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Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview (2024)
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Green, A. M. (2024). Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview. Nuclear Physics B, 1003, Article 116494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2024.116494

Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from overdensities in the early Universe, are... Read More about Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview.

Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance (2024)
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Ochang, P., Eke, D., & Stahl, B. C. (2024). Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance. Neuroethics, 17(2), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-024-09558-1

Advances in neuroscience and other disciplines are producing large-scale brain data consisting of datasets from multiple organisms, disciplines, and jurisdictions in different formats. However, due to the lack of an international data governance fram... Read More about Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance.

“Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship (2024)
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Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., Naicker, I., & van Laren, L. (2024). “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship. Journal of education (University KwaZulu-natal), 2024(94), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i94a05

The Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group (SIG) of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) has been active since 2014, with over 100 academics from more than 20 higher education institutions participating. The 10th Anni... Read More about “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship.

Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms (2024)
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Abdelfattah, T., Ullah, S., Houqe, M. N., & Zahir‐ul‐Hassan, M. K. (in press). Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3789

This study examines the nexus between business strategy and carbon emissions by utilising a dataset of U.S. firms from 2007 to 2020. It focuses on two broad types of firms, that is, prospectors and defenders. Regarding carbon emissions, we consider t... Read More about Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms.

Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing (2024)
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Wascher, M., Schnell, P. M., Khuda Bukhsh, W. R., Quam, M. B. M., Tien, J. H., & Rempała, G. A. (2024). Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlae021

The paper presents a novel statistical framework for COVID-19 transmission monitoring and control, which was developed and deployed at The Ohio State University (OSU) main campus in Columbus during the Autumn term of 2020. Our approach effectively ha... Read More about Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing.

The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data (2024)
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Gathergood, J., & Olafsson, A. (2024). The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data. Review of Financial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhae016

Why do individuals pay debt interest when they could use their savings to pay down the debt? We explore why individuals "co-hold" debt and savings using detailed and highly disaggregated daily-level data on household finances. We find that co-holding... Read More about The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data.

Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2024)
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Quinn, K., Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector. British Journal of Criminology, Article azae027. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae027

Metaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions. Scholarship in adjacent disciplines illustrates that emotion-metaphors offer unique insight into emotional and interpretive processes,... Read More about Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector.

Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid (2024)
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Cristiano, C., Cavanagh, R. J., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Moloney, C., Axioti, E., Dixon, E., …Rimoli, M. G. (2024). Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, 175, Article 116647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116647

Objective To improve the biological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid (MA), the galactosylated prodrug of MA named MefeGAL was included in polymeric solid dispersions (PSs) composed of poly(glycerol adipate) (PGA) and Pluronic® F68 (M... Read More about Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid.

Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping (2024)
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Erans, M., Durán-Jimenez, G., M. Rodríguez, J., Stevens, L., & Dodds, C. (2024). Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 83, Article 102794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2024.102794

Waste eggshells have been investigated as biomineralised CO2 sorbents for the calcium looping cycle due to their high Ca content, low cost, availability, and high CO2 uptake. This work investigates a novel heat-pre-treatment using eggshells as raw ma... Read More about Microwave thermal pre-treatment and calcination of biomineralised sorbents for calcium looping.

Isotropic and numerical equivalence for Chow groups and Morava K-theories (2024)
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Vishik, A. (in press). Isotropic and numerical equivalence for Chow groups and Morava K-theories. Inventiones Mathematicae,

In this paper we prove the conjecture claiming that, over a flexible field, isotropic Chow groups coincide with numerical Chow groups (with Fp-coefficients). This shows that Isotropic Chow motives coincide with Numerical Chow motives. In particular,... Read More about Isotropic and numerical equivalence for Chow groups and Morava K-theories.

Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model (2024)
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Clift, A. K., Tan, P. S., Patone, M., Liao, W., Coupland, C., Bashford-Rogers, R., …Hippisley-Cox, J. (2024). Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model. British Journal of Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-024-02693-9

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that people aged 60+ years with newly diagnosed diabetes and weight loss undergo abdominal imaging to assess for pancreatic cancer. More nuanced stratification could... Read More about Predicting the risk of pancreatic cancer in adults with new-onset diabetes: development and internal–external validation of a clinical risk prediction model.

A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI (2024)
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Farisco, M., Baldassarre, G., Cartoni, E., Leach, A., Petrovici, M. A., Rosemann, A., …van Albada, S. J. (2024). A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(6), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10769-4

Despite its successes, to date Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still characterized by a number of shortcomings with regards to different application domains and goals. These limitations are arguably both conceptual (e.g., related to the underlying th... Read More about A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI.

Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset (2024)
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Trodd, Z., Waite, C., Goulding, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2024). Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset. Societies, 14(5), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050062

The new Domestic Workers Dataset is the largest single set of surveys (n = 11,759) of domestic workers to date. Our analysis of this dataset reveals features about the lives and work of this “hard-to-find” population in India—a country estimated to h... Read More about Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset.

The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies (2024)
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Zhou, S., Aragón-Salamanca, A., & Merrifield, M. (2024). The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(4), 4082-4093. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1127

We analyse a sample of massive disk galaxies selected from the SDSS-IV/MaNGA survey to investigate how the evolution of these galaxies depends on their stellar and halo masses. We applied a semi-analytic spectral fitting approach to the data from dif... Read More about The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies.

The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact (2024)
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Kalaria, R., Maestre, G., Mahinrad, S., Acosta, D. M., Akinyemi, R. O., Alladi, S., …Ismail, O. (2024). The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13836

Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of global dementia care costs oc... Read More about The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact.

Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care (2024)
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Kanchau, J. D., Akyea, R. K., Baharudin, N., Mohamed-Yassin, M., Kamal, A., Chua, Y., …Ramli, A. S. (2024). Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 27, Article 101619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2024.101619

Background Adults with severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) may have familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and are at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). The prevalence of elevated LDL-c in primary car... Read More about Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care.