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Examining the experiences of post-ABI and neurological condition sequalae and workplace disclosure. (2023)
Thesis
Watson, K. Examining the experiences of post-ABI and neurological condition sequalae and workplace disclosure. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4458968

This thesis portfolio is comprised of three parts, a systematic literature review, an empirical thesis, and appendices. Part 1 contains a systematic literature review, aiming to explore the experiences of individuals disclosing Multiple Sclerosis (M... Read More about Examining the experiences of post-ABI and neurological condition sequalae and workplace disclosure..

Inorganic Chemistry of the Tripodal Picolinate Ligand Tpaa with Gallium(III) and Radiolabeling with Gallium-68 (2023)
Journal Article
Price, T. W., Wagner, L., Rosecker, V., Havlíčková, J., Prior, T. J., Kubíček, V., …Stasiuk, G. J. (2023). Inorganic Chemistry of the Tripodal Picolinate Ligand Tpaa with Gallium(III) and Radiolabeling with Gallium-68. Inorganic chemistry, 62(50), 20769–20776. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02459

We report here the improved synthesis of the tripodal picolinate chelator Tpaa, with an overall yield of 41% over five steps, in comparison to the previously reported 6% yield. Tpaa was investigated for its coordination chemistry with Ga(III) and rad... Read More about Inorganic Chemistry of the Tripodal Picolinate Ligand Tpaa with Gallium(III) and Radiolabeling with Gallium-68.

Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998 (2023)
Thesis
Grombir, F. Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4425243

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of migrants came to rebuild post-war Britain. The arrival of the so-called Windrush generation presented, in the words of Trevor Phillips, the irresistible rise of multi-racial... Read More about Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998.

Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates (2023)
Journal Article
Diggles, B. K., Arlinghaus, R., Browman, H. I., Cooke, S. J., Cooper, R. L., Cowx, I. G., …Watson, C. (in press). Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2023.2257802

The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have included these taxa under welfare regulation in recent years. Regulation of welfare requires use of scientifically validated welfare criteria. This is why ap... Read More about Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates.

Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease: consensus recommendations from the British Association for the Study of the Liver and British Society of Gastroenterology ARLD special interest group (2023)
Journal Article
Parker, R., Allison, M., Anderson, S., Aspinall, R., Bardell, S., Bains, V., …Masson, S. (2023). Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease: consensus recommendations from the British Association for the Study of the Liver and British Society of Gastroenterology ARLD special interest group. BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 10(1), Article e001221. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2023-001221

Objective Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is the most common cause of liver-related ill health and liver-related deaths in the UK, and deaths from ALD have doubled in the last decade. The management of ALD requires treatment of both liver disease... Read More about Quality standards for the management of alcohol-related liver disease: consensus recommendations from the British Association for the Study of the Liver and British Society of Gastroenterology ARLD special interest group.

Explaining black boxes with a SMILE: Statistical Model-agnostic Interpretability with Local Explanations (2023)
Journal Article
Aslansefat, K., Hashemian, M., Walker, M., Akram, M. N., Sorokos, I., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2023). Explaining black boxes with a SMILE: Statistical Model-agnostic Interpretability with Local Explanations. IEEE Software, https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2023.3321282

Machine learning is currently undergoing an explosion in capability, popularity, and sophistication. However, one of the major barriers to widespread acceptance of machine learning (ML) is trustworthiness: most ML models operate as black boxes, their... Read More about Explaining black boxes with a SMILE: Statistical Model-agnostic Interpretability with Local Explanations.

A Scoping Review of ‘Pacing’ for Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Lessons Learned for the Long COVID Pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Sanal-Hayes, N. E., Mclaughlin, M., Hayes, L. D., Mair, J. L., Ormerod, J., Carless, D., …Sculthorpe, N. F. (in press). A Scoping Review of ‘Pacing’ for Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Lessons Learned for the Long COVID Pandemic. Journal of Translational Medicine, 21, Article 720. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-023-04587-5

Background
Controversy over treatment for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a barrier to appropriate treatment. Energy management or pacing is a prominent coping strategy for people with ME/CFS that involves... Read More about A Scoping Review of ‘Pacing’ for Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Lessons Learned for the Long COVID Pandemic.

Health visitors’ experiences of supporting fathers with paternal postnatal depression (2023)
Journal Article
Davenport, C., & Swami, V. (2023). Health visitors’ experiences of supporting fathers with paternal postnatal depression. Journal of Health Visiting, 11(9), 378-390. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2023.11.9.378

There is increasing recognition that fathers are susceptible to experiencing postnatal depression (PND). Despite health visitors being ideally placed to support fathers experiencing psychological distress, little is known about their experiences in s... Read More about Health visitors’ experiences of supporting fathers with paternal postnatal depression.

The trainee nursing associates' experience of academic learning: the first 6 months (2023)
Journal Article
Firth, D. H. (2023). The trainee nursing associates' experience of academic learning: the first 6 months. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 17(10), 362-370. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2023.17.10.362

Background:
The introduction of the nursing associate role has aimed to provide a different route into nursing careers. Education standards have been structured in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for nursing associates for th... Read More about The trainee nursing associates' experience of academic learning: the first 6 months.

Exploration of the correlation of serum polychlorinated biphenyl levels with luteal phase hormonal parameters and infertility in women with or without polycystic ovary syndrome (2023)
Journal Article
Butler, A. E., Brennan, E., Drage, D. S., Sathyapalan, T., & Atkin, S. L. (2023). Exploration of the correlation of serum polychlorinated biphenyl levels with luteal phase hormonal parameters and infertility in women with or without polycystic ovary syndrome. Frontiers in endocrinology, 14, Article 1270949. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1270949

Introduction: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are organic lipophilic pollutants that accumulate in the body. Previous research has linked PCBs with menstrual function; therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate the correlation of PCBs with... Read More about Exploration of the correlation of serum polychlorinated biphenyl levels with luteal phase hormonal parameters and infertility in women with or without polycystic ovary syndrome.

Photocatalytic Hydrolysis─A Sustainable Option for the Chemical Upcycling of Polylactic Acid (2023)
Journal Article
Garratt, A., Nguyen, K., Brooke, A., Taylor, M. J., & Francesconi, M. G. (2023). Photocatalytic Hydrolysis─A Sustainable Option for the Chemical Upcycling of Polylactic Acid. ACS Environmental Au, 3(6), 342–347. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.3c00040

Plastic waste is a critical global issue, yet current strategies to avoid committing plastic waste to landfills include incineration, gasification, or pyrolysis high carbon emitting and energy consuming approaches. However, plastic waste can become a... Read More about Photocatalytic Hydrolysis─A Sustainable Option for the Chemical Upcycling of Polylactic Acid.

Pathway to a controlled human infection model for Leishmania major (2023)
Thesis
Parkash, V. Pathway to a controlled human infection model for Leishmania major. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4790646

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects those afflicted by malnutrition and poverty. The insect vector, the sand fly, is increasingly found in temperate climates, due to the effects of climate change. There is a... Read More about Pathway to a controlled human infection model for Leishmania major.

How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times (2023)
Journal Article
Grasby, S. E., & Bond, D. P. (2023). How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times. Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 19(5), 276-281. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.19.5.276

Evolution has not been a simple path. Since the first appearance of complex life, there have been several mass extinctions on Earth. This was exemplified by the most severe event during the Phanerozoic, the end-Permian mass extinction that occurred 2... Read More about How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times.

Multi-Objective Optimization for Solar-Hydrogen-Battery-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Energy Exchange (2023)
Journal Article
Duan, L., Guo, Z., Taylor, G., & Lai, C. S. (2023). Multi-Objective Optimization for Solar-Hydrogen-Battery-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Energy Exchange. Electronics, 12(19), Article 4149. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12194149

The importance of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) is increasing as electric vehicles (EV) become more widely used. EVCS with multiple low-carbon energy sources can promote sustainable energy development. This paper presents an optimization... Read More about Multi-Objective Optimization for Solar-Hydrogen-Battery-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Energy Exchange.

Low-dose methotrexate: not the hepatotoxic medication we once thought (2023)
Thesis
Turner, L. V. B. Low-dose methotrexate: not the hepatotoxic medication we once thought. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4443697

Methotrexate is a highly efficacious and frequently utilised disease-modifying medication. Concern regarding methotrexate-related hepatotoxicity has impeded the widespread application of the drug, despite a lack of high-quality evidence demonstrating... Read More about Low-dose methotrexate: not the hepatotoxic medication we once thought.

Examining the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers during COVID-19 hospitalization and subsequent long-COVID symptoms: A longitudinal and retrospective study (2023)
Journal Article
Sykes, D. L., Van der Feltz-Cornelis, C. M., Holdsworth, L., Hart, S. P., O'Halloran, J., Holding, S., & Crooks, M. G. (2023). Examining the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers during COVID-19 hospitalization and subsequent long-COVID symptoms: A longitudinal and retrospective study. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, 11(10), Article e1052. https://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.1052

Introduction: Long-COVID is a heterogeneous condition with a litany of physical and neuropsychiatric presentations and its pathophysiology remains unclear. Little is known about the association between inflammatory biomarkers, such as interleukin-6 (... Read More about Examining the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers during COVID-19 hospitalization and subsequent long-COVID symptoms: A longitudinal and retrospective study.

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background (2023)
Journal Article
Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., …Young, O. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 956(1), Article L3. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acf4fd

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has reported evidence for the presence of an isotropic nanohertz gravitational-wave background (GWB) in its 15 yr data set. However, if the GWB is produced by a population of... Read More about The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background.

Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Rasheed, B., Khan, A., & Masood Khattak, A. (2023). Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach. Applied Sciences, 13(19), Article 10972. https://doi.org/10.3390/app131910972

In this paper, we propose an advanced method for adversarial training that focuses on leveraging the underlying structure of adversarial perturbation distributions. Unlike conventional adversarial training techniques that consider adversarial example... Read More about Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach.

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: III. Search for gravitational wave signals (2023)
Journal Article
EPTA Collaboration and InPTA Collaboration:, Antoniadis, J., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., Babak, S., Bagchi, M., …Wu, Z. (2023). The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: III. Search for gravitational wave signals. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, Article A50. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346844

We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) for 25 millisecond pulsars and a combination with t... Read More about The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: III. Search for gravitational wave signals.

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: II. Customised pulsar noise models for spatially correlated gravitational waves (2023)
Journal Article
EPTA Collaboration and InPTA Collaboration, Antoniadis, J., Arumugam, P., Arumugam, S., Babak, S., Bagchi, M., …Wu, Z. (2023). The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: II. Customised pulsar noise models for spatially correlated gravitational waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, Article A49. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346842

Aims. The nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB) is expected to be an aggregate signal of an ensemble of gravitational waves emitted predominantly by a large population of coalescing supermassive black hole binaries in the centres of merging g... Read More about The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: II. Customised pulsar noise models for spatially correlated gravitational waves.