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Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde (2024)
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Jenkins, S., Mee, K., Engwell, S., Loughlin, S., Faria, B., Yirgu, G., Bekele, Y., Lewi, E., Vye-Brown, C., Fraser, S., Day, S., Lark, R., Huyck, C., & Crummy, J. (2024). Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde. Progress in Disaster Science, 23, Article 100350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100350

Volcanoes produce a wide variety of hazards across varying spatial and temporal scales. When data are scarce on past eruptions and hazards, it can falsely imply low hazard recurrence and create challenges for robust hazard and risk assessment. Data q... Read More about Assessing volcanic hazard and exposure in a data poor context: Case study for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Cabo Verde.

Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology (2024)
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Rasmussen, A., Vidoz, M. L., & Sparks, E. E. (2024). Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 81, Article 102604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2024.102604

Plants have a remarkable ability to generate organs with a different identity to the parent organ, called “trans-organogenesis”. An example of trans-organogenesis is the formation of roots from stems (a type of adventitious root), which is the first... Read More about Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology.

Explantation with Lateral Pedicle Mastopexy (2024)
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Macmillan, R. D., Bell, K., Wilson, E., & Asgeirsson, K. S. (2024). Explantation with Lateral Pedicle Mastopexy. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1097/prs.0000000000011645

Background: While breast explantation combined with mastopexy is an increasingly common procedure, it does present certain technical difficulties. We present a technique of explantation mastopexy with the use of an extended lateral pedicle for auto-a... Read More about Explantation with Lateral Pedicle Mastopexy.

Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (2024)
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Newman, K. L., Sayal, K., Ewart, C., Lang, A., Bhardwaj, A., Dubicka, B., Marshall, T., & Thomson, L. (2024). Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. SSM - Mental Health, 6, Article 100343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100343

Background: Referral processes in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have been reported as stressful and inadequate by young people and parents/carers, who struggle during waiting periods for the referral outcome decision. The Covid1... Read More about Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Inkjet Printing Magnetostrictive Materials for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composite (2024)
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Ahmed, N., Smith, P. J., & Morley, N. A. (2024). Inkjet Printing Magnetostrictive Materials for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composite. Sensors, 24(14), Article 4657. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24144657

Inkjet printing of magnetic materials has increased in recent years, as it has the potential to improve research in smart, functional materials. Magnetostriction is an inherent property of magnetic materials which allows strain or magnetic fields to... Read More about Inkjet Printing Magnetostrictive Materials for Structural Health Monitoring of Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composite.

Multiscale Simulation of Laser-Based Direct Energy Deposition (DED-LB/M) Using Powder Feedstock for Surface Repair of Aluminum Alloy (2024)
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Zhou, X., Pei, Z., Liu, Z., Yang, L., Yin, Y., He, Y., Wu, Q., & Nie, Y. (2024). Multiscale Simulation of Laser-Based Direct Energy Deposition (DED-LB/M) Using Powder Feedstock for Surface Repair of Aluminum Alloy. Materials, 17(14), Article 3559. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17143559

Laser-based direct energy deposition (DED-LB/M) has been a promising option for the surface repair of structural aluminum alloys due to the advantages it offers, including a small heat-affected zone, high forming accuracy, and adjustable deposition m... Read More about Multiscale Simulation of Laser-Based Direct Energy Deposition (DED-LB/M) Using Powder Feedstock for Surface Repair of Aluminum Alloy.

Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus (2024)
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Barnes, M., Chakrabarti, L., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2024). Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0295485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295485

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a teleost fish and a model organism in evolutionary ecology, useful for both laboratory and natural experiments. It is especially valued for the substantial intraspecific variation in morpholog... Read More about Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

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. (2024). 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, https://doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2024.2380825

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.

Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation (2024)
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Lorito, C. D., Pollock, K., Booth, V., Howe, L., Goldberg, S., Godfrey, M., Dunlop, M., Harwood, R. H., Van Der Wardt, V., & Lorito, C. D. (2024). Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation. BMC Geriatrics, 24(1), Article 615. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05086-y

Background. Interventions promoting social activity may reduce behavioural psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in people living with dementia. This study aimed to identify social benefits for participants living with dementia in the co... Read More about Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation.

Impact of patient demographics on treatment outcomes in AML: a population-based registry in England, 2013-2020 (2024)
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Liu, H., Stanworth, S. J., McPhail, S., Bishton, M., Rous, B., Bacon, A., & Coats, T. (2024). Impact of patient demographics on treatment outcomes in AML: a population-based registry in England, 2013-2020. Blood Advances, https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2024013102

We report 1- and 5-year survival following AML diagnosis and early mortality, within 30 days of systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) treatments, using national cancer registry data in England. Patients aged 18-99 years diagnosed between 2013 and 2... Read More about Impact of patient demographics on treatment outcomes in AML: a population-based registry in England, 2013-2020.

Attitudes and Preferences Towards Screening for Dementia with a Focus on Ethnic Minority and Low Socio-Economic Groups: A Systematic Review of Research Studies Written in the English Language (2024)
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Brar, M., Mc Ardle, R., Hagan, A., Al-Oraibi, A., Hanjari, M., Stephan, B., Brayne, C., Lafortune, L., Bains, M., Qureshi, N., & Robinson, L. (2024). Attitudes and Preferences Towards Screening for Dementia with a Focus on Ethnic Minority and Low Socio-Economic Groups: A Systematic Review of Research Studies Written in the English Language. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 100(4), 1315-1331. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-240315

Background: Increased understanding of dementia risk-reduction and early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders has spurred interest in the identification of risks for dementia, underlying putative biologies, or dementia itself. Impl... Read More about Attitudes and Preferences Towards Screening for Dementia with a Focus on Ethnic Minority and Low Socio-Economic Groups: A Systematic Review of Research Studies Written in the English Language.

A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models (2024)
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Aristotelous, G., Kypraios, T., & O'Neill, P. D. (2024). A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12743

This paper addresses the problem of assessing the homogeneity of the disease transmission process in stochastic epidemic models in populations that are partitioned into social groups. We develop a classical hypothesis test for completed epidemics whi... Read More about A classical hypothesis test for assessing the homogeneity of disease transmission in stochastic epidemic models.

Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia (2024)
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Baigaliyeva, M., Mount, N., Gosling, S. N., & McGowan, S. (2024). Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0305721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305721

Endorheic lakes, lacking river outflows, are highly sensitive to environmental changes and human interventions. Central Asia (CA) has over 6000 lakes that have experienced substantial water level variability in the past century, yet causes of recent... Read More about Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia.

Bayesian inversion for in-situ thermal characterisation of walls in the presence of thermal anomalies (2024)
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Iglesias, M., Li, X., Sovetova, M., & Wu, Y. (2024). Bayesian inversion for in-situ thermal characterisation of walls in the presence of thermal anomalies. Energy and Buildings, 319, Article 114558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114558

This paper develops a Bayesian inverse modelling framework for the in-situ characterisation of walls' thermal performance in the presence of thermal anomalies subject to uncertainty. For any given wall, the proposed framework uses in-situ contact mea... Read More about Bayesian inversion for in-situ thermal characterisation of walls in the presence of thermal anomalies.

Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate (2024)
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Ewers, R. M., Orme, C. D. L., Pearse, W. D., Zulkifli, N., Yvon-Durocher, G., Yusah, K. M., Yoh, N., Yeo, D. C. J., Wong, A., Williamson, J., Wilkinson, C. L., Wiederkehr, F., Webber, B. L., Wearn, O. R., Wai, L., Vollans, M., Twining, J. P., Turner, E. C., Tobias, J. A., Thorley, J., …Banks-Leite, C. (2024). Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature, 631(8022), 808-813. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07657-w

Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems1 that provide refugia for large amounts of biodiversity2,3, so we cannot afford to underestimate... Read More about Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate.

Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System (2024)
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Kou, Y.-J., Gao, J., Li, R., Ma, Z.-Y., Elsheikha, H. M., Wu, X.-J., Zheng, X.-N., Wang, M., & Zhu, X.-Q. (2024). Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(14), Article 7834. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25147834

Eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) are crucial for initiating protein translation and ensuring the correct assembly of mRNA-ribosomal subunit complexes. In this study, we investigated the effects of deleting six eIFs in the apicomplexan... Read More about Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System.

Speaking on one's own terms Oracy and orality as partners in classroom talk (2024)
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Knight, R. (2024). Speaking on one's own terms Oracy and orality as partners in classroom talk. FORUM, 66(2), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.2.06

Spoken language in schools, now often branded as oracy, is seeing something of a resurgence of interest. This is well-founded and to be welcomed. Nevertheless, the policy-level coopting of oracy, as a concept open to various interpretations, raises q... Read More about Speaking on one's own terms Oracy and orality as partners in classroom talk.

The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes (2024)
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Hassard, J., Dulal-Arthur, T., Bourke, J., Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Leka, S., Pahl, N., Bartle, C., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306065

Background: Line manager (LM) training in mental health is gaining recognition as an effective method for improving the mental health and wellbeing of workers. However, research predominantly focuses on the impacts of training at the employee-level,... Read More about The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes.