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“It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Rossiter, L., Houdmont, J., & Brooks, C. (2025). “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2451213

Purpose
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has been associated with various adverse work outcomes in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding regarding how and why these outcomes arise for survivors experiencing fatigue. In response,... Read More about “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes.

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices (2025)
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Reiss-Woolever, V. J., Wakhid, W., Ikhsan, M., Caliman, J.-P., Naim, M., Azmi, E. N., Shufiyan, S., Howes, J., Azmi, R., Lim, Y. Y., Abdul Jan, S. Z., Barrock, I., Azhar, B., Drewer, J., Ward, C., Jones, J. A., Luke, S. H., Turner, E. C., Hidayat, P., & Buchori, D. (2025). Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0304837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304837

Smallholder farmers produce over 40% of global palm oil, the world’s most traded and controversial vegetable oil. Awareness of the effects of palm oil production on ecosystems and human communities has increased drastically in recent years, with ever... Read More about Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices.

Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study (2025)
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Patone, M., Snelling, A. J., Tibble, H., Coupland, C., Sheikh, A., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2025). Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study. Communications Medicine, 5(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00720-7

Background: Sotrovimab is a neutralising monoclonal antibody (nMAB) currently available to treat extremely clinically vulnerable COVID-19 patients in England. Trials have shown it to have mild to moderate side effects, however, evidence regarding its... Read More about Uptake and safety of Sotrovimab for prevention of severe COVID-19 in a cohort and self-controlled case series study.

Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants (2025)
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Kwok, T. C., Fiolna, M., Jones, N., Walker, K., & Sharkey, D. (2025). Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328066

Objective Perinatal epidemiological studies and outcomes are often reported on gestational week thresholds. This study aims to quantify and investigate the association of each gestational day at birth on antenatal management, mortality and respirator... Read More about Association of gestational day with antenatal management and the mortality and respiratory outcomes of extremely preterm infants.

Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes (2025)
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Vanderstraeten, S., & Searle, A. (2025). Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes. Theory, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241304719

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of microbial life in environmental samples, some microbiologists and commentator... Read More about Biology’s Dark Matter: From Galaxies to Microbes.

Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
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Azim, H., Johnston, A.-L., Nixon, M., Woodliffe, J. L., Theunissen, R., Suresh, R., Sivapalan, S., Bobo, J., & Licence, P. (2025). Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 13(3), 1164-1173. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c10171

We illustrate the importance of early career perspectives and diverse partnerships to develop solutions and overcome key challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity (2025)
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Sherif, M. A., Carter, W. G., & Mellor, I. R. (2025). Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity. Journal of Xenobiotics, 15(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/jox15010012

Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is a broad-spectrum organophosphate insecticide. Long-term exposure to low levels of CPF is associated with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The mechanisms leading to these effects are still not fully understood... Read More about Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity.

Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system (2025)
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Leoni, L., Andrews, J., & De Carlo, F. (2025). Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 94, Article 105545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2025.105545

Fault Tree (FT) Analysis is still one of the most common approaches for conducting reliability analysis of complex systems. However, it conceals several limitations such as the assumption of independent events and inability to model modern maintenanc... Read More about Extending the dynamic and dependent tree theory (D2T2) to safety barriers: An application to an offshore fire deluge system.

The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre-registration Education (2025)
Journal Article
Pearson, M. (2025). The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre-registration Education. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34(1), Article e13509. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13509

This paper examines the potential of poetry as a resource within mental health nurse pre-registration education. There has long been a debate as to whether the art or the science of nursing should be foregrounded within pre-registration education, es... Read More about The Potential of Poetry in Mental Health Nurse Pre-registration Education.

Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review (2025)
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Sisodia, S., Hammond, Z., Leonardi-Bee, J., Hanlon, C., & Asher, L. (2025). Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0311554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311554

Background

This scoping review aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness (SMI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and to summarise those nee... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review.

Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient (2025)
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Fernandez, L. B., Shehzad, M., & Hadley, L. V. (2025). Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient. Psychology and Aging, https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000872

While there is strong evidence that younger adults use contextual information to generate semantic predictions, findings from older adults are less clear. Age affects cognition in a variety of different ways that may impact prediction mechanisms; whi... Read More about Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient.

Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review (2025)
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Sisodia, S., Hammond, Z., Leonardi-Bee, J., Hanlon, C., & Asher, L. (2025). Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0311554. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311554

Background

This scoping review aimed to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness (SMI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and to summarise those nee... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health needs of women with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review.

Income disaster model with optimal consumption (2025)
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Park, S. (2025). Income disaster model with optimal consumption. Economic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01629-x

We propose a continuous-time income disaster model with optimal consumption. We endogenously determine the stochastic discount factor (SDF) in an incomplete market caused by income disaster. We then derive optimal consumption decisions for two types... Read More about Income disaster model with optimal consumption.

Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale (2025)
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Munro, R., Payne, A., Holmes, N., Moore, C., Cahyani, I., & Loose, M. (in press). Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale. Genome Research, https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.279329.124

A unique feature of Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencers, adaptive sampling, allows precise DNA molecule selection from sequencing libraries. Here we present enhancements to our tool, readfish, enabling all features for the industrial scale Promet... Read More about Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale.

How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey (2025)
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Karademir, I., & Yaren, Ö. (in press). How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey. Cultural Sociology,

This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and it... Read More about How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey.

Towards a common definition of hospital-acquired deconditioning in adults: a scoping review (2025)
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Westlake, M., Cowley, A., Robinson, K., & Gordon, A. L. (2025). Towards a common definition of hospital-acquired deconditioning in adults: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 15, Article e086976. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086976

Background Hospital-acquired deconditioning is a term used in clinical practice, describing a loss of physical and/or cognitive function associated with hospitalisation. Previous reviews have addressed interventions, its prevalence in older adults an... Read More about Towards a common definition of hospital-acquired deconditioning in adults: a scoping review.

In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (2025)
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Semizoglou, E., Lo Re, L., Middleton, S. J., Perez‐Sanchez, J., Tufarelli, T., Bennett, D. L., & Chisholm, K. I. (2025). In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors. Journal of Physiology, 603(4), 895-908. https://doi.org/10.1113/jp286631

C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs) in animals (termed C-tactile (CT) fibres in humans) are a subgroup of C-fibre primary afferents, which innervate hairy skin and respond to low-threshold punctate indentations and brush stimuli. These afferen... Read More about In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors.

Comparative effectiveness of various exercise interventions on central sensitisation indices: A systematic review and network meta-analysis (2025)
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Ibrahim, A. A. E., McWilliams, D. F., Smith, S. L., Chaplin, W. J., Salimian, M., Georgopoulos, V., Kouraki, A., & Walsh, D. A. (2025). Comparative effectiveness of various exercise interventions on central sensitisation indices: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 68(4), Article 101894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2024.101894

Background: Central sensitisation (CS) increases musculoskeletal pain. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) or self-report questionnaires might indicate CS. Indices of CS might be suppressed by exercise, although the optimal exercise regimen remains un... Read More about Comparative effectiveness of various exercise interventions on central sensitisation indices: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.