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Minimal Object Characterisations using Harmonic Generalised Polarizability Tensors and Symmetry Groups (2022)
Journal Article
Ledger, P., & Lionheart, B. (2022). Minimal Object Characterisations using Harmonic Generalised Polarizability Tensors and Symmetry Groups. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2057-2079. https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1471547

We introduce a new type of object characterisation, which is capable of accurately describing small iso?lated inclusions for potential field inverse problems such as in electrostatics, magnetostatics and related
low frequency Maxwell problems. Relev... Read More about Minimal Object Characterisations using Harmonic Generalised Polarizability Tensors and Symmetry Groups.

Determining sex in golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nestlings (2022)
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Peniche, G., Shaw, D., Dures, S., Ciavaglia, S., Thompson, D., Anderson, N., & Meredith, A. (2023). Determining sex in golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nestlings. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 69, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01627-1

Incorporating sex ratios of nestlings into population viability studies increases knowledge of overall health of endangered populations. Currently, a reliable non-invasive method to identify the sex of golden eagle nestlings is not available; however... Read More about Determining sex in golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nestlings.

Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes (2022)
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Coon, K., Hegde, S., & Hughes, G. (2022). Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes. Microbiome, 10, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01256-5

Background Mosquitoes harbor microbial communities that play important roles in their growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to transmit human pathogens. Microbiome transplantation approaches are often used to study host-microbe interactions and... Read More about Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes.

Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella (2022)
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Harvey-Samuel, T., Xu, X., Anderson, M. A. E., Carabajal Paladino, L. Z., Purusothaman, D., Norman, V. C., …Alphey, L. (2022). Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(46), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206025119

The Lepidoptera are an insect order of cultural, economic, and environmental importance, representing ∼10% of all described living species. Yet, for all but one of these species (silkmoth, Bombyx mori), the molecular genetics of how sexual fate is de... Read More about Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella.

Evaluating the Breadth of Neutralizing Antibody Responses Elicited by Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Genogroup A1 Strains Using a Novel Chicken B-Cell Rescue System and Neutralization Assay (2022)
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Reddy, V. R. A. P., Nazki, S., Brodrick, A. J., Asfor, A., Urbaniec, J., Morris, Y., & Broadbent, A. J. (2022). Evaluating the Breadth of Neutralizing Antibody Responses Elicited by Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Genogroup A1 Strains Using a Novel Chicken B-Cell Rescue System and Neutralization Assay. Journal of Virology, 96(18), https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01255-22

Eight infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) genogroups have been identified based on the sequence of the capsid hypervariable region (HVR) (A1 to A8). Given reported vaccine failures, there is a need to evaluate the ability of vaccines to neutralize... Read More about Evaluating the Breadth of Neutralizing Antibody Responses Elicited by Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Genogroup A1 Strains Using a Novel Chicken B-Cell Rescue System and Neutralization Assay.

An Unexpected Reaction between Diaryliodonium Salts and DMSO (2022)
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Kepski, K., & Moran, W. J. (2022). An Unexpected Reaction between Diaryliodonium Salts and DMSO. Organics, 3(3), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.3390/org3030020

Diaryliodonium salts are useful arylating reagents that have been exploited widely. In this Communication, we demonstrate that heating diphenyliodonium triflate in the solvent DMSO leads to an unexpected arylation reaction. It is postulated that aryl... Read More about An Unexpected Reaction between Diaryliodonium Salts and DMSO.

Tissue volume estimation and age prediction using rapid structural brain scans (2022)
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Hobday, H., Cole, J. H., Stanyard, R. A., Daws, R. E., Giampietro, V., O’Daly, O., …Váša, F. (in press). Tissue volume estimation and age prediction using rapid structural brain scans. Scientific reports, 12(1), Article 12005. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14904-5

The multicontrast EPImix sequence generates six contrasts, including a T1-weighted scan, in ~1 min. EPImix shows comparable diagnostic performance to conventional scans under qualitative clinical evaluation, and similarities in simple quantitative me... Read More about Tissue volume estimation and age prediction using rapid structural brain scans.

Worth the paper it's written on- A cross-sectional study of Medical Certificate of Stillbirth accuracy in the UK (2022)
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Rimmer, M. P., Henderson, I., Parry-Smith, W., Raglan, O., Tamblyn, J., Heazell, A. E. P., …working group, T. U. N. (2023). Worth the paper it's written on- A cross-sectional study of Medical Certificate of Stillbirth accuracy in the UK. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(1), 295–308. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac100

Background
The Medical Certificate of Stillbirth (MCS) records data about a baby’s death after 24 weeks of gestation but before birth. Major errors that could alter interpretation of the MCS were widespread in two UK-based regional studies.

Metho... Read More about Worth the paper it's written on- A cross-sectional study of Medical Certificate of Stillbirth accuracy in the UK.

Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star (2022)
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Nikolov, N. K., Sing, D. K., Spake, J. J., Smalley, B., Goyal, J. M., Mikal-Evans, T., …Mayne, N. J. (2022). Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(2), 3037-3058. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1530

We present new analysis of infrared transmission spectroscopy of the cloud-free hot-Saturn WASP-96b performed with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes (HST and Spitzer). The WASP-96b spectrum exhibits the absorption feature from water in excellen... Read More about Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star.

