A modeling study to define guidelines for antigen screening in schools and workplaces to mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks by Jeong, YD, Ejima, K, Kim, KS, Iwanami, S, Hart, WS, Thompson, RN, Jung, IH, Iwami, S, Aihara, K

“…Our computational framework is useful for assessing screening programs by incorporating situation-specific factors.…”

Data synergy in times of crisis by Higginson, S, Jones, C, Topouzi, M, Huebner, G, Fell, M

“…<br> Energy research produces interesting, specific data challenges: 1) the prevalence of large-scale consortia means many institutions are involved; 2) the multi-disciplinary approach favoured in such consortia results in a wide variety of domain standards and expectations; 3) as an applied area of study, energy researchers often collaborate with commercial partners, who may restrict data sharing. …”

A random-key genetic algorithm-based method for transportation network vulnerability envelope analysis under simultaneous multi-link disruptions by Gu, Y, Ryu, S, Xu, Y, Chen, A, Chan, H-Y, Xu, X

“…Both pessimistic and optimistic cases and the possible range of disruption consequences can be revealed by the TNVE, which can be modeled as a unified optimization problem without the need to enumerate and evaluate all possible disruption scenarios. Specifically, the TNVE problem can be formulated as a binary integer bi-level program (BLP), in which the upper-level problem maximizes/minimizes the remaining network performance under a given number of disrupted links, and the lower-level problem adopts the shortest path problem to check the post-disruption connectivity of each origin–destination (O-D) pair while circumventing the cumbersome path enumeration or path set pre-generation. …”

Psoriatic Arthritis Priority Setting Partnership: patient and clinician informed considerations for future UK health service delivery by James, L, Hailey, L, Bundy, C, Burstow, H, Chandler, D, Cowper, R, Helliwell, P, Joannes, L, Kelly, A, Kennedy, B, Kinsella, S, McAteer, H, Mukherjee, S, Packham, J, Wise, E, Young, H, Dures, E, Coates, LC

“…By understanding these themes, policymakers, healthcare providers, and researchers can better prioritise their efforts and address the specific care needs of people with PsA, their care providers and clinicians.…”

Estimating global demand for land-based transportation services using the shared socioeconomic pathways scenario framework by Nkiriki, J, Jaramillo, P, Williams, N, Davis, A, Armanios, DE

“…Because existing country-specific transport demand models focus on countries with robust historical datasets, it has been difficult to estimate the service demand for developing countries. …”

Deciphering the mechanisms of cross-presentation for exogenous ROPs through their interaction with cathepsin S by Stephens, AJ

“…Therefore, alternative ROP and targeted peptide epitope strategies using Fc-tags and scFvs specific to DCs were employed to discover the feasibility of a DC-targeted approach as a future ROP platform.…”

Performance and stability analysis of all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics in light-driven electrochemical water splitting by Wang, J, Branco, B, Remmerswaal, WHM, Hu, S, Schipper, NRM, Zardetto, V, Bellini, L, Daub, N, Wienk, MM, Wakamiya, A, Snaith, HJ, Janssen, RAJ

“…We begin by treating the perovskite surface with a propane-1,3-diammonium iodide solution that reduces interface non-radiative recombination losses and achieves an open-circuit voltage above 90% of the detailed-balance limit for single-junction solar cells between the bandgap of 1.6–1.8 eV. Specifically, a high open-circuit voltage of 1.35 V and maximum power conversion efficiency of 19.9% are achieved at a 1.77 eV bandgap. …”

Aristotelian powers at work: reciprocity without symmetry in causation by Marmodoro, A

“…On the proposed view, the interaction between mutually manifesting causal partners consists in the power of one substance being realized in another substance. Specifically, the agent’s causal powers metaphysically belong to the agent, but come to be realized in the patient. …”

Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022 by Polizzi, A, Zhang, L, Timonin, S, Gupta, A, Dowd, JB, Leon, DA, Aburto, JM

“…Using demographic decomposition methods, we compare age- and cause-specific contributions to changes in female and male life expectancy at birth in 2019–2020, 2020–2021, and 2021–2022 with those before the COVID-19 pandemic (2015–2019). …”

Climate-based modelling and forecasting of dengue fever in three endemic departments of Peru by Mills, C, Donnelly, C

“…In terms of dengue incidence rate (DIR) risk factors, we inferred non-linear and delayed effects of greater monthly mean maximum temperatures, extreme precipitation, sustained drought conditions, and extremes of a Peruvian-specific indicator of the El Niño Southern Oscillation. …”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…We test the alternative hypothesis that some higher taxa are evolutionarily significant units with coherent patterns of selection on their constituent species. Specifically, we ask whether the big four orders of holometabolous insects, namely Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera, display divergent, but internally conserved patterns of selection acting on protein-coding genes. …”

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a supertyphoon: A quantitative study in Cebu, Philippines by Ylade, M, Adhikari, B, Crisostomo, MV, Daag, JV, Cuachin, AM, Lopez, MH, Macasero, A, Agrupis, KA, Deen, J

“…Households who were financially impacted by Supertyphoon Odette were more likely not have recently migrated to their current residence (p<0.001), and to have lower monthly expenditure (p = 0.020). The specific financial problems reported by the majority (1671/2360; 64.5%) were increased expenses, followed by inability to work (623/2360; 23.7%). …”

Cortical evoked activity is modulated by the sleep state in a ferret model of tinnitus. A cross-case study by Milinski, L, Nodal, FR, Emmerson, MKJ, King, AJ, Vyazovskiy, VV, Bajo, VM

“…Following noise overexposure, ferrets developed lasting, frequency–specific impairments in operant behaviour and evoked brainstem activity. …”

Surface mapping of faceted metal oxides by chemical probe-assisted NMR for catalytic applications by Peng, Y

“…Moreover, many traditional techniques (PL, EPR and XPS) used for materials characterization (oxygen vacancy, hydroxyl group, cation…etc.) are not truly surface specific but analyzing a range from surface few layers to bulk. …”

Evaluating new malaria vaccine candidates by Noé, A

“…Adoptively transferred liver TRM preferentially homed to the liver and <em>Plasmodium</em>-specific CD8+ T cells peaked shortly after intravenous boost. …”

Nebular dominated galaxies: insights into the stellar initial mass function at high redshift by Cameron, AJ, Katz, H, Witten, C, Saxena, A, Laporte, N, Bunker, A

“…The nebular-only scenario could arise if the ionising source has ‘turned off’ more recently than the recombination timescale (∼1,000 yr), hence we may be catching the object at a very specific time. Alternatively, hot stars with 𝑇eff ≳ 105 K (e.g. …”

Transcriptional brain networks and their key regulators across the human lifespan by Wehrspaun, CC

“…I found that genes in the hypothalamus express a region-specific network to which are also associated co-expressed lncRNAs. …”

Geometric latent dirichlet allocation on a matching graph for large-scale image datasets by Philbin, J, Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…This explicitly represents images as mixtures of particular objects or facades, and builds rich latent topic models which incorporate the identity and locations of visual words specific to the topic in a geometrically consistent way. …”

Cell-based assays in flowing and sessile drops by Prastowo, A

“…As many microfluidic devices are designed for only one specific application, adjustments are required to perform different tasks. …”

Synthesis and properties of porphyrin nanotubes by Haver, R

“…This thesis describes the synthesis and properties of atomically precise porphyrin nanostructures with a specific focus on porphyrin nanotubes.</p> <p>Chapter 1 introduces the key properties of porphyrins and discusses the template-directed synthesis of (conjugated) porphyrin nanostructures. …”