turnover. To address the environmental impacts of fast fashion, the industry is embracing art... Read More about Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents Used for Sustainable Fashion: Systematic Literature Review.

An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding (2024)
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Perry, W., Seymour, M., Orsini, L., Jâms, I. B., Milner, N., Edwards, F., …Creer, S. (2024). An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding. Nature communications, 15(1), Article 4372. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48640-3

Anthropogenically forced changes in global freshwater biodiversity demand more efficient monitoring approaches. Consequently, environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is enabling ecosystem-scale biodiversity assessment, yet the appropriate spatio-temporal r... Read More about An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding.

The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 (2024)
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Santos, J. V., Padron-Monedero, A., Bikbov, B., Grad, D. A., Plass, D., Mechili, E. A., Gazzelloni, F., Fischer, F., Sulo, G., Ngwa, C. H., Noguer-Zambrano, I., Peñalvo, J. L., Haagsma, J. A., Kissimova-Skarbek, K., Monasta, L., Ghith, N., Sarmiento-Suárez, R., Hrzic, R., Haneef, R., O'caoimh, R., …Soyiri, I. N. (2024). The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. BMC public health, 24(1), Article 1374. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18529-3

Background: The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges. Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health planning. This paper reports estimates of disease burden in the EU and individual 27... Read More about The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019.

Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: Exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies (2024)
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Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. A., Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., …Zywucka, N. (2024). Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: Exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies. Astroparticle Physics, 162, Article 102990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2024.102990

KM3NeT/ARCA is a Cherenkov neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean sea, optimised for the detection of astrophysical neutrinos with energies above ∼1 TeV. In this work, using Monte Carlo simulations including all-flavour neutrinos,... Read More about Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: Exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies.

Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance (2024)
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Shirgholami, Z., Cole, R., & Aitken, J. (in press). Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance. Journal of Supply Chain Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12321

Labor exploitation persists within global supply chains regardless of governmental legislation, private governance mechanisms, and increasing consumer demands. Notably, non-commercial organizations have been lauded as potential facilitators of improv... Read More about Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance.

The prognostic value of simple frailty and malnutrition screening tools for determining surgical risk in patients with chronic limb threatening ischaemia undergoing major vascular surgery: A retrospective cross-sectional study (2024)
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Palmer, J., Pymer, S., Smith, G., Ingle, L., Harwood, A., & Chetter, I. (online). The prognostic value of simple frailty and malnutrition screening tools for determining surgical risk in patients with chronic limb threatening ischaemia undergoing major vascular surgery: A retrospective cross-sectional study. Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland, https://doi.org/10.54522/jvsgbi.2024.124

Background: This study aims to explore the prognostic value of simple frailty and malnutrition tools for determining postoperative outcomes at 30 days and 1 year in patients with CLTI undergoing major surgery.
Methods: This was a single-centre retr... Read More about The prognostic value of simple frailty and malnutrition screening tools for determining surgical risk in patients with chronic limb threatening ischaemia undergoing major vascular surgery: A retrospective cross-sectional study.

Supporting older adults who misuse alcohol (2024)
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Davenport, C., & Craven, R. (2024). Supporting older adults who misuse alcohol. Nursing older people, https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2024.e1469

Older adulthood is a unique time of transition often referred to as the ‘golden years’. It is characterised by positive life experiences such as retirement, but also by a loss of routine and familiarity. Literature identifies alcohol misuse as a grow... Read More about Supporting older adults who misuse alcohol.

Effect of Hypoglycemia and Rebound Hyperglycemia on Proteomic Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers (2024)
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Nandakumar, M., Sathyapalan, T., Atkin, S. L., & Butler, A. E. (2024). Effect of Hypoglycemia and Rebound Hyperglycemia on Proteomic Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers. Biomedicines, 12(6), Article 1137. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12061137

Introduction: Hypoglycemia has been associated with cardiovascular events, and glucose variability has been suggested to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Therefore, in this study, we examined the effect on proteomic cardiovascular ri... Read More about Effect of Hypoglycemia and Rebound Hyperglycemia on Proteomic Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers.

It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales (2024)
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Nichols, H., Saunders, G., Harrison, K., Mason, R., Smith, L., & Hall, L. (2024). It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales. Incarceration, 5, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241253698

The wellbeing of prison governors has received little attention in penological research to date. The findings of this research reveal that governors’ wellbeing is negatively impacted by a dominant Masculinity Contest Culture (MCC) permeating through... Read More about It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales.

How to interpret chest radiographs (X-rays): a systematic approach (2024)
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North, Z. (2024). How to interpret chest radiographs (X-rays): a systematic approach. Nursing Times, 120(6),

The chest radiograph (commonly referred to as chest X-ray) remains widely used, despite newer and more advanced imaging techniques such as computerised tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Chest radiographs are commonly reported on b... Read More about How to interpret chest radiographs (X-rays): a systematic approach.