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The status and role of ants in oil palm landscapes: knowledge gaps and directions for future research (2025)
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Stone, J., Luke, S. H., Drescher, J., & Turner, E. C. (2025). The status and role of ants in oil palm landscapes: knowledge gaps and directions for future research. Myrmecological News, 35, 145-159. https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_035%3A145

Ants play crucial roles in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in the tropics where they are abundant and speciose. Growing global demand for oil palm has resulted in extensive deforestation and modifcation of ecosystems. Due to their high abundance,... Read More about The status and role of ants in oil palm landscapes: knowledge gaps and directions for future research.

Heterogeneous Mutual Knowledge Distillation for Wearable Human Activity Recognition (2025)
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Xiao, Z., Xing, H., Qu, R., Li, H., Cheng, X., Xu, L., Feng, L., & Wan, Q. (2025). Heterogeneous Mutual Knowledge Distillation for Wearable Human Activity Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2025.3556317

Recently, numerous deep learning algorithms have addressed wearable human activity recognition (HAR), but they often struggle with efficient knowledge transfer to lightweight models for mobile devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular techniq... Read More about Heterogeneous Mutual Knowledge Distillation for Wearable Human Activity Recognition.

Advancements in Electrical Machines for Aircraft Propulsion (2025)
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Gerada, D., Zhang, F., Jiang, J., Zhang, X., Zou, T., Xu, Z., & Gerada, C. (2025). Advancements in Electrical Machines for Aircraft Propulsion. IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, 14(3), 468-476. https://doi.org/10.1541/ieejjia.24010320

Electrical machines are at the center of future aircraft propulsion architectures, and their improvement is key in increasing the market uptake of cleaner transport. This paper investigates recent/ongoing improvements within the constituent technolog... Read More about Advancements in Electrical Machines for Aircraft Propulsion.

Two for the road: an exploratory study investigating driver and co-passenger interactions during automation and the transition of control in a level 3 automated vehicle (2025)
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Large, D., Harvey, C., Shaw, E., Khandeparker, S., Burnett, G., & Box, E. (2025). Two for the road: an exploratory study investigating driver and co-passenger interactions during automation and the transition of control in a level 3 automated vehicle. Advances in Transportation Studies, 66, 125-144

To explore the impact of a front-seat passenger during SAE level 3 (L3) automation, eighteen established driver-passenger pairings undertook three 30-minute journeys framed as ‘days-out’ in a L3 driving simulator. Participants were reminded of their... Read More about Two for the road: an exploratory study investigating driver and co-passenger interactions during automation and the transition of control in a level 3 automated vehicle.

“Further details are needed!” Reflections on the reporting in quantitative systematic reviews submitted to JBI Evidence Synthesis (2025)
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Leonardi-Bee, J. (2025). “Further details are needed!” Reflections on the reporting in quantitative systematic reviews submitted to JBI Evidence Synthesis. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 23(6), 1038-1040. https://doi.org/10.11124/jbies-24-00508

JBI Evidence Synthesis receives quantitative systematic reviews that employ a wide range of high-quality and innovative methods to address their review questions. While the systematic reviews must follow JBI methodologies or those endorsed by JBI, co... Read More about “Further details are needed!” Reflections on the reporting in quantitative systematic reviews submitted to JBI Evidence Synthesis.

Sampling from mixture distributions based on regime-switching diffusions (2025)
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Tretyakov, M. V. (2025). Sampling from mixture distributions based on regime-switching diffusions. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 47(3), A1681-A1701. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1677113

It is proposed to use stochastic differential equations with state-dependent switching 4 rates (SDEwS) for sampling from finite mixture distributions. An Euler scheme with constant time 5 step for SDEwS is considered. It is shown that the scheme conv... Read More about Sampling from mixture distributions based on regime-switching diffusions.

Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT) (2025)
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Puschner, B., Nakku, J., Hiltensperger, R., Wolf, P., Adler Ben-Dor, I., Bugeiga, F., Charles, A., Gai Meir, L., Garber-Epstein, P., Goldfarb, Y., Grayzman, A., Hadas-Grundman, S., Haun, M., Heuer, I., Iboma, B., Kalha, J., Kamwaga, L., Korde, P., Kotera, Y., Krumm, S., …Slade, M. (2025). Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT). British Journal of Psychiatry,

Background
Some trials have evaluated peer support for people with mental ill-health in high-income, mainly English-speaking countries, but the quality of the evidence is weak.
Aims
We investigated the effectiveness of UPSIDES peer support in high... Read More about Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT).

Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Times of Crisis: A Longitudinal, Mixed-Methods Study of Risk Factors and Coping Mechanisms in UK Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2025)
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Bridge, G., Vogt, J., Armstrong, B., Schmidt Rivera, X., Kaur, A., Stetkiewicz, S., & Stetkiewicz, S. (in press). Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Times of Crisis: A Longitudinal, Mixed-Methods Study of Risk Factors and Coping Mechanisms in UK Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability, 17(13), Article 5878. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17135878

To develop interventions and policies to promote healthy and sustainable diets during times of crisis, it is important to understand how populations respond to such situations based on real-life examples. Using the recent COVID-19 pandemic as a case... Read More about Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Times of Crisis: A Longitudinal, Mixed-Methods Study of Risk Factors and Coping Mechanisms in UK Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change (2025)
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Jones, E. R., van Beek, R., Cárdenas Belleza, G., Burek, P., Dugdale, S. J., Flörke, M., Fridman, D., Gosling, S. N., Kumar, R., Mercado-Bettin, D., Müller Schmied, H., Tan, Z., Thiery, W., Tilahun, A. B., Wanders, N., & van Vliet, M. T. H. (2025). A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change. Environmental Research: Water, 1(2), Article 025002. https://doi.org/10.1088/3033-4942/addffa

Water temperature is a key abiotic factor influencing aquatic ecosystem health and the services provided to both nature and humans. Global water temperature models offer possibilities to improve our understanding of water temperature regimes, which i... Read More about A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change.

