Characterising the T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 including variants of concern induced by natural infection and vaccines by Adele, S

“…My results highlight the need for booster strategies tailored to enhance T cell breadth and magnitude, providing insights for next-generation vaccine designs that prioritise broad and long-lasting immunity across diverse populations.…”

Optimising the surveillance and control of communicable diseases: the effects of population heterogeneity on early outbreak transmission dynamics by Lovell-Read, F

“…Surveillance for plant pathogens is often hindered by a long incubation period during which plants may be infectious but not displaying visible symptoms. …”

Comparative effects of domain-specific human monoclonal antibodies against LGI1 on neuronal excitability by Sell, J, Rahmati, V, Kempfer, M, Irani, SR, Ritzau-Jost, A, Hallermann, S, Geis, C

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We used patient-derived monoclonal autoantibodies (mAbs), which target either LRR or EPTP domains of LGI1 to investigate long-term antibody-induced alteration of neuronal function. …”

中国成年人血浆酰基肉碱和胆汁酸水平与冠心病发病风险的关联研究 by Zhiyu, W, Shuyao, S, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, ZM, Lv, J, Li, L, Yuanjie, P

“…All metabolite scores, including short-chain, medium-chain, long-chain acylcarnitines, primary and secondary bile acids scores were associated with the risk of CHD (FDR0.05). …”

The influence of nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) signalling and the significance of the organization of lysosomes in cardiac myocytes by Aston, D

“…Under some circumstances, the dysregulation of calcium signalling caused by these substances may also be expected to have pathological consequences, both acutely and over the long term.</p> <p>The exposure of ex-vivo hearts perfused via Langendorff apparatus to the -adrenergic agonist isoprenaline resulted in ventricular arrhythmias following electrical burst pacing in wildtypes, but not in hearts from TPC2 knockout (<em>Tpcn2^-/-</em>) animals. …”

Contraceptive experience and factors associated with desire for postpartum family planning among pregnant women of the nkongsamba health district, Littoral Region, Cameroon by Ajong, AB, Yakum, MN, Mangala, FN, Bekolo, CE, Agbor, VN, Waffo, LM, Kenfack, B

“…Among pregnant women who had used modern contraception in the past, 11.50% [95%CI: 9.02–14.55] reported to have had their modern contraceptive experience with long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). The prevalence of unintended pregnancy (current pregnancy) was 40.04% [37.15-43.00], with 11.55% being unwanted, and 28.49% mistimed. …”

Monitoring and analysis of antenatal and postnatal changes in maternal vital signs by Pullon, R

“…<p>Pregnancy-related complications affect approximately 15% of pregnancies and, if severe, can have long-term consequences. Timely recognition of physiological deterioration is known to reduce the prevalence and severity of complications. …”

Programs to Address Violence for Military Families: a Systematic Review by Dodge, J, Wortham, W, Kale, C, Williamson, V, Ross, A, Maher, S, Kononowech, J, Winters, J, Sullivan, K

“…Future research should explore how different treatment modalities (e.g., couples, individual, group, in-person, online) could affect long-term IPV treatment outcomes and should focus on how to best incorporate children, including documenting if there are children in the household, into IPV treatments/programs for military families.…”

Incidence, prevalence, and survival of lung cancer in the United Kingdom from 2000–2021: a population-based cohort study by Corby, G, Barclay, NL, Tan, EH, Burn, E, Delmestri, A, Duarte-Salles, T, Golozar, A, Man, WY, Tietzova, I, Prieto-Alhambra, D, Newby, D

“…Median survival post-diagnosis increased from 6.6 months in those diagnosed between 2000–2004 to 10.0 months between 2015–2019. Both short and long-term survival was higher in younger cohorts, with 82.7% 1-year survival in those aged 18–29 years, versus 24.2% in the age 90+ years cohort. …”

COVID-19 pandemic impact on hypertension management in North East London: an observational cohort study using electronic health records by Rison, SCG, Redfern, O, Mathur, R, Dostal, I, Carvalho, C, Raisi-Estabragh, Z, Robson, JP

“…The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on primary care management of long-term conditions such as hypertension. This study investigated the possible disproportionate impact of the pandemic across patient groups.…”

Securing reform? Post-election power sharing and security sector reform in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Togo, 2006-2013 by Noyes, A

“…</p> <p>The two-step integrated theoretical framework presented here forwards a structured contingency approach, positing that a combination of long- and short-term domestic and international factors will drive or stymie reform of the security sector under post-election power sharing in democratizing countries. …”

Biophysical studies on the structure and function of Archaerhodopsin-3 by Vinals Camallonga, J

“…We study the activity of AR3 over long periods of illumination and address the role that chromophores bound to the protein, such as retinal or bacterioruberin, might have in the photocurrent and bleaching of the protein.…”

Association between feel-like temperatures and injury risk during international outdoor athletic championships: a prospective cohort study on 29 579 athlete starts during 10 champi... by Edouard, P, Dandrieux, P-E, Klöwer, MK, Junge, A, Racinais, S, Branco, P, Hollander, K, Navarro, L

“…We performed Poisson regressions with incidence rates (number of injuries per 1000 athlete starts) as outcomes and UTCI as a predictive variable adjusted for sex, for all and time-loss injuries, for different injured tissue types (ie, muscle, tendon, ligament, articular, bone and skin) and specific discipline (ie, sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, middle distance, long distance, marathon and race walking).</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong>&nbsp;A total of 1203 in-competition injuries were reported for 29&thinsp;579 athlete starts. …”

Recent use of AB mix nutrients for urban farming in Malaysia: a mini review by Sanusi, Nur Dinie Syahirah, Ros, Fadhlina Che, Demon, Siti Zulaikha Ngah, Ismail, Ismayadi, Hamadneh, Imad

“…This review emphasizes the significance of controlled nutrient application to prevent long-term soil degradation and groundwater contamination. …”
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Developing a Framework of Malaysian and Asean Business Communicative and Intercultural Competence (MABCIC) (S/O 13233) by Kaur, Paramjit, Mokhtar, Ahmad Azman, Raman, Arumugam, Muhammad Rawian, Rafizah

“…Business communication courses should strive to equip students with skills to adapt to various situations and become life-long learners rather than focusing on developing merely communicative competence that focuses on language accuracy per se. …”
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Effectiveness of R&D Capabilities Towards Operational Performance Moderated by Intellectual Property Rights by Anuar, Herman Shah, Zulhumadi, Faisal, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli

“…Implementing IPR will safeguard firm’s new invention, innovation or processes in the long run. Furthermore, firm may gain benefits in creating new business opportunity during various patenting stages. …”
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Phase measurements based indoor visible light positioning systems by Zhang, Sheng

“…As the GPS signals have severe multi-path effects and strong signal attenuations in indoor buildings, visible light with its line of sight (LOS) property and fewer reflections and diffractions gains advantages in the positioning accuracy over other RF-based techniques.There are several positioning algorithms, the simplest one in structure is the received signal strength (RSS) which has good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) property, but is not feasible in situations with rotations and intensity disturbance. …”
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An exploratory study for a new method to search for heavy neutrinos with data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by Tan, Cherlene Shu Ning

“…If the discovery potential of the HNL is significant, this can directly affect the data collection strategy of the CMS experiment to make such a search, and new on line data selection techniques can be defined and deployed for future data taken. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…In these systems, the SET acquires one time resolved PA signal (A-line) for each laser pulse. Cross sectional images are obtained by rotating the SET around the sample and acquiring A-lines at different angles. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…In this thesis, we focus on a nascent line of research consisting in complementing the token-level perspective with a sequence-level approach. …”
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