The advent of a digital state and government-business relations by Dunleavy, P, Margetts, H, Bastow, S, Tinkler, J

“…We consider first the extent and patterning of conventional ICT out-sourcing in the UK at central government level. Part 2 examines some key possible of the causes and consequences of the out-sourcing trend, and of the significance of a new and general public/private sector interface. …”

An interpretable machine learning framework for measuring urban perceptions from panoramic street view images by Yunzhe Liu, Meixu Chen, Meihui Wang, Jing Huang, Fisher Thomas, Kazem Rahimi, Mohammad Mamouei

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Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning by C J Scott, R G Harrison, M J Owens, M Lockwood, L Barnard

“…Fast solar wind stream arrival is determined from modulation of the solar wind V _y component, measured by the Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft. Lightning rate changes around these event times are determined from the very low frequency arrival time difference (ATD) system of the UK Met Office. …”
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Where are the inequalities in colorectal cancer care in a country with universal healthcare? A systematic review and narrative synthesis by Una MacLeod, Sarah Greenley, Katie Spencer, Michael Lind, Benjamin Alexander Pickwell-Smith, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi

“…Grey literature, including HMIC, BASE and Google Advanced Search, and forward and backward citation searches were conducted. …”
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Foreword by GOLOB Nina

“…Kiyomi Fujii’s research, entitled Blogging Identity: How L2 Learners Express Themselves, discusses identity expression in blogs by Japanese language learners on the intermediate and advanced level. The paper by Nagisa Moritoki Škof, Japanese Language Education and Dyslexia: On the Necessity of Dyslexia Research, shows an insight to dyslexia and through an outline of the present state of accepting and treating leaning disabilities in the Japanese education system stresses the  importance of incounting dyslexia in language education in general. …”
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Drivers and barriers of international migration of doctors to and from the United Kingdom: a scoping review by N. Brennan, N. Langdon, M. Bryce, L. Burns, N. Humphries, A. Knapton, T. Gale

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A Local Ecosystem Assessment of the Potential for Net Negative Heavy-Duty Truck Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Biomethane Upcycling by Penny Atkins, Gareth Milton, Andrew Atkins, Robert Morgan

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Cost of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in Europe and the USA: The GAIN study by Jamie O'Hara, Alan Finnegan, Harpal Dhillon, Leonardo Ruiz-Casas, Gabriel Pedra, Bethany Franks, George Morgan, Vanessa Hebditch, Bengt Jönsson, Mzwandile Mabhala, Tatjana Reic, Ingo Van Thiel, Vlad Ratziu, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Quentin M. Anstee

“…In total, 3,754 patients found to have NASH on liver biopsy were stratified by fibrosis score and by biomarkers as either early or advanced fibrosis. Per-patient costs were estimated using national unit price data and extrapolated to the population level to calculate the economic burden. …”
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Trends and socioeconomic, demographic, and environmental factors associated with antimicrobial resistance: a longitudinal analysis in 39 hospitals in Chile 2008–2017Research in con... by Kasim Allel, Jaime Labarca, Camila Carvajal, Patricia Garcia, Marcela Cifuentes, Francisco Silva, José M. Munita, Eduardo A. Undurraga

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Heparin versus citrate anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy in intensive care: the RRAM observational study by Gould, DW, Doidge, J, Sadique, MZ, Borthwick, M, Hatch, R, MacEwen, C, Young, JD, Watkinson, P

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong>&nbsp;In the UK, 10% of admissions to intensive care units receive continuous renal replacement therapy with regional citrate anticoagulation replacing systemic heparin anticoagulation over the last decade. …”

Modernised Policy Making? Investigating the Development of the 2009 Migration Impact Fund by Formosa, Paul J.

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Defining the Enablers and Barriers to the Implementation of Large-scale, Health Care–Related Mobile Technology: Qualitative Case Study in a Tertiary Hospital Setting by Ravi Aggarwal, Sheena Visram, Guy Martin, Viknesh Sounderajah, Sanjay Gautama, Kevin Jarrold, Robert Klaber, Shona Maxwell, John Neal, Jack Pegg, Julian Redhead, Dominic King, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi

“…A large-scale, hospital-wide implementation of a clinical mobile app for health care professionals developed in partnership with Google Health and academic partners was deployed on a bring-your-own-device basis using mobile device management at our UK academic hospital. As this was the first large-scale implementation of this type of innovation in the UK health system, important insights and lessons learned from the deployment may be useful to other organizations considering implementing similar technology in partnership with commercial companies. …”
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Wastewater-based surveillance models for COVID-19: A focused review on spatio-temporal models by Fatemeh Torabi, Guangquan Li, Callum Mole, George Nicholson, Barry Rowlingson, Camila Rangel Smith, Radka Jersakova, Peter J. Diggle, Marta Blangiardo

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Human-centred health-care environments: a new framework for biophilic design by Bekir Huseyin Tekin, Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez

“…However, current biophilic design frameworks fail to provide efficient guidance, as their design recommendations don’t differentiate the level of value of each design parameter for each building programme and context. …”
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Deterministic amplification of Schrödinger cat states in circuit quantum electrodynamics by Jaewoo Joo, Matthew Elliott, Daniel K L Oi, Eran Ginossar, Timothy P Spiller

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Improving on Defaults: Helping Pension Participants Manage Financial Market Risk in Target Date Funds by John A. Turner, Bruce W. Klein

“…Financial education can help people do a better job of managing financial market risk in their pension portfolios, but we argue that it is unreasonable to expect millions of pension participants to attain advanced levels of financial literacy. This paper considers three innovations in target date funds that can help individual pension participants do a better job of managing financial market risk. …”
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Discussing energy volatility and policy in the aftermath of the Russia–Ukraine conflict by Adrian-Gabriel Enescu, Monica Răileanu Szeles

“…The ongoing Russo–Ukrainian War has highly affected energy markets in the EU and worldwide, with different EU- and country-level emergency policy measures being advanced to tackle high energy prices. …”
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Oxford brain health clinic: protocol and research database by Vanessa Raymont, Robert Mitchell, Lola Martos, Ludovica Griffanti, Jasmine Blane, Jane Fossey, Karen Lindsay, Pieter M Pretorius, Melissa Clare O'Donoghue, Grace Gillis, Juliet Semple, Clare E Mackay

“…The Oxford Brain Health Clinic (BHC) is a newly developed clinical assessment service with embedded research in which all patients are offered high-quality clinical and research assessments, including MRI, as standard.Methods and analysis Here we describe the BHC protocol, including aligning our MRI scans with those collected in the UK Biobank. We evaluate rates of research consent for the first 108 patients (data collection ongoing) and the ability of typical psychiatry-led NHS memory-clinic patients to tolerate both clinical and research assessments.Ethics and dissemination Our ethics and consenting process enables patients to choose the level of research participation that suits them. …”
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Self-testing through EPR-steering by Ivan Šupić, Matty J Hoban

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Developing strategies to retain organizational insurers using a clustering technique: evidence from the insurance industry by Kambiz, Shahroodi, Soroush, Avakh Darestani, Samaneh, Soltani, Adeleh, Eisazadeh Saravani

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