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Environmental DNA reveals ecologically relevant spatial and temporal variation in fish assemblages between estuaries and seasons (2024)
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Gibson, T. I., Baillie, C., Collins, R. A., Wangensteen, O. S., Corrigan, L., Ellison, A., Heddell-Cowie, M., Westoby, H., Byatt, B., Lawson-Handley, L., Z. Soto, A., Creer, S., Genner, M. J., & Mariani, S. (2024). Environmental DNA reveals ecologically relevant spatial and temporal variation in fish assemblages between estuaries and seasons. Ecological Indicators, 165, Article 112215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112215

Estuarine ecosystems are threatened by numerous anthropogenic pressures. Fish assemblages are a dominant component of estuarine macrofauna and serve as indicators for the health of these transitional water ecosystems. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabar... Read More about Environmental DNA reveals ecologically relevant spatial and temporal variation in fish assemblages between estuaries and seasons.

Aggregation-Induced Emission Photosensitizer with Ag(I)−π Interaction-Enhanced Reactive Oxygen Species for Eliminating Multidrug Resistant Bacteria (2024)
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Peng, S., Song, J., Wu, S., Wang, Q., Shen, L., Li, D., Peng, J., Zhang, Q., Yang, X., Xu, H., Redshaw, C., & Li, Y. (2024). Aggregation-Induced Emission Photosensitizer with Ag(I)−π Interaction-Enhanced Reactive Oxygen Species for Eliminating Multidrug Resistant Bacteria. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(24), 30915-30928. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c05202

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria pose serious threats to public health due to the lack of effective and biocompatible drugs to kill MDR bacteria. Photodynamic antibacterial therapy has been widely studied due to its low induction of resistance. How... Read More about Aggregation-Induced Emission Photosensitizer with Ag(I)−π Interaction-Enhanced Reactive Oxygen Species for Eliminating Multidrug Resistant Bacteria.

Traditional Shipbuilding on the Island of Samos, Greece: Recording the Tangible and Intangible Data (2024)
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Velentza, K. (2024). Traditional Shipbuilding on the Island of Samos, Greece: Recording the Tangible and Intangible Data. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2024.2342281

This paper presents tangible and intangible data related to traditional shipbuilding on the island of Samos. This shipbuilding activity along with the material culture produced are expressions of local knowledge, namely a system of deep knowledge, un... Read More about Traditional Shipbuilding on the Island of Samos, Greece: Recording the Tangible and Intangible Data.

Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms (2024)
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Clayton McClure, J. H., Riggs, K. J., Dewhurst, S. A., & Anderson, R. J. (online). Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001371

Anticipated emotions are the feelings one expects if a hypothetical future event were to occur, whereas anticipatory emotions are those one experiences right now while imagining the event. There has been little direct comparison of these two forms of... Read More about Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms.

Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis (2024)
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Falxa, M., Antoniadis, J., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Guillemot, L., Hu, H., Janssen, G., Jawor, J., Karuppusamy, R., Keith, M., Kramer, M., Lackeos, K., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S., Shaifullah, G., & Theureau, G. (2024). Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis. Physical Review D, 109(12), Article 123010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.123010

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in their datasets. The main candidate that is expected to produce such a GWB is the population of supermassive black hole bi... Read More about Modeling nonstationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis.

Cucurbit[7]Uril-Based Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complex with Reversible Multistimuli-Responsive Chromic Behavior and Controllable Fluorescence (2024)
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Wang, X. F., Lin, R. L., Sun, W. Q., Liu, J. X., Xu, L. X., Redshaw, C., & Feng, X. (in press). Cucurbit[7]Uril-Based Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complex with Reversible Multistimuli-Responsive Chromic Behavior and Controllable Fluorescence. Advanced Optical Materials, Article 2400839. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400839

Multistimuli-responsive color-changing materials have potential applications in areas such as chemical sensing and anti-counterfeiting. In this work, a fluoro-phenyl-acetyl-substituted viologen derivative (FPAV·Cl2) is synthesized, which can form a s... Read More about Cucurbit[7]Uril-Based Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complex with Reversible Multistimuli-Responsive Chromic Behavior and Controllable Fluorescence.

Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm (2024)
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Nguyen, T. A., & Iqbal, J. (2024). Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm. Engineering Computations, 41(4), 991-1034. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-10-2023-0675

Purpose: Design a novel optimal integrated control algorithm for the automotive electric steering system to improve the stability and adaptation of the system. Design/methodology/approach: Simulation and calculation. Findings: The output signals foll... Read More about Improving stability and adaptability of automotive electric steering systems based on a novel optimal integrated algorithm.

Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps (2024)
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Forrest, S., De Ita, C., Smith, K., Davidson, G., & Amen-Thompson, E. (in press). Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps. Disaster Prevention and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-01-2024-0035

• Purpose: To understand the potential of serious gaming as an imaginative and creative method to collect data in disaster studies that addresses key concerns such as extractive research, power inequalities, and bridging the theory-practice gap in ex... Read More about Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps.

