Poisoning of bubble propelled catalytic micromotors : the chemical environment matters by Schmidt, Oliver G., Zhao, Guanjia, Sanchez, Samuel, Pumera, Martin

“…Self-propelled catalytic microjets have attracted considerable attention in recent years and these devices have exhibited the ability to move in complex media. …”
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Equivalent circuit modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters by Yang, Yaowen, Tang, Lihua

“…When developing piezoelectric energy harvesting systems, it is advantageous to establish certain analytical or numerical model to predict the system performance. In the last few years, researchers from mechanical engineering established distributed models for energy harvester but simplified the energy harvesting circuit in the analytical derivation. …”
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A biodegradable ocular implant for long-term suppression of intraocular pressure by Ng, Xu Wen, Liu, Kerh Lin, Veluchamy, Amutha Barathi, Lwin, Nyein Chan, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu Subramanian

“…Timolol maleate (TM) has been used for many years for the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Early Vocal Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, and Fragile X Syndrome: Insights from Studies Using Retrospective Video Analysis by Roche, Laura, Zhang, Dajie, Bartl-Pokorny, Katrin D., Pokorny, Florian B., Schuller, Björn W., Esposito, Gianluca, Bölte, Sven, Roeyers, Herbert, Poustka, Luise, Gugatschka, Markus, Waddington, Hannah, Vollmann, Ralf, Einspieler, Christa, Marschik, Peter B.

“…This article provides an overview of studies assessing the early vocalisations of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Rett syndrome (RTT), and fragile X syndrome (FXS) using retrospective video analysis (RVA) during the first 2 years of life. Electronic databases were systematically searched and a total of 23 studies were selected. …”
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People in Peril, Environments at Risk: Coolies, Tigers, and Colonial Singapore's Ecology of Poverty by Powell, Miles Alexander

“…In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that affluent societies have a disproportionate environmental impact. …”
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Neutron diffraction as a precise and reliable method for obtaining structural properties of bulk quantities of graphene by Sofer, Zdeněk, Šimek, Petr, Jankovský, Ondřej, Sedmidubský, David, Beran, Přemysl, Pumera, Martin

“…Graphene based carbon materials have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade; nowadays tons of graphene are produced yearly. However, there is lack of precise and reliable techniques for the determination of structural properties of graphene on the bulk scale. …”
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The third space, student and staff co-creation of gamified informal learning: an emerging model of co-design by Bamford, Jan, Moschini, Elena

“…The research data was collected over a period of three years, using focus groups, co-creation workshops observations and field notes. …”
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A principles-led approach to information assurance and governance in local government by Brett, Mark

“…This practice-based paper explores a principles-led approach to cyber information governance for local authorities (LAs) in England and Wales, while linking it to a corporate information governance regime to support cyber security and resilience. Over the past 15 years the author has worked with several LA regional cyber security groups known as WARPs (Warning, Advice and Reporting Points). …”

From private entrepreneurship to state monopoly: contracting Swiss soldiers for Dutch Service under Ancien Régime Fiscal- Military Practices (1693–1829) by Depreter, M

“…This contribution examines Dutch contracting practices to hire Swiss troops during the Ancien Régime, from the first contracts directly negotiated in the Protestant cantons by Petrus Valckenier (1693-1694) during the Nine Years’ War, seizing opportunities arisen from Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) after a period during which the Dutch seem to have relied on uncertain access to Swiss manpower through French intercession, up to the end of a short-lived revival of Swiss foreign regiments in the newly-instated Kingdom of the Netherlands (1814-1829). …”

Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…The perceived climate risk is measured based on the climate change sentiment of the Twitter dataset with 16 million unique tweets in the years 2010-2019. One of the main advantages of our proxy is that it allows us to capture both physical and transition climate risks. …”

Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. …”

Deep learning for detecting and early predicting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from spirogram time series by Mei, S, Li, X, Zhou, Y, Xu, J, Zhang, Y, Wan, Y, Cao, S, Zhao, Q, Geng, S, Xie, J, Chen, S, Hong, S

“…DeepSpiro consists of four key components: SpiroSmoother for stabilizing the Volume-Flow curve, SpiroEncoder for capturing volume variability-pattern through key patches of varying lengths, SpiroExplainer for integrating heterogeneous data and explaining predictions through volume attention, and SpiroPredictor for predicting the disease risk of undiagnosed high-risk patients based on key patch concavity, with prediction horizons of 1–5 years, or even longer. Evaluated on the UK Biobank dataset, DeepSpiro achieved an AUC of 0.8328 for COPD detection and demonstrated strong predictive performance for future COPD risk (p-value < 0.001). …”

The geopolitical crisis may trigger changes in energy strategies by Weafer, C

“…It is not that the crisis has thrown up any new issues or risks; most of the topics now grabbing energy market headlines have been known or subject to negotiation for years. But the events of the last few months do at least seem to have injected a greater sense of urgency to ‘get on with it’. …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…A large number of novel encodings for bag of visual words models have been proposed in the past two years to improve on the standard histogram of quantized local features. …”

Learning from the community: iterative co-production of a programme to support the development of attention, regulation and thinking skills in toddlers at elevated likelihood of au... by Hendry, A, Hulks, V, Murphy, S, Radford, H, Smith, S, Charman, T, Mathers, S, Rhodes, S, Scerif, G

“…The co-production process for this neurodiversity-affirming programme involved: Review of research priorities identified during published public-and-clinician consultations; iterative programme development through two pilot rounds with a general community sample; and consultation with stakeholders (parents with a connection to autism or ADHD, alongside early years specialists, psychologists and therapists) to check acceptability of the proposal, and refine the logic model and materials. …”

3D object recognition using invariance by Zisserman, A, Forsyth, D, Mundy, J, Rothwell, C, Liu, J, Pillow, N

“…<p>The systems and concepts described in this paper document the evolution of the geometric invariance approach to object recognition over the last five years. Invariance overcomes one of the fundamental difficulties in recognising objects from images: that the appearance of an object depends on viewpoint. …”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

Stem cell-derived embryo models: moral advance or moral obfuscation? by Gyngell, C, Lynch, F, Sawai, T, Savulescu, J

“…There have been several rapid advances in creating SCEMs in recent years. These advances potentially provide a new avenue to study early human development. …”