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Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change (2023)
Journal Article
The Forecasting Collaborative, Grossmann, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., Dhami, M. K., Guo, X. E., Kara-Yakoubian, M., Mandel, D. R., Raes, L., Tay, L., Vie, A., Wagner, L., Adamkovic, M., Arami, A., Arriaga, P., Bandara, K., Baník, G., …Wilkening, T. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4), 484-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1

How well can social scientists predict societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? To answer these questions, we ran two forecasting tournaments testing the accuracy of predictions of societal change in domains commonly studied in... Read More about Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change.

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (2023). Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 17(1), Article 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2312677

This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen stu... Read More about Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century.

Use of a real-world synthetic control arm for direct comparison of lisocabtagene maraleucel and conventional therapy in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma (2023)
Journal Article
Van Le, H., Van Naarden Braun, K., Nowakowski, G. S., Sermer, D., Radford, J., Townsend, W., Ghesquieres, H., Menne, T., Porpaczy, E., Fox, C. P., Schusterbauer, C., Liu, F. F., Yue, L., De Benedetti, M., & Hasskarl, J. (2023). Use of a real-world synthetic control arm for direct comparison of lisocabtagene maraleucel and conventional therapy in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia & Lymphoma, 64(3), 573-585. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2022.2160200

This study used a real-world population as a synthetic comparator for the single-arm TRANSCEND NHL 001 study (TRANSCEND; NCT02631044) to evaluate the efficacy of lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel) compared with conventional (noncellular) therapies i... Read More about Use of a real-world synthetic control arm for direct comparison of lisocabtagene maraleucel and conventional therapy in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Case-Study (2023)
Journal Article
Flavin, S., Meltonville, M., Taverner, C., Reid, J., Lawrence, S., Belloch-Molina, C., & Morrissey, J. (2023). Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Case-Study. Historical Journal, 66(3), 516-549. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000043

Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the drink itself, particularly... Read More about Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Case-Study.

Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent (2023)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent. In J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (51-70). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509957460.ch-004

I presented a previous draft of this paper at a workshop at Worcester College, Oxford, in March 2022. I am grateful for feedback from the participants at that event, and in particular to Antony Duff and Jesper Ryberg for helpful discussion at that e... Read More about Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent.

DECO2—An Open-Source Energy System Decarbonisation Planning Software including Negative Emissions Technologies (2023)
Journal Article
Nair, P. N. S., Tan, R. R., Foo, D. C., Gamaralalage, D., & Short, M. (2023). DECO2—An Open-Source Energy System Decarbonisation Planning Software including Negative Emissions Technologies. Energies, 16(4), Article 1708. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041708

The deployment of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) and negative emissions technologies (NETs) are crucial to meeting the net-zero emissions target by the year 2050, as emphasised by the Glasgow Climate Pact. Over the years, several energy planning model... Read More about DECO2—An Open-Source Energy System Decarbonisation Planning Software including Negative Emissions Technologies.

Trends in eczema prevalence in children and adolescents: A Global Asthma Network Phase I Study (2023)
Journal Article
Langan, S. M., Mulick, A. R., Rutter, C. E., Silverwood, R., Asher, I., García‐Marcos, L., Ellwood, E., Bissell, K., Chiang, C., Sony, A. E., Ellwood, P., Marks, G., Mortimer, K., Martínez‐Torres, A. E., Morales, E., Perez‐Fernandez, V., Robertson, S., Williams, H., Strachan, D. P., & Pearce, N. (2023). Trends in eczema prevalence in children and adolescents: A Global Asthma Network Phase I Study. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 53(3), 337-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14276

Background: Eczema (atopic dermatitis) is a major global public health issue with high prevalence and morbidity. Our goal was to evaluate eczema prevalence over time, using standardized methodology. Methods: The Global Asthma Network (GAN) Phase I st... Read More about Trends in eczema prevalence in children and adolescents: A Global Asthma Network Phase I Study.

Familiarity, age, weaning and health status impact social proximity networks in dairy calves (2023)
Journal Article
Vázquez-Diosdado, J. A., Occhiuto, F., Carslake, C., & Kaler, J. (2023). Familiarity, age, weaning and health status impact social proximity networks in dairy calves. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 2275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29309-1

Social network analysis in dairy calves has not been widely studied, with previous studies limited by the short study duration, and low number of animals and replicates. In this study, we investigated social proximity interactions of 79 Holstein–Frie... Read More about Familiarity, age, weaning and health status impact social proximity networks in dairy calves.

Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature (2023)
Journal Article
Taylor, L., Wade, P. K., Johnson, J. E. C., Aldighieri, M., Morlando, S., Di Leva, G., Kerr, I. D., & Coyle, B. (2023). Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature. Cancers, 15(4), Article 1086. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15041086

Therapy resistance represents an unmet challenge in the treatment of medulloblastoma. Accordingly, the identification of targets that mark drug-resistant cell populations, or drive the proliferation of resistant cells, may improve treatment strategie... Read More about Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature.

Future therapies for cystic fibrosis (2023)
Journal Article
Allen, L., Allen, L., Carr, S. B., Davies, G., Downey, D., Egan, M., Forton, J. T., Gray, R., Haworth, C., Horsley, A., Smyth, A. R., Southern, K. W., & Davies, J. C. (2023). Future therapies for cystic fibrosis. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36244-2

We are currently witnessing transformative change for people with cystic fibrosis with the introduction of small molecule, mutation-specific drugs capable of restoring function of the defective protein, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regul... Read More about Future therapies for cystic fibrosis.

