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Just-in-Time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning (2025)
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Cai, K., Zhang, L., Su, X., Chen, K., Wang, C., Haddadin, S., Knoll, A., Ajoudani, A., & Figueredo, L. (2025). Just-in-Time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmech.2025.3570573

In high-dimensional robotic path planning, traditional sampling-based methods often struggle to efficiently identify both feasible and optimal paths in complex, multiobstacle environments. This challenge is intensified in robotic manipulators, where... Read More about Just-in-Time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning.

Optimal Low-Thrust Transfers Between Relative Planar and Spatial Quasi-Satellite Orbits in the Earth–Moon System (2025)
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Pushparaj, N., Hiraiwa, N., Hayashi, Y., & Bando, M. (2025). Optimal Low-Thrust Transfers Between Relative Planar and Spatial Quasi-Satellite Orbits in the Earth–Moon System. Aerospace, 12(6), Article 524. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12060524

This paper investigates the design of optimal low-thrust transfers between relative planar and spatial quasi-satellite orbits (QSOs) in the Earth–Moon system under the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CR3BP). A key contribution is the adaptati... Read More about Optimal Low-Thrust Transfers Between Relative Planar and Spatial Quasi-Satellite Orbits in the Earth–Moon System.

Teacher Delivered Block Construction Training Improves Children's Mathematics Performance (2025)
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Farran, E. K., Gilligan‐Lee, K. A., Mareschal, D., Živković, M., Bartušēvica, S., Bell, D., Jay, T., & Gilmore, C. (2025). Teacher Delivered Block Construction Training Improves Children's Mathematics Performance. Mind, Brain, and Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.70006

There is robust evidence for a causal association between spatial thinking and mathematics achievement. However, most research has been lab-based, with spatial training delivered by researchers. We present a teacher delivered, whole-class 6-week spat... Read More about Teacher Delivered Block Construction Training Improves Children's Mathematics Performance.

Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government (2025)
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Butler, O. (2025). Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaf018

The development of the principle of non-delegation in administrative law was a response to the perceived needs of a ‘modern machinery of government’, which emerged in post-war 1940s Britain. While it ostensibly sought to ensure that decision-makers a... Read More about Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government.

Safety and Efficacy of Perispinal Etanercept for Chronic Stroke (PESTO). A Randomized Clinical Trial (2025)
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Thijs, V., Cloud, G. C., Gilchrist, N., Parsons, B., Tilvawala, F. T., Ho, J. K., Ruthnam, L., Stanislaus, V., Sprigg, N., Walker, M. F., Bath, P. B., Churilov, L., & Bernhardt, J. (in press). Safety and Efficacy of Perispinal Etanercept for Chronic Stroke (PESTO). A Randomized Clinical Trial. Neurology,

Background and objectives
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability. Etanercept, a competitive TNF-α inhibitor, has been proposed as a potential treatment for post-stroke impairments when given via a perispinal subcutaneous injection. We aim... Read More about Safety and Efficacy of Perispinal Etanercept for Chronic Stroke (PESTO). A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Assessing Change and Establishing Empirical Cutoffs: The Brief INSPIRE-O Measure for Personal Recovery in Mental Health Services services (2025)
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Moeller, S. B., Larsen, P. V., Austin, S. F., Slade, M., Arendt, ·. I.-M. T. P., Kring, L., & Simonsen, S. (in press). Assessing Change and Establishing Empirical Cutoffs: The Brief INSPIRE-O Measure for Personal Recovery in Mental Health Services services. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02948-7

Introduction. Personal recovery in mental health services, encouraged by the World Health Organization, has gained significance in research and clinical settings. However, measuring personal recovery remains challenging due to the lack of universally... Read More about Assessing Change and Establishing Empirical Cutoffs: The Brief INSPIRE-O Measure for Personal Recovery in Mental Health Services services.

Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE (2025)
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Kotera, Y., Hara, A., Newby, C., Miyamoto, Y., Ozaki, A., Ali, Y., Clinton, P., Felix, S., John, C., Inta, N., & Slade, M. (in press). Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology,

Purpose
This study developed and evaluated a new personal recovery scale—Global INSPIRE—in English and Japanese, and compared responses between Japan and the UK. Personal recovery—living a satisfying and meaningful life despite mental health challen... Read More about Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE.

Failure modes of CF-PEEK overmoulded onto unidirectionally reinforced CF-LM-PAEK: Multi-scale pull-off testing and microscopy investigation of rib stiffened geometries (2025)
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Parsons, A. J., Molinar-Díaz, J., Koptelov, A., Darby, W., Hooshmand, H., Hernandez Ledezma, F. U., Thomsen, O. T., Belnoue, J. P., & Harper, L. T. (2025). Failure modes of CF-PEEK overmoulded onto unidirectionally reinforced CF-LM-PAEK: Multi-scale pull-off testing and microscopy investigation of rib stiffened geometries. Composites Part B: Engineering, 305, Article 112700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2025.112700

Overmoulding is a manufacturing technique used to create structural composite components with complex shapes, combining regions of continuous and short fibre reinforcement. It is possible to produce structural parts at high rates, whilst minimising m... Read More about Failure modes of CF-PEEK overmoulded onto unidirectionally reinforced CF-LM-PAEK: Multi-scale pull-off testing and microscopy investigation of rib stiffened geometries.

