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Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution (2024)
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Blackburn, M. (2024). Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution. Sound Studies, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2023.2301214

This article documents the creation and distribution of a new sample pack, Instruments INDIA, as an intervention against systemic orientalist practices observable within the marketing, branding and production of non-Western instrument sample packs. T... Read More about Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution.

Identification of a non-exported Plasmepsin V substrate that functions in the parasitophorous vacuole of malaria parasites (2024)
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Fréville, A., Ressurreição, M., & van Ooij, C. (2024). Identification of a non-exported Plasmepsin V substrate that functions in the parasitophorous vacuole of malaria parasites. mBio, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01223-23

Malaria parasites alter multiple properties of the host erythrocyte by exporting proteins into the host cell. Many exported proteins contain a five-amino acid motif called the Plasmodium export element (PEXEL) that is cleaved by the parasite protease... Read More about Identification of a non-exported Plasmepsin V substrate that functions in the parasitophorous vacuole of malaria parasites.

Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini (2024)
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Druitt, T., Kutterolf, S., Ronge, T. A., Hübscher, C., Nomikou, P., Preine, J., Gertisser, R., Karstens, J., Keller, J., Koukousioura, O., Manga, M., Metcalfe, A., McCanta, M., McIntosh, I., Pank, K., Woodhouse, A., Beethe, S., Berthod, C., Chiyonobu, S., Chen, H., …Lee, H.-Y. (2024). Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01171-z

Large explosive volcanic eruptions from island arcs pour pyroclastic currents into marine basins, impacting ecosystems and generating tsunamis that threaten coastal communities and infrastructures. Risk assessments require robust records of such high... Read More about Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini.

Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834 (2024)
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Tomkins, A. (in press). Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834. Midland History, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2024.2303645

This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing, or unskilled tasks like oakum picking, yet the man... Read More about Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834.

Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes (2024)
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Hegde, S., Brettell, L. E., Quek, S., Etebari, K., Saldaña, M. A., Asgari, S., Coon, K. L., Heinz, E., & Hughes, G. L. (2024). Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes. Environmental Microbiology, 26(2), Article e16576. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16576

The mosquito microbiome is critical for host development and plays a major role in many aspects of mosquito biology. While the microbiome is commonly dominated by a small number of genera, there is considerable variation in composition among mosquito... Read More about Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes.

The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS): Piloting the Feasibility of Collecting Nutritional Data and Extension of the Sample to Include Children of Twins. (2024)
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Dissanayake, L., Herath, B., Opatha, J., Jabir, S., Siriwardana, R., Sirisena, K., Wickramasinghe, M., Wimalasekera, M., Liyanage, R., Duminda Guruge, G. N., Jayaweera, K., Jayawardena, R., Zavos, H. M. S., Sumathipala, A., & Rijsdijk, F. (in press). The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS): Piloting the Feasibility of Collecting Nutritional Data and Extension of the Sample to Include Children of Twins. Behavior Genetics, 54(1), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-023-10171-w

Nutrition and diet are key modifiable risk factors for the rising burden of non-communicable diseases like cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). The nutritional transition in dietary behaviours in LMICs h... Read More about The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS): Piloting the Feasibility of Collecting Nutritional Data and Extension of the Sample to Include Children of Twins..

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study (2024)
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Shepherd, T., Robinson, M. E., Ramaema, M., Rakuoane, M., Moletsane, N., Mpholo, R., Mallen, C., & Leigh, G. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), Article e000414. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2023-000414

Introduction: There is a growing body of research evidencing the detrimental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and well-being of young people. This impact may be worse in low-resource settings, especially those in sub-Saharan Afric... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study.

The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2024)
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Bangpan, M., Felix, L., Soliman, F., D'Souza, P., Jieman, A., & Dickson, K. (2024). The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Global Mental Health, 11, Article e21. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2024.17

Humanitarian emergencies pose a significant global health challenge for children and young people's mental and psychological health. This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes de... Read More about The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis..

Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. (2024)
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Poole, D., Grange, J. A., & Milne, E. (2024). Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.369

Autistic people may have a less focused spotlight of spatial selective attention than non-autistic people, meaning that distracting stimuli are less effectively suppressed. Previous studies using the flanker task have supported this suggestion with o... Read More about Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults..

Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report. (2024)
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Jones, H., Crozier, A., George, K., Miller, G., Whyte, G. P., Rycroft, J., Scott, A., Buckley, J. P., McGregor, G., Askew, C. D., Jack, S., Birkett, S., Broom, D. R., Tolfrey, K., Campbell, A., Skelton, D. A., Steenkamp, L., Savage, J., & Green, D. J. (2024). Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 10(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002033

In 2021, a 'call to action' was published to highlight the need for professional regulation of clinical exercise physiologists to be established within UK healthcare systems to ensure patient safety and align training and regulation with other health... Read More about Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report..

Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. (2023)
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Zavos, H. M. S., Riddleston, L., Jayaweera, K., Dissanayake, L., Jabir, S., Pannala, G., Hotopf, M., Siribaddana, S., Sumathipala, A., & Rijsdijk, F. V. (in press). Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka. Behavior Genetics, 54, 73–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-023-10165-8

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) globally have undergone rapid urbanisation, and changes in demography and health behaviours. In Sri Lanka, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes are now leading causes of mortality. High prevalence of their ris... Read More about Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka..

A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty (2023)
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Hodgson, J. R., Benkowitz, C., Castellani, B. C., Ellison, A., Yassaie, R., Twohig, H., Bhudia, R., Jutila, O.-E. I., & Fowler-Davis, S. (2023). A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty. Environments, 11(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11010004

Environmental and public health research has given considerable attention to the impact of air quality on brain health, with systematic reviews being widespread. No literature review has been conducted for cognitive frailty—a multidimensional syndrom... Read More about A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty.

Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams (2023)
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Chiu, C. W., & Minku, L. L. (2024). Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams. Machine Learning, 113(7), 4671-4721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06420-y

Many real-world data stream applications not only suffer from concept drift but also class imbalance. Yet, very few existing studies investigated this joint challenge. Data difficulty factors, which have been shown to be key challenges in class imbal... Read More about Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams.

Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town (2023)
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Bahceci, S., Bradford, B., Girling, E., Loader, I., & Sparks, R. (2023). Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town. Criminological Encounters, 6(1),

What kinds of ‘sensory configurations’ (Thomas, 2010), and moral orders, are created in places that are simultaneously formed and rendered marginal by infrastructures of hegemonic automobility? In this paper, we explore this question with reference t... Read More about Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town.

TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system (2023)
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Osborne, H. L. M., Van Eylen, V., Goffo, E., Gandolfi, D., Nowak, G., Persson, C. M., Livingston, J., Weeks, A., Pallé, E., Luque, R., Hellier, C., Carleo, I., Redfield, S., Hirano, T., Garbaccio Gili, M., Alarcon, J., Barragán, O., Casasayas-Barris, N., Díaz, M. R., Esposito, M., …Lam, K. W. F. (in press). TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 11138-11157. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3837

We report on the precise radial velocity follow-up of TOI-544 (HD 290498), a bright K star (V=10.8), which hosts a small transiting planet recently discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We collected 122 high-resolution HARPS... Read More about TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system.

Effects of Empagliflozin on Fluid Overload, Weight and Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease (2023)
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Mayne, K. J., Staplin, N., Keane, D. F., Wanner, C., Brenner, S., Cejka, V., Stegbauer, J., Judge, P. K., Preiss, D., Emberson, J., Trinca, D., Dayanandan, R., Lee, R., Nolan, J., Omata, A., Green, J. B., Cherney, D. Z., Hooi, L. S., Pontremoli, R., Tuttle, K. R., …Herrington, W. G. (2023). Effects of Empagliflozin on Fluid Overload, Weight and Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 35(2), 202-215. https://doi.org/10.1681/asn.0000000000000271

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with fluid excess which can be estimated by bioimpedance spectroscopy. We aimed to assess effects of sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibition on bioimpedance-derived “Fluid Overload” and adipos... Read More about Effects of Empagliflozin on Fluid Overload, Weight and Blood Pressure in Chronic Kidney Disease.

Crystal structures of human immune protein FIBCD1 suggest an extended binding site compatible with recognition of pathogen-associated carbohydrate motifs (2023)
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Williams, H. M., Moeller, J. B., Burns, I., Schlosser, A., Sorensen, G. L., Greenhough, T. J., Holmskov, U., & Shrive, A. K. (2023). Crystal structures of human immune protein FIBCD1 suggest an extended binding site compatible with recognition of pathogen-associated carbohydrate motifs. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 105552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105552

Fibrinogen C-domain containing-1 (FIBCD1) is an immune protein proposed to be involved in host recognition of chitin on the surface of pathogens. As FIBCD1 readily binds to acetylated molecules, we have determined the high-resolution crystal structur... Read More about Crystal structures of human immune protein FIBCD1 suggest an extended binding site compatible with recognition of pathogen-associated carbohydrate motifs.

Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase (2023)
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Arnott, Z. L. P., Morgan, H. E., Hollingsworth, K., Stevenson, C. M. E., Collins, L. J., Tamasanu, A., Machin, D. C., Dolan, J. P., Kamiński, T. P., Wildsmith, G. C., Williamson, D. J., Pickles, I. B., Warriner, S. L., Turnbull, W. B., & Webb, M. E. (2024). Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(8), Article e202310862. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310862

Quantitative and selective labelling of proteins is widely used in both academic and industrial laboratories, and catalytic labelling of proteins using transpeptidases, such as sortases, has proved to be a popular strategy for such selective modifica... Read More about Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase.

TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data (2023)
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Holdsworth, D. L., Cunha, M. S., Lares-Martiz, M., Kurtz, D. W., Antoci, V., Forteza, S. B., De Cat, P., Derekas, A., Kayhan, C., Ozuyar, D., Skarka, M., Hey, D. R., Shi, F., Bowman, D. M., Kobzar, O., Gómez, A. A., Bognár, Z., Buzasi, D. L., Ebadi, M., Fox-Machado, L., …Seager, S. (2024). TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 9548-9580. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3800

We present the results of a systematic search of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) 2-min cadence data for new rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars observed during the Cycle 2 phase of its mission. We find seven new roAp stars previously... Read More about TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data.