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Recognition, remember-know, and confidence judgments: no evidence of cross-contamination here! (2023)
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Williams, H. L., Bodner, G. E., & Lindsay, D. S. (2023). Recognition, remember-know, and confidence judgments: no evidence of cross-contamination here!. Memory, 31(7), 905-917. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2207804

We report three experiments designed to reveal the mechanisms that underlie subjective experiences of recognition by examining effects of how those experiences are measured. Prior research has explored the potential influences of collecting metacogni... Read More about Recognition, remember-know, and confidence judgments: no evidence of cross-contamination here!.

Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome. (2023)
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Page, N., Taxiarchi, C., Tonge, D., Kuburic, J., Chesters, E., Kriezis, A., Kyrou, K., Game, L., Nolan, T., & Galizi, R. (2023). Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome

Understanding development and genetic regulation in the Anopheles gambiae germline is essential to engineer effective genetic control strategies targeting this malaria mosquito vector. These include targeting the germline to induce sterility or using... Read More about Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome..

The evolution of colistin resistance increases bacterial resistance to host antimicrobial peptides and virulence (2023)
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Jangir, P., Ogunlana, L., Szili, P., Czikkely, M., P Shaw, L., Stevens, E. J., Yu, Y., Yang, Q., Wang, Y., Pal, C., R Walsh, T., & R MacLean, C. (2023). The evolution of colistin resistance increases bacterial resistance to host antimicrobial peptides and virulence. eLife, 12, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.84395

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer a promising solution to the antibiotic resistance crisis. However, an unresolved serious concern is that the evolution of resistance to therapeutic AMPs may generate cross-resistance to host AMPs, compromising a co... Read More about The evolution of colistin resistance increases bacterial resistance to host antimicrobial peptides and virulence.

Mapping the distribution of OB stars and associations in Auriga (2023)
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Quintana, A. L., Wright, N. J., & Jeffries, R. D. (2023). Mapping the distribution of OB stars and associations in Auriga. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(2), 3124-3137. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1160

OB associations are important probes of recent star formation and Galactic structure. In this study, we focus on the Auriga constellation, an important region of star formation due to its numerous young stars, star-forming regions, and open clusters.... Read More about Mapping the distribution of OB stars and associations in Auriga.

Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands (2023)
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Tiwasing, P., Gorton, M., Phillipson, J., & Maioli, S. (2023). Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands. Journal of Rural Studies, 100, Article ARTN 103007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103007

In the face of persistent and widening regional imbalances in economic and social outcomes, the UK Government seeks to ‘level up’ less prosperous communities, reigniting debates on the relationships between geography and business innovation. A key qu... Read More about Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands.

Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars (2023)
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Rizzuti, F., Hirschi, R., Georgy, C., Arnett, D., Meakin, C., & Murphy, A. (2023). Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars. EPJ Web of Conferences, 279, 05001. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327905001

Our knowledge of massive star evolution and nucleosynthesis is limited by uncertainties related to multi-dimensional processes taking place in stellar interiors. Recently, theoretical works have started to improve 1D stellar evolution codes through t... Read More about Turbulence and nuclear reactions in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of massive stars.

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation (2023)
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Jin, S., Trager, S. C., Dalton, G. B., Aguerri, J. A. L., Drew, J. E., Falcón-Barroso, J., Gänsicke, B. T., Hill, V., Iovino, A., Pieri, M. M., Poggianti, B. M., Smith, D. J. B., Vallenari, A., Abrams, D. C., Aguado, D. S., Antoja, T., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Ascasibar, Y., Babusiaux, C., Balcells, M., …Zurita, C. (2024). The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(3), 2688-2730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad557

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, saw first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-deg field-of-view prime-focus corrector system, a nearly 1000-multiplex fibre pos... Read More about The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation.

Incident cardiovascular events and imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank participants with past cancer (2023)
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Mamas, M. A., Raisi-Estabragh, Z., Cooper, J., McCracken, C., Crosbie, E. J., Walter, F. M., Manisty, C. H., Robson, J., Harvey, N. C., Neubauer, S., & Petersen, S. E. (2023). Incident cardiovascular events and imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank participants with past cancer. Heart, heartjnl-2022-321888. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321888

Objectives: To evaluate incident cardiovascular outcomes and imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank participants with previous cancer. Methods: Cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnoses were ascertained using health record linkage. Participants wit... Read More about Incident cardiovascular events and imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank participants with past cancer.

Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer (2023)
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Bouzy, P., Lyburn, I. D., Pinder, S. E., Scott, R., Mansfield, J., Moger, J., Greenwood, C., Bouybayoune, I., Cornford, E., Rogers, K., & Stone, N. (in press). Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer. Analytical Methods, 15(13), 1620-1630. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ay01197b

Microcalcifications play an important role in cancer detection. They are evaluated by their radiological and histological characteristics but it is challenging to find a link between their morphology, their composition and the nature of a specific ty... Read More about Exploration of utility of combined optical photothermal infrared and Raman imaging for investigating the chemical composition of microcalcifications in breast cancer.

“It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England (2023)
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Wainwright, L., Senker, S., Canvin, K., & Sheard, L. (2023). “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England. Health and Justice, 11, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00212-1

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The impact of COVID-19 has been exceptional, particularly on the National Health Service which has juggled COVID affected patients alongside related staff shortages and the existing (and growing) health needs of the population. In prisons... Read More about “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England.

The Equator Project (2023)
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Dowey, N., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Williams, R., Fernando, B., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Mills, K., Newton, A., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., & Souch, C. (2023). The Equator Project. Earth ArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31223/x5793t

A sulphated glycosaminoglycan extract from Placopecten magellanicus inhibits the Alzheimer's disease ß-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1). (2023)
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Mycroft-West, C., Devlin, A., Cooper, L., Guimond, S., Procter, P., Miller, G., Guerrini, M., Fernig, D., Yates, E., Andrade De Lima, M., & Skidmore, M. (2023). A sulphated glycosaminoglycan extract from Placopecten magellanicus inhibits the Alzheimer's disease ß-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1). Carbohydrate Research, 525, Article 108747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2023.108747

The clinically important anticoagulant heparin, a member of the glycosaminoglycan family of carbohydrates that is extracted predominantly from porcine and bovine tissue sources, has previously been shown to inhibit the ß-site amyloid precursor protei... Read More about A sulphated glycosaminoglycan extract from Placopecten magellanicus inhibits the Alzheimer's disease ß-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1)..

Closing the gap to effective gene drive in Aedes aegypti by exploiting germline regulatory elements (2023)
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Anderson, M. A. E., Gonzalez, E., Ang, J. X. D., Shackleford, L., Nevard, K., Verkuijl, S. A. N., Edgington, M. P., Harvey-Samuel, T., & Alphey, L. (in press). Closing the gap to effective gene drive in Aedes aegypti by exploiting germline regulatory elements. Nature communications, 14(1), Article 338. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36029-7

CRISPR/Cas9-based homing gene drives have emerged as a potential new approach to mosquito control. While attempts have been made to develop such systems in Aedes aegypti, none have been able to match the high drive efficiency observed in Anopheles sp... Read More about Closing the gap to effective gene drive in Aedes aegypti by exploiting germline regulatory elements.

An Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) Reverse Genetics Rescue System and Neutralization Assay in Chicken B Cells (2023)
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Reddy, V. R. A. P., Nazki, S., Asfor, A., & Broadbent, A. J. (2023). An Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) Reverse Genetics Rescue System and Neutralization Assay in Chicken B Cells. Current Protocols in Neuroscience, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.639

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) is a major threat to the productivity of the poultry industry due to morbidity, mortality, and immunosuppression that exacerbates secondary infections and reduces the efficacy of vaccination programs. Field stra... Read More about An Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) Reverse Genetics Rescue System and Neutralization Assay in Chicken B Cells.