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Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification (2024)
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Okoye, I. J., Zein, S. H., Oko, E., & Jalil, A. A. (2024). Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification. Progress in Rubber, Plastics and Recycling Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14777606241262888

This paper promotes awareness of the circular economy as a superior waste disposal system alternative. The novelty of this study is to model cleaner energy generation from the gasification of polyethene terephthalate (PET) waste accompanied by a deta... Read More about Sustainable syngas production: Economic and circular economy benefits of PET waste gasification.

Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries (2024)
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Dodd, J. R., Noble, R. A., Nunn, A. D., Owen, H. M., Moccetti, P., Harvey, J. P., Wallace, L., Gillespie, B., Joyce, D. A., & Bolland, J. D. (online). Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries. Journal of fish biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15814

This investigation compared the spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. between reservoirs with (impact; Langsett Reservoir) and without (control; Grimwith Reservoir) barriers to fish movements into headwater tributarie... Read More about Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries.

Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity (2024)
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Chestnut, J., Goetz, A. R., & Jonas, A. E. (online). Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2367389

Public transit service provision is fraught with contradictions and tensions, which today tend to converge around the city-regional scale of planning and governance. The promise of public transit is to promote economic development and improve regiona... Read More about Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity.

Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media (2024)
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Dhiman, A., Yom-Tov, E., Pellis, L., Edelstein, M., Pebody, R., Hayward, A., House, T., Finnie, T., Guzman, D., Lampos, V., Virus Watch Consortium, & Cox, I. J. (2024). Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media. npj Digital Medicine, 7(1), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01160-2

We propose a method to estimate the household secondary attack rate (hSAR) of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom based on activity on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conventional methods of hSAR estimation are resource intensive,... Read More about Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media.

Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification (2024)
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Ahmad, M., Usama, M., Khan, A. M., Distefano, S., Altuwaijri, H. A., & Mazzara, M. (2024). Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2024.3431188

In Transformer-based Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC), predefined positional encodings (PEs) are crucial for capturing the order of each input token. However, their typical representation as fixed-dimension learnable vectors makes it challen... Read More about Spatial Spectral Transformer with Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification.

British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929 (2024)
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Tyler, C. (online). British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929. Journal of political ideologies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2369304

This article contributes to the scholarship on Giuseppe Mazzini’s impact on British radicalism, through an analysis of British idealist engagements with his life and writings between 1858 and 1929. Section one introduces the topic. Section two sketch... Read More about British idealist engagements with Mazzinianism, 1858 to 1929.

Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design (2024)
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Winterbottom, A., Hurst, H., Murtagh, F. E., Bekker, H. L., Ormandy, P., Hole, B., Russon, L., Murphy, E., Bucknall, K., & Mooney, A. (2024). Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design. Kidney Medicine, 6(9), Article 100874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100874

Rationale & Objective: Planning and delivering treatment pathways that integrate end-of-life care, frailty assessment, and enhanced supportive care is a service priority. Despite this, people with kidney failure are less likely to have an advance car... Read More about Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design.

Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits (2024)
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Burdon, D., Barnard, S., Strong, J. A., & Atkins, J. P. (2024). Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits. Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics, 224, Article 108316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108316

There is a growing call to better understand society's relationship with the natural environment and the environment's economic contribution to the economy and human well-being. This paper presents a new methodology for estimating the spatial monetar... Read More about Linking marine habitats and economic values: A spatial scaling methodology for valuing societal benefits.

Time to first remission and survival in patients with acromegaly: Evidence from the UK Acromegaly Register Study (UKAR) (2024)
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Deshmukh, H., Ssemmondo, E., Adeleke, K., Mongolu, S., Aye, M., Orme, S., Flanagan, D., Abraham, P., Higham, C., & Sathyapalan, T. (2024). Time to first remission and survival in patients with acromegaly: Evidence from the UK Acromegaly Register Study (UKAR). Clinical Endocrinology, 101(3), 274-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.15112

Objective: This study aimed to understand the effect of time to remission of acromegaly on survival in people living with acromegaly. Design, Patients and Measurement: This cross-sectional study used data from the UK Acromegaly Register. We considere... Read More about Time to first remission and survival in patients with acromegaly: Evidence from the UK Acromegaly Register Study (UKAR).

Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry (2024)
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Renforth, P., Campbell, J., Foteinis, S., Cosgun, E., Young, J., Strunge, T., Riley, A. L., Mayes, W. M., & van der Spek, M. W. (2024). Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry. Journal of cleaner production, 468, Article 142987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142987

Reducing the emissions from steel production is essential in meeting climate targets while maintaining economic prosperity. Here we show that applying deep emissions mitigation to the steel industry together with the reaction of by-product slag with... Read More about Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry.

Wound Healing Promotion via Release of Therapeutic Metallic Ions from Phosphate Glass Fibers: An In Vitro and Ex Vivo Study (2024)
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Hoxha, A., Nikolaou, A., Wilkinson, H. N., Hardman, M. J., Gutierrez-Merino, J., Felipe-Sotelo, M., & Carta, D. (2024). Wound Healing Promotion via Release of Therapeutic Metallic Ions from Phosphate Glass Fibers: An In Vitro and Ex Vivo Study. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(29), 37669-37682. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c07035

Biomaterials capable of promoting wound healing and preventing infections remain in great demand to address the global unmet need for the treatment of chronic wounds. Phosphate-based glasses (PG) have shown potential as bioresorbable materials capabl... Read More about Wound Healing Promotion via Release of Therapeutic Metallic Ions from Phosphate Glass Fibers: An In Vitro and Ex Vivo Study.

Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept (2024)
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Cuevas-Castillo, G. A., Michailos, S., Akram, M., Hughes, K., Ingham, D., & Pourkashanian, M. (2024). Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept. Journal of cleaner production, 469, Article 143143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143143

The paper deals with exhaustive process modelling, techno-economic and life cycle assessment (TEA/LCA) of olefin (ethylene and propylene) production through captured CO2 and electrolytic hydrogen. Olefins are important building block chemicals with s... Read More about Techno economic and life cycle assessment of olefin production through CO2 hydrogenation within the power-to-X concept.

Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films (2024)
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Wang, K., Redshaw, C., Zhao, X., Wang, A., Chen, K., & Qiao, Y. (2024). Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(14), 16274–16282. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c02258

The development of nanozymes has emerged as a promising pathway for combating bacterial infections. In this work, Ag/Schiff base nanozymes are obtained through the in situ reduction method on [2 + 3] Schiff base macrocycles using eco-friendly reducta... Read More about Silver Nanoparticle-Immobilized Schiff-Base Macrocycles as Nanozymes with Peroxidase Mimic Activity for Antibacterial Films.

The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2024)
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Shah, N. A., & Piri, H. (in press). The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Human rights quarterly, 47(2),

The reading of the post-revolution 1979 constitution of Iran gives the impression that Iran is a dualist state but we argue that, on its proper analysis together with Article 9 of the Civil Code 1928, Iran is a monist state and human rights treaties... Read More about The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England (2024)
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Mahon, N., Finan, S., Holloway, L., Clark, B., & Proctor, A. (in press). Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England. Scottish Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2024.2343951

Farmed animals are expected to move through farmed spaces in certain ways to maximise their productivity. These spaces are also designed to limit the movement of disease-causing organisms. However, both types of lifeforms do not always move in expect... Read More about Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England.

Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells (2024)
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Zhou, X., Shen, L., Tan, X., Wang, X., Liang, X., Shan, X., Xu, H., Wang, Z. Y., Redshaw, C., & Zhang, Q. L. (2024). Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells. Journal of molecular structure, 1318(pt.1), Article 139262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.139262

H2O2 plays a key regulatory role as a bioendogenous reactive oxygen species in cells and organisms. However, excessive production or accumulation of H2O2 during mitochondrial oxidative stress may lead to oxidative damage of cellular proteins and trig... Read More about Novel triphenylamine-pyrene-based AIEgens: Specific detection and imaging of H2O2 in aqueous solution and cells.

Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
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Chan, A., Jamieson, C., Draper, H., O'Callaghan, S., & Guinn, B. A. (online). Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112719

Objectives: To examine disparities in attendance rates at cancer screening services between transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people in comparison with their cisgender (CG) counterparts, and to determine whether these differences were based on the... Read More about Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Correction to: Reducing short-acting beta-agonist use in asthma: Impact of national incentives on prescribing practices in England and the findings from SENTINEL Plus early adopter sites (npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, (2024), 34, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0) (2024)
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Crooks, M. G., Cummings, H., Morice, A. H., Sykes, D., Brooks, S., Jackson, A., & Xu, Y. (2024). Correction to: Reducing short-acting beta-agonist use in asthma: Impact of national incentives on prescribing practices in England and the findings from SENTINEL Plus early adopter sites (npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, (2024), 34, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0). NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00376-9

Correction to: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine34, 6 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0, published online 29 April 2024 In this article the Table 2 columns were incorrectly structured. The original article has been corrected.

Sustainable mining in tropical, biodiverse landscapes: Environmental challenges and opportunities in the archipelagic Philippines (2024)
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Domingo, J. P. T., Jenkin, G. R., Quick, L., Williams, R. D., Hudson-Edwards, K. A., Tortajada, C., Byrne, P., Coulthard, T. J., Padrones, J. T., Crane, R., Gibaga, C. R. L., Vasilopoulos, G., Tungpalan, K., Samaniego, J. O., Biles, E., Tanciongco, A. M., Chambers, J. E., Quimado, M. O., Bautista, A. T., Gonzalvo, F. I. P., …Arcilla, C. A. (2024). Sustainable mining in tropical, biodiverse landscapes: Environmental challenges and opportunities in the archipelagic Philippines. Journal of cleaner production, 468, Article 143114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143114

The rising demand for critical metals presents a major economic opportunity for mineral-rich countries. For a sustainable transition to a low-carbon future, it is essential to minimise impacts of mineral resource development to the environment, ecosy... Read More about Sustainable mining in tropical, biodiverse landscapes: Environmental challenges and opportunities in the archipelagic Philippines.

A Scoping Review of Stigma Related to Prostate Cancer in Black Men (2024)
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Bamidele, O., Greenley, S., Ukoha-Kalu, B. O., Titus, O. F., & Nanton, V. (2024). A Scoping Review of Stigma Related to Prostate Cancer in Black Men. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-024-02070-5

Background: Prostate cancer (CaP) disproportionately affects 1-in-4 Black men and is a stigmatised disease within their communities. Yet, Black men are underrepresented in CaP research concerning stigma, which necessitates a scoping review to map ava... Read More about A Scoping Review of Stigma Related to Prostate Cancer in Black Men.