Exploring linkages between maternal social capital and children’s nutritional status in Andhra Pradesh af Shaik Galab, Antony, P, Jones, N

“...The authors also highlight a number of important areas for further research, including understanding the (in)efficacy of community approaches to poverty alleviation. ...”

Family background and school choice in cities of Russia and Estonia: Selective agenda of the Soviet past and present af Põder, K, Lauri, T, Ivaniushina, V, Alexandrov, D

“...In operationalising family background, the number of books at home and parental education are used as proxies, and its effect is measured as a percentage of the individual level PISA 2012 score. ...”

Becoming the lamp bearer: the emerging roles of the chief risk officer af Mikes, A

“...I draw on the existing practitioner and academic literature on the role of CROs and on a number of case studies from my ongoing research program on the evolution of the role of the CRO. ...”

A practical guide to mathematical methods for estimating infectious disease outbreak risks af Southall, E, Ogi-Gittins, Z, Kaye, AR, Hart, WS, Lovell-Read, FA, Thompson, RN

“...We provide a beginner’s guide to two methods for estimating the risk that introduced cases lead to sustained local transmission (i.e., the probability of a major outbreak), as opposed to the outbreak fading out with only a small number of cases. We discuss how these simple methods can be extended for epidemiological models with any level of complexity, facilitating their wider use, and describe how estimates of the probability of a major outbreak can be used to guide pathogen surveillance and control strategies. ...”

The Spectra of Large Toeplitz Band Matrices with a Randomly Perturbed Entry af Boettcher, A, Embree, M, Sokolov, V

“...This report is concerned with the union $sp_{\Omega}^{(j,k)}T_{n}(a)$ of all possible spectra that may emerge when perturbing a large $n \times n$ Toeplitz band matrix $T_{n}(a)$ in the $(j,k)$ site by a number randomly chosen from some set $\Omega$. The main results give descriptive bounds and, in several interesting situations, even provide complete identifications of the limit of $sp_{\Omega}^{(j,k)}T_{n}(a)$ as $n \to \infty$. ...”

Anisotropic mesh adaptivity for cardiac electrophysiology af Southern, J, Gorman, G, Piggott, MD, Farrell, P, Bernabeu, M, Pitt-Francis, J

“...The use of very high resolution meshes containing large numbers of nodes results in a high computational cost, both in terms of CPU hours and memory footprint. ...”

T-cell-inducing vaccines - what's the future. af Gilbert, S

“...Sufficient clinical research has now been conducted to establish that replication-deficient viral vectored vaccines lead the field in inducing strong and broad responses, and efficacy studies of T-cell-inducing vaccines against a number of diseases are finally demonstrating that this is a valid approach to filling the gaps in our defence against not only infectious disease, but some forms of cancer....”

Snowflake: Scaling GNNs to high-dimensional continuous control via parameter freezing af Blake, C, Kurin, V, Igl, M, Whiteson, SA

“...However, results have so far been limited to training on small agents, with the performance of GNNs deteriorating rapidly as the number of sensors and actuators grows. A key motivation for the use of GNNs in the supervised learning setting is their applicability to large graphs, but this benefit has not yet been realised for locomotion control. ...”

Positivism, realism, and sources of law af Green, L

“...Green’s idea is that, unlike positivists, realists believe that a significant number of sources of law are only permissive sources – i.e. sources which judges are permitted, but not required, to use. ...”

Making sense of complex phenomena in biology. af Maini, P

“...With the vast increase in computing power these models can now be numerically solved and can be made more and more sophisticated. A number of models can now successfully reproduce detailed observed biological phenomena and make important testable predictions. ...”

Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism af Wallace, D, Timpson, C

“...This approach enjoys a number of beneficial features, although, unlike wave-function realism, it involves non-separability at the level of fundamental ontology. ...”

Search for the rare decays B0 → J=ψγ and B0s → J=ψγ af Aaij, R, Abellán Beteta, C, Adeva, B, Cheung, S, Evans, T, Gandini, P, Gauld, R, Greening, E, Hadavizadeh, T, Harnew, N, Hill, D, Hussain, N, Jalocha, J, John, M, Lupton, O, Malde, S, Nandi, A, Smith, E, Stevenson, S, Thomas, C, Topp-Joergensen, S, Torr, N, Wilkinson, G, LCHb Collaboration

“...A search for the rare decay of a B0 or Bs0 meson into the final state J/ψγ is performed, using data collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1. The observed number of signal candidates is consistent with a background-only hypothesis. ...”

Structural studies on oligosaccharides from mammalian glycoproteins af Field, M, Field, Mark Christian

“...The antibodies HNK-1 and L2 bind to a number of glycoproteins important in neural cell adhesion and also recognise glycolipids with a sulphonylglucuronic acid residue. ...”

Religious education and collective worship in primary schools af Gay, J, Kay, B, Lazenby, D, Lord, E, Peacocke, R

“...Teachers had plenty of opportunity to make their views known through a number of open-ended questions. The aims and nature of RE, as the schools see them, are discussed along with which resources the teachers find helpful, what curriculum development was taking place, whether there are any policies relating to assessment and whether the teachers receive any In-Service training in RE. ...”

Revisiting preview search at isoluminance: new onsets are not necessary for the preview advantage. af Braithwaite, J, Humphreys, G, Watson, D, Hulleman, J

“...Search benefited when onset previews were followed by new onset stimuli, as compared with a full-set baseline matched for the number of new onsets but in which half the distractors appeared simultaneously at isoluminance. ...”

Can the state accelerate the secular transition? Secularization in East and West Germany as a natural experiment af Stolz, J, Pollack, D, De graaf, ND

“...This led to a self-perpetuating process that resulted in a rapid increase in the number of people who were never socialized religiously at all....”

Signatures of co-translational folding. af Saunders, R, Mann, M, Deane, C

“...The strongest signature of co-translational folding is a reduced number of possible favorable contacts in the amino terminus. ...”

Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities. af Venail, P, Maclean, C, Bouvier, T, Brockhurst, M, Hochberg, M, Mouquet, N

“...Positive relationships between species diversity and productivity have been reported for a number of ecosystems. Theoretical and experimental studies have attempted to determine the mechanisms that generate this pattern over short timescales, but little attention has been given to the problem of understanding how diversity and productivity are linked over evolutionary timescales. ...”

Applying machine learning optimization methods to the production of a quantum gas af Barker, AJ, Style, H, Luksch, K, Sunami, S, Garrick, D, Hill, F, Foot, CJ, Bentine, E

“...Optimizing these cooling processes results in a factor of four increase in BEC atom number compared to our manually-optimized parameters. ...”

Early environmental exposure and the development of lupus. af Edwards, C, Cooper, C

“...However, the precise underlying causes of SLE remain unclear. A number of environmental exposures have been associated with lupus or related autoimmune phenomena. ...”