Zanthoxylum bungeanum essential oil induces apoptosis of HaCaT human keratinocytes by Li, K, Zhou, R, Wang Jia, W, Li, Z, Li, J, Zhang, P, Xiao, T

“…Ethnopharmacological relevance: Zanthoxylum bungeanum (ZB), a Chinese herb medicine, has been shown to possess a wide range of biological activities including anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial activity and has long been used to treat a variety of skin diseases including psoriasis. …”

PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations in urban and peri-urban environments of two Pacific Island Countries by Hilly, JJ, Sinha, J, Mani, FS, Turagabeci, A, Jagals, P, Thomas, DSG, Wiggs, GFS, Morawska, L, Singh, K, Gucake, J, Ashworth, M, Mataki, M, Hiba, D, Bainivalu, D, Knibbs, LD, Stuetz, RM, Dansie, AP

“…These findings highlight the urgent need for governmental action to establish robust air quality standards and long-term monitoring programs in Fiji and the Solomon Islands to mitigate health risks from poor air quality.…”

Thermomechanical coupling during large strain deformation of polycarbonate: experimental study by Song, P, Chapman, D, Graham, A, Trivedi, A, Siviour, C

“…Compression experiments are performed using a screwdriven machine, a hydraulic machine, and a long split Hopkinson bar, all instrumented with a high-speed infrared camera to measure temperature rises at strain rates between 0.01 and 2600 s-1 at a starting temperature around 20 °C. …”

Identification and characterisation of the haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells at risk for leukaemia development following radiation exposure by Verbiest, T

“…We report here, for the first time, that allogeneic haematopoietic stem cells can compete for niches in the nonmyeloablated NSG bone marrow compartment and that the nonmyeloablated NSG bone marrow microenvironment is capable of supporting allogeneic long-term HSC engraftment and differentiation. Using this NSG transplantation model, we then provided evidence of a reduced contribution of low dose irradiated HSCs towards longterm haematopoiesis. …”

‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England by Saddington, L, McConnell, FR

“…While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is increasing awareness and prominence of children's political geography within the subdiscipline, little attention has focused on how children themselves conceptualise and think about the state. …”

Time to speed up scientific deliveries in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: innovative clinical trial design to improve patient care by Kawano-Dourado, L, Kulkarni, T, Ryerson, CJ, Richards, DB

“…The drug development pipeline is long and there is an urgent need to accelerate this process. …”

West African labour and the development of mechanised mining in southwest Ghana, c.1870s to 1910 by Mark-Thiesen, C

“…Starting in the 1870s, mine management found that the most effective way of recruiting long-term wage earners was through headmen; African authorities who established temporary patronage relationships with a group of labourers by offering them credit. …”

Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2 by Morton, T, Evans, SB, Swift, R, Bray, J, Frost, F, Russell, C, Brooker, D, Wong, G, Hullah, N

“…<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> Support for people with dementia in their communities is neither robust nor consistent in the UK, often bolstered by third sector/grass-roots initiatives facing formidable challenges in sustaining long-term. The Get Real with Meeting Centres project explored factors involved in sustaining one such form of community-based support. …”

Make it orijinal: literary modernism and the novel on the Turkish-British axis 1908-1948 by Staudt, K

“…Exploring important novels of the Kemalist era alongside their equally canonical Anglo-European counterparts, this dissertation demonstrates that certain tropes of modernism long presumed unique to European culture have analogous strands in Turkish modernity. …”

In Children, N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibody Encephalitis Incidence Exceeds That of Japanese Encephalitis in Vietnam by Huong, NHT, Toan, ND, Thien, TB, Khanh, TH, Tuan, NM, Truc, TT, Nghia, NA, Thinh, LQ, Thoa, NTK, Nhan, LNT, Minh, NNQ, Turner, HC, Thwaites, CL, Hung, NT, Tan, LV, Irani, SR, Quy, DT

“…NMDAR antibody encephalitis is associated with long hospital stay and poor outcomes. These findings should change pediatric diagnostics, to earlier consider autoimmune treatments in this clinical setting.…”

Sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma cells in co-culture with cerebellar organoids converge towards in vivo malignant cell states by Van Essen, M, Nicheperovich, A, Schuster-Böckler, B, Becker, E, Jacob, J

“…Tumour spheroids were generated from two distinct, long-established SHH-MB cell lines which were co-cultured with cerebellar organoids. …”

Do built environment factors have different effects on ridesourcing usage before and after the COVID-19 pandemic? by Jin, T, Cheng, L, Wang, S, Cao, J, Schwanen, T, Witlox, F

“…It seems that COVID-19 is having long-term effects on ridesourcing usage, at least in Chicago. …”

The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 2: interventions and evidence by Fretheim, A, Onakpoya, I, Bartoszko, J, Jones, M, Gandini, S

“…Furthermore, the widespread nosocomial transmission in hospitals and long-term care homes and its devastating effects on the elderly require a better understanding of the role of the built environment as a risk factor. …”

Genetic, natal, and spatial drivers of social phenotypes in wild great tits by Satarkar, D, Sepil, I, Sheldon, BC

“…We used a multi-generational pedigree and social data for 1823 individuals with over 800,000 observations from a long-term monitored great tit population.</li> <li>Animal models indicated minimal narrow-sense heritability (2%&ndash;3%) in group size choice, further reduced when the spatial location was considered, which itself explains a substantial 30% of the observed variation. …”

Assessment reform in Chile: a contested discursive space by Flórez Petour, M

“…The thesis makes a case for situating the study of assessment reforms in the context of three broader dimensions, namely the historical dimension, that incorporates the diachronic dimension of assessment reforms both in the short and the long term; the systemic dimension, related to the processes of production, circulation and consumption of discourses around assessment in a complex web of systems, beliefs, interactions and (power) relationships between their actors, and the ideological dimension. …”

The role of circulating tumor DNA in melanomas of the uveal tract by Zameer, MZ, Jou, E, Middleton, M

“…The high risk for metastatic disease with a variable and often long latency period is thought to be due to early spread of cancer cells disseminating into organs such as the liver, followed by a period of dormancy, before the eventual emergence of radiologically measurable disease. …”

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a supertyphoon: A quantitative study in Cebu, Philippines by Ylade, M, Adhikari, B, Crisostomo, MV, Daag, JV, Cuachin, AM, Lopez, MH, Macasero, A, Agrupis, KA, Deen, J

“…The COVID-19 pandemic and supertyphoon Odette had multi-faceted effects with immediate and long-term implications and greater impacts among poorer households. …”

Methodology research in clinical studies for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) of the skin: Addressing design, conduct and relevance for context and target population by Erber, A

“…Both are ‘diseases of poverty’ and can cause long-term disabilities. This work comprises two research methodology studies, suggesting novel approaches to design and conduct of clinical studies in order to make research more relevant for their context, and for patients. …”

Sensorimotor hand representation following altered input by Wesselink, DB

“…The rapid plasticity that was observed simultaneously with preservation of inter-digit relationships may help resolve apparent discrepancies between studies indicating sensorimotor representational change and long-term stability observed in amputees. Together, these studies stress the importance of early-life behaviour in shaping the primary somatosensory cortex and how later in life, the scope of sensorimotor plasticity is much more limited than previously thought. …”

Transcriptional brain networks and their key regulators across the human lifespan by Wehrspaun, CC

“…I extended the analysis to differentiate between brain regions and additional regulatory RNA elements, namely long noncoding (lnc) RNAs. I found that genes in the hypothalamus express a region-specific network to which are also associated co-expressed lncRNAs. …”