CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short-period super-Earth TOI-561 b (2023)
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Patel, J. A., Egger, J. A., Wilson, T. G., Bourrier, V., Carone, L., Beck, M., …Walton, N. A. (2023). CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short-period super-Earth TOI-561 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 679, Article A92. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244946

Context. Ultra-short-period planets (USPs) are a unique class of super-Earths with an orbital period of less than a day, and hence they are subject to intense radiation from their host star. These planets cannot retain a primordial H/He atmosphere, a... Read More about CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short-period super-Earth TOI-561 b.

A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Angina. (2023)
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Rajkumar, C. A., Foley, M. J., Ahmed-Jushuf, F., Nowbar, A. N., Simader, F. A., Davies, J. R., …Al-Lamee, R. K. (in press). A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Angina. New England Journal of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2310610

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is frequently performed to reduce the symptoms of stable angina. Whether PCI relieves angina more than a placebo procedure in patients who are not receiving antianginal medication remains unknown. We conducted... Read More about A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Angina..

Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town (2023)
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Bradford, B., Girling, E., Loader, I., & Sparks, R. (2023). Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town. British Journal of Criminology, Article azad062. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad062

Much policy discourse concentrates on the contribution of police to keeping people safe. Often, this means minimising fear of crime. Yet, more expansive accounts stress the extent to which deeper-rooted forms of security and belonging might also be i... Read More about Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town.

Coping with international politics: A case study of Hong Kong (2023)
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Kaeding, M. P., & Wang-Kaeding, H. (in press). Coping with international politics: A case study of Hong Kong. Review of International Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210523000591

The way that leaders and citizens cope with stress is under-theorised in the study of International Relations (IR). This article anchors psychological studies on coping to the literature theorising emotions in IR to clarify two unaddressed questions:... Read More about Coping with international politics: A case study of Hong Kong.

Risk of bias assessments in individual participant data meta-analyses of test accuracy and prediction models: a review shows improvements are needed. (2023)
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Levis, B., Snell, K. I., Damen, J. A., Hattle, M., Ensor, J., Dhiman, P., …Riley, R. D. (in press). Risk of bias assessments in individual participant data meta-analyses of test accuracy and prediction models: a review shows improvements are needed. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, S0895-4356(23)00282-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.10.022

Risk of bias assessments are important in meta-analyses of both aggregate and individual participant data (IPD). There is limited evidence on whether and how risk of bias of included studies or datasets in IPD meta-analyses (IPDMAs) is assessed. We r... Read More about Risk of bias assessments in individual participant data meta-analyses of test accuracy and prediction models: a review shows improvements are needed..

Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors (2023)
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Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Jeftić, A., Stöckli, S., Gelpí, R., Acosta-Ortiz, A. M., …Vestergren, S. (2023). Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05281-x

Despite the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided the opportunity to investigate factors associated with compliance with public health measures that could inform responses to future pandemics. We analysed crosscountry data (k = 12... Read More about Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors.

Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS (2023)
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Delrez, L., Leleu, A., Brandeker, A., Gillon, M., Hooton, M. J., Collier Cameron, A., …Winn, J. N. (2023). Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 678, Article A200. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245479

Context. The TOI-178 system consists of a nearby late K-dwarf transited by six planets in the super-Earth to mini-Neptune regime, with radii ranging from ~1.1 to 2.9 R⊕ and orbital periods between 1.9 and 20.7 days. All planets but the innermost one... Read More about Refining the properties of the TOI-178 system with CHEOPS and TESS.

A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134 (2023)
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Rescigno, F., Hébrard, G., Vanderburg, A., Mann, A. W., Mortier, A., Morrell, S., …Forés-Toribio, R. (in press). A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 5385-5407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3255

We present the characterisation of an inner mini-Neptune in a 9.2292005±0.0000063 day orbit and an outer mono-transiting sub-Saturn planet in a 95.50$^{+0.36}_{-0.25}$ day orbit around the moderately active, bright (mv = 8.9 mag) K5V star TOI-2134. B... Read More about A hot mini-Neptune and a temperate, highly eccentric sub-Saturn around the bright K-dwarf TOI-2134.

Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices (2023)
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Pizarro, J. J., Cakal, H., Méndez, L., Zumeta, L. N., Gracia‐Leiva, M., Basabe, N., …Páez, D. (in press). Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12930

Although different social crises may eventually favor undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such antidemocratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research... Read More about Sociopolitical consequences of COVID‐19 in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: A multilevel, multicountry investigation of risk perceptions and support for antidemocratic practices.

Multi-stage subduction-related metasomatism recorded in whiteschists from the Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps (2023)
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Harris, B. J. R., De Hoog, J. C. M., Halama, R., Schertl, H., & Chen, Y. (2023). Multi-stage subduction-related metasomatism recorded in whiteschists from the Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 178(11), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02058-0

Whiteschists from the Dora-Maira massif (Western Alps, Italy) are Mg and K-rich metasomatised granites which experienced ultra-high pressure metamorphism and fluid-rock interaction during Alpine continental subduction. The sources and timing of fluid... Read More about Multi-stage subduction-related metasomatism recorded in whiteschists from the Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps.

Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. (2023)
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Wahart, A. J. C., Dolan, J. P., Anderson, S. D., Cheallaigh, A. N., Staniland, J., Lima, M. A., …Cosgrove, S. C. (in press). Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides. ChemBioChem, Article e202300625. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300625

As the world moves towards net-zero carbon emissions, the development of sustainable chemical manufacturing processes is essential. Within manufacturing, purification by distillation is often used, however this process is energy intensive and methods... Read More about Harnessing a Biocatalyst to Bioremediate the Purification of Alkylglycosides..

3D Simulations of Magnetoconvection in a Rapidly Rotating Supernova Progenitor (2023)
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Varma, V., & Müller, B. (2023). 3D Simulations of Magnetoconvection in a Rapidly Rotating Supernova Progenitor. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(4), 5249–5262. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3113

We present a first 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of oxygen, neon and carbon shell burning in a rapidly rotating 16M⊙ core-collapse supernova progenitor. We also run a purely hydrodynamic simulation for comparison. After $\mathord \approx 18... Read More about 3D Simulations of Magnetoconvection in a Rapidly Rotating Supernova Progenitor.

Skew Bracoids (2023)
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Truman, P., & Martin-Lyons, I. (2024). Skew Bracoids. Journal of Algebra, 638, 751-787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2023.10.005

Skew braces are intensively studied owing to their wide ranging connections and applications. We generalize the definition of a skew brace to give a new algebraic object, which we term a \textit{skew bracoid}. Our construction involves two groups int... Read More about Skew Bracoids.

Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023)
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Poole, E., Giraud, E. H., Richardson, J. E., & de Quincey, E. (2023). Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231199452

This article advances research on mediated solidarity, by analyzing the contestation of Islamophobia on the social media platform Twitter, in the context of Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a unique longit... Read More about Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library † (2023)
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Keenan, T., Hatton, N. E., Porter, J., Vendeville, J., Wheatley, D. E., Ghirardello, M., …Fascione, M. A. (in press). Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library †. Chemical Science, 14(42), 11638-11646. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc04169g

β-Mannosides are ubiquitous in nature, with diverse roles in many biological processes. Notably, Manβ1,4GlcNAc a constituent of the core N-glycan in eukaryotes was recently identified as an immune activator, highlighting its potential for use in immu... Read More about Reverse thiophosphorylase activity of a glycoside phosphorylase in the synthesis of an unnatural Manβ1,4GlcNAc library †.

Synthetic Control of the Defect Structure and Hierarchical Extra-Large-/Small-Pore Microporosity in Aluminosilicate Zeolite SWY (2023)
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Chitac, R. G., Zholobenko, V. L., Fletcher, R. S., Softley, E., Bradley, J., Mayoral, A., …Wright, P. A. (in press). Synthetic Control of the Defect Structure and Hierarchical Extra-Large-/Small-Pore Microporosity in Aluminosilicate Zeolite SWY. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(40), 22097-22114. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c07873

The SWY-type aluminosilicate zeolite, STA-30, has been synthesized via different routes to understand its defect chemistry and solid acidity. The synthetic parameters varied were the gel aging, the Al source, and the organic structure directing agent... Read More about Synthetic Control of the Defect Structure and Hierarchical Extra-Large-/Small-Pore Microporosity in Aluminosilicate Zeolite SWY.

Prolonged grief during and beyond the pandemic: factors associated with levels of grief in a four time-point longitudinal survey of people bereaved in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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Harrop, E., Medeiros Mirra, R., Goss, S., Longo, M., Byrne, A., Farnell, D. J. J., …Selman, L. E. (in press). Prolonged grief during and beyond the pandemic: factors associated with levels of grief in a four time-point longitudinal survey of people bereaved in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1215881. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1215881

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating and enduring mass-bereavement event, with uniquely difficult sets of circumstances experienced by people bereaved at this time. However, little is known about the long-term consequences of thes... Read More about Prolonged grief during and beyond the pandemic: factors associated with levels of grief in a four time-point longitudinal survey of people bereaved in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human vascularised synovium-on-a-chip: a mechanically stimulated, microfluidic model to investigate synovial inflammation and monocyte recruitment. (2023)
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Thompson, C. L., Hopkins, T., Bevan, C., Screen, H. R., Wright, K. T., & Knight, M. M. (in press). Human vascularised synovium-on-a-chip: a mechanically stimulated, microfluidic model to investigate synovial inflammation and monocyte recruitment. Biomedical Materials, 18(6), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-605X/acf976

Healthy synovium is critical for joint homeostasis. Synovial inflammation (synovitis) is implicated in the onset, progression and symptomatic presentation of arthritic joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, th... Read More about Human vascularised synovium-on-a-chip: a mechanically stimulated, microfluidic model to investigate synovial inflammation and monocyte recruitment..

Compromise and complicity: partnership and interdependence in a global challenges research collaboration (2023)
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Palladino, M., Jeffery, L., Benslimane, D., & Arfaoui, O. (2023). Compromise and complicity: partnership and interdependence in a global challenges research collaboration. Global Social Challenges, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349y2023d000000001

This article contributes to debates on international collaborations by examining contradictions between the decolonial turn and the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund which imposed Global North leadership on Global South partners. Through the lense... Read More about Compromise and complicity: partnership and interdependence in a global challenges research collaboration.

Interaction between pentacene molecules and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2023)
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Black, E., Kratzer, P., & Morbec, J. M. (2023). Interaction between pentacene molecules and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(43), 29444-29450. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp01895d

Using first-principles calculations based on density-functional theory, we investigated the adsorption of pentacene molecules on monolayer two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). We considered the four most popular TMDs, namely, MoS2,... Read More about Interaction between pentacene molecules and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides.