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Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly? (2024)
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Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Buckley, . M., Poder, I., & Hughes, J. (2024). Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?. ESPRC and RAI UK

Generative AI is changing the way our economies and businesses operate, and SMEs could be receiving more benefits from this transition. Over the past 12 months in the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) project we have been wo... Read More about Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?.

Mothers' experiences of negative interactions with health professionals when breastfeeding beyond 1 year (2024)
Journal Article
Jackson, J. E., Hallam, J., & Safari, R. (2024). Mothers' experiences of negative interactions with health professionals when breastfeeding beyond 1 year. Journal of Family and Child Health, 1(2), 58-62. https://doi.org/10.12968/jfch.2024.1.2.58

This study explores women's negative interactions with health professionals when continuing to breastfeed beyond the first year. The research used a cross-sectional design, with an online questionnaire to gather responses from women worldwide who rep... Read More about Mothers' experiences of negative interactions with health professionals when breastfeeding beyond 1 year.

Dissociable effects of hyperacusis and misophonia severity imply different mechanisms of decreased sound tolerance (2024)
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Smees, R., Simner, J., Hoare, D. J., & Ward, J. (2024). Dissociable effects of hyperacusis and misophonia severity imply different mechanisms of decreased sound tolerance. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2024.2419558

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It is thought that decreased sound tolerance can be subdivided into distinct types including misophonia (involving specific trigger sounds) and hyperacusis (broader in profile). However, there are few established methods for differentially... Read More about Dissociable effects of hyperacusis and misophonia severity imply different mechanisms of decreased sound tolerance.

Gut Microbiome Diversity and Composition Correlates With Time in the Therapeutic Range in Patients on Warfarin Treatment: A Pilot Study (2024)
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Agosti, P., Kouraki, A., Dionisi, T., Addolorato, G., D’Innocenzo, L., Sorrentino, S., De Maio, F., De Candia, E., Blanco-Miguez, A., Bazzani, D., Bonadiman, A., Tonidandel, G., Bolzan, M., Gianniello, F., Passamonti, S. M., Abbattista, M., Valdes, A. M., Bucciarelli, P., Peyvandi, F., & Menni, C. (2024). Gut Microbiome Diversity and Composition Correlates With Time in the Therapeutic Range in Patients on Warfarin Treatment: A Pilot Study. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, https://doi.org/10.1161/ATVBAHA.124.321490

Co-developing frameworks towards environmentally directed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland – A mixed methods study (2024)
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Niemi, L., Arakawa, N., Glendell, M., Gagkas, Z., Gibb, S., Anderson, C., & Pfleger, S. (2024). Co-developing frameworks towards environmentally directed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland – A mixed methods study. Science of the Total Environment, 955, Article 176929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176929

The presence of human pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment is recognised internationally as an important public health and environmental issue. In Scotland, healthcare sustainability targets call for improvements to medicine prescribing and use... Read More about Co-developing frameworks towards environmentally directed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland – A mixed methods study.

Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail (2024)
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Cormier, L., Yousif, T., Thompson, S., Arcia Gil, A., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2024). Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail. Aerospace, 11(11), Article 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11110901

The JamSail mission is an educational CubeSat aiming to design, develop, and demonstrate two new technologies on a small satellite, tentatively scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026. When launched, JamSail will demonstrate the functionality of tw... Read More about Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail.

Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration (2024)
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Chen, H., Ji, L., Wong, A., Chu, Y., Feng, W., Zhu, Y., Wang, J., Comeo, E., Kim, D.-H., Stocks, M. J., & Gershkovich, P. (2024). Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 667, Article 124895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2024.124895

Intestinal lymph nodes are involved in the progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). Tumours suppress the activation of dendritic cells (DCs) in draining lymph nodes, diminishing anti-cancer immune response. Imiquimod (IMQ) facilitates DCs activation v... Read More about Delivery of imiquimod to intestinal lymph nodes following oral administration.

Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles (2024)
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Thomason, M. (2024). Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles. Criminal Law Review, 692-719

Relevant sexual behaviour (SB) evidence should be admissible unless there are good reasons to exclude it. Starting from first principles, this article provides an in-depth analysis of reasons which might justify a rule of exclusion for relevant SB ev... Read More about Excluding sexual behaviour evidence: back to first principles.

The Use of Virtual Patients to Provide Feedback On Clinical Reasoning : A Systematic Review (2024)
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Jay, R., Sandars, J., Patel, R., Leonardi-Bee, J., Ackbarally, Y., Bandyopadhyaya, S., Faraj, D., O'Hanlon, M., Brown, J., & Wilson, E. (2024). The Use of Virtual Patients to Provide Feedback On Clinical Reasoning : A Systematic Review. Academic Medicine,

Purpose: Virtual patients (VPs) are increasingly used across the continuum of medical education to support the development of clinical reasoning (CR). However, the extent to which feedback is given across the components of CR is unknown, and there is... Read More about The Use of Virtual Patients to Provide Feedback On Clinical Reasoning : A Systematic Review.