Procalcitonin Is Not a Reliable Biomarker of Bacterial Coinfection in People With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Undergoing Microbiological Investigation at the Time of Hospital Admission (2022)
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Relph, K. A., Russell, C. D., Fairfield, C. J., Turtle, L., de Silva, T. I., Siggins, M. K., …Consortium Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (ISARIC4C) Investigators, I. S. A. R. A. E. I. (2022). Procalcitonin Is Not a Reliable Biomarker of Bacterial Coinfection in People With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Undergoing Microbiological Investigation at the Time of Hospital Admission. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac179

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Admission procalcitonin measurements and microbiology results were available for 1040 hospitalized adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (from 48 902 included in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and... Read More about Procalcitonin Is Not a Reliable Biomarker of Bacterial Coinfection in People With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Undergoing Microbiological Investigation at the Time of Hospital Admission.

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022 (2022)
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Blackburn, M., Coutinho, K. S. M., & Suviste, H. (2022). The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022. AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

This report provides an assessment and commentary on the AHRC’s 2020—22 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship (EDIEF) pilot observing the successes, challenges, and benefits of its existence during its first iteration. The report ai... Read More about The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Fellowship Pilot AHRC Funding Scheme Report 2020 - 2022.

Birnaviridae Virus Factories Show Features of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Are Distinct from Paracrystalline Arrays of Virions Observed by Electron Microscopy (2022)
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Reddy, V. R. A. P., Campbell, E. A., Wells, J., Simpson, J., Nazki, S., Hawes, P. C., & Broadbent, A. J. (2022). Birnaviridae Virus Factories Show Features of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Are Distinct from Paracrystalline Arrays of Virions Observed by Electron Microscopy. Journal of Virology, 96(6), https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02024-21

To gain more information about the nature of Birnaviridae virus factories (VFs), we used a recombinant infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) expressing split-GFP11 tagged to the polymerase (VP1) that we have previously shown is a marker for VFs in i... Read More about Birnaviridae Virus Factories Show Features of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Are Distinct from Paracrystalline Arrays of Virions Observed by Electron Microscopy.

Implementation of corticosteroids in treatment of COVID-19 in the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK: prospective, cohort study (2022)
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Närhi, F., Moonesinghe, R., Shenkin, S. D., Drake, T. M., Mulholland, R. H., Donegan, C., …Docherty, A. B. (2022). Implementation of corticosteroids in treatment of COVID-19 in the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK: prospective, cohort study. The Lancet Digital Health, 4(4), e220 - e234. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500%2822%2900018-8

Background Dexamethasone was the first intervention proven to reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19 being treated in hospital. We aimed to evaluate the adoption of corticosteroids in the treatment of COVID-19 in the UK after the RECOVERY trial p... Read More about Implementation of corticosteroids in treatment of COVID-19 in the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK: prospective, cohort study.

LoRa-LiSK: A Lightweight Shared Secret Key Generation Scheme for LoRa Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Junejo, A. K., Benkhelifa, F., Wong, B., & Mccann, J. A. (2022). LoRa-LiSK: A Lightweight Shared Secret Key Generation Scheme for LoRa Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(6), 4110-4124. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2021.3103009

Physical-layer security (PLS) schemes use the randomness of the channel parameters, namely, channel state information (CSI) and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) to generate the secret keys. There has been limited work in PLS schemes in long-... Read More about LoRa-LiSK: A Lightweight Shared Secret Key Generation Scheme for LoRa Networks.

Acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK Study: a prospective, multicentre cohort study (2022)
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Sullivan, M. K., Lees, J. S., Drake, T. M., Docherty, A. B., Oates, G., Hardwick, H. E., …Mark, P. B. (2022). Acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK Study: a prospective, multicentre cohort study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 37(2), 271 - 284. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfab303

Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study investigated adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and hypothesized that risk factors for AKI would include comorbidities and non-White race. Methods A pros... Read More about Acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK Study: a prospective, multicentre cohort study.

Patients with presumed tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa that are not diagnosed with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Jayasooriya, S., Dimambro-Denson, F., Beecroft, C., Balen, J., Awokola, B., Mitchell, C., …Mortimer, K. (2023). Patients with presumed tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa that are not diagnosed with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax, 78(1), 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217663

Background Many patients in sub-Saharan Africa whom a diagnosis of tuberculosis is considered are subsequently not diagnosed with tuberculosis. The proportion of patients this represents, and their alternative diagnoses, have not previously been syst... Read More about Patients with presumed tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa that are not diagnosed with tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback (2022)
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Lucas, D., & Yasuda, T. (2022). Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback. Physical Review Fluids, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.014401

Time-delayed feedback control, attributed to Pyragas (1992 Physics Letters 170(6) 421-428), is a method known to stabilise periodic orbits in low dimensional chaotic dynamical systems. A system of the form $\dot{\mathbf{x}}(t)=f(\mathbf{x})$ has an a... Read More about Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback.