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Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated. (2024)
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Bru García, S. B., George, D. N., & Robinson, J. (2024). Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000384

In 2 experiments, participants completed 2 computer-based tasks: a configural acquired-equivalence procedure and an optional-shift procedure. Both revealed that test performance was positively correlated, even when controlling for non-specific variab... Read More about Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated..

Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive (2024)
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Swift, M. R., & Smith, M. I. (2024). Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive. Soft Matter, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00566j

The strength of interparticle interactions in a granular system controls how a collection of insulating particles flow, cohere and fragment. Forces due to electrostatic charging, particularly in free-fall or low gravity environments, can dominate the... Read More about Torque about electrostatically charged spheres makes them more attractive.

Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients (2024)
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Kouraki, A., Zheng, A. S., Miller, S., Kelly, A., Ashraf, W., Bazzani, D., Bonadiman, A., Tonidandel, G., Bolzan, M., Vijay, A., Nightingale, J., Menni, C., Ollivere, B. J., & Valdes, A. M. (2024). Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients. iScience, 27(9), Article 110783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110783

We investigated changes in microbiome composition and abundance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes post-antibiotic treatment in severe trauma patients. Shotgun sequencing revealed beta diversity (Bray-Curtis) differences between 16 hospitalized... Read More about Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients.

The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction (2024)
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Liddle, P. F., & Sami, M. B. (2024). The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction. Biological Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.007

Persisting symptoms and disability remain a problem for an appreciable proportion of people with schizophrenia despite treatment with antipsychotic medication. Improving outcomes requires an understanding of the nature and mechanisms of the pathologi... Read More about The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction.

Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024 (2024)
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Roehr, C. C., Farley, H. J., Mahmoud, R. A., & Ojha, S. (2024). Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024. Neonatology, https://doi.org/10.1159/000540601

Background: Guidelines recommend non-invasive ventilatory (NIV) support as first-line respiratory support mode in preterm infants as NIV is superior to intubation and mechanical ventilation in preventing death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia. However,... Read More about Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024.

To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games (2024)
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Jagau, S. (2024). To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games. Games and Economic Behavior, 147, 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2024.08.011

Five decades after Harsanyi and Selten's seminal work on equilibrium selection, we remain unable to predict the outcomes of real-life coordination even in simple cases. One reason is that experiments have struggled to quantify the effects of payoff-a... Read More about To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games.

Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes (2024)
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Matuk, J., Kurtek, S., & Bharath, K. (in press). Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects known as... Read More about Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes.

'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George (2024)
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Sutherland, L. (in press). 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George. Critical Quarterly,

Sunday in the Park With George (Sunday) was a pivotal piece of work for Stephen Sondheim, written in the early 80s, at a time when he broke away from Broadway production processes to work in the nonprofit sector, developing this musical with James La... Read More about 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George.

A rapid realist review of literature examining Co‐production in mental health services for youth (2024)
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Jones, V. R., Waring, J., Wright, N., & Fenton, S. (in press). A rapid realist review of literature examining Co‐production in mental health services for youth. JCPP Advances, Article e12272. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12272

Background: An overview of internationally published literature on what works for co‐production in youth mental health services is missing, despite a practice andpolicy context strongly recommending this approach. This rapid realist review develops a... Read More about A rapid realist review of literature examining Co‐production in mental health services for youth.

Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing (2024)
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Bradford, J., Dewes, B. T., Shiffa, M., Cottam, N. D., Rahman, K., Cheng, T. S., Novikov, S. V., Makarovsky, O., O'Shea, J. N., Beton, P. H., Lara-Avila, S., Harknett, J., Greenaway, M. T., & Patanè, A. (2024). Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing. Small, Article 2404809. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202404809

2D semiconductors can drive advances in quantum science and technologies. However, they should be free of any contamination; also, the crystallographic ordering and coupling of adjacent layers and their electronic properties should be well‐controlled... Read More about Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing.

Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network (2024)
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Wei, Z., Tien, P. W., Calautit, J., Darkwa, J., Worall, M., & Boukhanouf, R. (2024). Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network. Applied Energy, 376(Part A), Article 124164

This research investigates the integration of model predictive control (MPC) with seasonal thermochemical energy storage systems (STES) within district heating networks, focusing on the Nottingham district heating network as a case study. The primary... Read More about Investigation of model predictive control (MPC) strategy for seasonal thermochemical energy storage system in a district heating network.

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research (2024)
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Atkins, S., Mackenzie, J., & Jones, L. (in press). Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences,

This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field,... Read More about Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research.

The Impact of Diet-Induced Weight Loss on Inflammatory Status and Hyperandrogenism in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2024)
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Alenezi, S. A., Elkmeshi, N., Alanazi, A., Alanazi, S. T., Khan, R., & Amer, S. (2024). The Impact of Diet-Induced Weight Loss on Inflammatory Status and Hyperandrogenism in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(16), Article 4934. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13164934

Background: Currently, the primary strategy for addressing polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) involves lifestyle modifications, with a focus on weight loss. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the impact of weight loss through dietary int... Read More about The Impact of Diet-Induced Weight Loss on Inflammatory Status and Hyperandrogenism in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS (2024)
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Sun, L., Wang, X., Teplitz, H. I., Mehta, V., Alavi, A., Rafelski, M., Windhorst, R. A., Scarlata, C., Gardner, J. P., Smith, B. M., Sunnquist, B., Prichard, L., Cheng, Y., Grogin, N., Hathi, N. P., Hayes, M., Koekemoer, A. M., Mobasher, B., Nedkova, K. V., O’Connell, R., …Zabelle, B. (2024). The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS. The Astrophysical Journal, 972(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5540

UVCANDELS is a Hubble Space Telescope Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields—GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, and COSMOS—covering a total area... Read More about The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS.

Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation (2024)
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Stacey, J., Atkin, C., Roberts, K. L., Henshaw, H., ALLEN, H., & Badham, S. P. (in press). Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,

Background. We investigated how presenting online health information in different modalities can influence memory, as this may be particularly important for older adults who may need to make regular decisions about health, and could also face additio... Read More about Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation.

MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions (2024)
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Mahdiyasa, A. W., Large, D. J., Icardi, M., & Muljadi, B. P. (2024). MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions. Earth Surface Dynamics, 12(4), 929-952. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-929-2024

Higher-dimensional models of peatland development are required to analyse the influence of spatial heterogeneity and complex feedback mechanisms on peatland behaviour. However, the current models exclude the mechanical process that leads to uncertain... Read More about MPeat2D - a fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development in two dimensions.

Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs' (2024)
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Rocchini, D., Chieffallo, L., Thouverai, E., D'Introno, R., Dagostin, F., Donini, E., Foody, G., Garnier, S., Mazzochini, G. G., Moudry, V., Rudis, B., Simova, P., Torresani, M., & Nowosad, J. (2024). Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'. Environmetrics, Article e2877. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877

Colorblindness is a genetic condition that affects a person's ability to accurately perceive colors. Several papers still exist making use of rainbow colors palette to show output. In such cases, for colorblind people such graphs are meaningless. In... Read More about Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'.

Systematic review: Mortality associated with raised faecal immunochemical test and positive faecal occult blood results (2024)
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Ligori Malcolm, F., Yapa, A. K., Wong, Z. Y., Morton, A. J., Crooks, C., West, J., Banerjea, A., & Humes, D. (2024). Systematic review: Mortality associated with raised faecal immunochemical test and positive faecal occult blood results. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.18208


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Faecal haemoglobin (f-Hb) testing is used in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and increasingly to guide the investigation in patients with symptoms suggestive of CRC. Studies have demonstrated increased mortality with raised f-Hb.... Read More about Systematic review: Mortality associated with raised faecal immunochemical test and positive faecal occult blood results.

“It’s scary enough to go into a unit, but in addition to that, you are going to be stuck in a room on your own”. Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric wards: a multi-methods investigation (2024)
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Holland, J., Da-Silva-Ellimah, M., Roe, J., Morriss, R., & Sayal, K. (in press). “It’s scary enough to go into a unit, but in addition to that, you are going to be stuck in a room on your own”. Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric wards: a multi-methods investigation. BJPsych Open,

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) inpatient beds are unevenly spread throughout England. Where demand outstrips bed availability, young people may be admitted at-distance or to adult psychiatric wards. The COVID-19 pande... Read More about “It’s scary enough to go into a unit, but in addition to that, you are going to be stuck in a room on your own”. Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric wards: a multi-methods investigation.