Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic by Benilova, Iryna, Reilly, Madeleine, Terry, Cassandra, Wenborn, Adam, Schmidt, Christian, Marinho, Aline T., Risse, Emmanuel, Al-Doujaily, Huda, Wiggins De Oliveira, Michael, Sandberga, Malin K., Wadsworth, Jonathan D. F., Jat, Parmjit S, Collinge, John

“…While it has long been assumed that prions are themselves neurotoxic, recent devel- opment of methods to obtain exceptionally pure prions from mouse brain with maintained strain characteristics, and in which defined structures—paired rod-like double helical fibers—can be definitively correlated with infectivity, allowed a direct test of this assertion. …”
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Where have all the followers gone? by Schedlitzki, Doris, Kempster, Steve, Edwards, Gareth

“…This leads us to questions like: what if follower identifications do not typically exist or are rejected in everyday organisational working contexts – despite discursive labelling of individuals as followers or following practices? …”
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GLP-2 decreases food intake in the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus (DMH) through Exendin (9-39) in male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats by Sun, Huiling, Meng, Kai, Hou, Lin, Shang, Lijun, Yan, Jianqun

“…Glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2), a member of Glucagon peptide family involved in regulating energy metabolism, can be produced and secreted by preproglucagonergic (PPG) neurons in the brain. …”
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Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls by Ryan, Louise, Dahinden, Janine

“…We draw upon the early roots of social network research, within anthropology, to find inspiration and consider the contribution of qualitative approaches to analysing dynamic social relationships and to including neglected aspects like meaning making and agency. Adopting a reflexive approach enables us to de‐migranticise our research turning the role of migration and ethnicity for social networks into an empirical question rather than taking them as an essentialist starting point for investigation. …”
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Reading suburban narratives by Pope, Gerald

“…The suburban body itself, in so much suburban-set fiction, becomes the site of this struggle, portrayed as thing- like, as ineffectual and powerless, as sickly or diseased, as comic and absurd. …”
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Taking biological security education forward and building up an international biological security education network by Shang, Lijun

“…In this presentation, we would like to talk about our initiative of setting up an international biological security education network (IBSEN). …”
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Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic by Balasubramanian, Sreejith, Shukla, Vinaya, Islam, Nazrul, Upadhyay, Arvind, Duong, Linh

“…The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in global healthcare systems and highlighted the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions like Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, previous research on the topic has been limited and fragmented, leading to an incomplete understanding of the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of its application, as well as its associated benefits and challenges. …”
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An analysis of the mediational effect of socio-cultural factors on students' career choice outcomes in the built environment: applying the socio-cognitive career theory by Akinlolu, Mariam, Omotayo, Temitope, Ebohon, Obas John, Ekundayo, Damilola

“…The study culminated in unveiling pathways for informed career decisions in construction, reinforcing the pertinence of the SCCT framework, especially concerning women in traditionally male-dominated spheres like construction. Acknowledging the scarcity of empirical studies using SCCT within the construction sphere is pertinent.…”
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Environmental antimicrobial resistance: implications for food safety and public health by Ifedinezi, Onyinye Victoria, Nnaji, Nnabueze Darlington, Anumudu, Christian Kosisochukwu, Ekwueme, Chiemerie Theresa, Uhegwu, Chijioke Christopher, Ihenetu, Francis Chukwuebuka, Obioha, Promiselynda Ijeoma, Simon, Blessing Oteta, Ezechukwu, Precious Somtochukwu, Onyeaka, Helen

“…Some crucial strategies discussed include developing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs, encouraging targeted narrow-spectrum antibiotic use, and emphasizing the significance of strict regulatory frameworks and surveillance systems, like the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) and the Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification. …”
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Road pothole detection from smartphone sensor data using improved LSTM by Singh, Prabhat, Kamal, Ahmed E., Bansal, Abhay, Kumar, Sunil

“…Therefore, several automatic road monitoring approaches have been proposed to monitor the road surface and detect road abnormalities like potholes. However, low accuracy in detecting the pothole in low-light conditions is taken as the main problem in this work. …”
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Relationship between big five personality traits academic performance and academic stress among postgraduate students in Pakistan by Bhatti, Mansoor Nazir

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Unsteady mathematical analysis of non-newtonian blood flow models in a double stenosed artery by Alsemiry, Reima Daher

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Seismic performance of innovative double layer space shear wall by Bayat, Behzad

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Numerical simulation of the nonlinear schrodinger equation using stable implicit finite difference methods by Alanazi, Abeer Ayed Khalaf

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The effect of social entrepreneurship characteristics and education on social entrepreneurship intention by Shahverdi, Masoumeh

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Dynamic stiffness and damping prediction on rubber material parts, FEA and experimental correlation by Kareaga Laka, Zorion

“…The latter characterisation method will be used to fit extended hyperelastic models in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software like ANSYS. The proposed method improves the correlation of experimental data to simulation results obtained by the use of standard methods. …”
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Shaping and managing corporate social responsibility in a low-income country : lessons from Uganda by Katamba, David

“…Additionally, Uganda, like many other low-income countries (LIC) has lacked a definitive theoretical base on which to explain what is happening around its CSR affairs. …”
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Silicon molecular beam epitaxy by Leong, Weng Yee

“…The use of co-evaporated boron doping was Investigated enabling the growth of Sl-MBE material with bulk-like mobilities and carrier concentrations up to 1x10(to the power of 20) cm(to the power of -3) and giving excellent dopant profile control over a range of growth temperatures. …”
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Office space by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

“…Numerous approaches toward the re-engineering of work and life are on display, from outright dissent to the status quo, such as the portrayal of a Deloitte intern’s refusal to work in Pilvi Takala’s The Trainee (2008), to humorous hacks, like the continual out-of-office loop in Cory Arcangel’s Permanent Vacation (2008). …”
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Automating the process of identifying the preferred representational system in Neuro Linguistic Programming using Natural Language Processing by Amirhosseini, Mohammad Hossein, Kazemian, Hassan

“…However, there are difficulties during this process since there is not a single reference method used for identification of representational systems and existing ones are subject to human interpretations. Some human errors like lack of experience, personal judgment, different levels of skill and personal mistakes may also affect the accuracy and reliability of the existing methods. …”
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