The local welfare safety-net: fit for purpose? by Cole Norton, F

“…This reveals two things: the multi-faceted roles of third sector organisations and the enhanced part that third sector organisations play in co-designing and administering LWA. …”

Spouse and partner immigration to the United Kingdom: history and current issues in British immigration policy by Hutton, J

“…<p>This summary report is part of a study on spouse and partner immigration through the regulation of family reunification in Canada, the US, the UK, France and the Netherlands. …”

Perspectives of UK catering staff on Adolescents' Food Choices at School by Gilmour, A, Gill, S, Loudon, G

“…<p><strong>Methods:</strong> Three middle schools in Wales, United Kingdom took part in the triangulated qualitative study. The research focused on pupils in Key Stage Three (aged 11 to 14 years old) enrolled at three schools. …”

Total Cost of Ownership and Evaluation of Google Cloud Resources for the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Bourdarios, CA, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Celli, F, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Grundy, JC, Gwenlan, C, Harris, YT, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Li, Z, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Smith, HA, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…The ATLAS Google Project was established as part of an ongoing evaluation of the use of commercial clouds by the ATLAS Collaboration, in anticipation of the potential future adoption of such resources by WLCG grid sites to fulfil or complement their computing pledges. …”

Patterns of link reciprocity in directed, signed networks by Gallo, A, Saracco, F, Lambiotte, R, Garlaschelli, D, Squartini, T

“…We find that the (directed extension of the) balance theory is not capable of providing a consistent explanation of the patterns characterising the directed, signed networks considered in this work. Although part of the ambiguities can be solved by adopting a coarser definition of balance, our results call for a different theory, accounting for the directionality of edges in a coherent manner. …”

MISE: meta-knowledge inheritance for social media-based stressor estimation by Wang, X, Feng, L, Zhang, H, Cao, L, Zeng, K, Li, Q, Ding, Y, Dai, Y, Clifton, D

“…With social media becoming an integral part of daily life, leveraging social media to detect stress has gained increasing attention. …”

General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path by Mülmenstädt, J, Gryspeerdt, E, Dipu, S, Quaas, J, Ackerman, AS, Fridlind, AM, Tornow, F, Bauer, SE, Gettelman, A, Ming, Y, Zheng, Y, Ma, P-L, Wang, H, Zhang, K, Christensen, MW, Varble, AC, Leung, LR, Liu, X, Neubauer, D, Partridge, DG, Stier, P, Takemura, T

“…The discrepancy is thought to stem in part from GCMs' inability to represent the turbulence–microphysics interactions in cloud-top entrainment, a mechanism that leads to a reduction in liquid water in response to an anthropogenic increase in aerosols. …”

Phasic dissonance, timbral contrast: analysing 20th-century guitar harmonies with discrete Fourier transform by Chandler, O, Thorneycroft, I

“…This mathematical formula has been processed into an easy-to-use but powerful web application by Jennifer Harding&nbsp;&ndash; the Pitch Class DFT Vector Calculator&nbsp;&ndash; making its explanatory power available to music analysts without mathematical expertise. Part of the raison d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre of this article is to show how this application might be used and, more important, how the information that it yields might be interpreted.…”

Cost-effectiveness of quality improvement intervention to reduce time between CT-detection and ureteroscopic laser fragmentation in acute symptomatic ureteric stones management by Khopekar, F, Nabi, S, Shiva, M, Stewart, M, Rajendran, B, Nabi, G

“…Patients and methods: 100 consecutive patients with an average (median) age 55.6 (57.5) years and average (median) stone size of 8.2 mm (± 7 mm) between October 2018 and December 2021 who underwent emergency ureteroscopy and laser fragmentation formed the study cohort as part of a clinical service quality improvement. Primary outcome was single procedure stone-free rate and cost-effectiveness. …”

Stratigraphy and taphonomy of tubular microfossils in Terreneuvian rocks of the Soltanieh Formation, Soltanieh Mountains, Northern Iran by Etemad-Saeed, N, Anderson, RP, Tosca, NJ, Bergmann, KD, Knoll, AH

“…A large, densely packed tube population is present in the lowermost part of low-energy, outer shelf mudrocks of the Fortunian Upper Shale Member (USM) of the Soltanieh Formation in the Jashn Sara section. …”

Rediscovering Homo sapiens in international politics: evolution and rationality’s missing link by Johnson, D

“…I suggest that existing theory is too hastily rejected, and that these apparently opposing models can be reconciled by taking an evolutionary perspective—the process by which humans and human brains were built and therefore a critical, yet missing, part of the puzzle. An evolutionary perspective suggests: (1) rational choice is not always the most effective or efficient solution to decision-making problems; (2) cognitive biases are not mistakes, but adaptive “strategic instincts,” which evolved because they helped us make good decisions, not bad ones; (3) these “non-rational” dispositions follow a systematic pattern, allowing predictions about how people are likely to react under given conditions; (4) a theory for the origins of preferences; (5) an explanation for why humans can sometimes seem rational and sometimes non-rational (because adaptive behavior depends on context); and finally (6) error management theory suggests that cognitive biases evolved precisely because of uncertainty, as a way of minimizing costs over time. …”

Criminality in patients with autoimmune encephalitis: a case series by Michael, S, Varley, J, Williams, R, Bajorek, T, Easton, A, Irani, SR

“…With caution towards overattribution, we suggest they occur as part of a postencephalitis limbic neurobehavioural syndrome.…”

Effects of soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity in an Indonesian oil palm plantation by Tao, H-H, Slade, E, Willis, KJ, Caliman, J-P, Snaddon, JL

“…We examined the four management zones: (1) empty fruit bunch (EFB) application along the sides of harvesting paths; (2) chemical fertilization within palm circles; (3) understory vegetation with pruned fronds in inter-row areas; (4) no input in the cleared part of the harvesting paths. Our results showed significantly higher soil fauna feeding activity under the EFB application compared to other management practices, and this was associated with improved soil chemical properties and soil moisture conditions. …”

Dimensions of allusion synthesis affecting craft in the works of Huw Belling and in 20th and 21st century composition by Belling, H

“…<p>This examination of my own works (presented largely in chronological order) and of related music by others, broadly concerns itself with appropriation and allusion on the part of twentieth and twenty-first century composers. …”

Understanding reservoirs of multi-host pathogens: A One Health approach to rabies in Tanzania by Hayes, S, Lushasi, K, Changalucha, J, Czupryna, A, Ferguson, E, Lankester, F, Sambo, M, Lugelo, A, Sikana, L, Donnelly, C, Hampson, K

“…As part of our research, we have established contact tracing for rabies in Tanzania. …”

Reasonable accommodation, career development, and psychological well-being: autoethnography as a method of qualitative research by Gulyamova, Saodat Tolibovna, Jamiah Manap, Aizan Sofia Amin, Nik Hairi Omar

“…Visually impaired individuals can excel in their careers and attain psychological well-being when they are part of a workplace environment that is accommodating to their needs. …”
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Urban-rural communities attitudes and perceptions toward wildlife meat consumption in Bintulu, Sarawak by Thomas, Alexander, Mariapan, Manohar, Lim, Evelyn Ai Lin, Johari, Shazali

“…Although the local communities do not depend on wildlife meat as their source of food, they consume it as part of their social and cultural beliefs and tradition. …”

Recent advances of optical imaging in the drying process of grains – a review by Jimoh, Kabiru Ayobami, Hashim, Norhashila, Shamsudin, Rosnah, Che Man, Hasfalina, Jahari, Mahirah

“…Physical and sensory inspection as well as physicochemical index analysis is part of the manual approaches for measuring grain quality. …”

The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review by Zhao, Wenwen, Osman, Mohd Nizam, Omar, Siti Zobidah, Yaakup, Hani Salwah

“…In other research, the samples were international students from all over the world, and Chinese students only accounted for a part. Moreover, most of the studies only selected samples from one location, affecting the results' representative. …”

Cultural elements’ influence on visual preferences in urban waterfronts’ walkways in Malaysia by Liu, Tun, Mohd Yunos, Mohd Yazid, Muthuveeran, Adam Aruldewan S., Mundher, Riyadh, Ismail, Nor Atiah

“…Additionally, the analysis of the collected data highlights a strong correlation between the presence of green elements and what the respondents perceived as part of the Malaysian culture. Additionally, the historical character of the study area, as represented by historical buildings, significantly influences the preferences of Malaysian respondents. …”
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