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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.

Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation (2025)
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Herrera, E., Austen, J., & Urcelay, G. (2025). Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 51(3), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000398

Previous studies involving birds and humans have identified spatial proximity as a source of overshadowing between landmarks in navigation. In Herrera et al. (2024), subjects were trained in an open environment to find a hidden goal with reference to... Read More about Spatial Proximity Determines Overshadowing Between Landmarks in Human Spatial Navigation.

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.

A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development (2025)
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Park, A.-L., Jez, O., Kilian, R., Charles, A., Kalha, J., Korde, P., Lachmann, M., Mahlke, C., Moran, G., Nakku, J., Ngakongwa, F., Niwemuhwezi, J., Nixdorf, R., Ryan, G., Shamba, D., Slade, M., & Waldmann, T. (2025). A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 34, Article e40. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796025100140

Aims
The aim of the article is to undertake the first economic analysis exploring the costs of illness (COIs) and factors affecting COIs in people living with mental disorders using individual patient-level data across five countries with different... Read More about A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development.

Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination (2025)
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Clancy, S. (2025). Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination. International Review of Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-025-10146-5

The nature, type and purpose of workers’ education has been a significant point of debate in the International Review of Education (IRE) over the last seventy years, generating philosophical, psychological and sociological examinations from a series... Read More about Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination.

Early stroke specialist vocational rehabilitation for return to work after stroke: a synopsis from the RETAKE RCT (2025)
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Radford, K. A., Wright-Hughes, A., Clarke, D., Phillips, J., Holmes, J., Powers, K., Trusson, D., Craven, K., Thompson, E., Watkins, C. L., Bowen, A., McKevitt, C., Stevens, J., Murray, J. D., O’Connor, R. J., Pyne, S., Risebro, H., Cameron, R., Sach, T. H., Day, F., & Farrin, A. J. (in press). Early stroke specialist vocational rehabilitation for return to work after stroke: a synopsis from the RETAKE RCT. Health Technology Assessment,

Background:

Return-to-work (RTW) is achieved by <50% stroke survivors. Evidence on support for RTW is lacking.

Objective:

To determine whether Early Stroke Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation (ESSVR) is more clinically-and cost-effective...

Trajectory of hematoma growth and functional recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage: a latent class analysis of BASC data (2025)
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Ouyang, M., You, S., Moullaali, T. J., Delcourt, C., Sandset, E., Woodhouse, L., Kang Law, Z., Arima, H., Butcher, K., Stephen, L., Mbbs, E., Gupta, S., Jiang, W., Koch, S., Potter, J., Qureshi, A. I., Robinson, T. G., Al-Shahi, R., Phd, S., Saver, J. L., …Wang, X. (in press). Trajectory of hematoma growth and functional recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage: a latent class analysis of BASC data. Cerebrovascular Diseases,

Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work (2025)
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Blake, H., Abbott-Fleming, V., Greaves, S., Somerset, S., Chaplin, W. J., Wainwright, E., & Walker-Bone, K. (2025). Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work. Research Involvement and Engagement, 11, Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-025-00757-5

Background
Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is essential for the design, delivery and dissemination of high-quality, meaningful research. However, reporting of PPIE contributions is seldom transparent or consistent. We aimed to d... Read More about Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work.

Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE (2025)
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Kotera, Y., Hara, A., Newby, C., Miyamoto, Y., Ozaki, A., Ali, Y., Clinton, P., Felix, S., John, C., Inta, N., & Slade, M. (2025). Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02946-9

Purpose
This study developed and evaluated a new personal recovery scale—Global INSPIRE—in English and Japanese, and compared responses between Japan and the UK. Personal recovery—living a satisfying and meaningful life despite mental health challen... Read More about Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE.

Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices (2025)
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Heaton, C. E. D., Austin, J. S., Ruer, L., Cottam, N. D., Wang, F., He, Y., Rance, G. A., Rose, F. R. A. J., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R. J. M., Makarovsky, O., & Turyanska, L. (2025). Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices. Advanced Materials Technologies, Article e00913. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202500913

Inkjet-printing of graphene (iGr) onto flexible and stretchable electronics has significant potential for environmental sensing and healthcare monitoring applications. However, conventional thermal annealing techniques often require high temperatures... Read More about Photonic Annealing of Inkjet Printed Graphene for Stretchable Wearable Healthcare Monitoring Devices.

Phylogenetic analysis of paired breast carcinomas identifies genetic events associated with clonal recurrence and invasive progression (2025)
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Kader, T., Zethoven Sakshi Mahale, M., Saunders, H., Tjoeka, L., Lehmann, R., Jayawardana, M. W., Pang, J.-M., Lesche, D., Rajan, N., Semple, T., Er Amanda Lee, J., Lupat, R., Byrne, D. J., Hughes, S., Nguyen, H., Lai, S., Pechlivanis, M., Craig, O., Devereux, L., House, E., …Gorringe, K. L. (in press). Phylogenetic analysis of paired breast carcinomas identifies genetic events associated with clonal recurrence and invasive progression. Journal of Pathology,

Development of ipsilateral breast carcinoma following diagnosis of breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has been assumed to represent recurrence of the primary tumour. However, this may not be the case and it is important to know how often recurren... Read More about Phylogenetic analysis of paired breast carcinomas identifies genetic events associated with clonal recurrence and invasive progression.

Decent work in fishing in a changing climate (2025)
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Tigchelaar, M., Jackson, B., Selig, E. R., Davis, A., O’Regan, E., Kristiansen, T., Nakayama, S., Boyd, D., Cheung, W. W., Rodriguez-Huerta, E., Williams, C., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2025). Decent work in fishing in a changing climate. Marine Policy, 181, Article 106846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106846

Climate change will increasingly impact the working conditions of employed fishers, who work in the most hazardous occupation in a sector already at high risk for forced labor and other decent work deficits. However, in comparison to other sectors, t... Read More about Decent work in fishing in a changing climate.

Experimental Investigation on Shear Strengthening of RC Beams Using Advanced Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites (2025)
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Liu, X., Karaghool, O., Yu, J., & Thermou, G. (2025). Experimental Investigation on Shear Strengthening of RC Beams Using Advanced Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites. Case Studies in Construction Materials, 23, Article e05032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2025.e05032

The increasing demand for durable marine and coastal structures has motivated research into advanced shear strengthening methods that offer both mechanical efficiency and optimized material usage. This research presents an experimental evaluation of... Read More about Experimental Investigation on Shear Strengthening of RC Beams Using Advanced Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites.

A generalizable and open-source algorithm for real-life monitoring of tremor in Parkinson’s disease (2025)
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Timmermans, N. A., Terranova, R., Soriano, D. C., Cagnan, H., Raykov, Y. P., Bucur, I. G., Bloem, B. R., Helmich, R. C., & Evers, L. J. W. (2025). A generalizable and open-source algorithm for real-life monitoring of tremor in Parkinson’s disease. npj Parkinson's Disease, 11, Article 205. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-01056-2

Wearable sensors can objectively and continuously monitor daily-life tremor in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We developed an open-source algorithm for real-life monitoring of PD tremor which achieves generalizable performance across different wrist-worn... Read More about A generalizable and open-source algorithm for real-life monitoring of tremor in Parkinson’s disease.

Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning (2025)
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Hoad, C., Knarr, M., Aliyu, A., Mougin, O., Paul, J., & Marciani, L. (2025). Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning. NMR in Biomedicine, 38(8), Article e70090. https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70090

Sodium alginates are widely used for their gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties. Raft-producing formulations havebeen used widely for many years to treat the symptoms of anti-reflux disease and those suffering occasional symptoms. The aimo... Read More about Investigations of Anti‐Reflux Formulations Containing Alginates Using MRI: A Feasibility Study Using Conventional 3.0T and 0.5T Open Upright Scanning.

The mitotic chromosome periphery modulates chromosome mechanics (2025)
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Mendonca, T., Urban, R., Lucken, K., Coney, G., M. Kad, N., Tassieri, M., J. Wright, A., & G. Booth, D. (2025). The mitotic chromosome periphery modulates chromosome mechanics. Nature Communications, 16, Article 6399. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61755-5

In dividing cells, chromosomes are coated in a sheath of proteins and RNA called the mitotic chromosome periphery. This sheath is thought to confer biophysical properties to chromosomes, critical for successful cell division. However, the details of... Read More about The mitotic chromosome periphery modulates chromosome mechanics.

Barriers and facilitators of provision of telemedicine in Nigeria: A systematic review (2025)
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Kenneth Cole, O., Muhammed Abubakar, M., Isah, A., Hayatu Sule, S., & Onyinye Ukoha-Kalu, B. (2025). Barriers and facilitators of provision of telemedicine in Nigeria: A systematic review. PLOS Digital Health, 4(7), Article e0000934. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000934

Healthcare access remains a challenge in developing countries and could be a drawback to the attainment of Objective 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals. Digital interventions such as telemedicine have been identified as an effective tool to impro... Read More about Barriers and facilitators of provision of telemedicine in Nigeria: A systematic review.

Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies (2025)
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Gaston, K., Mohammad, A., Venkatachalapathy, S. V., Notingher, I., Gordon, G. S. D., Arora, A., Rawson, F. J., Grove, J. I., Mukherjee, A., Gomez, D., Jayaraman, P.-S., & Aithal, G. P. (2025). Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies. Cancers, 17(14), Article 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17142301

In the management of cholangiocarcinoma, effective biliary drainage and accurate diagnosis are vital to allow further treatment. Confirmation of tissue diagnosis and molecular characterization is also required to guide future treatment options includ... Read More about Challenges in the Diagnosis of Biliary Stricture and Cholangiocarcinoma and Perspectives on the Future Applications of Advanced Technologies.