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The Functional Threshold: Direct International Legal Regulation of Collective Nonstate Entities and the Law of International Peace and Security (2020)
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This article explores transformations in international law with respect to collective nonstate entities, challenging the mainstream view that international law stipulates rights and obligations directly binding on such entities only on an exceptional... Read More about The Functional Threshold: Direct International Legal Regulation of Collective Nonstate Entities and the Law of International Peace and Security.

Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of risk perceptions and mental health in a student cohort (2020)
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Objective: This study examined the COVID-19 risk perceptions and mental health of university students on returning to campus in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An online survey was completed during the first four weeks of the academic... Read More about Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of risk perceptions and mental health in a student cohort.

The influence of surface charge on the coalescence of ice and dust particles in the mesosphere (2020)
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Agglomeration of charged ice and dust particles in the mesosphere is studied using a classical electrostatic approach, which is extended to capture the induced polarisation of surface charge. Collision outcomes are predicted whilst varying particle s... Read More about The influence of surface charge on the coalescence of ice and dust particles in the mesosphere.

Mobilising molluscan models and genomes in biology (2020)
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Molluscs are amongst the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, no individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. We here make the case that both perceptual and methodological barriers... Read More about Mobilising molluscan models and genomes in biology.

Comparing short and long batteries to assess deficits and their neural bases in stroke aphasia (2020)
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Multiple language assessments are necessary for diagnosing, characterising and quantifying the multifaceted deficits observed in many patients’ post-stroke. Current language batteries, however, tend to be an imperfect trade-off between time and sensi... Read More about Comparing short and long batteries to assess deficits and their neural bases in stroke aphasia.

The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal immigration (2020)
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Governments do not always enforce their laws, even when they have the means of doing so, and lax enforcement is common in the domain of immigration policy. To explain this paradox we develop a political agency model where gains from migration are une... Read More about The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal immigration.

COVID-Well: Evaluation of the Implementation of Supported Wellbeing Centres for Hospital Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
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Skill-Biased Structural Change (2020)
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Using a broad panel of advanced economies we document that increases in GDP per capita are associated with a systematic shift in the composition of value added to sectors that are intensive in high-skill labor, a process we label as skill-biased stru... Read More about Skill-Biased Structural Change.

Full species-wide leaf and seed ionomic diversity of Arabidopsis thaliana (2020)
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• Soil is a heterogenous reservoir of essential elements needed for plant growth and development. Plants have evolved mechanisms to balance their nutritional needs based on availability of nutrients. This has led to genetically-based variation in the... Read More about Full species-wide leaf and seed ionomic diversity of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Morbidity and complications of diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents in Ghana: study design and rationale (2020)
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Background: Diabetes is associated with premature morbidity and mortality from its many complications. There is limited data on the chronic complications of diabetes in children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Objective: The study aims t... Read More about Morbidity and complications of diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents in Ghana: study design and rationale.

Immediate impact of transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain structure: short-term neuroplasticity following one session of cTBS (2020)
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Recent evidence demonstrates that activation-dependent neuroplasticity on a structural level can occur in a short time (2 hour or less) in humans. However, the exact time scale of structural plasticity in adult human brain remains unclear. Using voxe... Read More about Immediate impact of transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain structure: short-term neuroplasticity following one session of cTBS.

Outcomes of a public health campaign and automated randomised controlled trial of a direct to public peer support programme (Big White Wall) versus web-based information to aid self-management of depression and anxiety (The REBOOT study) (2020)
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Background: Effective help for depression and anxiety only reaches a small proportion of those who might benefit from it. The scale of the problem suggests a role for effective, safe public health online services delivered directly to the public. On... Read More about Outcomes of a public health campaign and automated randomised controlled trial of a direct to public peer support programme (Big White Wall) versus web-based information to aid self-management of depression and anxiety (The REBOOT study).

Evidence for selection in a prokaryote pangenome (2020)
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A pangenome is the complete set of genes (core and accessory) present in a phylogenetic clade. We hypothesize that a pangenome’s accessory gene content is structured and maintained by selection. To test this hypothesis, we interrogated the genomes of... Read More about Evidence for selection in a prokaryote pangenome.

Altered hippocampal functional connectivity patterns in patients with cognitive impairments following ischaemic stroke: a resting-state fMRI study (2020)
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Background Ischemic stroke with cognitive impairment is a considerable risk factor for developing dementia. Identifying imaging markers of cognitive impairment following ischemic stroke will help to develop prevention strategies against post-stroke d... Read More about Altered hippocampal functional connectivity patterns in patients with cognitive impairments following ischaemic stroke: a resting-state fMRI study.

Review of Networking and Tangible Security Techniques for Domestic IoT Devices and Initial Ideas (2020)
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The number of connected devices including Internet of Things (IoTs) on the Internet is growing fast. According to recent Gartner research, the estimated number of IoT devices is 5.8 billion in 2020 (Gartner, 2019). The countries that are leading the... Read More about Review of Networking and Tangible Security Techniques for Domestic IoT Devices and Initial Ideas.

Assessing the impact of physicochemical parameters in the predictive capabilities of thermodynamics-based stoichiometric approaches under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions (2020)
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Metabolic engineering in the post-genomic era is characterised by the development of new methods for metabolomics and fluxomics, supported by the integration of genetic engineering tools and mathematical modelling. Particularly, constraint-based stoi... Read More about Assessing the impact of physicochemical parameters in the predictive capabilities of thermodynamics-based stoichiometric approaches under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions.

Near Fibre Electromyography (2020)
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Near fibre electromyography (NFEMG) is the use of specifically high-pass filtered motor unit potential (MUPs) (i.e. near fibre MUPs (NFMs)) extracted from needle-detected EMG signals for the examination of changes in motor unit (MU) morphology and el... Read More about Near Fibre Electromyography.

An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia and Their Carers: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial (2020)
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Background: There is a need for more resources to support the cognition and quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia. The individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy application (iCST app) aims to provide cognitive stimulation and social interacti... Read More about An Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy App for People With Dementia and Their Carers: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

The role of school leaders in reform (2020)
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School leaders sit at the fulcrum of educational reform initiatives. This is particularly the case in decentralised school systems in which schools have relatively high levels of autonomy, or decision-making rights, in relation to operational and ins... Read More about The role of school leaders in reform.

Developing a model of best practice for teams managing crisis in people with dementia: A consensus approach (2020)
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Background: Teams delivering crisis resolution services for people with dementia and their carers provide short-term interventions to prevent admission to acute care settings. There is great variation in these services across the UK. This article rep... Read More about Developing a model of best practice for teams managing crisis in people with dementia: A consensus approach.