The role of emotional tears in intergroup bias by Pang, James, Zhen Yao

“…Operationalisation of in-group and outgroup concepts was based on university affiliation. Findings supported that implicit intergroup bias favouring the in-group was present in both non-tear (p = .038) and tear (p = .003) conditions. …”
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Neutralizing software piracy by Chang, Victoria Munn Cheng

“…Mediation analyses also found that three techniques: (i) denial of injury, (ii) condemnation of condemners and (iii) defense of necessity, played a significant role in explaining the gendered differences in software piracy intentions. The study findings help provide new insights into the decision mechanisms behind a person’s intent to pirate software. …”
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Influence of fibre aspect ratio on rheological performance for 3D printable materials by Angellee, Raymond Rafael

“…These critical parameters affect the process of how concrete mix flows out and settles upon printed. The experiment finds that higher fibre content contributes to higher value of static and dynamic yield stress and demonstrating decreasing trend for plastic viscosity. …”
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High speed low power CMOS data compressor design and analysis by Radhakrishnan, Sathiya Priyanka

“…Compressors are the main building bock of an ALU which finds in own application in multipliers, encoder, shifters, and all the digital signal processing units which is a major component of a CPU. …”
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In the presence of god : does acceptance by god increase prosocial behavior? by Woo, Yue Ting

“…Four possibilities for the null findings are discussed and recommendations for future studies are made.…”
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Spatiotemporal saliency detection via sparse representation by Ren, Zhixiang, Gao, Shenghua, Rajan, Deepu, Chia, Clement Liang-Tien, Huang, Yun

“…Based on the psychological findings that abrupt stimulus could cause a rapid and involuntary deployment of attention, our temporal model combines the reconstruction error, sparsity regularizer, and local trajectory contrast to measure the motion saliency. …”
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An epitope-specific LGI1-autoantibody enhances neuronal excitability by modulating Kv1.1 channel by Extrémet, J, El Far, O, Ankri, N, Irani, SR, Debanne, D, Russier, M

“…We found an increase in intrinsic excitability correlated with a reduction of the sensitivity to a selective Kv1.1-channel blocker in neurons treated with the LRR mAb, but not in neurons treated with the EPTP mAb. Our findings suggest LRR mAbs are able to modulate neuronal excitability that could account for epileptiform activity observed in patients.…”

IL-5 antagonism reverses priming and activation of eosinophils in severe eosinophilic asthma by Luo, J, Chen, W, Liu, W, Jiang, S, Ye, Y, Shrimanker, R, Hynes, G, Klenerman, P, Pavord, ID, Xue, L

“…It also enhances the pro-fibrotic roles of eosinophils in airway remodeling via transforming growth factor-β pathway. These findings provide a mechanistic understanding of eosinophil priming in severe eosinophilic asthma and the therapeutic effect of anti-IL-5 approaches in the disease.…”

Probabilistic forecasting of daily COVID-19 admissions using machine learning by Rostami-Tabar, B, Arora, S, Rendon-Sanchez, JF, Goltsos, TE

“…We provide evidence that QRF outperforms univariate time series methods and other more sophisticated benchmarks. Our findings also show that lagged admissions, total positive cases, daily tests performed, and Google grocery and Apple driving are the most salient predictors. …”

Microstructural evolution of electrospun microfibers for biomedical applications by Chandler, A

“…At higher strains, CFC unfold and recrystallize into thermodynamically more stable chain-extended crystals (CEC) aligned to the stretch axis. These findings suggest potential mechanical and degradative implications for biomedical applications, warranting further investigation.…”

From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth by Mansfield, KL, Ghai, S, Hakman, T, Ballou, N, Vuorre, M, Przybylski, AK

“…We present an approach grounded in interpreting findings through a coherent and collaborative evidence-based framework in a measured, incremental, and informative way.…”

Experimental investigation and crystal plasticity modelling of dynamic recrystallisation in dual-phase high entropy alloy during hot deformation by Zhou, Z, Huo, Y, Wang, Z, Demir, E, Jiang, A, Yan, Z, He, T

“…The initiation of DRX is highly temperature-sensitive, and the distinct mechanisms of the FCC and BCC phases jointly influence grain refinement and texture evolution. These findings provide theoretical support for the thermal processing of HEAs and for understanding their internal changes.…”

DSIF factor Spt5 coordinates transcription, maturation and exoribonucleolysis of RNA polymerase II transcripts by Kuś, K, Carrique, L, Kecman, T, Fournier, M, Hassanein, SS, Aydin, E, Kilchert, C, Grimes, JM, Vasiljeva, L

“…Spt5 is also a key factor that attenuates the expression of non-coding transcripts, coordinates pre-mRNA splicing and 3’-end processing. Our findings indicate that engagement with the transcribing Pol II is an essential regulatory step modulating the activity of RNA enzymes such as Xrn2, thus advancing our understanding of how RNA maturation is controlled during transcription.…”

Subject realisation in Greek preschool learners of English by Faitaki, F, Murphy, VA

“…Both groups produced significantly more null and fewer overt subjects in English than an English monolingual control group, but the same number of null and overt subjects in Greek as a Greek monolingual control group. This finding suggests that the preschoolers, who start learning English at 3;0, experience crosslinguistic transfer from Greek, their dominant language, to English – thus highlighting the role that dominance plays in determining the direction of crosslinguistic transfer among successive bilingual children.…”

E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. Based upon the findings, the thesis offers targeted and actionable policy recommendations, in an attempt to promote an evidence based approach to regulating consumer contracts.…”

Jurassic fossil juvenile reveals prolonged life history in early mammals by Panciroli, E, Benson, RBJ, Fernandez, V, Fraser, NC, Humpage, M, Luo, Z-X, Newham, E, Walsh, S

“…When analysed against a dataset of life history parameters for extant mammals4, the relative sequence of adult tooth eruption was already established in Krusatodon, and within the range observed in extant mammals, but this development was prolonged; taking place during a longer period as part of a significantly longer maximum lifespan than extant mammals of comparable adult body mass (≤156 grams). Our findings suggest early-diverging mammaliaforms did not experience the same life histories as extant small-bodied mammals, and the fundamental shift to faster growth over a shorter lifespan may not have taken place in mammaliaforms until during or after the Middle Jurassic.…”

RE teachers’ ways of balancing children’s existential concerns and the curriculum: mirrored through established RE approaches by Osbeck, C, Lilja, A, Fancourt, N

“…In the analysis of the interview transcripts of the eleven middle-school teachers focussing on what the teachers express as important goals for RE, the findings were placed on a continuum between a focus on the child’s experiences and on the curriculum. …”

Natural variations in grain length 10 (GL10) regulate rice grain size by Zhan, P, Ma, S, Xiao, Z, Li, F, Wei, X, Lin, S, Wang, X, Ji, Z, Fu, Y, Pan, J, Zhou, M, Liu, Y, Chang, Z, Li, L, Bu, S, Liu, Z, Zhu, H, Liu, G, Zhang, G, Wang, S

“…Analysis of GL10 haplotypes shows obvious divergence between the japonica and indica lineages. Our findings reveal an allelic variation of GL10 that may explain differences in grain length among modern cultivars and could be used to breed rice varieties with optimized grain shape.…”

Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’ by Brewis, E, Marginson, S

“…It concludes with a summary of the research outcomes across the eight countries, including similarities and differences, and a generic transpositional analysis that integrates the separate findings into a single overall picture of the contribution of higher education to the public good in the eight countries.…”

Temperatures, conflict and forced migration in West Asia and North Africa by Abdel Ghany, J

“…This study examines whether extreme temperatures influence bilateral forced migration between countries within West Asia and North Africa through their potential to increase armed conflict. The findings suggest that extreme temperatures in two consecutive years, defined as the upper 10% of the country-specific annual mean temperature distribution, cumulatively increase the probability of armed conflict by 42.5% in the following year ( p = 0.07). …”