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Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges (2024)
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Hall, C. L., Gómez Bergin, A. D., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. (in press). Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges. Journal of Medical Internet Research, https://doi.org/10.2196/58939

Digital mental health interventions are routinely integrated into mental health services internationally, and can contribute to the reduction of the global mental health treatment gap that has been identified by the World Health Organisation. Researc... Read More about Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges.

Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq (2024)
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Karim, A. B., Young, S. D., Hawrami, K. A., & Bailey, E. H. (2024). Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 85, Article 127495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2024.127495

Aim The primary aim of this study was to determine the selenium (Se) and iodine (I) food concentrations and dietary intake of the population living in the Kurdish controlled region of northern Iraq. We also assessed the extent to which iodised salt... Read More about Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq.

Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine (2024)
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Sanchez, I., & Rahman, R. (2024). Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine. Current Oncology Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-024-01580-z

Purpose of Review Isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumour in adults. Its infiltrative nature and heterogeneity confer a dismal prognosis, despite multimodal treatment. Precision medicine is increa... Read More about Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine.

Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development (2024)
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Yeo, C., Charles, A., Lewandowski, F., Lichtenberg, P., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., Tang, Y., Voronka, J., & Rodrigues, L. (in press). Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development. Journal of Mental Health, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2361233

Background Soteria houses and peer respites, collectively called Healing Houses, are alternatives to psychiatric hospitalisation. Aims The aim of this research is to review Healing Houses in relation to design characteristics (architectural and... Read More about Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development.

Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits (2024)
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Causer, L., Jung, F., Mitra, A., Pollmann, F., & Gammon-Smith, A. (2024). Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits. Physical Review Research, 6(3), Article 033062. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.6.033062

The advent of near-term digital quantum computers could offer us an exciting opportunity to investigate quantum many-body phenomena beyond that of classical computing. To make the best use of the hardware available, it is paramount that we have metho... Read More about Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits.

Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology (2024)
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Darmani, M. A., Cavagnino, A., Vaschetto, S., Marignetti, F., & Gerada, C. (online). Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology. IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, https://doi.org/10.1109/ojia.2024.3427863

This study presents a sizing methodology in the frame of the multidisciplinary design of interior permanent magnet synchronous machines. The proposed approach targets at obtaining an initial electromagnetic design of the machine, including diameters,... Read More about Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology.

Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma (2024)
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Baker, H. (2024). Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2024.2364668

In this case study, the character of Miss Havisham, from Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, is explored as a representation of frozen trauma. Support is offered for the usefulness of fictional case study to therapeutic understanding and practice, and... Read More about Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma.

PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays (2024)
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Stewart, C. L., Hook, A. L., Zelzer, M., Marlow, M., & Piccinini, A. M. (2024). PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays. Cell Biochemistry and Function, 42(5), Article e4097. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbf.4097

We identified that PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels, which have been used in human clinical trials and possess a demonstrable safety profile, induced significant cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays. This major contradiction may lead to inconsistent a... Read More about PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays.

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT (2024)
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Padilla, A., & Smith, R. G. C. (2024). Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT. Physical Review D, 110(2), Article 025010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.025010

Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultraviolet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call η regularisation. This reveals a connection between the elimination... Read More about Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT.

Why bother with arts education in schools? (2024)
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Thomson, P. (in press). Why bother with arts education in schools?. Australian Educational Researcher, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00741-0

Enrolments in school arts subjects are falling in both England and Australia. There are various arguments made in an attempt to reverse the situation. The arts are said to be vital for the economy, linked to success in core school subjects, are educa... Read More about Why bother with arts education in schools?.

Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness (2024)
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Fletcher, M., Romano, A., Lisé‐Pronovost, A., Mariani, M., Henriquez, W., Gadd, P., Heijnis, H., Hodgson, D., Blaauw, M., & Sculthorpe, A. (2024). Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness. Geographical Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12658

Here, we explore the profound impact of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) people on Tasmanian landscapes by examining a 22,000-year record of landscape change from Lake Selina in western Tasmania, Australia. We analysed a sediment core for palaeoecol... Read More about Reconciling 22,000 years of landscape openness in a renowned wilderness.

Carbon-based films: a review on mechanical and tribology properties (2024)
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Venturi, F. (2024). Carbon-based films: a review on mechanical and tribology properties. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 325, Article 129716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2024.129716

Carbon films have attracted widespread interest for decades thanks to their superior tribomechanical properties. As new carbon allotropes were discovered over time, measurements of elastic modulus reached terapascals, and coefficient of friction thou... Read More about Carbon-based films: a review on mechanical and tribology properties.

An adaptive lumped-mass dynamic model and its control application for continuum robots (2024)
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Zhang, X., Yang, C., Song, Z., Khanesar, M. A., Branson, D. T., Dai, J. S., & Kang, R. (2024). An adaptive lumped-mass dynamic model and its control application for continuum robots. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 201, Article 105736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2024.105736

Dynamic modeling for continuum robots remains challenging due to their large nonlinear deformation and the variation of dynamic parameters during movement. In this paper, a lumped-mass dynamic model (LMD) for a continuum robot is constructed includin... Read More about An adaptive lumped-mass dynamic model and its control application for continuum robots.

Footbathing and Foot Trimming, and No Quarantine: Risks for High Prevalence of Lameness in a Random Sample of 269 Sheep Flocks in England, 2022 (2024)
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Lewis, K. E., Green, M., Clifton, R., Monaghan, E., Prosser, N., Nabb, E., & Green, L. (2024). Footbathing and Foot Trimming, and No Quarantine: Risks for High Prevalence of Lameness in a Random Sample of 269 Sheep Flocks in England, 2022. Animals, 14(14), Article 2066. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14142066

Since 2004, the prevalence of lameness in sheep flocks in England has reduced as farmers have adopted evidence-based management practices to control lameness. In 2011, the Farm Animal Welfare Council proposed a target prevalence of

Research on the well-being experience of rural China’s post-relocation settlement communities in the public realm (2024)
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Guo, S., Zheng, X., & Tang, Y. (in press). Research on the well-being experience of rural China’s post-relocation settlement communities in the public realm. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering,

With economic development and changes in the industrial structure of cities in China, the transfor-mation of industries from agricultural to non-agricultural has brought about significant changes in the living spac-es, economic growth, ideology, and... Read More about Research on the well-being experience of rural China’s post-relocation settlement communities in the public realm.

Aptamer BT200 blocks interaction of K1405-1408 in the VWF-A1 domain with macrophage LRP1 (2024)
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Chan Kwo Chion, A., Byrne, C., Atiq, F., Doherty, D., Aguila, S., Fazavana, J., Lopes, P., Karampini, E., Amin, A., Preston, R. J., Baker, R. I., McKinnon, T. A., Zhu, S., Gilbert, J. C., Emsley, J., Jilma, B., & O'Donnell, J. S. (in press). Aptamer BT200 blocks interaction of K1405-1408 in the VWF-A1 domain with macrophage LRP1. Blood, https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024024055

Rondaptivan pegol (previously BT200) is a PEGylated RNA aptamer that binds to the A1 domain of VWF. Recent clinical trials demonstrated that BT200 significantly increased plasma VWF-FVIII levels by attenuating VWF clearance. The biological mechanism(... Read More about Aptamer BT200 blocks interaction of K1405-1408 in the VWF-A1 domain with macrophage LRP1.