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New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence (2024)
Journal Article
Shimakawa, R., Pérez-Martínez, J. M., Koyama, Y., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Kodama, T., Hatch, N. A., Röttgering, H. J., Dannerbauer, H., & Kurk, J. D. (2024). New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(2), 3679–3695. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae118

As a considerable investment of time from various telescope facilities was dedicated toward studying the Spiderweb protocluster at z = 2.2, it so far remains one of the most extensively studied protocluster. We report here the latest results in this... Read More about New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence.

Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity (2024)
Journal Article
Lord, J. M., Veenith, T., Sullivan, J., Sharma-Oates, A., Richter, A. G., Greening, N. J., McAuley, H. J. C., Evans, R. A., Moss, P., Moore, S. C., Turtle, L., Gautam, N., Gilani, A., Bajaj, M., Wain, L. V., Brightling, C., Raman, B., Marks, M., Singapuri, A., Elneima, O., …Bolton, C. E. (2024). Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity. Immunity and Ageing, 21(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12979-023-00406-z

Background: The striking increase in COVID-19 severity in older adults provides a clear example of immunesenescence, the age-related remodelling of the immune system. To better characterise the association between convalescent immunesenescence and ac... Read More about Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity.

The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory (2024)
Journal Article
Davidson, C., Theyer, A., Amaireh, G., & Wijeakumar, S. (2024). The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory. Infant Behavior and Development, 74, Article 101921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101921

Visual working memory (VWM) emerges in the first year of life and has far-reaching implications for academic and later life outcomes. Given that caregivers play a significant role in shaping cognitive function in children, it is important to understa... Read More about The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory.

Criteria and indicators for Centers of Clinical Excellence in stroke recovery and rehabilitation: A global consensus facilitated by ISRRA Article type: Research (2024)
Journal Article
Stockley, R. C., Walker, M. F., Alt Murphy, M., Abd Aziz, N. A., Amooba, P., Churliov, L., Farrin, A., Fini, N. A., Ghaziani, E., Godecke, E., Gutierrez-Panchana, T., Jia, J., Kandasamy, T., Lindsay, P., Solomon, J., Thijs, V., Tindall, T., Tippett, D. C., Watkins, C., & Lynch, E. (2024). Criteria and indicators for Centers of Clinical Excellence in stroke recovery and rehabilitation: A global consensus facilitated by ISRRA Article type: Research. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 38(2), 87-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/15459683231222026

Background
The aim of the International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance is to create a world where worldwide collaboration brings major breakthroughs for the millions of people living with stroke. A key pillar of this work is to define g... Read More about Criteria and indicators for Centers of Clinical Excellence in stroke recovery and rehabilitation: A global consensus facilitated by ISRRA Article type: Research.

Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain (2024)
Book
Gregory, L., & Iafrati, S. (2024). Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9692658

Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of citizens.

This book fills this gap, by exploring h... Read More about Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain.

Modelling of modular soft robots: From a single to multiple building blocks (2024)
Journal Article
Atia, M. G., Mohammad, A., Gameros, A., Axinte, D., & Wright, I. (2024). Modelling of modular soft robots: From a single to multiple building blocks. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 174, Article 104622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2024.104622

Despite the advances in soft robots, their modelling is still one of the research challenges due to the complexity and non-linearity of their soft nature. A novel design of reconfigurable soft robots was recently introduced to bring more maturity to... Read More about Modelling of modular soft robots: From a single to multiple building blocks.

ChatGPT sits the DFPH exam: large language model performance and potential to support public health learning (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, N. P., Wilson, R., Winder, M. S., Tunster, S. J., McVicar, K., Thakrar, S., Williams, J., & Reid, A. (2024). ChatGPT sits the DFPH exam: large language model performance and potential to support public health learning. BMC Medical Education, 24(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05042-9

Background: Artificial intelligence-based large language models, like ChatGPT, have been rapidly assessed for both risks and potential in health-related assessment and learning. However, their applications in public health professional exams have not... Read More about ChatGPT sits the DFPH exam: large language model performance and potential to support public health learning.

Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 (2024)
Journal Article
Goddard, R., & Smalley, G. (2024). Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2299035

This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materials to investigate the financial management of the fra... Read More about Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546.

The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm (2024)
Journal Article
Harianja, M. F., Luke, S. H., Barclay, H., Chey, V. K., Aldridge, D. C., Foster, W. A., & Turner, E. C. (2024). The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, Article 1203513. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1203513

Despite the diverse ecosystem services that forested stream margins (“riparian buffer strips”) can provide in agricultural landscapes, understanding of their biodiversity impacts in the tropics is lacking. Stream invertebrates support many ecosystem... Read More about The impacts of within-stream physical structure and riparian buffer strips on semi-aquatic bugs in Southeast Asian oil palm.

Disruption of Epithelial Barriers for Molecular Delivery Enhancement or Extraction of Extracellular Fluids (2024)
Patent
Webb, K., Moradi, E., & Foss, A. (2024). Disruption of Epithelial Barriers for Molecular Delivery Enhancement or Extraction of Extracellular Fluids. WO2024009101A1. UK

The invention provides a method of delivering a payload molecule across an epithelial tissue barrier, the method comprising: applying the payload molecule to the epithelial tissue barrier, and additionally applying an agent to the epithelial tissue b... Read More about Disruption of Epithelial Barriers for Molecular Delivery Enhancement or Extraction of Extracellular Fluids.

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities (2024)
Journal Article
Cooper, D. L., Lewis, S. L., Sullivan, M. J., Prado, P. I., Prado, P. I., ter Steege, H., Barbier, N., Slik, F., Sonké, B., Ewango, C. E. N., Ewango, C. E., Adu-Bredu, S., Affum-Baffoe, K., de Aguiar, D. P. P., Ahuite Reategui, M. A., Aiba, S.-I., Albuquerque, B. W., de Almeida Matos, F. D., Alonso, A., Amani, C. A., …Zent, S. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625(7996), 728-734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about m... Read More about Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.

