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Label-free Brillouin endo-microscopy for the quantitative 3D imaging of sub-micrometre biology (2024)
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La Cavera III, S., Chauhan, V. M., Hardiman, W., Yao, M., Fuentes-Domínguez, R., Setchfield, K., …Clark, M. (2024). Label-free Brillouin endo-microscopy for the quantitative 3D imaging of sub-micrometre biology. Communications Biology, 7, Article 451. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06126-4

This report presents an optical fibre-based endo-microscopic imaging tool that simultaneously measures the topographic profile and 3D viscoelastic properties of biological specimens through the phenomenon of time-resolved Brillouin scattering. This u... Read More about Label-free Brillouin endo-microscopy for the quantitative 3D imaging of sub-micrometre biology.

Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic (2024)
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Faux‐Nightingale, A., Kelemen, M., Lilley, S., Stewart, C., & Robinson, K. (in press). Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13777

This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space... Read More about Hospital corridors as lived spaces: the reconfiguration of social boundaries during the early stages of the Covid pandemic.

Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Tetrahydroacridin Hybrids with Sulfur-Inserted Linkers as Potential Multitarget Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease (2024)
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Wu, X., Ze, X., Qin, S., Zhang, B., Li, X., Gong, Q., …Xu, J. (2024). Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Tetrahydroacridin Hybrids with Sulfur-Inserted Linkers as Potential Multitarget Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease. Molecules, 29(8), Article 1782. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29081782

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that can lead to the loss of cognitive function. The progression of AD is regulated by multiple signaling pathways and their associated targets. Therefore, multitarget strategies theoret... Read More about Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Tetrahydroacridin Hybrids with Sulfur-Inserted Linkers as Potential Multitarget Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease.

Expanding qualitative interviewing for studies involving adults with different communication needs: reflections on research with people living with motor neurone disease (2024)
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Wilson, E. (in press). Expanding qualitative interviewing for studies involving adults with different communication needs: reflections on research with people living with motor neurone disease. International Journal of Qualitative Methods,

This article explores the challenges and adaptations we undertook to engage people with different communication needs, specifically those living with motor neurone disease (MND), in qualitative research interviews. While interviewing those in advance... Read More about Expanding qualitative interviewing for studies involving adults with different communication needs: reflections on research with people living with motor neurone disease.

Uses of linguistic context in speech listening: Does acquired hearing loss lead to reduced engagement of prediction? (2024)
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Fernandez, L. B., Pickering, M. J., Naylor, G., & Hadley, L. V. (in press). Uses of linguistic context in speech listening: Does acquired hearing loss lead to reduced engagement of prediction?. Ear and Hearing,

Research investigating the complex interplay of cognitive mechanisms involved in speech listening for people with hearing loss has been gaining prominence. In particular, linguistic context allows the use of several cognitive mechanisms that are not... Read More about Uses of linguistic context in speech listening: Does acquired hearing loss lead to reduced engagement of prediction?.

Identifying veterinary surgeons’ barriers to, and potential solutions for, improving antimicrobial stewardship among sheep farmers in Northern Ireland (2024)
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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)
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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(04), 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)
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Lomas, D. (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)
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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.

Learning quantities of interest from parametric PDEs: An efficient neural-weighted Minimal Residual approach (2024)
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Brevis, I., Muga, I., Pardo, D., Rodriguez, O., & Van Der Zee, K. G. (in press). Learning quantities of interest from parametric PDEs: An efficient neural-weighted Minimal Residual approach. Computers and Mathematics with Applications,

The efficient approximation of parametric PDEs is of tremendous importance in science and engineering. In this paper, we show how one can train Galerkin discretizations to efficiently learn quantities of interest of solutions to a parametric PDE. The... Read More about Learning quantities of interest from parametric PDEs: An efficient neural-weighted Minimal Residual approach.

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)
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Brown, S., Ploeger, C., Guo, B., Petersen, J. J., Beckenstrom, A. C., Browning, M., …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)
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Dik, A., Kutlu, C., Sun, H., Calautit, J. K., Boukhanouf, R., & Omer, S. (in press). Towards Sustainable Urban Living: A Holistic Energy Strategy for Electric Vehicle and Heat Pump Adoption in Residential Communities. Sustainable Cities and Society, 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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Facilitators and barriers to asylum seeker and refugee oral health care access: a qualitative systematic review (2024)
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Wainman, N., Phillips, O., & 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.