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The Role of Fundamental Movement Skills and Spatial Abilities in the Relationship between Physical Activity and Mathematics Achievement in Primary School Children (2024)
Journal Article
Scott, J., Jay, T., & Spray, C. M. (2024). The Role of Fundamental Movement Skills and Spatial Abilities in the Relationship between Physical Activity and Mathematics Achievement in Primary School Children. Journal of Intelligence, 12(2), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12020022

Research has demonstrated positive relationships between fundamental movement skills (FMS) and mathematics achievement in children, and this relationship may be mediated by spatial ability. Engaging in physical activity (PA) may also have positive ou... Read More about The Role of Fundamental Movement Skills and Spatial Abilities in the Relationship between Physical Activity and Mathematics Achievement in Primary School Children.

The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia (2024)
Journal Article
Harianja, M. F., Turner, E. C., Barclay, H., Chey, V. K., Aldridge, D. C., Foster, W. A., & Luke, S. H. (2024). The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia. Freshwater Biology, 69(4), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14229

Land‐use change and agricultural expansion have caused marked biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia, but impacts on freshwater communities have been very little studied. Semi‐aquatic bugs are abundant in streams, provide prey for many other animals, an... Read More about The effects of land-use change on semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha, Hemiptera) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysia.

Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future (2024)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (in press). Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future. China Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001649

In this article, I examine the ROC president's discursive response to PRC efforts to limit Taiwan's future possibilities and undermine confidence in Taiwan's future. I argue that the capacity to imagine the future, and perceiving agency to affect fut... Read More about Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future.

Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Fang, F., Fan, Y., & Ly, K. C. (2024). Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk. International Review of Financial Analysis, 93, 103129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103129

We investigate how women on boards impact bank risk in China. Using a merged dataset containing 83 Chinese banks for the period of 2006–2019, we find that more women on boards could reduce bank risk in China. We further provide the evidence that risk... Read More about Do ‘Lehman Sisters’ work in China? Women on boards and bank risk.

Citations after the death of the author (2024)
Book Chapter
Julius, C. (in press). Citations after the death of the author. In Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This essay uses the publication of Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to consider the changed status of citations in art made during and after the 1960s. Setting the scene for the ensuing essays, Julius argues t... Read More about Citations after the death of the author.

Cortical β Power Reflects a Neural Implementation of Decision Boundary Collapse in Speeded Decisions (2024)
Journal Article
Kirschner, H., Fischer, A. G., Danielmeier, C., Klein, T. A., & Ullsperger, M. (2024). Cortical β Power Reflects a Neural Implementation of Decision Boundary Collapse in Speeded Decisions. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(13), Article e1713232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1713-23.2024

A prominent account of decision-making assumes that information is accumulated until a fixed response threshold is crossed. However, many decisions require weighting of information appropriately against time. Collapsing response thresholds are a math... Read More about Cortical β Power Reflects a Neural Implementation of Decision Boundary Collapse in Speeded Decisions.

A Hybrid Multiresonances Suppression Method for Nonsynchronous LCL-Type Grid-Connected Inverter Clusters Under Weak Grid (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Sun, X., Chen, Z., Chi, Y., Song, W., Zhu, Q., & Wheeler, P. (2024). A Hybrid Multiresonances Suppression Method for Nonsynchronous LCL-Type Grid-Connected Inverter Clusters Under Weak Grid. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 39(5), 5386-5399. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2024.3366191

Multiresonance phenomena occur in inverter clusters under weak grid, with more complex resonance characteristics. Traditional suppression methods are difficult to determine control parameters when considering dynamic resonance under the variation of... Read More about A Hybrid Multiresonances Suppression Method for Nonsynchronous LCL-Type Grid-Connected Inverter Clusters Under Weak Grid.

Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development of subcortical volumes in two European sites with four waves (2024)
Journal Article
Backhausen, L. L., Fröhner, J. H., Lemaître, H., Artiges, E., Martinot, M. P., Herting, M. M., …Vetter, N. C. (2024). Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development of subcortical volumes in two European sites with four waves. Human Brain Mapping, 45(3), Article e26574. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26574

Adolescent subcortical structural brain development might underlie psychopathological symptoms, which often emerge in adolescence. At the same time, sex differences exist in psychopathology, which might be mirrored in underlying sex differences in st... Read More about Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development of subcortical volumes in two European sites with four waves.

Spherical collapse in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Taming ill-posedness with a Ricci coupling (2024)
Journal Article
Thaalba, F., Bezares, M., Franchini, N., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2024). Spherical collapse in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Taming ill-posedness with a Ricci coupling. Physical Review D, 109(4), L041503. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.109.l041503

We study spherical collapse of a scalar cloud in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity—a theory in which black holes can develop scalar hair if they are in a certain mass range. We show that an additional quadratic coupling of the scalar field to the Ricci sca... Read More about Spherical collapse in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity: Taming ill-posedness with a Ricci coupling.

Approaches and challenges to assessing risk of violence in first episode psychosis: A qualitative interview study of clinicians, patients and carers (2024)
Journal Article
Whiting, D., Glogowska, M., Fazel, S., & Lennox, B. (2024). Approaches and challenges to assessing risk of violence in first episode psychosis: A qualitative interview study of clinicians, patients and carers. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13502

Aim: Clinical services for early psychosis seek to improve prognosis for a range of adverse outcomes. For some individuals, perpetration of violence is an important potential outcome to reduce. How these clinical services currently assess this risk h... Read More about Approaches and challenges to assessing risk of violence in first episode psychosis: A qualitative interview study of clinicians, patients and carers.

