Wages, family background, on-campus performance and gender: an investigation of Chinese graduates’ first job salaries by Liu, S

“…This thesis provides little evidence to support the marketized transition theory, as we find graduates’ first job salaries are still largely affected by their political/ideological attainments in university. …”

The influence of L1 Tibetan and L2 Chinese on Tibetan university students' L3 English listening and speaking: an exploratory analysis by Weber, J

“…The Scalpel Model best predicted the results, but the study did not find conclusive evidence that any model can fully explain L3 phonological acquisition. …”

Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain by Buechel, M, Slater, L, Dadson, S

“…For these three aims we run simulations using (i) past climate with proposed land cover changes and known floods and drought events; (ii) past climate with independent changes in precipitation, temperature, and CO₂; and (iii) a potential future climate (2020–2050). We find the proposed scale of afforestation is unlikely to significantly alter regional hydrology; however, it can noticeably decrease low flows whilst not reducing high flows. …”

Strategy and regeneration in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by Parr, A

“…</p> <br> <p>Progressing from history to law and agriculture, the research seeks not only to learn the lessons of history but to find ways to apply them urgently and strategically in this ‘crisis of time’, in Culpeper’s words.…”

Leadership-as-spiritual practice: a practical pneumatology of leadership in the Church of England by Bennet, HJ

“…Through content analysis, I find the person of the Spirit is under-represented as subject in leadership texts.…”

Network analysis and data science for finance: from traditional markets to decentralised exchanges by Miori, D

“…Lastly, we analyse data on liquidity provision, consumption, and price formation on competing decentralised exchange venues, to find a model for the prediction of incoming trading volume at block-level.…”

Performance and stability analysis of all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics in light-driven electrochemical water splitting by Wang, J, Branco, B, Remmerswaal, WHM, Hu, S, Schipper, NRM, Zardetto, V, Bellini, L, Daub, N, Wienk, MM, Wakamiya, A, Snaith, HJ, Janssen, RAJ

“…The system retains over 60% of its peak performance after operating for more than 180 h. We find that the performance loss is mainly due to the degradation of the photovoltaic component. …”

The Athenian dramatic chorus in the fourth century BC by Jackson, LCM

“…Amid the recent scholarly interest in the rapid expansion of the theatre industry from the late fifth-century BC onwards, no study has been made of a central, defining even, element of ancient Greek drama at that time – the chorus. Instead, what we find is a widespread assumption concerning the fourth-century dramatic chorus, particularly with regard to the comic chorus, still prevalent in today’s scholarship: ‘The history of the dramatic chorus is one of decline both quantitatively and qualitatively’, states one of the more detailed recent reviews of the evidence for dramatic choral culture in the ancient world (Csapo and Slater 1995:349).…”

Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: the role of gender and income inequality within households by Roll, Y, De Graaf, N

“…The implications of these findings are discussed.…”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…Analysing orthologous genes from whole genome sequence data for multiple species per order, we find that, in most genes, selection on roughly one fifth of codons is conserved within each order but differs significantly among orders. …”

Brain change trajectories in healthy adults correlate with Alzheimer's related genetic variation and memory decline across life by Roe, J, Vidal Pineiro, D, Sørensen, Ø, Grydeland, H, Leonardsen, E, Iakunchykova, O, Pan, M, Mowinckel, A, Strømstad, M, Nawijn, L, Milaneschi, Y, Andersson, M, Pudas, S, Bråthen, AC, Kransberg, J, Falch, E, Øverbye, K, Kievit, R, Ebmeier, KP, Lindenberger, U, Ghisletta, P, Demnitz, N, Boraxbekk, C-J, Drevon, C, Penninx, B, Bertram, L, Nyberg, L, Walhovd, K, Fjell, A, Wang, Y

“…We first show genetic risk links with more brain loss than expected for age in early Braak regions, and find this extends beyond APOE genotype. Next, we run machine learning on AD-control data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative using brain change trajectories conditioned on age, to identify AD-sensitive features and model their change in healthy adults. …”

Disruption of seasonal influenza circulation and evolution during the 2009 H1N1 and COVID-19 pandemics in Southeastern Asia by Chen, Z, Tsui, JL, Cai, J, Su, S, Viboud, C, du Plessis, L, Lemey, P, Kraemer, MUG, Yu, H

“…The internal movement structure within Southeastern Asia markedly diverged during the COVID-19 pandemic season, and to a lesser extent, during the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic season. Our findings provide insights into the heterogeneous impact of two distinct pandemic-related disruptions on influenza circulation, which can help anticipate the effects of future pandemics and potential mitigation strategies on influenza dynamics.…”

Essays on time series econometrics and financial econometrics by Xu, W

“…We apply the test to a panel of macroeconomic and financial variables in the UK and find the evidence of unstable factor structure during the recent financial crisis.…”

Decision-making under flood predictions: a risk perception study of coastal real estate by Seenath, A, Mahadeo, SMR, Blackett, M

“…We also find that people do not consider flood prediction uncertainty in their real estate decisions, possibly due to an inability to perceive such uncertainty. …”

Mucosal signatures of pathogenic T cells in HLA-B*27+ anterior uveitis and axial spondyloarthritis by Paley, MA, Yang, X, Hassman, LM, Penkava, F, Garner, LI, Paley, GL, Linskey, N, Agnew, R, Arantes de Faria, PH, Feng, A, Li, SY, Simone, D, Roberson, EDO, Ruzycki, PA, Esaulova, E, Laurent, J, Feigl-Lenzen, L, Springer, LE, Liu, C, Gillespie, GM, Bowness, P, Garcia, KC, Yokoyama, WM

“…Here, we analyze ocular, synovial, and blood T cells in B27AAU and axSpA, showing that YeiH-specific CD8 T cells express a mucosal gene set and surface proteins consistent with intestinal differentiation, including CD161, integrin α4β7, and CCR6. In addition, we find an expansion of YeiH-specific CD8 T cells in the blood of axSpA and B27AAU over healthy controls, whereas influenza-specific CD8 T cells were equivalent across groups. …”

Steering perovskite precursor solutions for multijunction photovoltaics by Hu, S, Wang, J, Zhao, P, Pascual, J, Wang, J, Rombach, F, Dasgupta, A, Liu, W, Truong, MA, Zhu, H, Kober-Czerny, M, Drysdale, JN, Smith, JA, Yuan, Z, Aalbers, GJW, Schipper, NRM, Yao, J, Nakano, K, Turren-Cruz, S-H, Dallmann, A, Christoforo, MG, Ball, JM, McMeekin, DP, Zaininger, K-A, Liu, Z, Noel, NK, Tajima, K, Chen, W, Ehara, M, Janssen, RAJ, Wakamiya, A, Snaith, HJ

“…With a focus on understanding the chemistry of tin–lead perovskite precursor solutions, we herein find that Sn(II) species dominate interactions with precursors and additives and uncover the exclusive role of carboxylic acid in regulating solution colloidal properties and film crystallisation, and ammonium in improving film optoelectronic properties. …”

“UPDATE: I’m pregnant!”: inferring global downloads and reasons for using menstrual tracking apps by Rampazzo, F, Raybould, A, Rampazzo, P, Barker, R, Leasure, D

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> We find that the majority of downloads are for three apps: Clue, Flo, and Period Tracker. …”

Going ‘meta’: a systematic review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder by Sadnicka, A, Strudwick, A, Grogan, JP, Manohar, S, Nielsen, G

“…However, since most studies find equivalent metacognition to controls, we also discuss whether metacognition could be intact and how this could inform mechanistic models of FND and have potential clinical utility. …”

Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…A variational model was used to extract or segment the breast ultrasound (BUS) image boundary in order to find a closed curve line of the abnormality region for further diagnosis. …”
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Prevalence of sleep disturbance in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Salari, Nader, Sadeghi, Narges, Hosseinian-Far, Amin, Hasheminezhad, Razie, Khazaie, Habibolah, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Mohammadi, Masoud

“…This study uses a systematic review and meta-analysis to pool the reported prevalence of sleep disorders among AS patients. Methods: To find related studies, the WoS, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Embase, and Google Scholar databases were systematically searched without a lower time limit. …”
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