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A Highly Selective Colorimetric Naked-Eye Probe for Hypochlorite Detection in Water (2022)
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Yu, Q., Chen, X. L., Zhang, Q. L., Liu, H., Yang, X. J., Xu, H., …Redshaw, C. (2022). A Highly Selective Colorimetric Naked-Eye Probe for Hypochlorite Detection in Water. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 42(1), 322-332. https://doi.org/10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593%282022%2901-0322-11

The real-time detection and monitoring of hypochlorites (ClO-) in water is highly challenging. An excellent colorimetric "naked-eye" probe photoacid (PAH) was synthesized. PAH was comfirmed using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS), 1H NMR and 1... Read More about A Highly Selective Colorimetric Naked-Eye Probe for Hypochlorite Detection in Water.

Neural network-based adaptive global sliding mode MPPT controller design for stand-alone photovoltaic systems (2022)
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Haq, I. U., Khan, Q., Ullah, S., Ahmed Khan, S., Akmeliawati, R., Khan, M. A., & Iqbal, J. (2022). Neural network-based adaptive global sliding mode MPPT controller design for stand-alone photovoltaic systems. PLoS ONE, 17(1), Article e0260480. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260480

The increasing energy demand and the target to reduce environmental pollution make it essential to use efficient and environment-friendly renewable energy systems. One of these systems is the Photovoltaic (PV) system which generates energy subject to... Read More about Neural network-based adaptive global sliding mode MPPT controller design for stand-alone photovoltaic systems.

A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics (2022)
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Cross, T. M., Benoit, D. M., Pignatari, M., & Gibson, B. K. (2022). A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics. The Astrophysical journal, 925(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3976

This work presents the first steps to modeling synthetic rovibrational spectra for all molecules of astrophysical interest using a new approach implemented in the Prometheus code. The goal is to create a new comprehensive source of first-principles m... Read More about A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics.

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background (2022)
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Antoniadis, J., Arzoumanian, Z., Babak, S., Bailes, M., Bak Nielsen, A. S., Baker, P. T., …Shaifullah, G. (2022). The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 4873-4887. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3418

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal-length pulsar-timing campaigns in North America, Europe, and Austra... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background.

Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians (2022)
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Krajnik, M., Hepgul, N., Wilcock, A., Jassem, E., Bandurski, T., Tanzi, S., …Walker, F. (2022). Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 22(1), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01835-0

Background: Respiratory medicine (RM) and palliative care (PC) physicians’ management of chronic breathlessness in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fILD) and lung cancer (LC), and the influenc... Read More about Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians.

The Time Project: Understanding working time in the UK television industry (2022)
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Mayne, L., Swords, J., Ozimek, A., & Boardman, C. (2022). The Time Project: Understanding working time in the UK television industry. York: Screen Industries Growth Network

The Time Project collected data on the working hours of TV production professionals to highlight patterns of overworking in the industry. The report aims to understand which groups of people face the greatest burden of work in the UK TV industry and... Read More about The Time Project: Understanding working time in the UK television industry.

Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2022)
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Mall, G., Main, R. A., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Burgay, M., Chen, S., …Zhu, W. W. (2022). Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(1), 1104-1114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac096

In this work, we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The two-dimensional (2D) power spectrum of scintillation, called... Read More about Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Potential photo-switching sorbents for CO2 capture – A review (2022)
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Qiao, Y., Bailey, J. J., Huang, Q., Ke, X., & Wu, C. (2022). Potential photo-switching sorbents for CO2 capture – A review. Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 158, Article 112079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112079

Porous materials with photochromic units are currently under investigation as light allows for environmentally friendly and highly energy-efficient control for gas separation and storage, chemical sensing, and drug delivery. In the application of pho... Read More about Potential photo-switching sorbents for CO2 capture – A review.

Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a Resource Kit (2022)
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Coleston-Shields, D. M., Challis, D., Worden, A., Broome, E., Dening, T., Guo, B., …Orrell, M. (2022). Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a Resource Kit. Trials, 23(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05995-y

Background: Improving care at home for people with dementia is a core policy goal in the dementia strategies of many European countries. A challenge to effective home support is the occurrence of crises in the care of people with dementia which arise... Read More about Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams (AQUEDUCT): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a Resource Kit.

Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique (2022)
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Hussain, J. A., White, I. R., Johnson, M. J., Byrne, A., Preston, N. J., Haines, A., …Peters, T. J. (2022). Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique. Palliative medicine, 36(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211065597

Background: Missing data can introduce bias and reduce the power, precision and generalisability of study findings. Guidelines on how to address missing data are limited in scope and detail, and poorly implemented. Aim: To develop guidelines on how b... Read More about Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique.

