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Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials (2024)
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Santra, P., Ghaderzadeh, S., Ghorbani-Asl, M., Komsa, H., Besley, E., & Krasheninnikov, A. V. (2024). Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 8(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-024-00472-x

Strain- and defect-engineering are two powerful approaches to tailor the opto-electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, but the relationship between applied mechanical strain and behavior of defects in these systems remains elusive. Us... Read More about Strain-modulated defect engineering of two-dimensional materials.

Hyperglycaemia perturbs blood-brain barrier integrity through its effects on endothelial cell characteristics and function (2024)
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Hashmat, A., Ya, J., Kadir, R., Alwjwaj, M., & Bayraktutan, U. (2024). Hyperglycaemia perturbs blood-brain barrier integrity through its effects on endothelial cell characteristics and function. Tissue Barriers, Article 2350821. https://doi.org/10.1080/21688370.2024.2350821

Breakdown of blood-brain barrier (BBB) represents a key pathology in hyperglycemia-mediated cerebrovascular damage after an ischemic stroke. As changes in the level and nature of vasoactive agents released by endothelial cells (ECs) may contribute to... Read More about Hyperglycaemia perturbs blood-brain barrier integrity through its effects on endothelial cell characteristics and function.

Quantum thermodynamics of boundary time-crystals (2024)
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Carollo, F., Lesanovsky, I., Antezza, M., & De Chiara, G. (2024). Quantum thermodynamics of boundary time-crystals. Quantum Science and Technology, 9(3), Article 035024. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ad3f42

Time-translation symmetry breaking is a mechanism for the emergence of non-stationary many-body phases, so-called time-crystals, in Markovian open quantum systems. Dynamical aspects of time-crystals have been extensively explored over the recent year... Read More about Quantum thermodynamics of boundary time-crystals.

Belief in White Replacement (2024)
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Klofstad, C., Christley, O., Diekman, A., Kübler, S., Enders, A., Funchion, J., …Uscinski, J. (2024). Belief in White Replacement. Politics, Groups and Identities, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2342834

The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beli... Read More about Belief in White Replacement.

Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location (2024)
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Scott, N. J., Murray, R. L., Barker, A. B., Critchlow, N., Best, C., & Semple, S. (2024). Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location . Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2341006

Background Exposure to tobacco and alcohol on-screen promotes use and despite regulations and policies to limit impact, these behaviours remain common. We report a longitudinal analysis of tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in three popular UK... Read More about Tobacco, e-cigarette and alcohol content in popular UK soap operas: a content analysis to explore changes in social norms and scene location .

Combining Reinforcement Learning and Tensor Networks, with an Application to Dynamical Large Deviations (2024)
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Gillman, E., Rose, D. C., & Garrahan, J. P. (2024). Combining Reinforcement Learning and Tensor Networks, with an Application to Dynamical Large Deviations. Physical Review Letters, 132(19), Article 197301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.197301

We present a framework to integrate tensor network (TN) methods with reinforcement learning (RL) for solving dynamical optimization tasks. We consider the RL actor-critic method, a model-free approach for solving RL problems, and introduce TNs as the... Read More about Combining Reinforcement Learning and Tensor Networks, with an Application to Dynamical Large Deviations.

Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England (2024)
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McGoldrick, D. (2024). Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England. Human Rights Quarterly, 46(2), 287-329. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a926223

This article considers the context, development, and significance of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. The Act was relatively unusual in aiming to increase the normative strength of freedom of speech. The central justification given... Read More about Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education in England.

Key audit matters: a systematic review (2024)
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Elmarzouky, M., Hussainey, K., & Abdelfattah, T. (2024). Key audit matters: a systematic review. International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, 20(3/4), 319-341. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijaape.2024.138473

Key audit matters (KAMs) play a substantial role in financial reporting and have garnered increasing attention in recent years. This systematic review of 117 papers and reports published between 2013 and 2023 contributes to the audit and financial re... Read More about Key audit matters: a systematic review.

A comprehensive qualitative investigation of the factors that affect surgical site infection prevention in cardiac surgery in England using observations and interviews (2024)
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Tanner, J., Brierley Jones, L., Westwood, N., Rochon, M., Wloch, C., Vaja, R., …Murphy, G. J. (in press). A comprehensive qualitative investigation of the factors that affect surgical site infection prevention in cardiac surgery in England using observations and interviews. Journal of Hospital Infection, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2024.04.016

Background Interview and questionnaire studies have identified barriers and challenges to preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) by focusing on compliance with recommendations and care bundles using interviews, questionnaires and expert panels.... Read More about A comprehensive qualitative investigation of the factors that affect surgical site infection prevention in cardiac surgery in England using observations and interviews.

Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview (2024)
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Green, A. M. (2024). Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview. Nuclear Physics B, 1003, Article 116494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2024.116494

Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from overdensities in the early Universe, are... Read More about Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview.

Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance (2024)
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Ochang, P., Eke, D., & Stahl, B. C. (2024). Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance. Neuroethics, 17(2), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-024-09558-1

Advances in neuroscience and other disciplines are producing large-scale brain data consisting of datasets from multiple organisms, disciplines, and jurisdictions in different formats. However, due to the lack of an international data governance fram... Read More about Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance.

“Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship (2024)
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Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., Naicker, I., & van Laren, L. (2024). “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship. Journal of education (University KwaZulu-natal), 2024(94), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i94a05

The Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group (SIG) of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) has been active since 2014, with over 100 academics from more than 20 higher education institutions participating. The 10th Anni... Read More about “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship.

Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms (2024)
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Abdelfattah, T., Ullah, S., Houqe, M. N., & Zahir-ul-Hassan, M. K. (2024). Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3789

This study examines the nexus between business strategy and carbon emissions by utilising a dataset of U.S. firms from 2007 to 2020. It focuses on two broad types of firms, that is, prospectors and defenders. Regarding carbon emissions, we consider t... Read More about Impact of business strategy on carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from U.S. firms.

Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs: Reflections on Research With People Living With Motor Neurone Disease (2024)
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Wilson, E., & Turner, N. (2024). Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs: Reflections on Research With People Living With Motor Neurone Disease. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241251537

This article explores the challenges and adaptations we undertook to engage people with different communication needs, specifically those living with motor neurone disease (MND), in qualitative research interviews. While interviewing those in advance... Read More about Expanding Qualitative Interviewing for Studies Involving Adults With Different Communication Needs: Reflections on Research With People Living With Motor Neurone Disease.

Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain (2024)
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Naik, V., Shenoy, V., Li, W., & Nath, R. (2024). Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain. Physica Scripta, 99(6), Article 065925. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad3d9d

We benchmark the discrete truncated Wigner approximation (DTWA) and Neural quantum states (NQS) based on restricted Boltzmann-like machines with the exact excitation and correlation dynamics in a chain of ten Rydberg atoms. The initial state is where... Read More about Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain.

Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing (2024)
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Wascher, M., Schnell, P. M., Khuda Bukhsh, W. R., Quam, M. B. M., Tien, J. H., & Rempała, G. A. (2024). Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlae021

The article presents a novel statistical framework for COVID-19 transmission monitoring and control, which was developed and deployed at The Ohio State University main campus in Columbus during the Autumn term of 2020. Our approach effectively handle... Read More about Estimating disease transmission in a closed population under repeated testing.

The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data (2024)
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Gathergood, J., & Olafsson, A. (2024). The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data. Review of Financial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhae016

Why do individuals pay debt interest when they could use their savings to pay down the debt? We explore why individuals “cohold” debt and savings using detailed and highly disaggregated daily-level data on household finances. We find that coholding m... Read More about The Coholding Puzzle: New Evidence from Transaction-Level Data.

Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2024)
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Quinn, K., Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector. British Journal of Criminology, Article azae027. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae027

Metaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions. Scholarship in adjacent disciplines illustrates that emotion-metaphors offer unique insight into emotional and interpretive processes,... Read More about Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector.