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Trial of Selective Early Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Ibuprofen (2024)
Journal Article
Gupta, S., Subhedar, N. V., Bell, J. L., Field, D., Bowler, U., Hutchison, E., …Baby-OSCAR Collaborative Group, B.-O. C. G. (2024). Trial of Selective Early Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Ibuprofen. New England Journal of Medicine, 390(4), 314-325. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2305582

BACKGROUND: The cyclooxygenase inhibitor ibuprofen may be used to treat patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants. Whether selective early treatment of large PDAs with ibuprofen would improve short-term outcomes is not known. METHODS: We cond... Read More about Trial of Selective Early Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Ibuprofen.

Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act (2024)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Hatton, T. J., & Steinhardt, M. F. (2024). Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act. Journal of Economic History, 84(1), 232-270. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000529

The 1965 Immigration Act represented a radical shift in US policy, which has been credited with dramatically expanding the volume and changing the composition of immigration. Its passing has often been described as the result of political machination... Read More about Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act.

Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2024). Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2024-0001

The role of knowledge spillover for cooperative research and development (R&D), where firms commit before R&D about sharing R&D outcomes and choosing joint profit maximising R&D investments, is well known. In a duopoly model of product innovation wit... Read More about Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs.

Feasibility of delivering a randomized controlled trial of weighted blanket intervention to help agitation and disturbed sleep after brain injury (2024)
Journal Article
Edwards, L. (2024). Feasibility of delivering a randomized controlled trial of weighted blanket intervention to help agitation and disturbed sleep after brain injury. Frontiers in Sleep, 3, Article 1325175. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2024.1325175

Sleep disturbance and agitation are common after acquired brain injury (ABI). Weighted blankets may help these symptoms in other conditions, but have not been trialed in ABI. We aimed to determine acceptability and feasibility of weighted blankets to... Read More about Feasibility of delivering a randomized controlled trial of weighted blanket intervention to help agitation and disturbed sleep after brain injury.

Assessing the spatial distribution of positional error associated to dense point cloud measurements using regional Gaussian random fields (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Catalucci, S., Senin, N., & Piano, S. (2024). Assessing the spatial distribution of positional error associated to dense point cloud measurements using regional Gaussian random fields. Measurement, 227, Article 114194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2024.114194

Being able to assess the amount of uncertainty locally associated to dense point clouds generated by measurement can help investigate the relations between the metrological performance of a chosen measuring technology, and the local geometric and sur... Read More about Assessing the spatial distribution of positional error associated to dense point cloud measurements using regional Gaussian random fields.

Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse (2024)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2024). Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse. Heritage, 7(2), 537-575. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7020026

Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often when it is unpopular to do so. To the ire of hegemons, leftist projects ac... Read More about Radical Left Culture and Heritage, the Politics of Preservation and Memorialisation, and the Promise of the Metaverse.

Energy-absorbing particles for enhanced mechanical performance of asphalt's aggregate skeleton (2024)
Journal Article
Traseira-Piñeiro, L., Bodaghi, M., Grizi, A., Garcia-Hernandez, A., & Albertini, G. (2024). Energy-absorbing particles for enhanced mechanical performance of asphalt's aggregate skeleton. Construction and Building Materials, 415, Article 135055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.135055

This paper evaluates the feasibility of using 3D-printed lattice metamaterials as an alternative to capsules containing rejuvenators to enhance the self-healing capability of asphalt. The original purpose of these capsules is to encapsulate a rejuven... Read More about Energy-absorbing particles for enhanced mechanical performance of asphalt's aggregate skeleton.

Effect of skin color on optical properties and the implications for medical optical technologies: a review (2024)
Journal Article
Setchfield, K., Gorman, A., Simpson, A. H. R. W., Somekh, M. G., & Wright, A. J. (2024). Effect of skin color on optical properties and the implications for medical optical technologies: a review. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 29(01), Article 010901. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jbo.29.1.010901

Significance: Skin color affects light penetration leading to differences in its absorption and scattering properties. COVID-19 highlighted the importance of understanding of the interaction of light with different skin types, e.g., pulse oximetry (P... Read More about Effect of skin color on optical properties and the implications for medical optical technologies: a review.

Piezoelectric excitation and acoustic detection of thin film polymer membrane vibrations (2024)
Journal Article
Roberts, N. M., & Sharp, J. S. (2024). Piezoelectric excitation and acoustic detection of thin film polymer membrane vibrations. Physical Review E, 109(1), Article 014802. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.109.014802

A simple method of measuring the vibrational response of a thin film membrane was developed. Piezoelectric excitation and acoustic detection (using a microphone) allowed the vibrational spectra of thin membranes to be measured in the kHz range. Vibra... Read More about Piezoelectric excitation and acoustic detection of thin film polymer membrane vibrations.

There are more, or fewer, things than most of us think (2024)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2024). There are more, or fewer, things than most of us think. Metaphysica, https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2023-0035

In Chapter 12 of his book Material Beings (Van Inwagen, Peter. 1990. Material Beings. Ithaca: Cornell University Press) van Inwagen argues that there are no artefacts, or very few, certainly fewer than most people believe. Artisans very rarely create... Read More about There are more, or fewer, things than most of us think.

A Novel Virtual Vector Modulation-based scheme of Model Power Predictive for VIENNA Rectifier (2024)
Journal Article
Dang, C., Dang, C., Dang, C., Wang, Y., Jiang, Z., Liu, D., …Pat, W. (2024). A Novel Virtual Vector Modulation-based scheme of Model Power Predictive for VIENNA Rectifier. Franklin Open,

When the finite control set model predictive(FCS-MPC) algorithm is applied to the three-level converter, there are problems such as large current harmonics, high requirements for the computing efficiency of the micro-controller, complex multi-objecti... Read More about A Novel Virtual Vector Modulation-based scheme of Model Power Predictive for VIENNA Rectifier.

Age-related impact of social isolation in mice: Young vs middle-aged (2024)
Journal Article
Magalhães, D. M., Mampay, M., Sebastião, A. M., Sheridan, G. K., & Valente, C. A. (2024). Age-related impact of social isolation in mice: Young vs middle-aged. Neurochemistry International, 174, Article 105678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2024.105678

Social isolation is a chronic mild stressor and a significant risk factor for mental health disorders. Herein we explored the impact of social isolation on depression- and anxiety-like behaviours, as well as spatial memory impairments, in middle-aged... Read More about Age-related impact of social isolation in mice: Young vs middle-aged.

Pragmatic, feasibility randomized controlled trial of a recorded mental health recovery narrative intervention: narrative experiences online intervention for informal carers (NEON-C) (2024)
Journal Article
Ng, F., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Onwumere, J., Newby, C., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Yeo, C., …Slade, M. (2024). Pragmatic, feasibility randomized controlled trial of a recorded mental health recovery narrative intervention: narrative experiences online intervention for informal carers (NEON-C). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, Article 1272396. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1272396

Introduction: Informal carers of people with mental health problems often have unmet support needs. Mental health recovery narratives are increasingly accessible, but their relevance to and effect on informal carers have been minimally investigated.... Read More about Pragmatic, feasibility randomized controlled trial of a recorded mental health recovery narrative intervention: narrative experiences online intervention for informal carers (NEON-C).

Seeing the Invisible: A Photovoice Exploration of Living With and Managing the Invisible Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L.-S., Topcu, G., De Boos, D., Bale, C., & das Nair, R. (2024). Seeing the Invisible: A Photovoice Exploration of Living With and Managing the Invisible Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Clinical Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026231220846

In this photovoice study, we explored how people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience living with and managing invisible symptoms in daily life. Twelve people with MS produced digital images over a 2-week period to capture their experiences of inv... Read More about Seeing the Invisible: A Photovoice Exploration of Living With and Managing the Invisible Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses (2024)
Journal Article
Scherbakov, A. V., Carr, A. D., Linnik, T. L., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Armour, A. D., Nadzeyka, A., …Bayer, M. (2024). Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses. Physical Review Research, 6(1), Article L012019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012019

We propose and demonstrate the concept of hybrid coherent control (CC) whereby a quantum or classical harmonic oscillator is excited by two excitations: one is quasiharmonic (i.e., harmonic with a finite lifetime) and the other is a pulsed broadband... Read More about Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses.

An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, A., Egede, J., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Valstar, M., & Sharkey, D. (2024). An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure. In 2024 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS). https://doi.org/10.1109/rams51492.2024.10457793

This research is conducted to develop an automated action recognition method to evaluate the performance of the Newborn Life Support (NLS) procedure. It will be useful to find deviations in the procedure, such as missing steps and incorrect actions,... Read More about An Automated Performance Evaluation of the Newborn Life Support Procedure.

Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives (2024)
Journal Article
Weng, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., & Dening, T. (2024). Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives. Information Fusion, 106, Article 102263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102263

Supervised machine learning requires training on the dataset with annotation. However, fine-grained annotation is very expensive to acquire. In the medical image analysis domain, the sheer volume of data and lack of annotation limit the performance o... Read More about Semi-supervised information fusion for medical image analysis: Recent progress and future perspectives.