Global competence and teacher education programmes. A European perspective (2022)
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Parmigiani, D., Jones, S. L., Kunnari, I., & Nicchia, E. (2022). Global competence and teacher education programmes. A European perspective. Cogent Education, 9(1), Article 2022996. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2021.2022996

Global competence is an increasingly important disposition for today’s society. Prospective teachers will have to be able to teach effectively in multicultural classrooms as well as develop dispositions of global competence in their future students.... Read More about Global competence and teacher education programmes. A European perspective.

Collaborative position control of pantograph robot using particle swarm optimization (2022)
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Ali, N., Ayaz, Y., & Iqbal, J. (2022). Collaborative position control of pantograph robot using particle swarm optimization. International journal of control, automation and systems, 20(1), 198-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-019-0931-6

This article presents the design and real-time implementation of an optimal collaborative approach to obtain the desired trajectory tracking of two Degree of Freedom (DOF) pantograph end effector position. The proposed controller constructively syner... Read More about Collaborative position control of pantograph robot using particle swarm optimization.

Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope (2022)
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Cassanelli, T., Leung, C., Rahman, M., Vanderlinde, K., Mena-Parra, J., Cary, S., …Tendulkar, S. P. (2022). Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope. Astronomical Journal, 163(2), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3d2f

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)/FRB experiment has detected thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs) due to its sensitivity and wide field of view; however, its low angular resolution prevents it from localizing events to thei... Read More about Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope.

Factors Associated With Normal Physiologic Birth for Women Who Labor In Water: A Secondary Analysis of A Prospective Observational Study (2022)
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Carpenter, J., Burns, E., & Smith, L. (2022). Factors Associated With Normal Physiologic Birth for Women Who Labor In Water: A Secondary Analysis of A Prospective Observational Study. Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 67(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13315

Introduction: Research to understand factors associated with normal physiologic birth (unassisted vaginal birth, spontaneous labor onset without epidural analgesia, spinal, or general anesthetic, without episiotomy) is required. Laboring and/or givin... Read More about Factors Associated With Normal Physiologic Birth for Women Who Labor In Water: A Secondary Analysis of A Prospective Observational Study.

On the turbulence dynamics induced by a surrogate seagrass canopy (2022)
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Houseago, R. C., Hong, L., Cheng, S., Best, J. L., Parsons, D. R., & Chamorro, L. P. (2022). On the turbulence dynamics induced by a surrogate seagrass canopy. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 934, Article A17. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1142

The distinct turbulence dynamics and transport modulated by a common seagrass species were investigated experimentally using a flexible surrogate canopy in a refractive-index-matching environment that enabled full optical access. The surrogate seagra... Read More about On the turbulence dynamics induced by a surrogate seagrass canopy.

Order and information in the patterns of spinning magnetic micro-disks at the air-water interface (2022)
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Wang, W., Gardi, G., Malgaretti, P., Kishore, V., Koens, L., Son, D., …Sitti, M. (2022). Order and information in the patterns of spinning magnetic micro-disks at the air-water interface. Science Advances, 8(2), Article eabk0685. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk0685

The application of the Shannon entropy to study the relationship between information and structures has yielded insights into molecular and material systems. However, the difficulty in directly observing and manipulating atoms and molecules hampers t... Read More about Order and information in the patterns of spinning magnetic micro-disks at the air-water interface.

Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience (2022)
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Dixon, J., & Gordon, N. (2022). Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i17.3596

The financial cost to individuals of higher education is now regularly exceeding £50k before maintenance in the UK; consequently, students are more concerned than ever that their degree should offer value for money when they enter the jobs marketplac... Read More about Improving Graduate Futures and Employability Through Embedded Industrial Experience.

The role of glucosinolates from cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae) in gastrointestinal cancers: from prevention to therapeutics (2022)
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Melim, C., Lauro, M., Pires, I. M., Oliveira, P., & Cabral, C. (2022). The role of glucosinolates from cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae) in gastrointestinal cancers: from prevention to therapeutics. Pharmaceutics, 14(1), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14010190

The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is composed of rapidly renewing cells, which increase the likelihood of cancer. Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed GI cancers and currently stands in second place regarding cancer-related mortali... Read More about The role of glucosinolates from cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae) in gastrointestinal cancers: from prevention to therapeutics.

The coupled dynamics of internal waves and hairpin vortices in stratified plane Poiseuille flow (2022)
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Lloyd, C., Dorrell, R., & Caulfield, C.-C. (2022). The coupled dynamics of internal waves and hairpin vortices in stratified plane Poiseuille flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 934, Article A10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1007

A simulation of stably stratified plane Poiseuille flow at a moderate Reynolds number (Formula Presented) and Richardson number (Formula Presented) is presented. For the first time, the dynamics in the channel core are shown to be described as a seri... Read More about The coupled dynamics of internal waves and hairpin vortices in stratified plane Poiseuille flow.