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Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom. (2025)
Journal Article
Sun, Y., Chen, S., Neyret, P., Hutchinson, M., Migliorini, F., Maffulli, N., Górios, C., & Piedade, S. R. (2025). Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 20(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13018-025-05882-1

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This work evaluated and validated the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of 4-Domain Sport PROM (4-DSP) into Chinese, assessing its understandability and reproducibility in all questionnaire domains for Chinese-speaking patients.... Read More about Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the 4 domain sports prom..

Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Polyvascular Disease. (2025)
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Abomoawad, A., Sedhom, R., Golwala, H., Abdelazeem, M., Mamas, M., Jneid, H., Bavry, A. A., Kumbhani, D. J., Kapadia, S., & Elbadawi, A. (2025). Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Polyvascular Disease. Cardiology and Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40119-025-00415-7

There is a paucity of data regarding the trends and comparative outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) versus surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) among patients with polyvascular disease (PVD). The Nationwide Readmissions Data... Read More about Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Polyvascular Disease..

A non-specialist worker delivered digital assessment of cognitive development (DEEP) in young children: a longitudinal validation study in rural India (2025)
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Bhavnani, S., Ranjan, A., Mukherjee, D., Divan, G., Prakash, A., Yadav, A., Lal, C., Gajria, D., Irfan, H., Sharma, K. K., Todkar, S. D., Patel, V., & McCray, G. (2025). A non-specialist worker delivered digital assessment of cognitive development (DEEP) in young children: a longitudinal validation study in rural India. PLOS Digital Health, 4(5), Article e0000824. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000824

Cognitive development in early childhood is critical for life-long well-being. Existing cognitive development surveillance tools require lengthy parental interviews and observations of children. Developmental Assessment on an E-Platform (DEEP) is a d... Read More about A non-specialist worker delivered digital assessment of cognitive development (DEEP) in young children: a longitudinal validation study in rural India.

Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches (2025)
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Alekseev, A., Shcherbakov, V., Avdieiev, O., Denisov, S. A., Kubytskyi, V., Blinchevsky, B., Murokh, S., Ajeer, A., Adams, L., Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Jones, L. J., Mourokh, L., & Lazarev, P. (2025). Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches. Cancers, 17(10), Article 1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17101662

Background/Objectives: With the number of detected breast cancer cases growing every year, there is a need to augment histopathological analysis with fast preliminary screening. We examine the feasibility of using X-ray diffraction measurements for t... Read More about Benign/Cancer Diagnostics Based on X-Ray Diffraction: Comparison of Data Analytics Approaches.

Towards a ‘theory of change’ for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution (2025)
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Horton, A. A., Henderson, L., Bowyer, C., Courtene-Jones, W., Garrard, S. L., Kulsum, N. M., McKay, D., Manikarachchige, I., Sreekumar, S., & Stanton, T. (in press). Towards a ‘theory of change’ for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution. Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-025-00127-8

Socio-oceanography is an emerging field which mobilises insights from natural and social sciences to explore the inter-connectedness of societal relationships with the ocean and to adopt a holistic approach to solving key oceanographic and societal c... Read More about Towards a ‘theory of change’ for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution.

Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution (2025)
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Horton, A. A., Henderson, L., Bowyer, C., Courtene-Jones, W., Garrard, S. L., Kulsum, N. M., McKay, D., Manikarachchige, I., Sreekumar, S., & Stanton, T. (2025). Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution. Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-025-00127-8

Socio-oceanography is an emerging field which mobilises insights from natural and social sciences to explore the inter-connectedness of societal relationships with the ocean and to adopt a holistic approach to solving key oceanographic and societal c... Read More about Towards a 'theory of change' for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution.

The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives (2025)
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Best, A., Adsley, P., Amberger, R., Battino, U., Chillery, T., La Cognata, M., deBoer, R. J., Mercogliano, D., Ota, S., Rapagnani, D., Sidhu, R. S., Spartà, R., Tumino, A., & Wiescher, M. (2025). The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives. European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei, 61(5), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01572-y

One of the most important stellar neutron sources is the 22Ne(α, n)25Mg reaction, which gets activated both during the helium intershell burning in asymptotic giant branch stars and in core helium and shell carbon burning in massive stars. The 22Ne(α... Read More about The 22 Ne( α,n) 25 Mg reaction - state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives.

A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production (2025)
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Roberts, T. L., Dolan, J. P., Miller, G. J., Lima, M. A. D., & Cosgrove, S. C. (2025). A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5re00127g

We report here the continuous flow synthesis of a high-value sugar nucleotide. Immobilisation of enzymes onto solid carriers permitted transfer of the biocatalysts into packed bed reactors to realise a continuous biocatalytic platform for the synthes... Read More about A modular, reusable biocatalytic flow system for UDP-GlcNAc production.

Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review (2025)
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Migliorini, F., Pilone, M., Mazzoleni, M. G., Schäfer, L., Katusic, D., & Maffulli, N. (2025). Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review. European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 35(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-025-04292-7

Purpose: The present systematic review investigated the efficacy of intra-articular hyaluronic acid (HA) viscosupplementation for hip osteoarthritis (OA) in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and whether different molecular weights of HA are a... Read More about Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for hip osteoarthritis: a level I systematic review.

The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC (2025)
Journal Article
Poudel, S., Horton, A., Vazquez, J., Barger, K. A., Cashman, F. H., Fox, A. J., Lehner, N., Lucchini, S., Krishnarao, D., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., D’Onghia, E., Tumlinson, J., Tuli, A. G., Sdun, L., Gebhart, S., Anthony, K., Cole, B., van Loon, J. T., Roman-Duval, J., Ma, Y. K., …Leahy, D. (2025). The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC. Astrophysical Journal, 984(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc099

Widespread galactic winds emanate from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with the 30 Doradus starburst region generating the fastest and most concentrated gas flows. We report on the gas distribution, kinematics, and ionization conditions of the near... Read More about The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC.

Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pakhomov, A., Shapoval, N., Shapoval, A., & Kishkinev, D. (2025). Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant

Seasonal migration in animals is a widespread and complex phenomenon, yet the mechanisms underlying orientation and navigation remain poorly understood in many taxa. While significant progress has been made in migratory birds, where multiple compass... Read More about Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant.

Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms (2025)
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Darras, K. F. A., Rountree, R. A., Van Wilgenburg, S. L., Cord, A. F., Pitz, F., Chen, Y., Dong, L., Rocquencourt, A., Desjonquères, C., Diaz, P. M., Lin, T., Turco, T., Emmerson, L., Bradfer‐Lawrence, T., Gasc, A., Marley, S., Salton, M., Schillé, L., Wensveen, P. J., Wu, S., …Wanger, T. C. (2025). Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5), Article e70021. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021

Aim: The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lac... Read More about Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms.

Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars (2025)
Journal Article
Maxted, P. F. L. (2025). Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(4), 3741-3757. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf735

Adding an independent estimate of the mean stellar density, , as a constraint in the analysis of stars that host transiting exoplanets can significantly improve the precision of the planet radius estimate in cases where the light curve is too noisy t... Read More about Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars.

The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma (2025)
Journal Article
Usher, I., O'Donnell, P., Ligammari, L., Harder, D., Brown, W., Choi, D., Cool, P., Cottone, L., & Flanagan, A. M. (2025). The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma. The Journal of pathology, https://doi.org/10.1002/path.6427

The aim of this research was to investigate the pathogenesis of the bone cancer chordoma and the role of the germline rs2305089 SNP in TBXT. Using medical imaging and genotyping studies, we observed that benign notochordal cell tumours (BNCTs) were a... Read More about The TBXT rs2305089 SNP links the benign notochordal cell tumour and chordoma.

Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine (2025)
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Sim, J., Smith, L. E., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. J., Sevdalis, N., & Sherman, S. M. (2025). Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine. PloS one, 20(5), Article e0322503. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322503

Aim: When developing public health measures in a pandemic, it is important to examine attitudes and beliefs relating to vaccination uptake. We report the discrimination of a single-item vaccination intention scale and derive cutpoints in terms of sen... Read More about Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine.

TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc (2025)
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Scott, M. G., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Barkaoui, K., Sebastian, D., Burgasser, A. J., Collins, K. A., Dransfield, G., Hellier, C., Howell, S. B., Piette, A. A. A., Rackham, B. V., Stassun, K. G., Stokholm, A., Timmermans, M., Watkins, C. N., Fausnaugh, M., Fukui, A., Jenkins, J. M., Narita, N., Ricker, G., …Watanabe, D. (2025). TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(2), 1909–1927. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf684

Growing numbers of exoplanet detections continue to reveal the diverse nature of planetary systems. Planet formation around late-type M dwarfs is of particular interest. These systems provide practical laboratories to measure exoplanet occurrence rat... Read More about TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc.

A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey (2025)
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Chen, H., Stanimirović, S., Pingel, N. M., Dempsey, J., Buckland-Willis, F., Clark, S. E., Dénes, H., Dickey, J. M., Gibson, S., Jameson, K., Kemp, I., Leahy, D., Lee, M.-Y., Lynn, C., Ma, Y. K., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Murray, C. E., Nguyen, H., Uscanga, L., van Loon, J. T., & Vázquez-Semadeni, E. (2025). A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey. Astronomical Journal, 169(5), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adc67c

Cold neutral hydrogen (H i) is a crucial precursor for molecular gas formation and can be studied via H i absorption. This study investigates H i absorption in low column density regions of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) using th... Read More about A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H i Survey.

The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars (2025)
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Jackson, R. J., Jeffries, R. D., & Tognelli, E. (2025). The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(4), 3364-3380. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf683

Lithium is predicted, and observed, to be depleted in contracting low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars. Yet, these stars reach the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) with a spread in lithium abundance at a given effective temperature that is not predict... Read More about The growth of a lithium abundance dispersion in pre-main-sequence stars.

Association of Frailty with Readmissions and Outcomes After Impella Mechanical Circulatory Support (2025)
Journal Article
Maffey, M. W., Kuchtaruk, A. A., Damluji, A. A., García, S., Elgendy, I. Y., Villablanca, P., Moroni, F., Denicolai, M., Mamas, M. A., & Bagur, R. (2025). Association of Frailty with Readmissions and Outcomes After Impella Mechanical Circulatory Support. CJC Open, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2025.04.011

Background
Frailty is associated with a greater risk of readmission after cardiovascular procedures. However, the impact of frailty on readmission rates and outcomes after Impella mechanical circulatory support (M... Read More about Association of Frailty with Readmissions and Outcomes After Impella Mechanical Circulatory Support.

Impact of obesity on clinical outcomes in patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism: A comparative analysis. (2025)
Journal Article
Shachar, Z., Gatuz, M. V., Folman, A., Barel, M. S., Abu-Fanne, R., Abramov, D., Mamas, M. A., Roguin, A., & Kobo, O. (2025). Impact of obesity on clinical outcomes in patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism: A comparative analysis. International Journal of Cardiology, 58, 101682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2025.101682

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening cardiovascular condition with increasing global incidence. Obesity is a significant risk factor for PE, although its reported relationship with outcomes is inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate th... Read More about Impact of obesity on clinical outcomes in patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism: A comparative analysis..