All Outputs (2215)

Measurement on the fatigue-healing performance of SARAs fractions in bitumen and its characterization by molecular simulations (2024)
Journal Article
Xu, H., Wu, S., Chen, A., Zou, Y., Airey, G., Wang, H., & Zhang, H. (2024). Measurement on the fatigue-healing performance of SARAs fractions in bitumen and its characterization by molecular simulations. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 412, Article 125850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125850

The objective of this research was to investigate the healing characteristics of bitumen through the assessment of fatigue-healing performance of SARAs fractions and its characterization at the molecular level with SARAs fractions as the intermediate... Read More about Measurement on the fatigue-healing performance of SARAs fractions in bitumen and its characterization by molecular simulations.

Development of a Best Practice Guidance on Online Peer Support for People with Young-Onset Dementia (2024)
Journal Article
Loseto-Gerritzen, E. V., McDermott, O., & Orrell, M. (2024). Development of a Best Practice Guidance on Online Peer Support for People with Young-Onset Dementia. Behavioral Sciences, 14(9), Article 746. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14090746

This work aimed to develop a Best Practice Guidance on online peer support for people with young-onset dementia (YOD). The Best Practice Guidance was developed through a systematic literature review, focus groups, an online survey, and interviews and... Read More about Development of a Best Practice Guidance on Online Peer Support for People with Young-Onset Dementia.

Stable Platform for Mevalonate Bioproduction from CO2 (2024)
Journal Article
Garavaglia, M., McGregor, C., Bommareddy, R. R., Irorere, V., Arenas, C., Robazza, A., Minton, N. P., & Kovacs, K. (2024). Stable Platform for Mevalonate Bioproduction from CO2. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c03561

Stable production of value-added products using a microbial chassis is pivotal for determining the industrial suitability of the engineered biocatalyst. Microbial cells often lose the multicopy expression plasmids during long-term cultivations. Owing... Read More about Stable Platform for Mevalonate Bioproduction from CO2.

Comorbidities and Angiogenic Regulators Affect Endothelial Progenitor Cell Subtype Numbers in a Healthy Volunteer Control Group (2024)
Journal Article
Rakkar, K., Kadir, R. R. A., Othman, O. A., Sprigg, N., Bath, P. M., & Bayraktutan, U. (2024). Comorbidities and Angiogenic Regulators Affect Endothelial Progenitor Cell Subtype Numbers in a Healthy Volunteer Control Group. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-024-10777-5

Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are stem cells that can repair injured blood vessels through neovascularisation. This is achieved through secretion of growth factors and endothelial maturation. EPC numbers and function have been studied to determ... Read More about Comorbidities and Angiogenic Regulators Affect Endothelial Progenitor Cell Subtype Numbers in a Healthy Volunteer Control Group.

European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Canine Acute Diarrhoea (2024)
Journal Article
Jessen, L., Werner, M., Singleton, D., Prior, C., Foroutan, F., Ferran, A., Arenas, C., R. Bjørnvad, C., Lavy, E., Allerton, F., Allensbach, K., Guardabassi, L., Unterer, S., Bodnárová, T., Windahl, U., Brennan, M., Weese, J., & Scahill, K. (2024). European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Canine Acute Diarrhoea. Veterinary Journal, 307, Article 106208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2024.106208

Acute diarrhoea is a common presentation in dogs, and a common reason for antimicrobial prescription and nutraceutical use. This evidence-based guideline provides recommendations for antimicrobial and probiotic treatment of canine acute diarrhoea (CA... Read More about European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Therapy (ENOVAT) Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Canine Acute Diarrhoea.

Conceptual Framework for Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Pavement Management System (PMS) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Utami, R., OSORIO SANDOVAL, C. A., & Thom, N. (2024, August). Conceptual Framework for Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Pavement Management System (PMS). Presented at ICCBE 2024: The 20th conference of the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Canada

In developing countries, pavement management systems (PMS) face limitations such as insufficient data, budget constraints, and inadequate analysis tools. To address those limitations, simplified PMS are needed to increase efficiency and effectiveness... Read More about Conceptual Framework for Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Pavement Management System (PMS).

A BIM-Based Assessment Method for Reusing Components from Existing Precast Concrete Buildings (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Jawhar, H., Thermou, G., Osorio-Sandoval, C., & Tokbolat, S. (2024, August). A BIM-Based Assessment Method for Reusing Components from Existing Precast Concrete Buildings. Presented at ICCBE 2024: The 20th conference of the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Canada

Reusing concrete components is a promising solution for mitigating the environmental impact of waste generated by construction and demolition activities. This study aims to contribute to this effort by assessing the reusability of existing precast co... Read More about A BIM-Based Assessment Method for Reusing Components from Existing Precast Concrete Buildings.

Scoping review exploring the evidence base on Vitis vinifera toxicity in dogs after ingestion: Clinical effects, treatments and types of V. vinifera (2024)
Journal Article
Downs, J., Zoltowska, A., Hackney, T., Gardner, D. S., Ashmore, A., & Brennan, M. L. (2024). Scoping review exploring the evidence base on Vitis vinifera toxicity in dogs after ingestion: Clinical effects, treatments and types of V. vinifera. Veterinary Record, https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.4536

Background
Treatment of Vitis vinifera fruit (VVF) ingestion can be challenging due to no clear toxic dose, signalment factors and variable clinical signs. Current treatment guidance is generalised: decontamination, aggressive fluid therapy, monitor... Read More about Scoping review exploring the evidence base on Vitis vinifera toxicity in dogs after ingestion: Clinical effects, treatments and types of V. vinifera.

Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism (2024)
Journal Article
Milano, C., Novelli, M., & Russo, A. P. (2024). Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism. Tourism Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2391388

Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, w... Read More about Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism.

Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Filamentous Fungal Biofilms of Neurospora Discreta (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Narayanan Raghavan, A., M. Aiswarya, N., Tabraiz, S., Taneja, H., & Ahmed, A. Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Filamentous Fungal Biofilms of Neurospora Discreta

The picture of bacterial biofilms as a colloidal gel composed of rigid bacterial cells protected by extracellular crosslinked polymer matrix has been pivotal in understanding their ability to adapt their microstructure and viscoelasticity to environm... Read More about Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of Filamentous Fungal Biofilms of Neurospora Discreta.

A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people (2024)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Vallejos, E. P., Ten Holter, C., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., & Zhao, J. (2024). A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people. Journal of Responsible Technology, 19, Article 100093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100093

This paper reports on a qualitative research study that explored the practical and emotional experiences of young people aged 13–17 using algorithmically-mediated online platforms. It demonstrates an RI-based methodology for responsible two-way dialo... Read More about A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people.

Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics (2024)
Journal Article
Shao, X.-Q., Su, S.-L., Li, L., Nath, R., Wu, J.-H., & Li, W. (2024). Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211071

Dense atom ensembles with Rydberg excitations display intriguing collective effects mediated by their strong, long-range dipole–dipole interactions. These collective effects, often modeled using Rydberg superatoms, have gained significant attention a... Read More about Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics.

Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2024). Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence. Parergon, 41(1), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935340

Ekphrasis has long been a topic of interest to literary scholars, but until quite recently medieval ekphrasis has existed on the periphery of most accounts of it. This article explores the distinctive nature of medieval ekphrasis in passages of descr... Read More about Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence.

Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients (2024)
Journal Article
Kouraki, A., Zheng, A. S., Miller, S., Kelly, A., Ashraf, W., Bazzani, D., Bonadiman, A., Tonidandel, G., Bolzan, M., Vijay, A., Nightingale, J., Menni, C., Ollivere, B. J., & Valdes, A. M. (2024). Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients. iScience, 27(9), Article 110783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110783

We investigated changes in microbiome composition and abundance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes post-antibiotic treatment in severe trauma patients. Shotgun sequencing revealed beta diversity (Bray-Curtis) differences between 16 hospitalized... Read More about Metagenomic changes in response to antibiotic treatment in severe orthopedic trauma patients.

Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes (2024)
Journal Article
Matuk, J., Kurtek, S., & Bharath, K. (in press). Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,

Topological data analysis provides a set of tools to uncover low-dimensional structure in noisy point clouds. Prominent amongst the tools is persistence homology, which summarizes birth-death times of homological features using data objects known as... Read More about Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes.

To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games (2024)
Journal Article
Jagau, S. (2024). To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games. Games and Economic Behavior, 147, 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2024.08.011

Five decades after Harsanyi and Selten's seminal work on equilibrium selection, we remain unable to predict the outcomes of real-life coordination even in simple cases. One reason is that experiments have struggled to quantify the effects of payoff-a... Read More about To Catch a Stag Identifying payoff-and risk-dominance effects in coordination games.

Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024 (2024)
Journal Article
Roehr, C. C., Farley, H. J., Mahmoud, R. A., & Ojha, S. (2024). Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024. Neonatology, https://doi.org/10.1159/000540601

Background: Guidelines recommend non-invasive ventilatory (NIV) support as first-line respiratory support mode in preterm infants as NIV is superior to intubation and mechanical ventilation in preventing death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia. However,... Read More about Non-Invasive Ventilatory Support in Preterm Neonates in the Delivery Room and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Short Narrative Review of What We Know in 2024.

'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George (2024)
Journal Article
Sutherland, L. (in press). 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George. Critical Quarterly,

Sunday in the Park With George (Sunday) was a pivotal piece of work for Stephen Sondheim, written in the early 80s, at a time when he broke away from Broadway production processes to work in the nonprofit sector, developing this musical with James La... Read More about 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George.

The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction (2024)
Journal Article
Liddle, P. F., & Sami, M. B. (2024). The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction. Biological Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.007

Persisting symptoms and disability remain a problem for an appreciable proportion of people with schizophrenia despite treatment with antipsychotic medication. Improving outcomes requires an understanding of the nature and mechanisms of the pathologi... Read More about The mechanisms of persisting disability in schizophrenia: imprecise predictive coding via cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical loop dysfunction.

Computer Vision for Substrate Detection in High‐Throughput Biomaterial Screens Using Bright‐Field Microscopy (2024)
Journal Article
Owen, R., Nasir, A., H. Amer, M., Nie, C., Xue, X., Burroughs, L., Denning, C., D. Wildman, R., A. Khan, F., R. Alexander, M., & R. A. J. Rose, F. (2024). Computer Vision for Substrate Detection in High‐Throughput Biomaterial Screens Using Bright‐Field Microscopy. Advanced Intelligent Systems, Article 2400573. https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400573

High-throughput screening (HTS) can be used when ab initio information is unavailable for rational design of new materials, generating data on properties such as chemistry and topography that control cell behavior. Biomaterial screens are typically f... Read More about Computer Vision for Substrate Detection in High‐Throughput Biomaterial Screens Using Bright‐Field Microscopy.