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Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses (2024)
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Forrester, M., Petros, S., Cattell, O., Lai, Y. M., O’Dea, R. D., Sotiropoulos, S., & Coombes, S. (2024). Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(12), Article e1012647. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012647

The ready availability of brain connectome data has both inspired and facilitated the modelling of whole brain activity using networks of phenomenological neural mass models that can incorporate both interaction strength and tract length between brai... Read More about Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses.

Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses (2024)
Journal Article
Forrester, M., Petros, S., Cattell, O., Lai, Y. M., ODea, R. D., Sotiropoulos, S., & Coombes, S. (2024). Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(December), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012647

The ready availability of brain connectome data has both inspired and facilitated the modelling of whole brain activity using networks of phenomenological neural mass models that can incorporate both interaction strength and tract length between brai... Read More about Whole brain functional connectivity: Insights from next generation neural mass modelling incorporating electrical synapses.

Monitoring university student response to social distancing policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using Bluetooth: the RADAR study (2024)
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Bolton, K. J., Mendez-Villalon, A., Nanji, H., Jia, R., Ayling, K., Figueredo, G., & Vedhara, K. (2024). Monitoring university student response to social distancing policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using Bluetooth: the RADAR study. Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences, 1(1), Article 2425096. https://doi.org/10.1080/29937574.2024.2425096

Aim: We use the Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapses platform (RADAR) to collect Bluetooth contact and location data from university students. We test the ability of this technology to objectively capture social interaction, explore the propensi... Read More about Monitoring university student response to social distancing policy during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using Bluetooth: the RADAR study.

Integrating human behaviour and epidemiological modelling: unlocking the remaining challenges (2024)
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Hill, E. M., Ryan, M., Haw, D., Lynch, M. P., McCabe, R., Milne, A. E., Turner, M. S., Vedhara, K., Zeng, F., Barons, M. J., Nixon, E. J., Parnell, S., & Bolton, K. J. (2024). Integrating human behaviour and epidemiological modelling: unlocking the remaining challenges. Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences, 1(1), Article 2429479. https://doi.org/10.1080/29937574.2024.2429479

This paper is part of a special issue on Behavioural Epidemiology.

Historically, responses to health-related emergencies (whether public health, veterinary health or plant health related) have exposed the deficiencies of mathematical models to inc... Read More about Integrating human behaviour and epidemiological modelling: unlocking the remaining challenges.

Systematics in tests of general relativity using LISA massive black hole binaries (2024)
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Garg, M., Sberna, L., Speri, L., Duque, F., & Gair, J. (2024). Systematics in tests of general relativity using LISA massive black hole binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(4), 3283–3292. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2605

Our current understanding is that an environment – mainly consisting of gas or stars – is required to bring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass Mz ∼ [104, 107] M⊙ to the LISA band from parsec separation. Even in the gravita... Read More about Systematics in tests of general relativity using LISA massive black hole binaries.

5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories (2024)
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Schenkel, A., & Vicedo, B. (2024). 5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 405(12), Article 293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-024-05170-9

The 4-dimensional semi-holomorphic Chern-Simons theory of Costello and Yamazaki provides a gauge-theoretic origin for the Lax connection of 2-dimensional integrable field theories. The purpose of this paper is to extend this framework to the setting... Read More about 5d 2-Chern-Simons Theory and 3d Integrable Field Theories.

Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes (2024)
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Mitchell, E. G., Dryden, I. L., Fallaize, C. J., Andersen, R., Bradley, A. V., Large, D. J., & Sowter, A. (2024). Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Article qlae060. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlae060

Peatlands account for 10% of UK land area, 80% of which are degraded to some degree, emitting carbon at a similar magnitude to oil refineries or landfill sites. A lack of tools for rapid and reliable assessment of peatland condition has limited monit... Read More about Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes.

Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning (2024)
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van Rossum, M. C. W., & Pache, A. (2024). Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(10), Article e1012553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012553

The brain is not only constrained by energy needed to fuel computation, but it is also constrained by energy needed to form memories. Experiments have shown that learning simple conditioning tasks which might require only a few synaptic updates, alre... Read More about Competitive plasticity to reduce the energetic costs of learning.

A parametrization of nonassociative cyclic algebras of prime degree (2024)
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Nevins, M., & Pumplün, S. (2025). A parametrization of nonassociative cyclic algebras of prime degree. Journal of Algebra, 664(Part A), 631-654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2024.10.021

We determine and explicitly parametrize the isomorphism classes of nonassociative quaternion algebras over a field of characteristic different from two, as well as the isomorphism classes of nonassociative cyclic algebras of odd prime degree m when t... Read More about A parametrization of nonassociative cyclic algebras of prime degree.

One-dimensional components in the K-moduli of smooth Fano 3-folds (2024)
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Abban, H., Cheltsov, I., Denisova, E., Etxabarri Alberdi, E., Kaloghiros, A.-S., Jiao, D., Martinez Garcia, J., & Papazachariou, T. (2024). One-dimensional components in the K-moduli of smooth Fano 3-folds. Journal of Algebraic Geometry, https://doi.org/10.1090/jag/839

By identifying K-polystable limits in 4 specific deformations families of smooth Fano 3-folds, we complete the classification of one-dimensional components in the K-moduli space of smoothable Fano 3-folds.

A regulatory module mediating temperature control of cell-cell communication facilitates tree bud dormancy release (2024)
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Pandey, S. K., Maurya, J. P., Aryal, B., Drynda, K., Nair, A., Miskolczi, P., Singh, R. K., Wang, X., Ma, Y., de Souza Moraes, T., Bayer, E. M., Farcot, E., Bassel, G. W., Band, L. R., & Bhalerao, R. P. (2024). A regulatory module mediating temperature control of cell-cell communication facilitates tree bud dormancy release. EMBO Journal, 43(23), 5793-5812. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-024-00256-5

The control of cell–cell communication via plasmodesmata (PD) plays a key role in plant development. In tree buds, low-temperature conditions (LT) induce a switch in plasmodesmata from a closed to an open state, which restores cell-to-cell communicat... Read More about A regulatory module mediating temperature control of cell-cell communication facilitates tree bud dormancy release.

Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection (2024)
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Sharker, Y., Diallo, Z., KhudaBukhsh, W. R., & Kenah, E. (2024). Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection. Statistics in Medicine, 43(27), 5138-5154. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10226

Many important questions in infectious disease epidemiology involve associations between covariates (e.g., age or vaccination status) and infectiousness or susceptibility. Because disease transmission produces dependent outcomes, these questions are... Read More about Pairwise Accelerated Failure Time Regression Models for Infectious Disease Transmission in Close‐Contact Groups With External Sources of Infection.

SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities (2024)
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Ball, F., Sirl, D., & Trapman, P. (2024). SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities. Annals of Applied Probability, 34(5), 4408–4454. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-aap2070

We investigate final outcome properties of an SIR (susceptible → in-fective → recovered) epidemic model defined on a population of large sub-communities in which there is stronger disease transmission within the communities than between them. Our ana... Read More about SIR epidemics in populations with large sub-communities.

HiPhom𝜺: HIgh order Projection-based HOMogenisation for advection diffusion reaction problems (2024)
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Conni, G., Piccardo, S., Michele Porta, G., & Icardi, M. (in press). HiPhom𝜺: HIgh order Projection-based HOMogenisation for advection diffusion reaction problems. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal,

We propose a new model reduction technique for multiscale scalar transport problems that exhibit dominant axial dynamics. To this aim, we rely on the separation of variables to combine a Hierarchical Model (HiMod) reduction with a two-scale asymptoti... Read More about HiPhom𝜺: HIgh order Projection-based HOMogenisation for advection diffusion reaction problems.

Modelling the influence of vitamin D and probiotic supplementation on the microbiome and immune response (2024)
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Franks, S. J., Dunster, J. L., Carding, S. R., Lord, J. M., Hewison, M., Calder, P. C., & King, J. R. (2024). Modelling the influence of vitamin D and probiotic supplementation on the microbiome and immune response. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 41(4), 304-345. https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqae017

The intestinal microbiota play a critical role in human health and disease, maintaining metabolic and immune/inflammatory health, synthesizing essential vitamins and amino acids and maintaining intestinal barrier integrity. The aim of this paper is t... Read More about Modelling the influence of vitamin D and probiotic supplementation on the microbiome and immune response.

Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions (2024)
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Thul, R., Marsh, J., Dijkstra, T., & Conklin, K. (2024). Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241288516

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Response times and their distributions serve as a powerful lens into cognitive processes. We present a novel statistical methodology called stratified distributional analysis (SDA) to quantitatively assess how key determinants of response t... Read More about Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions.

Comparative judgement modeling to map forced marriage at local levels (2024)
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Seymour, R., Nyarko-Agyei, A., Mccabe, H., Severn, K., Sirl, D., Kypraios, T., & Taylor, A. (in press). Comparative judgement modeling to map forced marriage at local levels. Annals of Applied Statistics,

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. We set out to map the risk of force... Read More about Comparative judgement modeling to map forced marriage at local levels.

Investigative power of Genomic Informational Field Theory (GIFT) relative to GWAS for genotype-phenotype mapping (2024)
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Kyratzi, P., Matika, O., Brassington, A. H., Clare, C. E., Xu, J., Barrett, D. A., Emes, R. D., Archibald, A. L., Paldi, A., Sinclair, K. D., Wattis, J., & Rauch, C. (2024). Investigative power of Genomic Informational Field Theory (GIFT) relative to GWAS for genotype-phenotype mapping. Physiological Genomics, 56(11), 791-806. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00049.2024

Identifying associations between phenotype and genotype is the fundamental basis of genetic analyses. Inspired by frequentist probability and the work of R.A. Fisher, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) extract information using averages and varia... Read More about Investigative power of Genomic Informational Field Theory (GIFT) relative to GWAS for genotype-phenotype mapping.