Micromechanical Modeling of the Deformation and Damage Behavior of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites (2023)
Journal Article
Gatea, S., Jwad, T., Chen, F., & Ou, H. (2023). Micromechanical Modeling of the Deformation and Damage Behavior of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 32, 10680-10701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-023-07907-4

To enhance the performance and design of metal matrix composites, it is extremely important to gain a better understanding of how the microstructure influences the deformation and damage behavior of metal matrix composites under different loading con... Read More about Micromechanical Modeling of the Deformation and Damage Behavior of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites.

Micromechanical Modelling of the Deformation and Damage Behaviour of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites (2023)
Journal Article
Gatea, S., Jwad, T., Chen, F., & Ou, H. (2023). Micromechanical Modelling of the Deformation and Damage Behaviour of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 32, 10680–10701

To enhance the performance and design of metal matrix composites, it is extremely important to gain a better understanding of how the microstructure influences the deformation and damage behaviour of metal matrix composites under different loading co... Read More about Micromechanical Modelling of the Deformation and Damage Behaviour of Al6092/SiC Particle Metal Matrix Composites.

Discovery of Norbornene as a Novel Hydrophobic Tag Applied in Protein Degradation (2023)
Journal Article
Xie, S., Zhan, F., Zhu, J., Sun, Y., Zhu, H., Liu, J., Chen, J., Zhu, Z., Yang, D.-H., Chen, Z.-S., Yao, H., Xu, J., & Xu, S. (2023). Discovery of Norbornene as a Novel Hydrophobic Tag Applied in Protein Degradation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62(13), Article e202217246. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202217246

Hydrophobic tagging (HyT) is a potential therapeutic strategy for targeted protein degradation (TPD). Norbornene was discovered as an unprecedented hydrophobic tag in this study and was used to degrade the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion prot... Read More about Discovery of Norbornene as a Novel Hydrophobic Tag Applied in Protein Degradation.

A rational approach to beam path planning in additive manufacturing: the inverse heat placement problem (2023)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Billingham, J., Axinte, D., & Liao, Z. (2023). A rational approach to beam path planning in additive manufacturing: the inverse heat placement problem. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 479(2270), Article 20220386. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0386

High demand for components with complex geometries at macro and micro levels drives the development of additive manufacturing (AM). However, the scientific basis for designing energy beam scanning strategies (e.g. beam scanning speed, beam path, beam... Read More about A rational approach to beam path planning in additive manufacturing: the inverse heat placement problem.

Recent updates in click and computational chemistry for drug discovery and development (2023)
Journal Article
Cai, J. H., Zhu, X. Z., Guo, P. Y., Rose, P., Liu, X. T., Liu, X., & Zhu, Y. Z. (2023). Recent updates in click and computational chemistry for drug discovery and development. Frontiers in Chemistry, 11, Article 1114970. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2023.1114970

Drug discovery is a costly and time-consuming process with a very high failure rate. Recently, click chemistry and computer-aided drug design (CADD) represent popular areas for new drug development. Herein, we summarized the recent updates in click a... Read More about Recent updates in click and computational chemistry for drug discovery and development.

Contribution of White Matter Fiber Bundle Damage to Language Change After Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (2023)
Journal Article
Binding, L. P., Dasgupta, D., Taylor, P. N., Thompson, P. J., O'Keeffe, A. G., De Tisi, J., Mcevoy, A. W., Miserocchi, A., Duncan, J. S., Duncan, J. S., & Vos, S. B. (2023). Contribution of White Matter Fiber Bundle Damage to Language Change After Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neurology, 100(15), e1621-e1633. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000206862

Background and ObjectivesIn medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), 30%-50% of patients experience substantial language decline after resection in the language-dominant hemisphere. In this study, we investigated the contribution of white m... Read More about Contribution of White Matter Fiber Bundle Damage to Language Change After Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

The influence of heteroresistance on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), investigated using weak-acid stress in food spoilage yeasts (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Violet, J., Smid, J., Pielaat, A., Sanders, J.-W., & Avery, S. V. The influence of heteroresistance on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), investigated using weak-acid stress in food spoilage yeasts

Populations of microbial cells may resist environmental stress by maintaining a high population-median resistance (IC50) or, potentially, a high variability in resistance between individual cells (heteroresistance); where heteroresistance would allow... Read More about The influence of heteroresistance on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), investigated using weak-acid stress in food spoilage yeasts.

Galacto-oligosaccharides fed during gestation increase Rotavirus A specific antibodies in sow colostrum, modulate the microbiome, and reduce infectivity in neonatal piglets in a commercial farm setting (2023)
Journal Article
Lee, A., Liang, L., Connerton, P. L., Connerton, I. F., & Mellits, K. H. (2023). Galacto-oligosaccharides fed during gestation increase Rotavirus A specific antibodies in sow colostrum, modulate the microbiome, and reduce infectivity in neonatal piglets in a commercial farm setting. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 10, Article 1118302. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1118302

Introduction: Rotavirus A is a major cause of acute dehydrating diarrhea in neonatal pigs resulting in significant mortality, morbidity, reduced performance and economic loss. Commercially available prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides are similar to t... Read More about Galacto-oligosaccharides fed during gestation increase Rotavirus A specific antibodies in sow colostrum, modulate the microbiome, and reduce infectivity in neonatal piglets in a commercial farm setting.