Distinct origins of environmentally quenched galaxies in the core and outer virialised regions of massive clusters at 0.8 < 𝑧 < 1.5 (2025)
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Hewitt, G., Sarron, F., Balogh, M. L., Rudnick, G., Bahé, Y., Baxter, D. C., Castignani, G., Cerulo, P., Cooper, M. C., Demarco, R., Edward, A. H., Finn, R. A., Forrest, B., Muzzin, A., Nantais, J., Vulcani, B., Wilson, G., & Zaritsky, D. (2025). Distinct origins of environmentally quenched galaxies in the core and outer virialised regions of massive clusters at 0.8 < 𝑧 < 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf932

High-redshift (𝑧 ∼ 1) galaxy clusters are the domain where environmental quenching mechanisms are expected to emerge as important factors in the evolution of the quiescent galaxy population. Uncovering these initially subtle effects requires explorin... Read More about Distinct origins of environmentally quenched galaxies in the core and outer virialised regions of massive clusters at 0.8 < 𝑧 < 1.5.

A qualitative exploration into the experience of mindfulness in moderate-severe persistent depression (2025)
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Sweeney, T., Nixon, E., Morriss, R., & Callaghan, P. (2025). A qualitative exploration into the experience of mindfulness in moderate-severe persistent depression. PLoS ONE, 20(6), Article e0323294. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323294

Depression is a common and growing mental health problem, with around 5% of the world’s population experiencing an episode of depression during their lifetime. Relapse rates are high, with around half experiencing more than one depressive episode and... Read More about A qualitative exploration into the experience of mindfulness in moderate-severe persistent depression.

Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi‐Level Evidence From Bureaucrats in 10 Countries (2025)
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Cantarelli, P., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2025). Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi‐Level Evidence From Bureaucrats in 10 Countries. Public Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.13069

Do the same management practices lead to greater job satisfaction in poorer and richer countries? Despite the centrality of this question, prior research has not statistically assessed it through multi-country studies. We address this omission for on... Read More about Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi‐Level Evidence From Bureaucrats in 10 Countries.

Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China (2025)
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Taylor, J. E. (in press). Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,

Captain of the Roving Bandits was a three-act play first performed in Yan’an in 1938. Written by Wang Zhenzhi, it was designed to remind audiences about the threats posed by “traitors” (hanjian), and the need for resistance fighters to behave in an u... Read More about Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China.

Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions (2025)
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Perez, O., & Urcelay, G. (2025). Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions. npj Science of Learning, 10, Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00325-2

Goal-directed actions are sensitive to the causal association between actions and outcomes, as well as the value of those outcomes. Such sensitivity diminishes when actions become habitual. Based on recent findings in animals, we tested if delaying o... Read More about Delayed rewards weaken human goal directed actions.

Sport Emotions, Anxiety, Task and Ego Orientation in Pakistani Adolescents: Mediating the Role of Coaching in Athlete Purpose (2025)
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Ali, Y., Kotera, Y., Cotterill, M., Edwards, A.-M., & Palmer, S. (2025). Sport Emotions, Anxiety, Task and Ego Orientation in Pakistani Adolescents: Mediating the Role of Coaching in Athlete Purpose. Future, 3(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/future3020011

(1) Background: Adolescent health and well-being are associated with sports and physical education activities. Novel therapies for athletics training, sporting formations, and physical culture are important. In areas where sports facilities are scarc... Read More about Sport Emotions, Anxiety, Task and Ego Orientation in Pakistani Adolescents: Mediating the Role of Coaching in Athlete Purpose.

Wisteria floribunda agglutinin enhances Zaire ebolavirus entry through interactions at specific N-linked glycosylation sites on the virus glycoprotein complex (2025)
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Duncan, J., Pathak, M., King, B., Bamber, H., Radford, P., Dey, J., Richardson, C., Astbury, S., McClure, P., Ball, J. K., Urbanowicz, R. A., & Tarr, A. (2025). Wisteria floribunda agglutinin enhances Zaire ebolavirus entry through interactions at specific N-linked glycosylation sites on the virus glycoprotein complex. Journal of General Virology, 106(6), Article 002120. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.002120

Entry of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) into a host cell is a complex process requiring interactions between the viral glycoproteins (GPs) and cellular factors. These entry factors are cell-specific and can include cell surface lectins and phosphatidylserin... Read More about Wisteria floribunda agglutinin enhances Zaire ebolavirus entry through interactions at specific N-linked glycosylation sites on the virus glycoprotein complex.

Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments (2025)
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Sexton, D. G., Catalucci, S., Sharpe, A., Frazer, R., & Piano, S. (2025). Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments. Measurement Science and Technology, 36(6), Article 065014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/addd40

In recent years, the growth of optical techniques has introduced the possibility of allowing several alternative methods for non-contact gear measurement to be utilised. Optical methods can offer many advantages over tactile, such as the potential to... Read More about Characterising and propagating the sources of error and uncertainty in the optical measurement of gears using designed experiments.

JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z ≃ 2 (2025)
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Hamadouche, M. L., Mclure, R., Carnall, A. C., Mcleod, D. J., Dunlop, J. S., Whitaker, K. E., Donnan, C. T., Begley, R., Stanton, T. M., Almaini, O., Aird, J., Cullen, F., Cutler, S., Grogin, N. A., & Koekemoer, A. M. (in press). JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z ≃ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1-14

We present the results of a study investigating the galaxy stellar-mass function (GSMF), size-mass relations and morphological properties of star-forming and quiescent galaxies over the redshift range 0.25 < z < 2.25, using the JWST PRIMER survey. Th... Read More about JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z ≃ 2.