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.

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.

A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud (2023)
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Gerrard, I. A., Federrath, C., Pingel, N. M., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Marchal, A., Joncas, G., Clark, S. E., Stanimirović, S., Lee, M.-Y., van Loon, J. T., Dickey, J., Dénes, H., Ma, Y. K., Dempsey, J., & Lynn, C. (2023). A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2718

Turbulence plays a crucial role in shaping the structure of the interstellar medium. The ratio of the three-dimensional density contrast ($\sigma _{\rho /\rho _0}$) to the turbulent sonic Mach number ($\mathcal {M}$) of an isothermal, compressible ga... Read More about A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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.

Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups (2023)
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Ioannidou, M., Lesk, V., Stewart-Knox, B., & Francis, K. B. (2023). Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups. Appetite, 190, Article 107024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107024

A largescale shift towards plant-based diets is considered a critical requirement for tackling ethical, environmental, and global health issues associated with animal food production and consumption. Although previous research has identified psycholo... Read More about Feeling morally troubled about meat, dairy, egg, and fish consumption: Dissonance reduction strategies among different dietary groups.

The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction (2023)
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Stiff, C., & Cutts, M. (2024). The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction. Current Psychology, 43(11), 9838-9853. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05060-8

Instagram is a hugely popular social media website; however, research has suggested that continued use of the site may lead to increased body dissatisfaction and lower body esteem. Materials intended to reduce these effects are available, but these o... Read More about The effectiveness of an instagram intervention targeted at men to reduce body dissatisfaction.

Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy identifies single cancer cells in blood. A feasibility study towards liquid biopsy (2023)
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Dowling, L. M., Roach, P., Magnussen, E. A., Kohler, A., Pillai, S., van Pittius, D. G., Yousef, I., & Sulé-Suso, J. (in press). Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy identifies single cancer cells in blood. A feasibility study towards liquid biopsy. PLoS ONE, 18(8), Article e0289824. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289824

The management of cancer patients has markedly improved with the advent of personalised medicine where treatments are given based on tumour antigen expression amongst other. Within this remit, liquid biopsies will no doubt improve this personalised c... Read More about Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy identifies single cancer cells in blood. A feasibility study towards liquid biopsy.

Single-cell profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and premeiotic overexpression of the X chromosome (2023)
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Page, N., Taxiarchi, C., Tonge, D., Kuburic, J., Chesters, E., Kriezis, A., Game, L., Kyrou, K., Game, L., Nolan, T., & Galizi, R. (2023). Single-cell profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and premeiotic overexpression of the X chromosome. Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 850. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05224-z

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 Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and premeiotic overexpression of the X chromosome.

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable (2023)
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Fernando, B., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Williams, R., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Newton, A., Mills, K., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., Souch, C., & Dowey, N. (2023). Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable. Nature Geoscience, 16(8), 658-660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01241-z

Admission to doctoral study is a crucial step in the academic pipeline, but discriminatory procedures can disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We show how these policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and pr... Read More about Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable.

Clinical Frailty Scale as a predictor of adverse outcomes following aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
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Prendiville, T., Leahy, A., Gabr, A., Ahmad, F., Afilalo, J., Martin, G. P., Mamas, M., Casserly, I. P., Mohamed, A., Saleh, A., Shanahan, E., O’Connor, M., & Galvin, R. (2023). Clinical Frailty Scale as a predictor of adverse outcomes following aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Open Heart, 10(2), Article e002354. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2023-002354

Objectives: Assessment of frailty prior to aortic valve intervention is recommended in European and North American valvular heart disease guidelines. However, there is a lack of consensus on how it is best measured. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) i... Read More about Clinical Frailty Scale as a predictor of adverse outcomes following aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

libSBOLj3: a graph-based library for design and data exchange in synthetic biology. (2023)
Journal Article
Mısırlı, G. (2023). libSBOLj3: a graph-based library for design and data exchange in synthetic biology. Bioinformatics, 39(8), 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad525

The Synthetic Biology Open Language version 3 data standard provides a graph-based approach to exchange information about biological designs. The new data model has major updates and offers several features for software tools. Here, we present libSBO... Read More about libSBOLj3: a graph-based library for design and data exchange in synthetic biology..

Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks (2023)
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Cuff, J. P., Tercel, M. P., Windsor, F. M., Hawthorne, B. S., Hambäck, P. A., Bell, J. R., Symondson, W. O., & Vaughan, I. P. Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks

Null models provide an invaluable baseline against which to test fundamental ecological hypotheses and highlight patterns in foraging choices that cannot be explained by neutral processes or sampling artefacts. In this way, null models can advance ou... Read More about Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks.

The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach (2023)
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Francis, K. B., & Beaman, C. P. (2023). The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach. Synthese, 202(2), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04236-w

Two methods have been used in the investigation of the stakes-sensitivity of knowledge as it occurs in ordinary language: (a) asking participants about the truth or acceptability of knowledge ascriptions and (b) asking participants how much evidence... Read More about The role of confidence in knowledge ascriptions: an evidence-seeking approach.

Evidencing the efficacy of science blogging as a tool for science communication (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Stephens, R. Evidencing the efficacy of science blogging as a tool for science communication

Background: The underlying evidence for sci-comms efficacy remains underdeveloped. Method: This experiment compared ratings of message quality, reading ease, jargon, formal style, engagement, enjoyment, emotion, retention of information, trust in sci... Read More about Evidencing the efficacy of science blogging as a tool for science communication.

Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS (2023)
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Rodriguez, J. E., Quinn, S. N., Vanderburg, A., Zhou, G., Eastman, J. D., Thygesen, E., Cale, B., Ciardi, D. R., Reed, P. A., Oelkers, R. J., Collins, K. A., Bieryla, A., Latham, D. W., Gonzales, E. J., Gaudi, B. S., Hellier, C., Jones, M. I., Brahm, R., Sokolovsky, K., Schulte, J., …Zobel, E. (2023). Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 2765-2785. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad595

We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TOI-2025 (TIC 394050135), TOI-2145 (TIC 88992642), TOI-2152 (TIC 3953932... Read More about Another shipment of six short-period giant planets from TESS.

Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset) (2023)
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Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., Cooper, S., Buttner, A. C., Lima, T. J. S., Öztürk, İ., Akay, N., Santos, F. H., Artemenko, C., Copping, L. T., Elsherif, M. M., Milovanović, I., Cribbie, R. A., Drushlyak, M. G., Swainston, K., Shou, Y., …Field, A. P. (in press). Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80

This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creat... Read More about Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset).

Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star (2023)
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Mann, C., Lafreniere, D., Dragomir, D., Quinn, S. N., Tan, T.-G., Collins, K. A., Howell, S. B., Ziegler, C., Mann, A. W., Stassun, K. G., Kristiansen, M. H., Osborn, H., Boyajian, T., Eisner, N., Hellier, C., Ricker, G. R., Vanderspek, R., Latham, D. W., Seager, S., Winn, J. N., …Schwarz, R. P. (2023). Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star. Astronomical Journal, 165(5), Article 217. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acc8d4

We present a validation of a long-period (91.68278 (+0.00032)(-0.00041) days) transiting sub-Neptune planet, TOI-1221 b (TIC 349095149.01), around a Sun-like (m(V)= 10.5) star. This is one of the few known exoplanets with a period >50 days, and belon... Read More about Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star.

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.

Hacking techniques improve health and nutritional status of nestling White-tailed Eagles (2023)
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Ferrer, M., Evans, R., Hedley, J., Hollamby, S., Meredith, A., Morandini, V., Selly, O., Smith, C., & Philip Whitfield, D. (2023). Hacking techniques improve health and nutritional status of nestling White-tailed Eagles. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2), Article e9776. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9776

Interventions for supporting self-management in people with musculoskeletal pain, including focus on varying levels of health literacy: A systematic overview of reviews [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] (2023)
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O Babatunde, O., Corp, N., Shivji, N., Rowlands, G., Quicke, J., L Healey, E., Protheroe, J., & A van der Windt, D. (2023). Interventions for supporting self-management in people with musculoskeletal pain, including focus on varying levels of health literacy: A systematic overview of reviews [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Health Open Research, https://doi.org/10.12688/healthopenres.13151.1

Background: Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is a major cause of disability globally, affecting one in three adults. Self-management is a core recommendation for managing MSK pain; however, most self-management programmes require a high level of patient en... Read More about Interventions for supporting self-management in people with musculoskeletal pain, including focus on varying levels of health literacy: A systematic overview of reviews [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].