The Impact of Uncertainty Estimation on Radiomic Segmentation Reproducibility and Scan-Rescan Repeatability in Kidney MRI (2025)
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Damiano, R., Lanzarone, E., Lussana, F., Villa, G., Daniel, A. J., Francis, S., Caroli, A., & Scalco, E. (in press). The Impact of Uncertainty Estimation on Radiomic Segmentation Reproducibility and Scan-Rescan Repeatability in Kidney MRI. Medical Physics,

Background: Radiomics holds great potential but is hindered by segmentation and scan-rescan variability, which affect the reproducibility and repeatability of radiomic analysis, respectively. Recently, deep learning (DL) has shown promise in improv-... Read More about The Impact of Uncertainty Estimation on Radiomic Segmentation Reproducibility and Scan-Rescan Repeatability in Kidney MRI.

The Trade Imbalance Network and Currency Returns (2025)
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Hou, A. J., Sarno, L., & Ye, X. (2025). The Trade Imbalance Network and Currency Returns. Journal of Financial Economics, 172, Article 104112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104112

We introduce in the theory of Gabaix and Maggiori (2015) a network structure to capture the complexity of the balance sheets of financial intermediaries, using the Leontief inverse-based centrality. We use this framework in a multi-country world with... Read More about The Trade Imbalance Network and Currency Returns.

Commentary on Jackson et al.: The role of regional tobacco control in centralised nations (2025)
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Davies, N., & Langley, T. (in press). Commentary on Jackson et al.: The role of regional tobacco control in centralised nations. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70112

Jackson et al. find the single English region retaining a tobacco control programme recorded the steepest smoking decline between 2006 and 2024. Modestly funded,expert-led regional teams focusing on illicit tobacco,media campaigns and system leadersh... Read More about Commentary on Jackson et al.: The role of regional tobacco control in centralised nations.

360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics (2025)
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Alammary, M. A., Halliday, L. E., & Konstantinidis, S. T. (2025). 360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics. Virtual Worlds, 4(3), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds4030029

This bibliometric analysis aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the use of 360-degree video in healthcare, identifying key research trends and emerging topics in this field. Data was sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and... Read More about 360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics.

British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on inflammatory bowel disease in adults: 2025 (2025)
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Moran, G. W., Gordon, M., Sinopolou, V., Radford, S. J., Darie, A.-M., Kumar Vuyyuru, S., Alrubaiy, L., Arebi, N., Blackwell, J., Butler, T. D., Chew, T., Cooney, R., De Marco, G., Din, S., Din, S., Feakins, R., Gasparetto, M., Gordon, H., Hansen, R., Kok, K. B., …IBD guideline development group. (2025). British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on inflammatory bowel disease in adults: 2025. Gut, 74(Suppl 2), s1-s101. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2024-334395

In response to recent advancements in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management, the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) has commissioned the BSG IBD section to update its guidelines, last revi... Read More about British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on inflammatory bowel disease in adults: 2025.

Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice (2025)
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Powell, S., & Pal, S. (2025). Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice. Physical Review Letters, 134(25), Article 256701. https://doi.org/10.1103/b9gd-y4y6

We present a dynamic scaling theory to describe relaxation dynamics following a magnetic-field quench near an unconventional phase transition in the magnetic material spin ice. Starting from a microscopic model, we derive an effective description for... Read More about Dynamic scaling theory for a field quench near the Kasteleyn transition in spin ice.

Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review (2025)
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Chou, S., Sawyers, L., Cianci, G., Tyrrell, E., & Kendrick, D. (2025). Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review. British Journal of General Practice, https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0535

Abstract
Background General practice is the gatekeeper to secondary care in many countries. This unique role may expose general practice staff to violence and abuse by patients and the public, yet violence and abuse in secondary care receives more a... Read More about Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review.

What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? (2025)
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Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (2025). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12606

This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growths in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions there is a paucity of research whic... Read More about What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?.

Treatment of fruit juices with β-glucosidase for release of aroma precursors (2025)
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Schmidt, S., Yang, N., Gröger, H., Saarela, M., Hessel, V., & Fisk, I. (2025). Treatment of fruit juices with β-glucosidase for release of aroma precursors. Food Chemistry, Article 145212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.145212

Β-glucosidase can diversify flavour by releasing aroma precursors from monosaccharide glucosides but is not yet applied in fruit juice processing. Here, we compare β-glucosidase A (BglA) from the extremophile Halothermothrix orenii H168 expressed in... Read More about Treatment of fruit juices with β-glucosidase for release of aroma precursors.