Phylogeography of a commercially important reef fish, Lutjanus ehrenbergii, from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula (2024)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M. H., Wade, C. M., D’Agostino, D., Berumen, M. L., Burt, J. A., DiBattista, J. D., & Feary, D. A. (2024). Phylogeography of a commercially important reef fish, Lutjanus ehrenbergii, from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 143(2), Article blad170. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad170

The coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula include a heterogeneous marine region comprising the Persian/Arabian Gulf and Sea of Oman at its northeastern boundary and the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea at its southern and western boundary. Th... Read More about Phylogeography of a commercially important reef fish, Lutjanus ehrenbergii, from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula.

Cat Royale (2024)
Other
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Tandavanitj, N., Adams, M., & Farr, J. R. (2024). Cat Royale

Would you let a robot care for your pet? Blast Theory’s Cat Royale explores the impact of AI on humans and animals. For 12 days, Ghostbuster, Pumpkin, and Clover played with a robot arm that offered them games, toys, and treats every few minutes. The... Read More about Cat Royale.

Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) (2024)
Journal Article
Jayaweera, D. P., Dambire, C., Angelopoulou, D., Munné-Bosch, S., Swarup, R., & Ray, R. V. (2024). Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 11(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40538-023-00531-3

Background: Raising global temperatures limit crop productivity and new strategies are needed to improve the resilience of thermosensitive crops such as potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Biostimulants are emerging as potential crop protection products a... Read More about Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.).

Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data (2024)
Journal Article
Mansilla, R., Long, G., Welham, S., Harvey, J., Lukinova, E., Nica-Avram, G., Smith, G., Salt, D., Smith, A., & Goulding, J. (2024). Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 1017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50180-7

Plant-based product replacements are gaining popularity. However, the long-term health implications remain poorly understood, and available methods, though accurate, are expensive and burdensome, impeding the study of sufficiently large cohorts. To i... Read More about Detecting iodine deficiency risks from dietary transitions using shopping data.

Factors influencing older women's decision‐making related to treatment of operable breast cancer: A qualitative systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Malcolm, F. L., Howard, P., Klukowska, A. M., Minhas, N., Parks, R. M., & Cheung, K. L. (2024). Factors influencing older women's decision‐making related to treatment of operable breast cancer: A qualitative systematic review. Psycho-Oncology, 33(1), Article e6294. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6294

Objective: There is variation in practice in the treatment of older women with breast cancer. International guidelines highlight the importance of patient autonomy in treatment decision‐making. The aim of this study is to identify factors which influ... Read More about Factors influencing older women's decision‐making related to treatment of operable breast cancer: A qualitative systematic review.

Functional performance of a bi-layered chitosan-nano-hydroxyapatite osteochondral scaffold: a pre-clinical in vitro tribological study (2024)
Journal Article
Cowie, R. M., Macri-Pellizzeri, L., McLaren, J., Sanderson, W. J., Felfel, R. M., Scotchford, C. A., Scammell, B. E., Grant, D. M., Sottile, V., & Jennings, L. M. (2024). Functional performance of a bi-layered chitosan-nano-hydroxyapatite osteochondral scaffold: a pre-clinical in vitro tribological study. Royal Society Open Science, 11(1), Article 230431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230431

Osteochondral grafts are used for repair of focal osteochondral lesions. Autologous grafts are the gold standard treatment; however, limited graft availability and donor site morbidity restrict use. Therefore, there is a clinical need for different g... Read More about Functional performance of a bi-layered chitosan-nano-hydroxyapatite osteochondral scaffold: a pre-clinical in vitro tribological study.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times - Health and wellbeing in Nottingham during the 2022 heatwave (2024)
Report
Ogunbode, C., Cooper, E., Prosser, A., Kirkcaldy, H., & Hui, A. (2024). It was the best of times; it was the worst of times - Health and wellbeing in Nottingham during the 2022 heatwave. Nottingham: Nottingham City Council

Previous research provided indications of areas in Nottingham that face higher risks during hot periods based on social and geographical data, but there was little insight into lived experiences of dealing with heat among Nottingham communities. We d... Read More about It was the best of times; it was the worst of times - Health and wellbeing in Nottingham during the 2022 heatwave.

Highly sensitive optical fibre Bragg grating contact pressure sensor embedded in a polymer layer: modelling and experimental validation (2024)
Journal Article
Abeywardena, C., Zhang, Q., Korposh, S., Morgan, S., Bull, S., & Correia, R. (2024). Highly sensitive optical fibre Bragg grating contact pressure sensor embedded in a polymer layer: modelling and experimental validation. Results in Optics, 14, Article 100604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rio.2024.100604

This paper discusses mathematical modelling and experimental validation of a highly sensitive optical fibre Bragg grating (FBG) contact pressure sensor developed for healthcare applications. Bare FBGs are not very sensitive to pressure (~ 3x10-3 nm/M... Read More about Highly sensitive optical fibre Bragg grating contact pressure sensor embedded in a polymer layer: modelling and experimental validation.

Perturbative effective field theory expansions for cosmological phase transitions (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, O., & Tenkanen, T. V. I. (2024). Perturbative effective field theory expansions for cosmological phase transitions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024, Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01%282024%29048

Guided by previous non-perturbative lattice simulations of a two-step electroweak phase transition, we reformulate the perturbative analysis of equilibrium thermodynamics for generic cosmological phase transitions in terms of effective field theory (... Read More about Perturbative effective field theory expansions for cosmological phase transitions.