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Determining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on tinnitus and tinnitus-related outcomes: protocol for a systematic review (2021)
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Labree, B., Hoare, D. J., Gascoyne, L. E., & Sereda, M. (2021). Determining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on tinnitus and tinnitus-related outcomes: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 11(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047191

Introduction: Tinnitus is the awareness of a sound in the ear or head in the absence of an external source. It affects around 10%–15% of people. About 20% of people with tinnitus also experience symptoms such as depression or anxiety that negatively... Read More about Determining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on tinnitus and tinnitus-related outcomes: protocol for a systematic review.

Automated renal segmentation in healthy and chronic kidney disease subjects using a convolutional neural network (2021)
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Daniel, A., Buchanan, C., Allcock, T., Scerri, D., Cox, E., Prestwich, B., & Francis, S. (2021). Automated renal segmentation in healthy and chronic kidney disease subjects using a convolutional neural network. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(2), 1125-1136. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28768

Purpose: Total Kidney Volume (TKV) is an important measure in renal disease detection and monitoring. We developed a fully automated method to segment the kidneys from T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) to calculate TKV of healthy control (H... Read More about Automated renal segmentation in healthy and chronic kidney disease subjects using a convolutional neural network.

Calibration-free regional RF shims for MRS (2021)
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Berrington, A., Považan, M., Mirfin, C., Bawden, S., Park, Y. W., Marsh, D. C., …Gowland, P. A. (2021). Calibration-free regional RF shims for MRS. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(2), 611-624. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28749

Purpose: Achieving a desired RF transmit field (B1+) in small regions-of-interest (ROIs) is critical for single-voxel MR spectroscopy at ultra-high field. RF shimming, using parallel transmission, requires B1+ mapping and optimisation, which limits i... Read More about Calibration-free regional RF shims for MRS.

Predicting Depression Onset in Young People Based on Clinical, Cognitive, Environmental, and Neurobiological Data (2021)
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Toenders, Y. J., Kottaram, A., Dinga, R., Davey, C. G., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L., …Schmaal, L. (2022). Predicting Depression Onset in Young People Based on Clinical, Cognitive, Environmental, and Neurobiological Data. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(4), 376-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.005

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Adolescent onset of depression is associated with long-lasting negative consequences. Identifying adolescents at risk for developing depression would enable the monitoring of risk-factors and the development of early intervention strategi... Read More about Predicting Depression Onset in Young People Based on Clinical, Cognitive, Environmental, and Neurobiological Data.

Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures (2021)
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Wrigley, J., Bradford, J., James, T., Cheng, T. S., Thomas, J., Mellor, C. J., …Beton, P. H. (2021). Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures. 2D Materials, 8(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abea66

Monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are grown on graphite substrates using high-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (HT-MBE). The hBN monolayers are observed to grow predominantly from step edges on the graphite surface and exhibit a strong de... Read More about Epitaxy of boron nitride monolayers for graphene-based lateral heterostructures.

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B virus vaccination in Iran: a Markov model analysis (2021)
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Mokhtari, A. M., Barouni, M., Moghadami, M., Hassanzadeh, J., Dewey, R. S., & Mirahmadizadeh, A. (2021). Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B virus vaccination in Iran: a Markov model analysis. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 17(6), 1825-1833. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1845522

Vaccination is an essential way to prevent the transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV). Various studies have been published on the cost-effectiveness of HBV vaccination, but since the results vary according to the target population and related health... Read More about Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B virus vaccination in Iran: a Markov model analysis.

Real- and Imaginary-Time Evolution with Compressed Quantum Circuits (2021)
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Lin, S.-H., Dilip, R., Green, A. G., Smith, A., & Pollmann, F. (2021). Real- and Imaginary-Time Evolution with Compressed Quantum Circuits. PRX Quantum, 2, Article 010342. https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.010342

The current generation of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers introduces new opportunities to study quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we show that quantum circuits can provide a dramatically more efficient representation than current c... Read More about Real- and Imaginary-Time Evolution with Compressed Quantum Circuits.

Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions (2021)
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Kirkova, A. V., Li, W., & Ivanov, P. A. (2021). Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions. Physical Review Research, 3, Article 013244. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013244

We propose an adiabatic method for optimal phonon temperature estimation using trapped ions which can be operated beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. The quantum sensing technique relies on a time-dependent red-sideband transition of phonon modes, describe... Read More about Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions.

Emergent Bloch Oscillations in a Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Lattice (2021)
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Magoni, M., Mazza, P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2021). Emergent Bloch Oscillations in a Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Lattice. Physical Review Letters, 126(10), Article 103002. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.103002

We explore the relaxation dynamics of elementary spin clusters in a kinetically constrained spin system. Inspired by experiments with Rydberg lattice gases, we focus on the situation in which an excited spin leads to a "facilitated" excitation of a n... Read More about Emergent Bloch Oscillations in a Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Lattice.

Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma (2021)
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Boitor, R., de Wolf, C., Weesie, F., Shipp, D. W., Varma, S., Veitch, D., …Notingher, I. (2021). Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(4), 2015-2026. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.417896

We present the first clinical integration of a prototype device based on integrated auto-fluorescence imaging and Raman spectroscopy (Fast Raman device) for intra-operative assessment of surgical margins during Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell... Read More about Clinical integration of fast Raman spectroscopy for Mohs micrographic surgery of basal cell carcinoma.

Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes (2021)
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Deo, T., Cheng, Q., Paul, S., Qiang, W., & Potapov, A. (2021). Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 236, Article 105071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2021.105071

The cellular membrane disruption induced by the aggregation of Aβ peptide has been proposed as a plausible cause of neuronal cell death during Alzheimer’s disease. The molecular-level details of the Aβ interaction with cellular membranes were previou... Read More about Application of DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR to studies of amyloid-β peptide interaction with lipid membranes.

Beyond the Hubble Sequence - Exploring Galaxy Morphology with Unsupervised Machine Learning (2021)
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Cheng, T.-Y., Huertas-Company, M., Conselice, C. J., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Robertson, B. E., & Ramachandra, N. (2021). Beyond the Hubble Sequence - Exploring Galaxy Morphology with Unsupervised Machine Learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(3), 4446-4465. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab734

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that includes: (... Read More about Beyond the Hubble Sequence - Exploring Galaxy Morphology with Unsupervised Machine Learning.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies (2021)
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Stach, S. M., Smail, I., Amvrosiadis, A., Swinbank, A. M., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Geach, J. E., …Wardlow, J. L. (2021). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(1), 172-184. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab714

We present an analysis of the spatial clustering of a large sample of high-resolution, interferometically identified, submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). We measure the projected cross-correlation function of ∼350 SMGs in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep-Survey Fiel... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Halo masses for submillimetre galaxies.

Statistics on Lefschetz thimbles: Bell/Leggett-Garg inequalities and the classical-statistical approximation (2021)
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Millington, P., Mou, Z.-G., Saffin, P. M., & Tranberg, A. (2021). Statistics on Lefschetz thimbles: Bell/Leggett-Garg inequalities and the classical-statistical approximation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(3), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282021%29077

Inspired by Lefschetz thimble theory, we treat Quantum Field Theory as a statistical theory with a complex Probability Distribution Function (PDF). Such complex-valued PDFs permit the violation of Bell-type inequalities, which cannot be violated by a... Read More about Statistics on Lefschetz thimbles: Bell/Leggett-Garg inequalities and the classical-statistical approximation.

φenics: Vainshtein screening with the finite element method (2021)
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Braden, J., Burrage, C., Elder, B., & Saadeh, D. (2021). φenics: Vainshtein screening with the finite element method. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(03), Article 010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/010

Within the landscape of modified theories of gravity, progress in understanding the behaviour of, and developing tests for, screening mechanisms has been hindered by the complexity of the field equations involved, which are nonlinear in nature and ch... Read More about φenics: Vainshtein screening with the finite element method.

Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey (2021)
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Elmer, E., Merrifield, M., Almaini, O., Hartley, W. G., & Maltby, D. T. (2021). Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 503(1), L47-L50. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab023

Information on the structure around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has long been derived from measuring lags in their varying light output at different wavelengths. In principle, infrared data would reach to larger radii, potentially even probing repr... Read More about Infrared lags in the light curves of AGN measured using a deep survey.

Frequency‐Independent Terahertz Anomalous Hall Effect in DyCo 5, Co 32Fe68, and Gd 27Fe73 Thin Films from DC to 40 THz (2021)
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Seifert, T. S., Martens, U., Radu, F., Ribow, M., Berritta, M., Nádvorník, L., …Kampfrath, T. (2021). Frequency‐Independent Terahertz Anomalous Hall Effect in DyCo 5, Co 32Fe68, and Gd 27Fe73 Thin Films from DC to 40 THz. Advanced Materials, 33(14), Article 2007398. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202007398

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a fundamental spintronic charge-to-charge-current conversion phenomenon and closely related to spin-to-charge-current conversion by the spin Hall effect. Future high-speed spintronic devices will crucially rely on s... Read More about Frequency‐Independent Terahertz Anomalous Hall Effect in DyCo 5, Co 32Fe68, and Gd 27Fe73 Thin Films from DC to 40 THz.