The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5 (2024)
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Rowntree, A., Singh, A., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B. K., Gouin, C., Galárrag a-Espinosa, D., Lee, J., Kim, J., Laigle, C., Park, C., Pichon, C., Few, G., Hong, S. E., & Kim, Y. (2024). The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(4), 3858-3875. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1384

Metallicity offers a unique window into the baryonic history of the cosmos, being instrumental in probing evolutionary processes in galaxies between different cosmic environments. We aim to quantify the contribution of these environments to the scatt... Read More about The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5.

A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study of Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Non-Obese Women with and without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Association with Vitamin D (2024)
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Nandakumar, M., Das, P., Sathyapalan, T., Butler, A. E., & Atkin, S. L. (2024). A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study of Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Non-Obese Women with and without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Association with Vitamin D. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(12), Article 6330. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25126330

Vitamin D is proposed to have a protective effect against cardiovascular disease, though the mechanism is unclear. Vitamin D deficiency is common in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), where it is strongly related to obesity, insulin resistance (IR) an... Read More about A Cross-Sectional Exploratory Study of Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers in Non-Obese Women with and without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Association with Vitamin D.

The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport (2024)
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Towlson, C., Cumming, S., Donnan, K., & Toner, J. (2024). The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport. European Physical Education Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X241251654

Students’ experiences of physical education (PE) are considered important for lifelong attitudes towards physical activity. Sex-related differences and the individualised tempo in anthropometric growth because of biological maturation lead to seconda... Read More about The effect of maturation on children's experience of physical education: Lessons learned from academy sport.

Association of Vitamin D with Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in Women with and without Non-Obese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (2024)
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Butler, A. E., Sathyapalan, T., Das, P., Brennan, E., & Atkin, S. L. (2024). Association of Vitamin D with Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in Women with and without Non-Obese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Biomedicines, 12(6), Article 1255. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12061255

Background. Perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs) are persistent organic pollutants affected by BMI and ethnicity, with contradictory reports of association with vitamin D deficiency. Methods. Twenty-nine Caucasian women with non-obese polycystic ovary... Read More about Association of Vitamin D with Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in Women with and without Non-Obese Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England (2024)
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Roychowdhury, S., Mazumdar, S., Thakker, D., Checco, A., Lanfranchi, V., & Goodchild, B. (2024). Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England. Land, 13(6), Article 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060831

This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective measures of deprivation. Our study was set within a specific city in the United Kingdom, with... Read More about Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England.

Understanding interaction in problematic dementia and social care encounters: Protocol for a micro-level study combining video-ethnography and Conversation Analysis (CA) (2024)
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Chatwin, J., Ludwin, K., Jones, D., & Bravington, A. (2024). Understanding interaction in problematic dementia and social care encounters: Protocol for a micro-level study combining video-ethnography and Conversation Analysis (CA). PLoS ONE, 19(6), Article e0305069. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305069

It is well established that the actions and behaviour of dementia care workers are fundamental to the wellbeing of the people they care for. Not only do they deal with basic healthcare needs, but they also perform a vital psycho-social function by pr... Read More about Understanding interaction in problematic dementia and social care encounters: Protocol for a micro-level study combining video-ethnography and Conversation Analysis (CA).

Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells (2024)
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Manolis, D., Hasan, S., Maraveyas, A., O'Brien, D. P., Kessler, B. M., Kramer, H., & Nikitenko, L. L. (2024). Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 300(6), Article 107399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107399

The G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) calcitonin receptor–like receptor (CLR) mediates essential functions in several cell types and is implicated in cardiovascular pathologies, skin diseases, migraine, and cancer. To date, the network of proteins in... Read More about Quantitative proteomics reveals CLR interactome in primary human cells.

A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images (2024)
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Hamal, S., Mishra, B. K., Baldock, R., Sayers, W., Adhikari, T. N., & Gibson, R. M. (2024). A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images. Decision Analytics Journal, 11, Article 100460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2024.100460

Machine intelligence has the potential to play a significant role in diagnosing, managing, and guiding the treatment of disease, which supports the rising demands on healthcare to provide rapid and accurate interpretation of clinical data. The global... Read More about A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for detecting COVID-19 using lung X-ray images.

Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure (2024)
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Winter, M. R., Taranto, A. P., Yimer, H. Z., Coomer Blundell, A., Siddique, S., Williamson, V. M., & Lunt, D. H. (2024). Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure. PLoS ONE, 19(6), Article e0302506. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302506

We present the chromosome-scale genome assembly of the allopolyploid root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica. We show that the M. javanica genome is predominantly allotetraploid, comprising two subgenomes, A and B, that most likely originated from hy... Read More about Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures (2024)
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Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2024). Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures. Journal of international and comparative law, 11(1), 103-120

Legislators operate in different spaces within a legislative estate. The public and scholarly focus is on behaviour in formal space – the chamber and committee rooms, where formal decisions are taken – but the utilization of informal and party (and... Read More about Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of Party Organisation in Legislatures.

Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions (2024)
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Aljudaya, A., Michailos, S., Ingham, D. B., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2024). Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions. Energies, 17(11), Article 2719. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17112719

Concentrated solar power (CSP) has gained traction for generating electricity at high capacity and meeting base-load energy demands in the energy mix market in a cost-effective manner. The linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) is valued for its cost-effecti... Read More about Techno-Economic Assessment of Molten Salt-Based Concentrated Solar Power: Case Study of Linear Fresnel Reflector with a Fossil Fuel Backup under Saudi Arabia’s Climate Conditions.