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A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI (2024)
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Farisco, M., Baldassarre, G., Cartoni, E., Leach, A., Petrovici, M. A., Rosemann, A., Salles, A., Stahl, B., & van Albada, S. J. (2024). A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(6), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10769-4

Despite its successes, to date Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still characterized by a number of shortcomings with regards to different application domains and goals. These limitations are arguably both conceptual (e.g., related to the underlying th... Read More about A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI.

Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset (2024)
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Trodd, Z., Waite, C., Goulding, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2024). Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset. Societies, 14(5), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050062

The new Domestic Workers Dataset is the largest single set of surveys (n = 11,759) of domestic workers to date. Our analysis of this dataset reveals features about the lives and work of this “hard-to-find” population in India—a country estimated to h... Read More about Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset.

The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies (2024)
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Zhou, S., Aragón-Salamanca, A., & Merrifield, M. (2024). The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(4), 4082-4093. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1127

We analyse a sample of massive disc galaxies selected from the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey to investigate how the evolution of these galaxies depends on their stellar and halo... Read More about The separate effect of halo mass and stellar mass on the evolution of massive disc galaxies.

Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery (2024)
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Rochon, M., Tanner, J., Cariaga, K., Ingusan, S. D., Jawarchan, A., Morais, C., Odattil, B., & Dizon, R. (2024). Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 19(5), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2023.0099

Background/Aims Surgical site infections following cardiac surgery pose significant risks and financial burdens to both patients and healthcare systems. This study aimed to explore the implementation and outcomes of a novel surgical wound monitoring... Read More about Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance using patient smartphones: a single-centre experience in cardiac surgery.

Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia (2024)
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Shiwani, H., Clement, N. S., Daniels, J. P., & Atiomo, W. (2024). Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024(5), Article CD012214. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd012214.pub3

Background
Endometrial cancer is one of the most common gynaecological cancers in the world. Rates of endometrial cancer are rising, in part because of rising obesity rates. Endometrial hyperplasia is a precancerous condition in women that can lead... Read More about Metformin for endometrial hyperplasia.

Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation (2024)
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Miller, L. J., Halliday, V., Snowden, J. A., Aithal, G. P., Lee, J., & Greenfield, D. M. (2024). Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 37(4), 1007-1021. https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.13315

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Nutritional prehabilitation may improve haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) outcomes, although little evidence exists. The present study aimed to understand healthcare professional (HCP) perceptions of prehabilitation and nutritiona... Read More about Health professional attitudes and perceptions of prehabilitation and nutrition before haematopoietic cell transplantation.

The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact (2024)
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Kalaria, R., Maestre, G., Mahinrad, S., Acosta, D. M., Akinyemi, R. O., Alladi, S., Allegri, R. F., Arshad, F., Babalola, D. O., Baiyewu, O., Bak, T. H., Bellaj, T., Brodie‐Mends, D. K., Carrillo, M. C., Celestin, K., Damasceno, A., de Silva, R. K., de Silva, R., Djibuti, M., Dreyer, A. J., …Ismail, O. (2024). The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(6), 4290-4314. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13836

Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of global dementia care costs oc... Read More about The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact.

Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care (2024)
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Kanchau, J. D., Akyea, R. K., Baharudin, N., Mohamed-Yassin, M., Kamal, A., Chua, Y., …Ramli, A. S. (2024). Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 27, Article 101619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2024.101619

Background
Adults with severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) may have familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and are at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). The prevalence of elevated LDL-c in primary car... Read More about Prevalence and distributions of severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) according to age, gender and clinic location among patients in the Malaysian primary care.

End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives (2024)
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Wilson, E., Palmer, J., Armstrong, A., Messer, B., Presswood, E., & Faull, C. (2024). End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01443-1

Background
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) leads to muscle weakening, affecting movement, speech, and breathing. Home mechanical ventilation, particularly non-invasive ventilation (NIV), is used to alleviate symptoms and support breathing in people livi... Read More about End of life decision making when home mechanical ventilation is used to sustain breathing in Motor Neurone Disease: patient and family perspectives.

Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation (2024)
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Houston, P., Hubbard, M. E., & Radley, T. J. (2024). Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 166, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2024.04.011

In this article we consider the iterative solution of the linear system of equations arising from the discretisation of the poly-energetic linear Boltzmann transport equation using a high-order/hp–version discontinuous Galerkin finite element approxi... Read More about Iterative solution methods for high-order/hp–DGFEM approximation of the linear Boltzmann transport equation.

Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography (2024)
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Buck, G., Harriott, P., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography. Prison Service Journal, 272, 4-11

This is a story, a kind of map, about a study we co-produced on prison peer support work. The social science community call these mapping stories methodology papers. We have tried to write this one in an informal (less academic) style to appeal to a... Read More about Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography.

Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol (2024)
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Matvienko-Sikar, K., Anokye, R., Dutch, D., Duffy, M., Looney, E., Brown, V., Browne, J., Dahly, D., Devane, D., Harrington, J., Hayes, C., Johnson, B., Kearney, P. M., J Kirkham, J., Leahy-Warren, P., Murphy, A. W., Redsell, S., Seidler, A. L., & Skouteris, H. (in press). Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol. HRB Open Research, 7, Article 28. https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13884.1

Background

Two core outcome sets for childhood obesity prevention have been developed; standardised sets of outcome measurement instruments for these core outcome sets are currently being developed. Core outcome sets and standardised measurement s... Read More about Factors influencing use and choice of Core Outcome Sets and outcome measurement instruments in trials of interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A survey protocol.

A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids (2024)
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Zhang, B., Gao, F., Liao, D., Liu, D., & Wheeler, P. (2024). A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 39(8), 9399-9414. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2024.3395998

Voltage restoration and current sharing are crucial issues for the secondary control in dc microgrids (MGs). Distributed control has been widely employed as an effective approach for the secondary control, where different algorithms can be used in th... Read More about A Dynamic Diffusion Algorithm for Discrete-Time Cooperative Control for DC Microgrids.

From novel ecosystems to novel natures (2024)
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Montana, J., Heger, T., Kelz, R., Bischoff, A., Buitenwerf, R., Eser, U., Kung, K., Sattler, J., Schweiger, A. H., Searle, A., Teixeira, L. H., Travassos-Britto, B., & Higgs, E. (2024). From novel ecosystems to novel natures. GAiA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(1), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.1.6

Ecologists, particularly restoration ecologists, were early to recognise the challenges of historically unprecedented combinations of species and abiotic conditions brought about by human intervention. However, to date, this ecological understanding... Read More about From novel ecosystems to novel natures.

Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers (2024)
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Lashen, A., Alqahtani, S., Shoqafi, A., Algethami, M., Jeyapalan, J. N., Mongan, N. P., Rakha, E. A., & Madhusudan, S. (2024). Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(9), Article 5053. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25095053

Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) is a key cell cycle regulator, with essential roles during G1/S transition. The clinicopathological significance of CDK2 in ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS) and early-stage invasive breast cancers (BCs) remains largel... Read More about Clinicopathological Significance of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 (CDK2) in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers.

Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth (2024)
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Boese-Schlosser, V., & Eberhardt, M. (in press). Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth. Review of Economics and Statistics,

How substantial are the economic benefits from democratic regime change? We argue that democratisation is often not a discrete event but a two-stage process: autocracies enter into 'episodes' of political liberalisation which eventually culminate in... Read More about Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth.

Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh (2024)
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Kawser, A. Q. M. R., Hoque, M. N., Rahman, M. S., Sakif, T. I., Coffey, T. J., & Islam, T. (2024). Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh. PLoS ONE, 19(5), Article e0303047. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303047

The field of fish microbiome research has rapidly been advancing, primarily focusing on farmed or laboratory fish species rather than natural or marine fish populations. This study sought to reveal the distinctive gut bacteriome composition and diver... Read More about Unveiling the gut bacteriome diversity and distribution in the national fish hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of Bangladesh.

NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2 (2024)
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Cardenas, R. P., Zyoud, A., McIntyre, A., Alberio, R., Mongan, N. P., & Allegrucci, C. (2024). NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2. Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 15(1), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-024-03724-1

Background
Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) represent a clinical challenge; they are most prevalent in young individuals and are triggered by molecular mechanisms that are not fully understood. The origin of TGCTs can be traced back to primordia... Read More about NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2.

Simultaneous geraniol and citronellol transesterification using Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase for the production of fragrance and flavour esters: a kinetic study (2024)
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Wikaputri, A. S., Irvine, D. J., Stockman, R. A., & Shivaprasad, P. (2024). Simultaneous geraniol and citronellol transesterification using Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase for the production of fragrance and flavour esters: a kinetic study. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 16, Article 101186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2024.101186

This study aims to develop, for the very first time, a kinetic model for the simultaneous transesterification of geraniol and citronellol using Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase to produce their respective esters. This allows us to test the feasibility... Read More about Simultaneous geraniol and citronellol transesterification using Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase for the production of fragrance and flavour esters: a kinetic study.