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Lake surface water temperature in China from 2001 to 2021 based on GEE and HANTS (2024)
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Song, S., Yang, J., Liu, L., Bai, G., Zhou, J., & McKay, D. (2024). Lake surface water temperature in China from 2001 to 2021 based on GEE and HANTS. Ecological Informatics, Article 102903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102903

Warming of lakes' surface water leads to accelerated loss of biodiversity and eco-environmental collapse of aquatic systems. Changes in lack surface water temperature (LSWT) are a crucial indicator of lake warming. LSWT growth potentially leads to a... Read More about Lake surface water temperature in China from 2001 to 2021 based on GEE and HANTS.

Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone (2024)
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Packmor, F., Kishkinev, D., Zechmeister, T., Mouritsen, H., & Holland, R. A. (2024). Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2034), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1363

Migratory birds are able to navigate over great distances with remarkable accuracy. The mechanism they use to achieve this feat is thought to involve two distinct steps: locating their position (the “map”) and heading towards the direction determi... Read More about Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone.

‘Re‐Wilding’ an Animal Model With Microbiota Shifts Immunity and Stress Gene Expression During Infection (2024)
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Will, I., Stevens, E. J., Belcher, T., & C. King, K. (2024). ‘Re‐Wilding’ an Animal Model With Microbiota Shifts Immunity and Stress Gene Expression During Infection. Molecular Ecology, Article e17586. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17586

The frequency of emerging disease is growing with ongoing human activity facilitating new host–pathogen interactions. Novel infection outcomes can also be shaped by the host microbiota. Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes experimentally colonised by a w... Read More about ‘Re‐Wilding’ an Animal Model With Microbiota Shifts Immunity and Stress Gene Expression During Infection.

Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia (2024)
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Bright, R. K. (2024). Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia. Genealogy, 8(4), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040140

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognised the ways that colonialism, and related racism, embedded intergenerational trauma within families and communities. The role of domestic violence within families is widely accepted as important, bu... Read More about Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.

An ultra-short-period super-Earth with an extremely high density and an outer companion (2024)
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Livingston, J. H., Gandolfi, D., Trani, A. A., Herath, M., Barragán, O., Hatzes, A., Luque, R., Fukui, A., Nowak, G., Palle, E., Hellier, C., Fridlund, M., de Leon, J., Hirano, T., Narita, N., Albrecht, S., Dai, F., Deeg, H., Van Eylen, V., Korth, J., & Tamura, M. (in press). An ultra-short-period super-Earth with an extremely high density and an outer companion. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 27219. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76490-y

We present the discovery and characterization of a new multi-planetary system around the Sun-like star K2-360 (EPIC 201595106). K2-360 was first identified in K2 photometry as the host of an ultra-short-period (USP) planet candidate with a period of... Read More about An ultra-short-period super-Earth with an extremely high density and an outer companion.

Cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions for adults, children and young people who have self-harmed (2024)
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Mavranezouli, I., Pelone, F., Connolly, R., Mughal, F., Witt, K. G., Hawton, K., Lascelles, K., Wildgoose, A., Childs, A., Pilling, S., & Kapur, N. (2024). Cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions for adults, children and young people who have self-harmed. BMJ Mental Health, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301220

Background: Self-harm is a major health issue resulting in high societal costs. Few psychological and psychosocial interventions have shown effectiveness in reducing repeat self-harm. Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of psychological and p... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions for adults, children and young people who have self-harmed.

Optimized punching shear design in steel fiber-reinforced slabs: Machine learning vs. evolutionary prediction models (2024)
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Albostami, A. S., Mohamad, S. A., Alzabeebee, S., Al-Hamd, R. K., & Al-Bander, B. (2025). Optimized punching shear design in steel fiber-reinforced slabs: Machine learning vs. evolutionary prediction models. Engineering Structures, 322, Article 119150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.119150

This research paper focuses on utilizing Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Evolutionary Polynomial Regression (MOGA-EPR), and Gene Expression Programming (GEP) to predict the punching shear strength of Steel Fibre-Re... Read More about Optimized punching shear design in steel fiber-reinforced slabs: Machine learning vs. evolutionary prediction models.

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Social Vulnerability: An Epidemiological Analysis of Mortality Outcomes. (2024)
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Shahid, M., Ibrahim, R., Ulhaque, T., Nhat, H., Sainbayar, E., Lee, K., & Mamas, M. A. (in press). Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Social Vulnerability: An Epidemiological Analysis of Mortality Outcomes. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(21), Article e034825. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.034825

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) outcomes have been previously linked to demographic and social factors. The social vulnerability index (SVI) is a measure of social vulnerability in the United States. We explored PPCM disparities and the impact of SV... Read More about Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Social Vulnerability: An Epidemiological Analysis of Mortality Outcomes..

The K2-24 planetary system revisited by CHEOPS (2024)
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Nascimbeni, V., Borsato, L., Leonardi, P., Sousa, S. G., Wilson, T. G., Fortier, A., Heitzmann, A., Mantovan, G., Luque, R., Zingales, T., Piotto, G., Alibert, Y., Alonso, R., Bárczy, T., Barrado Navascues, D., Barros, S. C. C., Baumjohann, W., Beck, T., Benz, W., Billot, N., …Walton, N. A. (2024). The K2-24 planetary system revisited by CHEOPS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 690, Article A349. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450852

The planetary system K2-24 is composed of two transiting low-density Neptunians locked in an almost perfect 2:1 resonance and showing large transit time variations (TTVs), and it is an excellent laboratory to search for signatures of planetary migrat... Read More about The K2-24 planetary system revisited by CHEOPS.

Care gaps among people presenting to the hospital following self-harm: observational study of three emergency departments in England (2024)
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Steeg, S., Bickley, H., Clements, C., Quinlivan, L. M., Barlow, S., Monaghan, E., Naylor, F., Smith, J., Mughal, F., Robinson, C., Gnani, S., & Kapur, N. (2024). Care gaps among people presenting to the hospital following self-harm: observational study of three emergency departments in England. BMJ Open, 14(10), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085672

Objectives: This study aims to examine the proportions of patients referred to mental health, social and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) services and general practice and to assess care gaps among people presenting to the hospital f... Read More about Care gaps among people presenting to the hospital following self-harm: observational study of three emergency departments in England.

Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project) (2024)
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Granviken, F., Meisingset, I., Bach, K., Bones, A. F., Simpson, M. R., Hill, J. C., van der Windt, D. A., & Vasseljen, O. (2024). Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project). PAIN, https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003456

We developed the SupportPrim PT clinical decision support system (CDSS) using the artificial intelligence method case-based reasoning to support personalised musculoskeletal pain management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of... Read More about Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project).

Risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in humans in Bangladesh (2024)
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Chowdhury, S., Islam, M. S., Haider, N., Hossain, M. B., Alam, M. A., Sharif, M. A. R., Uzzaman, M. S., Rahman, M., Rahman, M., & Haque, F. (in press). Risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in humans in Bangladesh. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, Article 1442937. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1442937

Objectives: To determine the risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax infection in humans. Methods: During 2013–2016, we investigated total 26 anthrax outbreaks across the country. We additionally conducted a case–control study to identify risk... Read More about Risk factors associated with cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in humans in Bangladesh.

A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout. (2024)
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Major, T. J., Takei, R., Matsuo, H., Leask, M. P., Sumpter, N. A., Topless, R. K., Shirai, Y., Wang, W., Cadzow, M. J., Phipps-Green, A. J., Li, Z., Ji, A., Merriman, M. E., Morice, E., Kelley, E. E., Wei, W.-H., McCormick, S. P. A., Bixley, M. J., Reynolds, R. J., Saag, K. G., …Merriman, T. R. (in press). A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout. Nature Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01921-5

Gout is a chronic disease that is caused by an innate immune response to deposited monosodium urate crystals in the setting of hyperuricemia. Here, we provide insights into the molecular mechanism of the poorly understood inflammatory component of go... Read More about A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout..

Exploring online public survey lifestyle datasets with statistical analysis, machine learning and semantic ontology (2024)
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Chatterjee, A., Riegler, M. A., Johnson, M. S., Das, J., Pahari, N., Ramachandra, R., Ghosh, B., Saha, A., & Bajpai, R. (2024). Exploring online public survey lifestyle datasets with statistical analysis, machine learning and semantic ontology. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74539-6

Lifestyle diseases significantly contribute to the global health burden, with lifestyle factors playing a crucial role in the development of depression. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified many determinants of depression. This study aimed to identi... Read More about Exploring online public survey lifestyle datasets with statistical analysis, machine learning and semantic ontology.

Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions. (2024)
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Braybrooke, A., Baraks, K., Burgess, R., Banerjee, A., & Hill, J. (in press). Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2024.08.022

To identify, appraise, and synthesise common themes from quality indicator (QI) sets designed for the assessment, management, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions in primary and community care contexts. A systematic search was performed o... Read More about Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions..

Towards an environmental quality standard (EQS) for lithium in fresh water (2024)
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Oliver, I. W., & Hewett, E. F. (2024). Towards an environmental quality standard (EQS) for lithium in fresh water. Environmental Research, 263(Pt 2), Article 120103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.120103

Lithium (Li), because of its widespread and increasing use in Li-ion batteries, is an element of vital importance to the energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean, renewable energy (green energy). Extraction and refining operations, a... Read More about Towards an environmental quality standard (EQS) for lithium in fresh water.

Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load (2024)
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Nieves, M., Kisil, A., & Mishuris, G. S. (in press). Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2299), Article 20240099. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0099

We verify the recently developed method by Kisil (Kisil 2024 SIAM J. Appl. Math. 84, 464–476 (doi: 10.1137/23M1562445)) through its application in the study of the anti-plane dynamic response of an elastic square-cell lattice quadrant having a free l... Read More about Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load.

The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates. (2024)
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Journé, V., Bogdziewicz, M., Courbaud, B., Kunstler, G., Qiu, T., Acuña, M., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Berveiller, D., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Cailleret, M., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C.-H., Chave, J., Chianucci, F., Curt, T., Cutini, A., …Clark, J. S. (2024). The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates. Ecology Letters, 27(9), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14500

The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates... Read More about The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates..

Variability and stellar pulsation incidence in Am/Fm stars using TESS and Gaia data (2024)
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Durfeldt-Pedros, O., Antoci, V., Smalley, B., Murphy, S., Posilek, N., & Niemczura, E. (2024). Variability and stellar pulsation incidence in Am/Fm stars using TESS and Gaia data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, Article A104. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202349076

Aims. We aim to study chemically peculiar Am and Fm stars, distinguished by their unique abundance patterns, which are crucial for studying mixing processes in intermediate-mass stars. These stars provide a window into the atomic diffusion in their s... Read More about Variability and stellar pulsation incidence in Am/Fm stars using TESS and Gaia data.

Title: Prediction of Functional Disability in Older Chinese Adults Using a Random Survival Forest Model (2024)
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Shan, Y., Jiang, S., Yu, D., Fan, W., Gao, J., Lu, W., Duan, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Fu, H., & Wang, C. Title: Prediction of Functional Disability in Older Chinese Adults Using a Random Survival Forest Model

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As life expectancy increases, so does the risk of age-related diseases and functional disability, which significantly raises the risk of all-cause mortality in older adults. Individuals with disabilities may die up to 20 years earlier tha... Read More about Title: Prediction of Functional Disability in Older Chinese Adults Using a Random Survival Forest Model.