Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement by Badger, JR, Holst, CG, Thompson, P, Bowes, L, Hayes, R, Clarkson, S, Hutchings, J, Hastings, RP

“…Data were collected before the national lockdowns, early 2020, and 3–5 months after the final return to school, summer 2021, when schools were operating under a range of context restrictions. …”

Characterising human disparity tuning properties using population receptive field mapping by Alvarez, I, Mancari, A, Ip, IB, Parker, AJ, Bridge, H

“…Finally, the individual thresholds for psychophysical stereoacuity at the 3 different pedestal disparities were broadly related to population receptive field tuning width in area V1, suggesting a possible limit for fine stereopsis at the earliest level of cortical processing. …”

Understanding the oxidation resistance of zirconium alloy at 1000°C based on the formation of a Zr-Sn intermetallic phase and co-precipitation of Sn and Nb by Cui, Z, Liu, J, Liu, G, Tang, G, Liu, X, Meng, R, Lozano-Perez, S, Yun, D, Deng, H

“…Clear atomic arrangements of Zr5Sn3 were obtained by TEM, resulting in accurate identification of the Zr-Sn intermetallic phase. …”

A dormant overmassive black hole in the early Universe by Juodžbalis, I, Maiolino, R, Baker, WM, Tacchella, S, Scholtz, J, D’Eugenio, F, Witstok, J, Schneider, R, Trinca, A, Valiante, R, DeCoursey, C, Curti, M, Carniani, S, Chevallard, J, de Graaff, A, Arribas, S, Bennett, JS, Bourne, MA, Bunker, AJ, Charlot, S, Jiang, B, Koudmani, S, Perna, M, Robertson, B

“…Recent observations have found a large number of supermassive black holes already in place in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, many of which seem to be overmassive relative to their host galaxy stellar mass when compared with local relation1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8–9. Several different models have been proposed to explain these findings, ranging from heavy seeds to light seeds experiencing bursts of high accretion rate10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15–16. …”

Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital with and without respiratory symptoms by Citarella, BW, Kartsonaki, C, Ibáñez-Prada, ED, Gonçalves, BP, Baruch, J, Escher, M, Pritchard, MG, Wei, J, Philippy, F, Dagens, A, Hall, M, Lee, J, Kutsogiannis, DJ, Wils, E-J, Fernandes, MA, Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, BK, Panda, PK, Martin-Loeches, I, Ohshimo, S, Fatoni, AZ, Horby, P, Dunning, J, Rello, J, Merson, L, Rojek, A, Vaillant, M, Olliaro, P, Reyes, LF, ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Group

“…NRS patients were older (median age: NRS: 74 vs RS: 65) and less likely to be admitted to the ICU (NRS: 36.7 % vs RS: 37.5 %). NRS patients had a higher crude in-hospital case-fatality ratio (NRS 41.1 % vs. …”

Epigenetic age acceleration and methylation differences in IgG4-related cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis by Noble, A, Motta, R, Cabras, S, Flores, BM, Nowak, J, Glapa-Nowak, A, Geremia, A, Satsangi, J, Culver, E

“…Inflammatory genes (including CEP97, IFNAR1, TXK, HERC6, C5orf36, PYY, and MTRNR2L1) were predominantly involved in dysregulated methylation. …”

Environmental conditions affecting global mesoscale convective system occurrence by Muetzelfeldt, MR, Plant, RS, Christensen, HM, Zhang, Z, Woollings, T, Feng, Z, Li, P

“…The ERA5 environments of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), tracked from satellite observations, are assessed over a 20-yr period. …”

External validation of the QCovid 2 and 3 risk prediction algorithms for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: a national cohort study in Scotland by Kerr, S, Millington, T, Rudan, I, McCowan, C, Tibble, H, Jeffrey, K, Fagbamigbe, AF, Simpson, CR, Robertson, C, Hippisley-Cox, J, Sheikh, A

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We used the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 national data platform consisting of individual-level data for the population of Scotland (5.4 million residents). Primary care data were linked to reverse-transcription PCR virology testing, hospitalisation and mortality data. …”

Tracking people by learning their appearance by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…Experiments suggest that our system 1) can count distinct individuals, 2) can identify and track them, 3) can recover when it loses track, for example, if individuals are occluded or briefly leave the view, 4) can identify body configuration accurately, and 5) is not dependent on particular models of human motion.…”

TPepRet: a deep learning model for characterizing T-cell receptors–antigen binding patterns by Wang, M, Fan, W, Wu, T, Li, M

“…We have evaluated TPepRet to a range of challenging scenarios, including performance benchmarking against other tools using diverse datasets, analysis of peptide binding preferences, characterization of T cells clonal expansion, identification of true binder in complex environments, assessment of key binding sites through alanine scanning, validation against expression rates from large-scale datasets, and ability to screen SARS-CoV-2 TCRs. The comprehensive results suggest that TPepRet outperforms existing tools. …”

Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link by Main, D, Drmota, P, Nadlinger, DP, Ainley, EM, Agrawal, A, Nichol, BC, Srinivas, R, Araneda, G, Lucas, DM

“…We then execute Grover’s search algorithm5—to our knowledge, the first implementation of a distributed quantum algorithm comprising several non-local two-qubit gates—and measure a 71% success rate. …”

Body frame dimensions are related to obesity and fatness: Lean trunk size, skinfolds, and body mass index by Henneberg, M, Ulijaszek, SJ

“…Data on the middle class adult Australian women (n 5 1260) collected in 2002 during a National Body Size and Shape Survey were used. …”

Water resources and extreme events in the Awash basin: economic effects and policy implications: report prepared for the Global Green Growth Institute by Smale, R, Walker, O, Vadheim, B, Hope, R, Hope, R, Charles, K, Hall, J, Dadson, S, Borgomeo, E, Kebede, S, Alamirew, T, Bekele, F, Mengistu, A, Beyene, S

“…Plausible future hydrological conditions drawn from global climate models, applied to the Growth and Transition Planning period (GTP) from 2011-15, lead to swings in basin GDP of the order of 5-20%. Furthermore, as the economy is projected to grow sharply in coming years so is the degree of water scarcity. …”

Effects of clozapine-N-oxide and compound 21 on sleep in laboratory mice by Traut, J, Mengual, JP, Meijer, E, McKillop, L, Alfonsa, H, Hoerder-Suabedissen, A, Song, SH, Fehér, KD, Riemann, D, Molnar, Z, Akerman, CJ, Vyazovskiy, VV, Krone, LB

“…Here, we show that intraperitoneal injections of commonly used CNO doses (1, 5, and 10 mg/kg) alter sleep in wild-type male laboratory mice. …”

Kubur kepingan batu di Lembah Bernam by Muhamad Shafiq Mohd Ali, Yunus Sauman

“…Antara pengkaji yang meneliti kebudayaan ini adalah seperti I.H.N Evans, H.D. Collings, P.V.S. Callenfels, Leong Sau Heng dan Yunus Sauman. …”
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Predictive factors for diabetes mellitus: insights from complete blood count analysis by Agnes Ayang Kenyang, Nurliyana Juhan, Yong Zulina Zubairi, Nornazirah Azizan, Ho, Chong Mun

“…In the univariate analysis, all variables are statistically significance at 5% level of significance. However, at multivariate analysis, only age, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), white blood cells (WBC) and hematocrit (HCT) emerged as significant predictors of diabetes mellitus. …”
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Leptospirosis modelling using hydrometeorological indices and random forest machine learning by Jayaramu, Veianthan, Zulkafli, Zed, De Stercke, Simon, Buytaert, Wouter, Rahmat, Fariq, Abdul Rahman, Ribhan Zafira, Ishak, Asnor Juraiza, Tahir, Wardah, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Mohd Fuzi, Nik Mohd Hafiz

“…The average and extreme models showed similar prediction accuracy ranges (61.5–76.1 and 72.3–77.0) while the mixed models showed an improvement (71.7–82.6 prediction accuracy). …”

Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous expanded graphite modified with PA/H3PO4 for enhanced oil sorption efficiency by Elbidi, Moammar, Mohd Salleh, Mohamad Amran, Gunam Resul, Mohamad Faiz Mukhtar, Rashid, Suraya Abdul

“…The chemical intercalation procedure was carried out at room temperature for 30 min in the first step "oxidation" with an optimum weight ratio of 1 g: 5.1 g: 18.8 g: 0.2 of NGF, PA, H3PO4, and KMnO4. …”

The green energy effect on an HCCI engine from used cooking oil-based biodiesel from Malaysia by Abdulabbas Mossa, Muntasser, Hairuddin, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Aziz, Nuraini, Muhamad Tobib, Hasyuzariza

“…Raising the intake air temperature to 90°C lowered NOx emissions by 96.66%, from 150 ppm to 5 ppm. Using green energy sources as fuel in HCCI engines significantly reduced emissions in this study, suggesting their potential as a future fuel for advanced engines. © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.…”
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Application of response surface methodology (RSM) for optimization of hydrogen sulphide adsorption using coconut shell activated carbon xerogel: effect of adsorption pressure and h... by Saleh, Ali Mohammed, Mahdi, Hadi Hamdi, Alias, Azil Bahari, Ali, Obed M., Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Abdulwahhab Shihab, Thaer, Syed Hasan, Syed Shatir A., Ahmed, Omer Khalil, Mohammed Saleh, Noah

“…In the RSM approach, we selected adsorption pressure (1-3 bar) and H2S flow rate (100-300 L/hr) as the process variables while maintaining a constant contact time (5 minutes), adsorbent weight (11 g) and temperature (30℃). …”
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