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Modelling the influence of climate and vector control interventions on arbovirus transmission (2024)
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Fairbanks, E. L., Daly, J. M., & Tildesley, M. J. (in press). Modelling the influence of climate and vector control interventions on arbovirus transmission. Viruses,

Most mathematical models that assess the vectorial capacity of disease-transmitting insects typically focus on the influence of climatic factors to predict variations across different times and locations, or examine the impact of vector control inter... Read More about Modelling the influence of climate and vector control interventions on arbovirus transmission.

Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation (2024)
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Lorito, C. D., Pollock, K., Booth, V., Howe, L., Goldberg, S., Godfrey, M., Dunlop, M., Harwood, R. H., Van Der Wardt, V., & Lorito, C. D. (2024). Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation. BMC Geriatrics, 24(1), Article 615. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05086-y

Background. Interventions promoting social activity may reduce behavioural psychological symptoms and improve quality of life in people living with dementia. This study aimed to identify social benefits for participants living with dementia in the co... Read More about Social participation in the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia (PrAISED), a home-based therapy intervention for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation.

Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia (2024)
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Baigaliyeva, M., Mount, N., Gosling, S. N., & McGowan, S. (2024). Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0305721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305721

Endorheic lakes, lacking river outflows, are highly sensitive to environmental changes and human interventions. Central Asia (CA) has over 6000 lakes that have experienced substantial water level variability in the past century, yet causes of recent... Read More about Unravelling long-term impact of water abstraction and climate change on endorheic lakes: A case study of Shortandy Lake in Central Asia.

Digitalising Specialist Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy: Views of Pregnant Smokers (2024)
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Belderson, P., Mcdaid, L., Emery, J., Coleman, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., & Naughton, F. (in press). Digitalising Specialist Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy: Views of Pregnant Smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research,

Introduction Unsupported attempts to quit smoking during pregnancy have a low success rate. Chances of quitting successfully are higher with an interpersonal treatment programme but there is low uptake of this in the United Kingdom (UK). Delivering... Read More about Digitalising Specialist Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy: Views of Pregnant Smokers.

Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate (2024)
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Ewers, R. M., Orme, C. D. L., Pearse, W. D., Zulkifli, N., Yvon-Durocher, G., Yusah, K. M., Yoh, N., Yeo, D. C. J., Wong, A., Williamson, J., Wilkinson, C. L., Wiederkehr, F., Webber, B. L., Wearn, O. R., Wai, L., Vollans, M., Twining, J. P., Turner, E. C., Tobias, J. A., Thorley, J., …Banks-Leite, C. (2024). Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07657-w

Logged and disturbed forests are often viewed as degraded and depauperate environments compared with primary forest. However, they are dynamic ecosystems1 that provide refugia for large amounts of biodiversity2,3, so we cannot afford to underestimate... Read More about Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate.

Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System (2024)
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Kou, Y.-J., Gao, J., Li, R., Ma, Z.-Y., Elsheikha, H. M., Wu, X.-J., Zheng, X.-N., Wang, M., & Zhu, X.-Q. (2024). Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(14), Article 7834. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25147834

Eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) are crucial for initiating protein translation and ensuring the correct assembly of mRNA-ribosomal subunit complexes. In this study, we investigated the effects of deleting six eIFs in the apicomplexan... Read More about Functional Characterization of Six Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors of Toxoplasma gondii Using the CRISPR-Cas9 System.

The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes (2024)
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Hassard, J., Dulal-Arthur, T., Bourke, J., Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Leka, S., Pahl, N., Bartle, C., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306065

Background: Line manager (LM) training in mental health is gaining recognition as an effective method for improving the mental health and wellbeing of workers. However, research predominantly focuses on the impacts of training at the employee-level,... Read More about The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes.

AI and the Iterable Epistopics of Risk (2024)
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Crabtree, A., McGarry, G., & Urquhart, L. (in press). AI and the Iterable Epistopics of Risk. AI & Society,

The risks AI presents to society are broadly understood to be manageable through 'general calculus', i.e., general frameworks designed to enable those involved in the development of AI to apprehend and manage risk, such as AI impact assessments, ethi... Read More about AI and the Iterable Epistopics of Risk.

Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges (2024)
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Hall, C. L., Gómez Bergin, A. D., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. (in press). Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges. Journal of Medical Internet Research, https://doi.org/10.2196/58939

Digital mental health interventions are routinely integrated into mental health services internationally, and can contribute to the reduction of the global mental health treatment gap that has been identified by the World Health Organisation. Researc... Read More about Research into digital health intervention for mental health: a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges.

Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq (2024)
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Karim, A. B., Young, S. D., Hawrami, K. A., & Bailey, E. H. (2024). Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 85, Article 127495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2024.127495

Aim The primary aim of this study was to determine the selenium (Se) and iodine (I) food concentrations and dietary intake of the population living in the Kurdish controlled region of northern Iraq. We also assessed the extent to which iodised salt... Read More about Iodine and selenium: dietary sources and nutritional status of the population of the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq.

Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine (2024)
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Sanchez, I., & Rahman, R. (2024). Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine. Current Oncology Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-024-01580-z

Purpose of Review Isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumour in adults. Its infiltrative nature and heterogeneity confer a dismal prognosis, despite multimodal treatment. Precision medicine is increa... Read More about Radiogenomics as an Integrated Approach to Glioblastoma Precision Medicine.

Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development (2024)
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Yeo, C., Charles, A., Lewandowski, F., Lichtenberg, P., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., Tang, Y., Voronka, J., & Rodrigues, L. (in press). Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development. Journal of Mental Health, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2361233

Background Soteria houses and peer respites, collectively called Healing Houses, are alternatives to psychiatric hospitalisation. Aims The aim of this research is to review Healing Houses in relation to design characteristics (architectural and... Read More about Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development.

Making two particle detectors in flat spacetime communicate quantumly (2024)
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Lapponi, A., Louko, J., & Mancini, S. (2024). Making two particle detectors in flat spacetime communicate quantumly. Physical Review D, 110(2), Article 025018. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.025018

A communication protocol with nonzero quantum capacity is found when the two communicating parts are particle detector models in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime. In particular, as detectors, we consider two harmonic oscillators interacting with a scalar... Read More about Making two particle detectors in flat spacetime communicate quantumly.

Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits (2024)
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Causer, L., Jung, F., Mitra, A., Pollmann, F., & Gammon-Smith, A. (2024). Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits. Physical Review Research, 6(3), Article 033062. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.6.033062

The advent of near-term digital quantum computers could offer us an exciting opportunity to investigate quantum many-body phenomena beyond that of classical computing. To make the best use of the hardware available, it is paramount that we have metho... Read More about Scalable simulation of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics via classically optimized unitary circuits.

Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology (2024)
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Darmani, M. A., Cavagnino, A., Vaschetto, S., Marignetti, F., & Gerada, C. (online). Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology. IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, https://doi.org/10.1109/ojia.2024.3427863

This study presents a sizing methodology in the frame of the multidisciplinary design of interior permanent magnet synchronous machines. The proposed approach targets at obtaining an initial electromagnetic design of the machine, including diameters,... Read More about Multiphysics Sizing of Interior Permanent Magnet Machines Based on Geometric Methodology.

Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma (2024)
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Baker, H. (2024). Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2024.2364668

In this case study, the character of Miss Havisham, from Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, is explored as a representation of frozen trauma. Support is offered for the usefulness of fictional case study to therapeutic understanding and practice, and... Read More about Sitting in the mess: Miss Havisham, a representation of frozen trauma.

PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays (2024)
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Stewart, C. L., Hook, A. L., Zelzer, M., Marlow, M., & Piccinini, A. M. (2024). PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays. Cell Biochemistry and Function, 42(5), Article e4097. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbf.4097

We identified that PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels, which have been used in human clinical trials and possess a demonstrable safety profile, induced significant cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays. This major contradiction may lead to inconsistent a... Read More about PLGA-PEG-PLGA hydrogels induce cytotoxicity in conventional in vitro assays.