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (2024)
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Bao, H., & Ma, Y. Z. (Eds.). (2024). Queer Literature in the Sinosphere. Bloomsbury Publishing

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary bo... Read More about Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

A novel root hair mutant, srh1, affects root hair elongation and reactive oxygen species levels in wheat (2024)
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Tsang, I., Thomelin, P., Ober, E. S., Rawsthorne, S., Atkinson, J. A., Wells, D. M., Percival-Alwyn, L., Leigh, F. J., & Cockram, J. (2024). A novel root hair mutant, srh1, affects root hair elongation and reactive oxygen species levels in wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, Article 1490502. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1490502

Background: Root hairs are single-celled projections on root surfaces, critical for water and nutrient uptake. Here, we describe the first short root hair mutant in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), identified in a mutagenized population and termed here... Read More about A novel root hair mutant, srh1, affects root hair elongation and reactive oxygen species levels in wheat.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report (2024)
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Ochang, P., Stahl, B., Eke, D., & Cameron, H. Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

On the 1st of July 2024, the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in the UK and Africa (RAISE) project hosted its inaugural workshop, bringing together small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the United Kingdom and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report.

Measuring pore sizes of nonwoven geotextiles by X-ray CT images: a comparative evaluation (2024)
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Khan, M. W., Dawson, A. R., Marshall, A. M., & Chaudhry, R. (2024). Measuring pore sizes of nonwoven geotextiles by X-ray CT images: a comparative evaluation. Geosynthetics International, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgein.24.00055

This paper focuses on evaluating the pore sizes of four nonwoven geotextile specimens with different pore size distribution techniques. The paper introduces a bubble analysis technique to find the two-dimensional (2D) pore size distribution of geotex... Read More about Measuring pore sizes of nonwoven geotextiles by X-ray CT images: a comparative evaluation.

Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest (2024)
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Mayfield, R. J., Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Langdon, P. G., Karger, D. N., Brown, A. G., & Alsos, I. G. (2024). Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest. Quaternary Science Reviews, 345, Article 109045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109045

Climate-induced ecotonal shifts are expected to occur in the (sub)arctic and boreal zones in the coming decades. Understanding how these ecosystems have previously responded to climate change can provide greater insight into how ecosystems may develo... Read More about Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest.

High-velocity outflows persist up to 1 Gyr after a starburst in recently quenched galaxies at z > 1 (2024)
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Taylor, E., Maltby, D., Almaini, O., Merrifield, M., Wild, V., Rowlands, K., & Harrold, J. (2024). High-velocity outflows persist up to 1 Gyr after a starburst in recently quenched galaxies at z > 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(2), 1684-1692. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2463

High-velocity outflows are ubiquitous in star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon, but are not as common in passive galaxies at the same epoch. Using optical spectra of galaxies selected from the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey at z > 1, we perform a stacking a... Read More about High-velocity outflows persist up to 1 Gyr after a starburst in recently quenched galaxies at z > 1.

The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate (2024)
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Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (in press). The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate. Sustainable Development,

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The Future of Decent Work: Forecasting Heat Stress and the Intersection of Sustainable Development Challenges in India's Brick Kilns Achieving decent work in a heating climate.

Wnt/GSK-3β mediates posttranslational modifications of FLYWCH1 to regulate intestinal epithelial function and tumorigenesis in the colon (2024)
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Almozyan, S., Babaei-Jadidi, R., Aljohani, A., Youssefi, S., Dalleywater, W., Kadam, P., Spencer-Dene, B., Rakha, E., Ilyas, M., & Shams Nateri, A. (2024). Wnt/GSK-3β mediates posttranslational modifications of FLYWCH1 to regulate intestinal epithelial function and tumorigenesis in the colon. Cancer Communications, https://doi.org/10.1002/cac2.12625

Psychological detachment from work predicts mental wellbeing of working-age adults: findings from the ‘Wellbeing of the Workforce’ (WoW) prospective longitudinal cohort study (2024)
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Blake, H., Hassard, J., Thomson, L., Choo, W. H., Dulal-Arthur, T., Karanika-Murray, M., Delic, L., Pickford, R., & Rudkin, L. (in press). Psychological detachment from work predicts mental wellbeing of working-age adults: findings from the ‘Wellbeing of the Workforce’ (WoW) prospective longitudinal cohort study. PLoS ONE,

Background: There is an urgent need to better understand the factors that predict mental wellbeing in vocationally active adults during globally turbulent times.

Aim: To explore the relationship between psychological detachment from work (postula... Read More about Psychological detachment from work predicts mental wellbeing of working-age adults: findings from the ‘Wellbeing of the Workforce’ (WoW) prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
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Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.