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Identifying veterinary surgeons’ barriers to, and potential solutions for, improving antimicrobial stewardship among sheep farmers in Northern Ireland (2024)
Journal Article
Crawford, P. E., Hamer, K., Lovatt, F., Behnke, M. C., & Robinson, P. A. (2024). Identifying veterinary surgeons’ barriers to, and potential solutions for, improving antimicrobial stewardship among sheep farmers in Northern Ireland. Veterinary Record Open, 11(1), Article e278. https://doi.org/10.1002/vro2.78

Background: In order to improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), including changes in antimicrobial prescribing and use, an enhanced understanding is needed of the barriers that veterinary surgeons (vets) encounter to institute such change. Methods:... Read More about Identifying veterinary surgeons’ barriers to, and potential solutions for, improving antimicrobial stewardship among sheep farmers in Northern Ireland.

Comparison of Fourier optics-based methods for modeling coherence scanning interferometry (2024)
Journal Article
Hooshmand, H., Pahl, T., de Groot, P. J., Lehmann, P., Pappas, A., Su, R., …Piano, S. (2024). Comparison of Fourier optics-based methods for modeling coherence scanning interferometry. Optical Engineering, 63(4), Article 044102. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.63.4.044102

Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) is a widely used optical method for surface topography measurement of industrial and biomedical surfaces. The operation of CSI can be modeled using approximate physics-based approaches with minimal computationa... Read More about Comparison of Fourier optics-based methods for modeling coherence scanning interferometry.

A latter day Judas? Security, diplomatic protection, and the Foreign Office Security Department, 1955 – 1987 (2024)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. W. B. (2024). A latter day Judas? Security, diplomatic protection, and the Foreign Office Security Department, 1955 – 1987. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2024.2341738

This article looks at the response of the British Foreign Office to security threats to HMG diplomats and diplomatic posts, placing security at the heart of the study of UK diplomacy. It explores the response of the Foreign Office’s Security Departme... Read More about A latter day Judas? Security, diplomatic protection, and the Foreign Office Security Department, 1955 – 1987.

New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo (2024)
Journal Article
Traserra, S., Alcalá-González, L. G., Barber, C., Landolfi, S., Malagelada, C., Lange, R., …Jimenez, M. (2024). New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo. European Journal of Pharmacology, 972, Article 176550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2024.176550

Introduction: Hyoscine butylbromide (HBB) is one of the most used antispasmodics in clinical practice. Recent translational consensus has demonstrated a similarity between human colonic motor patterns studied ex vivo and in vivo, suggesting ex vivo c... Read More about New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo.

When a test is more than just a test: Findings from patient interviews and survey in the trial of a technology to measure antidepressant medication response (the PReDicT Trial) (2024)
Journal Article
Brown, S., Ploeger, C., Petersen, J. J., Guo, B., Beckenstrom, A. C., Petersen, J. J., …Morriss, R. (2024). When a test is more than just a test: Findings from patient interviews and survey in the trial of a technology to measure antidepressant medication response (the PReDicT Trial). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 132, Article 152467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152467

Background A RCT of a novel intervention to detect antidepressant medication response (the PReDicT Test) took place in five European countries, accompanied by a nested study of its acceptability and implementation presented here. The RCT results i... Read More about When a test is more than just a test: Findings from patient interviews and survey in the trial of a technology to measure antidepressant medication response (the PReDicT Trial).

Towards sustainable urban living: A holistic energy strategy for electric vehicle and heat pump adoption in residential communities (2024)
Journal Article
Dik, A., Kutlu, C., Sun, H., Calautit, J. K., Boukhanouf, R., & Omer, S. (2024). Towards sustainable urban living: A holistic energy strategy for electric vehicle and heat pump adoption in residential communities. Sustainable Cities and Society, 107, Article 105412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105412

Electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps (HPs) are key in reducing carbon emissions from transportation and domestic heating, yet their adoption may increase peak load demands on electrical networks. One of the aims of this research is to assess the po... Read More about Towards sustainable urban living: A holistic energy strategy for electric vehicle and heat pump adoption in residential communities.

Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain (2024)
Journal Article
Naik, V., Shenoy, V., Li, W., & gopinathan rejani, R. N. (in press). Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain. Physica Scripta, https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad3d9d

We benchmark the discrete truncated Wigner approximation (DTWA) and Neural quantum states (NQS) based on restricted Boltzmann-like machines with the exact excitation and correlation dynamics in a chain of ten Rydberg atoms. The initial state is where... Read More about Benchmarking discrete truncated Wigner approximation and neural network quantum states with the exact dynamics in a Rydberg atomic chain.

Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium (2024)
Journal Article
Hopkinson, A., Notara, M., Cursiefen, C., & Sidney, L. E. (2024). Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium. Cell Transplantation, 33, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636897241241992

There is a huge unmet need for new treatment modalities for ocular surface inflammatory disorders (OSIDs) such as dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction. Mesenchymal stem cell therapies may hold the answer due to their potent immunomodulator... Read More about Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium.

Universal and nonuniversal probability laws in Markovian open quantum dynamics subject to generalized reset processes (2024)
Journal Article
Carollo, F., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2024). Universal and nonuniversal probability laws in Markovian open quantum dynamics subject to generalized reset processes. Physical Review E, 109(4), Article 044129. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.109.044129

We consider quantum-jump trajectories of Markovian open quantum systems subject to stochastic in time resets of their state to an initial configuration. The reset events provide a partitioning of quantum trajectories into consecutive time intervals,... Read More about Universal and nonuniversal probability laws in Markovian open quantum dynamics subject to generalized reset processes.

Generalizability of empirical correlations for predicting higher heating values of biomass (2024)
Journal Article
Daskin, M., Erdoğan, A., Güleç, F., & Okolie, J. A. (2024). Generalizability of empirical correlations for predicting higher heating values of biomass. Energy Sources, Part A, 46(1), 5434-5450. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2024.2332472

Designing efficient biomass energy systems requires a thorough understanding of the physicochemical, thermodynamic, and physical properties of biomass. One crucial parameter in assessing biomass energy potential is the higher heating value (HHV), whi... Read More about Generalizability of empirical correlations for predicting higher heating values of biomass.

A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering (2024)
Journal Article
Krumins, E., Crawford, L. A., Rogers, D. M., Machado, F., Taresco, V., East, M., …Howdle, S. M. (2024). A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47376-4

Laser Sintering (LS) is a type of Additive Manufacturing (AM) exploiting laser processing of polymeric particles to produce 3D objects. Because of its ease of processability and thermo-physical properties, polyamide-12 (PA-12) represents ~95% of the... Read More about A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering.

brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research (2024)
Journal Article
Hayashi, S., Caron, B. A., Heinsfeld, A. S., Vinci-Booher, S., McPherson, B., Bullock, D. N., …Pestilli, F. (2024). brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research. Nature Methods, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02237-2

Neuroscience is advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, data pipeline complexity has increased, hindering FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) access. brainlife.io was develop... Read More about brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research.

Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants (2024)
Journal Article
Schuster, C., Fuenzalida, J., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Meyer‐Sahling, J. (in press). Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants. Public Administration Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13815

Numerous studies associate ethical leadership with ethical behavior in the public sector. By contrast, the effects of unethical leadership in the public sector have largely not been explored. Yet, unethical leadership need not beget unethical followe... Read More about Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants.

Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria (2024)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2024). Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria. In M. Frangipane (Ed.), The ‘city’ across time: Emergence, developments, and social, economic political, cultural and health impact: (Rome, 8-10 June 2022) (95-115). Rome: Bardi Edizioni

Many scholars have proposed criteria for the identification of urban settlements, but such criteria are often premised on their own views of how and why towns emerged. I critically examine the use of the term ‘proto-urban’, generally employed to desc... Read More about Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria.

Facilitators and barriers to asylum seeker and refugee oral health care access: a qualitative systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Wainman, N. E., Phillips, O. . R., & Morling, J. R. (2024). Facilitators and barriers to asylum seeker and refugee oral health care access: a qualitative systematic review. British Dental Journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-024-7235-9

Objectives Asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) encounter barriers when accessing oral health care (OHC). A qualitative systematic review was conducted to understand the perceptions, attitudes, behaviours and experiences of ASRs regarding their OHC. Th... Read More about Facilitators and barriers to asylum seeker and refugee oral health care access: a qualitative systematic review.

Is Television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in EDI research in the cultural and creative industries (2024)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., Kennedy, H., & Aust, R. (in press). Is Television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in EDI research in the cultural and creative industries. Media, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241254331

This article engages with research on UK Television (UKTV) and the wider cultural and creative industries by interrogating the role of academic research in industrial and social change. We argue that a ‘reformist tendency’ implicitly structures much... Read More about Is Television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in EDI research in the cultural and creative industries.

Belief in White Replacement (2024)
Journal Article
Klofstad, C., Christley, O., Diekman, A., Kuebler, S., Enders, A., Funchion, J., …Uscinski, J. (in press). Belief in White Replacement. Politics, Groups and Identities, https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2342834

The "White Replacement" conspiracy theory, that government and corporate leaders are "replacing" white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in mainstream elite rhetoric, concerns have arisen about how widespread beli... Read More about Belief in White Replacement.

Optimisation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BRYC 501 ascospore formation and recovery for heat inactivation experiments (2024)
Journal Article
Raleigh, C., Lawrence, S., & Rachon, G. (2024). Optimisation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BRYC 501 ascospore formation and recovery for heat inactivation experiments. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 130(2), 70-82. https://doi.org/10.58430/jib.v130i2.48

Why was the work done: Ascospores from Saccharomyces cerevisiae BRYC 501 are useful biological indicators for validating the pasteurisation of beer. Ascospores are formed by yeast in response to low nutrient conditions and are characterised by greate... Read More about Optimisation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BRYC 501 ascospore formation and recovery for heat inactivation experiments.

Neural network emulation of the human ventricular cardiomyocyte action potential for more efficient computations in pharmacological studies (2024)
Journal Article
Grandits, T., Augustin, C. M., Haase, G., Jost, N., Mirams, G. R., Niederer, S. A., …Jung, A. (2024). Neural network emulation of the human ventricular cardiomyocyte action potential for more efficient computations in pharmacological studies. eLife, 12, Article RP91911. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.91911.3

Computer models of the human ventricular cardiomyocyte action potential (AP) have reached a level of detail and maturity that has led to an increasing number of applications in the pharmaceutical sector. However, interfacing the models with experimen... Read More about Neural network emulation of the human ventricular cardiomyocyte action potential for more efficient computations in pharmacological studies.