Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances

“…Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies. …”

A comparison of content learning outcomes between Japanese and English medium instruction by Aizawa, I, Rose, H, McKinley, J, Thompson, G

“…Findings point to implications for educational provision in contexts where the global trend of EMI has largely been unaccompanied with research evidence on its cost-effectiveness.…”

The synthesis and biological characterisation of high affinity, selective macrocyclic ligands targeting the CREBBP/p300 bromodomains by Boyd, AM

“…These proteins aid in regulating cellular processes and have been implicated in multiple diseases, particularly in cancer. …”

Hypoxia inhibits MHC I expression and antigen presentation to escape immune surveillance by Estephan, H, Tailor, A, Parker, R, Kreamer, M, Papandreou, I, Campo, L, Easton, A, Moon, EJ, Denko, N, Ternette, N, Hammond, E, Giaccia, A

“…Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors that has previously been linked to resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and more recently to immunotherapy. …”

ISPD 2021 debate - All in vitro fertilization cycles should involve pre-implantation genetic testing to improve fetal health and pregnancy outcomes by Wilkins-Haug, L, Amor, DJ, Savulescu, J

“…For 3 decades, couples at increased risk for a genetic disorder have been offered preimplantation genetic testing (PGT). …”

Extended X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrashort pulse laboratory-scale laser-plasma accelerator by Kettle, B, Colgan, C, Los, EE, Gerstmayr, E, Streeter, MJV, Albert, F, Astbury, S, Baggott, RA, Cavanagh, N, Falk, K, Hyde, TI, Lundh, O, Rajeev, PP, Riley, D, Rose, SJ, Sarri, G, Spindloe, C, Svendsen, K, Symes, DR, Šmíd, M, Thomas, AGR, Thornton, C, Watt, R, Mangles, SPD

“…Here the Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) features of the K-edge of a copper sample have been observed over a 250 eV window in a single shot using a laser wakefield accelerator, providing information on both the electronic and ionic structure simultaneously. …”

The early development of the cuneiform writing system, and its regional adaptation by Dahl, JL

“…I argue that the invention of writing may have been a response to economic pressures and resource scarcity rather than a product of ever-increasing bureaucracy in successful, expanding states. …”

Vitamin D influences asthmatic pathology through its action on diverse immunological pathways by Pfeffer, PE, Mann, E, Hornsby, E, Chambers, ES, Chen, Y, Rice, L, Hawrylowicz, CM

“…In parallel, there has been an increase in the incidence of a range of immune-mediated conditions ranging from cancer to autoimmune and respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma (Holick MF. …”

Deep structured output learning for unconstrained text recognition by Jaderberg, M, Simonyan, K, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…The resulting model is a more accurate system on standard real-world text recognition benchmarks than character prediction alone, setting a benchmark for systems that have not been trained on a particular lexicon. In addition, our model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in lexicon-constrained scenarios, without being specifically modelled for constrained recognition. …”

Kick-starting the shale boom in Argentina? The new reforms in context by Mares, DR

“…Not only has the country been a major supplier of natural gas to neighbouring Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Bolivia in the past, but its domestic use is so large that it has become an important importer of natural gas via pipeline from Bolivia and it has built two LNG import facilities. …”

Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown <br> Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations. …”

Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade by van Elst, T, Sgarlata, GM, Schüßler, D, Tiley, GP, Poelstra, JW, Scheumann, M, Blanco, MB, Aleixo-Pais, IG, Rina Evasoa, M, Ganzhorn, JU, Goodman, SM, Hasiniaina, AF, Hending, D, Hohenlohe, PA, Ibouroi, MT, Iribar, A, Jan, F, Kappeler, PM, Le Pors, B, Manzi, S, Olivieri, G, Rakotonanahary, AN, Rakotondranary, SJ, Rakotondravony, R

“…We demonstrate that species diversity has been overestimated primarily due to the interpretation of geographic variation as speciation, potentially biasing inference of the underlying processes of evolutionary diversification. …”

What is that I hear? An interdisciplinary review and research agenda for non‐native accents in the workplace by Hideg, I, Shen, W, Hancock, S

“…Yet, our understanding of the impact of having a non-native accent at work is limited, in part because research on accents has been multidisciplinary, fragmented, and difficult for scholars to access and synthesize. …”

Using CombiCells, a platform for titration and combinatorial display of cell surface ligands, to study T-cell antigen sensitivity modulation by accessory receptors by Patel, A, André, V, Bustamante Eguiguren, S, Barton, MI, Burton, J, Denham, EM, Pettmann, J, Mørch, AM, Kutuzov, MA, Siller-Farfán, JA, Dustin, M, van der Merwe, PA, Dushek, O

“…Understanding how cellular decisions by receptor/ligand interactions at cell/cell interface has been challenging because it is difficult to independently vary the surface density of multiple ligands. …”

Optimisation strategies for directed evolution without sequencing by James, J, Towers, S, Foerster, J, Steel, H

“…A typical directed evolution process consists of iterative rounds of mutagenesis and selection that are designed to steer changes in a biological system (e.g. a protein) towards some functional goal. Much work has been done, particularly leveraging advancements in machine learning, to optimise the process of directed evolution. …”

Estimation of end-of-outbreak probabilities in the presence of delayed and incomplete case reporting by Plank, MJ, Hart, WS, Polonsky, J, Keita, M, Ahuka-Mundeke, S, Thompson, RN

“…To support this decision-making, mathematical methods have been developed to quantify the end-of-outbreak probability. …”

Computational methods for quantifying in vivo muscle fascicle curvature from ultrasound images by Namburete, AIL, Rana, M, Wakeling, JM

“…Muscle fascicles curve during contraction, and this has been seen using B-mode ultrasound. Curvature can vary along a fascicle, and amongst the fascicles within a muscle. …”

OORD: the Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset by Gadd, M, De Martini, D, Bartlett, O, Murcutt, P, Towlson, M, Widojo, M, Musat, V, Robinson, L, Panagiotaki, E, Pramatarov, G, Kühn, M, Marchegiani, L, Newman, P, Kunze, L

“…Although several datasets to support this research area have been released, they are primarily focused on urban or semi-urban environments [1]–[4]. …”

Linear auto-calibration for ground plane motion by Knight, J, Zisserman, A, Reid, I

“…So far, this problem has been circumvented by using stereo or a known calibration object. …”

The promise and challenges of inverted perovskite solar cells by Chen, P, Xiao, Y, Li, S, Jia, X, Luo, D, Zhang, W, Snaith, HJ, Gong, Q, Zhu, R

“…Recently, there has been an extensive focus on inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with a p-i-n architecture due to their attractive advantages, such as exceptional stability, high efficiency, low cost, low-temperature processing, and compatibility with tandem architectures, leading to a surge in their development. …”