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Haemphagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in an English Nationwide Cohort Confirms Increasing Incidence and Variation in Trigger Factors (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishton, M., Crooks, C., Liu, H., Ban, L., Bythell, M., Card, T., …West, J. (2022). Haemphagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in an English Nationwide Cohort Confirms Increasing Incidence and Variation in Trigger Factors. Blood, 140(Supplement 1), 2599-2600. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2022-158999

Background: Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare, life-threatening hyper-inflammatory syndrome triggered by constitutive and acquired risk factors including haematological malignancy, infection, auto-immunity and rheumatological diseas... Read More about Haemphagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in an English Nationwide Cohort Confirms Increasing Incidence and Variation in Trigger Factors.

Reactivity of Sodium Pentaphospholide Na[cyclo ‐P 5] towards C≡E (E=C, N, P) Triple Bonds (2022)
Journal Article
Petrov, A., Conrad, L., Coles, N. T., Weber, M., Andrae, D., Zagidullin, A., …Müller, C. (2022). Reactivity of Sodium Pentaphospholide Na[cyclo ‐P 5] towards C≡E (E=C, N, P) Triple Bonds. Chemistry - A European Journal, 28(67), Article e202203056. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202203056

A diglyme solution of Na[cyclo-P5] (1) reacts with alkynes and isolobal nitriles and phosphaalkynes to afford the otherwise elusive (aza)phospholide anions 2 a–c, 4 a,b, and 6. The reaction of Na[cyclo-P5] with alkynes and nitriles was studied by mea... Read More about Reactivity of Sodium Pentaphospholide Na[cyclo ‐P 5] towards C≡E (E=C, N, P) Triple Bonds.

M1 muscarinic receptor activation reduces the molecular pathology and slows the progression of prion-mediated neurodegenerative disease (2022)
Journal Article
Dwomoh, L., Rossi, M., Scarpa, M., Khajehali, E., Molloy, C., Herzyk, P., …Tobin, A. B. (2022). M1 muscarinic receptor activation reduces the molecular pathology and slows the progression of prion-mediated neurodegenerative disease. Science Signaling, 15(760), 00. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.abm3720

Many dementias are propagated through the spread of “prion-like” misfolded proteins. This includes prion diseases themselves (such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), for which no treatments are available to slow or stop progr... Read More about M1 muscarinic receptor activation reduces the molecular pathology and slows the progression of prion-mediated neurodegenerative disease.

Cortical profiles of numerous psychiatric disorders and normal development share a common pattern (2022)
Journal Article
Cao, Z., Cupertino, R. B., Ottino-Gonzalez, J., Murphy, A., Pancholi, D., Juliano, A., …ENIGMA Addiction Working Group. (2022). Cortical profiles of numerous psychiatric disorders and normal development share a common pattern. Molecular Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01855-6

The neurobiological bases of the association between development and psychopathology remain poorly understood. Here, we identify a shared spatial pattern of cortical thickness (CT) in normative development and several psychiatric and neurological dis... Read More about Cortical profiles of numerous psychiatric disorders and normal development share a common pattern.

Dynamic Capture Using a Traplike Soft Gripper With Stiffness Anisotropy (2022)
Journal Article
Yang, S., Zhou, Y., Walker, I. D., Yang, C., Branson, D. T., Song, Z., …Kang, R. (2023). Dynamic Capture Using a Traplike Soft Gripper With Stiffness Anisotropy. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 28(3), 1337-1346. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2022.3219108

Dynamic capture is a common skill that humans have practiced extensively but is a challenging task for robots in which sensing, planning, and actuation must be tightly coordinated to deal with targets of diverse shapes, sizes, and velocity. In partic... Read More about Dynamic Capture Using a Traplike Soft Gripper With Stiffness Anisotropy.

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., …Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategi... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War (2022)
Journal Article
Mion, G., Opromolla, L. D., Sforza, A., Ornelas, E., Ottaviano, G., Overman, H., & Pisch, F. (in press). The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War. Review of Economics and Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01278

We investigate how managers help firms grow by entering a new export market. We conduct an event study on the decision to export to Angola using data on Portuguese firms and workers. We evaluate the impact of the presence of managers with experience... Read More about The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War.

Alfaxalone population pharmacokinetics in the rat: Model application for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic design in inbred and outbred strains and sexes (2022)
Journal Article
White, K., Aldurdunji, M., Harris, J., Ortori, C., & Paine, S. (2022). Alfaxalone population pharmacokinetics in the rat: Model application for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic design in inbred and outbred strains and sexes. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, 10(6), Article e01031. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.1031

The translation of new injectable anaesthetic drugs from rodent to humans remains slow, despite the realisation that reliance on the volatile agents is unsustainable from an environmental perspective. The aim of this study was to investigate the infl... Read More about Alfaxalone population pharmacokinetics in the rat: Model application for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic design in inbred and outbred strains and sexes.

Burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in older and high-risk adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence from developed countries (2022)
Journal Article
Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S., O'Leary, M., Martin, E. T., Heijnen, E., Callendret, B., Fleischhackl, R., …Weber, K. (2022). Burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in older and high-risk adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence from developed countries. European Respiratory Review, 31(166), Article 220105. https://doi.org/10.1183/16000617.0105-2022

Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) significantly impacts the health of older and high-risk adults (those with comorbidities). We aimed to synthesise the evidence on RSV disease burden and RSV-related healthcare utilisation in both populatio... Read More about Burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in older and high-risk adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence from developed countries.

Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII (2022)
Book
Litten, R., & Wright, C. (Eds.). (2022). Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII. New York: Lacanian Press

We now read Jacques Lacan’s seventeenth seminar from “the other side” of a fifty-year gap separating us from its initial delivery, at the Place du Panthéon, in the academic year 1969-1970. This is factually the case, yet viewing it this way is akin t... Read More about Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII.

Radical-induced hetero-nuclear mixing and low-field 13C relaxation in solid pyruvic acid (2022)
Journal Article
Kouřilová, H., Jurkutat, M., Peat, D., Kouřil, K., Khan, A. S., Horsewill, A. J., …Meier, B. (2022). Radical-induced hetero-nuclear mixing and low-field 13C relaxation in solid pyruvic acid. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(46), 28242-28249. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP04535D

Radicals serve as a source of polarization in dynamic nuclear polarization, but may also act as polarization sink, in particular at low field. Additionally, if the couplings between the electron spins and different nuclear reservoirs are stronger tha... Read More about Radical-induced hetero-nuclear mixing and low-field 13C relaxation in solid pyruvic acid.

Exploring the small mass limit of stationary black holes in theories with Gauss-Bonnet terms (2022)
Journal Article
Fernandes, P. G. S., Mulryne, D. J., & Delgado, J. F. M. (2022). Exploring the small mass limit of stationary black holes in theories with Gauss-Bonnet terms. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 39(23), Article 235015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aca010

In this work we examine the small mass limit of black holes (BHs), with and without spin, in theories where a scalar field is non-minimally coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term. First, we provide an analytical example for a theory where a static close... Read More about Exploring the small mass limit of stationary black holes in theories with Gauss-Bonnet terms.

Roles and impacts of the forest therapy guide: recommendations from practice (2022)
Journal Article
Nachin, L., Rasson, S., Coriat, E. P., & Kotera, Y. (2022). Roles and impacts of the forest therapy guide: recommendations from practice. International Journal of Spa and Wellness, 5(3), 298-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/24721735.2022.2145418

Over the last decade many studies have reported on the health benefits of practices derived from Japanese shinrin-yoku grouped under the term “forest therapy”. However, very few mentioned the roles and potential impacts of the guide on participants e... Read More about Roles and impacts of the forest therapy guide: recommendations from practice.

Signal corrector and decoupling estimations for UAV control (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, X. (2022). Signal corrector and decoupling estimations for UAV control. Aeronautical Journal, 127(1311), 796-817. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2022.86

For a class of uncertain systems with large-error sensing, the low-order stable signal corrector and observer are presented for signal correction and uncertainty estimation according to completely decoupling estimation. The model-free signal correcto... Read More about Signal corrector and decoupling estimations for UAV control.

Direct routes to functional RAFT agents from substituted N-alkyl maleimides (2022)
Journal Article
Catania, R., Foralosso, R., Spanos, L., Russo, E., Mastrotto, F., Gurnani, P., …Mantovani, G. (2022). Direct routes to functional RAFT agents from substituted N-alkyl maleimides. Polymer Chemistry, 13(45), 6261-6267. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1py01565f

N-substituted maleimides have become an indispensable tool for the synthesis of bioconjugates and functional materials. Herein, we present three strategies for the incorporation of N-alkyl substituted maleimides into RAFT agents and show that these m... Read More about Direct routes to functional RAFT agents from substituted N-alkyl maleimides.

Improved Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Low Rank with Joint Sparsity (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Najeeb, F., Wang, X., Xu, P., Omer, H., Zheng, J., …Wang, C. (2022). Improved Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Low Rank with Joint Sparsity. IEEE Access, 10, 121193-121203. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3222313

This work presents a free-breathing dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI reconstruction method called low-rank plus sparse (L+S) with joint sparsity. The proposed method improved dynamic contrast performance by integrating an additional temporal Fast... Read More about Improved Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Low Rank with Joint Sparsity.

L-Series of Harmonic Maass Forms and a Summation Formula for Harmonic Lifts (2022)
Journal Article
Diamantis, N., Lee, M., Raji, W., & Rolen, L. (2023). L-Series of Harmonic Maass Forms and a Summation Formula for Harmonic Lifts. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2023(18), 15729-15765. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnac310

We introduce an L-series associated with harmonic Maass forms and prove their functional equations. We establish converse theorems for these L-series and, as an application, we formulate and prove a summation formula for the holomorphic part of a har... Read More about L-Series of Harmonic Maass Forms and a Summation Formula for Harmonic Lifts.

Glass Fibre Insulated Wire Assessment Under Partial Discharges Activity via Dielectric Dissipation Factor Measurements (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naderiallaf, H., Giangrande, P., & Galea, M. (2022). Glass Fibre Insulated Wire Assessment Under Partial Discharges Activity via Dielectric Dissipation Factor Measurements. In 2022 9th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD 2022) (98-102). https://doi.org/10.23919/CMD54214.2022.9991482

This experimental study evaluates the ageing rate associated with partial discharges (PD) activity for a Type-II insulated wire (i.e., Glass fibre), relying on the dielectric dissipation factor (DDF) and capacitance tip-up measurements. The employed... Read More about Glass Fibre Insulated Wire Assessment Under Partial Discharges Activity via Dielectric Dissipation Factor Measurements.