Harry Potter and the SPELL against bullying by McKeown Jones, S

“…Results revealed that the intervention, when compared to a control condition, was successful in fostering intentions to counteract bullying, with greater empathy and lower moral disengagement being the psychological processes underlying this effect; evidence for self-efficacy was weaker. …”

The α-globin super-enhancer acts in an orientation-dependent manner by Kassouf, MT, Francis, HS, Gosden, M, Suciu, MC, Downes, DJ, Harrold, C, Larke, M, Oudelaar, M, Cornell, L, Blayney, J, Telenius, J, Xella, B, Shen, Y, Sousos, N, Sharpe, JA, Sloane-Stanley, J, Smith, AJH, Babbs, C, Hughes, JR, Higgs, DR

“…Here, using the α-globin locus as a model, we show that while an individual enhancer works in an orientation-independent manner, the direction of activity of a SE changes with its orientation. When the SE is inverted within its normal chromosomal context, expression of its normal targets, the α-globin genes, is severely reduced and the normally silent genes lying upstream of the α-globin locus are upregulated. …”

MDM2 functions as a timer reporting the length of mitosis by Fulcher, LJ, Sobajima, T, Batley, C, Gibbs-Seymour, I, Barr, FA

“…Because MDM2 has a short half-life and ongoing protein synthesis is therefore necessary to maintain its steady-state concentration, the amount of MDM2 gradually falls during mitosis but normally remains above a critical threshold for p53 regulation at the onset of G1. When mitosis is extended by prolonged spindle assembly checkpoint activation, the amount of MDM2 drops below this threshold, stabilizing p53. …”

All about VLAD by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…We start from VLAD, the state-of-the art compact descriptor introduced by Jegou et al. for this purpose, and make three novel contributions: first, we show that a simple change to the normalization method significantly improves retrieval performance; second, we show that vocabulary adaptation can substantially alleviate problems caused when images are added to the dataset after initial vocabulary learning. …”

A tale of disregard? Reception of the jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights by Cali, B, Galand, AS

“…The Convention on the Rights of Persons Disabilities (CRPD) was hailed as a transformative human rights treaty when it came into force in 2008. This is because the CRPD not only promises the remediation of the under-protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in international human rights law, but it also aims to transform the deep and structural inequalities underpinning the governance of disability through law and policy. …”

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

“…Our results show that perceived climate risk is priced into Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500) Index stock returns and is robust when different asset-pricing models are used. Our findings have implications for market participants, as understanding the relationship between perceived climate risk and asset prices is crucial for investors seeking to navigate the financial implications of climate change and for policymakers aiming to promote sustainable financing and mitigate the potential damaging effects of climate risk on financial markets, and a pricing model that accurately incorporates perceived climate risk can facilitate this understanding.…”

Centrioles generate two scaffolds with distinct biophysical properties to build mitotic centrosomes by Wong, S-S, Monteiro, JM, Chang, C-C, Peng, M, Mohamad, N, Steinacker, TL, Xiao, B, Saurya, S, Wainman, A, Raff, JW

“…Mitotic centrosomes assemble when centrioles recruit large amounts of pericentriolar material (PCM) around themselves. …”

One-dimensional sectors from the squashed three-sphere by Bomans, P, Pufu, SS

“…In addition, we also show that when a generic 3d$\mathcal{N}$ = 4 theory is deformed by real mass parameters, this deformation translates into a universal deformation of the corresponding 1d theory.…”

Academic freedom and protected philosophical belief: strengthening the legal analysis by Murray, J, Waltham-Smith, N

“…Furthermore, this framing poses a risk that the concepts of academic freedom and academic freedom of expression may be overlooked or misconstrued in the analysis when applying legal tests (e.g. of harassment) or in carrying out balancing exercises with the rights of others. …”

Urban local authorities and the delivery of micromobility strategies obstacles in the implementation of bicycle hire in the UK by Dudley, G, Banister, D, Schwanen, T

“…The two case studies selected here cover the development of bicycle hire in the UK, with particular reference to dockless bicycle hire. Even when the local authorities have active intentions to oversee successful innovations, they are unlikely to succeed without the stronger involvement of central government, including the necessary statutory powers, together with adequate financial resources and associated expertise.…”

A mean field game between informed traders and a broker by Bergault, P, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…The Nash equilibrium we find helps informed traders decide how to use private information, and helps brokers decide how much of the order flow they should externalise or internalise when facing a large number of clients.</p>…”

Evidence of rapid hydrogen chloride uptake on water ice in the atmosphere of Mars by Luginin, M, Trokhimovskiy, A, Taysum, B, Fedorova, AA, Korablev, O, Olsen, KS, Montmessin, F, Lefèvre, F

“…This reaction is now also considered when modelling HCl abundances in the Martian atmosphere. …”

Alterations in care for children with special healthcare needs during the early COVID-19 pandemic: ethical and policy considerations by Jones, J, Lignou, S, Unguru, Y, Sheehan, M, Dunn, M, Seltzer, RR

“…This was particularly true during the first year when countries grappled with high rates of illness and implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions such as stay-at-home orders. …”

Simultaneous reconstruction of spatial frequency fields and field sample locations by Haines, R

“…Just a fraction of the feature vectors ('anchors') have an associated spatial location. When coupled to a prior for the smoothly varying feature field, and the anchor texts, the unlocated feature vectors are jointly informative of their own location and the feature fields.…”

Policies in parallel? A comparative study of journalistic AI policies in 52 global news organisations by Becker, KB, Simon, FM, Crum, C

“…Our study shows that publishers have already begun to converge in their guidelines on key points such as transparency and human supervision when dealing with AI-generated content. However, we argue that national and organisational idiosyncrasies continue to matter in shaping publishers’ practices. …”

A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal by Dean, S, Marchetti, R, Kirk, K, Matthews, KR

“…The parasites causing African sleeping sickness respond to citrate or cis-aconitate (CCA) to initiate life-cycle development when transmitted to their tsetse fly vector. This requires hypersensitization of the parasites to CCA by exposure to low temperature, conditions encountered after tsetse fly feeding at dusk or dawn. …”

The manga whisperer: automatically generating transcriptions for comics by Sachdeva, R, Zisserman, A

“…Specifically, we tackle the problem of diarisation i.e. generating a transcription of who said what and when, in a fully automatic way. To this end, we make the following contributions: (1) we present a unified model, Magi, that is able to (a) detect panels, text boxes and character boxes, (b) cluster characters by identity (without knowing the number of clusters apriori), and (c) associate dialogues to their speakers; (2) we propose a novel approach that is able to sort the detected text boxes in their reading order and generate a dialogue transcript; (3) we annotate an evaluation benchmark for this task using publicly available [English] manga pages. …”

Strike a pose: tracking people by finding stylized poses by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…Our basic assumption is that people tend to take on certain canonical poses, even when performing unusual activities like throwing a baseball or figure skating. …”

Embedding treatment in stronger care systems by Rojek, A, Fieggen, J, Paterson, A, Byakika-Kibwika, P, Camara, M, Comer, K, Fletcher, TE, Günther, S, Jonckheere, S, Mwima, G, Dunning, J, Horby, P

“…A key lesson from the west Africa (2014–16) Ebola disease epidemic was that outbreak responses fail when they respond to patients through a narrow clinical lens without considering the broader community and social context of care. …”

Addressing Factors that Impact Sexual Well-Being and Intimacy in IBD Patients by Elias, S, Nandi, N, Fourie, S, Grover, L, Newman, KL

“…Recent Findings: Recent clinical surveys of practicing gastroenterologists document that clinicians should routinely address sexual health when addressing patient reported outcomes but very few actually make direct inquiry or suggest management into this important aspect of human life. …”