The association of painful and non-painful morbidities with frailty: a cross sectional analysis of a cohort of community dwelling older people in England (2024)
Journal Article
Chaplin, W. J., Lewis, H. R., Shahtaheri, S. M., Millar, B. S., McWilliams, D. F., Gladman, J. R. F., & Walsh, D. A. (2024). The association of painful and non-painful morbidities with frailty: a cross sectional analysis of a cohort of community dwelling older people in England. BMC Geriatrics, 24, Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04602-w

Introduction The association between chronic pain and frailty might indicate that pain is an independent driver of frailty but might alternatively be explained by inclusion within frailty identification tools of morbidities that commonly lead to chr... Read More about The association of painful and non-painful morbidities with frailty: a cross sectional analysis of a cohort of community dwelling older people in England.

Free drug and ROS-responsive nanoparticle delivery of synergistic doxorubicin and olaparib combinations to triple negative breast cancer models (2024)
Journal Article
Cavanagh, R. J., Monteiro, P. F., Moloney, C., Travanut, A., Mehradnia, F., Taresco, V., …Alexander, C. (2024). Free drug and ROS-responsive nanoparticle delivery of synergistic doxorubicin and olaparib combinations to triple negative breast cancer models. Biomaterials Science, 12(7), 1822-1840. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3bm01931d

Combinations of the topoisomerase II inhibitor doxorubicin and the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor olaparib offer potential drug-drug synergy for the treatment of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC). In this study we performed in vitro scree... Read More about Free drug and ROS-responsive nanoparticle delivery of synergistic doxorubicin and olaparib combinations to triple negative breast cancer models.

A study of extreme water waves using a hierarchy of models based on potential-flow theory (2024)
Journal Article
Choi, J., Kalogirou, A., Lu, Y., Bokhove, O., & Kelmanson, M. (2024). A study of extreme water waves using a hierarchy of models based on potential-flow theory. Water Waves, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42286-024-00084-4

The formation of extreme waves arising from the interaction of three line-solitons with equal far-field amplitudes is examined through a hierarchy of water-wave models. The Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation (KPE) is first used to prove analytically tha... Read More about A study of extreme water waves using a hierarchy of models based on potential-flow theory.

Herbal leys have no effect on soil porosity, earthworm abundance, and microbial community composition compared to a grass-clover ley in a sheep grazed grassland after 2-years (2024)
Journal Article
Cooledge, E. C., Sturrock, C. J., Atkinson, B. S., Mooney, S. J., Brailsford, F. L., Murphy, D. V., …Jones, D. L. (2024). Herbal leys have no effect on soil porosity, earthworm abundance, and microbial community composition compared to a grass-clover ley in a sheep grazed grassland after 2-years. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 365, Article 108928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.108928

Herbal leys (multispecies swards) can potentially deliver greater agronomic and environmental benefits than conventional grass-clover swards in grazed agroecosystems. However, despite their popularity in agri-environment schemes, little is known abou... Read More about Herbal leys have no effect on soil porosity, earthworm abundance, and microbial community composition compared to a grass-clover ley in a sheep grazed grassland after 2-years.

William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969) (2024)
Journal Article
Pethers, M. (2024). William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969). American Literary History, 36(1), 16-50. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad230

This article takes the distinctive publishing history of William Williams's Robinsonade novel Mr. Penrose as a prompt to challenge conventional assumptions about the temporal logic of textual recovery. Scholars typically make a case for the value of... Read More about William Williams, Anachronism, and the Temporal Logic of Textual Recovery (1776/1815/1969).

Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art (2024)
Book
Julius, C., Green, M., & Holman, M. (in press). M. Green, & M. Holman (Eds.). Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Showcasing new scholarship by emerging and established art historians, Cases of Citation tracks a history of artists who incorporated literature into their work. In doing so, this collection investigates why literary citation emerged as a viable and... Read More about Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art.

Heat and salinity stress on the African eggplant F1 Djamba, a Kumba cultivar (2024)
Journal Article
David-Rogeat, N., Broadley, M. R., & Stavridou, E. (2024). Heat and salinity stress on the African eggplant F1 Djamba, a Kumba cultivar. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, Article 1323665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1323665

Climate change is expected to increase soil salinity and heat-wave intensity, duration, and frequency. These stresses, often present in combination, threaten food security as most common crops do not tolerate them. The African eggplant (Solanum aethi... Read More about Heat and salinity stress on the African eggplant F1 Djamba, a Kumba cultivar.

Leukemic stem cells activate lineage inappropriate signalling pathways to promote their growth (2024)
Journal Article
Kellaway, S. G., Potluri, S., Keane, P., Blair, H. J., Ames, L., Worker, A., …Bonifer, C. (2024). Leukemic stem cells activate lineage inappropriate signalling pathways to promote their growth. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 1359. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45691-4

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is caused by multiple mutations which dysregulate growth and differentiation of myeloid cells. Cells adopt different gene regulatory networks specific to individual mutations, maintaining a rapidly proliferating blast cel... Read More about Leukemic stem cells activate lineage inappropriate signalling pathways to promote their growth.

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy (2024)
Journal Article
Krempaský, J., Šmejkal, L., D’Souza, S. W., Hajlaoui, M., Springholz, G., Uhlířová, K., …Jungwirth, T. (2024). Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy. Nature, 626(7999), 517-522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06907-7

Lifted Kramers spin degeneracy (LKSD) has been among the central topics of condensed-matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids1,2. It underpins established practical applications as well as current frontier research, ranging from mag... Read More about Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy.