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A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways (2023)
Journal Article
Pybus, H. J., O’dea, R. D., & Brook, B. S. (2023). A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 40(3), 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqad004

Excessive activation of the regulatory cytokine transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) via contraction of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is associated with the development of asthma. In this study, we develop an ordinary differential equation model that de... Read More about A dynamical model of TGF-β activation in asthmatic airways.

Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators (2023)
Journal Article
Strocchi, M., Longobardi, S., Augustin, C. M., Gsell, M. A. F., Petras, A., Rinaldi, C. A., …Niederer, S. A. (2023). Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(6), Article e1011257. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011257

Cardiac pump function arises from a series of highly orchestrated events across multiple scales. Computational electromechanics can encode these events in physics-constrained models. However, the large number of parameters in these models has made th... Read More about Cell to whole organ global sensitivity analysis on a four-chamber heart electromechanics model using Gaussian processes emulators.

Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university (2023)
Journal Article
Fairbanks, E. L., Bolton, K. J., Jia, R., Figueredo, G. P., Knight, H., & Vedhara, K. (2023). Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university. Epidemics, 43, Article 100688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100688

We survey 62 users of a university asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 testing service on details of their activities, protective behaviours and contacts in the 7 days prior to receiving a positive or negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result in the period October 202... Read More about Influence of setting-dependent contacts and protective behaviours on asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst members of a UK university.

The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance (2023)
Journal Article
Shaker, A. J., Brignell, C., & Pugh, M. (2023). The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Article 2214562. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2214562

A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; that is, students engage more with activities that are assessed compared with those that are not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives... Read More about The effect of incentivising pre-class reading on engagement and student performance.

The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change. (2023)
Journal Article
Peter Binding, L., Neal Taylor, P., O'Keeffe, A. G., Giampiccolo, D., Fleury, M., Xiao, F., …Vos, S. B. (2023). The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38, Article 103444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103444

Background: Anterior temporal lobe resection (ATLR) is a successful treatment for medically-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). In the language-dominant hemisphere, 30%- 50% of individuals experience a naming decline which can impact upon daily... Read More about The impact of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery on picture naming and its relationship to network metric change..

Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling (2023)
Book Chapter
Rempała, G. A., & KhudaBukhsh, W. R. (2023). Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling. In Handbook of Visual, Experimental and Computational Mathematics: Bridges through Data (1-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93954-0_31-1

This chapter describes the dynamical survival analysis (DSA) method for modeling infectious diseases. This method provides a powerful framework for analyzing compartmental models of large epidemics, such as the popular susceptible-infected-recovered... Read More about Dynamical Survival Analysis for Epidemic Modeling.

Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media (2023)
Journal Article
Icardi, M., Pescimoro, E., Municchi, F., & Hidalgo, J. J. (2023). Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media. Engineering with Computers, 39, 3927–3940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-023-01825-8

We present a flexible scalable open-source computational framework, named SECUReFoam, based on the finite-volume library OpenFOAM®, for flow and transport problems in highly heterogeneous geological media and other porous materials. The framework com... Read More about Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media.

Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions (2023)
Journal Article
Leimkuhler, B., Sharma, A., & Tretyakov, M. V. (2023). Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions. Annals of Applied Probability, 33(3), 1904-1960. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AAP1856

A simple-to-implement weak-sense numerical method to approximate reflected stochastic differential equations (RSDEs) is proposed and analysed. It is proved that the method has the first order of weak convergence. Together with the Monte Carlo techniq... Read More about Simplest random walk for approximating Robin boundary value problems and ergodic limits of reflected diffusions.

Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., & Pumplün, S. (2023). Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials. Glasgow Mathematical Journal, 65(2), 480-500. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001708952300006X

Let be a division algebra, finite-dimensional over its center, and a skew polynomial ring. Using skew polynomials, we construct division algebras and maximum rank distance codes consisting of matrices with entries in a noncommutative division algebra... Read More about Division algebras and MRD codes from skew polynomials.

Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis (2023)
Journal Article
Binenbaum, J., Wulff, N., Camut, L., Kiradjiev, K., Anfang, M., Tal, I., …Shani, E. (2023). Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 9, 785-802. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01391-3

The plant hormone gibberellin (GA) regulates multiple developmental processes. It accumulates in the root elongating endodermis, but how it moves into this cell file and the significance of this accumulation are unclear. Here we identify three NITRAT... Read More about Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis.

A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, M., Green, M., Kypraios, T., & Kaler, J. (2023). A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21749

Claw horn disruption lesions (CHDL) are a leading cause of lameness in dairy cattle, and the development, effect, and pathology of these lesions remains an open area of interest within dairy cattle health. Current literature typically attempts to mea... Read More about A multistate modeling approach to investigate long-term effects of claw horn disruption lesions and early lesion development in dairy cows.

Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors (2023)
Journal Article
Golovaty, D., Kurzke, M., Montero, J. A., & Spirn, D. (2023). Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(3), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-023-09898-x

Tetrahedral frame fields have applications to certain classes of nematic liquid crystals and frustrated media. We consider the problem of constructing a tetrahedral frame field in three-dimensional domains in which the boundary normal vector is inclu... Read More about Tetrahedral Frame Fields via Constrained Third-Order Symmetric Tensors.

COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison (2023)
Journal Article
KhudaBukhsh, W. R., Khalsa, S. K., Kenah, E., Rempała, G. A., & Tien, J. H. (2023). COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1087698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1087698

Incarcerated individuals are a highly vulnerable population for infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Understanding the transmission of respiratory infections within prisons and between prisons and surrounding c... Read More about COVID-19 dynamics in an Ohio prison.

Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pache, A., & Van Rossum, M. Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity

When training neural networks for classification tasks with backpropagation, parameters are updated on every trial, even if the sample is classified correctly. In contrast, humans concentrate their learning effort on errors. Inspired by human learnin... Read More about Lazy learning: a biologically-inspired plasticity rule for fast and energy efficient synaptic plasticity.

Torsion Motives (2023)
Journal Article
Vishik, A. (2023). Torsion Motives. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2023(23), 20252–20295. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnad056

In this paper we study Chow motives whose identity map is killed by a natural number. Examples of such objects were constructed by Gorchinskiy-Orlov [10]. We introduce various invariants of torsion motives, in particular, the p-level. We show that th... Read More about Torsion Motives.

Concentration Inequalities for Output Statistics of Quantum Markov Processes (2023)
Journal Article
Girotti, F., Garrahan, J. P., & Guţă, M. (2023). Concentration Inequalities for Output Statistics of Quantum Markov Processes. Annales Henri Poincaré, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-023-01286-1

We derive new concentration bounds for time averages of measurement outcomes in quantum Markov processes. This generalizes well-known bounds for classical Markov chains, which provide constraints on finite-time fluctuations of time-additive quantitie... Read More about Concentration Inequalities for Output Statistics of Quantum Markov Processes.

Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Seymour, R., Nyarko-Agyei, A., Severn, K., McCabe, H., Kypraios, T., Sirl, D., & Taylor, A. Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels

Forcing someone into marriage against their will is a violation of their human rights. In 2021, the county of Nottinghamshire, UK, launched a strategy to tackle forced marriage and violence against women and girls. However, accessing information abou... Read More about Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels.

Corrigendum to “Small-noise approximation for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nuisance uncertainty” [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 399 (2022) 115320] (Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2022) 399, (S0045782522004194), (10.1016/j.cma.2022.115320)) (2023)
Journal Article
Bartuska, A., Espath, L., & Tempone, R. (2023). Corrigendum to “Small-noise approximation for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nuisance uncertainty” [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 399 (2022) 115320] (Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2022) 399, (S0045782522004194), (10.1016/j.cma.2022.115320)). Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 410, Article 115995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.115995

The authors regret that because of the condensed notation in Eq. (21), we failed to keep track of the dependence of the correction term [Formula presented] on the parameters of interest [Formula presented] entering through [Formula presented] in Sect... Read More about Corrigendum to “Small-noise approximation for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nuisance uncertainty” [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 399 (2022) 115320] (Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2022) 399, (S0045782522004194), (10.1016/j.cma.2022.115320)).

Seshadri constants and K-stability of Fano manifolds (2023)
Journal Article
Abban, H., & Zhuang, Z. (2023). Seshadri constants and K-stability of Fano manifolds. Duke Mathematical Journal, 172(6), 1109-1144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2022-0026

We give a lower bound of the ı-invariants of ample line bundles in terms of Seshadri constants. As applications, we prove the uniform K-stability of infinitely many families of Fano hypersurfaces of arbitrarily large index, as well as the uniform K-s... Read More about Seshadri constants and K-stability of Fano manifolds.