Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…This process is often called maintenance, or repair. Over the past years, there has been a vibrant research activity around the problem of designing good storage erasure codes, amenable to repair. …”
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The role of POPX2 in the regulation of hippo pathway by Muhammad Bakhait Rahmat

“…Not surprisingly, in the past few years, intense focus has been shown on YAP and TAZ as potential therapeutic targets in the study of cancer and regenerative medicine. …”
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Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Collectively, the conceptualization of Sinophonicity in the three chapters attests to the medium of literary fiction as an effective site for producing decolonizing impetus, in order to better position Hong Kong in post-handover years.…”
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Interface energetics and dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites by Goh, Teck Wee

“…Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have gained a lot of attention over the past six years as a desirable class of materials for various devices which has been shown to possess desirable properties such as long diffusion lengths, large carrier mobility, low trap states. …”
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The future of nuclear power in India: a question of liability law by Sengupta, A

“…Following this, in 2011 India announced ambitious plans to expand its installed nuclear power generation capacity to 63 Gigawatts (GW) (out of over 800 GW) by 2032 through civil nuclear trade. However, several years on, much of this envisaged trade and investment has yet to come to fruition. …”

Tissue and spatially resolved immune drivers of fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis by Weeratunga, P

“…Fibrosis matters because it is irreversible, and the majority of progressive fibrotic sarcoidosis patients are young (40-60years of age). My project moves the focus away from traditional blood studies to the organ, using bronchoalveolar lavage samples of patients with fibrotic vs non-fibrotic sarcoidosis and lung tissue sections to ask what are the immune cells and functional pathways associated with fibrosis in pulmonary sarcoidosis. …”

Viral and immune dynamics of genital human papillomavirus infections in young women with high temporal resolution by Tessandier, N, Elie, B, Boué, V, Selinger, C, Rahmoun, M, Bernat, C, Grasset, S, Groc, S, Bedin, A, Beneteau, T, Bonneau, M, Graf, C, Jacobs, N, Kamiya, T, Kerioui, M, Lajoie, J, Melki, I, Prétet, J, Reyné, B, Schlecht-Louf, G, Sofonea, MT, Supplisson, O, Wymant, C, Foulongne, V

“…Most anogenital HPV infections are cleared in less than two years, but the underlying mechanisms that favour persistence in around 10% of women remain largely unknown. …”

A comparison of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor kidney outcome trial participants with a real-world chronic kidney disease primary care population by Forbes, AK, Hinton, W, Feher, MD, Elson, W, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Joy, M, Fan, X, Banerjee, D, Cole, NI, Munro, N, Whyte, M, Suckling, RJ, Swift, PA, de Lusignan, S

“…Trial participants were 9–14 years younger than the real-world CKD population, and had more advanced CKD, including higher levels of albuminuria. …”

Empagliflozin lowers serum uric acid in chronic kidney disease: exploratory analyses from the EMPA-KIDNEY trial by Mayne, K, Sardell, R, Staplin, N, Judge, P, Zhu, D, Sammons, E, Emberson, J, Preiss, D, Landray, M, Baigent, C, Wanner, C, Haynes, R, Herrington, W

“…<p><strong> Methods</p></strong> The EMPA-KIDNEY trial randomised 6609 patients with CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≥20 and <90 mL/min/1.73m2 ) to receive either empagliflozin 10 mg daily or matching placebo over a median of two years follow-up. Serum uric acid was measured at randomisation then 2 and 18 months of follow-up and the effects of empagliflozin were analysed using a pre-specified mixed model repeated measures approach. …”

The influence of nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) signalling and the significance of the organization of lysosomes in cardiac myocytes by Aston, D

“…</p> <p>One regulatory factor that has earned much attention in recent years is Nicotinic Acid Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate (NAADP) and its probable receptor, Two-Pore Channel-2 (TPC2), which is found on the surface of lysosomes. …”

The impact of social isolation on delayed hospital discharges of older hip fracture patients and associated costs by Landeiro, F, Leal, J, Gray, A

“…Costs of delayed discharges were estimated using unit costs from national databases.Mean age at admission was 85.5 years and mean length of stay was 13.1 days per patient. …”

Combined electron imaging and diffraction methods for understanding disordered rocksalt cathodes by Hedley, E

“…<p>The development of lithium-ion batteries is pivotal in the wide range of technologies required to make more efficient use of clean energy sources, notably the transition to the wide-scale use of electric vehicles. In recent years, research into layered cathode material has pivoted to more disordered systems, which do not require the incorporation of cobalt in the composition and aim to minimise structural changes through entropy-stabilised disorder. …”

Ethnicity and anthropometric deficits in children: A cross-sectional analysis of national survey data from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa by Tusting, LS, Mishra, S, Gibson, HS, Lindsay, SW, Weiss, DJ, Flaxman, S, Bhatt, S

“…Data were extracted from 37 georeferenced Demographic and Health Surveys carried out during 2006–2019 across SSA that recorded anthropometric data for children aged <5 years. In a cross-sectional analysis, the odds of stunting (low height-for-age), wasting (low weight-for-height) and underweight (low weight-for-age) were modelled in relation to ethnic group using a generalised linear hierarchical mixed-effects model, controlling for survey design and environmental, socioeconomic and clinical variables. …”

The 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens by Weeks, Z

“…Plants colonised the land around 470 million years ago. This was facilitated by the acquisition of apical cells capable of dividing in three dimensions, which allowed the development of complex 3-dimensional (3D) morphologies. …”

A systematic analysis of the contribution of genetics to multimorbidity and comparisons with primary care data by Murrin, O, Mounier, N, Voller, B, Tata, L, Gallego-Moll, C, Roso-Llorach, A, Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Fox, C, Allan, LM, Woodward, RM, Liang, X, Valderas, JM, Khalid, S, Dudbridge, F, Lamb, SE, Mancini, M, Farmer, L, Boddy, K, Bowden, J, Melzer, D, Frayling, TM, Masoli, JAH, Pilling, LC, Violán, C, Delgado, J

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>We defined chronic, common, and heritable conditions in individuals aged ≥65 years, using two large primary-care databases [CPRD (UK) N = 2,425,014 and SIDIAP (Spain) N = 1,053,640], and estimated heritability using the same definitions in UK Biobank (N = 451,197). …”

Self-harm-related mental imagery: a content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services by Susi, K, Stewart, A, Knowles Bevis, R, Hawton, K

“…<p><strong>Results: </p></strong>55 young people aged 14-24 years old completed the study. Participants were mostly female (85.5%) and White (87.3%). …”

Climate and biodiversity in the Andean Dry Puna by Bennett Manzano, M

“…There was no significant temporal trend in productivity in the study area since 1980 and NDVI variability was chiefly driven by ENSO conditions (lower during El Niño years, with dry and hot summers). At a finer scale, vegetation types responded to low rainfall in different ways; tussock grasslands were the most affected by low rainfall; wetlands and scrublands the most resilient. …”

Breastfeeding support during the Covid-19 pandemic in England: analysis of a national survey by Quigley, M, Harrison, S, Levene, I, Buchanan, P, McLeish, J, Alderdice, F

“…<p><strong>Conclusions</p></strong> Breastfeeding support has declined in recent years, and did not meet the needs of many women during the pandemic. …”

Indicators of global climate change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by Forster, PM, Smith, CJ, Walsh, T, Lamb, WF, Lamboll, R, Hauser, M, Ribes, A, Rosen, D, Gillett, N, Palmer, MD, Rogelj, J, von Schuckmann, K, Seneviratne, SI, Trewin, B, Zhang, X, Allen, M, Andrew, R, Birt, A, Borger, A, Boyer, T, Broersma, JA, Cheng, L, Dentener, F, Friedlingstein, P, Gutiérrez, JM, Gütschow, J, Hall, B, Ishii, M, Jenkins, S, Lan, X, Lee, J-Y, Morice, C, Kadow, C, Kennedy, J, Killick, R, Minx, JC, Naik, V, Peters, GP, Pirani, A, Pongratz, J, Schleussner, C-F, Szopa, S, Thorne, P, Rohde, R, Rojas Corradi, M, Schumacher, D, Vose, R, Zickfeld, K, Masson-Delmotte, V, Zhai, P

“…However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5&ndash;10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles.…”

Deep learning methods for genome-based prediction of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Wang, C

“…<p>Tuberculosis is a highly lethal infectious disease, causing approximately 1.5 million deaths annually. Recent years have seen a concerning rise in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases, calling for the development of new approaches for drug susceptibility testing. …”